Digit-al Dozen Does Thankfulness; Day 5

It's the last day of Digit-al Dozen Thankfulness Week! I had planned on doing a mani last night with something insightful to what I'm thankful for; I really do have so much to be thankful for and had so many ideas, I could do thankfulness month!  But I could barely keep my eyes open after dinner and just had no energy to do my nails.  So I'm thankful I have a full archive of draft posts to be able to use one of them for a Day 5 mani!  Here's my Day 5 mani; I'm thankful for playing euchre with my weekend friends during the summer months!  I love playing cards and euchre is probably my favourite card game; I don't miss too many Saturday nights when we play as it is one of my favourite things to do!  I actually had these on my nails on one of our Saturday night games this past summer! Here's what I came up with!

Started with a base of OPI My Boyfriend Scales Walls; two coats and top coat (no pix as have shown before.  Stamped using black and red Konad special polish using images from MoYou Comics Collection-02 (thumb and middle), Fab III (pinky), HB25 and OB29 (ring and index).  Top coated to finish.

This mani is all kinds of fail; top coat smear and poor cleanup but was a good idea, just poorly executed!  I really like the card images from MoYou Comics-02; will definitely reach for it again to do a card related mani.  

MoYou Comics Collection-02

It has been so nice to look at every one's mani's and hear (I mean read!) the stories behind the art; there's been some really touching and heartfelt posts this week and I think anyone who has read these posts got to know the ladies in the group just a little bit better! 

Let's see what the other ladies are thankful for on Day 5!

An InLinkz Link-up

Thanks for looking!

Butter London-The Full Monty and HB Plates 21-25

I spent today driving and antiquing in cottage country Ontario-seen lots of amazing fall folliage. Seen lots of forests, lots of lakes-its my favourite time of year! So it was easy to pick the image plate with the leaves on it for this fall mani!

It was a pleasant surprise a couple weeks ago when I went to Holt Renfew one day to get some Lippmann polishes that they also sell Butter London. My wallet wasn't very happy though as they are around $15 each. Anyway, in addition to some standard line polishes, I was able to get the recently released Victoriana, The Full Monty, Marrow, All Hail McQueen and a few others.

After swatching a few polishes to see what I was going to use for my fall leaf mani, I decided to use The Full Monty as the base colour. This first image is one coat and no clean up as the daylight was quickly fading and I wanted to capture a quick pix.



This next pix is two coats and then a coat of Essie Matte About You. I've tried most of the matte makers on the market; I by far like this one best as it gives the most matte! Pix isn't great as daylight was slowly fading....



Then stamped! Using fall leaves from image plate HB21! I used all Konad special polishes for stamping! And of course the red maple leaf had to be front and centre as, well, I am Canadian! A little subliminal tribute to my heritage....

This mani was a little challenging for me-a lot of cleanup of the scraper and the image plate as so many different colours were used, and so many times stamped using multiple colours. But I was happy with the end result.

Here's pix of the image plates-I'm loving all the image plates from 21-40. I so can't wait to use the coffee plates-nothing that I love more than my Tim Horton's triple triple! You know are a reguler when the ladies at the counter have your order ready before you order! And your dinner guests brings a fresh timmies instead of wine to dinner!

Feel free to click on pix for better image of plate!





(edit: I forgot to include hb24 in original post! Oops)

I want to add more pictures but I'm on the road again to see more beautiful fall folliage!

Thanks for looking!