At Christmas time, we let in light and we banish shade

Hi Everyone,

Somehow these lyrics from the Band Aid song came to mind. As most of you know I do not like Christmas anymore cause my mom died on Christmas, but I'll try to make the best of it make new fun memories. I know a lot of people all over the world have a hard time during Christmas.

I thought let's show a fun happy Christmas scene today with Santa, a snowmen, reindeer and a cute cabin by the frozen lake. You all know I like doing scenery nail art. Since a few days I entered the world called Instagram if you want to follow me you can @dianavnisselroy my phone is too old for IG but luckily we now have a tab so I could install it there. Feel free to comment with your IG name so I can follow you. It is all new to be and still have to get used to it. On IG there is this fun contest hosted by ChitChatNails, I wanted to join too I did like 3 designs and could not choose which I wanted to enter...always so insecure haha. But I decided to go with this one...even though I like my birds mani and 3D Rudolph (still have to post that one).

Base Lime Crime Once in a Blue Mousse with a layer of Maybeline New York MNY 109A for blue shimmer. Used Sinful Colors Nail Polish Snow me White and Essence I feel gritty for the snow. Snowflakes and reindeer are from Born Pretty BP-01, big trees are from Winstonia Store W222, small trees from HBNails HB33, house from Born Pretty QA19. snowman from MoYou London Christmas 01 and Santa is from XL plate L from Cheeky.

And another picture.

And my picture for the contest with the paper in my hand.

I still have to get used to pics having to be square on IG so that is why there is this border ;)

Make sure to check out all the amazing entries in this super fun contest.

I am happy I now entered the IG world haha so please leave your IG in the comments.

Thanks for reading!

xoxox

Christmas Angels... in loving memory of my Mom ♥

Hi Everyone, 

Hope you all have a lovely Christmas with all your loved ones. As you all may remember I’ve lost my mom on 2nd Christmas Day 2011. So that is exactly 2 years ago today. Just like last year I wanted to do something special for her, to honor her. And just because I miss her. This way she is kinda with me/us on my nails (lol I know that probably sounds stupid ;) but I like doing something special).  

I chose to do Angels (or Cherubs or how you want to call them ;)) Cause my mommy is an angel and hope she is looking down from Heaven.  

A nude base from P2 680 glamour. On top of that a white/gold shimmer polish from a really old LE from Catrice called African Beauty C01 Savanna Lodge. Stamped twinkle golden holo stars with China Glaze GR8 and Moyou Festive (aka Christmas) 01. Made stamping decals from the Angels from Moyou Artist 10 and also from the heart on that plate (removed the arrow). Colored the angels with a  Konad stamping polish mix I’ve made and China Glaze GR8 (also used that to color the heart). Stamped gold and black stars from Moyou Festive (aka Christmas) 01 using China Glaze 2030 and Konad SN black. Stamped the word Mom in the heart from Moyou Biker 08 with Konad SN black.

Here another picture of my nails with different lighting.  

The images are pretty big so they’ve lost most of their wings ;) wish Moyou made these a little smaller, my nails aren’t that width. But I do really like this mani ♥ 

Also a picture of just the base with the holo twinkle stars.  

Thanks for reading.

Wishing you all a wonderful day ♥

Big Christmas hugs  

xoxox

Christmas tree with decorations

Hi everyone :)

The theme of the 2nd week of the Nail Polish Canada Holiday challenge is: Decorations :)  So I made a Christmas tree and decorations for in the tree :) The ring finger is the tree and the rest are close-ups from parts of the tree ;)  

Base Nubar Reclaim and Different Dimensions Gnarly. Made a stamping decal of the tree from Moyou Festive (aka Christmas) 01, colored the tree with Nubar Reclaim and stamped all the litte ornaments separately on top of that. Stamped the red bow with BM317, the black strings stamped with part of the santa sleigh with reindeer Moyou festive 01, the blue/silver ball, the snowman, the gingerbread and the candy are from Nailways Snowwhite-Christmas A-NW00002 plate. Made little stamping decals of those. And dotted the yellow garland.  Colors used for stamping and coloring: Nubar Reclaim, Konad SN black, SN white, SN red, SN yellow, SN sky pearl, SN dark orange and a mini Color Club silver (don't know the name).

And here a pic of just the ring finger stamped, I also liked this look but since the theme is decorations I thought let's go a little more crazy on the rest of my nails too ;)

You can all still join :) Like I said last week I just join for the fun cause I believe since I am not in the US or Canada I am not eligible for the prizes. You can see all the entries on their site (see link above) and vote for your favorite. If that happen to be mine, thanks :)

Have a nice weekend!

xoxox

A Fairytale ♥

Hi Everyone,

When I saw some of the Moyou plates this Summer I knew I wanted to make certain mani's with them. One of them was the cherry blossom with owls I showed you some months ago. Another one was the mani I'll show you today :) I just had to have this plate to do this mani. But somehow I waited a few month to actually do it hahaha. I did these last week. And was happy with how they turned out. The challenge last Sunday in AIS was I am in the mood for....well I was in the mood for fairytales and happy endings ;) When I posted this mani friday in another nail group I also wrote a little story with them. Someone once said on one of my mani's it reminded her of  children books illustrations :), so was a bit crazy and thought let's write the story too haha. It is the story on my nails:

It is a beautiful starry night in WONvillage*. The moon is full and 1000 of stars shine bright. The fairy is watching over the castle and keeps an eye on the princess when the king and queen leave in their carriage with horses. The evil witch is already on her way to the castle to kidnap the princess but pegasus makes sure she won't come closer :)  So the princess will get a goodnight sleep and she will never know of the danger lurking outside the castle walls. Cause her magical friends will protect her <3 

*WON is the name of the group

Gradient with Color Club Puccilicious, Hits Frapê 416 and Hits Edicao Limitada 205. China Glaze Fairy Dust on top. Stamped with Konad SN black and Moyou London Princess 07 (fairy, castle, carriage, horses, witch) And Moyou Princess 04 (pegasus). Stamped the stars with Konad SN pastel yellow and Moyou Princess 07. Twinkle stars with Color Club Worth the Risque and Moyou Festive (aka Christmas) 01 but those aren't showing very well on the pic. Also stamped the rein (?) from the carriage and the horses with parts of the necklace image on Princess 07.

Some more picture of the mani.

I went swimming this weekend and in the pool you can dive and see aquaria undewater, so I had to take a pic of my nails too (love playing with our underwater camera). Too bad the fishes wouldn't show up while I took the pics ;)

 In the right corner you can see a yellow fish.

Here a better pic of the fishes.

And a picture of just the gradient base.

Thanks for reading.

xoxox