Christmas Magic Gate Layout
Christmas Magic Gate Layout
Other products: Recollections microbeads: garnet, Ranger dimensional pearls: Eggplant, Ranger distress ink: Wilted Violet, Creatacolour watercolour pencils, homemade texture paste, Memory Maze spotted stencil
Watch this video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q8Mj-EfcDvs for shaping tips and techniques on the poinsettia flower and holly leaves.
Instructions: Tear a wide section of light purple background paper. Tear two narrow sections of teal background paper. Arrange the strips as shown, overlapping each other with distressed edges. Lay a stencil over the background in the top and bottom corner and apply silver paint through. Cut a decorative edge section from patterned paper and tuck under the top edge of the teal paper. Fussy cut a large floral section from background paper, and cut into two smaller sections. Adhere with foam dots to the opposite sides of the purple background strip. Stamp and die cut a gate image. Add teal ink to the edges Cut through the centre of the gate. Arrange each half of the gate on the sides of the layout overlapping the floral sections. Fold the slats of the gate, and adhere so that they are shaped upwards. Adhere the photo in the centre of the gates (photo may need to be trimmed down). Stamp and die cut two vines. Colour with watercolour pencils. Adhere over the top half of the gate images. Cut two sentiment tags, and apply texture paste to the edges. Heat set to make the texture paste bubble up, resembling snow. Adhere to the opposite sides of the layout as shown. Cut some smaller floral sections from the paper collection, and adhere to the top left and bottom right of the photo. Stamp and die cut a series of leaves and flowers. Colour with Teal Zeal for the leaves and Wilted Violet for the flowers. Shape with a stylus, and add microbeads to the centres. Adhere flowers and leaves over the fussy cut floral sections. Apply some random dots of Eggplant dimensional paint among the floral clusters. Add some extra texture paste to the visible tops of the gate and heat set.