CottageCutz: Hello Crocodile

Hello crafty friends!

It's Kris here to share some Monday inspiration with you!

For my card today, I combined 2 challenges from Splitcoast Stampers:

Our very own DT Leader here at CottageCutz, Mary Marsh, was the Color Hostess for CC960 and I LOVE this pretty combo, so I played along:

I actually substituted the Lost Lagoon with Just Jade (closest I had to it)

and then I also played with this week's sketch challenge -- turned vertically

I had the idea to make the front a split diagonal fold card, so the focal image is only attached to the upper left of card front. INSIDE you get the upper left half of card to write or stamp your message ☺

Design Steps:

I started by cutting my top folding A2 card base (4-1/4" x 11" - scored at 5-1/2"

I then opened the card and cut diagonally from the top right corner (at score line) down to the bottom left corner.

I then cut (4) different patterned papers at 4" x 5-1/4" -- although I only used 3 of them. I just couldn't decide which I wanted. Then cut all of them in half diagonally.

*Tip: use the other halves to make a 2nd card!

I then cut the green patterned paper in half (line up the SHORT edge and cut at 2") as shown.

Next, I repeated that process with the pink/white/green striped pattern then attached all 3 pieces as shown below.

I then die cut the largest of the Nested Stitched Doily dies, and the Crocodile from white cardstock.

I die cut the Tropical Bouquet from Bubble Bath and Berry Burst cardstocks.

I die cut the Crocodile and [leaves from the] Safari Adventure Gang from Just Jade and Mossy Meadow cardstock.

I glued just half of the white doily circle to the top (left) of card front, and then popped the Croc in middle with foam dots. This allowed me to tuck the flowers and leaves in under and around him (some I glued, some I popped up with more foam dots).

I decided to die cut the Hello w/ Shadow from the Bubble Bath and Berry Burst and glued to left right corner (which is inside the card! ☺

I would be done, however I was not following a tutorial on this, and noticed this style of card does not stand on it's own for displaying ... SO, I remedied that by adding a "kick stand" to the back of my card.

I used the left-over triangle piece from my card base, and trimmed it down to 2-3/4" x 3-1/2" and scored it at 3/4" as shown.

I should probably also tell you, that if you glue this now to the middle back of your card, it still won't stand well because the front is "top heavy" with all the die cuts. SO... to remedy this, I turned the piece so the 3/4" score line is horizontally at the bottom, then I measured 1/2" in from the top right corner, placed a mark, then with scissors, I trimmed from the bottom right corner up to that 1/2" mark.

I glued the tab to the back of card to that the bottom of tab is flush with bottom of card. That slight angle allows the card to tilt back a li'l bit and counters the heaviness of card front. ☺ Win-Win!!!