GIU 8/29/2024

Happy Thursday, friends.  All this week, I've been honored to share some creations featuring products from Unity Stamp Company.  Did you know they manufacture their red rubber stamps in house at their headquarters in Minnesota?  How cool is that?

My goal this week was to show how to stretch a kit.  I have a tendency to buy a stamp kit for one stamp or sentiment and not do a great job utilizing the whole package.  So, for this week, I've been working off of one Unity Kit of the Month and a simple sentiment and die kit.  Here they are:

https://www.unitystampco.com/its-going-to-be-beautiful-kom-7-17/

https://www.unitystampco.com/blessed-happy-everything-stamp-die-set/ 

I wanted to feature another technique today to show how I can stretch my stamps.  As I was making my card, I knew I wanted some tone-on-tone papers in the background behind my focal image.  I had such a piece of pink patterned paper and I used a sentiment stamp from the kit to add some texture to kraft paper by repeated stamping.  Normally, I would have chosen a stamp with a generic texture design for the background, but as I'm challenging myself to only use these two kits this week, I thought text would work.  What do you think, was it successful?

Do you have any smaller stamps you can use for text backgrounds?

Remember that at the end of the week, two random commenters will receive prizes from Unity, so be sure to leave a note below!  

 

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Proud Operation Write Home Alumni
Cards shipped to OWH in 2014: 21
Cards shipped to OWH in 2013: 829 blank and 301 AnyHero
Cards shipped to OWH in 2012: 1284 blank and 218 AnyHero
Cards shipped to OWH in 2011: 1695