Happy 2013!!

After a month of wearing mainly green, white, red and gold, I was feeling like something different for my next mani when I got around to doing my nails on New Year's Day.  So after sorting through my stash, decided on purple; this is what I came up with.....and what I've been wearing the for last three days!



Started with a base of two coats of Ulta Tutu Cute; this pix has no topcoat.



Added NYX Girls Silver Glitter, no topcoat.



Layered a little Maybelline Color Show Sequins Lavender Sparks, no topcoat, then waited about 15 minutes for the various layers to dry before stamping.





Stamped with Konad white special polish using Sugar Bubbles special 01.



Topped with SV.



I wish you a healthy and prosperous 2013...let's hope it's a fantastic year!!!

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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New Year's Eve Party Nails

This weeks FB Adventures in Stamping challenge is New Year's or Party related....this is that I came up with.



Started with a base of FingerPaints Black Expressionism, two coats (no pix as shown before).  Stamped using FUN stamping polishes Bubble Blue, Cotton Candy, Avocado Green and Mango Shake using SdP 76 (hat on pinky), MM02 (Happy New Year wording on index and streamers on middle), Sugar Bubbles special 01 (glasses and champagne and fireworks on thumb).



Added a few random stars using Sugar Bubbles special 01 with the various stamping polishes.



Topped with SV.

 

 I have a few more Christmas nails to show but I guess it will have to wait until after New Year's...or next year because I have a few more New Year's manis to share.

And if you haven't seen it already and you are interested in my latest giveaway, please click on the Gals pix at the top side of the page.

Thanks for looking!

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Challenge Mani

This weeks FB Adventures in Stamping Challenge was to do a mani featuring the colours from your Christmas tree.  My tree pretty much has most colours under the rainbow, but has strong gold and red decorative accents, which is also the majority of the colour scheme for the rest of the house decorations, so those were the colours I chose to do for the mani....here's what I came up with.

Started with a base of two coats of Layla Softouch Effect 02.  I received this polish as a RAOK from KarenD at Frazzle and Aniploish.  After seeing the Layla's in one of her blog posts and then looking for them at Ulta during my last cross border shopping trip but they weren't available, KarenD was good enough to offer to pick them up with a few other pretties....THEN before I have even had a chance to pay, she messaged that they were on their way to me!   Thanks so much again, Karen!

Added a few holiday decorations using red Konad special polish and Sally Hansen Jumpin' Jupiter using D07 (present on pinky), Sugar Bubbles special 01 (wreath on thumb), and fauxnad D (tree on middle, candy cane on ring and mistletoe on index).

I was going to do a few accent dots but then I remembered a newly arrived polish from Candy Lacquer called Rudolph's Treats that is circular (!!!) glitters in green, gold and red in a clear base.  So I fished them out and added red on the tree for ornaments and others to accent the wreath and the other images.  Then I fished out more of the circular dots and used to accent throughout as well as used a star shaped rhinestone for the tree topper.

Bottle pix of Candy Lacquer Rudolph's Treats.

Added SV.

Just before taking it off, I topped the mani with Essie Matte About You (which is the first pix) and this is the version I like the most.

Hope you had a fantastic weekend....thanks for looking!

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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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Unknown Christmas, Digit-al Dozen, Fauxnad, FUN stamping polish, HD07, Nailways, SdP, SdP 59, SdP 83, SpaRitual, Sugar Bubbles, Sugar Bubbles Special 01, white