Smile, Crocodile!

For today's Featured Stamper Challenge on SCS, I made this quick and simple card based on one from Carole/TruCarMa's SCS gallery. You can see the card I used as inspiration here.

As soon as I saw this card, I thought about the Cuttlebug Smoosh technique I had seen in the most recent Technique Junkies newsletter. For info about subscribing to this fabulous newsletter, click here. I've been wanting to try this technique, so I thought I'd use it for this card. I picked the Spots and Dots embossing folder since it reminded me of the pattern on the alligator by Rubber Soul. This technique is a fun and easy way to add some interest to a card. I layered the embossed panel on a piece of Brilliant Blue cardstock. For some reason, even though I really like blue, I almost never use this color . . .

The images are from an acrylic stamp set of fun animals by Rubber Soul. So cute, I just couldn't resist adding them to my collection!I found a green pigment ink similar to SU!'s Gable Green for stamping the gator. The sentiment is stamped directly on the card base. I used the word window punch to make a spot for it. The clear acrylic stamp made it so easy to get the image centered and placed correctly

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Materials Used:

A Day at the Zoo stamp set (Rubber Soul); Gable Green, Brilliant Blue, and Whisper White cardstock, Brilliant Blue Classic ink, Celebration Spectrum pad, mat pack and paper piercing tool, white gel pen, word window punch, dimensionals (Stampin' Up!); green stitched grosgrain (Michaels); Spots and Dots embossing folder (Cuttlebug); foam brayer; mega oval and giga scalloped oval punch (Marvy Uchida); Pistacio pigment ink (Colorbox)