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I’m a little behind, but catching up with Project 12. The month of May was filled with birthdays and a little fun travel to Orlando to work at a craft expo. Thanks to Becky Fleck for another great sketch this month!

Supplies:
BasicGrey patterned paper and cardstock stickers
Becky Fleck sketch

Here are the last pages that I’ll do for the Intracoastal Cruise we took for our holiday party a couple years ago. Good pics to scrap for sure!

Supplies:
BasicGrey & My Mind’s Eye patterned papers
Sizzix dies
Border punch
Inque Boutique & Hero Arts rubber stamps
P K Glitz embossing powder & glitter
Tsukineko  ink
Vellum tag
CK sketch

Unity Stamp Company is a fun place to shop online, visit their blog and basically enjoy rubber stamping! The entire team oozes creativity, pumping out many stamp releases every month. They even have videos crafting with their stamps that make you really laugh! You can definitely tell that everyone enjoys their part in Unity by the gorgeous projects that pop up every day practically and the buzz about their products around the crafting world.

Many of the stamps from Unity come already mounted on cling foam AND cut out! It’s really nice that you can remove the cling liner paper and just place the stamp on an acrylic block to start stamping. I found that on some smaller images or phrases, I trimmed a little closer to the image to avoid a shadow from the rubber edge beyond the design. This was simple and easy to do with a pair of scissors.

The “Build a Turkey” set has 8 pieces to it, 2 phrases, 1 turkey body and 5 feathers. The stamp image is a more casual and fun turkey instead of a realistic one. The feathers have 5 different doodled designs within the tear drop shape. The font of the phrases is lower case and casual. The turkey itself is rather comical with a little tilt to his head almost asking the question “why aren’t my feathers attached?”

Where to start with such a versatile set? The obvious place would be with a Thanksgiving scrapbook page, so that’s what I did. To spice up the base page, I stamped one of the phrases included in the set multiple times, then clear embossed it. The phrase has a great font, very easy to read and a good size. The turkey and feathers are a great size also, I love it! The feathers were stamped on the patterned paper and embossed with a glittery clear powder then detailed with a white pen. The turkey body was colored with Copics for a little more distinction on the image. I really like how the body is separate to allow for a different dimensional placement or location from the feathers. It adds a lot of design possibilities!

Supplies:
Patterned Paper and Elements Stickers (BasicGrey Indian Summer)
Stamps (Unity Stamp Company, Build a Turkey)
Ink (Tsukineko Memento & Versamark)
Embossing Powder (PK Glitz)
RicRac, Fiskars Border Punch, Copic Markers
Sketch (Becky Fleck)
Adhesive (Adhesive Tech, Permanent Bond Glue Runner)

This set really has a lot of possibilities beyond using it as an obvious turkey image. The feathers can be used as flowers, surf boards, leaves, and much more. I did opt to use the turkey again on the next project with just a rearrangement of the feathers. Since I was working on a smaller scale with this 6×6 page, I cut one of the phrases apart so that I could just use one word out of the phrase.

Supplies:
Patterned Paper (My Mind’s Eye)
Stamps (Unity Stamp Company)
Ink (Tsukineko Memento)
Brad & Corner Punch
Adhesive (Adhesive Tech, Permanent Bond Glue Runner)

I really enjoyed using the Unity Stamps and the “Build a Turkey” set. The packaging had a small graphic of the included images and it was a nice surprise to see how large the actual stamps were! I loved the fact that they came already mounted on cling foam and pre-cut. I also found that the individual images allowed a full range of creativity over a single image stamp with more detail. The rubber is deeply etched allowing for a crisp and solid stamping. Overall, I will buy these stamps again – a different set of course – and thoroughly enjoy them!

I just love using sketches! We have a card and scrapbook one each month at P K Glitz! Take a look at what I did this month:

Supplies:
P K Glitz Embossing Powder, E P Max, Sticky Paper
Ranger Embossing Ink
My Mind’s Eye patterned paper
The Stamps of Life stamps
Drywall Tape and bling

Supplies:
P K Glitz Patina Ritzy Ditzy Glitz, Glitter Glitz,  Sticky Tape
Crystal Lacquer
Prima Flowers
BasicGrey patterned papers, cardstock stickers and brads

See? I told you that I was catching up!

April was almost a picture-free month except for the crafty projects that I was doing. Between traveling for work and limited daylight and weekend times, I didn’t really get out much to take pictures. Oh well, it happens right?

For this month’s summary, I put together pictures of my favorite projects from the month plus one doozy dessert picture from a restaurant that I went to in Waterloo. Total yumminess!

I love the Martha Stewart Hydrangea border punch that I used here. The glitter also matches perfectly and adds just the right zing.

Supplies:
BasicGrey patterned paper, cardstock stickers and brads
Prima bling
Border punch
P K Glitz Sticky Tape and glitter
Becky Fleck sketch