Digit-al Dozen Does Re-creation of Digit-al Dozen; Day 2

It was really cool to check out everyone's blogs yesterday to see the mani's that the ladies recreated and how they interpreted; there were a lot of amazing mani's, that's for sure!

Here's what I came up for Day 2 which is a little bit of two ladies who did Raggedy Ann and Andy doll mani's for past challenges.

Adventures in Acetone did Raggedy Ann and Andy for Vintages and A Little Polish did a verions as well for Childhood; I took a little bit of inspiration from both for my recreation! Darn it, I just noticed as I'm doing the post I missed the black dots on the red dots!  Whooops!  

Started with a base of two coats of OPI My Vampire is Buff with blue accent of China Glaze License & Registration Pls.

Top coated with KBShimmer Clearly on Top.



Using a the biggest dotter I have, added random dots on accents.  Then I made a custom stamping polish directly on the plate to try to match the blue on my nails as well as the stamper decals I had premade. Stamped on an image from Handy 24 on pinky then did a second image using red Konad special polish.



Added smaller dots with a slightly smaller dotter using red Konad special polish.



These are the stamper decals I made using images from MJ XVI and acrylic paints.  Not the best but I'm surprised I did this good; the images are so small the it was hard to fill in even with my smallest brush.



Here's the three stamper decals I made although I didn't end up using the pair.  It was really hard to paint so small images so not the best plus they look like angry,scary, going out to trick or treat with Chucky dolls!



Added Raggedy Ann and Andy stamper decals.  I somewhat messed up here because I top coated my whole nail before applying the decal but the decal wasn't the size of the entire nail.  So I smooshed up the top coat all over the nail when applying the decal.  To fix this, had to add a really thick coat of top coat which is why there are so many bubbles (I think).


My solution for bubble coverage was to add dots!  So made more custom polish for the dots and used red Konad.



Top coated with KBShimmer to finish.



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

An InLinkz Link-up

Thanks for looking!

Thanksgiving Mani (Fail!)

Happy Thanksgiving to my fellow Canadian nail fanatics!  This is the mani I did for the holiday; wasn't entirely thrilled with how it turned out; it seemed so much better when I had it planned in my head...but thank goodness it's only polish and a bit of remover and a new mani will be on my nails in no time!

Started with a base of two coats of Tough as Nails Lacquer Shut Your Sweet Potato Pie Hole; topped with SV.

Bottle shot.  Another polish that is the epitome of fall!  I bought this last year when I went bat crazy for fall and Halloween polishes but was only able to wear a few of them....only so many mani's you can do for fall and Halloween before the season passes as these aren't colours I'd typically wear! 

Stamped using FUN charcoal stamping polish using BM-H13 (thumb, middle and pinky) and MJ XVI (on ring and index). Just a note that if you go to use this turkey image, the image works best if scraped with a light hand and side to side.

Topped with SV.

Here's a closer look at the plates used.  

BM-H13

MJ XVI

I'm not sure why I wasn't into this....I think it's mainly because the image on the middle finger is covering too much of the base, which I wanted to see more of; I wish I had have stamped it closer to the tips so more would be seen like on the thumb.  Oh well.....and can SOMEONE tell me why there is no image plate that has Happy Thanksgiving on it?  Calling all image plate makers....we need this for next year, please and thank you!  I know this was one of my wishes for plates almost from when I got into stamping and had asked for words like this to be on plates...Happy Thanksgiving, Merry Christmas, Happy Birthday, Happy Easter, Happy Valentine's Day, Happy Canada Day, etc etc....they are essential to a theme mani gal like me!  While some have since been done, there are still some (like Happy Thanksgiving) that are needed! (end rant! lol!)

Thanks for looking!