Christmas Candy

My group order of Lynnderella's recently arrived but when they did, I was kinda torn...while I love to stamp and so wanted to start doing a few Christmas mani's, I was really wanting to use the Lynnderella's....so I thought, why not do a mani combining them both? This is what I came up with.



I had bought Essie Marshmallow specifically to use as the base for Lynnderella Snow Angel...unfortunately, I couldn't find it. So I used two coats of Essie Waltz with three coats of Essie Tennis Corset for the undies for Snow Angel and two coats of Essie Bonded for the undies for Lynnderella Ruby Red Ruby.



Then added one coat of Lynnderella Snow Angel and Ruby Red Ruby.



Topped with a coat of Gelous and then SV. By this time, the white was 10 coats thick so I waited a bit to do the stamping, but even then, I had a few squishies when I did the stamping.



Stamped using an assortment of Konad special polishes (red, green and royal purple which stamps almost navy blue)using IP's BM222, SdP C14, SdP 21, and fauxnad D.



Lastly accented with a few snowflakes and stars from plates T37 and T45.



This pix was taken the next day outside...you see the stamping a little better as there is no light glare.



Hope you had a great weekend....please check out my current giveaway here if you are interested and thanks for looking!

Tweety Bird!

I've been pondering this mani for a few weeks. Three coats of OPI Banana Bandana; stamped using two images from SdP C-14 with Konad special polishes in apple green, sky pearl and metallic pink.

Here's mani in progress. Three coats of OPI Banana Bandana. It was pretty sheer and needed three coats to cover all the bare spots. It's a soft yellow in real life; although in some of these pix, it leans on the lime/green side, but yellow it is.

Then stamped.

I thought I would add some white dots to make the flowers pop.



But in all honestly, after I did it, I regretted it as it washed out the coloured and I liked the look before the white dots. As it didn't have the look I was going for, I added another dot in the dot using the same colour of stamping polish to give the flowers a bit more colour. I messed up a couple of them but all in all, I was pretty pleased with this dotting as it wasn't the easiest to do. Dotting (to me) is harder than it looks!



Thanks for looking!