Penguins at the beach :)

Hi Everyone,

Last week the challenge in one of the groups was penguin nails, since the weather is really warm here I also wanted to do something for the Summer. The theme at the Nail Polish Canada challenge is also Summer. So I've send these in there. You can see all the fun summer mani's and vote by clicking the link.

As most of you know by now I love making scenery/landscape nails and I often also write a story with the mani haha.  Fab Ur Nails and I sometimes do story nails together and we talked about doing them again with this theme too. But later so many others joined too it was so fun. 

First my part of the story:

 “Tropical Holiday” 

Once upon a time there was this cute little penguin girl her name was Sara. Sara did not liked living in Antarctica and wanted a new adventure, so she decided to go on holiday to some place warm. During her holiday she often went to the beach, lying there with a beautiful view on the lighthouse. Swimming in the ocean, cuddling the starfish, making sandcastles, playing with the beach ball and her kite. One day something amazing happened and she saw this super hot penguin "beach" guy.... He noticed her too and it was love at first sight <3  

Base Sinful Colors Snow me White, sponged with OPI Sand in my suit, P2 Blue's time and P2 Who cares? Added some white for the waves. The rest is all stamped. Lighthouse and starfish are from Moyou Sailor 01, palm trees, sandcastle, sun, kite, beach ball are from Nailways Vive la Vie- Beach baby, birds from Stampaholics ST01 and the penguins from FUN8, the flower is Konad M32. 

Like I said we started thinking it was just us 2 so here also the pic of my mani and Johanne aka Fab Ur Nails her mani. Her episode was at the beach in the evening. But I'll paste the complete story below :) Since a few other chapters were added between ours.

Like I said more people joined so I wrote the rest of the storiy too and paste it all together.

 The complete story:

“Tropical Holiday”

Once upon a time there was this cute little penguin girl her name was Sara. Sara did not liked living in Antarctica and wanted a new adventure, so she decided to go on holiday to some place warm. During her holiday she often went to the beach, lying there with a beautiful view on the lighthouse. Swimming in the ocean, cuddling the starfish, making sandcastles, playing with the beach ball and her kite. One day something amazing happened and she saw this super hot penguin "beach" guy.... He noticed her too and it was love at first sight <3 (mani made by Diana van Nisselroy)

“Taking a Swim” 

Sara went for a walk on the beach and visited a great beach shop where she bought a new bikini. She wanted to look at her best for the beach guy. She immediately put it on and it looked so good  on her. After her swim in the ocean she walked around the beach collecting beautiful shells. But her mind was still at the hot guy she saw earlier. (mani made by Laurie Nievin)

“Catch a Wave” 

The beach guy saw this super cute girl on the beach, but later she was gone and he decided to grab his board and catch some waves. During the sunset the sky turned this amazing orange color but all he could think about was that girl and hoping he would  could see her again. (mani made by Notty Norma)

"Magic of Moonlight" 

After the long day and full of fun in the beach Sara was a little shy and believe it or not the hot beach guy was shy too. He thought she was soo beautiful he just did not had the guts to talk to her. When the night fell he finally talked to her. Sara found out his name was James They enjoyed a romantic evening at the beach under the full moon. Listening in the smooth breeze of the sea.. On that romantic evening the penguin love story started .(mani made by Johanne DG aka Fab Ur Nails) 

 “Going tthe Jungle” 

Sara and James were completely in love, both never expected they would find love outside Antarctica. They decided to go the jungle together. That was such a great adventure, seeing purple monkeys, a big frog and a beautiful tiger. They also saw this cute Toucan bird hiding in the bushes. It was such a great day. (mani made by Pamela Feader)  

“Visiting the Pyramids” 

Their journey did not end in the jungle, cause they also went to Egypt to visit the pyramids. The tropical holiday was really warm for a penguin, both compared to the heat in the desert that was nothing. They were extremely hot, but luckily they found a nice oasis. So they could cool down. From the oasis they had a beautiful view on the pyramids. After they cooled down they also went on a camel ride through the desert back to the hotel. (mani made by Sara Sue Sams) 

Is this where to story ends or will there be more chapters? 

After this more people did an episode of the penguin story. I will post the rest someday too ;)

Thanks for reading and if you like you can vote or/and still entered the Nail Polish Canada challenge too.

xoxox

Under the Sea 2014

Hi Everyone,

The weather here is very warm, so for this weekend I had to do a fun Summer mani. I did a Under the Sea themed mani again :) (I do at least one under the sea mani once a year). I went to the beach saturday and my Under the Sea hands and feet had fun swimming in the ocean :)

Subtle gradient base with China Glaze Turned Up Turquoise, China Glaze Towel Boy Toy and China Glaze Splish Splash (over Sinful Colors Snow me white).

All stamped with Moyou Sailor 01 and Sailor 08.Stamped some seaweed, plants, coral. First stamped the pearl shell in white then colored it white and stamped over it with black and added a pearl rhinestone in the middle. Stamped the jelly fish in black colored it pink and stamped the top again with black. The starfish is stamped in white and over it stamped again with the peachy color. The crab is stamped in white too, but colored that with a little brush and red and dotted some eyes. The pufferfish is stamped in yellow colored it yellow and stamped over it with black. The shell and anker just stamped in white. And at the end stamped some light blue and white bubbles. All done using Konad stamping polishes and some mixes of those.

As you know I love doing matching pedi's (especially in the Summer) so here are my toesies :)

A subtle gradient with China Glaze Towel Boy Toy and China Glaze Splish Splash. Made a stamping decal of the octopus from Moyou Sailor 08 for my big toes. And stamped the same bubbles on the rest of my toes.

Thought some might also like to see my other hand. I always try to make it match but taking a normal pic from that hand is hard :P 

And a picture of both hand and foot together.

Thanks for reading!

xoxox

World Turtle Day....hatching turtle eggs

 Hi Everyone,

Today is World Turtle Day :) I did not even knew there was such a thing, but now I do. Thanks to Nailpolis. They have a World Turtle Day challenge there (so many super cute and beautiful mani's). As some of you may remember about 1,5 years ago I went to Zakynthos on holiday. Zakynthos is a Greek island well known for the "Caretta Caretta" turtle (also known for partying but that was the reason I was there haha) There are many hatching beaches there. During our vacation we learned a lot more about these turtles and even got to see them swimming in the ocean. You can see all the turtle manis and my holiday pics in previous blogposts (search Greece + turtle). I still haven't blogged about one of the 3 turtle mani's I did back then (told you still soo many mani's to show LOL) I did share all my previous turtle manis in the Nailpolis challenge, but ofcourse I also wanted to do a new turtle mani.

I think turtles are amazing animals. So I did a mani with little baby turtles hatching from their eggs finding their way into the big blue ocean. One little guy already made it (middle finger) and is under water :) From all the eggs that actually hatch only a few make it into the ocean. And even if they make it, their chances of survival aren't that big either. Poor little baby turtles. 

I've been wanting to do this mani ever since I got my Stampaholics ST01 plate..now almost a year later I finally did it for this challenge :)  

I used a nude with golden shimmer from Catrice (very old can't see the name anymore) for the beach. Sponged with Konad pastel blue over it and white in between the water and the sand. Sponged over the pastel blue with a shimmery blue from Catrice C02 Never green before to give it more of a water effect with the shimmer and some places a little darker.  

Used Konad SN white to stamp the broken/ hatching eggs made with parts of Nailways Spring Time Easter Bunny plate A-NW00006. The shells in the water and on the beach are from HB46 (colored over them with Kleancolor Metallic white for the shimmer pearly shell effect. And ofcourse the dark green (Konad black mixed with moss green) cute little baby turtles are from Stampaholics ST01 plate <3  I freehanded the little starfishes with a self made coral stamping polish :)  

I was a little inspired by my nail friend Aasta her beach mani she gave me the idea to sponge white between the ocean and the sand.

I took some more pictures in different light.

I know not everbody likes these sceneries on their nails, but I do and I just enjoy making them. 

ST01 is also still one of my favorite plates, if I am correct she will be expecting new stock and her fourth ST04 plate next month.

Happy World Turtle Day and have a nice weekend.

Thanks for reading :)

xoxo

Doekie...the seal

Hi Everyone,

Last weekend we went to Vlieland (a Dutch Wadden Island) for a day. I had some day trip tickets. As you may know I love Terschelling (other island) and we often go there, so with these tickets we decided to go the a other island. I have been there when I was a little girl, but could not remember anything from it. It was a beautiful Spring day and we enjoyed the nature and silence, had fun biking/walking on the island.

I really wanted to do the logo from the boat company on my nails. It is Doekie the seal...always loved him ever since I was a little girl.

Base Catrrice Luxury Lacquers LE C02 Mailiblue (sand polish) and on my index a white P2 Ship Ahoi! 01 Pure white. Stamped the French tip with Konad M56 and P2 Gigantic. The rest is stamped with Konad White and Moyou Sailor 07. And a self made water decal of the seal “Doekie” it is the logo from a boat company .

And some more pictures with the logo or the beach scenery on Vlieland.

And a collage from Doekie :)

And some nature pictures of Vlieland :)

Thanks for reading/watching.

Have a lovely day :)

xoxox

Sunset Julie G texture gradient with beach stamping

Hi Everyone,

I've made these nails a few weeks ago. Cristina from The Clockwise Nail Polish asked me if I wanted to write a guest blog for her blog. And of course I wanted to do that, I felt so honored she asked me :) I love her blog and her nails. This mani is currently on her blog. So I thought let's share it here today too :)

I had to use my new Stampaholics plate, it's one of my favorite plates. This plate totally screams "ME" haha I just had to have it. I also wanted to use my new polishes I got in a RAOK from the sweet Christina (not Cristina those are 2 different ladies both very sweet tho ;))

Sunset Julie G texture gradient with beach stamping I made a sea/sunset gradient with 5 textured polishes from Julie G. Frosted Gumdrop collection. I used Hot Cinnamon, Sugar Rush, Tangerine Dream, Rock Candy and Blueberry Fizz. Stamped with Konad SN black and imageplate Stampaholics ST01. I also stamped with Konad SN white. And some images I colored and stamped over them again in a different color. I used a topcoat over it all.  

I also try to mirror my right hand (not like really mirror stamping but trying to place the images different). That doesn't always work with every image, but here is my right hand too. (I suck at taking pics with left so don’t mind the weird position of my fingers hahaha).

 

Also some picture without a topcoat over the stamping. First my left hand again. 

And  my right (bad picture) hand too ;)

And ofcourse some swatches of the gradient textured base.

 This is without topcoat.

And here with topcoat.

If you like you can read my guestblog on The Clockwise Nail Polish here and of course follow Cristina her amazing blog. 

If you also like this amazing ST01 Stampaholics plate you can ordered it here on the facebook page. She only has one plate so far, but I think it's amazing and can't wait to see what else she might make in the future.

Thank you all for reading!

xoxox

Summer neon gradient: Turn Up The Beach

Hi Everyone,

Sorry for not blogging for a while but I haven't felt like blogging (some bad/sad stuff at home) that keeps me busy. But that doesn't mean I haven't done my nails ;) On Saturday July 13th I went to the Turn Up The Beach music party so of course I had to make some matching beachy nails. And also have some pics of that day :)

A white base and sponged with China Glaze - Sun-Kissed, China Glaze - Orange you Hot?, China Glaze - Surfin' For Boys, Digital Color Cream Make Me Up - F1 and Digital Color Cream Make Me Up - F20. And a holo spectraflair mix topcoat on top. Stamped with Nailways Vive la Vie A-NW00010 Beach Baby and Kleancolor metallic black. And a self made water decal of the logo of Turn Up The Beach.

My nails on the festival with the main stage and the music tower in the back.

Some pictures of the gradient base.

 With different lighting.

Some pictures of our day there, unfortunately 2 friends could not come so we were just with 4 people.

 My boyfriend, me and my big sister.

 Chilling on the ground with our stamped feet and the sun.

 My best friend, my sis, and my boyfriend.

My nails and the Ferris wheel.

 The view from the Ferris wheel on the main stage.

 My sister and I in the Ferris wheel.

 The rest and part of the dunes, beach and sea.

My nails and the main stage from the Ferris wheel.

 The smaller stage and lotsss of people.

 The other stage and all the food and drink tents.

Inside the Ferris wheel.

The see and the sun.

 Main stage at dusk.

With different light shows.

Me and my big sister.

It's getting darker :)

 And some fireworks at the end.

And it was finished.

Of course I also had a matching pedi.

We had a fun day there, it isn't really my kind of music but I always love a nice party at the beach when the weather is good :)

Thanks for reading.

xoxox