Hearts on fire (adult version included)

Hi Everyone,

I did these for the Hearts on Fire Challenge a few weeks ago. I thought it was fun to give it a little adult twist too. You can see that in the 2nd picture.

I used BM312 for the yellow/orange/red flames, BM12 for the sort of black flames, Nailways Spring Time- Love is in the Air for the black hearts, Nailways Back to basic- 123ABC for the letters. 

Adult version on my thumb.

And I used XJ7 (bad Ebay dupe from the Handy plate) for the couple (to make her more look like a woman I gave her a pony tail and boobs ;)) The base is Lime Crime Milky Ways...thought it was a fitting name hehehe.

Here some swatches of the base.

I really love my Lime Crime polishes so happy I got them 2nd hand from a nail friend who was selling her polihs collection.

Thanks for reading.

xoxox

A witching time at night when everything might bite

Hi everyone,

Today I'll show you my Bundlemonster contest entry :) I've made 2 weeks ago and I could not choose which one I wanted to enter in the contest, this one or the The trees get eyes when the moon begins to rise so I posted it in a nail group and the lovely members helped me choose by voting on which one they liked best. And this mani had more votes :)

You can see all the entries of this Halloween contest here. You can vote on all the entries you like and you can vote every day till October 23rd. If you like mine I am on page 10 ;) They are in the order of how they were submitted (I believe) so on page 11 the first entries and page 1 the last entries.

You also had to give it a title so I called them "A witching time at night when everything might bite".   During Halloween everything might be haunted and can get freaky even the cutest things like a bunny. So I made a Halloween scenery where everything is freaky and haunted even a cute bunny that is now "evil".

Sponged the base with 4 Konad stamping polishes SN pastel blue, SN sky pearl, SN blue and SN royal purple, painted the sky (with different colored brush strokes)  the moon, tree trunks and the little cross. Stamped with BM04 (cat), parts of BM12 (leaves, branches), BM13 (cross, bats, witch), BM20 (stars), BM302 (devil bunny haha) and BM305 (pumpkins, house and the part of the devil to make the bunny evil) colored some images and dotted yellow eyes.

I only have the first and 3rd BM set so I had to get creative with the images :)

Here is the direct link to my entry A witching time at night when everything might bite  but you can always look mine up on page 10 :) Remember to vote for all you like (I am also voting for my fellow nail friends who entered) and you can vote every day.

If you are on a phone and it doesn't work try this:  http://www.bundlemonster.com/cirquedufreakcontestentry I am on page 10.

Thank you so much for reading (and maybe voting too) :)

xoxox

The trees get eyes when the moon begins to rise!

Hi Everyone,

Today I'll show my first Halloween nails of this year. I love Halloween even though it isn't really celebrated here. I've made these last week together with another Halloween mani, and I could not choose which one to enter in the Halloween contest, so I asked members of a FB group they chose the other one (will show them later this week or next week).

"The trees get eyes when the moon begins to rise"

Sponged base (Konad pastel orange yellow, dark orange, cool red and added some brush strokes to get a sky effect and a little foggy around the trees) colored the moon, drew the tree trunks and stamped the branches and leaves with parts of BM12 with Konad SN black and added some yellow dots as eyes. The Jack O on the moon is from BM305. I was a little proud of myself that I drew the tree trunks and moon haha cause I hardly freehand stuff (I know it were just lines but still, lines are hard for me too :P )

Thanks for reading and have a great day!

xoxox 

Self Designed Dragon nails..lol :)

Hi Everyone,

Today I have something funny to show you ;) I got creative and made my own images out of other parts of imageplates. I made these for the cool History, Myths and Legends contest of Nat from http://noholos.blogspot.nl/2012/07/stamping-and-freehand-contest.html This was such a challenge for me, since I did not have any stamps for this theme. It supposed be dragons above an old castle wall...lol :) I had so much fun thinking and making this. As you know I always love a great theme and challenge. This is actually my 2nd design I first tested both of them on paper. I will make my 1st design later. The contest is open untill August 10th so you should all enter too :) The contest has lots of prices and different stamping categories.

I had a hard time taking a normal picture because the base was too shimmery and metallic so I don't have one without the paper sorry for that. But I was already happy that I managed to make a picture that wasn't blurry or too light. And also the base colors are color accurate here.

Base is a gradient of Golden Rose Paris Magic color 327 & 328. All stamped with Konad SN black.
Thumb: head M27, body H11, wing BM314, fire out of his mouth H20, sort of castle wall XL B.
Index: dragon fire BM12, sort of castle wall XL B.
Middle finger: head and body HB016, wing BM314, tail BM305, sort of castle wall XL B.
Ring finger: head M27, body BM15, wing BM314, tail BM305, sort of castle wall XL B.
Pinkie: dragons tail BM305, sort of castle wall XL B.

Here some swatches of the gradient base.

You can see how reflecting and shimmery it was with just a bit of light.

A bit blurry.

With flash it totally got lighter.

Have a nice weekend everyone!

xoxox

Sea nails on P2 Deep Water Love ♥

Some of you will remember my Under the Sea nails that I made last year, this year I also really wanted to make sea nails again :) So I did. I want to cut my nails but left them long for this creation :) Long means more room for fishies ;)

P2 currently has a LE called Deep Water Love, there are 4 gorgeous nail polish colors, a dark purple, a light pink, a sea blue and a green turquoise. I got the last 2 from my boyfriend a couple of weeks ago, the pink one was sold out and I thought the purple was something I already have. The green one called 020 Green Lagoon I used as a base for this.

Base P2 Who Cares? and P2 LE Deep Water Love 020 Green Lagoon (this is really sheer so I needed something underneath it)  It's a bit more greener in real life see the swatch and photo without flash. It's a color that my camera really couldn't capture the right way.

What did I used for this:

Polishes for stamping and coloring: Konad PSN blue pearl, PSN jungle green, SN black pearl, SN royal blue, SN green, SN brown, SN pastel blue, SN white, SN red, SN yellow. Colorama Artística Azul royal and Verde palmeira. Konad silver glitter striper. CG Sun Worshipper and Nfu Oh 65. Stripers from Flormar NA08, NA04 and NA02.

Imageplates: Konad M21, M27, M34, M35 and H29, H20, H19, H10 and HB16, HB46 and GCOCL B01, and Essence plates and BM12.

I'm no star in coloring the images, but I'm happy with the result, from a distance people can't see I colored outside the lines a bit ;)

Photo without flash, here you can see the base color better.

With flash under artificial light.

With flash.

Ofcourse I also wanted to make some sort of matching toes again :)

On my toes just some bubbles and on my big toe also some fishes.

Here a swatch of P2 Deep Water love 020 Green Lagoon (over P2 Who Cares?)

Like I said this really is a difficult color so I only have one photo, on this the color is most accurate.

I just love summer and sea nails ♥

Have a nice weekend!

xoxox

China Glaze DV8 with "sea theme" nail art

In my next blog you saw the swatches of this gorgeous polish, now let's show the nail art. I love the sea, beach, fishes, dolphins, seahorses...so every year I make a creation or two with this theme. A couple of them you have already seen in previous blogs. For this creation I was inspired by a creation from Glammed Up and I made this for the song Challenge on Polish Hoarder Disorder. I didn't had a blog back then. The song I chose was Disney's Under the Sea of the Little Mermaid :) This is from August 2010.

Photo with flash. The base is China Glaze DV8 and I used a lot for the nail art. On my ring finger a self made decal of a turtle with some big green glitter on top of it. The stamping plates I used are Konad M16, M21, M23, M27, M35, M76, Konad Coraline plate C05, GCOCL plates B01 and C01, Essence plates and some Bundle Monster plates BM03, BM04, BM08, BM09, BM12.

For the stamping and coloring I used Konad  SN black, white, red, green, pastel blue, jungle green, psyche pink, China Glaze Up all Night, Emerald Sparkle, Yellow Polkadot Bikini, Color Club What a Shock and Golden Rose Holographic color 111.

I also used the Konad gold and silver glitter striper to color the seahorse and anchor.

Photo without flash, here you can see the glitter better.

Ofcourse I also wanted to match my feet :) because it was Summer.

I just stamped some light blue bubbles and a water decal of the turtle from Finding Nemo on my big toe.

Some people were curious if my right hand looked about the same as my left so here a photo of my right hand.

Somehow I always hold my right hand weird while taking a picture with my left hahaha :)

Under the sea
Under the sea
Darling it's better
Down where it's wetter
Take it from me
Up on the shore they work all day
Out in the sun they slave away
While we devotin'
Full time to floatin'
Under the sea

This song makes me really happy :) also the Dutch version of it!