Hearts!

Still sharing mani's appropriate for Valentine's; this might be my favourite to share this year!  Here's what I came up with!

Started with a base of two coats of KBShimmer Jewels of the Trade, no top coat.  I've been wearing some of these glittery polishes a lot lately; so sparkly and bold and a great base for stamping!

Topped with KBShimmer Clearly on Top.

Stamped using Wistonia American Freedom using Painted Polish Blanc Slate.  This would be a great 4th of July mani but I'm turning it into a VDay mani instead.

Topped with KBShimmer Clearly on Top.

Used an assortment of blue stamping polishes and added hearts to the center of the mani using image from FUN 7.  The stamping polishes, starting at thumb and going clockwise, are MdU 112, 68, 4, 5 and 42.

Finished with a final coat of KBShimmer Clearly on Top.

Thanks for looking!

Digit-al Dozen REDOES Art; Day 2

For the art challenge, I did some looking at Pinterest for inspiration.  I came across a painting and came up with these nails based upon it!

This is the painting!

Started with three coats of Barry M Prickly Pear.

Did random dry brushing with Zoya Mira.

Topped with KBShimmer Clearly on Top.

Added a few dots using Mdu 33, 54 and 67 using an image from UberChic UC Lovely Leaves.

Topped with KBShimmer Clearly on Top.

Added birds using Apipila Super Placa A and lines from FUN 7 using FunkyFingers Dark Knight.  Do not ask how hard it was to stamp each finger so the lines lined up....even with clear stamper, it was hard!

Full hand.

Topped with a coat of KBShimmer Clearly on Top.

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

An InLinkz Link-up

Thanks for looking!

Digit-al Does Re-Creation of Digit-al Dozen; Day 1

Welcome back to Digit-al Dozen week!  I'm sorry I didn't get around to posting more indie mani's; I have lots to share still and they will show up some time as indies aren't going from the blog anytime soon!

This month's theme for Digit-al Dozen is re-creation of Digit-al Dozen mani's.  As I have no free hand skills to speak of at all and didn't want to recreate another ladies stamping mani, I decided to take a free hand mani and put my stamping spin on it!  So my mani will never be 100% like the mani's I'm re-creating as the mani I'm re-creating will be freehand and mine will be stamped.  

Here's my Day 1 Digit-al Dozen Re-creation Mani with inspiration from Ashley Is PolishAddicted!

I recreated the M & M's mani featured by Ashely is Polish Addicted in the Digit-al Dozen Does Food challenge last month.

I made a few stamper decals to start using an image from FUN 7 and acrylic paints.

Even thought I was pretty sure the decal would cover most of the nail, there were a few little voids so did one coat of Essie Snap Happy with top coat before applying the decal.

Once the decal is dried, it is removed from the stamper.  It is curved the opposite way of the nail, so I invert them gently (as much as possible) so they are the same curve as my nail, and cut them down a big before applying as they are easier to apply with less decal.  I used a coat of KBShimmer on the nail then apply the decal.

All decals are applied and top coated.  I see a few areas now that could have been cleaned up better but not bad!

I did a single stamper decal of a single M & M for the accent using same FUN 7 image plate.

Added stamping of words using white Konad special polish using image from MJ XIV and top coated to finish.

Did my right hand a little different; this would be cool with skittles I think!

We have some exciting new in the Digit-al Dozen as well!  The super talented Mina from Cubbiful has joined the Digit-al Dozen!  You may be familiar with her nail art but if not, please visit her blog to check out lots of awesome mani's!  And she'll be joining in future Digit-al Dozen mani's too...maybe even this week but not sure and don't want to pressure her as she just joined!  lol!  

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

An InLinkz Link-up

Thanks for looking!

Another Blue; This Time a Nerd

I have a bunch of posts saved in archives which is why there has been an assortment of nail lengths and shapes in these most recent posts as I'm trying to clear them up.......not that I reallyyyy think anyone is paying attention to nail shapes and lenghts! Anyway, I noticed that there is a lot...and I mean A LOT....of blue mani's in archives; I'm going to try to mix them up a bit with others but it must be one of my favourite colours as there are so many (although to be honest, I don't think I wear THAT much blue, I just think I haven't posted as many of them as other colours).  Anyway, here's another blue mani that I was wearing last summer almost a year to the day.

Started with a base of Sinful Colors Oceanside; this is two coats, no topcoat.

Added a coat of Nerd Lacquer Antisocial Media, topped with SV.

Bottle shot of NL Antisocial Media.  (I feel badly showing this because unless you swap or buy this on a polish sale, it's probably hard to get as there haven't been any Nerd Lacquer sales in a long, long time.  It really is too bad that there isn't more consistency with the Nerd shop being open so that these polishes can be bought.)

Stamped using CND Gold Chrome using an image from FUN 7.

Topped with SV.

I had good wear with this; this is how my mani looked after 4 days (here's my highly sophisticated tracking system to show 4 days wear!)

Very faint tip wear but overall, pretty good!

Sorry for posting so much blue; if you are a blue lover, I suppose it's good but if you aren't, I am trying to mix stuff up!

Thanks for looking!

Digit-al Dozen; Day 1, Black n White

This month's challenge for Digit-al Dozen is black and white.  How can something so seemingly easy be so hard?  For me, the colours black and white are easy enough; the problem is trying to come up with something different for each of them only using black and white so that they don't all look the same!  I guess we'll see how it goes as the week progresses as I haven't finished them all yet!  Here's the first mani I came up with.

Started with a base of one coat of FingerPaints Black Expressionism and two coats of OPI My Boyfriend Scales walls, no topcoat (with terrible cleanup, I see!)

Stamped using white and black Konad special polish using FUN 7 (thumb, middle and pinky) and OB29 (ring and index).

Topped with SV to finish.

A look at OB29.  Why is there no five....I guess you are suppose to be talented enough to stamp a little dot in the middle of the four or double stamp the two and three perfectly!

Here's the other ladies Black and White mani's including a couple new members too!!!  Can't wait to see all the awesome mani's everyone comes up with...and read their blogs to see if they had a hard time with the challenge or it is just me!

Thanks for looking!

Digit-al Dozen; Skittles, Day 5

Today is the last day of the Digit-al Dozen Skittles challenge for this month. The ladies in the group have simply outdid themselves this week....the mani's have been fantastic....so creative and we all have come up with such different takes on the theme.......well, I think that happens every challenge! This my Day 5 mani.

Started with a base coat of skittles, starting at thumb, used Duri Taming of the Shrew, L'Oreal Hyde Park, China Glaze Happy Go Lucky, NYX White, and Essie Avenue Maintain, all two coats, topped with SV.

Stamped using Fun charcoal stamping polish using FUN 7.



I had made a stamper decal and filled it in with a combination of Konad special polishes and acrylic paints.



After a layer of clear, placed the stamper decal on my finger.



Um, Houston, we have a problem!  I tried to use acetone to remove the overage on the stamping decal but it wasn't very successful, so I ended up trimming the decal down with scissors as best I could around the shape of my nail.  This was a little tricky considering the decal was still on my nail, but eventually, I got it to work, I suppose!  After touching up the decal a bit with some polish (see the white at the bottom in the pix above?  I had a huge, honking decal and could have placed it down further on the nail to avoid this, but of course, that's not where I fit it on my nail, so filled in a little using polishes as can be seen below), topped with SV to finish.




Here's the other ladies Day 5 skittle mani's!





Thanks for looking!

Digit-al Dozen DOES It Again; Day 7, Geeks

Hopefully you had a fantastic weekend!  Day 7's challenge is geeks...this is what I came up with!

 

 

Started with a base of two coats of OPI Bride's Bouquet, with an accent of Duri Taming of the Shrew, topped with SV.  No pix as I've shown these before.

 

Stamped using black and red Konad special polishes using assortment of image plates:  m60 (index), MJ XXI (ring), FUN 7 (thumb and middle) and FUN 6 (pinky).

 

 

Added a few more images to the thumb from FUN 7 and added tape to the glasses on index.

 

 

 

Topped with SV (first pix). 

 

Here's the other ladies geek mani's.

 

 

 

 

Thanks for looking!