Digit-al Dozen Does White; Day 5

I'm sorry I'm late with this day 5 post; just was too busy to get it posted!  I love how this turned out; I love the simplicity of it, but it looks just so elegant!  This is my final day mani for the Digit-al Dozen white challenge!

Started with a base of two coats of Superficially Colorful Stealing Your Thunder, topped with a coat of KBShimmer Clearly On Top.  Stealing Your Thunder was included in the Indie Expo Canada 2017 VIP bag.

Stamped with an image from FUN 25 using FunkyFingers Gesso.

Topped with a coat of KBShimmer Clearly on Top to finish.

Here are the other ladies day 5 white mani's!

An InLinkz Link-up

Hopefully you have enjoyed this month's challenge!  Thanks for looking!

Bright Floral Nails!

Another mani appropriate for spring!  Heck, I would wear this anytime of the year (and in fact was sporting this in January 2018!) but I am sharing now as spring has officially arrived!  Here's what I came up with!

Started with a base of two coats China Glaze I'll Pink to That, no top coat.

Topped with KBShimmer Clearly on Top.

Stamped with MdU 65 using an image from FUN 26.

Topped with KBShimmer Clearly on Top.

Decided to add a few dots for interest; dotted using FunkyFingers Gesso.

Topped with KBShimmer Clearly on Top to finish.

Have a great weekend and thanks for looking!

Back to School Time!!!

Today is the first day of school for kids in my area!  I know, all parents are singing, "It's the most wonderful time of the year!!!!"  I can't believe that it's the last year of school for my youngest child! How time has flied! Only 10 more months of having to get up early and then I've done my parental duty of seeing all three kids off to school for the last 18 or so years! Wahooo!!!!   This is what I came up with for back to school nails!

Started with a base of skittles; polishes used starting at thumb and going clockwise are Nars Ethno Run Left, Nicole by OPI Hit the Lights, OPI My Boyfriend Scales Walls, Zoya Tilda and Zoya Robyn.  All are two coats except the NOPI which was thin and streaky and needed a third for coverage and Zoya Tilda which was good for coverage but I nicked the tip and just filled it, then added another coat to level.  

Topped with KBShimmer Clearly on Top.

I had made a bunch of stamper decals using images from plates and acrylic paints.  

Applied stamper decals.  Images are from Moyra-16 Memories16 (thumb), MJ JR-2 (index), Creative Shop 12 (middle), Cheeky Top of the Class Jumbo 4 (ring) and FAB UR NAILS FUN-WON (pinky).

Creative Shop 12

 Applied top coat.

Decided to add a few more images; added words on middle from Infinity Nails 76, then added 'learn' from MJ XL II on ring and 'play' from FAB UR NAILS FUN-WON on ring.  Added a few dots on the dress on the pinky.

Decided to add a few dots for filler using same colours of base.

 Top coated with KBShimmer Clearly on Top to finish.

I hope your morning was uneventful if it was your kids first day back!  Ours went well; got up on time, no hiccups and the bus even picked up DS2 on time....last year, the bus forgot him the first day of school so we are already ahead of the game!

Thanks for looking!

Fiendish Fancies You're Hysterical Henry!

July 31st and summer has finally arrived here in Southern Ontario!  Well, it's been nice for a couple days now and we've had some nice weather the odd day here and there, but really, it hasn't been the best summer weather wise.  But today is beau-ti-ful!! 

How about some hot nails for a hot summer day?  This is a new to me brand, Fiendish Fancies, that was at Indie Expo Canada and I couldn't resist picking up this hot pink loaded with shimmer, You're Hysterical Henry!

Started with a base of two coats of Fiendish Fancies You're Hysterical Henry.  There were no application issues and clean up was a breeze!

Top coated.

Stamped using an image from FUN 25 using FunkyFingers Gesso.

FUN 25

Top coated to finish.

Fiendish Fancies You're Hysterical Henry is part of the Stephen King Collection.

Thanks for looking!

Digit-al Dozen Does (5 Days, 5) Continents; Day 1

It's Digit-al Dozen week!  Our theme this month is to do 5 days of different continents and for day 1, I did a mani based on Africa; here's what I came up with!

Unfortunately, I wasn't very creative and decided to go with a mani similar to one I've already done here...and countless others out there like it.  So to make it just a little different, I decided to do a different base versus sponging by using an image from FUN 24 to create the gradient.  I had already used the same image from Lina (I don't think I've posted the mani yet) but didn't have that great of success with it, so was hoping I'd have better luck.  I also chose this method as I had maybe 30 minutes to pop off this mani as I had gotten up early to do a few chores before work and thought I had allowed enough time to do nails but only had a limited amount of time....but thought I was good anyway as it doesn't take that long to do these type of bases.

Anywayyyyy, I did a gradient base using MdU 51, 53, 66 and Moyra SP.02.  I did the thumb first and was pretty happy with it off the bat.  Then had varying degrees of success and I probably scraped about 20 times just to get these 5 nails.  More practise is needed apparently!  I wasn't that happy with the middle finger and actually stamped on top of the first try, thinking that it would just blend in once stamped.  If only they could all look like the ring finger, which I think turned out pretty near perfect!

FUN 24

Topped with KBShimmer Clearly on Top.

Stamped using Apipila Super Placa A using MdU 2.  Due to time restraints, I didn't have time to find a flying bird image so just used a brush and painted some in to fill bare spots.  Same for the ring finger; only half the tree stamped and I filled in as necessary!

Topped using KBShimmer Clearly on top to finish.

Here's the other ladies Day 1 mani's!

An InLinkz Link-up

Thanks for looking!

Bright Nails!

I did these out of character for me nails a couple days ago to match a fairly busy lemon/lime blouse I was wearing that had white, black and yellow accents.  Not sure if too over the top but I loved how these turned out anyway! Here's what I came up with!

Started with a base of two coats of Misslyn Lemon Green, two coats.  This was a perfect match for my blouse!

Topped with KBShimmer Clearly on Top before stamping.

I recently received the new FUN plates; this is FUN 26.  The image that first caught my eye was the first image on the second row on the left hand side so I knew I was going to use it.   

I thought the image from FUN 26 (shown on ring finger) would be too busy on all nails although originally I wanted to stamp only with it.  So I had the idea to do an assortment miss mash of images and see how it worked, so I went with it!  Plates used were FUN 26 (ring), Delaney Linges & Traits (pinky and index) and DRK A (middle and thumb).  I was kinda ticked at myself for having crooked lines on the index which can happen with a squishy stamper...and wouldn't you know it, it stamped straight as can be on Ms. Cindy. Grrr! I used MdU 2 for stamping polish and didn't do that great of a clean up job by the looks of it, so sorry!  But other stamping polishes didn't pick up that well for some images but MdU did the job!

 

Added a few yellow dots using CND Bicycle Yellow.

Then added a few white using Funky Fingers Gesso.

 

I didn't mind this, but then got the bright idea to add a few big yellow dots on ring; maybeeeee a bit over the top, but I loved how it looked anyway!  Then topped with KBShimmer to finish.

 

I really liked a few of these nails; the thumb, middle and ring are my faves and they gave me some mani inspiration for future manis!

Thanks for looking and have a great weekend!