Otterly Adorable - without Otters!

One of the things I've learned is that a set of themed papers DOESN'T mean you have to stick to that theme!  This is particularly true of Stampin' Up! papers.  They almost always have quite generic patterns on the back sides of their papers that can be used for almost anything.  However, even some of the themed "front" side of papers can be multi-purposed.

The Otterly Adorable set of papers is a case in point.  The otters are SO CUTE that it's tempting to feel you must put otters with the "sea weed" paper for example - but you have options.  Here I've taken a single panel (4" x 5 1/4") of sea weed paper for each of 3 makes, to show what I mean.

Card #1: 

Here I cut an inch and a half off the bottom of the panel and flipped the top part over to use the watery back side of it.  Adding some otters certainly makes for a cute card.  The otters were die cut (using the Otterly Amazing cutting dies) from another paper in the pack, but could just as easily have been stamped and die cut from the Otterly Amazing bundle.  The sentiment was stamped from the Sentimental Rose stamp set (discontinued).

Card #2: 

Thinking "outside the box" a bit, I realized that the sea weed could just as easily be jungle plants!  So, I did a jungle make using a monkey die cut from my stash (Karen Burniston die).  The sentiment came from a Hero Arts stamp set called Thinking of You Stamping Village (oval cut with Double Stitched Oval die from Kat Scrappiness).

Card #3: 

 

This time I sliced a vertical piece and flipped it.  The "sea weed" here can be thought of as plants the ladybug likes to climb on, OR as simply a pretty generic background.  Either way, it makes a pretty backdrop for this ladybug I found in my stash (Elizabeth Crafts Die).  The sentiment is an old JustRite stamp from the set called Your Special Day.