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hi everyone an Kesler here with a new
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video tutorial and today I'm going to
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show you how to make three different
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gatefold cards you have a link to the
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measurements in the description under
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the video for all the three cards so
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I've started with a white paper that I
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have embossed in my diecutting machine
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but you can just use use a regular
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pattern paper this is going to be my
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cover paper so I'm just applying a
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little bit of distress ink to highlight
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the raised parts of the embossed pattern
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again this is just uh my design idea but
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you can of course use just regular
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pattern paper then you have your card
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base we're going to score it at 3 and8
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in to create our gate
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fold basically a gate fold is a card
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where both sides are forward folded
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inward to resemble a gate that opens
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like a big door on both sides and now we
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are going to learn all types of design
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to make them so I have folded both score
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lines to create my gate
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fold and I'm just going to add my cover
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paper papers just going to do it in a
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little bit of a different
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way there is a fold there that should
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not be it should be ignored just the 3
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and 8 in like I told you so I'm going to
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bring my cover
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papers I'm going to cut this in half you
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have all the measurements and then I'm
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going to attach them to the front of my
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card I've also punched two circles again
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you can use any type of embellishment
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that you
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want for the card what I wanted to do is
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simply combine the circles with the
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cover paper so I'm going to show you
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how so this one is going to go on the
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top and this one is going to go slightly
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underneath it like this
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just going to add a little bit more of
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distress
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ink and then what I'm going to do is
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first always distress the edges but
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first i'm going to attach the large
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circle to the left part of
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my
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card I want it to stick out to the side
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like this
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and then it will be like a little handle
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to open and close the card and then I'm
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going to attach my cover
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paper and then on top of that I'm going
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to attach my other circle with some foam
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tape just to give it a little bit of
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Dimension you can do the you can skip
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this part completely and do the entire
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embellishment of the card
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differently so
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of course it's up to you just going
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to put that under there
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forgot just going to make sure that it
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fits and then attach
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it first I just want to add a little
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ribbon around
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it and then I think my card will be done
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you have all kinds of ideas
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for embellishing get fold cards you can
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just leave it
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plain you can add so many other
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ideas this is one of
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them so I'm just attaching the
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piece and then tying the ribbon
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around the cover paper
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and then I'll be able to attach the
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other cover paper and add my title or my
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word I think I'll add
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Joy but of course you can add any
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sentiment or wording that you want with
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stickers
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handwriting
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whatever you want this is basically this
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is the basic gatefold card
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a really easy design to make that can be
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embellished in any
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way so there's my little
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bow and then I can go ahead and attach
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the other
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piece this will stick a little bit to
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the
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left and I want it to be aligned with
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the piece on the right side
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you can make it narrower you can make it
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any way that you
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want and then I'll just add some letter
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stickers in the
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front pretty
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easy so this is the first card the first
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gate fold
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card and we can go
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ahead and then I'll show you how to make
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the second one hope you like this this
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one this is a pretty basic
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design so for the second card you need a
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base card in the right dimensions as it
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is written in the cutting guide don't
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not on the video sorry about that and
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two circles that you also have
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measurements for that as
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well and you need to score it on the 2
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in line and fold
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now apply your glue on the smaller
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Circle and attach it to the larger
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Circle centering it in the middle you
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want nice and even margins all around
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now we need to place the circle on the
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card
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slightly centering it from the top and
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the bottom and slightly about 2 in
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popping out
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to the side and then simply mark it with
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your
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pencil and score because we want to fold
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our
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Circle so align your line and score it
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with your scoring tool score pal or
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whatever else you have in your stash and
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then simply erase the pencil
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Mark now fold it might be a little bit
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difficult diffult because you have two
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layers of card stock then burnish it
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well with your bone
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folder next you need to apply your glue
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on the
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inside of the fold only on the part the
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little flap that you folded and attach
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it to the bottom side of your
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card and basically what we're creating
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is a gate fold but instead of it being
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square one side is square and the other
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is a circle so I think that's really
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cool and really easy make sure that when
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you are attaching your circle you align
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it to be exactly in the center between
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the top and the bottom next Punch or cut
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three Christmas trees from different
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pattern card stock and attach
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them to the front of your card
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I want to arrange
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them like
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this and they will slightly overlap each
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other because we want to create layers
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so the two bottom trees are glued
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directly on the front of the card and
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the third tree I'm going to use 3D foam
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tape to add a little bit of
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Dimension and attach attach
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it more or less in the
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center so once you have all the trees
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glued to the front of your card simply
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trim whatever part that is sticking out
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on the
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sides now I'm taking a white Pusa pen
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this is an oilbased
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um marker you can use Sharpie or
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whatever pen that you have that can that
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is white and will be visible on top of
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your card and I'm adding little
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dots on the front of my card only on the
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circle to create a type of snow and an
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interesting
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pattern sometimes with these white pens
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you need to go over
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the dot or whatever it is you drew to
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make it really white white cuz sometimes
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the paper
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absorbs the liquid of the
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ink so I'm just going over the the dot
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that that are not white enough for me
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and then finally I'm going to write Noel
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you can do this with a sticker or a
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stamp
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whatever and of course you don't have to
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write Noel you can write whatever word
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that you want or even leave it empty
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isn't that a really cool card so we're
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going to I really hope you like this
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card we're going to make our third card
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and by the way I just wanted to say that
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all these cards are in Christmas themes
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but you can change the papers and the
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embellishment and make them for anything
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any occasion any event that you want so
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for our third card is also going to be
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pretty
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easy we're going to start with our 12 by
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12 paper
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and we're going to score
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it at 3
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in 9
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in and then turn it to the side and
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score it at six this is all the scoring
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that we need to
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do next we are going to fold it just
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going to turn it so you'll see how the
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folds
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look and there is no pattern it's easier
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to see the fold
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lines always use your bone folder to
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burnish all the
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folds so now what we need to do is take
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our scissors and
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cut along the fold line the vertical
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fold line until the horizontal fold line
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and remove
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that piece that rectangle all together
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and then we're going to do the same
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thing on the other
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side and basically this is the card very
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easy and very quick to
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make just remove that piece can use it
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for other
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things and then you fold the bottom
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towards the
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inside and then the two
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sides closing in if you find that it's a
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hard to close then you can remove
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slightly more from that bottom Square to
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make it easier to close now you can
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bring all your cover papers and you
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simply need to attach them to all sides
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of the card decide what pattern you want
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to be on the outside and what pattern
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you want on the
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inside so since I'm using
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double-sided card stock that I can
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choose what pattern I want on which
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side some of them have patterns on both
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sides and some of them have a solid
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color on one side and a pattern on the
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other side so I can play with
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that and of course you can do that with
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any paper that you have I'm using the
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Graphic
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45 papers from different Christmas
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collections that I have in my
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stash so I want solid color color to go
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in the front and the pattern to go on
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the
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inside so I'm going to attach
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that and basically this is the card so
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once you add the papers it might be a
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little difficult to
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close cuz it's too
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tight so you can simply remove very very
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very little just cut it out with your
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scissors
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to make room for the paper to fold like
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this now take your strip of
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paper and wrap the card with it folding
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it on both
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sides this is going to be our closing
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mechanism and then I punched out a few
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circles that I'm going to attach
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together with some foam
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tape a little Dimension is always nicer
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and looks nicer on a card
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so I'm going to Center all circles one
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on top of the
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other and
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then attach them according to their
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size of course you can choose whatever
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pattern paper embellishments that you
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have and then I'm going to attach the
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circle to both edges of my
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strip and that will be
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my closing mechanism which I can
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open then open the
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card and close so this was our last
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gatefold card I really hope you like
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this tutorial there is a complete
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gatefold cards ebook that you have more
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than 10 ideas to make gate full cards
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