TA DAAA! I did it! Although I did some steps a bit differently, your tutorial was great! I never would have had a clue how to do any of these effects without it. I tried to achieve the same cutout look that you were teaching us, but I did notice shrinking my word overlay gave a bit of boxy dimension to my DaTe, and couldn't resist...!
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