The Crumpet's Daughter's Birthday

Today, over at FB Adventures in Stamping, we did mani's to celebrate The Crumpet's daughter's 9th birthday....this is what I came up with.

Started with a base of OPI If You Moust You Moust from the OPI Vintage Minnie Mouse collex.  I almost passed on this polish because I thought it seems similar to other pink cremes I already have in my stash....but I couldn't resist!  The pix below was taken outside in overcast skies; it is slightly brighter than this IRL.  This is two coats, no topcoat.

Added a layer of Deborah Lippmann Sweet Dreams.  One coat, no topcoat.  While this may seem uneven and bumpy from the pix/angle, its smooth as glass and so much more beautiful IRL!  I want to add Sweet Dreams to every pink polish! 

Another view.  This pix was indoors at a window; the one above was outside in overcast skies.  The weather was just terrible while I was away for the weekend; I have no great lighting source when I'm not at home other than whatever Mother Nature provides!

Stamped!  I didn't take a pix of this but used fauxnad XL K light pink Konad stamping polish and stamped confetti on the thumb and stars on the middle finger.  Some of this shows up slightly in the pix; just added for some layering interest.  Used Konad white stamping polish for main stampings, using fauxnad XL K (balloons and happy birthday cake), SdP 62 (girl), SdP 66 (comb and perfume), SdP 77 (flowers on middle finger and scattered elsewhere), SdP 32 (present and star), SdP 67 (bow), SdP 71 (castle and butterfly), SdP 65 (sunflower) and Sdp 57 (starfish and shell). 

Added a few yellow dots for flower centres and a few other random dots scattered using yellow Sally Hansen Instadri.

  

Topped with SV.

SdP's can be bought here and I got the fauxnad XL K plate here!

I hope the lil Crumpett enjoyed all the mani's in her honour...it was a lot of fun putting it together!!

Hope you had a great weekend and thanks for looking!

Kitten Themed Mani

I did this mani a few day ago using (mainly) the new SdP image plates** I got recently. I did a dog theme mani a while back here; and thought I'd try a cat themed mani as there were some cute cat images on these plates. Here's what I came up with.



I wasn't aware when I first did this mani that this is Chococat from Hello Kitty until a few gals pointed it out from MUA. I just thought I was using the cute cat image! LOL!

Here's mani in progress, base coat polish starting from thumb and then left to right is Illamasqua Boosh (one coat), OPI Bride's Bouquet (2 coats) and CND Raspberry Parfait (2 coats) is the pink accent polish.



Then stamped with Big SdP D, SdP 2 and 32, using Konad black and white special polishes.



Lastly, added a few random dots here and there using the same polishes as the base. Topped with SV.


I got a lot of compliments on this from ladies who thought it was super cute...the ladies at the bank, the DMV when I went to renew my license plate and the grocery store. A couple gals thought my mani was from stickers and so spent a few minutes showing them the basics of stamping as I happen to have a IP in my purse that I had picked up from some other gals. (I'm sure they think I'm crazy, but I had to share!)

I've been wearing this mani since Tuesday night and its still going strong! I do want to point out that some of these stamping images are a little blurry which is my fault. I did this mani in the wee hours of the morning after a 12 hour day and just wasn't that careful putting the stamp down and kinda smudged them as I was stamping. I was so blurry eyed at the time, I just thought my eyes were blurry not the stamping but in fact, they are a little blurred. I've used the same Big SdP stamp before and it was perfect; this was me and my tiredness. In real life, its not as obvious; only when taking macro shots of your nails!

Have a great weekend and thanks for looking!!

** You can buy SdP image plates here. Please note that I paid the invoiced amount in full for my plates. I do not endorse nor promote this website/etailer other than I am passing on the info of where I got them to those who may wish to know. I have no affiliation with any company and received no compensation for promotion of these products, nor am I promoting them...just letting fellow bloggers where they may be obtained should they be interested!