Gatefold Christmas

Wow, here it is the middle of September already!  How's your stamps of Christmas cards coming along?  Well, if you're not quite there yet, you can get some made and enter our Anything Goes Christmas challenge over on the Crafty Hazelnut's Christmas Challenge Extra blog.  As always, our sponsor is Bugaboo Stamps and the winner will receive 7 images of their choice.  Here is my mid-month inspiration for you:

I don't usually do anything other than a traditional A2 card with either a top or side fold, but this time I decided to make a gatefold card for something a little different.  But it does make photographing the card difficult.  I used the eraser berry technique from Mark's Finest Papers challenge this week, but I used a small mechanical pencil eraser to create smaller berries than a typical eraser would make.  After "stamping" them, I added stickles to the berries and than used a clear wink of stella pen to add glitter to the star and the pinecones on the paper at the bottom of the card.

 Thanks for stopping by.  I hope you will get a chance to play along with us this month, I can't wait to see what you create.

Supplies:
Stamps: Verve Stamps "Peace On Earth" sentiment; Hero Arts musical score background; Repeat Impressions "Pine Needles, Sil."
Dies: MFT "Blueprints 12" focal square

Challenges:
Inspiration Destination #103--anything goes
Crafty Gals #89--freestyle
Penny's Challenge #295--anything goes
Addicted To Stamps #211--anything goes
Mod Squad--use a sentiment as the focal
Fab n Funky Challenge #318--inspired by nature (pine boughs)
Word Art Wednesday #248--anything goes with uplifting sentiment
MFP #37--eraser berries
Fussy & Fancy #172--music
Holly Jolly #80--more than one fold
Scor-pal--cards, cards and more cards
A Gem of a Challenge #177--ribbon, lace or twine
As You Like It--favorite song or film (O, Holy Night is my absolute favorite Christmas carol; so beautiful)