Happy Easter!!!

Easter Sunday at my house starts with an Easter egg hunt so this was the inspiration for today's mani.  This is my Easter egg hunt mani!

Started with a base of two coats of NCLA AM: Beauty Sleep, PM: Shopping Spree from the Spring 2013 Life's A Beach collection, another polish sent for review by Nail Polish Canada.  This is two coats topped with SV.  NCLA AM: Beauty Sleep, PM: Shopping Spree is a smidgen darker in real life and is a very light mint green which isn't so obvious in these pix.  I don't have another polish this shade in my stash and it was a great creme base to highlight stamping.

I didn't take too many pix as I went along but this is two stamper decals (basket, plate T21 and kids, B.1) using assortment of Konad special polishes.  Other plates used were A35 (eggs on ring and index), Nailways Easter plate (eggs under basket on middle and bunny on pinky), HD-A (Happy Easter on thumb as well as all the grass) and Big SdP 0 (little bird on middle above basket).

Added a few dots (of course!) on the eggs on the middle and ring finger eggs for decoration.

Topped with SV.

Hopefully you had a fantastic Easter weekend; I just got home from having Easter dinner with my family and I'm still stuffed as I type this a few hours later!  And the kids had another Easter egg hunt this afternoon with all their cousins which was a lot of fun for them!

Thanks for looking!!

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Holo Hoppers

Here's another Easter mani; unfortunately, I'm a little later posting that I planned as I was too busy with life to get round to posting it any earlier.  This time, I was trying to come up with something a little different rather than the traditional colour schemes of Easter and decided to do a holo Easter mani.

Started with a base of two coats each of FingerPaints Black Expressionism and Color Club Harp On It; the black has been topped with SV but the holo was not.  (It seems I deleted the uploaded pix inadvertently because blogger was acting all funky and I've already deleted the original from the camera source but I'm sure you get the jest of how it looked!)

Stamped with Konad black special polish and CC Harp On It using fauxnad AT02 (pinky and partial egg on thumb), HD-B (middle, ring and index finger), W105 (zigzag egg on thumb) and Nailways 06 (small bunnies on thumb).

Added a few dots using the same polishes.

Topped with Sally Hansen Diamond Flash Fast Dry topcoat.  The holo stamping and dots really popped with the topcoat!

The next day, I took a pix outside in overcast skies; you can see the stamping better without all the holo glare.

More pix because I just can't pick one! 

Thanks for looking!

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3, 2, 1...HAPPY NEW YEAR!!

Happy New Year! These are the nails I'm wearing tonight for the countdown to the New Year!



Started with a base of two coats of SpaRitual Cassiterite, no topcoat.



Stamped using black Konad special polish using Dash 16 (streamers on pinky), fauxnad D (couple on ring), MM02 (middle), Nailways Snowwhite-New Years (clock on index), fauxnad m47 (numbers on thumb) and Sugar Bubbles special 01 (fireworks on index).



Added more fireworks above the couple and a few random stars using Cheeky 26.



Topped with topcoat.



Have a fun and safe New Year's....and all the best to you and yours in 2013!!

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Digit-al Dozen: Festiveness Day 4

I got a couple new plates in the mail yesterday, which happen to be fulllll of holiday images, so I thought I'd try them out for Day 4 of the challenge.  Here's what I came up with.

Started with a base of three coats of Spa Ritual Marble; this pix has topcoat.  I had bought Marble as I was looking for a different white base other than my usual white creme...forgetting I already own Nicole By OPI It's All About The Glam!  Well, now I have two sparkle/shimmery whites to use as stamping bases!

Stamped using FUN green, red and blue metallic stamping polishes, using SdP 83 (ring), HD07 (middle), Nailways 0002 (pinky), Sugar Bubbles Special 01 (thumb) and SdP 59 (index).

Topped with SV (I applied a little too much on the middle finger and it wrinkled when it was wet but it did dry flat).

A pix of after it dried ....the middle finger wrinkles dried pretty well.  (This pix was taken a few hours after I had finished...and after I had broken the middle nail.)

Here's a couple pix of the Sugar Bubbles special plates.  Oodles of holiday images on them!

Sugar Bubbles can be found on Facebook here.

Here's the other ladies Day 4 mani's if you'd like to check them out...so much creativity in the group!

Thanks for looking!

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Digit-al Dozen-Festiveness; Day 3

Am I the only one that thinks Festivus when I see Festiveness?  I type it every time I type Festivus  Festiveness.  Too much Seinfield back in the day, I suppose....anyhoo, this is my mani for Day 3 of the challenge (my second mani as I missed first day!)

I was trying to come up with something a little different just to mix it up instead of the more typical greens, reds, whites and blues that are more seasonal right now! 

Started with a base of two coats of China Glaze Let's Do It In 3-D, no topcoat.  It dried fairly fast and after about 5 minutes, I was able to do the stamping.

Stamped with black Konad special polish using an assortment of images (BM222, large g-men on thumb; Nailways0002, small g-men on thumb as well as pinky; OMG XL, ring finger g-man; HD08-middle finger g-man; and AT01 on index). 

Added a few randomly placed stars from T37 using red Konad special polish.

Topped with Sally Hansen quick dry.

When I was out and about this morning doing some Christmas shopping, the sun came out so I snapped a few pix (when I was parked, of course!). 

I urge you to check out the other Digit-al Dozen bloggers are are participating in Day 3 of Festivus Festiveness! Another day of awesomeness!!

Thanks for looking!

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Digit-al Dozen: Festiveness!

It was a thrill to be asked to join the Digit-al Dozen for their monthly challenges and this is my first time participating...unfortunately, I failed because the group does five consecutive daily posts starting yesterday; and for a variety of reasons, I wasn't able to post.  So I'm joining up with the group today and I'll be sharing four out of five days this month! 

Here's the mani I came up with!

Started with a base of two coats of China Glaze Adventure Red-y and Ulta Green and Wear it, topped with SV.

Stamped using Konad white special polish using an assortment of image plates (Apipila 05-angel on middle finger, W232-wreath on index; SdP 56-bells on thumb, fauxnad E03-holly on thumb, QA19-small bells on index and random snowflakes and Nailways- ornaments on pinky, gingerbread man and tree on index, candle on thumb).

Added a few random dots using yellow Konad special polish for a splash of colour.

Topped with SV. 

A few of the other ladies in the group have the inlinkz posted at the bottom of their posts but I haven't figure it out yet (hopefully I will for tomorrows post! lol) but I do urge you to check out their posts which should all join up at the link!   There's a lot of awesomeness in these.....the creativity is phenomenal!

Thanks for looking!

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Rain, Rain, Go Away...

....we've had rain since last Friday as a result of Hurricane Sandy and I've had enough!   But I thought it would be a good time to use some new plates and polishes and turn them into a little rain themed mani!

Started with a base of two coats of Essie Where's my Chauffeur?  This is from the Essie 2012 Winter collex.  The pix below does not have topcoat.

Added a coat of Elevation Polish Catch a Wave, then topped with SV.

 

Loving this polish!! Do you notice the round glitters?  Click on the images for a better look.  I chose this polish as part of the rain theme as the round glitters represented water droplets (well, in my head anyway!), not to mention the water reference in the name. 

Bottle pix.

Elevation Polish is available via Big Cartel and the shop opens on the 7th and 22nd of the month.  I was able to snag this awesome polish on eBay for $12, which I thought was a pretty good price considering sometimes the eBay auctions for some of the polishes get pretty high!  But this obviously was an unknown gem and I lucked out! 

Did some rain-themed stamping using new plates received from Nailways.  All images used are from Snowwhite-Weather Forecast, using black Konad special polish, except the umbrella on the thumb, which is Apipila 03.

A couple pix of the packaging as received from Nailways.

Information regarding where to order Nailways has been updated in my 'Where I Get My Stuff' tab on the home page.

Topped with a coat of SV to finish (first pix shown).

As much as I'm griping about the rain during the past week, I can only stress that we were relatively unscathed by Hurricane Sandy while many were not as fortunate.  While we've had rain for days, the night the storm hit, the rain was hard and the winds fierce; we had some light flickering but our hydro stayed on and there was no flooding or substantial property damage.  Unfortunately, many other areas were horrifically affected.  My thoughts are with you if you are in an area ravaged by Hurricane Sandy. 

Thanks for looking!

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