Winnie the Pooh and Tigger too!

Last night when I was looking through my image plates trying to come up with a mani, I seen that there's a few of the Winnie the Pool characters so decided to do a Winnie the Pooh themed mani. Here's what I came up with:



Unfortunately, there's no Owl or Rabbit (that I could find anyway!) so I took a little bit of artistic liberty and inserted another owl image that I had. LOL!

Base polishes used (starting thumb going clockwise) are CND Girlie Pink, Color Club Explosive, Orly Cashmere Cardigan, OPI Osaka-to-me Orange and Petite Color Fever Vintage Gray. They are all two coats, except CC Explosive, which was three.

Explosive dried a little dark and I was hoping that it would be lighter like the colour in the bottle, but it was the closest to what I thought Pooh looked like with the polishes in my stash (and because as I'm no frankener!)

Then added images, using Konad black special polish. Image plates used were all SdP: D-07, C-02, A-11, B-18 and A-02. Here's mani in progress.



And because my stamping was off (as usual!) and didn't quite get every image centred well, I added a few dots to try to mask this...and to add a little bit of interest. Used a dotting tool; dot colours are CND Anchor Blue, CND Raspberry Parfait, Konad red special polish and LA Girls Disco Brites Can U Dig it.

Sorry there's so many pictures...I had a hard time getting good images without getting glare and had difficulty in getting the whole image to focus..... I'm no photographer either! lol!



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This Mani Has Gone to the Dogs!

This is probably wayyyy too cutsie for a gal my age, but oh, well!! I'm way past worrying about what others think!
Another mani using Shirley's plates.** This is two coats of Nubar Cloud White. I picked this polish up as I use white fairly frequently as a base and was testing for coverage as whites are prone to streaks and can be thin but didn't experience any problems. Then stamped using fauxnad IP's SdP B-18, SdP B08, HB48 and P59. Stamping polish is Konad special red and black. I wish my stamping skills for tips were better and the tips were straighter, but anyone who does tip stamping knows how hard it is. I rarely do tips for this reason....I did a couple practise runs on my last mani before I took it off and they turned out wayyyy better than these! Oh well, just another reason to redo tonight! When I finished stamping, I did a quick silver stripper for some interest and added a few dots here and there!

And here's Nubar Cloud White by itself. Not a stark white, but does the job and had good coverage in two coats.

I can't seem to help myself using these plates again as they really have some of the coolest designs on them! It is unfortunate that there are some problems with a few images as I did post in the comments the last time I used them. But I still think that even with the few images that don't stamp well (and I'm hoping to get good replacement plates as they are designs that I really like), they are still well worth it. My humble opinion anyway.....to be fair, I've ordered plates from everywhere (let's just say I have a nail plate hoarding disorder!!) and have received poor images here and there on one plate or another, with the exception of Konad plates, which always seem to have excellent stamp quality. I guess if it was easy to do, everyone would have a set of plates designed! I'm sure Shirley is working with whomever it was that did the engraving to work these bugs out and look forward to her new release as it looks like she's going to be coming out with new big plates too! By the look of it, there's a repeat of some of the designs on her A and B series plates. I know I'm looking forward to the release of the new plates! I know some fellow bloggers have said they had difficulty to getting Shirley's images to transfer, but I had no issues with either one of these images at all. I had more problems getting the dog paw and bone to transfer solid! As I mentioned before, any of the images that were faintly etched, like the stars in my prior My Little Pony mani or this doggy stamp, transfer well. Its only the deeper grooved plates that were issue. I haven't stamped 100% of the 28 plates I bought, but probably 80% and only had an issue with a few.

Thanks for looking!

**Please note that I paid the invoiced amount in full for my plates. I do not endorse nor promote this website/etailer other than I am passing on the info of where I got them to those who may wish to know. I have no affiliation with any company and received no compensation for promotion of these products, nor am I promoting them...just letting fellow bloggers where they may be obtained should they be interested!

I Thought I Had Another Unintentional Easter Mani On My Hands!

For some reason, I got to thinking I haven't worn pink in a while. Sitting on my nail table was a recently obtained bottle of Sinful Colors Pinky Glitter and I sorted thru my stash to come up with a pink that was untried. Decided upon Deborah Lippmann My Romance.
This is what the two of them look like together:
This is when it struck me that I had created yet another unintentional Easter mani! I actually really like these two polishes together and this look would be great for Easter, or Spring or super cute for my dear daughter to wear (although she seems mainly to be into black or red...not girly girl nails like this!) While I can't wait to do some Easter stamping, its too early for me, so had to come up with a way to turn this unintentional Easter mani around! Low and behold, again, sitting on my nail desk was my newly acquired image plates from Shirley-had just taken the plastic coating off the last one a day ago-so decided upon the My Little Pony plate (SdP B-14) with stars (SdB B-18). Stamped with Konad black special polish.



I really like the look of these stars and could easily see myself doing this mani again and again with all five fingers with just the stars...or other endless combinations as these stars rock!

And here's My Romance all by itself. This was three coats and still can see some VNL...but very pretty none the less.

Thanks for looking!