Garage Gears Gatefold Shutter Card

It's been a long time since I made a shutter card and I had forgotten how much fun it was to make one.
There are many tutorials related to this interactive card but I chose to use the one by Sandy McIver here

Since the theme in my upcoming class is Masculine cards featuring the Geared up Garage bundle I used that to make this card.

Measurements:

• Tranquil Tide card base 5 1/2 by 8 1/2"  scored at 2 1/8 and 6 3/8"
• Classic Garage DSP 1 3/4 by 5 1/8" (2) for front
• Inside center:  Tranquil Tide 5 1/2 by 3"  and DSP 5 1/4 by 2 3/4"
• Whisper White 3 by 3 for sentiment
• Tranquil Tide 4 by 3 1/2" scored at 1/2" on short side (2 pieces) for shutter
• Tranquil Tide 1 by 11" for belly band

Decorations for belly band:

• 2 3/8" circle die
• Scallop circle die

Shutter pieces:

• Measure half way down each side to find a point in the middle ( 2" on 4" side and 1 3/4" on 3 1/2" side)  With a pencil draw a line from this midpoint to each of the corners.  \
• Fussy cut the notched area out.

Stamp:  Geared Up Garage

Ink:  Basic Gray, Black Memento, Lovely Lipstick reinker mixed with Champagne glimmer paint

Papers:  Tranquil Tide, Whisper White, Basic Gray, Classic Garage DSP

Accessories:  Layering Circles Framelits, Geared Garage Dies, Classic Garage Metal Elements, 1/4" ribbon, Dimensionals.

Congrats - a Gatefold Shutter card

This is one card fold I have never made before (actually I have never heard of it before), but I'm up to a challenge.  This was a task for one of the groups I am in.

I used a You tube video tutorial by Maria Russell.  She made the card look so easy by showing us step by step how to make this card. I was able to make it the first time. 

• This is the Gatefold shutter card closed, and held closed by a bellyband decorated with a flower made with various sizes of scallop circle punches.
• The base card is Very Vanilla, cut at 8 1/2 by 5 1/2" then scored at 2 1/8 and 6 3/8".
• I used Pacific Point cardstock with Pretty Petals DSP stack 

• The partially opened card shows the shutter component on the inside of the card.  The shutter is partially opened - opened enough to see that the word stamped in the middle is "Congrats" from "Happy Happenings"

• The card is fully opened - as is the shutter.  The circle in the middle of the center panel was made using a circle framelit.
• The inside is decorated using the Bird Builder punch and the Petite Flower punch.  Brights sequin embellishments adorn the middle of each flower, and a rhinestone is on top of that.

This card proved to be quite easy to make and my plan is to make more of them.

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