Happy St. Patrick's Day!!

Hope you had a great day!   Today's FB Adventures in Stamping challenge was St. Patrick's Day...here's the mani I came up with! 

Started with a base of two coats of China Glaze Running in Circles and Jessica Lime Cooler on the accent; topped with SV.  I have to be honest...I had initially passed on Running in Circles when the Cirque Du Soleil collex came out...but when I seen it listed soooo many times on bloggers top 20 polishes ...well, I thought if so many gals had it on their top 20, it must be pretty special so I picked up a bottle myself...and now I know why!

Stamped with white Konad special polish using Lilic's A02 on all fingers but the accent.

Made a stamper decal using an image from MM04; the filled in green was China Glaze Running in Circles; the gold was CND Gold Chrome.

Added the stamped decal to the accent finger.

Topped it with SV to secure.

Added a few random dots using white Konad special polish, CND Gold Chrome and Jessica Lime Cooler.

I only made one stamper decal so did my other hand a little different; thought I'd show a rare pix of my right hand here...the fingers are the same except accent finger was stamped using Sally Hansen Jumpin' Jade.

Did you celebrate St. Patrick's Day?  While I decorate the house and made some St. Patrick's Day fare for dinner including the first time making corned beef brisket, that was the extent of our celebrations...no green beer here!

Thanks for looking!

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Leprechaun's Among Us!

Another St. Patrick's Day mani!

Started with a base of two coats of Cirque Lonesome George; this is two coats, no tc.

Stamped using Konad white special polish using Lilic's A02 (thumb), MM04 (ring and middle finger images) and HD-B (pinky and index).

Added a shamrock under the leprechaun on the index from HD-B, then random dots using Jessica Lime Cooler and CND Gold Chrome.

Topped with SV.  Then, I had the strange SV reaction occur with the white again...this was taken right after topcoating.....just starting to turn green....

....and then more noticeable here...mint green stamping!

Hope you're having a great weekend...thanks for looking!

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St. Paddy's Mani + Stamper Decals

I have a bunch of St. Patrick's Day mani's ready to share for next week...but with FB Adventures in Stamping Challenge to post...and the 5 Day Digit-al Dozen theme posts to start Monday...I thought I had better start posting St. Patrick's Day mani's now or it will be like my Christmas and Valentine's Day mani's and I'll run out of time before I get them all posted!  Which may still happen, but anyway, here's the first of a few more to come!

I've been wearing a lot of holo lately...and reached for yet another holo polish for this mani...started with a base of two coats of Color Club Angel Kiss, no top coat.  And a holo overload of pix again...please be warned!

I'm so impressed with these Color Club halo hues....I still haven't picked up the 2013's as they haven't been available in my area or not yet arrived on etailer sites that will ship to Canada....but I can't wait to add them to my collex!

Stamped using MM04 at the tips using Sally Hansen Jumpin' Jade. 

Topped with Sally Hansen Sally Hansen Diamond Flash Fast Dry Top Coat.

 

The maker of the Messy Mansion plates had posted on AiS a way of making decals using a stamper and filling in with polishes...so using her tutorial here, I made a couple of decals using the MM04 plate.  This is what they looked like when I finished.

Unfortunately, I lost the leprechaun one by the time I was ready to add the decals to my nails (I think its way back under my polish table and I just haven't crawled under it to look for it yet), but I had the hat image, so added to this mani just to try out!

I didn't read the whole tutorial on the application of the decal onto the nail so had just placed it on my dry nail and then topped with SV so it didn't lie too flat; after I applied this, I read it again and seen how it should be applied.....so while this isn't the greatest, it didn't turn out too bad for the first attempt!  The other thing I found was that the decal kinda dried up a bit and curved (see leprechaun decal above) when it wasn't on the stamper, so it was a challenge putting it on the nail, as the decal curves up but my nails curve down.  But I solved this somewhat because in decals I made after this one, I did the stamping on a flatter stamper, or, on some stampers, stamped the image more in the centre where it doesn't curve so much...and even left did a few where I left them on spare stampers until I was ready to use them, which worked the best as they didn't seem to dry out (and curve up) so fast.

What's your thoughts on making stamper decals?  Have you tried it yet?  If so, what's your thoughts?  If not, will you be trying it? I'm interested in hearing your thoughts!

Have a great weekend....thanks for looking!

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Happy St. Patrick's Day!!!

Top o' the mornin' to ya!

This is the last St. Patrick's Day mani I'm going to share until next year!



Started with a base of Zoya Veruschka.



Added Icing Evergreen to start a gradient.



Then Midie No. 4, which is a lighter green glitter with various sizes of glitter versus the fine, darker glitter of Evergreen.



Here's a bottle shot of Midie No. 4. I'm glad I stumbled across these at a little shop not too far from my house....pretty, but they are certainly on the smelly side.



Stamped using CND Gold Chrome using the various size of clovers on XL F and BM03 for the accent middle finger. (It seems I forgot to upload a pix of the mani at this point and I've already deleted the pix from my camera so no shot of the mani in progress here!)

With all this glitter action, I knew I had to matte this mani...so a coat of Essie Matte About You was added.



Then I remembered how chippy matte mani's are.....so added a topcoat of SV. This is how I wore my nails when I was out and about...but I much prefer the matte look.



Have a fantastic St. Patrick's Day! Thanks for looking!

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Pot of Gold At the end of the Rainbow

Green isn't one of my favourite colours...so I had to be a little creative coming up with a St. Patrick's Day mani without painting green on every nail. I thought of a pot of gold at the end of the rainbow would be a little colourful...here's what I came up with.



Base polishes used starting at thumb are OPI What's Dune? over two coats of OPI Bride's Bouquet, then Catherine Arley 803, Catherine Arley 674, Catherine Arley 673 and Catherine Arley 800, all two coats except 674 which was three. Finally cracked open my Catherine Arley's after all this time.



Stamped rainbows onto the nails using KleanColor black with plate Big SdP A.



My stamping failed me at the top of the middle finger plus a few other spots so I took a fine brush and hand painted in the lines. Not a fantastic job, but passable....from a distance!



Then I hand painted the cauldron for the pot of gold....this is why I don't do free hand art! lol! I stamped a shamrock too using XL F using A-England Saint George but it stamped fainter than I wanted so I did hand painted another coat of the polish over the design freehand.



Added a dab of Color Club Gingerbread Man for the gold.



Then decided a wanted some gold coins; used Nubar gold glitters and put them in the pot.



To prevent the faint holo from fading even more, I used a light coat of Sally Hansen Clear Hardener which is suppose to not kill the holo...not that it mattered in this case as the scattered holo is so faint to begin with. It was interesting to see that I had a little drag on the areas I hand painted....not sure why as the coat of SH was thin plus a good amount of time had passed since I had drawn in the lines.




Thanks for looking!

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Another St. Patrick's Day Mani

I did another cross bordering shopping trip last week...Sinful Mint Apple was one of my purchases and I decided to use it for this St. Patrick's Day mani.



Two coats of Sinful Mint Apple.



Another shot of this $2 beauty.



Added a fairly thin coat of NYX Girls Enchanted Forest...this has a slight green tinge which slightly changed the base....but not too terribly.



Another shot....loved that I was able to fish out one of the big glitters!



Stamped using white Konad special polish using BM12.



I don't think this is technically a shamrock design...but it looked close enough like one to me so I took a little stamping liberty by using it!



Topped with SV.



I had planned on adding a few more stamped images onto the nail.......... but decided I like the simplicity of this mani and left it like this. In fact, this mani is still on my nails even thought I did it a couple days ago...I think I may matte it before I take it off but I'll see how it goes.

Have you done a St. Patrick's Day mani yet...or plan on doing one? I think I may have a couple yet to post...I was surprised I have so many green polishes in my stash when I was looking for green polishes as green isn't one of my go to colours in case you haven't noticed!

Thanks for looking!

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