Gate Fold Card

Hello my dear crafty friends.

How are you all doing?
Hoping everything is pretty well with you. It's been almost a month since my last month. As I told in my previous post that I would be busy with my studies so there won't be frequent posts. But finally today took time write this post.

So without talking much let me share another card done by me. It's my first try for this variety. It's a gate fold card. I did it for birthday of a friend of mine. It's pretty simple. You too can try hands on it if you are a newbie. If you would need measurements, just drop a comment below.

So now talking about card, as I told it's pretty simple. All you need is just few die cuts, punched design and few embellishments. And voila! you are done with your card in an hour or two depending on your speed. So lets not waste time and let me show the card.

So here is the front view of the card.

This is the front view with the doors slightly opened.

  

A little close up of the embellishments.

Some top view of the card.

So that's the card. Hope you like it. Do share some love by commenting below. Will be back soon with some other crafty post. (Hint: This time it may be related to quilling. So watch over this space.)

Till then take a very good care of yourself. Stay blessed.

Happy crafting!

Materials Required

White and orange coloured cardstock

Some pattern paper

Ornate pocket and border dies from HC

Regal pocket and border dies from HC

Some embellishments-mulberry flowers, mulberry butterflies and some punched leaves and flat pearls and stones

Martha Stewart paper punches

Martha Stewart score board

Wet glue

HC-002

Hello folks..

A very warm greetings..

Hope you all doing good.

Today I am going to share another handmade card done by me. Its simple, lovely and easy-peasy too. For this card I have used the Sizzix Big-Shot machine and some dies. I have listed the requirements in the later section of the post. So here is the card that I did.

Products Used

Sizzix Big-Shot machine

Sizzix Tim Holtz Tattered flower die

Heartfelt Creations Eyelet Oval die

Heartfelt Creations Arianna Blooms die

Heartfelt Creations Deluxe flower shaping tool

Martha Stewart Deluxe score board

Studio G sky blue ink pad

Sponge daubers 

White and red cardstock

White glue, some blings, ribbon and Pearl String Bling garland

I had many pictures of the card but was too lazy to edit them. So how is it? Do you like it? Do share your views in the comments section. If you need a tutorial do write it in the comment section.

Happy Crafting..!!

I would love to join the fun challenge at itsy bitsy.
   

HC-001

Hello everyone..

A warm greetings..

Hope you all doing good.

Today I am feeling so happy sharing my first experience with the die cutting. Yes die cutting..!! Those who are new to die cutting here's a brief introduction of what it is all about.

Die cutting is the process of using a die to shear webs of low-strength materials, such as rubber, fiber, foil, cloth, paper, corrugate, fiberboard, paperboard, plastics, pressure-sensitive adhesive, tapes, foam and metal sheet. Yes you can cut anything but it depends on your cutting machine as well as the die.

There are various cutting machines available in the market .Here's some of them-Sizzix's Big Shot,Big Kick,Big shot plus, Big Pro, Spellbinders  Cuttlebug, Platinum, Tim Holtz's Vagabond, We R Memory Keepers Evolution, etc. You can have an overview of them online as there are many reviews, videos available.

Apart from the die cutting machine you need the dies..they come in a hell lot of varities. I personally like of Heartfelt creations and spellbinders. They have amazing collections of both dies and stamps and coordinating dies for most of the stamps. Apart from them there are dies available from sizzix (you can cut anything out of this die be it paper, leather, fabric anything), altenew, lawn fawn(they are really very cute, especially the stamps) and many more.

So here's my first card that I did using die cutting and some beautiful dies. Have a glimpse of it.

Here in picture below I have smudged the corners of the white card stock with green ink to add some more beauty to the card.

Heartfelt Creations Products used:

HCD1-748 Arianna Blooms Die

HCD1-779 Regal Borders and Pockets Die

Deluxe Flower Shaping Kit

Other Products used:

Studio G-Pigment ink Light Green

Memento's Lady Bug ink pad

Sponge Daubers

Red cardstock and white cardstock

Martha Stewarts Deluxe score and trim board

White glue and yellow coloured flat pearl.

Instructions

To make the card I took a red cardstock measuring 8" x 5 1/2". I scored it on the Martha stewarts deluxe scoring board at 4" marks along the 8" length side and folded it. Then I took a white cardstock measuring 5 1/2" x 4" and die cut one one side of the 5 1/2" side using one of the dies from the Regal Borders and Pockets die set.

I adhered the white cardstock over the red cardstock which is the base of my card using white glue.

To make the flower, I cut out the flower using the Arianna blooms die on the white cardstock. I took the four biggest layers and coloured them using the finger daubers to adhere some ink from the ink pad and then gently smudged it over the petals of the flower.For flower I used Memento's Lady Bug and for the flourish I used Studio G's Pigment ink Light green shade. The flourish here I used is the scrap I got from Regal Borders and Pockets die cut done earlier. I don't have any such thing so I used it as a flourish. I usually collect things that could be useful from the scrap. Then I shaped the flowers using the Deluxe shaping tool and layered them one over the other keeping the smaller one above the bigger one and glued them together and added a small bling(yellow coloured flat pearl). Then I found the best place on card where the flower would look good and adhered it there and added the flourish below the petal. And then finally smudged some of green ink around the borders and corners of the white cardstock to add beauty to it.

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