Hi Everyone!!! Today's theme in AIS is Winter Theme. Well to be honest it's not really winterish here! No kidding! Here I am in Wisconsin and would you believe we have almost 60 degree weather???!! IT'S INSANE! And for this very reason I just can't get into the whole snowflake, snowmen Wintery theme. I decided to think outside the box and I came up with a mani that I absolutely love!
It did not hurt AT ALL that my base was the most glorious, most delicious, most gorgeous red ever, and by that I mean--yes you guessed it
This is by far my most favorite red on the planet!
I decided to gradient with an untried--NYX Red Bean Slush. I really cannot believe how great the two compliment each other!
I do so love tone on tone gradienting!
The stamping I chose to go over it really reminds me of Christmas ribbon!
I really loved how this turned it--I'm not a summery or spring colors type gal and these deep dark reds are right up my alley. I'm super happy with how this turned out!
Here's a picture of the polishes I used, OPI's Vampire State Building and NYX Red Bean Slush
I used Konad M63 to stamp with--one of my favorite Konad plates!
What do you think? Does this look Christmas Ribbony to you?
Thanks for stopping by!! I hope you all have a fantastic day!
Hi Everyone! Later today I'll be doing my favorite thing to do on a Sunday--watch some Packer football!!! My whole family loves the Packers BUT I was a bit late in the game. For years my sister's along with their husbands and my parents loved to watch the Packers but I was just sort of along for the ride. I was a tennis fan--I mean come on, Andre Agassi--how are you not a tennis fan with that hottie in shorts???! One thing I loved a bit more than Andre Agassi back then though, was teasing my sister Lisa. There was a year when the great Edgar Bennett was injured and number 25 Dorsey Levens had to step up to the plate to help out. Dorsey had a FANTASTIC year but Lisa would always say "don't give the ball to Levens!" just because she was so loyal to Edgar. Well we started to tease her about it because yes you did want Favre to give Levens the ball because he was a work horse Running Back who got the job done.
I had "sort of" started to actually pay attention to what was happening at this point but then "it" happened. I saw Dorsey standing on the sidelines with his helmet off and that's all she wrote. OMG he was so freaking handsome I couldn't stand it! From then on until now I do not miss a Packer game AND I was able to meet Dorsey and get his autograph.
Well last year I decided to branch out my love of football and I joined a Fantasy Football League with a few of my nail polish girl friends AND IT WAS A BLAST! The name of my team is Packyer Bags and I went to the Super Bowl last year! Yes my first year of playing and I made it to the Super Bowl. I lost BUT in the end I won a trio of Deborah Lippmann's with the one I had been lemming for the longest Razzle Dazzle!!!! Can you even believe it??!!! You lose the Super Bowl but you win 3 Deborah Lippmann polishes one of them being a huge lemming??!!! Why can't real life be like this??? OH WAIT! IT WAS! LOLOLOLOL!
So all that long windedness being said today's Adventures In Stamping challenge is to stamp over a glitter base so I finally after owning it for nearly a year hauled out Razzle Dazzle and OMG why did I wait so freaking long???
Look at how gorgeous this is!!!
For someone who hates the taste of raspberries I sure am a sucker for all polishes in the raspberry family!!!
Here it is in the low light of the bathroom--this polish is gorgeous even in shade!
I stamped over it because I "had" to for the challenge LOL!
And for the stamping I used China Glaze Emotion and Konad M63
I think this turned out quite lovely but honestly I loved Razzle Dazzle so much I hated to stamp over it!
So how about it are any of you huge football fans???!!! Will you be watching any games today?
