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 Countries and Cultures; Day 3

It's Day 3 of Digit-al Dozen Does Countries and Cultures.  I've been amused that there are so many countries (189 to 196 according to Glowstar's blog post here) and the ladies in the group are picking a lot of the same countries!  So last night when I was sitting down to do my nails, I thought  no one has done a mani highlighting Australia so I thought it was safe to do (not that it matters!).  Then, this morning, seen The Crumpet did a post today featuring Australia!  Oh, well.  I think the only way I'm going to be able to do a mani on a country that no one else has picked is chose somewhere very, very remote...(not withstanding The Crumpet did Antarctica already here!) but the likelihood they have stamping plates for a remote location is slim, so I'm sure I'll be posting the same as others anyway. While I haven't seen Canada yet (and am saving mine for Friday), there are other Canadians in the group so I'm sure I won't be the only either.  Not that it matters, I'm just thinking a little variety seeing how there are 189+ countries......but from what I've seen, there's been good variety in the group even if we are all doing mani's of a lot of the same countries!  Anyway, here's what I came up with representing Australia!

Started with a base of two coats each of OPI My Boyfriend Scales Walls and p2 191 Gigantic, topped with KBShimmer clearly on top.  Sponged accent nails using CND Flashpoint, Bicylce and Electric Orange.

Added koala from MoYou Tourist Collection-19 on middle, then top coated in preparation of leadlighting.

MoYou Explorer Collection-05

MoYou Explorer Collection-20

MoYou Tourist Collection-19

Konad A1

Unfortunately, I didn't take pix as I went along, but after filling in middle image with jelly polishes, added more stamped images; FUN 12 (ozotic on index), MJ IV (surfer on index), MoYou Tourist Collection-19 (lizard on index), MoYou Explorer Collection-05 (top kangaroo on ring); Konad A1 ICNA (flag and AUS on thumb, bottom kangaroo on ring and small koala face on pinky), MoYou Explorer Collection-20 on pinky using black and white Konad special polishes.  Added small koala face on pinky from the Konad plate as well. I top coated the ring and pinky and used various polishes to fill in images and fill backgrounds.  The wording ozotic is Mundo de Unas 30.    Lastly, used a brush and hand painted red in flag on thumb using red Konad special polish.

Top coated everything to finish.

Here's the other ladies Day 3 mani's!

An InLinkz Link-up

Thanks for looking!

Edited July 17, 2014 to add Konad plate pix!

Digit-al Dozen Does Countries and Cultures; Day 2

For Day 2 of Digit-al Dozen Countries and Culture week, I chose India; here's what I came up with!

Started with a base of two coats of OPI My Boyfriend Scales Walls (no pix as shown before).  I then sponged on the flag of India using CND Electric Orange and CND Green Scene.

(Sorry for sharing but I think these pre-clean up pix are cool!)  Here's the pix after cleanup.  I actually really like the look of this and thought if I messed up too badly on the stamping, I would just show this as the finished mani for the India flag look!

While I could have easily stamped on top of this, I thought it might be difficult to stamp the images in exactly the middle of the flag which is what I was trying to do.  So I decided to topcoat using KBShimmer Clearly on top in case I didn't to remove a mis-stamping, which would save the base polishes so wouldn't have to redo (and good think I did because I had to stamp the pinky twice!).

Stamped with (what I hope are) images representative of India.  Used black FUN special polish and images from MoYou Tourist Collection-20 (thumb), MoYou Explorer Collection-21 (index and middle), JR-6 (ring) and BFF 15 (pinky).

MoYou Tourist Collection-20

MoYou Explorer Collection-21

JR-6

Topped with KBShimmer Clearly on top to finish.

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

An InLinkz Link-up

Thanks for looking!

Digit-al Dozen Does Countries and Cultures; Day 1

It's another week of Digit-al Dozen mani's;  this month's challenge theme is Countries and Cultures.  Here's what I came up with for Day 1!



Started with a base of two coats of OPI My Boyfriend Scales Walls with an accent of p2 192 Gigantic, topped with KBShimmer Clearly on Top.



Stamped using Infinity 25 (pinky) and SdP 119 (crown on middle); MoYou Tourist Collection-05 (ring); the rest of the images are from MoYou Tourist 01.  Stamping polishes used were FUN black stamping polish, red and white Konad special polishes and Mundo de Unas 30.



MoYou Tourist Collection-01




MoYou Tourist Collection-05.




Infinity 25




Topped with KBShimmer Clearly on Top to finish.



I predict the Digit-al Dozen is going to have a whole lot of fabulous mani's this week with this diverse challenge theme; here's the rest of the ladies Day 1 mani's!

An InLinkz Link-up

Thanks for looking!

Another Canada Day Mani!

As I mentioned in the last Canada Day mani post a few days ago, there aren't too many Canada Day appropriate images but as I was going through my plate stash the night before July 1st, I seen a cluster of maple leaves on one of the Lesly plates and thought it would be a good image for another Canada Day mani. These were the nails I was wearing on Canada Day...nothing says Canada more than red, white and maple leaves!

Started with a base of two coats each of OPI My Boyfriend Scales Walls and Nicole by OPI Please Red-Cycle, topped with HKGirl quick dry topcoat.  

Stamped with maple leaves from LS20 using red and white Konad special polishes.  Added Canada to thumb from fauxnad m56.

Topped with HKGirl topcoat to finish.

Digit-al Dozen challenge week is around the corner and these Canada Day nails are an appropriate introduction to the theme challenge which is Countries and Cultures.....but I'm sure another Canada related mani will show up at some point during the week!

Thanks for looking!

Canada Day Nails

I did a couple of Canada Day mani's for the occasion and while I shared on IG, unfortunately, didn't get around to sharing on the blog til now.  I still wish there was a plate that says "Happy Canada Day!"   Maybe in time for next year (crosses fingers and toes!)  Unfortunately, there aren't a whole lot of plates to create Canada Day nails but I do try to come up with something a little different each year.  This is one of the mani's I was sporting the weekend before Canada Day at some local Canada Day festivities.  

Started with a base of three coats of OPI All Girls Love Diamonds, no topcoat. 

Decided to matte using Essie Matte About You.

Added assortment of images using red Konad special polish using plates fauxnad m56 (Canada Flag and large maple leaves and random placed Canada works, which are both part of the flag image) and Mash 26 (small maple leaves).

(all pix taken in natural light; either sun or shade as I did these while I was away for the weekend and no lighting set up!)

I had planned on leaving this matte but decided to topcoat using HKGirl to finish.

Thanks for looking!

Fourth of July!

Happy Independence Day to all my US friends!  I did a quick mani last night to share; here's what I came up with!

Started with a base of two coats each of Colors by llarowe Independence Day (how appropriate!) and Arcane Lacquer On the Brink; topped with KBShimmer Clearly on Top. 

Stamped using Infinity 37 with white Konad special polish.

Touched up my stars a bit!  

Topped with KBShimmer Clearly on Top to finish.  Unfortunately, I had a little polish bleed through the stamping on the blue nails so some of my stars turned slightly blue but only visible in macro; not visible in real life at all!

I feel badly as I have US nails posted for today but still haven't gotten around to posting the Canada Day nails that I've been sporting for the last week (other than IG).  I've been terribly busy the last week (plus out of town for our Canada Day holiday) but do hope to share soon!

Thanks for looking!