Spotlighting Technique Help

[Scraphappily]

I have been looking at the spotlight cards and have some customers who are interested but I need a bit of direction.

How is the circle or square made? I can not tell if it is drawn on or if it is actually a piece of paper that is matted and adhered to the image.

Which is easier the regular spotlight or reversed?

Would love some direction. Thanks ladies.

[lizj]

It's usually done with an attached mat (in fact, you can put a slightly bigger solid color mat behind the spotlight mat, to accentuate the splotlight even more). I don't think it makes much difference as to the degree of difficulty in doing a regular spotlight vs the reverse. One will usually be in black and white (or some other neutral colors), and the other will be in color. Usually the spotlit area is the part you do in color. It's an easy technique, and pretty effective.

[Scraphappily]

So, how do you make sure that the part that is matted matches the part that is not? I could not find a technique sheet for this, if anyone has one that would be great!

[lizj]

Stamp your image on two different pieces of paper. Decide which section you want to highlight, and cut out that section from one of the stamped images. Color in the cut-out section, mount it to a coordinated piece of cardstock that is slightly bigger than your cut-out section, and line it up over the remaining stamped image, and adhere.