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Hanging Charm Pull Tab Butterfly Card

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We got back last week from our family holiday - I just thought I'd share a few pictures, before I show you my latest card. We visited Dubai, then Hong Kong (here's the family overlooking Hong Kong from Victoria Peak)  We spent a few days in Bangkok, (big lizards in the park!) then Cambodia, then Vietnam for a few days. The main mode of transport! I've been pretty ill since getting back - picked up some kind of flu on holiday, but today I felt alright and ready for some crafting again! I decided to use one of Karen Burniston's recent die sets, the Hanging Charm Pull Tab set. The set cuts out the pieces for a pull mechanism that makes a frame stand up, from which you can hang charms. You can put the mechanism just on a plain card stock base, but I decided to stick the mechanism to the front of an opening card so that there'd be room for me to write a message inside the card. Here's the card with the mechanism still folded down flat.  When you pull the tab, the fra