Gatefold of Salad Piled Onto Blue China

front of gatefold card

  

 main panel based on sketch

close-up of smaller shrink plastic flowers 

 

close-up showing larger shrink plastic flower, textured Moondust

cardstock & linen effect blue paper 

gatefold card open showing decorated side & centre panels

 

close-up of message panel & embellishments

showing the sheen of  Moondust card base

 

The ninth challenge at the Sugar Nellie Splitcoaststampers forum is to make a gatefold card. My main panel is based on the Friday Sketchers sketch which I have turned 180 degrees (I am hoping it is permissible to use the sketch as an element of the whole card) whilst the card's colour scheme carries a fair amount of symbolism inspired by the theme of "Eat Your Veggies" for the Pile It On challenge. Basically the colours are those of salad vegetables (the deep purple & white of red chicory, pink of radishes, orange & red of capsicums, pale green of lettuce, red of tomato to mention a few) on a blue & white china plate eaten with gold coloured metal cutlery. I also used the linen effect blue paper & Antique Linen Distress Ink to further the "table linen" connotations.

The shrink plastic flowers were made by punching the shrink plastic prior to shrinking & afterwards using dots of Stickles Glitter Glue or adhesive pearls for the centres. For the medium & large flowers I mounted the shrunk shrink plastic onto punched cardstock.

I used a circle punch to punch two flowers from the patterned paper & mounted these on two scalloped circles to make the embellishments for inside the card below the message panel.

The edges of the sketch panel are inked as are all the remaining paper & cardstock elements excepting the base card. The various inks are listed below & the colours were matched  according to the colour of the paper/cardstock.

Recipe

Stamp Sugar Nellie Gorjuss Poppy Fields.

Inks etc... Memento Tuxedo Black, Antique Linen Distress Ink, ColorBox Ice Blue Fluid Chalk, Brilliance Pearlescent Sky Blue & Brilliance Rocket Red Gold.

Colouring ProMarkers, Letraset Black Fine Line Drawing Pen, Stickles Glitter Glue (Xmas Red).

Cardstock Bright Gold Cream Moondust & Textured Bright Gold Cream Moondust, cream, blue & red from "stash".

Papers Linen effect blue paper from "stash", patterned - Papermania Retro Paper Kit.

Punches Woodware (scalloped oval, circles & scalloped circles, shrink plastic flowers), Xcut (blue flowers), EK Success (red flowers).

Pearls Kanban.

Challenges Entered

Sugar Nellie Splitcoastampers 9 - Gatefold card

Cupcake Craft #93 - Summer Delights (salads - see above)

Friday Sketchers #104 - sketch

Passion For ProMarkers Wk 53 - Anything Goes

Pile It On #21 - Eat Your Veggies (see above)