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Gatefold Card With Recessed Frame

 

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I designed this card when I was one of the four Joanna Sheen Forum members chosen to take part in the "Ready Steady Craft" challenge for the December newsletter. Although I will show photos of the finished card this tutorial is to give you the details of the basic card.



trimmed


1. With your sheet of A4 card in landscape orientation, trim to 29cm. A good quality card works best for this and I've used Stardream here.

 

scored lines

2. Score and fold at 6.5cm, 8cm, 21cm & 22.5cm

 


frame 1

3. For the recessed frame part of the card, cut another piece of stardream card in landscape orientation at 15cm then score at 1cm & 14cm.



corners


4. Make a template from a piece of paper so that you get the frame in the right place. How big the recessed part of your frame will be will be dictated by what you intend to put in it. With the right side of the card facing you, lay your template over the top and use a sharp point to mark the 8 corners of the frame.

 



embossed


5. Remove your template and score between the points you marked as in the picture above.


knife

6. Using a craft knife and ruler, cut on the diagonal from corner to corner in the centre rectangle and from the outer corner to the inner corner on each of the four corners. The distance between the two sets of scorelines is 1cm.

 

first fold

7. Turn the card over and fold along the outer score lines towards the outer edges and along the inner score lines towards the centre.



finished folds


8. At this point is should look like the picture above.

 




9. Turn it back to the right side and put DST along the two 1cm edges.

 



 

decorated



10. Decorate both pieces of the card as you wish before assembling. To assemble, stick the 1cm part of the inner card to the 1.5cm sides of the outer card making sure that the edge of the inner card butts up against the back fold of the outer card to ensure that the card closes cleanly.

 

Front

 

 

Inide finished

 

The finished card.

 
 
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