Back to School!

Today's the first day back to school for my kids and this was a mani I came up with for the occasion! 

Base polishes, starting from thumb and going clockwise are, CND Anchor Blue (1 coat), Duri Taming of the Shrew (2 coats), CND Bicycle Yellow (2 coats), CND Electric Orange (1 coat) and CND Green Scene (1 coat). 

Stamped!  Images used were Mash-46 (white lines on thumb), unnamed Essence plate (sneaker on middle finger), SE18 (apple on index), OB38 (pencil on pinky), FUN2 (hands on ring and words on middle finger) and Konad m17 and m18 (letters on thumb).  Stamping polishes used were Konad black special polish, FUN Mango Shake (yellow), FUN Avocado Green (hand, OMG! and LOL) and FUN Bubble Blue (hand and sneaker). 

Added random dots using same base polishes.

Topped with SV.

I guess the scene on my nails should be one of a great big party now that the kids are back to school; however, while I'm glad they're back in school as its been a pretty hectic summer, it starts the grind again of making lunches and having to get up early to meet the bus at 8:10 am with my youngest son.  All summer long, I've been able to sleep in an hour longer while school was out! 

Thanks for looking!

Pink Panther Mani!

This weeks FB Adventures in Stamping challenge is using 2 different stamps in a mani.  I asked if I could use more than 2 or if I'd be thrown out...they said OK....so this is what I came up with.

Started with a base of FingerPaints Black Expressionism and CND Taffy Pink on alternating fingers; each are two coats.  Topped with SV.

Stamped using MJ III (thumb), Apipila 01 (Pink Panter face on index and ring), HB14 (paw prints on middle), Konad m18 (PP on middle) and BM19 (dots on pinky).  Stamping polishes used were Konad black special polish and FUN pink (my bottle says Cotton Candy on it)...which stamps amazingly over black as you can see!  It's like a stamping dream come true....brights that stamp well over dark colours!  (I have a few more posts coming up using these brights over dark polishes...so cool...really opens up stamping options IMHO!!  It's been one of my stamping wants for a long, long time!)

Added random pink and black dots as filler using same stamping polishes.

Topped with SV.

Is it just me, or is it every time I see Pink Panther, I go BA, DA DA, DA DA DA DA DA DA DA DA DA DAAAAAAAAAAAA DADA DA in my head?  You too? lol!

I've also added a tab on my home page now that links to the various etailers that plates and polishes can be had...so if you are interested in knowing where to get Apipila, MJ, FUN or BM, please go here!

Hope you're having a great weekend....thanks for looking!

New York Inspired Mani

This was my contribution to the music inspired theme for this weeks challenge in the Adventures in Stamping FB group.  My music inspiration was "New York" by Jay Z and Alicia Keys. 

When I was thinking about the mani, I was thinking about what I think New York is about...not even having been there..so was thinking.....fashion, food, the theater (says in uber snobby voice), music, the Big Apple and of course, the Statue of Liberty.  Hopefully this does not offend any New Yorkers, who may have a totally different perspective of their city!  Unfortunately, I didn't have enough nails to get any food inspired stamps as part of the mani but for whatever reason, I was thinking pretzels (the cart style pretzels you see in tv shows)...do you know that in fact there is a pretzel stamp?   This was my favourite finger...er, thumb.

Anyway, started with two coats of OPI Bride's Bouquet (no pix...have shown many times before).  Stamped using SdP D01 (the I♥ image), and m17 and m18 (for NY), SdP 54 (the stars at the  bottom of I ♥ NY), D08 (Liberty image), CH24 (french tip on thumb), SdP D15 (Chanel logo), SdP D03 (CK logo), KD12 (Dior logo), SdP D10 (D & G logo), SdP 45 (mask on pinky), SE18 (apple), SdP 9 (music notes), and lastly Konad m3 (the random stars around Liberty and on pinky and middle finger. Stamping polishes were Konad Red, Blue and Black special polishes.  Topped with SV...I meant to finish it off with China Glaze Fairy Dust or something to jazz it up a bit...but finished this late last night and was so tired, I had already SV'd a couple fingers before I remembered that I planned on doing it!...so nothing on top to jazz it up as intended!

A quick update on the giveaway...there were a total of 337 entries....give or take a few duplicates...I've been working on the spreadsheet, entering the ballots, extra ballots, etc., etc....and so far, I'm on ballot no. 554 and have entered about half of the entries.  I've decided I'm going to use the number generator for the winners, which I will post.  Once the *winners* have been contacted, and as they chose the plate of their choice, etc., I'll update the giveaway page so there probably won't be any further announcements on this main page until its all over; however, I'll do a final post listing all the winners to update everyone.  Just fyi.  But I'm guessing I'll start contacting those chosen (The Chosen Ones lol), within the next 24-48 hours....thanks for your patience!

Thanks for looking!