Focal Image Design Tutorial

Hi, Jean here to discuss a way you can put the spotlight on smaller stamp images. I like to make a lot of scene cards, but sometimes, smaller stamped images can get lost in the scene. Either they're lost with too much background or you end up adding a lot of stamped images to the card in order to incorporate the smaller ones, but end up crowding the little ones out. But there's another option! Think of using a zoom lens of a camera to capture a bird in a tree with an aperture that blurs the background so that your eye goes straight to the bird in the photo.

How to accomplish that "zoom" on a card? The focal image is captured in a circular shape. The background accentuates but doesn't overwhelm the focal image - it can be patterned paper, dry-embossed or background stamped.

With this sketch in mind, I created two cards with the same sketch. I even used the same sentiment, one from the Home Sweet Home set.

For the first card, I used the owl from the the Little Bear set perched in a die-cut tree.

 

For the second card, I put the bee hive into the tree and had the bees (large bee from Fresh Blooms and smaller bees from Little Bear) swarming "home."

 

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