Welcome and Comfortable 2025 from all of us collaborating within the Unbiased Stampin’ Up! Demonstrators Enjoyable Folds Weblog Hop. A brand new yr and a brand new catalog (or two should you depend the web January 2025 Scrapbooking Brochure.) Time to Sale-A-Brate too! On the finish of this submit you’ll discover a checklist of our January 2025 hoppers. Don’t neglect to take a look at their enjoyable folds for January.
The enjoyable fold featured right here known as a “Floating Gatefold”. I don’t find out about you however the identify alone scared the “you understand what” out of me. After all I needed to give it a go.
Seems like a standard gatefold with a stomach band at first look. Open it and, Voila! Aren’t these bees lovable? Look acquainted? These pictures have been launched with a punch (retired now) throughout the 2024 Spring Mini Catalog. I really like that they introduced them again in 2025.
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Floating Gatefold! Right here’s a view from the highest down so you may see the mechanism.
That is the half that scared me. I used to be certain it was an accident within the making. I used to be so unsuitable. Right here’s a fast set of Nuts & Bolts that will help you recreate your individual floating gatefold. Are you questioning what occurred to the hexagon die-cuts on the stomach band? It want one thing. All of the photographs have been taken, cropped and positioned once I determined to make the change.
Aren’t these bees the cutest? No, stamping concerned. They’re a part of the Cute As Can Bee DSP & Sticker Package deal (#166618)
Nuts & Bolts
Completed dimension
Paper Cuts
- Card base – Thick Cardstock 8-1/2″ x 5-1/2″; rating at 2-1/8″ from every finish
- Layer 1 (inside) – Cardstock 4″ x 5-1/4″
- Layer 1 (outdoors) – Cardstock 2″ x 5-3/8″ (minimize 2)
- Layer 2 Writing Panel (Inside) – 3-3/4″ x 5″
- Layer 2 (outdoors) – Patterned paper 1-7/8″ x 5″ (minimize 2)
- Stomach Band – Cardstock 1/2″ x 9-1/2″
- Stomach Band Hexagon – Cardstock two items large enough for die cuts.
- Stomach Band Ornament – Stickers or stamped picture.
- Mechanism – 5″ x 1″; rating at 1″, 2″, 3″ & 4″
- Bees – These are stickers from the Cute As Can Bee Designer Collection Paper and Sticker pack. See Product Showcase on the finish of my submit for extra data.
- Bee Backing Cardstock – for the within bees solely. As a result of these are stickers, you’ll want to stay them on a chunk of cardstock and fussy minimize earlier than inserting.
Development
- Adhere the entrance panels to to one another and the cardboard base.
- Stamp the within greeting within the heart of the writing panel.
- Adhere the within panels to one another and the cardboard base.
- Create a little bit “field” from the mechanism strips. Apply adhesive on two sides. Place and glue.
- Stick the 2 smaller bees out of your sticker sheet on Primary White Cardstock. Fussy minimize leaving no halo. Adhere to the mechanism ensuring the cardboard will shut with out bending the bees. I used Multipurpose Liquid Glue to offer me a little bit “wiggle room”.
- Create the stomach band”
- Wrap the lengthy cardstock strip across the card to create your rating strains. The ends ought to overlap. Burnish and glue.
- Possibility: Adhere a border sticker on the strip earlier than wrapping.
- Die Reduce two hexagons, layer and cling. Adorn;
- Slide the stomach band created in step 6A onto the cardboard
- Adhere the hexagon piece in place with robust adhesive.
- Wrap the lengthy cardstock strip across the card to create your rating strains. The ends ought to overlap. Burnish and glue.
- You’re performed!
And there you’ve gotten it, a Floating Gate Fold. Please take a second to touch upon this undertaking. What did you want, what could possibly be higher?
On to the opposite hoppers to see their very own magical creations. Thanks for stopping by.
SU Demo Enjoyable Fold Weblog Hop Lineup
- Karen Finkle
- Su Mohr
- Beth McCullough
- Debbie Mageed
- Rae Burnet
- Lisa Ann Bernard
- Tara Carpenter
- Sue Jackson
Thanks for stopping by at this time.
Make it a Wildly Inventive 2025!
Floating Gate Fold Product Showcase: