Digit-al Dozen Does Indie Love; Day 3

Some simply yet effective stamping for Day 3 of Digit-al Dozen indie love challenge!

Started with a base of two coats of Picture Polish Superior, no top coat.

Topped with KBShimmer Clearly on Top.

Stamped using an image from Creative Shop 26 using FunkyFingers Gesso.  I love this image; super cool yet allows lots of the base polish to shine through!

Creative Shop 26.

Topped with a final coat of KBShimmer Clearly on Top to finish.

Here's the other ladies Day 3 mani's!

An InLinkz Link-up

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Digit-al Dozen Does Indie Love; Day 2

For Day 2 of Indie Love challenge for Digit-al Dozen week, I have these two stunning blues from KBShimmer!  Here's what I came up with!

Started with a base of two coats of KBShimmer Double Pog Dare You.  While I did two coats just from habit, this could have been a one coater.  I love this vibrant blue creme; it is simply stunning!

Did a gradient using KBShimmer No Wave!

Topped with KBShimmer Clearly on Top.

Stamped using an image from Big SdP B using FunkyFingers Gesso.

Topped with KBShimmer Clearly on Top to finish.

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

An InLinkz Link-up

Thanks for looking!

Digit-al Dozen Does Indie Love; Day 1

It's Digit-al Dozen week!  This month's theme is Indie Love and it's a trifecta for me----indies, blue and Digit-al Dozen; three of my favourite polish things!  I'm still sharing blue mani's for Autism Awareness month so all the indies you'll be seeing from me for the challenge will be some shade of blue!  Here's what I came up with for Day 1!

Started with a base of two coats of Cupcake Polish Bat-chelor Pad, no top coat.  I love this moody blue and decided to wear it a couple weeks ago with my shorties as I love wearing darker colours when my nails are on the short side! There were no application issues at all with this polish, it wasn't finicky in any way and clean up was a breeze even though the colour is so dark.

Topped with KBShimmer Clearly on Top before stamping.

Stamped with an image from Sugar Bubbles SB052 using Funky Fingers Gesso.  

SugarBubbles SB 052

Added a few dots for colour and interest using Misa Hanging With The Girls.

Topped with KBShimmer Clearly on Top to finish.

Here's the other ladies Day 1 mani's!

An InLinkz Link-up

Thanks for looking!

(updated May 22 2018 to add stamping plate picture!)

Pretty Serious Elliott

I love these circular dots on Infinity 106!  It is one of those perfect stamping images to me; cool that it's an interesting image but lets the base polish shine through!  Here's what I came up with!

Started with a base of two coats of Pretty Serious Elliott.  *Swoon*  It's no secret that I love blues and this is a favourite for sure!  I love the brightness of it and that shimmer just takes it to the next level for me!

Topped with a coat of CbL PDQ TC.

Stamped with Infinity 106 using FunkyFingers Gesso.

Added a couple metal studs on accent.

Topped with CbL PDQ to finish.  Unfortunately, I had major smear here.  I wasn't that familiar with the CbL PDQ TC as hadn't used a whole lot; I'm guessing I didn't have enough on the brush to glide it over the image and then had polish drag which was probably my application error.

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Glam Wavy Lines!

I'm going to be sharing blue mani's all month long in support of Autism Awareness month!  I have oodles of mani's in archives as I do my nails way more than I post.  I have over 30 blue mani's uploaded so I will be able to post all month long!  If I'm being honest, it is unlikely that I will be able to post each and every day so there will still be some left over to share at another time even! Anyway, let the blue mani's begin! Or continue I suppose, as my last post was also a blue mani!  Here's what I came up with!

Started with a base of two coats of Glam Polish Break the Ice, no top coat.

Using an image from Apipila P.38, stamped using MdU 3 and 30, as well as FunkyFingers Gesso.  It's been a while since I did these nails (July 28 2015 to be exact!) and looking at them, I thought I had used vinyls for these.  But in fact, after checking my notes, just lined up the colours on the image and scraped sideways.  I should have known better, my mani's with vinyls usually don't turn out that well.

Apipila P.38.  The lines are far enough apart that each line can be a different colour without any intermingling when you stamp.

Finished with a coat of KBShimmer Clearly on top.

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Autism Awareness Day!

April 2nd is Autism Awareness Day; here is the mani I did for it!  

Started with a base of two coats of FingerPaints Blissfully Blue, no top coat.

Topped with KBShimmer Clearly on Top.

I made stamper decals using images from Dixie Plates Awareness plate.  Unfortunately, the Autism Awareness ribbon was too large for my nails; I first stamped using the UberChic Luxe stamper, then immediately transferred the image to a clear stamper head.  This took a few tries as some of the lines are so fine and they dried pretty quickly even when I used MdU stamping polish.  All images on this mani are from the Dixie Plates Awareness plate; I isolated and stamped images for the ring and pinky.  I used MdU 2 and 73, Moyra Sp 02, 05 and 22, MoYou Deep Ocean and CND Bicycle Yellow.  

Dixie Plates Awareness

Topped with KBShimmer Clearly on Top to finish.

April is Autism Awareness Month; I'm going to try to do my part and do a few blue mani's throughout the month in support of the cause which is near and dear to me....just in case you start seeing a lot of blue posted in the future!

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Easter Nails!

Happy Easter!  Hopefully you had a good Easter weekend!  My weekend was pretty busy but I was able to do these nails over the weekend and wore them all weekend, until last night anyway.  Here's what I came up with!

Started with two coats of Barielle Green With Envy, shown with no top coat.

Topped with KBShimmer Clearly on Top.

Stamped using an image from Lilac's A08 using FunkyFingers Gesso.

Topped with KBShimmer Clearly on Top.

Shadow stamped accent nail using an image from MoYou Festive 09 using MdU 11 and FunkyFingers Dark Knight.

I had made 4 stamper decals for the lilies using another image from Lilac's A08.  Stamped each of them on a clear stamper, painted, applied sticky base to nails then stamped decals right onto nails once sticky base was tacky/dry to the touch.  Love this method; really makes stamper decals so much easier and faster with a lot less planning ahead!

Topped with KBShimmer Clearly on Top.  Unfortunately, I nicked my middle finger decal with my other hand so it smeared; I hand painted the outline best as I could and tried to save it so I didn't have to redo everything.  Not perfect, but I've done worse!

Added a few dots on accent and lilies for colour and interest.

Finished with a final coat of KBShimmer Clearly on Top.

Thanks for looking!