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Thursday 15 December 2016

Advent Calendar Extravaganza with Taheerah Atchia

Hello,

I am so excited to be joining Taheerah once again this year for her AMAZING Advent Calendar Extravaganza! It is so much fun! Twenty-five days of Christmas fun and inspiration. :-)



Advent Calendar Extravaganza is -the- festive event of the season! This ‘hop with a twist’ was dreamed up by Taheerah Atchia and features surprise destinations each day! Joining in the fun with Taheerah are ONE HUNDRED special guests - each serving up some fantastic Christmas inspiration! Just like an Advent Calendar, you’ll never know where you’re going to be visiting next until you ‘open the door’!

And that’s not all! With 25 *amazing* sponsors taking part as guests as well, your crafty wish list is bound to get a boost with a chance to win a prize EVERY SINGLE DAY!!

Join in the fun every day at taheerah-atchia.com to see what special surprises await behind the door!

Without any further ado, here is my card.


It’s not a party without a prize - and with prizes every day there are several chances to win! Today’s prize is generously supplied by Concord & 9th so you’ll definitely want to win! Simply leave a comment on this post - then head back to taheerah-atchia.com and leave a comment there too! You must leave a comment on Taheerah’s blog as well as mine in order to be eligible to win! Don’t forget to grab the other surprise destinations from Taheerah’s blog and head over to them to leave comments there as well to improve your odds even more! You have until 23:59 EST on 31st December 2016 to enter.

Don’t forget Advent Calendar Extravaganza runs from 1st-25th December inclusive so make sure you visit taheerah-atchia.com every day for fabulous inspiration and amazing prizes every single time! Merry Christmas!

Thanks for visiting!

Michelle
xxx


196 comments:

  1. Love your card. Beautiful

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  2. Love your card! This is one of my favourite stamp set this season!

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  3. I love the balance: nice color choices, beautiful bold sentiment. And not a single little smudge! (I am still working on that!) Thanks.

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  4. I love this beauty! Love how the sentiment is popped up.

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  5. This looks gorgeous! I love the Christmas colors against the snowy white! So pretty!
    Holiday Hugs!
    Michele

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  6. Such a pretty card. Love how you made the sentiment pop on the card. Great work!

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  7. That is a beauty...the just adore the sentiment. Cheers.

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  8. Love the bright colors. Clean and simple but with a lot of punch!

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  9. What a great card design. Love the colors and the sentiment seems to stand out on the card. One of my favorites.

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  10. loving how the sentiment is layered on top of the holly. so much dimension!

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  11. WOW! This is a beauty! LOVE the greenery with the pop of red from the berries!!! An awesome card! TFS!

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  12. Fantastic layering here! I love how you stamped the sentiment and cut it out to mount it! Was that with a coordinating die, or fussy-cutting?

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  13. Love the layering of the sentiment over such a CAS image. Perfect!

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  14. Love this card. Perfect color combo and scale. Thanks for sharing!

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  15. Pretty card! I love the sentiment being front and center, with the beautiful greenery as the background! Great card!

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  16. Love your beautiful card. It's just perfection in every way!

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  17. So very beautiful, Michelle. Holiday perfection!

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  18. Very festive and
    I love the popped
    up centerpiece.
    Carla from Utah

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  19. A beautiful festive card - it really makes a great visual impact!

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  20. Modern & gorgeous--had to pin this!

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  21. What a beautiful, bold arrangement on your card!

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  22. Very effective card. The sentiment is a pleasing mix of fonts.

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  23. Gorgeous card! Love that sentiment and the perfectly stamped cluster of beautiful images behind it!! Awesome work!

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  24. Gorgeous card! Love the side of the holly leaves and berries

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  25. A perfect red and green Christmas card!!!!

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  26. What a great card!

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  27. This is so pretty! Love the colors and the layout. Thanks!

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  28. Just gorgeous, Michele ... fabulous popped up sentiment ... and such delicious traditional colours in your wonderful Christmas arrangement! Anita :)

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  29. Wonderful card.
    Love the greenery peeking out
    from under the banner.
    thanks for sharing.

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  30. Love this fabulous design Michelle! The sentiment is perfectly matched to the bouquet and partial colouring of the letters....Shazam! I would love to borrow this idea if that's okay?

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  31. This is my favorite today. I like the gathered 'greens' behind the bold sentiment. Great colors overall.

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  32. Your card is striking, Michelle! I love the crispness of the design and meticulous execution. So well done.

    Ingrid

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  33. Like your Merry & Bright card

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  34. Great card!I love how the sentiment stands out!

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  35. Very pretty card. Looks like a great stamp set.
    DebbieC

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  36. Swoon! I am in love with your gorgeous card. I have that sentiment stamp and have yet to use it, so thanks for the inspiration :)

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  37. Such a nice, basic Christmas card...

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  38. Lovely card design--thanks for the inspiration!

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  39. The colors look great against the white. Love how you clustered and layered the die cuts. Well done.

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  40. Just love this card. Fun colors, great sentiment!

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  41. Beautiful Christmas card! Thanks for the inspiration.

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  42. I love the holly. A sweet card.

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  43. Absolutely love this one, Michelle!

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  44. Love your design! That sentiment is one of the best introduced this year!

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  45. Good card, really like balance between the holly background and the wording.

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  46. Love that bold sentiment in front of the holly leaves! Beautiful!

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  47. This is one of my favorite cards...love the bold sentiment!

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  48. WOW Michelle, this is a little gem! I love the large holly leaves and that sentiment/banner is fantastic!

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  49. Beautiful card. I love the colors and the layout.

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  50. Love the sentiment layered over the holly. Lovely card!

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  51. Beautiful! Perfect in every way, just love it!

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  52. I love the greenery with that fun, bold sentiment!!

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  53. Great color combos and composition! Beautiful cards!

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  54. nice composition on your card. thanks so much for sharing.

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  55. Love the sentiment layered over greenery!

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  56. gorgeous card! the layering of stamps is so beautiful.

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  57. I really like this card; the composition, the colors, the popped up sentiment... Thanks for sharing.

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  58. Your card is beautiful. Just what I envisioned my christmas cards to look like.

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  59. Beautiful card. Everything works so well together.

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  60. Thank you, Michelle. I appreciate your lovely, festive card. Very nice.

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  61. Oh wow, I love your card! Beautiful!! Thanks for sharing on this fun extravaganza.

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  62. The colors and layout really catches you're eye because it's so pretty.

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  63. Wonderful card, love your stamping and design.

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  64. What a fabulous card! Love the way you colored it. Not too complicated, but still gorgeous. Thanks for the inspiration. :D

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  65. Love the saying and your card~

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  66. Beautiful card. Great sentiment. Thank you for sharing.

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  67. Such a pretty card! Great job.
    natgodfrey4@gmail.com

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  68. This is kind of a simple card, not to fussy if you get what I mean but it is so what the holidays are about. I love it! It kind of reminds me of some cards we used to have many moons ago. Store bought cards because at the time I didn't make them and they looked like this. Of course handmade is always better, right? Great job on your card.

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  69. I love the 101 ways the holly berry plant can be used as inspiration for a Christmas card. Love your card. Thank you for sharing.

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  70. Gorgeous sentiment and the background is so well done I kept trying to figure out why it looks 3D! Just lovely!

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  71. Gorgeous card! I love how you cut out the wonderful sentiment and popped it on top of the stamped images! It really makes the card pop! Thanks for sharing!

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  72. Love your placement of all the greenery of Christmas.

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  73. Beautiful, simply beautiful! I love your design and placement of all of your elements!

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  74. Wow!! So gorgeous! I love how the sentiment is superimposed on top of the beautiful background. Such a great CAS card!!

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  75. Wow, this card is stunning. Love the layered panel:)

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  76. Very festive and perfect for the holidays. I almost bought that set, and now I wish I had!

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  77. Such a beautiful card!! Love the layered look with the background and sentiment.

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  78. Gorgeous card...so clean and simple and so much wonderful white space, but your sentiment is the showstopper...your eyes are drawn to it and the wonderful greenery behind!

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  79. Super card. I really like Christmas cards with holly berries and leaves.

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  80. Beautiful card! Love the way you used the bold sentiment as your focal point!

    Sammibug in Ohio

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  81. beautiful! Love the way you did the sentiment!

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  82. Great card. Love the bold sentiment and the red and green and great together!

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  83. This card is just beautiful! I love the background sprig of holly and the sentiment popped up in the front! So clever!

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  84. This card is gorgeous! I love the colors, the images & the overall look of this one. One of my favorites from the extavaganza!

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  85. Lovely card! Thank you for sharing it!

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  86. So pretty Michelle. Love the cluster of elements in the background. So festive.

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  87. Oh, I just love this beautiful, clean design!!

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  88. The various scripts on the sentiment are very pretty!

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  89. Merry and Bright for sure! A favorite of the year for me!

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  90. love your design for this one!

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  91. Beautiful card...the layout is perfect!

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  92. This card is amazing!! I LOVE the stamped background with the sentiment on top!! FABULOUS card

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  93. Classic and clean, beautiful!

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  94. Bright and bold; clean & simple - perfect!

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  95. What a beautiful card. Thank you for sharing it with us.

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  96. What a beautiful card! Thanks for sharing! (Peg)

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  97. I love the design of your card and that large sentiment.

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  98. Quite an elegant card.
    Love the HOLLY behind the sentiment

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  99. I like your pretty card. Looks dimensional.

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  100. One of the most eye-catching cards I've seen this season; stunning arrangement with the sentiment and holly! I would love to know the company who created these images; you've certainly created magic with them! Thank you for joining Taheerah's Extravaganza; you've sent my festive spirit soaring!
    Hugs~carol

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  101. Lovely. It's my favorite card today.

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  102. Love it, that card would be perfect for anyone!~

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  103. Beautiful card! Love how you put the sentiment "over" the holly leaves and berries and the colours are perfect!!

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  104. I love the precious title and the layering against the stark white to really show it off!! Simply splendid!

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  105. I totally love this card. It's one of my favorite from the hop.

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  106. Fabulous card - love the design and dimension.

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  107. Fabulous card!! I love how you stamped the images on the card and popped the sentiment on top!!

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  108. Lovely card - that sentiment is amazing!

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  109. Very pretty. I love that big sentiment.

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  110. Great dimension and perfectly stamped. The sentiment really pops and the card has a wonderfully clean and fresh christmassy feel.

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  111. Beautiful card! I love the spray of foliage behind the sentiment!

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  112. Your card is so clean and crisp - love the sentiment for the holidays!

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  113. What a fun card. So simple and yet so beautiful.

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  114. Just love your card. Holly always gives the feel of Christmas.

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  115. Beautiful card! Love the layering and colors!

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  116. Beautiful card! Thanks for sharing!

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  117. Such a beautiful card. Love it!

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  118. gorgeous card... love all the details!

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  119. Beautiful card! Love your colour combo! 🙂

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  120. That's a beautiful spray of holiday greenery backing your sentiment, Michelle.

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  121. Michelle, this is gorgeous! I'm really regretting now that I didn't buy this set.

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  122. wow the detail and precision in this card is amazing. I love it

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  123. Love the simplicity and elegance of your card.

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  124. There's a card that needs to be framed - - lovely

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  125. Wonderful card! Concord and 9th - awesome company.

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  126. love your stamping! everything coming out from behind the STUNNING sentiment banner is soooooo pretty!

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  127. This is gorgeous! Love how you layered the sentiment over everything else.

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  128. Beautiful graphic design! Great holiday card!

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  129. Fab CAS with just the right number of sequins!

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  130. What a beautiful card! Simple with extra little touches that make it just right - TFS!

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  131. That is awesome!! Love that sentiment and how you created the background behind is really nice!

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  132. Your Christmas card is so beautiful!

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  133. Beautiful and elegant! Thank you so much.

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  134. Love the bold sentiment! Gorgeous card!

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  135. Really gorgeous card, love all these details❤ The coloring inside 'bright' adds so much, wouldn't have thought of that! Thank you :)

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  136. I love this design beautiful card.

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  137. Wowie!! Gorgeous card. The sentiment is beautiful.
    Thanks for sharing :)
    Cheers and happy new year!
    preety

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  138. Such a clean crisp looking card. Love everything about it. Thanks for sharing!

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Thanks for your comments! You make my day! Michelle.