Journaling Notes - Round Gatefold Card - Valentine

Today's card is a gatefold card using the Making Memories Spiral Bound Journaling Notes from Frantic Stamper.  The card turned out ok although I struggled a bit with the inside ...and the outside.  Apparently circles are harder to make round than I thought!

First I chose my sheet.  What was nice about this is that these pads provide 3-4 sheets for each pattern. So, a gatefold card seemed natural.

I chose a pretty red and ivory half circle.

I cut both sheets so that they formed a complete circle.

 I attached to a backing sheet of pink with dots from Authentique - Smitten Line in Cupid.

Then I took a pair of Fiskars design scissors (remember them? How many of you have a collection, raise your hand.  Me too!)  I love these scissors.  They are a little hard to begin with but worth the effort to use.)

When I finished cutting my pink scallop border, I cut the circle in half, following the edge of the circle journal halves.

Once I had cut a scallop of about 1/2 inch around the edge, I used an embossing folder (The Paper Studio) with a writing design going horizontally.  This is the first time that I've seen one like this.  It helps when I want to do larger areas.  I was able to line up the embossing folder so that both sides of my card would line up.

Once I finished embossing, I colored the raised embossed writing with Ranger Distress Ink Festive Berries.  I also edged the outside of my circle with it too.

Now for the inside!  At first I was going to use another circle for the inside...

After some difficulty with a round inside....

I settled on a heart shaped inside.  It fit better and I was able to work with it a bit easier.  You can see the two folded "wing" shaped folded edges.  That gets covered with red liner tape and attached to the front two pieces (the gate) of the card.

Now - TIP: do not attach your heart (inside of the card) UNTIL YOU HAVE FINISHED DECORATING IT.  I was so thrilled at getting a heart cut to fit that I immediately attached it with Red Liner Tape.  It was very difficult to cover the inside of the card with it attached to the front. If I had to do it again, putting my card together would be the last thing I did.

The card will open as you see below.

I really wanted pattern paper for my inside but couldnt do it because I couldnt recut the exact same heart shape SO I opted for some color blocked star dream paper (shimmer).  I used a pretty red and pink.  Since my card is round, I wanted the inside decorations to not be too "square".  I took a small circle punch and used it to punch the corners of the papers.  It created a really pretty tag-like design.

I used some Frantic Stamper dies: the tree branch which comes with some cute owls, keys and the hearts.  I cut them from red suede paper and hung them from the branch with Dazzles Jewel Borders in Gold.

This is the Frantic Stamper die I used for the front of my card, cut from gold glitter card.  I attached it only on the left side to allow the card to open from the center.  I attached the red bow in the same manner.

And here is my finished card!  As I said, it turned out quite nice!

This is the completed inside of my card.  I edged my card in more gold Dazzles and added some mini Jewel Dazzles tiny dots. Frantic Stamper carries these.



I hope you enjoyed today's card! Come back tomorrow for the second gatefold card!

Lis