Video: Slimline Card and Spotlight Technique with the August Kit - Hero Arts
on August 04, 2020

Video: Slimline Card and Spotlight Technique with the August Kit

Hello friends! It's Channin here with a new video and card featuring the August 2020 My Monthly Hero Kit . In today’s video I will create a slimline card and that will provide the perfect canvas for my staycation landscape scene. Plus I will use the spotlight technique to create a focal point, further my narrative, and bonus, minimize the amount of coloring I need to do for this card!

(If you are having trouble viewing this video, please try watching it HERE on YouTube.)

To create this card I first created a slimline card base by trimming a sheet of Pebble cardstock down to 8 1/2” x 7 1/4” and scoring at 3 5/8”. Next, I stamped several images and a sentiment from the kit ’s stamp set in Wet Cement on the card front. I then created a couple masks by stamping my images on a full-adhesive post-it note and then fussy cutting the images out. I placed my masks down over my images, and then stamped the rest of my scene.

Next, I stamped my focal image, the reading woman, in INTENS-ified Black Ink onto Dove White cardstock. I Copic colored the image in and then die cut it out as well as two unstamped layers with the matching die and then adhered the layers together. Next, I die cut three “Greetings from” out of Dove White cardstock, then Copic colored a gradation on one, and finally adhered all three layers together.

I finished the card by adhering the stacked die cuts onto the card front.

I hope you enjoyed my card and video! Thank you so much for stopping by!

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2 comments

Deb Bryson,

Really love your card I love the gradation on the greeting and the spotlight technique with the woman

Leanne in Cali,

Fun card with the spotlight technique! Thanks for sharing your video showing how you made this great slimline card!!


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