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woensdag 14 november 2012

Greece 2012: Caretta Caretta sea turtles

Hi everyone,
 
I still haven't showed all my creations from my vacation last month to Greece. So lets go back to the Summer instead of Fall and rain :) Today I'll show you my Caretta Caretta nails, I made those in my 2nd week on Zakynthos. The Caretta Caretta turles are an endangered spieces and one of the places they live and where they lay their eggs is Zakynthos. Many beaches there are protected because of all the nesting places.
 

This is again a post with lotsss of pictures :) From my nails with beautiful backgrounds, but also some holiday pics and pics of real Caretta Caretta's that I saw there...they are sooo sweet and big :) The local people really loved my turtle nails :) And I was joking that I could offer to make turtles on customers from touring agencies who organize turtle spotting trips...like book now a turtle trip and get turtle nail art for 5 euros or something :) ....oh wow really doing something like that in the main season will be a gold mine ;) and sooo much fun :) A girl can dream right? ;)
 
Let's start with a pretty blue ocean picture :) In the back you see "Turtle Island" it is called that way because it is shaped like a turtle and also the beach there is one of the nesting beaches.
 
The base is a lime yellow holo franken made with many polishes and Spectraflair. Stamped with Konad SN green and imageplate HB016, the bubbles are from H20. The word Caretta Caretta are self made water decals.
 
 The view from our balcony.
 
 In Zante town harbour.
 
Of course I had to make a matching pedi. The word Zakynthos is also a self made water decal, the turtle is from HB016 and the turtle shells are from BM313.
 
 Turtle island in the back..it really does look like a turtle :)
 
My thumb.
 
 A view from above.
 
 Enjoying the pretty blue water :)
 
The decals aren't that pretty anymore (had it on my nails for a week ;)) but this was during a boat trip to spot the Caretta Caretta's unfortunatelly we did not see any during this trip, so I took a pic of my hand above the gorgeous blue water.
 
 My turtles swimming under water ;)
 
Of course some swatches of my lime yellow franken. I really don't know what polishes I used but they were a lot ;)
 
In the sun.
 
Some holiday pictures.
 
 Dave and I with Turtle Island in the back....pfff it was soooo hot that day.
 
 Cooling down in the shadow with some water sitting on the rocks watching the ocean.
 
 Walking to a rocky beach with Turtle Island and my dad in the back ;)
 
 One of the many churches.
 
 I am on the top of the world...uhh brigde ;)
 
My own cave man climbing the white rocks...these were really weird and broke very easily. It looked like salt with sand or something.
 
 Some more turtle sand "castles" that I made haha lol :)
 
 From the boat, there are a lot of caves around the island.
 
We stoppped here for a swimming stop.
 
 Dave and I on the turtle trip boat.
 
 During sunset and the moon is rising above the mountain.
 
Feeding the cats and kitties on our balcony in the evening after a beach day.
 
Early in the morning in Agios Sostis harbour to visit Cameo Island and the Caretta Caretta that is spotted around the harbour/island every morning.
 
 There she is....isn't she cute? And really big about 80 cm.
 
 Look at those eyes <3
 
Having a drink with my dad (and Dave but he took the pic) at Cameo Island.
 
The view from Cameo Island with Turtle Island in the back.
 
 Enjoying my ice cold peachy ice tea.
 
The wooden bridge to Cameo Island, which had 2 bars one on top (where you can spot the turtles) and one at the beach on the other side. And in the main season there are lots of parties there.

Thank you al for watching/reading :) Hope you liked this post about the Caretta Caretta, the Greek island Zakynthos and a peek in my holiday pics too ;)
 
xoxox
 
 
 

vrijdag 27 juli 2012

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