It's a Boy!

Congratulations to the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge on the birth of their baby boy yesterday!  Here's the mani I came up with for the joyous event!

Starting at the thumb and going clockwise, the polishes used are SpaRitual Circle of Life, China Glaze Bahamian Escape, Essie Avenue Maintain, L'Oreal Royally Yours (how appropriate!!) and OPI No Room for the Blues; two coats each; topped with SV.

Stamped with various images from plates MJ VIII (full size image on index finger); OB39 (thumb), SdP 66 (crown on pinky - on further down pix), MJ II (hands and wording It's a Boy on index, rattle on pinky), and Big SdP K (full size image on ring finger).  Polishes used were white, royal purple and red Konad special polishes and turquoise Mundo de Unas stamping polish.



I did such a terrible job of lining up the double stamping needed to create the flag on the thumb using the OB39 plate, so had to hand paint in some of the lines....but did better than I thought considering it was my first attempt! Hopefully with a bit of practise, I can eventually do some double stamping better!

Added a few random dots using China Glaze Bahamian Escape and L'Oreal Royally Yours.



Topped with SV.



Thanks for looking!

Digit-al Dozen, Geek Week; Day 3

There's been a few Star Wars mani's posted already this week in the Digit-al Dozen gallery; I had one planned too....this is what I came up with.

Started with a base of two coats of OPI Bride's Bouquet, Sinful Colors Cool Gray and one coat of FingerPaints Black Expressionism; topped with SV. (Please excuse the little SV bubble on the middle finger!)

Stamped using Ch45 (thumb) and Sugar Bubbles 004 (ring, middle and index) using black Konad special polish; used MJ VIII on pinky using Nicole By OPI Give Me The First Dance.

I remember lots of space craft fighting and big explosions in the Star Wars movies; I tried to recreate some exploding ship/space debris, so added Apipila P.02 on thumb; then Sugar Bubbles 003 star french tips on the other fingers.  While the space ship on the thumb isn't true to Star Wars, it was the closest space craft type of image I had (other than a rocket).

Topped with SV.

Star Wars isn't a typical theme that I would normally do, so I'm glad that there are themes like this as part of the Digit-al Dozen, which is taking me out of my stamping comfort zone...I now wish there was a C3PO and R2D2 image...and Chewy....and the rest of the characters on image plates.....including a proper Star Wars type of space craft! 

Thanks for looking!

 

Digit-al Dozen: Art, Day 3

I have to laugh at myself regarding today's post.  It was decided that those who were doing Jackson Pollock inspired mani's would post today.  So I did a bunch of googling last night for inspiration and found a pix that I thought I could come up with.   When I googled Pollock paintings this morning to post and credit the pix, the pix I was basing my mani couldn't be found, but with a little bit more surfing, I found it, only to discover that in fact the painting I was using wasn't a Jackson Pollock original, but a Jackson Pollock 'inspired' painting.  *head thumb*  Too late to change it, so here's my Jackson Pollock inspired mani based on a 'Jackson Pollock inspired' painting.



Started with a base of two coats of OPI Bride's Bouquet, topped with SV (no pix as have shown many times before). Then to do the quasi flinging of paints Pollock style (I knew I'd never be able to tolerate the mess), used a stamp to do something similar!  Stamped using Konad red special polish using MJ II.



Did a second layer of red stamping.



Another layer, using Konad orange stamping polish; repeated a second time.



Added a hot dog to thumb using black Konad special polish using MJ VIII.



Added a layer of lines with Konad yellow special polish; repeated a second time.



Finally, after stamping 31 times in total, did some clean up.



Topped with SV (before doing it, I hand filled in a couple lines on the hot dog where it looked like there was a white dog on it as seen in the first pix ...I have no idea how it escaped getting a few lines but it was sticking out like a sore thumb and I couldn't stand the look of it!)

Here's the pix used as my inspiration, even though its not a Jackson Pollock original.

 Painting/image credit given to Kyle Dreir. 

Here's the mani's from the other ladies....I'm sure they know the difference between a Jackson Pollock original!

So what do you think....was I close....even though it's Pollock inspired and not an original? 

Thanks for looking!

Two all beef patties, special sauce.....

lettuce, cheese, pickles, onions, on a sesame seed bun! 

Anyone else remember that jingle? 

It was ironic that I ended up at McDonalds the night when I wearing this mani.  It wasn't intentional but after working late one night, I stopped in at McD's for something to eat just because it was late and it's the only fast food place near my work without driving for blocks and blocks and this happened to be on my nails.  It caught the attention of the drive thru gal who thought it was very cool!

  

Started with a base of OPI Bride's Bouquet with accent of Sally Hansen Hearts on Fire, all two coats (no pix as have shown both before).   Then stamped using MJ V (McD on middle and coffee on index), MJ VIII (drink on pinky), CH41 (burger and fries), HB44 (ice cream) and QA1 (smile).  Stamping polishes used were Konad red and black special polishes and yellow is FUN Mango Shake.

Added a few white and yellow dots as well as took a little brush and coloured in a bit of the condiments on the burger for lettuce, tomato and cheese!

Are you lovin' it?  Lol.....!

Thanks for looking!