💙Spellbinders Happy Dance Collection

hi guys this is debbie with debbie j’s
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crafting corner today we’re gonna make
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some fun easy interactive cards using
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the we dance collection from
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spellbinders
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so i’m gonna go ahead and die cut a
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bunch of these little pieces out i
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figure um since i want everything to be
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stable i’m going to want to layer up
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some of these and i decided to go ahead
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and try out
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my
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sizzix sticky grid sheets to see if i
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could get those to work somewhat for me
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um the downside is that it’s hard to get
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anything out of the dies these
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especially these that are open if it’s
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got a
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solid back it’s not such a big deal
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another thing is it keeps wanting to
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lift from my cutting plate so i don’t
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know what that’s all about but i have
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gotten quite a few of these and kind of
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got a little bit of a system that i’m
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starting on so i’ll go ahead and show
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you real time how that one works so i’ve
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already laid out all of my dies that i
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want to cut out and i’m just putting a
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piece of cardstock down cover that with
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my it’s going to be cutting into my
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magic mat as always so that goes on next
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and then i’ve got a second
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plate to go on top
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and i’m just running this one through my
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gemini junior you can do the same thing
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with a with your um spellbinders
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platinum six or your sizzix or whatever
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die cutting machine it is just use the
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sandwich that you guys normally would
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use
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and then
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take these off some of them pop off
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without a problem right away some of
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them get stuck a little bit
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but these that have got the solid
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backing behind the dies don’t really get
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stuck as much the ones that do i am
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taking some low tack tape that is
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somewhat sticky and pressing it in
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enough so that it starts to pull it up
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some
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it did take a few times around to do
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that and that means that i’ve lost a
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little bit of the sticky on that mat but
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it is still sticking pretty well this
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one is partially
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solid and partially not and that one
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comes out without a problem this one no
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biggie it’s got the solid pieces there
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and then this one is another one that
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does not have a solid piece behind and
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that’s because there are other pieces
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that you could layer but using this tape
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let me get my thumbnail underneath it
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and pop that up so now i’ve got a bunch
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of more die cuts now the paper when it
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is stuck to the rest of the mat i don’t
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know why but sometimes it starts to tear
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when i try to pull it up so i am doing
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going to try doing the exact same thing
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with the tape to just be able to get it
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pulled up enough for me to grab it and
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now i’m holding my sticky grid down so
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it doesn’t pull up and you can see it is
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already starting to lift
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this is a brand new sticky grid that i
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just put on this plate today
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so now i am ready to go with another one
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okay now i have cut out a lot of little
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bits to go over some of those and i
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discovered i don’t really have any pink
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to go over her legs so i’m just going to
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use one of the scraps that were left
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over from the other cuts i’m going to go
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ahead and run those through
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and i did
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it looks like i accidentally had one of
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them kind of move so that’s okay i just
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need to redo his shirt that’s fine and i
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can’t believe how fast i’m able to cut
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out a ton of pieces
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and so far that was the only one that
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messed up
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and this time i’m going to actually tape
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it in place it doesn’t have enough the
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reason that it’s slid is there’s not
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enough
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excess enough around it for it to stick
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to the outside of the sticky grid
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or the rather the sticky grid outside of
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the space of the die
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but if i tape it in place that should
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take care of that issue
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i’m also going to tape some of these in
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place because i am pretty sure that they
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are
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not quite close enough
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i another the pieces are not quite big
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enough to actually stick to the sticky
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grid
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and i don’t want any sliding around this
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time
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okay so let’s go ahead and run it
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through one more time
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i would have to say that probably the
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most time consuming part for die cutting
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for me is positioning my dies in such a
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way that they’re not going to shift and
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this so far has been a great way for me
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not to have to worry about it
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okay i am going to leave these right
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here on this mat and the reason for that
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is because that way i don’t have to go
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and re-situate everything if i need some
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additional pieces but i think i’ve got
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enough at this point that i can start
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putting something together
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so next i’m trying something i hadn’t
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done before i had picked this up at the
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dollar tree probably six months ago so i
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have not tried it yet and so i’m going
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to try assembling some of these guys
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using
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um
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basically
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using a
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spray box because i’ve got so many of
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them and i don’t know how thick i need
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them to be so i’m going to start off
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with a few
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and just kind of double them up and see
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how
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thick they look
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and i’m going to use my older oh those
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are my newer where’s my older
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i want to use my older reverse tweezers
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because they have been
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through everything over the last couple
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years
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and i’m just putting
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the adhesive side down onto the
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to one of the ones that doesn’t have any
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adhesive and just lining it up
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so now that one is two layers thick i’m
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gonna go ahead and add a third
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and we shall see how that is
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and part of this is because i feel that
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the legs should probably be more stable
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than pretty much the rest of the card
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so now i’ve got three layers of the legs
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i think i need to have an additional
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layer on top that’s going to be colored
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so i’m not going to do that yet but i am
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going to go ahead and start layering
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some of the rest of these and i think
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having three layers thick on the main
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pieces is probably going to be good
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enough so that when it’s swinging around
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it’s not going to fall apart
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the next part is going to be putting
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together the piece that is going to be
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the swinger right
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and then of course we would need to
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mount it onto our
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card
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i need to have a foam piece that is
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smaller than the circle that that is
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so i am going to trim it down just a
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touch
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because i can always use the excess for
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a different project maybe
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and i’m going to try to leave well i was
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going to try to leave
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the adhe the um
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paper on the other side of it because
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what i need to do is line it up behind
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the skirt this is for the lady line her
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legs up behind the skirt and put that
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little square in the center there
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so i’ll go ahead and put that down right
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there
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see if i can get a little piece of
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there we go the release paper to go back
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on there because
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i’m gonna need to adhere that part to
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the card i’m basically putting it in
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place so that all i have to do is add it
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to the card when i’m ready once i have
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my backgrounds i’m also going to use
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some anti-static powder around the edges
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because i don’t want that to be getting
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caught on her skirt
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i mean on her legs so when i put the
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legs there
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just holding those two pieces you can
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see that it does swing back and forth so
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that is going to be awesome
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now that we’ve got the mechanism done we
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can go ahead and put together all of the
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little bits to make this into an actual
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card i put together a glue bottle and
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other things for the other cards as well
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just gluing everything together you guys
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have probably seen how to do this
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multiple times now i’m just going to go
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ahead and mount that onto the card so
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i’m removing that release paper putting
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a little bit of liquid glue down and
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then positioning my skirt and legs for
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the first of these cards and you can see
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that those swing pretty pretty nicely
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now i can just add the glue bottle to
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the top and that’ll be all done do want
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to add some little hands though so she’s
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actually holding the glue bottle and
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this card is gonna be all finished i did
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go ahead and do three different cards
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i’ll show you those in just a bit um
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also i came up with a way to do it using
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basically using a stamp doing some fussy
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cutting and no die so what i’m going to
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be doing on the 16th of this month is
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having a card making class a fun craft
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along card making class making these
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little guys into some mother’s day and
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father’s day cards as well as showing
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you how to do another card without using
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any dies if you don’t have this set so
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be sure to drop on by my website that’s
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edu.wjscraftingcorner.com and register
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so that you can attend this fun class
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you will have ongoing access after the
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fact but i’d love to have you there in
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person
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so if you’d like to see some more videos
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where i’m using some awesome
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spellbinders products be sure to check
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out this playlist you guys have a
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wonderful day and remember if i can make
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it you can too
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you