Gatefold Deer in the Forest

Hi everybody, 

It's Maria here, my turn to show you a card.  I've used the Winter Wonderland stamp set from Colourific to make this lovely gatefold card.

To make this card you will need:
A4 White card
A5 Winter Wonderland Stamp set
Co-ordinating winter backing paper
Die cuts of Reindeer and snowflakes
Distress Oxides for colouring
White Pen
Grey Alcohol pen
Versafine Smokey Grey ink pad
Catherine Pooler Aquatini ink pad
Tacky Glue
Green Sparkly paper/glitter card
Frame Die
Gelly Roll sparkle pen
Black Fineliner

This is how I made it:
1.  Cut a White card base 294mm x 150mm - to make gatefold, score at 73mm and 220mm.
2.  Cut a piece of stamping card 92mm x 135mm and stamp the deer onto the card, then make a mask and cover the image.
3.  Using a blue Distress Oxide ink pad, gently blend the top of the card to show blue sky, fade out towards the bottom 1/4.
4.  Stamp the bare trees using the grey Versafine in the two different sizes and with a grey alcohol pen draw shadows under the trees.
5. Remove the mask from the deer and colour using the different colours of Distress Oxides.  I used a Gelly Roll sparkle pen for the antlers and a fineliner for the nose.  I then coloured the trees and added white pen to highlight areas of the trees.
6.  Blend around the outside of the topper with the Aquatini ink pad.
7.  Cut a piece of the green sparkle paper to 100mm x 143mm and mount the topper onto this.
8.  To make the shaped card base, I folded along the fold marks to make the gatefold shape, I slipped the frame die in the middle, cut side up so that it cuts the front two flaps, then put it through the die cutter.
9.  Next I cut 2 pieces of one backing paper and 1 of the corresponding paper to 5mm smaller than the back panel.  Take one of each paper and die cut a frame in the middle (line up to the card base before you cut). Then cut down the middle so you have 4 pieces.
10.  With the other square backing sheet, blend the edges with the Aquatini ink pad.  Centre and glue the topper to this sheet and glue to the inside of the card blank.
11.  Glue the cut pieces to the front gatefold flaps, leaving a small border on the inside of the cut.  Make sure you put the same pattern on the inside of the flap as the paper on the back panel.
12.  Glue two die cut reindeer to the front two flaps with a snowflake die cut at the top of each gatefold flap.
13.  Finally, add different sized snowflake die cuts to the outside of the topper on the back panel and add Gelly Roll sparkle pen onto the snowflakes.

There you go, all done. It does take a little time but it’s worth it. Don’t forget to give me a shout if you’re stuck.