Stamping Sunday - Queensday!

Hi Goddesses  

Apparently, today is Queensday in Holland, which by the sounds of it, is a great excuse for a celebration, merriment and general happiness.   So the challenge today was to create something that either echoed that or matched the Dutch colours.  Personally, I love the idea - how else would I EVER have stumbled across doing a Queensday mani.

This is a very simple post, so it's quite a short one. It's not my best mani, but hopefully it represents the theme and does my Dutch friends proud :)

I've been wearing HITS Hula for most of the week, a deliciously juicy orange flakey, with an accent nail of HITS Salsa (the pink one).  It seemed to make the perfect base, so on top of this I stamped a gold crown using Mash 19 and Barry M gold foil.

This looked a little lonely, and I didn't want to do more crowns, so I then used a stamp I would never have otherwise turned to - Konad m64 and did white arches with Konad white polish.  I then added some Queenly sparkle with the holographic Out The Door top coat.

So, as I said, not the most stunning mani, but the heart is in the right place.    Claudia, Diana, Malinka and my other friends - enjoy your weekend xxx

Enjoy xx :)

Adventures In Stamping - Week 1 - Green

Hi Goddesses

Today is a special day - the inaugral challenge from our stamping group Adventures In Stamping.  If you want to join, just click this link.  The group is a great place to discuss stamping ideas, problems and traumas and also to gain great tips and support!

So, we decided the group would Stamp On Sundays, and our first challenge was GREEN.  Anything you like, as long as it's GREEN.

To be honest, I am REALLY disappointed with how mine turned out.  I'd decided I was just going to use a pattern I hadn't used before, and I picked this linear pattern off Konad M64.  

So why don't I love it ?

wellllll - the base colour, CG Laser Lime (which I will do a separate post on) just underwhelmed me.  Really thin, and actually quite an obnoxiously yellowy green.  Me no likey

I then couldn't decide which colour to stamp with, and actually thought long and hard about a clashing colour, and I should have gone with that instinct.  Instead, I thought it would be a great idea to stamp with Glitter Gal Lizard Belly, a super dark holographic green, and as you might be able to see, it neither looks holographic or like its normal pine green colour

the stamping - I am still not perfect at getting the whole of the pattern onto my nails, and there were gaps with this - probably because I was scared of wasting more than a micro droplet of Lizard Belly lol.

So there you have it - totally meh, can't wait to take it off.

Stamping - it's what they call a "learning curve" lol.

Enjoy xx :)