Digital Dozen Does Countries and Cultures; Day 5

I had an epic post planned today to round out Digit-al Dozen Countries and Cultures week featuring Canada.  EPIC!  Then got side tracked a little with a polish auction last night which tied up more time than I wanted; well, lo and behold, I didn't quite get all the mani's I wanted to do for this post.  Yes, that was mani'S.  It was going to be epic!  Instead, I'll leave you with this.  You probably have to be Canadian to get it; if you're not familiar with the rant, there a video at the bottom to watch if you aren't too familiar with this and are interested enough to know about it!  

Started with a base of two coats each of OPI My Boyfriend Scales Walls and Duri Taming of the Shrew, topped with KBShimmer Clearly on Top to finish.

Stamped using red and white Konad special polishes using image from Nailways Back to Basics 123-ABC. (these are the middle size letters, fyi).  Added dots with same stamping polish.  Flag on thumb is from fauxnad m56.  Placement of the letters wasn't the best and I'm sure with more practise, it would get better.  Even these, there were some letters I did several times! 

Topped with KBShimmer Clearly on Top to finish.

I have have the nails finished from the post that was to be epic but is this instead.  I'm sure they will show up at some point here!  

Here's the other ladies Day 5 mani's!

An InLinkz Link-up

Hopefully you've enjoyed all the Countries and Culture's mani's; I had a lot of fun doing them, and thanks to so many available plates now, I probably could have done Countries and Culture month!  Great to have so many options!

Have a great weekend!

Digit-al Dozen Does Countries and Cultures; Day 4

I hope you have been enjoying Digit-al Dozen week......I've been checking all the ladies posts daily and they have been fabulous...even if we have been picking a lot of the same countries!  But there have been some different ones and really some out of the box and creative thinking mani's too....always amazes me what the ladies do for the themes....so much creativity!  Here's my Day 4 mani featuring the Good O'l U.S. of A!

Started with a base of two coats each of OPI My Boyfriend Scales Walls, Duri Taming of the Shrew and p2 191 Gigantic; topped with KBShimmer Clearly on Top.

Stamped using images from Messy Mansion MM15 on all fingers except index which is BM-H25. Stamping polishes used where white, black and red Konad special polishes and Mundo de Unas stamping polish #30.

BM-H25

MM15 (love that so many images are available in one plate!)

Before top coating, added a few random starts from MM15 to pinky and thumb and a few dots to the country image on the thumb; the dots didn't transfer that well so had to hand fill in and correct with remover...but removed too much on the pinky and then filled in, which is more obvious than I would have liked....if only I knew how to photoshop!

Here's the other ladies fabulous Day 4 mani's!

An InLinkz Link-up

Thanks for looking!

Digit-al Dozen Does Decades; Day 5

I'm late getting up my post but finally, here's Day 5 of the Digit-al Dozen decades challenge.  This time, I'm doing the 90's; here's what I came up with!

Started with a base of two coats of OPI My Boyfriend Scales Walls (white), FingerPaints Black Expressionism (black) and Duri Taming of The Shrew; topped with SV.

Stamped using assortment of images from MoYou Back to the 90's-01 (index and ring), MoYou Roxy-06 (thumb), MoYou Tourist-02 and HD-A (thumb) using black FUN stamping polish, Mundo de Unas in 11 (yellow) and 48 (green).

Added 90's on the thumb using the wording from the MoYou plate.

Here's a closer look at the plates used.  MoYou Back to the 90's-01

MoYou Roxy Collection-06

MoYou Tourist Collection-02

Topped with SV to finish.

Here's the other ladies Day 5 mani's!

An InLinkz Link-up

Hope you're having a great weekend; thanks for looking!

Digit-al Dozen Does Brands; Day 5

As I mentioned in a post earlier this week, for some reason I did three red and white brand mani's; this is the last one.  I guess red and white is popular in advertising; or my eye gravitates towards those brand's logo's (which I guess means their advertising is working!) I also noticed that for the other four brand mani's, the middle finger was white in them; this wasn't intentional just how the colours ended up so today, I made sure to have a different colour other than white on the middle finger! Here's what I came up with for Day 5's mani!

Started with a base of two coats of Duri Taming of the Shrew (red) and OPI My Boyfriend Scales Walls (white).



Stamped using assortment of images; MoYou Rebel Collection-03 (indes and ring), Cheeky Jumbo 07 Home Sweet Home (pinky and thumb), CICI & SISI 06 (bowl on middle) and Cheeky CH42 (spoon on middle).  Stamping polishes used were black, red and white Konad and Mundo de Unas green (didn't jot down the number in notes but will update later).



The Campbell's soup can didn't stamp the best so I filled in a little with a brush and red Konad special polish. Also, the bowl was really a cup on the image plate so I tried to remove a little bit more of the handle so touched up there as well.



CICI & SISI 6






I didn't even notice until I was uploading these pix that this plate has a tomato on it too.  I may have used it instead!





Added a few random dots on index and ring finger as filler.  Also added Mmm using CH42 for small m's and unnoted plate for M; will have to update!  Topped those fingers with SV in this pix but left the red dots to dry a little longer.



Topped with SV to finish.




I'm actually more of a Campbell's Mushroom Soup lover myself (or my own homemade Cauliflower-Cheddar or Potato-Cheddar soup), but there is no stamping plate image of this so Tomato Soup will have to do.  Now if only there were grilled cheese and cracker stamps for next time lol!

Here's the other ladies Day 5 mani's...and that's a wrap til next month!

An InLinkz Link-up

Have a great weekend...and thanks for looking!

Olympic Nails!

I've had the plates set aside to do an Olympic mani since the beginning of February but here it is, the games are almost over before I finally got around to doing a mani as I just did these Thursday night.  Here's what I came up with.

Started off with a base of skittles in the Olympic colours; Essie Avenue Maintain, China Glaze Happy Go Lucky, Sally Hansen Black Out, Orly Raging Vine and Duri Taming of the Shrew, all two coats except the Essie which is one.  Topped with SV.

Stamped using assortment of images from following plates; MJ XI (snowboarder on thumb), MJ XVIII (hockey skates on thumbs), WB08-04 (figure skater on thumb), SdP 101 (speed skater on thumb), MJ XXIV test (images on ring finger), MoYou N10 (rings on index), MM13 (buildings on index), W219 (pinky)and MJ VII (flame on middle).  Polishes used were black Konad special polish and assortment of Mundo de Unas polishes.

The flames on the Olympic torch weren't as bright as I hoped, so hand stripped in some flames.  Added a few dots on the thumb in the same colours.

Wistonia W219

Messy Mansion MM13

MoYou N10

MJ XXIV Test plate

Nail Art Diva WB08-04

SdP 101

Topped with SV to finish.

I'm hoping to do a couple more Olympic mani's before the games end including a "GO Team Canada" for the men's hockey game in the morning!  

Thanks for looking!

Valentine's Day Proposal

I was contacted by Brilliant Earth and was asked if I'd be interesting in doing a mani using the them of love for an upcoming Create a Little Love feature; thought it would be fun idea so agreed!  When sitting down to do the mani, I thought would be more appropriate for the theme than a romantic Valentine's Day proposal?  Here's what I came up with!



Started with a base of OPI My Boyfriend Scales walls on three fingers; Duri Taming of the Shrew on pinky. (I can't recall the pink polish but I know it was a CND; will update later!).  After the white base had dried, did sponging on the same three fingers with the same red and pink accent colours.  Polish on the thumb wasn't the best but at this point, I wasn't worried; it worried as I had premade a stamper decal for it!



Added stamper decal on the thumb from an image on Infinity 07, and stamped using assortment of other image plates; MM03 (pinky), MoYou Landscape-01 (index and middle), Nailz Craze NC 04 (ring on ring) and Handy 57 (lettering on ring) using black and white Konad special polishes.



A closer look at MoYou Landscape Collection-01.





Nailz Craze NC04


Added random hearts using red and white Konad polishes using an image from SdP 78.



Topped with SV to finish.



Brilliant Earth will be doing a feature on the Create a Little Love highlighting various medias with a collage of various bloggers; I'll update the link here when I see it!

Thanks for looking!

Edited June 4 2014 to remove link to Brilliant Earth at their request!