Hi Readers! The theme for day 8 in the 31 Day Challenge is metallic nails. I had to sort of cheat a bit with this one so I can kill two birds with one stone LOL! I'm committed to this 31 day challenge but that sort of leaves poor Sunday Challenge's in AIS out in the cold for a month. Today I decided to do a metallic gradient and I'm also going to use it for the Sunday Challenge! Yes it's so sneaky I know but a girl's gotta do what a girl's gotta do. First up is my metallic gradient. I hauled out some Kleancolor metallics for this--green and aqua
The two colors look great together don't they?
I really love the Kleancolor metallics to stamp with but look how great they are for just a basecoat!
And here's my cheating pic! The theme for Sunday is toxic so I simply added OPI Black Spotted over the top for a truly toxic looking spill!
Tomorrow's theme in the 31 Day Challenge is near and dear to my heart. Let's see what it is shall we?
Rainbow nails! Tomorrow is one month since my father passed away and I felt he came to me as a rainbow the day after he died--so from now on they will forever remind me of him. Check back tomorrow to see what I come up with for the challenge!
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Hi Readers! Today I am ON FIRE! The Sunday Stamping Challenge over in my fb group Adventures in Stamping is Using 3 Colors. Really the possibilities were endless with this one. I had recently received my Zoya's from their Valentine's promo though so I decided I would use a couple of them. My favorite color is yellow--it was the first color I learned to spell can you believe it? I didn't start with red or blue nope I went for yellow. My nephew AJ when he was little couldn't pronounce "y" to save his life lol! He always said lellow for yellow. I remembering him asking my dad to read him the book The Little Yellow Duck. Of course he said Lellow Duck instead when asking. So my dad says okay let's read the Lellow Duck book and AJ said "No grandma! It's the lellow duck not the lellow duck!" Holy cow we all busted out laughing! He knew how it should be said he just couldn't do it lol!
Back to the nails and the challenge though! I did a nice gradient using Zoya Pippa, Kleancolor Metallic Orange, and Zoya Sarah. After receiving my Sarah I have decided I must have ALL the Zoya metallics!
Okay so there are my 3 colors! BUT we have to stamp on this baby yet so I decided to burn down the house and stamped using the the same 3 colors but in reverse order on the gradient!
I think it turned out great! I'm not sure this is an everyday mani but for a challenge mani it's dang good!
What I had to do to make the yellow really pop was go back over the mani stamping yellow a 2nd time on the tips. Here's a nice close up
I love how my thumb turned out the best!
After I took a shot of this one I decided I should make a ring like this mani! Hopefully it will turn out and I can post pics of it later!
This is just a basic gradient mani. I started with a base of two coat of Zoya Pippa. Then I sponged on Kleancolor Metallic Orange going from the tip to halfway up the nail. After that I sponged Zoya Sarah onto the tips. I stamped using all the colors on the image plate using Shany SH22.
Here's a picture of the polishes I used
Look at the loveliness that is Zoya Sarah! When I mentioned how gorgeous Sarah was in my FB group the bigheaded Sarah from Chalkboard Nails got a big head! Can you believe it???!! You all should stop over there and give her some grief about it!! LOL! The thing that makes me laugh is Zoya Sarah is all fiery and spicy and that is SO not Sarah--she is super nice and sweet. My Zoya color Laurie is a pale pink--really innocent looking--our colors totally should be switched lol!
So what do you think about this challenge mani readers?? Do you think it looks good stamping in reverse on the gradient or is it just too much? Is this your everyday mani or one you'd haul out on for a special occasion?
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Dear Green Bay Packers where the H were you today????? SERIOUSLY! Hi Readers as you can see my heart is broken over the devastating loss to the Giants yesterday!! I mean Eli Manning and The Giants are you kidding me???! UG!
I started off with a great mani in my opinion, a nice forest green and a metallic yellow but I guess me doing my part with an incredible mani wasn't enough for them.
Here it is readers you be the judge!
Here it is with flash
Close up!
To get this look I painted my nails with Revlon Emerald City which is a matte but is such a rich green when you put a topcoat on it! I stamped with Shany plate SH22 using Kleancolor Metallic Yellow and man it's a simple yet pretty mani.
Even though the Packers lost the game yesterday they had a fantastic season! Records were broken this year. Donald Driver (my favorite Packer) became the all time receiver for the Packers when he surpassed James Lofton's career yards of 9,656. Also this year Aaron Rogers became the first quarterback in NFL history to have 400 yards passing, 4 passing touchdowns and 2 rushing touchdowns in one game which was against the Broncos on October 2nd. All that talk of Brett Favre died down rather quickly when the very humble Aaron Rogers stepped in to lead the team. All in all it was a fantastic season and I look forward to next year!
How about you readers? Are you football fans? Who's your team? Did you play fantasy football this year? I did and I had a blast and can't wait til next year!!
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