Gatefold Winter Wonderland

Hi everybody, 

Today 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.