Interlocking and Locking Gate Fold Cards

 

Here are two types of Interlocking Gatefold cards and a Locked Gatefold.  First and last are decorated with the discontinued Wildflower Birthday DSP - which includes cut outs and pop outs.  All are basically just a standard gatefold.  It is the decorating that makes the "interacting" or "locking part.  

Card #1 (above): This first one consists of a frame that is a bit larger than an additional mat.  The frame is glued to only the left side of the card, and the mat is glued only to the right side of the card.  The mat (with focal glued to it) threads through the frame for this card.  The sentiment is also glued only to the right side of the card.

Card #2:  

Here's the second type of interlocking gatefold.  The interlocking part is the small gold heart at the bottom.  It is actually two hearts interlocked.  Here are some pictures to show you how it was made:

 

 

It starts with two identical shapes (hearts this time).  Each is cut halfway through the center - one from the top and one from the bottom.  These slits allow me to slide the two together like this:

 

 

When fully slid together they look like this:

 

As I said, the one on the card is made from gold foil.  After creating it, I glued the back layers to the card fronts.  With one glued to one side and one to the other.  To open it, slide the card fronts slightly apart up and down to disconnect the hearts.

 

So far as decorating is concerned, I used the discontinued pack called Marbled Elegance, along with the discontinued die set called Hearts of Elegance.  The large layered heart with attached sentiment (Thoughtful Moments hybrid embossing folder), is only glued to the left side of the gatefold card.

Card #3: 

This Locked Gatefold is fairly simple, though it might require trimming the gatefold just a hair so there is a sliver of space between the two flaps to allow for the "lock".

To make the lock, cut 3 identical pieces - this time I used 1 3/4" circles - cut from the same cardstock as the focal mat. Score and fold 2 of them in half.  The Stampin' Up! Paper Trimmer makes this really easy - see picture below.

 With the two circles folded in half, glue to the back of the focal:

Glue the third circle over top of them to keep them in place.

 

Slide focal over the card front - circle centered over the edges:

I could certainly have decorated this more - like with added bling or border die cuts.  

 

Also, this could be created in several ways.  For example, the focal could be made separately and glued to one side of the card front with a sentiment made with smaller locking pieces underneath as the "lock".

Acetate Gap Card

 

This is an "Acetate Gap Card" where a piece of the card front is cut away, a piece of that cut for the right side, and the gap filled with acetate.  Though often the gap is smaller, in this case I cut a narrow 1/4" on each side which left quite a large gap. I cut pink strips of cardstock to cover the areas where the white cardstock strips were glued to the back of the acetate.  

 

When it comes to decorating, I've mostly used papers and pop out pieces from the discontinued Wildflower Birthday DSP.  I fussy cut white cardstock to back the elements glued to the acetate so that the glue isn't visible.  As you can probably tell, the birthday cake is glued to the acetate - as is the striped paper.  But the flowers are glued to the inside of the card.  Here's what it looks like when open:

 

 

 

 

Cutaway Sides in 2 Forms

Today I've got a couple of quick fun cards.  I decorated them using the discontinued patterned paper (Wildflower Birthday DSP), pop out pieces from the same paper pack, and die cut/embossed sentiments from Gold Foil using the Thoughtful Moments hybrid embossing folder.

Card #1:   

The first, a simple card with cutaway sides - is made by taking a standard A2 card and cutting 1" off each side of the card front.  

To decorate it, I simply took a 4" x 5 1/4" piece of the patterned paper.  After trimming 7/8" off each end, I glued those pieces to the sides of the inside of the card.  

After trimming 1/4" off the remaining piece, I flipped it to the reverse and glued that to the center of the card front.  Then I added one of the pop out pieces from the paper set and glued it in place.  I finished with one of the sentiment pieces.

Card #2:

This one is a cutaway easel.  It starts the same as the last one, but I scored the middle piece in the center horizontally at 2 1/8" to make the center piece like an easel.  I added an embossed piece of white cardstock (Soft Waves 3D embossing folder) - glued just to the lower half of the center card front.  It serves as a mat for the pop out focal and added sentiment.

 

I added a small piece of the gold foil on Mini Stampin' Dimensionals to the inside of the card to serve as a stopper for the easel.

 

Woven Border Card

Today I've made a Woven Border card.  The weaving along the fold makes a fun detail.  The hardest part is making some ruler marks and drawing some short lines.  Here's what you want to do:

 

On the fold side of the card, draw a parallel line 1/2" from the fold.  Then, mark every 1/4" along the line and the fold.  At the top, mark half-way between the fold and the 1/2" line.  Draw from there to the first mark down on the 1/2" line.  Then, draw a diagonal line from the top of the fold to the next free mark on the 1/2" line.  Then draw parallel diagonal lines down the fold until you get toward the bottom.  Finally, draw a line from the last mark on the fold to the point halfway between the fold and the 1/2" line.

 

Now, with the card still folded and starting at the bottom, slice the small line, cutting off a small triangle.  For the next line up, carefully slice from the fold to 1/4" from the bottom.  Then slice all the rest of the lines between the fold and the 1/2" line.  Open the card and place it face down.  Again, starting from the bottom, skip the first point and fold the next one down - then slice it off.  Your card should now look like the picture above. 

 

Continuing from the bottom, skip the next point and fold the next down like in the picture above.

Tuck this piece below the first point - see picture above.

 

 Continue folding every other piece down and tucking it in place until you get to the top:

 

The top one is in two pieces - fold them each down and glue in place:

 

Fold close and decorate as you choose:

 

In this case, I used papers from the Wildflower Birthday DSP.   The focal mat was die cut using Everyday Arches. The balloon was a punch out from the DSP.

 

I think what I've shown is the best way to do the woven border, but I made a couple of others as I figured out what I liked.  The weaving isn't as great on these, but it's not too bad, so I finished them as well - using more papers from the same set.  Here they are:

 

 

Keyhole Aperture

Today I have a quick card made as a "keyhole aperture".  This is simply a basic aperture or hole in the card front - except that it has a cover over it that is attached with a brad so it can rotate to show the aperture.  The card base was an A2 sized card made from Pool Party cardstock.  Inside are two panels of Basic White cardstock (each cut to 4" x 5 1/4").  

The aperture (hole) was cut with one of the Everyday Arches dies.  I cut the card front using one die and the white backing piece with one just a bit smaller to form a bit of a frame for the aperture.

The card with the cover in place is shown below:

It was made pretty easily using the discontinued Wildflower Birthday designer series paper set from Stampin' Up!   The "cover" is one of the tags cut from the set - matted on white.  I added small pieces of one of the papers near the top and bottom if the tag to dress it up a little bit - along with a greeting stamped toward the bottom in Pool Party ink.  The decorations around the edge were cut from Gold Foil sheets with dies from the Delicate Framing dies.

When the card is open, this is what you see:

 

The die cut piece from the card front is glued to the inside of the card - with a punched out piece that came in the same designer paper set. 

Holy Land Exhibit Layout

Here's a really quick layout made about our visit to the HolyLand Experience.  This time I'm not using a scrapbooking workshop kit.  I’m starting with a sketch from one of the Creative Design Team Sketchbooks that I’ve purchased - along with paper and cardstock that I've pulled.  

Focus on Focals

 

Today I have three quick cards demonstrating different ways of creating a focal.  

A Quick Card

Today I had a quick card making class for some visitors.  While they were working, I created this quick gap card.  It's made the same way as card #3 here.  Basically, after creating an A2 card from a 4 1/4" x 11" cardstock, I cut a large piece off.  Then cut another piece from that that was the same size as what I left.  The final piece was turned sideways and glued to the small piece of card front left - then to the other piece of cardstock that was placed to complete the card front.

I decorated it with papers from the Kintsugi Inspirations DSP, and decorated with bowl & flower die cut from one of the papers using a couple of dies from the Inspiring Imperfections dies.  

I glued the peach colored paper in place before matting it like would have been best, so I used a marker to draw lines around the paper.

I added the bowl, flower, and sentiment with dimensionals.