Crossover Gate

 

This card is a crossover gatefold. Like the gatefold card I made on March 7, the base folds to meet in the middle. On this card, instead of a focal square overlapping the middle, you have two focal strips. The DSP is all my love. The cardstock is lovely lipstick and whisper white. The swirly flower is stamped in whisper white on lovely lipstick and then heat embossed in white. That is popped up with dimensionals. The sentiment is from the tropical chic stamp set, punched out with the double oval punch, and stamped with flirty flamingo. The sentiment didn't fit on the small oval, and I really thought I needed to layer the white, so I punched the large oval twice--once in white and once in lovely lipstick. The lovely lipstick oval was cut in half and just adhered on the sides. It provides enough contrast from the DSP. The leaves are stamped in soft sea foam on whisper white and die cut.

You can see in the open card that the top strip was adhered on one side of the card and the bottom strip on the other. This means that you have to fold the card kind of like you are trying to self close a cardboard box. Know what I mean? The sentiment is also from tropical chic and is stamped with flirty flamingo. I die cut the wave for added interest in lovely lipstick.