Valentines Day 2016: Love Letters

Hi Everyone,

Sorry for not blogging for a while, lots have been going on. But I have been doing my nails ofcourse :) maybe not as much as before. I have a lot to catch up but I'll start with my most recent mani. Will post my older ones later too.

I did these for a Valentines contest on IG and the theme was Love Letters. With on my ring finger a love letter and on the rest of my nails birds delivering the letters, roses and hearts. 

Base Sixteen matte 646 did a saran wrap with Konad white MdU 25 and 55. And on my ringfinger I used a little grey too Catrice C01 Pebble Beach. Stamped with Catrice Rock-O-Co C01 L'Ombre A Sanssouci, BPS black, MdU 55, 8, 32 and Konad white. Plates MoYou London Scholar 02 (writing and feathered pen), Suki 03 (the letters and small hearts), Mother Nature 01 (hearts and birds) and Mother Nature 05 (roses, leaves, branches, birds and fountain).

I later made it matte with China Glaze Magic matte.

I think I liked it better matte what do you think?

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

A beautiful Spring day

Hi Everyone,

Here a mani I've done a few weeks ago for a Spring contest :) Just a short post today, cause did not take more pictures. And it is late so don't feel like typing a lot, but did wanted a new post up before the weekend ;) It does have a bunny in it so it could be the Easter bunny ;) Happy Easter!

A gradient with Lime Crime Pastelchio, Lim Crime Once In a Blue Mousse and China Glaze Too Yacht too handle. Stamped the trees, grass, sun, clouds, fox, deer and bunny with Emily de Molly EdM 07. The flowers and butterfly are from HB32, the dragonfly and jumping frog from the grass are from HB34. Dotted the flowers center and the blossom in the trees. Used Konad polishes for the stamping.

Wish you all a nice Easter weekend!

Thanks for reading.

xoxox

Freehand: Spring Scenery

Hi Everyone,

Last week I did my 4th completely freehand mani. This reminds me I still have to post me 3rd one too. A Spring scenery with trees, flowers, plants, a butterfly, swan, dragonfly and a froggy on a lily leaf. I've done similar sceneries with stamping before and thought lets give it a try with a dotting tool and a brush now :) I like trying new things :) 

Base is Lime crime Once in a Blue Mousse and Lime Crime Pastelchio. Rest done with paint..no sure what kind of paint. But it is old and not that great.

Thanks for reading.

xoxox

A Romance in Paris

Hi everyone,

I did this mani a few weeks ago it is a combination of stamping and freehand.

Base Color Club Worth the Risque, Color Club Fashion Addict and Nubar Absolute. Stamped the lanterns with Fab Ur Nails FUN15, the love couple is from MM03, the eiffel Tower is from Bundle Monster BM419 (used the shrinking method), the trees and love birds are from Emily de Molly EDM07. I freehanded the bridge fences, the little cat on the fence, the red hearts and the bench.

Thanks for reading!

xoxox

Freehand 2nd time: Greece Santorini

Hi Everyone,

Today I'll show you my 2nd attempt at a completely freehanded mani :) Greece...Santorini <3 Inspired by my mom's funeral card (that was a picture she made herself on Santorini..see below)  

All done with cheap bad paint...LOL really need some good acryllic paint one day ^_^ but had fun trying freehand for the 2nd time.

I'd love to go to Santorini someday it was my moms favorite island.

 I still have lots to learn but I was happy with how they turned out.

Another picture with different light.

And here together with my inspiration... my moms funeral card. This was a picture she took herself on Santorini.

Have a nice weekend.

Thanks for reading!

xoxox

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

Giving 2 little girls a mani and pedi

Hi Everyone,

This Summer the granddaughters of my dads girlfriend came to visit me for a mani and pedi. It was right before they went on holiday. The 6 years old girl wanted fairytale style and the 7 years old girl wanted vacation nails with a caravan cause they went on vacation with their own caravan. They had such tiny nails and it was hard for them to sit still, so not the greatest clean up.  But they were happy with them :) And I had so much fun doing their nails. I also did the nails of their grandma.

I used plates from Nailways, Moyou, Stampaholics, Konad, Cheeky etc. Don't remember exactly which ones.   

 They also wanted a nail tip with glow in the dark polish with their names on it and some studs/stones. 

Princess nails.

Vacation nails.

Princess pedi.

Vacation pedi.

Hands and feet together.

Their mani's were inspired my some of my own mani's :)

And the nails of their grandma.

Thanks Myrte, Britt and Ria for the fun day and letting me do your nails.

Thanks for reading.

xoxox

Birds in the snow

Hi Everyone,

Last week I went to Germany...we needed a short break for a few days. We went to Center Parks... a bungalow park. We had a little snow and there was a lot of fog and that froze too, so everything turned white...gorgeous. Before we went I did not know it would be white, but I felt liking doing a winter scenery anyway ;)

Base a gradient with Lime Crime Milky Ways and Once in a Blue Mousse added a little holo glitter from Essence 25 Let Stars Raindown on Me!  Stamped snowflakes from BP-01, the reindeer is also from that plate. Used Emily de Molly EDM07 for the tree, squirrels, birds and white snow owl. And Moyou London Mother Nature (aka Landscape) 03 for the big branches. Dotted the snow on the branches and ground and snowflakes, the berries and animal eyes. Using Konad SN black, brown, red and white.

There was also a tropical swimming pool there and I love swimming so ofcourse I had to do a matching pedi too :)

And some more pictures.

 

See how the trees were frozen.

 And a little snow.

My pedi underwater in the pool :)

And some pics of our trip.

 We had a little bit of snow.

 The park.

 View from our balcony.

 Frozen fog.

Thanks for reading.

For those of you who liked to follow me..since today I have IG @dianavnisselroy my phone can't handly it but I used our tab, so every now and then I can follow you guys too. So feel free to comment your IG here :)

xoxox 

A sunny Autumn day

Hi Everyone,

This was my mani last weekend. I really wanted to do an Autumn/Fall scenery...haven't done one this year yet. And I wanted to use this super cute plate from Emily de Molly.

"It's a beautiful sunny autumn day the sun is about to set and the sky turns into this beautiful orange color. All the animals are coming out to see the sunset and play or find something to eat...the little bunny on my pinkie, the owl and squirrel on my ringfinger, the fox on my middle finger, a deer on my index and the birds and Bambi on my thumb"

All stamped with Emily de Molly EDM07 using Konad stamping polishes and also a dotting tool. The base is a gradient with China Glaze Highlight of my Summer, Too Yacht to Handle and Son of a Peach.

And a picture of my other hand..the hand that doesn't like to be photographed :P 

And another picture.

Here you can see this amazing and cute plate.

Thank you for reading.

xoxox

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

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