Unity Stamp Company October/November Be {Inspired} Challenge

When I am thinking about it, I feel awfully rusty. When I stop thinking about it, my fingers have failed to forget and things are easy. This is one of the first things I have done since coming back to crafting. Unity is my absolute favorite company. Besides the fact that they make amazing products, and have amazing costumer service, I have always enjoyed how they feel to me. That might sound crazy, but instead of interacting with a company, it's sort of like hanging out with your best friend. It's easy, and you don't have to worry much about them.

Get the deets on the contest here, and then see how I scrapped this after a year of avoiding glitter.

Unity has some of the best challenges EVER.

How can I say that? Easy, they say they like to inspire not require, and since I'm a free range independent kind of lass, I am into that. I used 2 Unity Stamps in this layout. The candy cane called, "THE BIG CANDY CANE" and the tiny tiny tree from the {Just Plain} CHRISTMAS GREETINGS. I totally loved both of them for completely different reasons. The candy cane is HUGE, without being so huge it over powered everything ever--and the tree is so cute and small, but yet the detail on it is amazing. I foresee using both these stamps over and over.  Enjoy the close ups, and laugh at my funny story.

So last night, after I had trimmed all the paper, and stamped all the stamps, I was cleaning those lovely rubber pieces in my lap with a bottle of stamp cleaner and a towel. You know, the kind of bottle that has a little dauber on top? Yeah, I totally squeezed too hard and got a lap full of cleaner when the dauber shot off. The whole front of my dress was soaked. Oh man, I am so out of practice.

    Looking for Author Angela Kulig? Yeah, she's me too. Click here. 

It's always something...

Do you ever wonder who you are? Maybe the better question is, do you ever wonder what you are? Many of us are wives, mothers, and daughters. For me you could add author, crafter, butcher, baker, and candle stick maker, to a whole list of people I am things that I do; but for a while, I lost a lot of that.

Writing isn't something I choose to do. If I stopped for an extended period of time I'd be highly medicated and in a puddle of my on drool in a padded room some where, but needing to something isn't the same as needing it to take over you life. I had let writing take over. I was still a wife, I was still a mother, but I quit everything I had a choice about and I made some really good excuses.

But I have grown tired of them. I missed crafting as soon as I stopped making time for it, but it was something I thought I would get over. I didn't, but I made myself take off an entire year anyway. Absence, they say, makes the hard grow fonder but as it turns out it's the same for hobbies. I have decided that crafting means enough for me to make time for it.

This is me, the scrapbooker. If by chance you were looking for Author Angela Kulig, she can be found here. (She is also me.)