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Category: Gatefold
We have a Colour Combination for the Artful Stampers Team Challenge Hop this week. You may have arrived here from Tamsin Adams' blog. I have made a gatefold card this week. The base card stock of Baked Brown Sugar was embossed using the Faux Letterpress technique, Soft Suede ink and the Woodgrain TIEF. The feathers were … Continue reading Artful Stampers Team Challenge Baked Calypso Suede
The second of the May challenges is Catalog Focus: "scoring tools. Use all or one of these scoring tools--Simply Scored Tool, Simply Scored Borders Plate and/or Simply Scored Diagonal Plate to add interest to a gatefold card." The top of the Pacific Point base card was put through one of the Labels Framelits to create … Continue reading Creative Crew May 2014 Challenge 2
A new month, and a new set of challenges for the Splitcoaststampers Creative Crew. The second one is "Creative Focus: Celebrate Sweetest Day (10/19) by creating a card for your Sweetest using products from the Etcetera Suite found on P 96-109 of the US Catalog." I used Apothecary Art, Loving Thoughts and the Very Vintage … Continue reading Creative Crew Apothecary Art Razzleberry Slush
A gatefold card with a locking opening? I have seen this technique a few times, and finally got around to trying it out. The base card stock is Naturals White, with a strip of Sycamore Street DSP [retired] across the middle. The art piece and the 'lock' were cut with the Labels Framelits. The image … Continue reading Apothecary Art Razzleberry Gatefold
I found this great card on Dawn's site and just had to CASE it. Thanks for the inspiration Dawn. I used a retired Pacific Point DSP, and watercoloured the flowers from Apothecary Art with a marker and Pacific Point ink. The frame is from the Labels Framelits collection. A very simple, but elegant card don't … Continue reading Double Gatefold
cupI have just seen a variation of the gatefold card on Mary Fish's (Stampin' Pretty in my sidebar) site. It looked like a fun way to make an all purpose birthday card. My basic design is CASED from Mary's card, using my own collection of colours and stamps. I have also used a belly band … Continue reading Gatefold Birthday
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