Gatefold Eyelet Card
By
Jackie Bache
Crafty Cruisers
Intermediate Stamping Team Designer
Supplies:
Grand Medallions
Stamp Set (The Angel Company)
Memories Stamp Set (The Angel
Company)
Lifes Journey Button Sticker
Border (K & Co.)
Clikit Eyelet Setting Tool
(Karen Foster)
Sepia Versafine Ink Pad (Tsukineko)
Versamark Pad (Tsukineko)
Brown Cardstock
Sand Cardstock
Bronze Eyelets
Brown String
Hammer
Ruler
Pencil with Eraser
Scotch Double Stick Tape (3M)
Instructions:
1.
Cut sand cardstock to 6 x 12,
score 3 in from each end, and fold the edges to create a gatefold card.
2.
Cut one 6 Ό x 6 Ό piece of
brown cardstock.
3.
Stamp the medallion image with
Sepia ink repeatedly on the card.
4.
Stamp the saying from the
Memories stamp set with the Versamark pad.
5.
Make a Ό pencil line along the
inner flap of each fold. Make a placement dot at ½ intervals on each side.
6.
Use the Click It tool to punch
holes on the ½ markings.
7.
Carefully erase the pencils
markings.
8.
Use the Click It tool to set
the eyelets. Gently tap the back of each eyelet with the hammer to flatten
them.
9.
Cut two ½ x 6 strips of brown
cardstock to cover the eyelet backs on the inside of the card.
10.
Cut two ½ x 6 strips of brown
cardstock and adhere to the front of the card on either side of the eyelet
strips using double stick tape.
11.
Cut the button border to 6 and
affix on either side of the brown cardstock strips.
12.
Run the brown string through
the eyelets and tie a bow.
13.
Affix the gatefold card to the
brown cardstock using double stick tape.
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