

As of July 2021, Snapchat had 293 million daily active users, a 23% growth over a year. On average more than four billion Snaps are sent each day.

Snapchat is popular among the younger generations, particularly those below the age of 16, leading to many privacy concerns for parents.įor a chronological guide, see Timeline of Snapchat. PrototypeĪccording to documents and deposition statements, Reggie Brown brought the idea for a disappearing pictures application to Evan Spiegel because Spiegel had prior business experience. Brown and Spiegel then pulled in Bobby Murphy, who had experience coding. The three worked closely together for several months and launched Snapchat as "Picaboo" on the iOS operating system on July 8, 2011. Reggie Brown was ousted from the company months after it was launched. The app was relaunched as Snapchat in September 2011, and the team focused on usability and technical aspects, rather than branding efforts. I do hope you’ll give this technique a try.One exception was the decision to keep a mascot designed by Brown, "Ghostface Chillah", named after Ghostface Killah of the hip-hop group Wu-Tang Clan. Take a look at your punches and dies and experiment with shapes beyond circles and squares. You can do the spotlighting technique with different shapes!
CREATIVE KIT SPOTLIGHT SPOTLIGHTCARMAN HOW TO
Here’s a video with tips on how to color with a blender pen: I colored the flowers in with watercolor pencils and a blender pen then used a blender pen to add a little Magenta Madness ink from the lid of my ink pad. Line up your stamp images and tape your square over your background piece.Color the flowers on the square you cut out and tape to a card stock mat that is just a little bit larger than the square die you used.This is the easiest way to line up multiple images. Stamp the flower image in two opposite corners of that same piece of card stock.Stamp the greeting words in the center of a 4″ x 5-1/4″ piece of Whisper White card stock.Whisper White square die: 2-7/8″ x 2-7/8″īasic Black: 3″ x 3″ For the second card, I chose to spotlight the flowers on the edges of the stamp. You can add a layer of card stock in between like I did, but you don’t have to.

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Line up your circle image with the image stamped on the background and tape it into place.Cut a circle out of the second stamped piece and color the flowers inside the circle.I used a circle die, but if you are going to use a circle punch just make sure to stamp your image closer to the edge of the paper. Stamp the flowers once on the white background card stock and once on another piece of white card stock.Magneta Madness: 5-1/2″ x 8-1/2″ scored at 4-1/4″ġ-5/8″ Circle For the first card, I chose to spotlight the flowers in the center of the stamp. The first thing you want to do is look at your stamp image and pick the spot you want to highlight. There are a variety of ways that you can make a card with the spotlighting technique and today I’m going to give you some tips on how I made the two spotlight cards above. Looking for a new stamping technique to try? The Spotlighting Technique is a great way to highlight your detailed stamp images without having to color in the whole thing!
