31DC Day 14 - Flowers

Hi Goddesses

I do quite a lot of flower manis.  It's one of my favourite designs, and there's something oh so cheery about them.

Usually, a flower mani involves cracking out a stamping plate, however, when you're in a Challenge with the nail art heavyweights, a tad more forethought is in order ....

So, anyway, I still cracked out a stamping plate, but this time I did it over a kick ass gradient.   This was a layer of OPI My Boyfriend Scales Walls, and then I sponged randomly - and I mean VERY randomly - with the following -

Barry M Mint Green

Barry M Berry Ice Cream

Barry M Tangerine

Barry M Shocking Pink

Sation Class Flirt

The aim was to create something messy and colourful and indistinct, so that I could stamp on top of it.

I then used Konad white and 2 small flower patterns on Cheeky plate CH16.

Overall, I'm quite happy.  It meets my cheerful criteria, and I quite like how it's white on colour, rather than the more obvious colour on white.

Enjoy xx :)

Summer Challenge Catch Up - Needle Drag and The Seaside

Hi Goddesses

I am ridiculously behind and all over the place with the Summer Challenge, so today I am bringing you 2 posts in 1.   Why am I behind?  Well, 2 reasons. Firstly, the blog sale - I had no idea how intensive it would be, and it ate up my blogging time for about 3 days.  Secondly, we've had an inspection on the house (we rent) which meant we had to go into cleaning overdrive - ugh!  So, pretty much no spare time!

First of all, here's my Summer Needle Drag.  Ah, so not a success.  I am desperate to get this technique right, and I'm pretty sure I know where I went wrong here.  I absolutely will be trying this again soon.

I used all Barry Ms for my colours - Yellow, Shocking Pink, Mint Green and Tangerine.

2nd up we have Seaside nails.  I started this with a gradient, using Atlantic Beach (a gift from my polish momma) for the sea, and Essie Sand Tropez for the beach.

Now, I did quite like it at this point, but I decided I couldn't just do beach and sand, there needed to me some ... "things" in the picture too .... And that was where my problem began, because I couldn't really decide on which things.

In case you were wondering, the "things" were a bucket, a brolly and a ball lol.

Enjoy xx :)