Stamping Sunday: Leaves

Yeah....it is not Sunday...But here is my mani for last week's Stamping Sunday theme of Leaves!

Revlon Fig Jam base! The smell is kinda...well, not strong and unoffensive. I like this polish, very pretty.

Well, I kinda went nuts with the leaves here. >_>

This is my right hand. Less cluttered! Wish I had an oak leaf stamp...

Stamping Sunday: Pink Cameo

Sunday's stamping challenge was Pulsating Pink or Purple 

Well, I think I took it down another road, haha! I had to use my new cesarsshop.fl plate which has a large cameo on it. I had been searching for a beautiful cameo plate! This is kinda big (it takes up almost the entire width of my nail) but I LOVE IT. I actually squealed and jumped up and down when I managed to stamp the white cameo lady over the gold to make this effect.

Everything else is kind of an afterthought in this mani, haha! I used Mash, BundleMonster, and RedAngel plates to do everything else. The pink base is a franken I made called Cameo Pink. It is much brighter than a normal cameo and not so jelly/translucent but I will end up changing it down the line anyhow :)

I am pretty much in love...

Fun in the Sun Stamping!

Hello all, sorry for the lapse in blogging lately. I waste so much time on the computer but when I think about blogging, "I could be working!" Then my cat lays down to sleep on all my papers and I get lazy again!

I decided to get a little artsy this week, though, and created a scenic stamping mani for a contest where the theme is Fun in the Sun. I am excited to blog about this actually. I actually drew this up on paper and stamped where everything should go before I stamped it out. 

I started with a base of Sally Hansen Barracuda 

And sponged on Sally Hansen Brisk Blue for the top of the sky and in areas with ocean, the ocean background. Then I went over the sky again once it dried with SH Barracuda to tone down the brightness of the blue.

Cleanup! I usually just rub a qtip around the skin until I do detailed cleanup. Especially with blues, don't want to have smurf hands!

I painted down a little OPI Skull and Glossbones where I wanted sand/dirt. Then I sponged on Sally Hansen Quick Sand, which is sparkly and sand-like. 

Then.....I stamped. A lot.

I used my new MASH plates and Konad/Fauxnads for this.

I don't know any dolphin songs soooo I was singing Baby Beluga the whole time in my head >_>

I know, lots of photos! I love this though! Even if the butterfly stamps were jerks! 

Baby beluga in the deep blue sea...sigh, it is there again. haha!

Recent Stamping Manis

Sooooo I guess I was in a shiny duochromey polish with black stampey on top of it kinda mood lately!

I have been relaxing a bit too much. So today I have been refining my thesis, waiting for more feedback on it. Such a go-getter, haha not really.

This is Essence Just in Case, Pixel Polish Oh Golly Gee! (only 2 thin coats, it barely shows in photos and the duochrome doesn't come out unless it is over black BUT it added nice sparkle!), and DRK-B stamping in Konad special Black.

With the bottles!

The next one was a monster to photograph. People have been trying to take photographs of this polish to capture every multichromatic bit but honestly, you have to take a lot. of. pictures. 

It's HITS Mari Moon Cutie Pie!!

UPDATE: MASH replaced the missing plate; they said that they had sent emails but I only got the one confirming they shipped out the plate. They were eager to make things right after they realized that I had been sending emails and not getting any in return. It was a good outcome.

On a foil-covered journal!

On a rose! Those are little black rhinestones btw

The flash made it tealy blue, the unnatural lighting made it purpley. Yay for stamp manis!