The Digit-al Dozen Does Rainbow--Flower Power

Hi Everyone long time no see!  Yep you are not seeing double it's just me posting twice in one day.  Honestly I'm not a fan of blogs doing this but I hate being behind.  If you know me you know that I really really really really love reverse images on stamping plates.  I just love the look and I was able to pour through my plates to find something I really loved 

This is another neon gradient for me this week using China Glaze Electric Nights from last year because I was too lazy to get up and go through polish and they were sitting out

I stamped with FUN and Messy Mansion plates

I adore how my thumb turned out!  I think it's gorgeous

I wasn't sure if I should matte it so I asked my friend Ashley from Ashley Is PolishAddicted and naturally she said yes.  She ALWAYS says yes

But seriously folks that girl knows what she's talking about!  This looks great matte!

I found a really cute pic online the other day and I'm attempting to recreate it for tomorrow's mani--wish me luck!

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The Digit-al Dozen Does Rainbow--Neon Triangles!

Hi Everyone Happy Monday!  This weekend it was 92 degrees so we are officially in Summer so that means--neon. I'm not a huge neon fan and I say all the time I'm not a huge neon fan yet I find myself doing some neon nail art LOL.  This did turn out pretty cool though so I guess I should try to embrace the neon a bit more often.  I hauled out last years China Glaze neons--the Electric Night's set and did a gradient and then stamped with FUN19.   FUN19 has a bunch of skull images on there and I was >< close to doing skulls but decided on these triangles at the last minute

I definitely took sun shots of this mani but for some reason all of them looked washed out so I went with shade shots

To be honest it always seems like neon shows up better in the shade which sort of defeats the purpose LOL

This is pretty cool though don't you think?  I absolutely love all my FUN plates

Of course I couldn't leave well enough alone and I did try matting it as well

Turns out I'm not as much of a fan of the matte as I am the shiny

I'm seen some pretty cool stuff from everyone today.  Some of us went traditional rainbow colors and some of us non traditional.  I haven't seen my girl crush Serene's mani yet but so far my fave has been from Tammy.  Lots of detail in hers!  Gurl is going strong after all these years we've both been stamping!

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A little something to brighten up the day!

Hi Everyone!  Happy Monday!  I did some neon water marbling this weekend and they turned out pretty cool.  I wasn't ready to ditch it just yet as yesterday and today we have some nice  sunny weather so I did what I always do and stamped over it LOL!

I hauled out some of my new China Glaze Electric Nights--Daisy Know My Name, Glow With The Flow, Home Sweet House Music & Treble Maker.  Naturally when I did this it was rainy and cold but here's a pic of the water marble before I stamped over it.

I've haven't water marbled in a long time as I've been doing dry marbles lately but I thought I'd give this a go

Indoor shot naturally as Saturday it was cold and rainy

 Both yesterday and today though it's nice and sunny.  I went out to snap a few pics without looking crazy as neighbors were out and here's what I did over it

I used one of my new Born Pretty Store plates BP-L010.  I love everything ab out this plate!!!!  It's all tribal images!

My index and pinkie are from MoYou Explorer 23 I barely got them on there LOL.  I matted it then for my African Tribal look.  I really like it!

What do you think?  Do you like it better before or after the stamping?

Hope you are all having a great day!  Thanks for stopping by!

Extend a mani---stamping over water marble

Hi Everyone!  Happy Sunday to all.  About a week ago I got the entire collection of China Glaze's Electric Nights.  I don't know what's wrong with me these are neon and I got ALL of them.  I mean seriously what is going on?  Where's the pod I clearly have been body snatched!

I've seen tons of super cool mani's done by Opal over on YouTube with this collection so I'm totally blaming her.  Here's her channel check out all the cool stuff she does especially with these polishes! 

So I decided I wanted to try the water marble decal method where you draw your design in the water but let it sit out over night to dry so you can cut and then apply as decals the next day because it's less messy.  

So here's what I found out about the water marble decal method.  You don't have to wait over night for it to dry, it's dry in about 30 minutes to an hour.  You have to use it right away after drying the water off of it otherwise it becomes very brittle and cracks. While it is less messy OMG it's very time consuming to cut out to the right size and then apply like decals.

Here's the water marble I did.  I didn't totally love it but I didn't hate it.

These are neon colors and I had to take indoor pics so really not as bright as they should be.

Also my yellow came out looking a golden orange because of the order I did my polish! What the what?!

So I did this all on Friday and then Saturday night I stamped over them and guess what?! I absolutely love the stamping over them!

I used one of my My Online Shop MJ plates for this isn't it cool?!

This image is from plate XXXIV I love how it looks over this water marble base

It's really hard to get pics of neons! It's like you HAVE to use the shade instead of a light and then your skin looks so wonky!

ahhh the things we do in the name of great manicures LOL!

So what do you think do you like it better with or without the stamping over it?  I guess as a stamper I just naturally believe everything looks better with stamping!

Thanks for stopping by!  I hope you all have a fantastic day!