Unity Stamps Friends with Flair Friday

If you've ever visited the Up The Street blog, you'll be familiar with Lesley Langdon's work. 

Lesley has been working with my kits from basically the beginning and never fails to stun me with her talent.  Lesley is also on a number of fabulous manufacturer's design teams ... one of which is Unity Stamps.  While I am really not much of a stamper, after watching what Lesley manages to do with these stamps, I couldn't resist.  I am so glad that I did. 

This is one of the videos that convinced me to try Unity.  The Bella Doilies.  Loveliness.

The Prima Paper that I used for this layout already had the lovely watercolour background, so I just used Versamark ink and clear embossing powder for my images.  By rubbing on a bit of Distress ink in Peeled Paint and Shabby Shutters, the images just pop.

I also used my poor, neglected Silhouette for the "summer" die cut and covered both the letter stickers and die cut in Glossy Accents.

The butterflies are from the March 2011 Kit of the Month.  I stamped one using the same technique as the doilies and the other with Distress Ink, accented with Copics and Distress Stickles.

Supplies used:

Stamps ... Unity Bella Doilies & March 2011 KOM

Patterned Papers ... Prima Fairy Flora Collection "Fairy Flora" & Madeline Collection "Spring Tide"

Title ... Webster's Pages Country Estate Alpha Stickers,

Silhouette die cut "summer" (cut from Basic Grey Hello Lucious "Sparkling")

Embellishments ... Maya Road Sheer Doilies; Prima Flowered Tendrils;

Zva Crystals; Cosmo Cricket Social Club Bling Bling

Ink ... Versamark; Ranger Peeled Paint & Shabby Shutter Distress

Distress Stickles ... Peeled Paint & Worn Lipstick

Copic Sketch Markers ... RV34 & BG10

Clear Embossing Powder

Ranger Glossy Accents

Be sure to pop over to the Unity blog for links to the rest of the participants

of Unity's Friends with Flair Friday.