A door hanger

I've had this kit of door hangers and matching card overlays from Susies shop for so long and never got round to using them. So today, it was time! I wanted to make a cute girlie one so picked a pink overlay which fits perfectly on to the chip board base.

The image is Fairy Tallulah from the Digi Stamp Boutique. You'll have to excuse my shading, it's finally dawned on me today that I need to go and get my eyes tested as any close up viewing really strains my eyes and gives me blurred vision and headaches. For ages now I thought it was just because I'm tired from doing too much! Eye appointment it is this week. You'll know when I'm sorted as my shading will improve (I hope).

I've used lots of glitter on her crown, wings, shoes and wand and used black and pink pearls. The glittery pink bow and glossy black charm were just enough for me, didn't want to do too much as I may add a name at some point above the image. I'm joining in with:

• My Time to Craft - Angelic
• Crafts and Me - Black, pink and white
• Flutterby Wednesday - Fairy
• Alphabet Challenge - Kids
• Stamp Something - 1 image, 1 paper, 1 ribbon
• Fun with Shapes - Door hanger

After having five family days together I'm not looking forward to hubby going back to work tomorrow, it's been good to have some much needed family time. I think we need a lot more of it!
hugs
Victoria
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3-D it

It's challenge time at Bee Crafty and this fortnight, as well as using something digim we want you to 3-D it too! You can 3-D your image or use lots of layers or add embellishments to add dimension - we don't mind! I've made a 3-D item and a 3-D card too:

I've used Bunny and Flowers - such a sweet image and gone pink and red - although the red looks a bit pink on my pics! The treat pouch is really easy to make and you can find a tutorial HERE. I created an easel card to go with the treat pouch:

I've used loads of 3-D foam between the layers to give my card lots of dimension:

Check out the other Design Team creations - they're a bit yummy! I'm joining in with a couple of challenges:

• The Play Date Cafe - Colour combo
• Polka Doodles - Decorative item

Right I'd better go and get the online food shopping order done and see if Hubby is OK. He's pulled his neck and is in a lot of pain and I've left him downstairs with the kids!!!!

hugs
Victoria
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Something New

This fortnight at Bee Crafty our theme is 'Something New'. So much choice - new home, new baby, new job......the choice is yours. I made a new baby gift bag and gift tag - apologies for my wonky photography - kind of reflects how I'm feeling at the moment!

Just tilt your head to one side and it'll look just fine lol! I decorated a plain gift bag with paper from my must use up stash! Very luckily I had the chocolate flowery ribbon in my stash too so I teamed it up with some wide pink satin ribbon. The image I've used is Baby Bunny Suit and I've shaded her with ProMarkers and sponged around the edges to soften it a bit. Here's the bag:

You can just about see I've used a baby sentiment on the tiny tags hanging from the pink brad!

And a smaller version on the card. I wish  had mroe of this ribbon, I've had it for so long and have never found anything that went quite right with it, but I like it with this paper so much. I'm joining in with:

• Quixotic - Oh baby
• Stampin Royalty - Anything but a card
• Fab n Funky - Fancy edge
• Crafty Catz - Card and tag
• Dare you to digi - Anything goes
• Fun with shapes - Pastel inks
• Creative Inspirations - Congratulations

Off now to pick up my boys from their Grandparents who've had them today to give me a bit of a rest.
Hugs
Victoria
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All about cake

Oooh Louise will be so proud of me! Louise travels some distance every month to come to my card making classes and I love her for it, she's great fun, has a fab card making blog and also a foodie blog. Now I'm not much of a baker, I can cook but savoury is more my thing but Louise brought some of her homemade carrot cake to our last class and I was blown away by how gorgeous it was so.....whilst not doing much crafting this week due to the onset of 'man flu' or in our case 'toddler boy flu', I made some comfort food instead.

The cake when it left the oven:

I wasn't sure if I should brave it and slice it through the middle but I did with the help of my massive pink spatula!

I've had a piece and it's yummy but not as yummy as yours Louise!! You obviously have the magic touch.

Check out Louise's foodie blog Comida y Vida - she has some scrummy recipes on there and it's a flippin good read too.

Hugs
Victoria
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Don't be square

It's challenge time at Cupcake and this week the theme set by Donna is 'Don't be square' so not square cards or projects this week please! The DT were all given a digi image from our sponsor to work with and I decided on a door hanger for Blake. My friend Sue made a train door hanger for Zac and I've wanted to make something to go with it for ages now. So here's mine:

I printed the image as big as I could on really sturdy white card (I have a roller free printer so card goes straight through) and then spent what felt like hours cutting around the outside and then inside the tracks with a craft knife - not the sort of lazy girl crafting I normally opt for!! It's all coloured with copics and I've added some jumbo eyelets and ribbon to hang it on the door with. I've had these blue chipboard letters for ages now and never really had any plans for them. Luckily they were the perfect size for this project. The hanger is just shy of 8 inches across to give you an idea of size.

I'm joining in with:

• Sophisticats - Card for a child
• The Pink Elephant - Aqua
• Paperplay - no patterned paper

Right, I'm off to carry on planning what I need to get ready for my stand at the Nottingham Max Papercraft show this Sunday!!

Hugs
Victoria
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Not a desk, a bubba and some choccies!

Where to start today? Well as it's Wednesday it's only right to share a pic of my space today. My space being the dining table again as Zac's asleep upstairs and I don't want to disturb him!


















If you're thinking I have the munchies - you're wrong. If you think I'm making something with choccies - you're right, read on! Pop over to Stamping Ground to see what's on everyone elses desks today! I think I should also show you what's on my carpet today, or rather who's on my carpet:























It's Blake! He turned 8 months this week and has celebrated by cutting his two front teeth! So onto my project:

The Digi Stamp Boutique has just released this fab new set of Mothers day images and sentiments, although you could use these images for anything girlie. I love 'em! I decorated up a load of choccies and made a card to match.

I've used the sketch from this week's Mojo Monday challenge and used lots of orange to fit the theme at Stampavie too.

I think these look delicious all together like this. I should have made more!

Hugs

Victoria

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I'm bringing messy back

I've made two projects today, a card and a matching gift card holder:

 

The card is based on this weeks sketch at Sweet Sketch Wednesday.

 

The sweet images were part of a RAK from the very lovely Mrs Sugar. I chose my colour combo based on the latest challenge at Colour Create. The optional extra is to use silver and hearts, luckily there's a heart on theimage but to be on the safe side I've added hearts inside the gift card holder and chose patterned paper with hearts on too. I only have a little silver and that's the gorgeous metallic filigree brads - one on the card and a larger one on the gift card holder. Which works well for Cute Card Thursday as their theme is 'metal mania'.

Here's the gift card holder:

I've used the larger filigree brad as a closure to wrap the ribbon around to keep the card holder shut. Project Tuesday set the challenge to make a gift card holder this week and there's a link to a fabulous tutorial - they're so easy to make!

And here's the inside (with my Tesco clubcard in!!

 

And finally on to the mess. My desk that it. No scrap that, my entire craft room is a mess. I prepped for my Stampin' Up! classes at the weekend, dumped the stuff back in there and have made several projects since without so much as a sniff of putting anything away. So for once you can oggle my stash and know I'm no Bree Van Der Kamp when it comes to house keeping!

Please hop over to Stamping Ground to join in with 'what's on your work desk Wednesday' and see some much tidier spaces than mine!

Hugs

Victoria

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Get Well Soon

This fortnight our challenge at Creative Card Crew has been chosen by Claire and the theme is 'Get Well Soon'. Here' my Design Team Creation:

Yes it's a hangover kit! I thought this would be a good birthday kit for my father in law as he's off on holiday in March to celebrate! I used an old bit of acrylic food packaging (I never throw anything like this away) and filled it with a coffee sachet, some paracetamol, chewing gum, sugar and a mini bar of chocolate. Wrapped it all in a bit of red card, some blue stitched ribbon and Nurse Anya! Please check out the other fabulous design team creations, you'll get some great ideas.

I'm also joining in with these challenges:

• SophistiCat - Stitching
• La-La Land - No designer paper
• Charisma Cardz - Male, something for the boys
• Stampin' B's - Red, white and blue
• Crazy 4 Challenges - Red
• Saturday Spotlight - Use a household item (hope my packaging and all the contents count!)

Well so far it's a gorgeous sunny day and my parents are coming to visit. I've dosed myself up with paracetamol and have some fab soup for us for lunch. Me and Zac are about to bake some cheese and chive wholemeal rolls to go with it - yum. No pancakes for pudding though, saving those for tonight!

Happy Pancake day!
Hugs
Victoria
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Die Cut Dreams DT Kit

We have a fab recipe challenge over at Die Cut Dreams this week for you. We want you to use:

• 3 different patterned papers
• 2 different ribbons
• 2 flowers
• added option of using gems

The design team were all lukcy enough to be given this fab kit by Vikki to work with.

The lucky winner of this weeks challenge will win one of these kits too. So see what the rest of the DT have made to inspire you and in the meantime, here's my creation:

 

I decided to decorate a gift bag. I didn't photograph it very well so here's a close up:

 

I used the feather colouring technique again (I love it!) and added loads of glitter and used shimmery plain card to compliment it too. I'm joining in with these challenges:

• Fussy and Fancy - Dazzle us
• Create 4 Fun - Sketch
• Crafty Angels - Fantastic flowers
• The Pink Elephant - Ribbon

Please also pop over to my other blog Blue Jelly Stampin to see my Cupcake Craft Design Team card this week.

Hugs
Victoria
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Hugs and Kisses

I got these new stamps a few days ago and haven't had chance to play with them until today. So I'm joining in the ATS challenge where the theme is 'Valentine's Packaging'.

 

I made this treat box out of Kraft and acetate, making my own template - I know!! It worked first time too! I shaded Emma and added white spots to her outfit and a punched red heart to match the choccies inside the box.

Just punched a few more hearts and stuck them to the box before adding a strip of spotty paper and a layered up sentiment from the same set of stamps. Here's a close up:

I think I may have to write the measurements down and draw the template out before I forget for this one as I imagine I'm going to want to make more. I love this time of year - lots of reasons to make lots of pink things!

Edited to say I've done the tutorial and you can see it here.

Thanks

Victoria

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Seeking 2 new DT members!

Here's my DT creation for the latest challenge at Creative Card Crew. Our theme is 'Anything goes'. That's right you can submit any project you like and you have until 4th January to do so. We're also sad to say goodbye to Nicola at Creative Card Crew, Nicola makes fab creations so I'm sure you'll be a regular visitor to her blog.

So after saying goodbye we're looking to say hello to two new DT members. To be in with a chance to join our team all you need to do is submit your entry on the Creative Card Crew blog and pop DT next to your name! Good luck.



I'm popping mine in for this weeks challenge at Stamp with fun which is 'little gifts'.

I stamped up these candles to make a cute Christmas gift for a friend. Yes they're made with Stampin' Up products!

I'll be setting up some virtual hostess Stampin' Up groups starting in January where you commit spending £15 a month for 10 months and get to be a virtual hostess on your month by receiving a free stamp set and some £s to spend on SU goodies from the catalogue too. If you're interested, please get in touch sooner rather than later before all the spaces are taken!

Victoria
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An address book gift

This week at Die Cut Dreams Challenge our theme is 'Glitter me silly'. We want to see glitter and sparkle. Susie sent all the DT a kit which and we had to use some of everything in it on our creations. So if you think this looks familiar, there's a chance you've already visited one of the other DT members blogs! If you like what you see you need to enter as Susie has another kit with some extra images in it as a prize!!!



Now I used a sketch from a challenge blog and I can't remember which one so if you recognise the sketch, please tell me so I can go and enter!! Thanks Lisa you were right - it was Fab n Funky - *mwah*!

• Fab n Funky - Sketch
  
• Little Paper Shop - Recipe - stamps, papers and embellishments
• Creative Friday - Recipe which I hope I have understood correctly!
• Kraftin' Kimmie - Sparkle baby
• Creative Inspirations - Christmas gift (this is a gift for someone and I daren't say who!)
  

I made the address book as I haven't made anything like this in ages and felt like getting stuck in! Really enjoyed it too. The sentiment reads ' All the people I love in one book'.



I printed the insert pages and used a Stampin' Up punch to make the tabs at the top of the pages.

Enjoy joining in! I'll be back in a bit with another post

Victoria
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Penguin Bauble

This week at Bee Crafty our challenge is 'Christmas Extras'. We want to see you make something other than a Christmas card. See what the Design Team have made for inspiration here. I've made a bauble using the penguin images. Remember your entry needs to contain a digi image.



This is for these challenges:

• Passion for ProMarkers - Anything but a card with a Christmas theme
• Quixotic - Be charming
• Simon Says - So charming
• Saturday Surprise - Winter Wonderland
• Lots to D0 - Snow
• Die Cuts R Us - Christmas gift
• Paper Cutz - Project with hand stamped or digi Christmas image
  

I bought the bauble ages ago, it was filled with ribbons. I printed the penguin image out and shaded with alcohol markers and then ran a piece of patterned paper through the printer with the same image to paper piece the snowy base. The beads are sprinkled in for fake snow and I hung a silver charm on a bit of silver thread before tying a polka dot bow.

This is a gift for a friend as our tree will be decorated in red and silver and white this year - if Zac doesn't destroy it within minutes of us putting it up that is!

There's STILL time to enter my Charity Candy - please send your handmade cards and gifts for this worthwhile cause and enter my candy at the same time. Details here.

Victoria
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GIft Card Holder and Workshop News

This is my GDT creation for Cupcake Crafts Challenge where we challenge you to make a gift card holder.



I followed a tutorial off Splitcoaststampers for this. I didn't have any money envelopes, so made my own. I'm entering this for these challenges:

• Tuesday Morning sketches - 3 decorative papers, 1 flourish, 2 embellies
• The Treehouse - Treat Holders
• Hand Full of Stamps - No plain ribbon
• Creative Inspirations - Want to see a pocket (I won last week - yey!)
• Chorrosive Challange - Let's go to the Movies (I picked 'The Gift')
  

View of the inside - you'll notice a lack of gift card in mine as I don't have one!



And the stamped card that also fits inside:



Opened out view:



All products are by Stampin' Up except the ribbon and glitter gem. I used Pink Passion and Only Orange card stock which I stamped with Baroque Motifs stamp sets. I used a Versamark ink pad on the outside and went over the images with Stampin Pastels in orange using a cotton ball!
I hope the inside with the stamps around the edge counts as my third patterned paper!

I'm also running my first Stampin' Up workshop on Saturday December 12th, so if you're in the Nottingham area and fancy making a Christmas gift, a few cards and some gift tags, please drop me an email. My email address is in my profile.

Thanks
Victoria
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Another Fake Cake

Afraid I have to blog and run again today. I made one of these cupcake gift card holders before and a friend ordered one from me to give a friend for her 40th with a matching card. So yesterday evening whilst the rest of the UK was probably tuned into Strictly Come X-Factor with a TV Burp, I was leaning over my hot glue gun!



I used really glittery pink ribbon, glittery card and a glittered glass bead - you'll have to take my word for it as the photo doesn't show it all up.



I'm entering this for these challenges:

• Stampavie and More - Brown plus one (pink for me)
• Alphabet Challenge - F for flowers - used loads cut in half as icing on here, as well as the punched ones.
• Sassy Designs By Susie - Pink and Sparkly. Susie also has some fab candy up for grabs!
• Polka Doodles - Sketch and not for men
• Sunflowers and Dragonflies - Let them eat cake
• Lots to do - Open theme
• Pile it on - Rub ons
• Die Cuts R Us - Girly project
  

This gave me a good excuse to use another of my Stampin' Up stamps, the cupcake stand is from the Crazy for Cupcakes set (which you can get from me!). The glittery cupcake is a rub on and so is the '40'.

Thanks for stopping by, promise I'll catch up soon.

Victoria
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Cupcake mystery and bubs

Sorry no card from me today, unless I get a spare hour tonight.

I received some very lovely cards for the SANDs charity today but I don't know who they're from! If you sent me six gorgeous cards, two with beautiful cupcake stamped images on them, please let me know so I can tick you off on Mr Linky - they're beautiful by the way, thank you!

I took baby Blake to the Dr's this morning and his cold has developed in to a chest infection. Poor tiny pop is on antibiotics and I need to watch him carefully. Fingers more than crossed that the meds work. He's got to go back for check up next Thursday and the Dr also said if his bowels don't improve she'll refer him to the hospital to see a specialist.

Right, off for some cuddles with my little man. Check back tomorrow for a DT card and a Copic tutorial too.

Victoria
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Pillow Box

At Creative Card Crew this week our theme is 'Strings attached'. We want to see fibres or thread or twine etc - it's up to you. We're sponsored by Simon Says Stamp and have a fab prize up for grabs. So pop over and see what the rest of the Design Team have created.



I've made my first ever pillow box and am submitting it to these challenges:

• Pink Petticoat - Make a pillow box!
• Little Paper Shop - Die cuts
• Crafty Angels - Anything but a card
• Stampin' B's - Anything but a card
• One Stop Crafts - Gift - bags or images
• Crazy 4 Challenges - Acetate
• The Corrosive Challenge - Emboss something
  

I enjoyed making this following the template Liz provided, it's much bigger than I expected and so I got loads of strawberry and cream sweeties inside. I cut the window and popped some acetate behind it and then an embosses border around the edge. I used Fairy Lights papers over the top flap and some spotty PP paper but I can't remember which collection it's from! The lovely bright pink is 'orchid' - my favourite shade from PP.

I think these coloured sentiments make great tags and it's attached with some pink fluffy fibres.

I'm feeling a smidge better today - so glad, sick of being sick!

Cards are starting to arrive already for my charity candy - thank you so much, If you haven't already entered, you can read all about it here.

Victoria
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DT creation and Candy news

CANDY NEWS - check back tomorrow as it's 'going live'!

Right this week at Creative Card Crew we are asking you to Doodle on your creations. The Design Team have come up with some inspiring ideas so please pop over and take a peek. Our sponsor this week is Bunny Zoe's Crafts who are offering a fabulous rubber stamp to the lucky winner.



I've made this hot chocolate sachet gift holder, I got the instructions here. It's really quite simple to make out of one piece of card (I printed both sides).

My doodling might be a bit difficult to spot at first - all the white scalloped squares on this project started off as plain white card, I have stamped the sentiments and the rest is doodling to match the fabulous patterned papers from Pink Petticoat. I braved it by trying my hand at coloured doodling for the first time.



I'm joining in with these challenges:

• Sophosticat - Wings
• My Grafico - Stitching
• Flutterby Wednesday - Fairies
• Crafty Creations - Pull out feature
• Stampin' for the weekend - festive goodie box
• Saturday Spotlight - repeatedly useful
• Kraftin' Kimmi - stitch it up
• Pollycraft - no cards allowed
  

I used this gorgeous stamp from Sugar Nellie, shaded with Copics and highlighted with Glamour Dust, she's sat on the window inside the box too, guarding the hot chocolate!
For my doodling I used a letraset black liner pen and Galaxy markers. I tried to imitate the fairy lights paper and some faux stitching too. The sentiment on the front of the box is from a Martha Stewart set and the inside one is CC Designs. Hot chocolate is Cadbury's!!! Just noticed the photos don't really show the box very well, looks a bit flat but it is a box I promise! Finally I have to thank Jo and Gracie for this lovely award.

This sweet award comes with a few with rules, which are:

Pass this award on to five people, post on their blog to let them know you left this award, and then answer a list of questions in ONE word.

1. Where is your cell phone? Kitchen

2. Your hair? Washed

3. Your mother? Everything

4. Your father? Friend

5. Your favorite food? Mexican

6. Your dream last night? Forgotten

7. Your favorite drink? Ribena

8. Your dream/goal? Contentment

9. What room are you in? Kitchen

10. Your hobby? Craft

11. Your fear? Loneliness

12. Where do you want to be in 6 years? Happy

13. Where were you last night? Bed

14. Something that you aren't? Tall

15. Muffins? Blueberry

16. Wish list item? Items!

17. Where did you grow up? Debatable!

18. Last thing you did? Nappy

19. What are you wearing? Smile

20. Your TV? Milkshake

21. Your Pets? Nope

22. Friends? Sanity

23. Your life? Roller-coaster

24. Your mood? Concerned

25. Missing Someone? Flynn

26. Vehicle? Astra

27. Something you’re not wearing? Nappy!

28. Your favorite store? 'tinterweb

29. Your favorite color? Fuchsia

30. When was the last time you laughed? Today

31. Last time you cried? Today

32. Your best friend? James
33. One place that I go to over and over? Here

34. Facebook? Yes

35. Favorite place to eat? Out

So I'm passing this on to my Die Cut Dreams DT buddies, we're never stuck for words so it will be interesting to see if they can stick to one word answers ha ha!

Victoria
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A cuppa tea and a slice of cake

This week at Die Cut Dreams, our challenge is 'Food and Drink'. You can use either food or drink or both - we don't mind! We have a fabulous prize this week, the winner will get to be our Guest Designer for the last two weeks of November.



I've wanted to make one of these cupcake gift card holders for a long time and finally I've done it! I followed a fab video tutorial on you tube.

I'm entering this for these challenges:

• SophistiCat - Pink and brown and flowers (I'm too late again!)
• A Spoon Full of Sugar - Kitchen or cooking themed projects
• La-La Land - Ribbon
• Funky Fairy's - touchy feely (sorry no FF products used)
• Chorrosive Challenge - no cards!
• Royal Challenge - pink + at least 3 challenges
  

You make the cupcake using a foam or oasis ball and build around it - a hot glue gun is a must! I had to sew too - so much ribbon sewn and scrunched up on the first and last layers of 'frosting'. I also used flowers, gems, a wooden bead, a glass bead, DCWV card stock and a mini bull dog clip.



The photo's really don't make it look as gorgeous as it is! And when you pull the cherry:



The gift card slides out. This is for my sister in law, it's her birthday next week and she's also just bought her first home with her fella so we got her a Habitat gift card - two pressies in one! Hopefully the cupcake will be something she wants to keep.

So come and join us at Die Cut Dreams and be inspired by the Design Team projects, can't wait to see what you create.

Victoria
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Spooky Bags

It's my second week being guest designer at Allsorts and our theme this week is Halloween. Pink Gem Designs are sponsoring us and there's a fab stamp up for grabs.



I made this treat bag and card using another template from Papertrey Ink. I'm entering this for the challenge at Simon Says Stamp as the theme is Halloween and Three Clovers want to see Halloween or Autumn treat bags.


I used the Spooky Doodles kit from Pink Petticoat, I couldn't resist these cute lil pink ghosts. Zac's best friend Aimee will love this filled with white chocolate buttons. The Kraft card is printed from the same kit and the buttons are from The Range, only 99p for a massive bag full.



I forgot to tell you I lost another 2 pounds at fat club on Thursday, fingers crossed I'll have lost a stone by Christmas.

I'm leaving James in charge of the boys today whilst I go to meet Sue. Shopping, gossiping and crafting. It was harder than packing to go on holiday sorting out a bag full of stuff to take with me today. I need a lorry to pack up my entire stash!!

Victoria
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