Valentines Day 2016: Love is in the Air

Hi Everyone,

Here another Valentines Day mani I did this week for a contest from Messy Mansion on IG.

Base Catherine Arley stamped with BPS black, BPS dark/wine red, MdU 25 and 55. Plates are Messy Mansion MM03 (love couple, words and hearts) and MM24 (fulll nail writing). Again inspired by a mani I've done in 2014.

Thanks for reading.

xoxox

Sorry for not blogging much...

Hi Everyone,

I am so sorry for not blogging for a while, I have been so busy at home. Painting the outside wood work, new roof gutters and now we are getting a new bathroom and toilet. So I have been living in a mess for a while...and it is not over yet. But the end will be great I hope.

I haven't even posted all my Halloween mani's that I did but I guess I'll just post them all now. I have been doing my nails once or maybe twice a week so still plenty to show you all.

Halloween 2015 scenery. 

A bright gradient base with China Glaze Neon & On & On, China Glaze That's Shore Bright and Color Club Pucci-licious. Everything on my nals is stamped with MoYou Nails 304 plate. Stamped and colored using Konad and Mdu polishes.

Blood drips.

Catherine Arley 806 as a base, stamped the blood drips with MdU Reddish and the skull with Konad White. Both images are from Nailways Monsters- Halloween plate.

Candy and cute ghost.

A gradient with Nailways 132 Spiked and 133 Ponytail stamped with Konad black and BM306 and the cute little Trick or Treating ghost is from Stampaholics ST02.

Gothic graveyard.

 When I thought of this theme the colors red and black popped in my head :)  So I did a red and black gradient base using China Glaze Cranberry Splash and Catherine Arley 805. Stamped with BM13 the bat and crosses, BM409 the creepy trees, BM413 the skeleton, BM H07 the skull and BM224 the creepy house next to the graveyard. Freehanded the moon, the small crosses and all the tiny eyes.

Witch slime.

Just something quick and easy.  Base Barry M 299 Racing Green. Stamped with MdU Avocado and FUN20 and the little witch is from Bunny Nails HD-D. Happy I got to borrow my sis her Bunny plates again.

I promise to post more often.

Thanks for reading.

xoxox

Halloween 2015: Ghosts

Hi Everyone,

I haven't posted for a while since I was on vacation for a few weeks. And when we came back I busy dealing with stuff at home, not so fun stuff (loosing 2 pets).

But I'll promise to post more and if you follow me on instagram you can see a lot of posts there :)

The last day of my vacation I broke my nail from my middle finger, so I decided to make them all short (not as short cause that is a little sore) but as short as they can without bleeding or hurting ;)

Meet my new shorties.

A gradient base with China Glaze When Stars Collide and Catherine Arley 806, shadow stamped the ghosts and bats with Konad white and black and also mirror stamped one ghost using BM213 and BM223. Colored the eyes with MdU Avocado.

Here also a picture of just the gradient...it looked more orange in real life.

Some pictures like these I took with my phone instead of camera so you might see different kinds of watermarks ;)

Thanks for reading!

xoxox

Freehand: Beach scenery

Hi Everyone,

Here my 3rd attempt at a freehand mani...a Sunset beach scenery. With islands, palm trees, dolphins, a hammock, a boat etc. I did these about 3 months ago.

For the gradient base I used a blue, yellow, orange, pink and purple holo from Teeez and Catherine Arley. And painted with acrylic paint.

And here the gradient base.

For these kind of sceneries I'll stick to stamping  lol...a bit of fail with the messy palm trees and all, but I did like the base ;) 

Thanks for reading!

xoxox

Happy Chinese New Year

Happy Chinese New Year. 

This was another mani I did for Chinese New Year.

 Base a gradient with BK 18 (golden holo) and Catherine Arley 800 (red holo) stamped with Konad SN black and SN wine red and Bundle Monster BM-H15, the lucky cat face is from Konad S9.

And another picture.

And here the gradient gold and red holo base.

Have a great weekend!

Thanks for reading.

xoxox

My final Halloween mani...a spooky scenery

Hi Everyone,

I have to show you my final Halloween mani. This was also the one I liked best :) (I did also really loved my 3d mummies and the ripped open zebra and bloody nails but those were not really wearable ;)) As you know I love doing sceneries it is one of my favorite stamping styles. I've done Halloween sceneries in the past too will show those too below.

Base Catherine Arley 801, Different Dimension gnarly, Nubar Reclaim and NailNation No Elfing Around. Used HB28 for the small cat, pumpkin, witch ghost (index). Stampaholics ST02 for the men hanging in the tree and the small cemetery on my pinkie. Nailways Darker Period- Halloween for "The Death" on my index finger. Bunny Nails HD-C for the bat on my pinkie and the house on my thumb. HD-D for the cemetery on my ring finger, the small trees, small bats and the ghosts on my thumb. So Happy I got to borrow my sis her Bunny plates :)

Here the sceneries from the past years :) Which one is your favorite? 2012, 2013 or 2014?

Thank you all for reading. Hope you all like my 20+ Halloween mani's. I think I did more then 20 last month 18 for the challenge from BM and like 3 others haha.

xoxox

Halloween scenery

Hello Hello,

And another Halloween mani I did for the BM challenge. The theme that day was orange and black.

Gradient orange and black holo base with Catherine Arley 806 (orange) and 805 (black). Stamped the devil from BM305, the spiderweb on the tips of my pinkie and middle finger from BM13, also from BM13 the cross, the skull is from BM-H07, the sort of creepy trees from BM224 and also the house from that plate, the pumpkins from BM-H06 and the bats from BM-H08. Dotted the images with a bright orange neon China Glaze Sunworshiper.

Another picture.

And here just a picture of the gradient base.

Thanks for reading!

xoxox

Terschelling, World Cup and Oerol festival

Hi Everyone,

As many of you know I love going to Terschelling, one of the Dutch Wadden Island. I love the nature and feeling there, it always feels like home when I am there. We used to go there when we were little too. Every in June there is the Oerol festival there, this means music, theater, plays etc. There are sooo many people on the island and and it is always fun. This year we are also there and just like other years I wanted to do a Terschelling scenery but the World Cup is also now and I also always love to do something for that too....so I combined those things...

Terschelling is turning orange for the World Cup during the Oerol festival...with soccer balls all over the island and a beautiful orange sunset sky ;)

Holo base using many holo's from Golden Rose Paris, DA, Catherine Arley, Nail Nation. Self made water decals of the seagull on the pole, the seals, seagull, the lighthouse Brandaris, the flag from Terschelling, the Oerol logo, the boat. Painted the back white on some decals to make them pop. And stamped the soccer balls from Moyou Tourist 14 and Konad M49 first in white then colored them and stamped over the in black, stamped the green grass from Konad M66 and M29, and the flying seagulls are from Stampaholis ST01. Using Konad SN black, green and white.

Another picture with different light.

Also did a pedi ofcourse. Base Impala Tech with Hits Demeter (both Brazilian brands so hopefully they will bring us luck in Brazil ;)) The soccer balls from Konad M49 and self made water decals from the Terschelling flag and Oerol logo.

And my hand with my toes together. A bumped my toe while it was still wet so the ball is not round anymore haha, tried to fix it.

I usually also post some pictures of our vacation there. But I will do that in another post since I planned this post, and I haven't been on the computer since my vacation so those pictures aren't on the computer yet.

Thanks for reading.

xoxox

Born to be wiiiiild....

"Get your motor runnin' 

Head out on the highway

Looking for adventure 

In whatever comes our way"  

I did these about a week ago. When I was making theme this song got stuck in me head :)

Base Catherine Arley 805, stamped with Konad SN yellow the big flames from Moyou Roxy 01 and the smaller flames from Moyou Biker 08 (then stamped over it with gradient flames with Konad SN yellow, SN pastel orange and SN red). The Route 66 sign is from Moyou Biker 08 too and the motors are from Moyou Back to the 60's 01 both stamped with Konad SN white.

Just a short post today :) Hope you all have a lovely weekend!

xoxox

Grey and red holo gradient with pumpkins...ST02 plate :)

Hi everyone,

In my previous post I showed you the new StampAholics plate ST02 :) Like I said I already made a couple of mani's with it. Today a mani I've made after I cut my nails :)

Base a gradient with Catherine Arley 800 and Color Club Revvvolution. Stamped with Konad SN black and the full nail image from ST02.

Another pic.

And a picture of the gradient base without the stamping.

Again a scanned picture of the entire ST02 plate.

More info see my previous post ;)

Thanks for reading :) I still have many more Halloween mani's to show you :)

xoxox

Soft Kitty on a flocking powder gradient

Hi Everyone,

Sorry for not blogging for a while but I really felt bad, feel a bit better now. So I did my nails today. Jen's nails files had a great and fun contest on her page, you had to do a mani inspired by the name of a Darling Diva polish. I am not in the US so I thought I could not enter, but to have a US address was fine too, and I have some US nail friends. So I decided to enter anyway also for the fun, cause when I was searching DDP names I had sooo many ideas, I decided to chose "Soft Kitty" for my mani. 

So here are my Soft Kitty nails, I made Kitty really feel soft by stamping here over my flocking powder /velvet gradient. Making a flocking powder gradient was something new for me too, but it was fun to do. The rest of my nails have a trail of kitty paws or bigger kitty paws on them.

3 colors of flocking powder (light pink, lilac, purple) for my flocking powder gradient on my ring finger, 3 colors for my holo gradient on the rest (Catherine Arley 670, China Glaze IDK, Catherine Arley 673) stamped with Konad SN black and GCOCL A02, Essence plate and HB37).

Another picture of my hand.

And some pics of the holo and flocking powder gradient.

I love how soft flocking powder feels :)

Here the polishes and flocking powder I've used for this mani.

Thanks for reading.

xoxox 

Playing with holo's and tape :)

Hi Everyone,

Today I have a non stamping mani for you, I know that is really rare for me ;) Cause I always stamp or combine things with stamping ;) But this one really is without any stamping...LOL.I did them earlier this week .

The base are 4 holo colors from Catherine Arley (purple 673, yellow 801, red 800 and orange 806) placed in a different pattern of stripes /dots on each finger, added parts of striping tape in different patterns too, then added a layer of a black holo Catherine Arley 805 and removed the striping tape again :)

And some more pictures of it.

 I really like playing with striping tape, this is only my 2nd time using it, but I love it :)

Later I've made them matte with Essie matte about you topcoat. 

And both shiny and matte together.

Shiny vs matte? Which do you like better?

Have a nice weekend!

xoxox

Fuzzy Chicks

Hi Everyone,

These were my real Easter nails, I know they are very simply but I had promised my sister to make fuzzy chicks :) She wanted to pet them (was curious how flocking powder felt like). And I don't like flocking powder on all my nails so I deciced to make an accent nail and keep the rest simple.

Base a gradient with Catherine Arley 801 and 806, added flocking powder on my ring finger, made the face with a dotting tool using Konad SN polishes and stamped his hair with Konad M29 (part of the pineapple).

And another picture.

Thanks for reading :)

xoxox

Hugs, Kisses and Red Roses

Hi Everyone,

I am still not better, but I wanted to show you my nails from last week. (I still have this on my nails right now ;)) Last week I wasn't feel well either so I decided to go for a holo polish again, because they dry really fast :) plus I wanted to use some of my new plates. 

It is almost Valentine's Day, so I guess this can also be a V-day mani :)

Base Catherine Arley 671 (beautiful grey/silver holo with a blue glow over it), stamped with Nailways Spring Time plate A-NW00007 Love is in the Air, using Konad SN white, SN red and SN green.

Another picture, you see a bit of the blue glow in the base polish.

And some swatches of this base polish. I love Catherine Arley holo's :)

I really want to feel well again, I have so many V-day mani ideas ;)

Thanks for reading.

xoxox

Holo, dots and flowers from 2011

Hi everyone,

Today I'll show you something I've made in 2011 during my blogging break.

Something really strange is going on, I can't add pictures to my post. The section where you can normally browse and select a picture from your computer is gone, I do see it sometimes but before I can click it's gone again. So luckily I had these pictures already online somewhere so I added them that way.

Does anyone else has this problem?

Base Catherine Arley 802 a pretty holo. Stamped with XL plate B and Konad SN white. And some flower decals (these are not self made).

Also a picture of just the stamping.

Of course also some swatches, I really like Catherine Arley holo polishes.

Thanks for readings.

xoxox