Valentine Adventures In Stamping

Hi Goddesses

Today's stamping challenge, unsurprising, was Valentine's.  I'm slightly more psyched about my Goth/Grunge anti-vally mani coming up tomorrow because, well this is just too GAY for me :)

This is 2 coats of the perfect sugary pink, OPI Sparrow Me The Drama, and then stamping with KD3.  Again, I had some pooling issues, so next time, I'm going to have to use these with a Konad polish and see what happens.

I used a red SH Insta-Dri for the hearts.  I love their big bold shape, but this is just too pink and girlie for me.

Lol - just wait til you see tomorrow's :)

Enjoy xx :)

More Valentines

Hi Goddesses

I'm going to try and keep this one short because it's just a Valentine's mani.

For this one I used my beloved CG Traffic Jam and stamped with CG Snow.  I was playing with this new stamping plate ....

.... and to be honest, she was a little tricky to use!  I used this plate for a couple of designs (I'll post the other one later), and I found it to be smudgier than other ones I've used.  I'm not a stamping expert, so it could be my poor technique, but you can see on the little hearts near the tip of the nail that I'd get bits of polish pool in one area of the design.  

I was then a VERY brave Crumpet and attempted a bit of desmudging with a Q-Tip and some polish remover.   I managed to clean up the worst of it without ruining the design, but some of the edges are still a bit mushy.

I ended up double stamping the double heart on the middle finger because the first transfer just wasn't opaque enough - luckily, I think the design lets me get away with it.

So there you go ... not perfect.  A bit like me!!

Enjoy xx :)