The Home for Christmas DSP from Stampin’ Up! is so nostalgic and takes me back to my childhood.  I love the designs of the paper which are shown below:

For my card, I chose the poinsettias design.  And to enhance the design from the Home for Christmas DSP, I used the Spellbinders Holiday 5 x 7 Holly Frame Template to die cut my gate fold card.

Isn’t it beautiful?

The holly and poinsettia die cuts from the Spellbinders Holiday 5 x 7 Holly Frame match the Home for Christmas DSP perfectly. The picture to the left is of the Spellbinders dies.

After cutting a piece of 10″ x 71/4″ Very Vanilla Card Stock (Stampin’ Up! item #101650), I scored and folded the card stock to form a gate fold card.  I  scored the piece of card stock at the 3″, 4″, 6″ and 7″ marks.

I folded the card stock in this order:  3″ score line is a mountain fold, 4″ valley fold, 6″ valley fold, and 7″ mountain fold.  Using my Big Shot and cutting plates, I laid the 5″ x 7″ holly frame onto my magnetic plate and cutting plate, folded the card stock into a gate fold, laid the card on top the holly frame, laid another cutting plate on top of the gate fold card, and run it through the big shot.  Leaving the cut gate fold card within the frame, I used green and red inks to emboss along the edges.  This picture below gives you a better idea.

For the two sides of the inside of the card, I felt that the back side of the poinsettias design of the Home For Christmas DSP just would not look good.  This is the back side of the poinsettias design:

The holly design within the Home for Christmas DSP is too bold to me for this purpose. Therefore, I decided to dig into my stash of retired designer series paper for something that would better fit the poinsettias.  I found the holy design of the old Stampin’ Up! Berry Bouquet Specialty Designer Series Paper that is more muted.  That was it!  It matched perfectly!  Thus, you’ll see it on the inside of the card.

I added to my gate fold card two sentiments from the Stampin’ Up! Reason for the Season Stamp Set (Item #139730).  The picture to the right shows one and the second one can be seen on the card’s inside in the above pictures.

I embellished the outside sentiment with Stampin’ Up! Iridescent Ice Embossing Powder (Item #101930) and a poinsettia made with a couple dies from the Spellbinders Holiday 5 x 7 Holly Frame die cuts.  I used Stampin’ Up! Crystal Effects on the poinsettia.

I hope you enjoyed the card as much as I did making it!  Don’t forget to leave a comment!

God’s Blessings!

Stamping With Guneaux Designs

By

Beverly Polen

Home for Christmas DSP Gate Fold Card