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

Heideweek (Heather week)

Hi Everyone,

Been a little busy so haven't blog for a while sorry. This I did a few weeks ago when it was Heideweek (Heather week) Once a year when the flowers blossom there is a week full of activities and live music in my birth town. It is always fun, we like the music the most so I made purple music nails.   

Base Teeez Outta Control 01 stamped with Konad black and Cheeky Jumbo 5 Musical nails and made stamping decals of the guitar and rockin hand used Konad white to color them.

Another picture.

And some swatches

I really love this purple holo polish.

Thanks for reading!

xoxox

Valentine's Day in Paradise

Hi Everyone,

Today another mani I made last weeks. Made these for a Valentine's challenge on Nailpolis. I wanted to do a V-day mani like how I would love to spend my Valentine's Day...somewhere in Paradise, warm, the beach, the ocean hmmm :) A few years ago I did a romantic mani like this, together with stamping and self made water decals see here. It inspired me to do something like this now too, but since I now own love couple plates I made it an all stamping mani (and a little tiny bit of freehand) :)

So I made a romance under the moonlight, with a beautiful (love) boat) an airplane making a heart in the sky and even the dolphins are in love <3

Base 3 holo's from Teeez Cool 02, Smooth 01, Outta Control 01. Stamped with Konad SN black and China Glaze OMG. Using Messy Mansion MM03 (love couple), Stampaholics ST01 (dolphins), Nailways Vive la vie Beach baby (palm trees), Vivid Lacquer VL023 (boat), HB29 (heart in sky) Nailways Vive la vie Vacation (airplane) MoYou Mother Nature 01 (heart above dolphins) and Konad M14 (silver twinkle stars). And a little freehand (moon, islands, waves).

Another picture.

And a picture of just the holo base.

Thanks for reading.

xoxox

Snowflake toes in the snow!

Hi Everyone,

 

I made these nails 2 weeks ago, when we went to a subtropical pool and there was a lot of snow that day here in Holland. Too bad the snow is now gone :( My boyfriend bought us a new camera, one that also can get wet :) So we took it with us to the pool..had soo much fun that day taking crazy pics under water and outside in the snow in our bikini's /swim shorts. The outside pool was very warm and when we climbed out to play in the snow it wasn't even that cold and then jumping in the water was soooo hot. Not going to post my snowy bikini pics here..lol but did made pics of my toes in the outside pool with the snowy trees in the background.

 

Because of the warm water and the outside temperature below zero the pool was very steamy/foggy. Especially when it was dark you couldn't see a thing :) This made the wildwater track even more fun :)

 

Base Teeez Cool (a pretty blue holographic) and stamped with XL plate O (that is a dupe of XL K) with Konad SN white.

 

It was such a nice day.

 

Here a close up of my foot.

 

Thanks for reading.

 

xoxox

Color Club Raspberry Rush with kisses

Hi everyone,

 

Sunday's challenge in Adventures in Stamping FB group was pulsating pink and/or purple. So I decided to make something quick and I wanted to try one of my untried polishes. I chose Color Club Raspberry Rush it smells really sweet. I guess it suppose to smell like raspberry (but I also find it a bit bubble gum like :) I thought of lipstick and kisses that smell like raspberry would be great :)

 

It didn't turned out the way I wanted with the double stamping over eachother, but it was okay for a day ;)

 

 Base Color Club Raspberry Rush, stamped with BM303 first with Konad SN white then over it with Teeez Outta Control. The purpleholo on the white was more noticable in real life.

 

Here also some swatches of Color Club Rasberry Rush. It is always hard to capture bright colors. The first photo is most color accurate.

 

 

 

 

I like smelling my nails :) They smell so sweet now, must be careful that I don't start with my old habit of biting my nails again ;)

 

xoxox

Purple holo with nail art

Today an older simple creation for you all :) I made these nails in August 2011 during my blogging break. I've made them for a festival week that was in the village I live in. It's every year at the end of August when the heather is blossoming and it's called Heideweek (Heather week).

I used Teeez Outta Contral as a base and stamped some plants that looked like heather on them with XL plate F and SN violet pearl.

Ofcourse I like to make matching toes in the Summer :)

Here some swatches of this gorgeous polish.

I also wanted to mention that I got the Versatile Blogger Award from the lovely Emily from Macabre Manicures I believe I already got this award and told 7 things about myself. So I'm not going to pass it again. But I did wanted mention it because every time someone gives me an award I feel so honered ♥ Almost all the blogs I follow already got this award. Be sure to check out Emily's blog Macabre Manicures and check the blogs from the girls she gave the award to. Thanks again Emily :)

Have a nice weekend!

And if you like check my previous blog post and vote for my strawberry nails, you can still vote every day this weekend ;)

xoxox

Inspired by music/song challenge (Bon Jovi)

Today I'll show you my creations I made for the inspired by your favourite music/song challenge. I don't really have one favourite band or music style but I do like these songs for many years now. And my mom also liked Bon Jovi especially the song Bed of Roses.

This is my 1st for this challenge inspired by these lyrics:

  

It's been raining since you left me
Now I'm drowning in the flood
You see I've always been a fighter
But without you I give up.

Bon Jovi - Always

I actually found this one funny... it tells a story ;) But not pretty and I only had this on one hand and went out the door with it, with on my other hand something completely different ;)

It's been raining and the water level is rising on each finger. On my ring finger a girl who's been left by her boyfriend looking sad waving goodbye with a broken heart. And the water level keeps on rising and on my thumb it's at the top. And the girl just gave up looking sad/angry she is drowning in the flood (all the bubbles of her last breath).

Base China Glaze Moody Blue, water sponged with PSN sky blue on top a layer of Maybelline Bolt of blue 140 for the glitter. Rain stamped with Konad SN blue and M13, waves to make it more look like water from H20 (SN pastel blue), broken heart from M18 (made it broken myself) girls from Coraline C02 and C05 (SN black pearl), bubbles from M16, M34 and M35 (SN blue, black pearl).

My 2nd creation was also from a song from Bon Jovi and I did these because it was also one of my moms favourite songs.

I wanna lay you down in a bed of roses
for tonight I'll sleep on a bed of nails
I want to be just as close as, the Holy Ghost is,
and lay you down on a bed of roses.

Bon Jovi - Bed of Roses

These I found a lot prettier ;) and did it on both hands and I'm still wearing it.

Somehow I really love blue and I was in a blue mood so I chose for a blue base again. Base is Teeez Cool 02 a blue holographic polish and on my ring finger Nfu Oh 65 a light blue holo. I stamped some roses from M65 with SN black pearl on them and on my ring finger a love couple (self made water decal) from a guy who'd love to lay his girl on a bed of roses ;) also stamped a blue rose from M25 with SN blue and SN black pearl above them.

I know there is a lot more to the song then just that one sentence, but I only used the Bed of Roses part literally for this creation ;)

I hope you like my music inspired creations :) 

xoxox

Love nails

I had this on my nails on Valentine's Day. Made it really quick and easy because I'm not feeling well have a cold and I'm really snotty :P

Base Essence Can't cheat on me (a bit holographic silver) with a french from Teeez Smooth 01 (holo pink) and some decals (not self made).

Hope you all had a lovely V-day!

xoxox

Romantic night at the beach ♥

I totally love summer themed nails, so I can't get enough of them. I made this creation a couple of weeks ago. For me this is really summer, the beach, ocean, palm trees, islands, romance, sunset, moonlight, stars etc. Can't wait to go on vacation because the weather here in Holland is not that nice ;)

For the base I used a lot of different holographic polishes: China Glaze: DV8, 2NITE, OMG, LOL, IDK, BFF and QT and mixed and layered them all together to create the sky and sea. I also used Teeez holographic Outta Control and Cool to make it more sparkly and gradient. I used Konad M14 for the stars stamped with Nfu Oh 65. With Konad SN black and image plate S2 I stamped the palm trees. The islands I made with a part of HB46. The moon and black beach is freehand. And the love couples are self made water decals.

My hand.

Under different light.

My hand again.

And ofcourse I had to make matching toes :)

My toes are China Glaze 2NITE, DV8, IDK en LOL.On my big toe also a selfmade water decal of a love couple. The rest I stamped with Konad SN black and image plate S2.

I was really happy with these nails and had it on my nails for more than a week :)

Hope you all have a great summer (or other season when you live on the other side of the world ;) )

Have a nice weekend!

xoxox

Flowers, pink, sailing and holo (Nfu Oh) all things I love ♥

Last week I mentioned I had Nfu Oh 63 on my nails and I wanted to post that friday but blogger was down. And in the weekends I normally am not online. So I will show you this today. Not last weekend but the weekend before that we hired a small moterboat in Giethoorn, and my best friend, his girlfriend, my boyfriend and I had so much fun that day. Ofcourse I took some photos of my nails there, the last time I was there I took the photo that is my blog logo now with the big water lily. I wanted take a new one with a lily but unfortunately it was to early in the season and the lilies were not in bloom yet. I did take some other nature photos. So I have a lot of photo spam for you :)

Base Nfu Oh 63, self made water decals of this cute pink flower (Frangipani). Stamped with XL plate B and OPI Rosy Mistletoe-sies.

Photo made from to boat in the background some sort of a small windmill.

It was such a beautiful sunny hot day ♥

Debora ♥ Dennis aren't they cute. (she is the one who always gets me those nice Brazilian nail polishes).

They call Giethoorn also the Dutch Venice because of all the water and bridges.

Just a pretty photo :)

Me and my boyfriend captain Dave ;) He's was at the rudder most of the time.

Some cows.

 Isn't he sweet?

Me at the rudder :)

Now here are the regular photos ;) I also took a few because with decals and holo it sometimes is difficult to take a good photo.

Photo with flash under artificial light.

 Photo with flash.

 Without flash or any direct (sun) light. So you can see the decals a bit better.

Without flash under artificial light.

Ofcourse I also took some swatch photos:

With flash.

 With flash a bit of different angle.

 With flash different angle...look at the rainbow ♥

 With flash under artificial light.

Without flash under artificial light.

I sooo totally love Nfu Oh holo's and also loved this creation I had it on my nails for more then a week.

I also painted my toe nails. I wasn't really matching but it did matched a lillte bit because I used this Nfu Oh for stamping. For those of you who don't like the see foot photos..... DON'T look ;)

 Base Teeez Outta Control a beautiful bright dark purple holo nail polish.

I stamped some flowers from XL plate F with Nfu Oh 63 and Nfu Oh 65.

xoxox