Hi Everyone!
The Advanced Nail Stamping Group is playing the Tag! You're It! game again and my friend Mona tagged with either based on my favorite book series or movie. While I am an avid reader I decided to go with favorite movie this time. I have a few movies I just love and will gladly watch over and over and over again and The Man From Snowy River is definitely that movie. I saw it the year it came out 1982. I took my cousin Debbie because her boyfriend had just left for the Marine Corps and she was really sad. We both loved the movie and after seeing it I really started my love affair with all things Australian. Lots of good memories for me around this movie. My cousin Debbie married that MARINE John and they have 2 great kids and she's even a grandmother now eeep! Maybe I should call her and see if she wants to do a movie night!
Here's the cover from the movie you can buy on Amazon
Here's what I came up with
I did a sharpie background and wished I had done more orange than yellow but I'm still pleased with how it turned out
Thumb looks a bit washed out though LOL
This was not an easy manicure. I had to remove parts and add parts to images I had. My lady had no long dress I had to put one on. My cowboy had a cowgirl connected to him and I had to remove her and then add his arm. My horse is actually smaller than the other images so I tried to add more mane and tail to make it look a little more even. I guess that's the best thing about these challenges, they make you step outside the box
Here's a side by side shot of both
Did anyone of see this movie??? I just loved it!
Thanks for stopping by! I hope you all have a great weekend!
Hi Everyone! Happy Sunday to you all! We had some snow last week but now we've got some nice warmer weather going on today and supposedly into next week so I'm pretty sure this is it and Spring might be here. Don't hold me to it though because this is Wisconsin and we have had snow in April before LOL
Sometimes I'm too tired or lazy to stamp my nails but I really want something other than just polish on them and lord knows I'm not going to do a tape mani and I'm not great at dotting so that doesn't leave me much. I decided to haul out my sharpies since I can draw with them while sitting in front of TV while watching Discovery ID.
This is the look I came up with. I didn't really intend it to be Spring but I really think that's what it looks like. It's really pretty
As I always do with sharpie art I used my sharpies over a light base, in the case I chose a light blue base
I chose a purple and blue sharpie and then scribbled over my light blue nail polish base for this look
The great thing about an alcohol ink look is you can keep adding more ink to change up the look
I use 91% rubbing alcohol which I think works the best
I thought about stamping over this but then decided not to. I think this is just lovely the way it is.
Thanks for stopping by!! I hope you all have a fabulous day!!
Hi Everyone! Happy Tuesday! Holy cow not sure where everyone else is but here in Wisconsin it is cold!!! This morning I shrugged off the help my son offered in brushing off and scraping off my car and was like "oh I'm sure it's not bad I'll just do it myself" IT WAS BAD! Not so much the brushing and scraping just the bitter cold. I think we were in denial with all the warm weather we've had.
Since my mani station STILL is not set up I had to do something quick, easy, and sitting in the recliner. And yes I did this sharpie mani just like that. I sat in the recliner in front of the TV watching my beloved Joe Kenda on Homicide Hunter and that was that. This is such an easy yet really lovely nail art look. There is so much you can do with sharpies too and this is just one of them. All I do for this type of base is put sharpies over a light color nail polish base and then squiggle squiggle squiggle until you have a few lines and colors on. Then I just dab a brush, a thin brush, into rubbing alcohol and I swirl it around. That's it!
Check out this gorgeous base I came up with all in the comfort of my recliner with the best damn homicide detective to walk this Earth! (Take that Olivia Benson!!!)
I'm still not thrilled with my light set up here but for now it's going to have to do. Tomorrow I might try to get a picture for you guys of what it looks like now when I'm trying to take a picture of my nails LOL! It's pretty hilarious
I'm really loving this colors together--how about you?
Has anyone been able to tell my pinkie is super short? I'm trying to fake everyone out so hopefully I've been successful and you can't tell right away
Of course this would be a kick ass base to stamp over with BUT new for me is NOT stamping so I'm trying to do a few of those mani's this week.
How bout our first day yesterday??!! Pretty cool stuff by everyone and omg wait until you see the stuff from today! As usual my fellow DD members just blew me away!
Hi Everyone!! Happy Hump Day! I feel like one of these Wednesday's I should do some sort of camel mani LOL! I've really been digging my alcohol inks lately. And by digging I mean obsessed with my alcohol inks lately. They are so freaking cool and you can do SO many things with them! Tonight I'm going to making up a few sheer tints with them and last night I put together what I call a groovy grunge look. I stupidly didn't take any pictures of just the base though so you're going to have to put up with just the finished look. Sorry Charlie!
Here it is . . . what do you think?
I used Tim Holtz alcohol inks using the Dockside Picnic which has the colors Watermelon, Citrus and Sail Boat Blue in it
The base turned out really cool!
I stamped with FUN13
I'm still learning with these inks. This mani I had no trouble with at all with topcoating with Seche Vite. All the colors stayed the same. I had done one previously and even sprayed with hairspray to seal it in as I was told to do and the topcoat completely ruined it! It changed all the colors on it which sucked!
I am digging them though and I think this mani turned out cool.
Have you tried the alcohol inks yet??
Thanks for stopping by! I hope you all have a fantastic day!
Hi Everyone! A happy Good Friday to you all. As a Christian today I recognize the day Jesus Christ was crucified on the cross, taking upon himself the sins of the world to ensure we would all have eternal life. It's hard to call it a celebration because there was suffering, but a celebration it is because of his sacrifice I have eternal life.
This time of year just like Christmas I try to focus on what the holiday really means to me. Through my nail art I just don't have it in me to show Easter chicks and Easter Bunnies because it's not what the holiday means to me. While I find all of those manicures completely adorable I need to reflect what's in my own heart.
Today I am wearing my Good Friday nails and thinking of the ultimate sacrifice Jesus made for me. I truly believe I am not worthy and don't know that I ever will be. I am, however, oh so grateful. One day I will be with my beautiful sister again and will be in the loving arms of my dad. This is not a sacrifice I take lightly as those two things mean the world to me.
I used some of my Sharpie markers over a base of Sinful Colors Unicorn for my base. I think it turned out beautiful.
I think we all know I don't do free hand well, but I was able to recreate a picture I found for inspiration!
It is hard to fathom sometimes that as Christians we rejoice in the death of our Lord, it's almost barbaric. But through his death is the way we can truly live and for that there is definitely a reason to celebrate and rejoice. Through him we are forgiven
Blessings to you all on this day!
Hi Everyone! Happy Sunday! I've got another alcohol ink marker mani to show off today. I did some Born Pretty Store Stamping and then colored in with some of my permanent markers to come up with this really pretty yet really simple and easy look today. I paired these flowers with the super gorgeous and probably best blue creme ever, Nails Inc's Baker St.
Looks like my nails are ready for Spring even though we might get some snow later this evening!
I have to say I really have been enjoying using the markers for some nail art
And they are a lot easier to do than decals!
Have any of you tried using permanent markers and alcohol yet???
Thanks for stopping by!! I hope you all have a fantastic day!
Hi Everyone!!! Happy St Patrick's Day!!! I hope the luck of the Irish is with all of you this year!
I have a lovely marker alcohol ink base with same cool Dashica stamping and even topped this mani with a way cool Celtic shamrock image from Messy Mansion.
I started this marker art with a base of Sinful Colors Pistache first and then did some green, brown and black markers over it. I love the look of this one! I stupidly didn't get pics of just the base though
I'm really having a lot of fun with these markers I picked up albeit the pastel and neon ones really do not work. Once the topcoat hits them they completely disappear so I might have to invest in some alcohol inks after all!
My decal is from Messy Mansion MM04 and I believe it was my first Messy Mansion purchase!!! More than 20 plates later I'm still loving my Messy Mansions!
This upcoming Saturday is the annual epic corned beef dinner with the family. I've been doing this for a few years now and we look forward to it so much. My Aunt Lynette came down for it last year and she told my mom it was the best corned beef she's ever eaten in her whole life so guess what??? She's coming back for more LOL! She's a permanent fixture for the corned beef dinner she told us.
I hope this post finds everyone doing well. May the luck of the Irish be with you always!
Hi Everyone! Hope you are all having a great day. I'm really starting to sound like a broken record with this cold but I just can't shake this sucker. I'm coming up on a week with this baby now and honestly it's like 5 days too much for me! Find a cure for the common cold already for crying out loud!
But the good news I have been feeling well enough to work on some new nail art things which makes me pretty happy. I decided to get in on the alcohol ink/permanent marker craze going around. You can get some really cool bases uses alcohol inks out of the bottle or in the form of permanent markers. The possibilities are pretty endless. I check out a few YouTubes on the process and just decided to play around. Instead of going over a white base I decided to try something over one of my fave Elevation's--Storm In The Morning Light. Here's the look I came up with!
You can do so much with these things! I bought a 24 pack of Bic permanent markers the other day and have really been enjoying some of the things I've come up with. You can do different looks using a brush or cotton swab dipped in alcohol. You can also spritz alcohol on to the nail with a spray bottle too. It's really cool
One of my friends thought this looked like the ocean at night and I thought oh how perfect then as this fits right in with this week's Digit-al Dozen Nature Theme!
I think my favorite is the ring finger but as you can see you can get a lot of different looks just using the same colors of markers put in different spots on the nail
I decided to add some stamping because I think we all know I ALWAYS decide to add some stamping. I hauled out one of my Dashica SdP plates
It's not bad at all but it really looks amazing without the stamping over it I think and you know I rarely say that!
I think this week in the DD has just been amazing. Oh my gosh there have been SO MANY awesome mani's. Everyone is coming up with something completely different and a lot of us were worried it would turn into nothing but a leopard print and floral week LOL.
Here's a little collage of the mani with and without stamping over it
Which do you like better??
I'm going to head over and see what everyone else has come up with for day four of The Digit-al Dozen Does Nature
