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I am proud of this card and spent a lot of today creating it, so I thought I would share. The front is fairly straight forward in how it is made. The inside pop-up feature is the part that took a lot of work. I used a Sizzix die that I have owned for a few years, but can’t remember using it. I know I have cut it out before, but mounting it on the card was a learning process. I realized the panda needed something else with it as there were two other places to pop-up something. I chose balloons and found they needed stability. I used acetate to hold those balloons up, then placed a small piece of white cardstock over the acetate to hide the adhesive (glue dots) and give plenty of stability. Now I have to send this to a special person. I have young nieces and birthdays are approaching, so it will go to one of them.