Thursday, January 13, 2011

A Gate-Fold Card

The Paper Pretties blog is having a fancy fold creation which prompted this gate-fold card. The colours were a bit of a challenge (Cosmo Cricket's Joy Ride) but I think I pulled it off so that it plays as an effective masculine card.


Positive note of the day: Thank gawd I fell asleep early last night. My Windows box did a re-start at three o'clock in the morning. I had the volume on super-loud (since I was listening to one of my many podcasts before I stopped working at four) and it scared the crap out of me. I was then up for awhile so I had a cup of tea and was trying to resettle when Avery had a screamy session for twenty minutes at five AM. She was then up for the day at 6:15 (and chipper too!). At least I was rested (even though I could have had more sleep...mmm, yummy sleep).

Inane/Fun Things I Found on the Web - Typography Humour:

14 comments:

Ann said...

Ah, gotta love the gate fold! Great pp, too!

Tina said...

Love the fold; the closure is wonderfully creative. The buttons and ribbon are just perfect. Gotta love it when you make a great masculine card to boot!

Amber (bambi64) said...

Great card. You pulled off the colors and paper perfectly!

Elena said...

Great card, Allison! Love the gate fold and fun papers!

Sue from Oregon said...

Creative card Allison. Love the way you closed this up with a button!

Jana Weaver said...

Cute card...love that paper!

Heather said...

Allison, this is absolutely wonderful! I love it!

Cindy Haffner said...

LOVE your gate-fold Allison.

Merry said...

Such wonderful paper you have used on your lovely card. I am sure I would have been clinging to the roof if I heard that noise. lol

Ida said...

Great card. Always nice to see a different fold in a card.

Oh my goodness your sleep tale was quite something. Good thing our computer is clear at the other end of the house from our bedroom.

The Mama Monkey said...

Love your gate fold and how you did the closure! Thanks for playing with Paper Pretties!

alienanessa said...

Jeepers, that thing is fantastic!! Yes I do think you pulled off the colors too. True confessions: I'm addicted to Cosmo Cricket and the ways in which I use them probably make designers scream. That is the greatest, and probably only, awesome thing I've seen/heard said about kerning!!! I was LOLing!!

Rose Ann said...

I love your cute Gate-Fold, Allison!! Such fun papers too!!

PepPop said...

Great card Allison - perfect guy's card. LOL at your Typography Humour. Jaqui x