Happy Easter!!!

Easter Sunday at my house starts with an Easter egg hunt so this was the inspiration for today's mani.  This is my Easter egg hunt mani!

Started with a base of two coats of NCLA AM: Beauty Sleep, PM: Shopping Spree from the Spring 2013 Life's A Beach collection, another polish sent for review by Nail Polish Canada.  This is two coats topped with SV.  NCLA AM: Beauty Sleep, PM: Shopping Spree is a smidgen darker in real life and is a very light mint green which isn't so obvious in these pix.  I don't have another polish this shade in my stash and it was a great creme base to highlight stamping.

I didn't take too many pix as I went along but this is two stamper decals (basket, plate T21 and kids, B.1) using assortment of Konad special polishes.  Other plates used were A35 (eggs on ring and index), Nailways Easter plate (eggs under basket on middle and bunny on pinky), HD-A (Happy Easter on thumb as well as all the grass) and Big SdP 0 (little bird on middle above basket).

Added a few dots (of course!) on the eggs on the middle and ring finger eggs for decoration.

Topped with SV.

Hopefully you had a fantastic Easter weekend; I just got home from having Easter dinner with my family and I'm still stuffed as I type this a few hours later!  And the kids had another Easter egg hunt this afternoon with all their cousins which was a lot of fun for them!

Thanks for looking!!

Happy Easter! Plus a Yummy Bonus!

Happy Easter!

I'm just getting around to posting this now and the day is almost over! I was busy in the morning with my family, left my house around 1 pm to go to extended family, had dinner and am just getting home now! This is the mani I've been wearing all day. Click to enlarge if you want to see some larger rainbows!

Started with a base of two coats of FingerPaints Black Expressionism.

Stamped using China Glaze OMG using A35 (thumb), T21 (words on middle and basket on index), and XXL Big SdP-01 (middle, pinky and ring). (See the knick on my thumb? That was the "Easter Bunny" opening a bag of eggs last night to hide while her nails where still wet and the scissors slipped a little putting a gouge in her mani!)

Added a few random dots to finish it off using China Glaze DV8 and IDK.

 Topped with SV.  This morning, I took a pix outside in the sun with a Cadbury egg I borrowed from one of my kids baskets!

This was my mani contribution for the Adventures in Stamping challenge this week too.

For something a little different, I just thought I'd share the dessert I took to our family dinner. Yummy Brownie Triffle in my bunny bowl! Its not only yummy as can be, but easy as pie.

These are the ingredients you need...brownies, chocolate pudding, Skor chips and whipped topping.

 Make brownies and pudding according to directions. When cool, cut brownies into bite size pieces, layer in bowl. Add pudding on top of brownies, add whipped topping on top of pudding, sprinkle with Skor chips. That's it!  For a double batch, you will need one more box of brownies and one more pudding box, but the large size of Cool Whip is enough as is one bag of Skor Chips.  For a couple batch, do two layers of each in a large bowl.  It's best if it sits overnight, keep refrigerated.  I had a large bowl and was feeding a lot of people so did a double batch so used double the ingredients which makes a lot! But it makes a lot even without doubling it. And in a pinch, I've used those store bought bite-size brownies too.

Hope you had a great day! Thanks for looking!

Easter/Spring Mani

I can't believe Easter is just a few short days away and I'm just posting an Easter mani now! This is what I came up with last night.

Base polishes used starting from thumb are Orly Snowcone, Orly Green Apple, Orly Pixy Stix, Orly Lemonade and Orly Cashmere Cardigan; all two coats.

Plates used for stamping: SdP59 (chick on thumb), W211 (rabbit on ring), RA126 (flowers on index), SdP 57 (butterfly on index), fauxnad m80 (lamb on ring) SdP35 (dragonfly on thumb), A35 (basket of eggs on middle), T21 (chick and egg on pinky) and HB38 (bunnies on index, bunnies on pinky and bunnies on thumb). Stamping polishes used were Konad Royal Purple, Pastel Yellow, Magenta and Orange Pearl.

I decided to add some random dots...same stamping polishes were used except I also added a few green dots using Konad Green Apple. Topped with SV.

When I was going through my plate stash, I was surprised how many image plates there are now that have Easter/Spring themed images on them. 

I hope to come up with a couple more Easter manis in the next few days...hopefully incorporating more of the images from other plates now available to us stampers!

Thanks for looking!

Happy Easter!!!

Happy Easter!

Here's my Easter morning mani!

China Glaze White Out as base; stamped with Konad special polishes in Yellow, Metallic Pink and Chic Blue.

Used IP's Konad S10 and fauxnads SdP B-04, BM19, T21, XL A and XL B.

If you're brave enough to view some really bad cuticles, I also did the same design on my right hand, but pastel stamping.



Used Konad special polishes in Pastel Pink and Pastel Yellow and Beautiful Scratchers Pastel Purple (or lilac...not sure of exact name).

And for something differently, added some nail glitter on the stamping. This is Konad glitter but I know there's lots of other brands on the market.



I've never used this before so don't know if I applied it right....just put on a layer of clear coat and dipped my finger in the container...it seems to me that this is a little thicker than I've seen...I'll have to watch some youtube tutorials before I try it again....I think the sugary look of the mani is appropriate considering the amount of chocolate and sweets I'll probably be eating Easter morn!



I hope you have a fantastic Easter...and had a great weekend!

Thanks for looking!

An Unconventional Easter Mani.....

Here's another Easter mani....



Not very conventional is it? LOL!

Zoya Dovima (matte) stamped with an assortment of China Glaze polishes (Admire, Cherish, Harmony, Adore, Metallic Muse, Emotion) and CND Gold Chrome.

IP's Konad S10 and fauxnad T21. Just before I headed to bed, put on a coat of clear coat.

I can't decide if I like it more with topcoat or not...or even if I like it! I guess its not what I'm used to seeing but wanted to do something different!

And here's Dovima (matte) before stamping.

I also wanted to say a big "Thank You" to anyone who gave a thumbs up for my entry in the recent Bundle Monster Giveaway; the results were announced yesterday. Unfortunately, I wasn't one of the lucky 25 entrants with the most 'likes' but wanted to thank anyone who did 'like' my entry and **Congrats** to you if you were one of the winners! Any vote received was very much appreciated and I thank you for your support! I was going to put a link to the winners so you could check them out if you haven't seen them already; but I checked Bundle Monsters Facebook page today and it seems like they are upgrading the site or something, but please take a few minutes to check out the winning entries if you have a chance! I'll be placing my order for these plates on April 25th and hopefully they won't take too long to arrive. My only consolation to not winning is that the new plates are suppose to be around $21 for a set of 25 which is a great deal! Free would have been fantastic...but I don't mind having to pay when the price is amazing! I'm especially happy that they have included some holiday images as I'm all for holiday manis! Thank you again!

Thanks for looking!

Easter Skittles!

After a bit of indecisiveness, I finally decided on an Easter mani. Unfortunately, my stamping went south and I was too tired and it was too late to redo, so unfortunately it turned out all crooked looking! Just another excuse to do my nails again tonight!

Used Konad black special polish; fauxnad IP's T21, HB38 and SdP B-05.

Here's skittles before stamping.

Starting at thumb, left to right: Generation Baby Blue, Orly Lemonade, Orly Cashmere Cardigan, Orly Polo Princess and Orly Gumdrop.

Are you planning on an Easter mani? I've certainly seen some very cool Easter mani's out there in the blogesphere! It always amazes me what creative talent so many of you have!!

Thanks for looking!