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 Hello my crafty friends!   Today's card offering was one of the demos from the shows on Saturday.  It had been damaged quite badly making the trip across the pond, but I had some time before the shows and I was able to put a new frame on it!    I started by cutting the Swiss Background out of aqua card.  I used the inside cutting edge to cut it into a frame but I left a wide margin around the outer art of it so I was able to add mounting foam there.  I embossed a piece of white card with the Daisy Burst embossing folder and seated the frame over it for a bit of texture showing through.  I used the Double Pierced Noble Rectangle dies and cut a frame for it.  I set up three consecutive dies to create the frame and embossed first, then removed the middle die and cut the frame.  I added it with foam over the background die.  For the focal element in the middle, I cut the Zurich die out of white and backed it with aqua card.  I cut it down the centre and removed a section, then reassembled it and added it to the middle of the frame.  I stamped a sentiment and cut it out with the oval in the middle of the Swiss Background die and added it with foam.  Finally, I cut several Exquisite Poppies out of aqua card and added them with a satin ribbon bow around the sentiment covering the join lines in the die.  I completed the card with a white, aqua, white mat sequence.  The finished dimensions are 6 1/2" x  8 1/2" in size.  All for now, Sue x

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