When I was 8 or 9, I took an interest in stamp collecting. My dad had collected stamps and I remembered pouring over the book with him looking at all the different stamps from other countries. Once I was old enough, he gave me his stamp collection book and I added to it as I came across interesting stamps from other countries. So today's nails are based on my stamp collecting as a kid!
Started with a base of OPI My Vampire is Buff; two coats then topcoated (no pix). Stamped using MoYou Tourist Collection-05 (thumb), MoYou Tourist Collection-09 (middle finger and date stamp on ring), DRK C (pinky and index), FUN 2 (letters on ring) and FUN 12 (mail on ring). I purposely didn't use stamping polishes as I wanted a more muted look for the stamping to look vintage so used assortment of regular polishes; Essence Do You Speak Love? (red), Essence The Green and the Grunge (green), Zoya Dea (tan) and Leighton Denny Do Me a Favour (orange).
I thought this was a pretty cool image from DRK C; too bad it would never fit fully on a nail!
Top coated with KBShimmer Clearly on Top to finish.
I thought matte look with look more vintage for these stamps so added coat of OPI matte.
I wanted to share a few pages of my stamp collection book to go along with this post as I still have it, but after hunting through boxes for a couple hours on the weekend, the hubs and I couldn't locate it (that's the problem with keeping things 37 years in a box someplace and moving 5+ times over the years!). I know I have it someplace and am sure I will find it someday; obviously I don't collect now but it is interesting even now looking at all these old stamps! In the meanwhile, we did come across the hubs stamp collection as he collected as a kid too so here's a few pix from his.
I was positive he had a stamp similar to the one on the thumb and I took a pix of it when we had his things out but I guess I was mistaken. All is back away in storage so too late now lol!
Here's the other ladies Day 2 childhood nails!
Thanks for looking!
Such a sweet hobby to share with your dad. I've never collected stamps but I thought it was awesome when I first got a package from Mundo de Unas and the post office lady asked if she could keep the stamps!
ReplyDeleteThis is so sweet and unique. I absolutely love how this turn out and really hope that you come across your stamp collection book. I love variety of the stamps in your husbands collection. They're just amazing!
ReplyDeleteFantastic idea! My son collects stamps! I also love the way you did multy colors stamping! I always forget to do that!
ReplyDeleteThis is so cool! When I was young my grandad collected stamps and I would spend hours looking through his albums seeing where they all came from.
ReplyDeleteThis is so cool! I love the stamp images!! I also thought stamps were interesting and I loved looking at the ones my Grandpap collected. The old ones are so cool!
ReplyDeleteOh how cool! Your mani is just fabulous, and I loved seeing some of your stamps :)
ReplyDeleteThis is such a pretty mani! I love the story. I've always loved stamps but never got into really collecting. What a great hobby to have with your dad. :)
ReplyDeleteLove your stamp nails :-) Great work.
ReplyDeleteThis one's the coolest! :)
ReplyDeletei love how well this works together. The index is my faovurite xx
ReplyDeleteThese look amazing!!
ReplyDeleteI always wanted to collect stamps, but I did collect glass Unicorns. Lol
ReplyDeleteLovely manicure! This reminds me of my mom's stamp collection book. All that I collect is nail polishes ;)
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