Upcycled Embellished Gatefold
Hello everyone! Continuing the celebration of Earth Day this month, this week’s post highlights earth-friendly brown bag kraft products (100% recycled) and a gatefold piece. This was a learning experience for me because I’m embarrassed to say that I typically use all new paper when crafting. I ended up LOVING the look of the old book print though and will definitely be incorporating this style more.
I took a Cut Card Stock Gatefold item (Ponderosa Pine and Baronial Ivory) that I absolutely loved and added vintage paper to it to create a lovely envelope holder. It can be given as a gift to someone with the brown bag kraft envelope inside to hold money, another physical card or a gift card.
Step 1.
Take your gatefold and begin to trim the vintage paper. I used a circular punch and paper strips.
I think its best to not have this too planned. It makes the layout more dynamic. The older your book the better. The yellowing of the paper is important. The book I used has yellowing on the edges. Not the middle as much as I’d like :-(.
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I’m a big belly band person. Moreso than ribbon actually. I just think a trimmed belly band is a nice, clean look. |
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Wasn’t sure how the circles would work, but I ended up layering them. Not too many though because I did want the beautiful pine green to be a nice contrast. |
Step 2.
Affix the vintage paper to the gatefold piece carefully. Add some more embellishments if you like. I went through my embellishment drawers to see what worked nicely with the paper and I found these super cute orange florals.
Step 3.
Now its time to place the brown bag kraft envelope inside of the gatefold and add a message of congratulations to your recipient. You’ll have to trim your A7 envelope just a little, but it won’t matter because you’ll be sealing your sides with glue so no gifts (money, gift card, etc.) will fall out!
CutCardStock products used in this project:
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Christy Toney Design Team Member – Winter/Spring 2014 Term |