Heart to Heart Spotlight #4 - Unity Stamp Company!

Wow...this is fun! Continuing on my quest to "honor" the fabulous companies who donated to the Alzheimer's blog candy----today I am featuring Unity Stamp Company!

The first time I saw the amazing images and the "oh so clever" handles that make you feel like you are stamping with a traditional wood block (but are NOT!), I was hooked on Unity. I love the style of the artists who draw for them-if you haven't checked them out yet---YOU SHOULD!

I met Angela (and crew!) at CHA this summer. She is such a beautiful person---(ok, drop dead gorgeous outside) but just as gorgeous inside. I was so excited to get my stamps inky and I can only hope I did them justice 'cause all I need is for the remaining companies to start contacting me and saying--"ahem, no......it's ok...you REEALLLYYY don't have to honor us on your blog....in fact, we would rather that you didn't!" Ekkk!

For the first card (yep....couldn't stop at one!) I used the Growing in Unity set. I originally bought this set because of the stunning tree image in it. Once I got the set, I loved every image in it so (in my free time?) I am working hard to get them all inky!

I wanted to use this bold blue and black because it is one of my favorite color combinations. To soften up the background, I embossed the flowers on vellum and adhered them to the blue. This keeps the focus on the main image panel. I stamped the butterfly and then carefully cut out the inside of the image and adhered it over the top panel with glue dots.


Here is a close up of the card:

I colored the flowers with Copic markers. (The sentiment is from Frames & Messages set by hero arts--I just thought it went well with this card!)
I finished off the card with a scalloped border and a little ribbon tie.

This picture shows the dimension of that butterfly---my favorite part!!!

Materials used: Stamps-Growing with Unity (Unity Stamp Company), Frames & Messages (Hero Arts); Copic markers; cardstock- white, black, turquoise (Stampin' Up!); vellum (SU!); oval punch, label punch, small oval punch (SU!); black brads (The Paper Studio); eyelet (SU!); ribbon (May Arts); white embossing powder (SU!); Versamark; Heat tool; Threading Water punch (Fiskars); dimensionals (SU!).

This card uses the Hey Chick! stamp set from Unity. It is a simple card that I created with just scraps sitting on my desk (or all around my desk!) I love this bird (and there is another EQUALLY adorable one in the set but I used this one because I wanted him pointed in this direction.)

Here is a close up of the bird:

I pieced the bird with light blue cardstock (similar to the paper on the side). I added some rhinestone stickers to some of the circle areas on the bird and to the sentiment.



Materials used: Stamps-Hey chick! (Unity Stamp Co.); a muse 4 bar notes-madeira blue; cardstock-carribean, white, black (Stampin' Up!); Fiskars Threading water punch; EK Success flourish punch;Momento tuxedo black ink; twinkle rhinestone stickers (a muse).

Thank YOU Angela and Unity Stamp Company for so generously donating stamps to the Heart to Heart Blog Candy. YOU ROCK!

Thanks for stopping by!