Digit-al Dozen Does Marble; Day 4

I'm terribly sorry for being late with this, my day 4 Digit-al Dozen challenge.  Unfortunately life got in the way of me finishing my posts last week even though I had all the nails done.

This is a dry drip marble that I did; it turned out pretty cool if I don't say so myself!  And with Valentine's Day around the corner, decided to decorate it with a few hearts.  Just a few!  Here's what I came up with!

Started by making a few drip marble decals using OPI Fearlessly Alice, OPI My Pal Joey and OPI The I've Have It.  This trio of OPI's seem to go together pretty well!

Applied decals.  Note to self for future use:  I made these decals about a week before I used them and they were very hard and brittle because of that.  I would suggest to use up any decal in a few days or even the day made so they are more pliable to mold to the nail if you will and not be so brittle!  I did have a couple areas dry flake off while they were on the nail before I could top coat them and I just used one of the polishes and hand brushed to cover.  See the thumb in this picture?

See the thumb in this picture?  I touched up the flaked off polish with brush applied polish.  Not that noticeable!

Top coated with KBShimmer Clearly on Top.

Stamped using assortment of images using Mezerdoo 36 (thumb), FUN 21 (index), Wistonia Wedded Bliss (middle), BFF 52 (ring) and BP-L013 (pinky) using MdU 1.  Even with a clear stamper, I still can't get the thumb image centered!  Close but not center exactly!

BFF 52

Topped with KBShimmer Clearly on Top to finish.

Here's the other ladies day 4 mani's!

An InLinkz Link-up

Thanks for looking!

Digit-al Dozen Does All That Glitters; Day 5

It's day 5 of the Digit-al Dozen all that glitters challenge!  I hope you've seen some of the other ladies mani's during the week; there has been some fabulous and creative nails posted!  This is my day 5 mani; it was sheer accident how it came to be.  I was going through a box of polishes looking for another polish that I had ordered in the fall, and as I was wading through them, these two were sitting side by side like just an inspiration that they were meant to go together!  The funny thing is the polish that I used for a stamping polish isn't even a stamping polish but when I seen them together I thought, hmmm, I'm going to try to use it as the colours go so well together!  And it worked pretty good, there's even itty bitty glitter in it which is how these nails came to be for day 5!  Here's what I came up with!

Started with a base of three coats of Salon Perfect Icy Haute, no top coat.

Added a coat of KBShimmer Clearly on Top.

Stamped using an image from FUN 21 using Missha Crystal Polish HBR01.  This is a regular polish, holographic packed with fine glitter in clear base but so packed, it would be opaque in a couple coats.  I sampled this with other images; the lines have to be fairly thick to pick up well due to the fine glitter in the polish.  This image from FUN 21 worked out well!

FUN 21

Topped with KBShimmer Clearly on Top.

When I was searching for some loose glitter for this weeks challenge, I rediscovered these coil copper studs and think they go perfect with these nails!

I blew up a couple of the nails to show that yes, there is glitter in these nails to make them challenge appropriate! Hopefully you can see some peeks of holo too in the stamped image; in real life, it was obvious!

It's not often these type of polishes stamp well due to that fine glitter but the stamping turned out great!

Love this picture!

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

An InLinkz Link-up

Hopefully you have enjoyed this month's mani's....thanks again for looking!