R is for Ready, Set, Go, it's Race Time

It's that time of year again . . .

we all need to get our Christmas cards sorted and

what better way to do it than playing along with the

Seventh Annual Month Of Holiday Cards

at

Beccy's Place

The prompt for Day 20 is "R"

R is for Ready, Set, Go, it's Red Race Time
I confess, instead of making a Round card with "Rudolf the Red Nosed Reindeer" and lots of Red Rhinestones, my heart is Racing from Beccy's surprise Race to the fill gallery!  Here is a quick Race time card using lots of sparkling Red and a pretty plaid paper with a touch of Red!

. . . MORE details to follow . . . 
I'm racing so fast that the ink on my watermark is still drying

. . . I'm back . . . 

I sized a plaid digital paper (details below) to make the front panel for my card, I printed the panel on smooth cardstock, trimmed to size then adhered to a 6" x 6" card base.  I pulled out one of my absolute favourite Christmas sentiment dies (details below) and die cut the flourished Merry Christmas sentiment and snowflakes from sparkling red glitter cardstock, another "precious" from my stash.  It was from an American Crafts Christmas pad several years ago and not seen any with so much sparkle since then, so each sheet is precious.  I die cut the sentiment from plain white cardstock twice and adhered them under the sparkling die cuts to give extra dimension and contrast against the background paper.  Yes, it's a simple card but I thought the sparkling die cuts had so much "WOW" and the plaid elegant yet festive, that together they were enough.  What do you think?



   

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*** INGREDIENTS ***
smooth white cardstock

glitter cardstock

Silhouette Design Store - Design ID #307410
Christmas Plaid Seamless Pattern by Kristen Magee
Sizzix Big Shot
Ultimate Crafts - Merry Christmas Script Die
(Ultimate Crafts are the parent company of Couture Creations)
Helmar 450 Quick Dry adhesive - to adhere the layers

Tombow Mono Multi Liquid Adhesive - to adhere the sentiment & snowflakes

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I am going to enter my card in the following challenges:

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Beccy's 7th Annual Month of Holiday Cards
Day 20 - R is for Red Race Time
Cardz 4 Galz  - Challenge #110 – Get Ready For Christmas
CCC Digi Creations - Challenge #109 – Christmas

Crafty Catz - Challenge #484 – Anything Goes – optional twist: Spots and/or Stripes

(my stripes have gone a little cross-eyed and become a plaid pattern)
International Art & Soul - Challenge #72 - Christmas With No Image
Fab ‘n’ Funky Challenges - Challenge #459 – Christmas

U is for Upside Down

It's that time of year again . . .

we all need to get our Christmas cards sorted and

what better way to do it than playing along with the

Seventh Annual Month Of Holiday Cards

at

Beccy's Place

The prompt for Day 24 is "U"

U is for Upside down
Poor old Santa is stuck Upside down in the chimney

This fun shaped card started as a cut file for a rectangle side fold card.  Once I opened the cut file in Silhouette Studio, I decided to transform it into a top folding shaped card.  I welded the largest front matting panel to make the card base then used all the other elements to create the Santa down the chimney scene.  I cut all the pieces from textured cardstock and adhered them in place with liquid adhesives.



You may remember the snowflake envelopes that I shared earlier (HERE).

This 5" x 7" card fits inside perfectly.

This is my second card using the Santa Down The Chimney cut file.

You can see the red based one HERE.

Which version do you prefer?

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*** INGREDIENTS ***

Silhouette Cameo

Silhouette Design Store - Design ID #306991
Santa Down The Chimney Card by Studio Ilustrado

American Crafts - 12" x 12" textured cardstock

Helmar 450 Quick Dry adhesive - to adhere the larger layers

Tombow Mono Multi Liquid Adhesive - to adhere the sentiment & detail pieces

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I am going to enter my card in the following challenges:

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Beccy's 7th Annual Month of Holiday Cards
Day 24 - U is for Upside down
Creative Inspirations Challenge Blog - November Challenge – Winter Blues

M is for Merry Christmas

It's that time of year again . . .

we all need to get our Christmas cards sorted and

what better way to do it than playing along with the

Seventh Annual Month Of Holiday Cards

at

Beccy's Place

The prompt for Day 15 is "M"

M is for Merry Christmas
My card is finished off with a cheery layered Merry Christmas
and has Many layers creating the scene.

This fun shaped card started as a cut file for a rectangle side fold card.  Once I opened the cut file in Silhouette Studio, I decided to transform it into a top folding shaped card.  I welded the largest front matting panel to make the card base then used all the other elements to create the Santa down the chimney scene.  I cut all the pieces from textured cardstock and adhered them in place with liquid adhesives.

You may remember the snowflake envelopes that I shared earlier (HERE).

This 5" x 7" card fits inside perfectly.

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*** INGREDIENTS ***

Silhouette Cameo

Silhouette Design Store - Design ID #306991
Santa Down The Chimney Card by Studio Ilustrado

American Crafts - 12" x 12" textured cardstock

Helmar 450 Quick Dry adhesive - to adhere the larger layers

Tombow Mono Multi Liquid Adhesive - to adhere the sentiment & detail pieces

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I am going to enter my card in the following challenges:

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Beccy's 7th Annual Month of Holiday Cards
Day 15 - M is for Merry Christmas

S is for Snowflakes

It's that time of year again . . .

we all need to get our Christmas cards sorted and

what better way to do it than playing along with the

Seventh Annual Month Of Holiday Cards

at

Beccy's Place

The prompt for Day 22 is "S"

S is for Snowflakes

I've been making lots of Christmas cards, some with snowmen, others with penguins and thought that it would be nice to make some special envelopes for them.  These fancy envelopes are from a cut file called Snowflake Envelopes from My Scrap Chick.  The good news is that this cut file is currently a newsletter freebie, available for FREE until the new Friday Freebie is released, after that it's available for purchase.  I opened the files in Silhouette Studio, rotated 45 degrees then enlarged them slightly so that they just fitted on the 12" x 12" cutting mat.  I wanted them to be slightly larger, allowing some extra space for all the dimension I tend to add to my cards.

The (almost) square envelopes are 6 5/8" x 6 3/8".

The rectangular envelopes are 7 1/2" x 5 1/8".

These snowflake shaped flaps are so pretty,



they look great even from the inside.

  The pretty blue cardstock is the same one that I am using to make some more cards with, so they will match perfectly ... when I eventually get them finished ... there are lots of layers and fiddly bits to adhere together.

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*** INGREDIENTS ***
My Scrap Chick - envelope cut files - Snowflake Envelopes

American Crafts - 12x12 textured cardstock
Silhouette Cameo

Helmar 450 Quick Dry adhesive - to adhere the flaps to form the envelopes

Tombow Mono Multi Liquid Adhesive - to adhere the snowflakes

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I am going to enter my card in the following challenges:

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Beccy's 7th Annual Month of Holiday Cards
Day 22 - S is for Snowflakes

L is for Lots of Lovely Layers

It's that time of year again . . .

we all need to get our Christmas cards sorted and

what better way to do it than playing along with the

Seventh Annual Month Of Holiday Cards

at

Beccy's Place

The prompt for Day 14 is "L"
L is for Lots of Lovely Layers

Today I would like to introduce you to Merle, the giraffe sending gorgeous Christmas greetings.  Merle is from a the digital stamp set from Beccy's Place, the sentiment is also from the same set (yes, it's filled with fun).  I sized the image and sentiment in Silhouette Studio, printed on X-Press It blending card, heat set, coloured with Copic markers then trimmed to size.  I matted the image and sentiment panels, made an A5 top folding card base then adhered the layers together to complete the card.  I popped some thin foam squares under the top and bottom of the image panel so that it sat evenly over the sentiment panel and secured to the front of the card then finished it off with a festive die cut bow.  There are lots of layers on my card, even the bow is layered.

The sentiment is fun too and I aligned it with the ornament
dangling from Merle's tail to add an extra touch of fun.

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*** INGREDIENTS ***
Beccy's Place - giraffe image - Merle digital stamp set
Beccy's Place - sentiment - Merle digital stamp set

X-Press It A4 Blending Card
Copic markers - giraffe - E30-31-33-35-37-39 + R81 inside ears

Copic markers - eyes - YR23
Copic markers - stocking - R22-24-27 + C00-0
Copic markers - star - Y02-04 + Y0000-000 for the glow
Copic markers - ornament - R22-24-27 + YR23
Copic markers - lights - YG01-03 + YG0000-000 for the glow
American Crafts - 12x12 textured cardstock
Sizzix Big Shot
Paper Smooches - Bows Dies
Kaisercraft 12x12 patterned paper - Mint Twist collection

Helmar 450 Quick Dry adhesive - to adhere the layers

Tombow Mono Multi Liquid Adhesive - to adhere the bow
thin foam squares-  to layer under the top & bottom of the image panel

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I am going to enter my card in the following challenges:

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A Gem Of A Challenge - Wk 23 – Anything Goes
Beccy's 7th Annual Month of Holiday Cards
Day 14 - "L" - L is for Lots of Lovely Layers
Cardz 4 Galz  - Challenge #110 – Get Ready For Christmas
CCC Digi Creations - Challenge #109 – Christmas
Christmas Cards All Year 'Round - November Challenge – Stockings or Other Winter Clothing
Merle is in a Christmas tizzy and wearing only one Christmas Stocking
Crafty Calendar Challenge - November Challenge – Cute and Girly
Crafty Catz - Challenge #484 – Anything Goes – optional twist: Spots and/or Stripes
The Paper Shelter - Challenge #407 – A Christmas Card  

BINGO at Beccy's

It's that time of year again . . .

we all need to get our Christmas cards sorted and

what better way to do it than playing along with the

Seventh Annual Month Of Holiday Cards

at

Beccy's Place

The prompt for Day 6 is a BINGO Grid

No stamping or colouring from me for this prompt.  I decided to combine some pretty plaid digital paper and die cutting to complete the middle vertical line:
silver - die cuts - stripes
(my stripes have gone a little cross-eyed and become a plaid pattern)

I sized a plaid digital paper (details below) to make the front panel for my card, I printed the panel on smooth cardstock, trimmed to size then adhered to a 6" x 6" card base.  I pulled out one of my absolute favourite Christmas sentiment dies (details below) and die cut the flourished Merry Christmas sentiment and snowflakes from sparkling gold glitter cardstock, another "precious" from my stash.  It was from an American Crafts Christmas pad several years ago and not seen any with so much sparkle since then, so each sheet is precious.  I die cut the sentiment from plain cardstock twice and adhered them under the sparkling die cuts to give extra dimension and contrast against the background paper.  Yes, it's a simple card but I thought the sparkling die cuts had so much "WOW" and the plaid elegant yet festive, that together they were enough.  What do you think?

Light plays games when you're trying to take photos, the images above
and to the bottom right are what it looks like in "real life".

   

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*** INGREDIENTS ***
smooth white cardstock
glitter cardstock
Silhouette Design Store - Design ID #308397

Green & Black Christmas Plaid Seamless Pattern by Kristen Magee
Sizzix Big Shot
Ultimate Crafts - Merry Christmas Script Die
Helmar 450 Quick Dry adhesive - to adhere the front panel

Tombow Mono Multi Liquid Adhesive - to adhere the sentiment & snowflakes

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I am going to enter my card in the following challenges:

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Beccy's 7th Annual Month of Holiday Cards
Day 6 - BINGO Grid - "silver - die cuts - stripes"

Q is for Quick

It's that time of year again . . .

we all need to get our Christmas cards sorted and

what better way to do it than playing along with the

Seventh Annual Month Of Holiday Cards

at

Beccy's Place

The prompt for Day 19 is "Q"

Q is for Quick,
a Quick and easy card with no colouring.

I recently added some wooden flourish Holly Leaves to my crafty stash and have never used wooden elements before, so ideas had been mulling over in my mind until today, when it "clicked".  I decided on a CAS (Clean and Simple) design, combining a rustic wreath with the wooden holly leaves, contrasting them with sparkling red rhinestones.  Yes, definitely a Quick card.

Do you think they make a good combo?

   

I'm super excited for Beccy, as my card in the 812th entry,
with only 52 more until we reach last years' record,
so I expect a new record will be set while I am sleeping
=> CONGRATULATIONS Beccy & Everyone!

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*** INGREDIENTS ***
smooth white cardstock - for card base
textured cardstock - for the rustic wreath

Sizzix Big Shot
Kaisercraft - decorative die - Sketched Circle
Kaisercraft - wooden flourish - Holly Leaves
rhinestones

Tombow Mono Multi Liquid Adhesive - to adhere the wreath & holly leaves

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I am going to enter my card in the following challenges:

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ABC Christmas Challenge - W is for Wreath & X is for fauX
W is for Wreath
Beccy's 7th Annual Month of Holiday Cards
Day 19 - Q is for Quick
Cardz 4 Galz  - Challenge #110 – Get Ready For Christmas
CCC Digi Creations - Challenge #109 – Christmas
Crafty Catz - Challenge #484 – Anything Goes – optional twist: Spots and/or Stripes
my wreath is dotted with sparkling red rhinestone "spots"

Dragonfly Dreams Challenge - Christmas / Winter
Inkspirational Challenges - Challenge #200 – Celebration

Time Out Challenges - Challenge #149 – Celebrations

Winter Wonderland Challenge Blog - November Challenge: Use Holly and/or Ivy on Your Card

O is for Ornament

It's that time of year again . . .

we all need to get our Christmas cards sorted and

what better way to do it than playing along with the

Seventh Annual Month Of Holiday Cards

at

Beccy's Place

The prompt for Day 17 is "O"

O is for Ornament

Let me introduce Stanley.  Stanley's Bauble is a FREE digital Stamp from Beccy's Place and his vibrant red ornament is perfect for my "O" card.

Stanley started out as a CAS only layer card.  I printed the image and sentiment on X-Press It blending card, heat set then coloured with Copic markers.  Unfortunately, when I went to colour the sentiment with a luscious metallic gel pen, I smeared it and made a mess.  Without thinking, I whipped out the scissors and started fussy cutting ... sigh ... why didn't I just stick a sentiment tag on top of it?

Anyway, after fussy cutting Stanley, I went around the edges with a black Memento Tuxedo Black dual tip marker then decided to try a new design.  I was inspired by a sketch (details and link below) and started giving Stanley a new home.  I cut a 1/4" strip of velvety green glitter cardstock and adhered it to a 7" x 5" card.  I die cut the sentiment from charcoal glitter cardstock, trimmed off one end and adhered it next to the glitter strip.  I used thin foam squares to pop Stanley in place and my card was done.  I make it sound super speedy but it took me quite a while to complete the colouring and almost as long to finish my frustrated fussy cutting.

I have used the Stanley's Bauble digital Stamp to make several cards in the past and always enjoy colouring him, especially the bauble now that I am getting more confident building up the curved shine.  I think he enjoys being in the spotlight.

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*** INGREDIENTS ***
Beccy's Place - FREE digital stamp - Stanley's Bauble

X-Press It A4 Blending Card
Copic markers - Stanley bear - E31-33-35-37 + E02

Copic markers - bauble - R21-22-24-27-29
Copic markers - hanger at end of bauble - Y15 + YR23-24
Die Cuts With A View - Glitzy Glitter cardstock stack

Sizzix Big Shot
Lawn Fawn - die - Merry Christmas Line Border Die Cut

Tombow Mono Multi Liquid Adhesive - to adhere the strip & sentiment

thin foam squares - to adhere Stanley

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I am going to enter my card in the following challenges:

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2 Crafty Critter Crazies - Challenge #32 – Anything With A Critter Goes
AAA Cards - CAS Game #153 - One Image + Optional Twist Shimmer

Beccy's 7th Annual Month of Holiday Cards
Day 17 - O is for Ornament
CAS(E) this Sketch - Sketch #348

Colour Crazy Challenge - Week 45 – Anything Goes
Colouring In Scrapland - November Challenge – Not Square or Anything Goes
Crafting With An Attitude - Challenge #57 – Anything Goes
Crafty Catz - Challenge #483 – Anything Goes – optional twist: Birthday
Crafty Creations - Challenge #402 – Anything Goes
Crafty Friends Challenge Blog - Challenge 123 – Christmas
Creative Fingers Challenge Blog - Challenge #175 – Anything Goes
Digi Choosday Craft Challenge - Wk47 – Anything Goes
Dragonfly Dreams Challenge - Christmas / Winter
Get Creative Challenges - Challenge #86 – Anything Goes optional twist Holidays
Inkspirational Challenges - Challenge #200 – Celebration

Imagine That Digistamp - Creative Playground Challenge #11 – Anything Goes
Jan’s Digi Stamps Challenge Blog - Challenge #2 – Anything Goes
Polkadoodles Craft Challenge - Wk46 – Anything Goes
The Paper Shelter - Challenge #407 – A Christmas Card 
Through The Craft Room Door - TTCRD Anything Goes 19th Nov

Cheery Cornflower Birthday Wishes with Penny's

It's time for a new challenge with us on the

Penny's Paper-Crafty Challenge Blog

Penny's Challenge 457

As always, the challenge is Anything Goes.

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The sponsors for this challenge are:

Bugaboo Stamps

SheepSki Designs

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Today I have used the Cornflowers digital stamp from SheepSki Designs,
one of our generous sponsors for this challenge, to make a birthday card.

I sized the image panel to fit neatly inside a 4 1/4" circle, added the sentiment, printed on X-Press It blending card, heat set, die cut then coloured with Copic markers.  I die cut a second circle to mat underneath the image panel, along with two decorative doily layers.  I double matted a 6 1/8" card base then secured all the layers and image panel in place with liquid adhesive.

   

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NOW it's YOUR turn!

I hope that I have inspired you to get creative
and look forward to seeing your projects fill the gallery for
Penny's Challenge 457
on the
Penny's Paper-Crafty Challenge Blog

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*** INGREDIENTS ***
Cornflowers - digital stamp - SheepSki Designs

X-Press It A4 Blending Card

Copic markers - flowers - B12-14-16-18 + B0000
Copic markers - foliage - YG03-17-67
Copic markers - ribbon - Y02-06-08
Copic markers - jar - C00-1-3 + B0000
Copic markers - shadow - W00-1-3
Sizzix Big Shot
nesting circles dies
Kaisercraft - decorative dies - Doilies
Kaisercraft - weave cardstock - Snow + Canary + Splash + Coastal
Helmar 450 Quick Dry adhesive - to adhere the layers

thin foam squares under the rhs of the image panel
so that it sits flat against the card front

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Sending a big Thank You to SheepSki Designs for supplying the digital stamp I used today and for being a sponsor for Challenge 457 on Penny's Paper-Crafty Challenge Blog.

    

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I am going to enter my card in the following challenges:

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Addicted To Stamps Challenge - Challenge 179 – Anything Goes
Classic Design Team Challenge Blog - Open Challenge for November #11
Colour Crazy Challenge - Week 44 – Anything Goes
Crafting With An Attitude - Challenge #57 – Anything Goes
Crafts Galore Encore Challenge Blog - November Anything Goes #69
Crafty Catz - Challenge #483 – Anything Goes – optional twist: Birthday
Crafty Calendar Challenge - November Challenge – Cute and Girly
Crafty Creations - Challenge #402 – Anything Goes
Creative Fingers Challenge Blog - Challenge #175 – Anything Goes
Digi Choosday Craft Challenge - Wk47 – Anything Goes
Imagine That Digistamp - Creative Playground Challenge #11 – Anything Goes
Jan’s Digi Stamps Challenge Blog - Challenge #2 – Anything Goes
Polkadoodles Craft Challenge - Wk46 – Anything Goes

Through The Craft Room Door - TTCRD Anything Goes 19th Nov

P is for Pretty Pink Poinsettia with POP

It's that time of year again . . .

we all need to get our Christmas cards sorted and

what better way to do it than playing along with the

Seventh Annual Month Of Holiday Cards

at

Beccy's Place

The prompt for Day 18 is "P"
P is for Pretty Pink Poinsettia

The great news is that Beccy's challenge is not just about cards, it can be any Christmas themed project, so today I'm sharing this pretty pink poinsettia bow.  This bow is to finish off the gift wrapping for a bundle hard cover books.

I created this poinsettia bow with the help of my Cameo.  The poinsettia and bow are separate cut files (details linked below).  I opened the files in Silhouette Studio then enlarged the layered bow to just fit on the cutting mat.  It's HUGE, the largest piece is 11 ¾” wide and is used to make the four bottom loops of the bow.  The section for the second layer of loops is 14 ¼” long and was rotated diagonally to fit on the cutting mat.  The “tail” piece is just over 6” long x 5 ¾” wide.  Instead of using the small top loop of the layered bow, I replaced it with a pretty pink poinsettia.  The poinsettia cut file is already quite big when opened (the largest layer is 6” across), just the right size for upsized layered bow.  I cut all the layers and adhered them together using strong liquid adhesive, giving me time to align the layers before it dried.  I popped foam squares between the layers of the poinsettias for even more dimension.  I added a cluster of orange rhinestones to finish off the middle of the poinsettia flower.

I'm thrilled with how this bow turned out
and just have to share some more pics ...

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*** INGREDIENTS ***

Silhouette Cameo
Silhouette Store - Design ID 68168

Outlined Poinsettias With Backing by Sandi Idleman
Silhouette Store - Design ID #283387
Layered Triple Bow by Jamie Lane Designs
Kaisercraft weave cardstock
Kaisercraft 12x12 patterned paper
rhinestones

Helmar 450 Quick Dry adhesive - to adhere the layers

foam squares

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I am going to enter my card in the following challenges:

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Allsorts Challenge Blog - Week 546 - Christmas Flowers
Beccy's 7th Annual Month of Holiday Cards
Day 18 - P is for Pretty Pink Poinsettia
Creatalicious Challenges - Challenge #175 – Anything Goes optional Stitching (real or faux)