Enjoyable Fold Weblog Hop: Floating Gatefold

Welcome and Joyful 2025 from all of us taking part within the Unbiased Stampin’ Up! Demonstrators Enjoyable Folds Weblog Hop. A brand new 12 months and a brand new catalog (or two in case you depend the net January 2025 Scrapbooking Brochure.) Time to Sale-A-Brate too!  On the finish of this submit you’ll discover a checklist of our January 2025 hoppers. Don’t neglect to take a look at their enjoyable folds for January.

The enjoyable fold featured right here known as a “Floating Gatefold”. I don’t learn about you however the title alone scared the “you recognize what” out of me.  In fact I needed to give it a go.

Appears to be like like a traditional gatefold with a stomach band at first look. Open it and, Voila! Aren’t these bees lovable? Look acquainted? These photographs have been launched with a punch (retired now) throughout the 2024 Spring Mini Catalog. I like that they introduced them again in 2025.

Floating Gatefold! Right here’s a view from the highest down so you’ll be able to see the mechanism.

That is the half that scared me. I used to be certain it was an accident within the making. I used to be so flawed. Right here’s a fast set of Nuts & Bolts that will help you recreate your personal floating gatefold. Are you questioning what occurred to the hexagon die-cuts on the stomach band? It want one thing. All of the photographs have been taken, cropped and positioned after I determined to make the change.

Aren’t these bees the cutest? No, stamping concerned. They’re a part of the Cute As Can Bee DSP & Sticker Bundle (#166618)

Nuts & Bolts

Completed measurement

Paper Cuts

• Card base – Thick Cardstock 8-1/2″ x 5-1/2″; rating at 2-1/8″ from every finish
• Layer 1 (inside) –  Cardstock 4″ x 5-1/4″
• Layer 1 (outdoors) –  Cardstock 2″ x 5-3/8″ (minimize 2)
• Layer 2 Writing Panel (Inside) – 3-3/4″ x 5″
• Layer 2 (outdoors) – Patterned paper 1-7/8″ x 5″ (minimize 2)
• Stomach Band – Cardstock 1/2″ x 9-1/2″ 
• Stomach Band Hexagon – Cardstock two items large enough for die cuts.
• Stomach Band Ornament – Stickers or stamped picture.
• Mechanism – 5″ x 1″; rating at 1″, 2″, 3″ & 4″
• Bees – These are stickers from the Cute As Can Bee Designer Collection Paper and Sticker pack. See Product Showcase on the finish of my submit for extra info.
• Bee Backing Cardstock – for the within bees solely. As a result of these are stickers, you’ll want to stay them on a chunk of cardstock and fussy minimize earlier than putting.

Development

1. Adhere the entrance panels to to one another and the cardboard base.
2. Stamp the within greeting within the middle of the writing panel.
3. Adhere the within panels to one another and the cardboard base.
4. Create somewhat “field” from the mechanism strips. Apply adhesive on two sides. Place and glue.
5. Stick the 2 smaller bees out of your sticker sheet on Primary White Cardstock. Fussy minimize leaving no halo. Adhere to the mechanism ensuring the cardboard will shut with out bending the bees. I used Multipurpose Liquid Glue to offer me somewhat “wiggle room”.
6. Create the stomach band”
   1. Wrap the lengthy cardstock strip across the card to create your rating traces. The ends ought to overlap. Burnish and glue. 
      1. Choice: Adhere a border sticker on the strip earlier than wrapping.
   2. Die Lower two hexagons, layer and cling. Adorn;
   3. Slide the stomach band created in step 6A onto the cardboard
   4. Adhere the hexagon piece in place with robust adhesive.
7. You’re performed!

And there you might have it, a Floating Gate Fold. Please take a second to touch upon this mission. What did you want, what could possibly be higher?

On to the opposite hoppers to see their very own magical creations.  Thanks for stopping by.

SU Demo Enjoyable Fold Weblog Hop Lineup

1. Karen Finkle
2. Su Mohr
3. Beth McCullough
4. Debbie Mageed
5. Rae Burnet
6. Lisa Ann Bernard
7. Tara Carpenter
8. Sue Jackson

Thanks for stopping by at this time.

Make it a Wildly Artistic 2025!

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Floating Gate Fold Product Showcase: