Inspired By A Book - We Stamp On Sundays

Hi all! Bit of a late one today, but I've been enjoying films and chilling today ^-^

This week's challenge over at Adventures In Stamping is to create a manicure inspired by a book you're currently reading. So as I'm not a massive reader I nabbed the book my mother's currently reading. I'm the kind of girl who will slap on some SPF and lay out on the grass in the summer with shades on and a book to read, with a kittie by my side (usually Cheese) in the shade I'm creating. So while I'm currently hoping for snow, I've already started a list of which books I wanna read this summer :D

So this manicure is inspired by Valley Of Silence by Nora Roberts, I was in a rush to do these, and haven't even read the blurb so I have no idea whether I should recommend or not!

Base Coat: CND - Stickey

Base Colour: Rimmel - White

Glitter: Barry M - Pink Sapphire Glitter

Stamping Colour: Miss Sporty - Fatal Plum

Image Plates: Cheeky CH50, Bundle Monster BM05

Top Coat: Sally Hansen Advanved Hard As Nails

Here's what I used:

I added the glitter as it seemed like there were too many white gaps. Also, notice the fact I have the summer Cheeky plates, I'm so excited, I haven't tried them all yet, but there's so much I want to do, so expect to see a lot a lot of Cheeky stamping soon once I've checked they all work!

Hope you've all had a good weekend, mine has gone far too quickly, and I haven't had a chance to remotely play catch up with my reading list! Always tomorrow though ;]

Leafy - We Stamp On Sunday

Hi all! Happy Sunday! I'm having such a lazy weekend, I really need to edit some photos so I've got something ready for this weeks posts but I just can't concentrate :P

This week's challenge over at Adventures In Stamping was for a Leafy manicure. This is kind of what I was planning from the beginning, but I wish I had used a different leaf image, and maybe chosen different stamping polishes too.

Edit: I used this method for the multi coloured stamping. To see other times I've used this method click here.

Base Coat: La Femme

Base Colour: Essie - Ballet Slippers

Stamping Colours: Manhattan - Lemonade

Manhattan - Green Piece

Essence - Kiss On Top Of The Rock

Image Plate: Bundle Monster BM 05

Top Coat: Rimmel 60 Seconds - Clear

Here's some swatches of the base colour, and what I used:

 

Hope you all liked them :] I think my favourite nail is my ring finger.

Stars - We Stamp On Sundays

Time for my second stamping challenge from Adventures In Stamping. This week's theme was stars, and at first I didn't really know what to do, what plates to use, what colours. It was a rather sunny day, so I decided on white, and Tie-Dye stars, using large stars, and some small stars to fill up some of the empty spaces.

Base Coat: Nail RX - Stuck On You
Base Colour: Sally Hansen - White On
Stamping Colours: Clubworks - Pink
                              Clubworks - Orange
                              P2 - Passion
                              Collection 2000 - Bongo Beat
Image Plates: BM05, BM14
Top Coat: Models Own - 3 in 1

Plates used, Sorry for the bad pic!

Right hand; I think it colours worked out better here because I didn't use as much P2 - Passion

Turned out alright I think :D! I think I made a mistake using P2 - Passion next to Collection 2000 - Bongo Beat, as It looks quite red. Maybe It was just because the opacity was different.

Anyhoo! Happy Sunday and I hope you enjoyed this mani :]

Under The Sea - We Stamp On Sundays

Recently I joined Adventures In Stamping on Facebook, and wasn't sure if I'd join the the weekly challenges. This was mainly because I'm slightly lazy, and I've never given any challenges a go so I'm not sure if I'll be very good with posting when I need to.

However, seeing as I have loads of free time I figured what the heck :] I missed the first challenge, which was to use green, but joined as "Under The Sea" theme was decided.

So here it is :]

Base Coat: Nail RX - Stuck On You
Base Colour: George - Cloudless Sky
Sponged With: George - Under The Sea
                      Clubworks - Neon Green
                      Models Own - Golden Green
                      Models Own - Emerald Black
                      Cutex - Sweet Pea
                      O.P.I. - Warm & Fozzie
                      China Glaze - Frostbite
                      Rimmel - Disco Ball
Stam Colours: Konad - Special White
                      George - Meteorite
                      Miss Sporty - Electric Beige
                      Models Own - Emerald Black
Image Plates Used: BM03, BM04, BM05, BM08, BM12
Top Coat: China Glaze - No Chip Top Coat

I think I maybe did a little too much sponging and layering I went a little wild with the amount of polishes I used too this is going to be a nightmare to label! I wanted the skelly Fish to be sponged over, but I forgot to do a top coat before stamping Electric Beige so it took on a rough kind of texture.

After this I added a Matte Top Coat, and it helped bring the stamping out a little bit, especially the bronze colour, but the light had just ran away and I don't want to get out of bed to go take photos now, and delay the whole process even more. But mainly.. bed is warm!

The polishes used, Minus George - Under The Sea, Konad White, and Top & Base Coats

Plates Used

And last picture.. While doing my nails I turned around to find my cat Pickle sleeping like this....
I have no idea if that could even be comfortable for her!