‘Tis the Season With Amazing Paper Grace

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Gosh we are almost into August and I can’t believe how fast this year has gone. July is nearly done but I have one more Christmas card to share with you featuring the Amazing Paper Grace Gilded Vines Glimmer Plates from The Gilded Age collection by Becca Feeken. I have been watching The Gilded Age series on TV and it is just fabulous and I love looking at all the beautiful gilded decor, gold jewellery and stunning outfits. So this card has been inspired by all the lavish gilding on the walls and even the ceilings. I have kept my card fairly simple and added some Christmas embellishments from the Amazing Paper Grace Holiday Label Motif dies from the Seasonal Labels Motif dies collection.

Dies were provided by Amazing Paper Grace for today’s creations.

My Project

My card base is 4 1/4″ x 5 1/2″ made from white cardstock. I added a lovely texture to the top and bottom by die cutting a single decorative edge from the Amazing Paper Grace Infinity Link Border dies out of white cardstock and cutting it in half. I then foiled the background using the Amazing Paper Grace Gilded Vines Glimmer Plates using Aura foil and trimmed the card down and matted it with gold mirror card before adding it to the base card using some Fun Foam.

For the sentiment I used the sentiment from the Christmas Damask Jubilee Hot Foil Plate Set and foiled it on white cardstock before using the rectangle die from the Amazing Paper Grace All Occasions Stamp and Die set before adding it to the centre of the decorative background.

I die cut two frames using the Amazing Paper Grace Elegant Twist Rectangle die set – one from gold mirror cardstock and on from white cardstock. These were stacked together and added around the sentiment as shown.

I then made a range of Christmas embellishments using the dies from the Amazing Paper Grace Holiday Label Motif dies out using a variety of colours and also some accents in gold mirror cardstock. These embellishments were added to the top left and bottom right of the card as shown. I also added glossy accents to the berries for more dimension and shine.

To finish the card I added some gold pearls to the bottom left, top right and around the sentiment as shown.

Amazing Paper Grace Products Used:

Gilded Vines Glimmer Plates

Holiday Label Motif dies

Infinity Link Border dies

Elegant Twist Rectangles

Christmas Damask Jubilee Hot Foil Plate Set

All Occasions Stamp and Die set

Other Products Used:

Lawn Fawn Gold Mirror Cardstock

Spellbinders Essentials Cardstock – Peridot, Fern

Spellbinders Colorwheel Cardstock – Rainforest

Creative Expressions Foundation Cardstock – Ruby, Raspberry, Forest Green

Gina K Designs Cardstock – Chocolate Truffle

Neenah Classic Crest Solar White – 110 Ib cardstock

Spellbinders Foil – Aura

Glossy Accents

Copic Markers – YR16, YR23, Y08

Pink Fresh Studio Gold Pearls

Bearly Art Glue

My Sweet Petunia Precision Glue Press

Double sided tape

Foam Squares

Fun Foam

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Amazing Paper Grace Christmas Gift Box

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Today I have a gorgeous Christmas gift box that I have made using the Amazing Paper Grace Die of the Month November 2019 – Winter’s Solstice. I enjoy making boxes or bags to add small treats such as chocolates for my family for Christmas and when I saw that Becca Feeken had made a video demonstrating how to make this box I had to make it. You can see the video here. I had a lot of fun making this and decorating it with various dies from Amazing Paper Grace.

Dies were provided by Amazing Paper Grace for today’s creations.

My Project

I have made the box according the the instructions from Becca Feeken up to adding the gold dies. You can see the video here. I did inlay some of the gold accents in the large outer decorative die and added some gold pearls to decorate them. I also added the ribbon but left the bow and decorated the top of the box with floral elements for a festive feel.

To decorate my box I have die cut several foliage elements from the Amazing Paper Grace Holiday Label Motif Dies and Petite Floral Potpourri Dies from green, red and brown cardstock to create the base.

The lantern is also from the Holiday Label Motif Dies and made from gold mirror cardstock and I have used Copic markers to colour the flame on the candle. This was added using foam squares.

The poinsettia is from the Amazing Paper Grace Cinch and Go Poinsettia Dies and I have used Copic markers to colour the flowers and leaves before assembling the flower. I then used some Moonlight Gold Lunar Past for some golden sparkle and the stamens have been made from yellow Nuvo drops and I have added a dot of red in the centres with a red Copic marker.

The white flowers are made using the flower die from the Amazing Paper Grace Die of the Month March 2020 – Elegant Infinity and after shaping and adding the stamens I added some Crystal Stickles to the petals for some shine and sparkle.

To finish the box I added a gold ribbon to the sides of the top and finished it with a gold pearl.

Amazing Paper Grace Products Used:

Die of the Month November 2011 – Winter Solstice Dies

Die of the Month March 2020 – Elegant Infinity Dies

Holiday Label Motif Dies

Petite Floral Potpourri Dies

Cinch and Go Poinsettia Dies

Other Products Used:

Cream cardstock from stash

Heartfelt Creations Festive Christmas Paper Collection

Lawn Fawn Gold Mirror Cardstock

Spellbinders Essentials Cardstock – Peridot, Rainforest, Fern

Spellbinders Colorwheel Cardstock – Rainforest

Gina K Designs Cardstock – Chocolate Truffle

Susan’s Garden Flower Shaping Paper

Neenah Classic Crest Solar White – 110 Ib cardstock

Pink Fresh Studio inks – Fresh Pear

Concord &9th Cardstock – Sprout

Dress My Craft Soft Floral Paper

Dress My Craft Stamens

Stickles – Crystal

Cosmic Shimmer Lunar Paste – Moonlight Gold

Glossy Accents

Nuvo Drops – Yellow

Copic Markers – YR16, YR23, Y08, R29. YG67, YG63

Pink Fresh Studio Gold Pearls

Bearly Art Glue

My Sweet Petunia Precision Glue Press

Double sided tape

Foam Squares

Gold ribbon

Red organza ribbon from stash

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Amazing Paper Grace Christmas Greetings

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Today I am sharing the first Christmas card I have made this year and I am so happy to have made a start on them. The Amazing Paper Grace 3D Vignette Dies make it so easy to make a shaped card with a nifty little hinge by die cutting close to the side edge with the tabs over the fold. This helps with allowing the card to fold over and more space if you wish add extra embellishments inside the card as well. For this card I have used the Amazing Paper Grace Grand Snow Globe Dies as the base and the Amazing Paper Grace Santa Claus Layering Set Dies to decorate the front of the card.

Dies were provided by Amazing Paper Grace for today’s creations.

My Project

For my project today I created the base card using the outer shadow die from the Amazing Paper Grace Grand Snow Globe Dies out of white cardstock. I then die cut three decorative panels using the shadow and inner decorative dies out of pearlescent cardstock that had a tinge of gold. I then added some double sided paper adhesive to the base of the front and the inner panels. I then removed the top of the adhesive paper before adding the decorative panels and then added some Diamond Sprinkles to the sticky paper for a sparkly finish.

I die cut two decorative circle frames out of gold mirror cardstock and white cardstock using the Amazing Paper Grace Elegant Twist Circle dies. These were stacked together with the gold on top and then added to the top of the circle on the front of the card.

I then die cut the sun ray die from the Amazing Paper Grace Santa Claus Layering Set Dies out of the pearl card. I added some more double sided adhesive paper to some pearl card and die cut it out with the plain circle die. I removed the top of the adhesive paper and then added the sunray die to the circle before adding some more Diamond Sprinkles.

I then die cut the Santa and tree die from the same set out of pearl cardstock and made sure to emboss the die before adding to the sunray circle with foam strips. This was then added to the middle of the gold Elegant Twist frame.

To finish the front I added some gold holly leaves to the base of the card, a gold pearl to the centre of the sun ray and some clear gems with gold dust radiating out from the centre and also the the leaves.

I repeated the same steps to the inside right panel of the card this time using the Christmas Greetings die from the Amazing Paper Grace Grand Snow Globe Dies.

I left the inside left panel blank to write the greeting.

Amazing Paper Grace Products Used:

Grand Snow Globe Dies

Santa Claus Layering Set Dies

Elegant Twist Circle Dies

Other Products Used:

Neenah Classic Crest Solar White 110Ib Cardstock

Crafter’s Companion Centura Pearl Cardstock – Snow White with a Hint of Gold

Lawn Fawn Mirror Gold Cardstock

Jac Double Sided Paper

Pink Fresh Studio Gold Pearls

Pink Fresh Studio Clear Gems – Clear with Gold Dust

Waffle Flower Foam Strips

My Sweet Petunia Precision Glue Press

Bearly Art Glue

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Meri Kirihimete Amazing Paper Grace

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Welcome Back to my blog and since it is Christmas in July I have a very summery Christmas card to share with you that I made last year and never had the chance to post. This card was very quick and easy to made using some gorgeous dies from Amazing Paper Grace to frame the Santa image which I got free from a Facebook page.

My Project

I have used the Amazing Paper Grace Fluted Classic Square Dies and the Postage Edge Square Dies for the frames and decorated it with a poinsettia and foliage using dies from the Amazing Paper Grace Die of the Month November 2020 Pop up 3D Vignette Poinsettia Sleigh Dies.

The sentiment is Te Reo (Maori) and has been printed on the computer and then die cut with the small rectangle from the Amazing Paper Grace Giving Occasions Stamp and Die and matted with some red cardstock and added to the bottom of the frame with some gold pearls.

It is hard to see in the photo but I added some Crystal Ultrafine glitter to the sea and Santa to give the card some sparkle.

Dies were provided by Amazing Paper Grace for today’s creations.

Amazing Paper Grace Products Used:

Postage Edge Square Dies

Fluted Classic Square Dies

Die of the Month November 2020 Pop up 3D Vignette Poinsettia Sleigh Dies

Giving Occasions Stamp and Die

Other Products Used:

Clipart – Free from Facebook

Creative Expressions Foundation Cardstock – Ruby

Spellbinders Essentials Cardstock – Fern

House of Paper White Cardstock 300 gsm

White cardstock

Heartfelt Creations Luxe Gold Cardstock

Lisa Horton Cloud 9 Interference ink – Festive Fir, Crimson Cheer

Fun Foam

Glossy Accents

DMC Sparkling Dust

Pink Fresh Studio Gold Pearls

Bearly Art Glue

My Sweet Petunia Precision Glue Press

Double sided tape

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Amazing Paper Grace Butterfly Birthday Wishes

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Today I have a very special birthday card I made for a very special person using dies from the Amazing Paper Grace 3D Vignette Mini Album Collection by Becca Feeken. Shaped cards are so easy when you use a 3D Vignette die and my favourite 3D Vignette die is the Amazing Paper Grace Grand Vaulted Cabinet Etched Dies. I love the shape of the aperture and I especially love the swirls and flourishes in the decorative background too. I have paired these dies with the Amazing Paper Grace Birthday Wishes Vignette Etched Dies from the Beautiful Sentiment Vignette Dies Collection by Becca Feeken to change this to a birthday card. Finally I added a beautiful hot foiled sentiment from the Amazing Paper Grace Heart Felt Sentiments Hot Foil Plate and Dies from the Amazing Paper Grace Sweet Cardlets Collection on the interactive pivot banner for extra meaning and a sweet butterfly from the Amazing Paper Grace Butterfly Bliss Etched Dies to the front.

I have used soft pinks, cream and white with accents of gold for this card for a soft, vintage, romantic and elegant shaped card that the recipient loved.

Dies were provided by Amazing Paper Grace for today’s creations.

You can watch a video here on how to create the pop up element on a card as well as in the mini album here: https://youtu.be/AMmUn1SxksI?si=xtKsM7mR1UkQKgII. You can also see how adding the shadow die to the edge of folded cardstock creates the shaped card.

Amazing Paper Grace Products Used.

S4-1029 Grateful Thankful Blessed Layering Etched Dies

S4-1032 Interactive Pivot Banner Etched Dies

S5-408 Grand Vaulted Cabinet Etched Dies

S5-455 Birthday Wishes Vignette Etched Dies

GLP-219 Heart Felt Sentiments Hot Foil Plate and Dies

Die of the Month August 2022 Peekaboo Trellis Panels Etched Dies

S6-183 Butterfly Bliss Garden Shutters 5×7 Card Base Etched Dies

Other Products Used:

Spellbinders Essentials Cardstock – Barely Peach, Snowdrift, Onyx

Concord & 9th Cardstock – Ballet Slippers

Lawn Fawn Gold Cardstock

Rajni Chawla’s Flowerite Vellum

Foam Tape, Strips

Bearly Art Glue

My Sweet Petunia Precision Glue Press

Pearls from my stash

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Amazing Paper Grace Magnolia Frame Card

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I apologise for not posting anything for a while but I had a bad fall at the end of last year and ended up with concussion and a broken nose. The concussion was causing a lot of issues and I had to take a break away from using the computer and my devices to allow my brain to heal. I have been attending Concussion Clinic and that has also been really helpful with exercises to get my brain back together. I am almost back to my ‘normal’ self and it is time to get back to what I enjoy doing best which is cardmaking.

While I was away from screens I did a lot of colouring with Copic markers as I found it very relaxing and therapeutic and it settled a lot of the headaches. The image I have used today is from one of Kit and Clowder’s bonus classes from Nov/Dec 2024. As I could not follow the colouring on the computer I just coloured the flower by going of Alyce’s colouring in the booklet that was provided with the class and I am so happy how it turned out. I then used the Amazing Paper Grace Adoria Square Frame die from the Amazing Paper Grace Shadowbox collection by Becca Feeken too create a frame for the image and which could also be used as a card. I left putting a sentiment on the front so that if I use it as a card I can add the appropriate sentiment or it can be kept as a frame on a table.

Dies were provided by Amazing Paper Grace for today’s creations.

My Project

My card is 6″ x 6″ and I have layered white and brushed gold cardstock with foam tape to create the base for the floral image.

To add more texture I die cut two of the medium sized decorative squares out of white cardstock and trimmed each in half and added it to the four corners of the top layer of white cardstock. I then added some white satin ribbon to cover the joins.

I then cut a piece of white cardstock 5″ x 5″ and die cut the square aperture out using the larger square die from the Adoria Square die. Using this as a template I added the coloured image to the card base and then added the frame with foam tape.

I die cut two outer decorative frames from white cardstock and adhered them together before adding them to the frame.

To complete the card I added pearls to the inner edge of the frame and on the decorative frame and then added a white satin bow to the base of the frame and added more pearls over the bow.

Amazing Paper Grace Products Used:

Adoria Square Frame Etched Dies

Other Products Used:

Image from Kit and Clowder Free Bonus Class Nov/Dec 2024

Copic Markers – E49, E44, E31, G28, G24, G2, G20, YR27, YR24, Y000, C3, C1, C0

Spellbinders Brushed Gold Metallic Cardstock

Neenah Solar Crest 80 Ib

Neenah Solar Crest 110 Ib

X-Pressit Cardstock

Pearls

Clear Wink of Stella

White satin ribbon

Foam tape, strips, squares

Bearly Art Glue

My Sweet Petunia Precision Glue Press

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Merry Christmas Amazing Paper Grace

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The final countdown is on for Christmas and today I have a Christmas card made using the Amazing Paper Grace Die of the Month June 2020 Snip It Grid and Calendar Dies to create an advent calendar with the 25th December highlighted. I have kept to traditional Christmas colours of red and gold and some beautiful Christmas papers and allowed the dies to look like an advent calendar.

Dies were provided by Amazing Paper Grace for today’s creations.

My Project

My base card is 6″ x 6″ and I have layered red and patterned paper on the base card. I also added some red satin ribbon across the top left and bottom right of the card.

I then added a layer of gold and red cardstock with black foam to create dimension. Following this I then layered some pattern paper with gold cardstock and added this to the top of the card with more black foam.

I die cut the calendar frame from the Amazing Paper Grace Die of the Month June 2020 Snip It Grid and Calendar Dies out of red cardstock and adhered it to the pattern paper and then matted it to gold cardstock before adding it to the front of the card leaving space above and below for the sentiments and month with more black foam.

I die cut the numbers and the word ‘December’ from the Amazing Paper Grace Die of the Month June 2020 Snip It Grid and Calendar Dies out of red cardstock and adhered the numbers inside the squares. I die cut another frame out of gold cardstock and snipped it to a single square which was added over the 25th square. I die cut the numbers 2 and 5 out of gold cardstock and then adhering them to the highlighted square.

To finish the calendar I added red squares to the empty squares and then some gold pearls to complete the bottom row.

I die cut the sentiment from the Amazing Paper Grace Happy Occasion Words Dies twice – one from red cardstock and one from gold cardstock. I adhered the red words over the gold words slightly offsetting the gold sentiments for a shadow and then adhered the sentiments to the card under the calendar frame. I repeated the same procedure for the word ‘December’ which was place above the calendar frame.

I added a red ribbon bow to the top left corner and added a poinsettia and foliage made using the Amazing Paper Grace Cinch and Go Poinsettias Dies to the bow. A gold pearl to the centre of the flower finished the card.

Amazing Paper Grace Products Used:

Die of the Month June 2020 Snip It Grid and Calendar

Happy Occasion Words Dies

Die of the Month November 2020 Pop up 3D Vignette Poinsettia Sleigh

Cinch and Go Poinsettias Dies

Other Products Used:

Dress My Craft Christmas Bells Paper

House of Paper Cardstock – White 300gsm

Heartfelt Creations Luxe Gold Cardstock

Creative Expressions Foundation Cardstock – Ruby

Spellbinders foam – black

Pink Fresh Studio inks – Key Lime, Olive

Memento ink – Lady Bug

Spellbinders Essentials Cardstock – Fern

Pink Fresh Studio Gold Pearls

Bearly Art Glue

My Sweet Petunia Precision Glue Press

Double sided tape

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Amazing Paper Grace Away in the Manger

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I really love the versatility of the Amazing Paper Grace 3D Vignettes and I also love the beautiful vignette scenes as well where you can layer a 3D scene very quickly, including the sentiment for any occasion. Today’s Christmas card has a nativity scene made using the Amazing Paper Grace Grand Lattice Arch Dies with the Amazing Paper Grace Nativity. Layering Set Dies in a classic and elegant white and gold combination. I have made the nativity scene the focal point of the card by using foam strips to layer the vignette in the centre of the card and making it pop from the stunning background die. I have finished the card with some white and gold poinsettias from the Amazing Paper Grace November 2020 Die of the Month Pop up 3D Vignette Poinsettia Sleigh Dies.

Dies were provided by Amazing Paper Grace for today’s creations.

My Project

My finished card is 5″ x 5 1/2″ and the base is layered in gold and white card. I die cut a plain frame and a gold frame using the Amazing Paper Grace Grand Lattice Arch Dies and adhered them together.

I die cut two star ‘ray’ vigentte dies – one from gold card and one from white card and adhered them together with the gold slightly offset. I then die cut the nativity scene from white card and two sentiment vignettes from gold card. I adhered the two sentiment vignettes together and then layered all the vignettes together with foam strips.

I die cut a plain insert out of white card and ink blended yellow and green inks and added it behind all the vignettes.

I then added the frame to the front of the card with foam tape and then added the vignettes to the centre of the frame.

To finish I added some pearls to the star ‘rays’ and the white poinsettias and gold foliage to the top left of the card.

Amazing Paper Grace Products Used:

Amazing Paper Grace Grand Lattice Arch Dies

Amazing Paper Grace Nativity. Layering Set Dies

Amazing Paper Grace November 2020 Die of the Month Pop up 3D Vignette Poinsettia Sleigh Dies.

Other Products Used:

Lawn Fawn Mirror Gold Cardstock

Neenah Classic Crest Cardstock 80 Ib

House of Paper White Cardstock 300 gsm

Altenew foam tape

Foam strips

Bearly Art Glue

My Sweet Petunia Precision Glue Press

Pink Fresh Studio Gold Pearls

Pearls from my stash

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‘Tis The Season with Amazing Paper Grace

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Wow Christmas is just around the corner and I have some more Christmas card inspiration for you using the fabulous Amazing Paper Grace Die of the Month November 2019 – Solstice Snowflake Die. This is an amazing layering die set and I have used different silver finished cardstock to show up the layers beautifully on a layered blue and silver base card. To complete the card I have just added a silver reversed hot foiled sentiment to let the layers of silver and texture to shine.

Dies were provided by Amazing Paper Grace for today’s creations.

My Project

My finished card ia 6″ x 6″ and I have laywered dark and light blue patterned paper with silver to create the base for the decorative dies.

I have used a mix of brushed metallic silver card, matte metallic silver card, two different glitter metallic Cardstock and some silver cardstock on the different layers of the dies. I have also used foam tape to create dimension with the outer frame and also the snowflakes in the centre of the frame.

To finish the card I have added some Glacier gems for some sparkle and an iridescent reversed hot foiled sentiment using the Amazing Paper Grace Christmas Damask Jubilee Hot Foil Plate and die cut using the label die from the Amazing Paper Grace Giving Occasions Stamp and Die Set. For an extra snowflake oomph I added a snowflake die from the Amazing Paper Grace Snowflake Splendor Dies to the centre of the frame as shown.

Amazing Paper Grace Products Used:

Die of the Month November 2019 – Solstice Snowflake Die

S5-429 Snowflake Splendor Dies

GLP-120 Christmas Damask Jubilee Hot Foil Plate 

SDS-054 – Giving Occasions Stamp and Die Set (die used to cut the sentiment)

Other Products Used:

Heartfelt Creations Luxe Silver Cardstock – matting and small snowflake

Heartfelt Creations Festive Winterscape Paper Collection

Spellbinders Brushed Metallic Silver Cardstock (Small hexagons x 2)

Spellbinders Matte Metallic Silver Cardstock (large decorative hexagon)

Spellbinders Glitter Metallic Cardstock (shadow of large decorative hexagon)

Pink Fresh Studio Silver Glitter Cardstock Large Snowflake

Pink Fresh Studio Gems – Glacier

Spellbinders Foil – Prism – reversed foiled with Pink Fresh Studio Foil Plate

Altenew foam tape

Bearly Art Glue

My Sweet Petunia Precision Glue Press

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Merry Christmas Amazing Paper Grace

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I am late posting this card because I had an incident last week and have had to rest and also be careful with using devices and my computer for a few days. I am slowly starting to feel a little better but I will make sure I do get rest when I need it.

Today’s card is a very quick and easy card using just three die sets the Amazing Paper Grace Die of the Month July 2021 Home Sweet Home with a sentiment from the Amazing Paper Grace Fluted Classics Rectangles Dies and small holly embellishments from the Amazing Paper Grace Sugarplum Tweets Dies and festive paper for a more traditional Christmas card. This card is a standard size 4 1/4″ x 5 1/2″ and folds flat for easy posting.

Dies were provided by Amazing Paper Grace for today’s creations.

Amazing Paper Grace Dies Used:

Die of the Month July 2021 Home Sweet Home

S5-475 Fluted Classics Rectangles Dies

S4-1244 Sugarplum Tweets Dies

Other Products Used:

Dress My Craft Paper – Welcome Santa

Heartfelt Creations Luxe Gold Cardstock

DMC Sparkling Dust

Bearly Art Glue

My Sweet Petunia Precision Glue Press

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