Bun Intended!!!

I recently acquired these 2 gorgeous stamps from Ink Road Stamps.  Bun intended and Bun Intended #2.  They are so simple yet so stylish and really appealed to me ... a lot.  I don't purchase from overseas often as the exchange rate and postage often just make the price really silly and hard to justify.  That and I like to try and support local online companies. However that said sometimes you come across something that you make an exception for.  These stamps are those.

The first one I used Distress ink in the background and a sentiment stamp from Lili of the Valley.  I added a little strip of design paper down the side and a few sequins.  The stamp itself is the hero and I felt it needed to be left as such.  The image is coloured in pencil and I went for a blondish bun.

The next one which I have to admit being my favourite is again coloured in pencil.  This time I fussy cut her and used the sentiment from the stamp set.  The bun this time is a darker brown hair.  I used some design paper backed in brown to offset the sentiment.  The fussy cut butterfly is from Pion design paper.  They do these lovely papers with lots of strips with sentiments and edges as well as butterflies that can be fussy cut.  I then popped the lovely lady up on foam tape and placed her to one side.  

A little side note:  I had this all set up to photograph outside when out of nowhere came a spring shower and a gust of wind.  So she has a couple of rain drops on her and just as I clicked she flew off the table and landed upside down in the garden.  The sentiment is very apt!!! 

Hope you will come back again soon.

Karen

xo