Digit-al Dozen Does Black; Day 2

Happy Valentine's Day!!!  Won't you 'Bee My Valentine'? 

These are my day 2 Digit-al Dozen nails with black as the theme!

Started with a base of two coats of Nicole by OPI Hit The Lights with an accent of Funky Fingers Dark Knight.

Topped with KBShimmer Clearly on Top.

Stamped with image from Infinity 100 using MdU 11.  The plate says Be My Valentine; I restamped the second "e" using a clear stamper. 

Infinity 100

Added images from Messy Mansion MM18 (thumb), Apipila G04(middle and hive on index), and Chez Animaux 002 (bee on index and pinky bees) using MdU 2 (FF Dark Knight wouldn't stamp with these plates but thankfully, MdU worked!)

Messy Mansion MM18

Added random hearts from Infinity 100 using Fab red.

Top coated with KBShimmer Clearly on Top to finish.

This isn't a great use of black for the theme but hey, it's Valentine's Day!!  At least there's some black in there!

Here's the other ladies Day 2 mani's!

An InLinkz Link-up

Thanks for looking!

Spring Flowers

This weeks FB Adventures in Stamping challenge was spring flowers.  This is what I came up with.

Started with a base of two coats of two coats of L'Oreal Royally Yours, topped with SV.

Did a few stamper decals for the spring scene.  This is from Lilic's A03.  All polishes are Konad special polishes.

Ladybugs from Lilic's A01.

Both tulip images is from Lilic's A03; I didn't add the butterfly in the image below as I planned on stamping above it.

I already had this one applied before I realized that I hadn't taken a pix of it!  This image was too large for my nail so I tried to position it as best as I could.

Turned out OK.  This is my fave finger (er, thumb!) of the bunch!

After applying all the stamper decals and topping with SV, added a few images to the pinky; CH36 (sun and cloud) and Apipila G04 (bee).  While I had planned on stamping above the tulips on the middle finger, the image was so large that I didn't really have a lot of space so decided to leave as is. 

I didn't do a terribly great job of keeping these stamper decals wrinkle free so you can see the wrinkles quite a bit.  Only visible in macro though so I can live with it!

Thanks for looking!

Buzzzzzzz!!!!!!!

New plates arrived earlier this week.  As sick as I was....and considering vision was a little iffy with eye infection in both eyes, I couldn't wait to use my new plates....this was what I came up with.

Started with a base of two coats of China Glaze Lemon Fizz and FingerPaints Black Expressionism.

Stamped with black Konad special polish and FAB UR NAILS Magno Shake using Apipila G04.

Apipila G04 plate looks like this....how cute is this, eh?

Isolated the smaller beehive and bees from the full size nail design and added them to a couple of the nails as seen on the index and ring finger here.

Added random dots using same polishes here and there for interest.

I'm loving these stamping polishes from FAB UR NAILS.  One of my stamping wants has always been colours that stamp well over dark colours and these polishes work well.  For comparison purposes, below is FAB UR NAILS Mango Shake on the left and Konad yellow on the left. Really impressed with the colour pigmentation on Mango Shake and how bright it stamps on black.

My Apipila order, all cutely packaged.....my first Jade, which was a kind extra!!!

Couple pix of the plates.  I've tested 50% of the plate and so far, the ones I've tested stamp well. 

Another pix.  See Pink Panther?  Sandwiched between Snoopy and Woodstock and Lisa Simpson? For that image alone, I bought this plate...the rest were just an added bonus (pondering a mani to make use of the Pink Panther image...hmmmm!)

Apipila is available here.  I emailed the gal because I found the website a little challenging even with translation.  The email address is:  atendimento@apipila.com.br  

FAB UR NAILS here.

Thanks everyone for your well wishes.  I'm feeling better but judging that my daughter has had this nasty bug for three weeks, and I'm confident I got it from her, I think its going to be around for a while.  The worst is the sore throat and the eye infection; if they went away, I could deal with the dry cough.  But I'm sure I'll be back to normal, whatever that may be!, soon!

Hope you're having a fantastic weekend.  Off to do a Goth mani for the FB AiS challenge....I think it's going to be a challenge for sure!  Thanks for looking!