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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The Digit-al Dozen Does Gradient--Lacey Does It!

Hi Everyone!! Happy Wednesday!!  When I look at today's mani I feel like I can hear Monty Python in the background saying "And now for something completely different"  today's mani is night and day from my spiked mani of yesterday and it's also 100% not my style.  I really wanted to do a lace manicure though especially after seeing the one Jacki from Adventures In Acetone did--Jacki is SO DANG COOL but mine just did not come up cool at all.  Nor did they come out looking like a fairy tale wedding dream which is what I was picturing when I did them.  Instead they are just meh, and pretty colorless and boring.

I'm pretty sure I am just WAY TOO PALE for this look

Or my nails might be too long to pull off this look

I did a subtle gradient with OPI Bubble Bath and Alpine Snow and then stamped over it with Girly Bits White Wedding and Marianne n68 which is a lovely all lace image plate

I showed this to my niece Alex who is getting married next year and told her I wasn't a huge fan of it but to keep it in the back of her head for a wedding mani and bless her heart she said she thought it needed some sparkle!  Girl after my own heart LOL

Alas this did not stay on long enough for any added sparkle hopefully I'll remember it when I do the nails for the wedding LOL

This week has still been pretty amazing. My partners in crime have been doing an AHmazing job as always.  That dang Copycat Claws is KILLING it.  I wish I was her or rather that I lived next door to her so she could do my nails everyday LOLOLOL. She's Canadian though aka too cold for me ahaha.  Really though it's too cold in Canada and since I live in Wisconsin that is saying a lot.

Prepare to be wowed and check out what everyone else has done today!

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The Digit-al Dozen Does Gradient--Monkey See Monkey Do Monday Shanna's Nail Art

Hi Everyone!  Happy Monday!  This week is gradient week for the Digit-al Dozen and I got do to do triple action with this one!  My mom, sister, and I along with our friend LuAnn went to the Shedd Aquarium on Saturday and we had so much fun.  I wanted to be able to sport some underwater nails and lucky for me I found a super cute mani done by Shanna of Shanna's Nail Art all the way back from 2014 that I could use for a Monkey See Monkey Do Monday mani AND it fit this week's theme as well!

I had a HORRIBLE time trying to get pictures of this mani though!  Seriously!  It's a gradient that on my camera never looked like a gradient!  No matter where I went to get pictures of it, it did not show the gradient.  I took some barely passing pics at work, took a few ok ones with my cell phone and then the nightmare began trying to move them from one place to another UG.  I ended up having to use flash for this which I'm usually never a fan of

Here's my Shedd Aquarium mani complete with mermaid!  It really did turn out cute

I basically just used Bundle Monster BM501 for entire mani, I added a mermaid I had from a no name plate as for some reason I lost BM510!!! I've never lost a plate in my life but when I tried to find it it was no where to be found!

The turtle is from the same Bundle Monster set he's on BM503 he was a great little added touch

My base is just a simple gradient of China Glaze Turned Up Turquoise and Sally Hansen Xtreme Wear in Pacific Blue.  Mundo black for the stamping with the fabulous crystal stamper from  Girly Bits to help me place all the teeny fish exactly where I wanted them.

Here's a side by side picture of both mani's

This really was a perfect mani to wear to the Aquarium and I got several compliments on it

This week should be a good week!  I'm going to try to do a couple of things that are really outside the box for our gradient week.  Hopefully they both turn out!  

Please head over and check out what my crew came up with for today!

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The Digit-al Dozen Does Autumn--The Night Is A Lonely Hunter

Hi Everyone!  I really had to step up my A game because Serene of Copycat Claws is really nailing it this week.  Man I love to hate her sometimes!  She's like that girl in high school who was SO pretty and SO smart and SO friendly so no matter how much you wanted to not be friends with her you were because she was SO pretty and SO smart and SO friendly.

So today I put on my thinking cap and hauled out one of my favorite images OF ALL TIME and did a really pretty Fall forest mani

My forest base is a gradient of Zoya Cynthia and Nails Inc Hampstead Gardens.  I went back and sponged a bit of China Glaze Blk Bila Bong at the very top of the sky.

I stamped with BM407 an image I will never get tired of!  And I added the owl from Messy Mansion's MM38

I love the eerie feel to it.  I accidentally pulled up a piece of stamping on thumbie so now the tree trunk looks like a mutant LOL!

I matted it after I had a shiny topcoat on it.  Here's what it looks like shiny

I sure hope this mani has Serene shaking in her boots!!!!!

I'm hopping over to check out what everyone else did today!

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Coffee, Tea or . . .

Hi Everyone!  I almost said Happy Monday LOL!  Today is definitely Tuesday and how lovely that is after a nice day off to celebrate Labor Day.  I worked on a really lovely gradient with some stamping from the new Messy Mansion MM62 plate which is all tea related images.  It's pretty dang cute. I think this turned out just lovely although I wish I would have had some nice tea sandwiches and cakes to go along with it!

See how sweet this is?!

Here's how cute the plate is

I love the words that spell TEA that is just adorable!

This might just be the last of my light colors since we're moving into Fall

What do you think--I think it's just too precious!

I hope everyone had a great Labor Day Weekend those of us who celebrated it.  Thanks for stopping by!  I hope you all have a fabulous day!

The Digit-al Dozen Does Neon--The rainbow of our lives

Hi Everyone today is bad day/sad day for me.  6 years ago today I said goodbye to my beautiful sister, Lisa.  I don't like to say she passed away because honestly if you've ever watched anyone battle and then die from cancer they don't "pass away".  They do not go gently into that goodnight. Their bodies fight like hell until the very last breath to stay alive--so no one who succumbs to cancer simply passes away.

Sometimes in the rainbows of our lives we get dealt a heavy blow.  We lose someone we love and even though you have to put on the big front and go to work and act okay or spend time with your friends and family and act okay inside you are dying a little bit each day.  While we love so much we also grieve.  Where there is great love and joy there is also sadness.

Today I am wearing the rainbow of my life.  My accent nail is the grief I carry everyday over the loss of my sister, my very beautiful sister Lisa, my best friend.  She can never be replaced.

I will think of her today with both sadness and joy.  I will remember how she was one of the very best things about my life for almost 45 years.  I will remember her smile, her laughter, and her gentle nature.  But I will also remember she could not spell for shizz and she had no clue where anything was in the world geography wise.  I will remember while she was an exceptionally snazzy dresser she once over cooked ring bologna until it split and under cooked the macaroni so it was crunchy.

I will remember she could keep a secret and took many of them-probably thousands of them with her.  I will remember she was the strongest fighter I have ever met but I will also remember she used to wear Candie's high heeled sandals with knit shorts.  I will remember she loved unconditionally but I will also remember she couldn't drive stick shift to save her life.

Everyday even though there is goodness and light--love and joy there is also a black pit of despair for what I can never have again in this life.  I may not always wear it on the outside but everyday I live this rainbow--the rainbow of my life

I used some of the China Glaze Electric Nights for my neon rainbow and topped it with China Glaze Fairy Dust because Fairy Dust makes everything better

My accent nail is done using the "bird's nest" technique which I first saw this technique that didn't have a name in a video posted on Minhas unhas Facebook page that you can check out HERE  She does some pretty cool things!  But basically you just drop 2 or three drops of polish onto parchment paper or silicone baking sheet and swirl and swirl and swirl until the polish starts to dry and you can draw patterns in it.  Let it dry and apply like a decal

I applied mine over a coat of white

Thankfully the sun was out for about 20 minutes today so i got some nice pictures of this.

To any of you who also live this rainbow daily my heart goes out to you.  Loving someone and losing them is never easy.  And no matter what anyone says time does not heal all wounds.  Some wounds never heal but I truly believe one day we will be together again and that's why I still have joy and hope in my life right alongside the grief and despair

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The Digit-al Dozen Does Neon--Spiral Staircase!

Hi Everyone!  My long awaited FUN plates are finally here and I am just elated!  I always love new stuff from Fab Ur Nails.  Johanne comes up with the coolest designs too.  I knew right away I wanted to try something with the staircase looking design on FUN 16. Since I managed to nail my radial gradient yesterday I decided to go for it again and SUCCESS! Omg! I better watch out  because lightning might strike me!  

I used some of the China Glaze Electric Nights for this Plur-PLE, Glow With The Flow, Home Sweet House Music and Daisy Know My Name and then stamped with my beloved Mundo de Unas black and FUN 16 and look how fun this is!

Ooooh isn't this cool?????!!!!

Best place to get a shot was in my bedroom with the sun coming through the blinds.  Can you spy the cat butt on my bed???

These two jerks were sleeping when I was working my butt off making mani magic!

Roscoe on the left Rufus on the right!

Now back to the mani pics! I mean that is why we're here right????!!!!

I actually think stamping over a radial really helps it look like a success

This might just be one of my fave images evah! Oh Oh BM 221 there's a new sheriff in town!

All in all super happy with how this one turned out, even if the cats could have cared less!

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A little bit of sparkle for your Sunday!

Hi Everyone!  Hope you are all doing great.  I did something the other day I am always making fun of my friend friend Tara for doing---I topcoated a textured polish.  Actually I did a really nice gradient of some Julie G's Rocky Candy, Sleigh Ride and Sugar Plum Fairy.  I wore it for a day but some of my tips were chipping which honked me off so I reapplied a textured gradient coat and then I topcoated the heck out it and stamped over it!  Ooooh Ahhhhhh it turned out SO sparkly!

Typically I like my textureds um er textured LOL!

But look at the amazing sparkly in this baby when you topcoat it??!

I did some Mundo de Unas stamping in Aqua and Lime with my Gogo Only St Happy plate

I really like how this turned out!  It seems perfect for a day at the lake!

How do you like to "do" your textured polish?? With or without topcoat?

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

Shall We Dance?

Hi Everyone!  Happy Tuesday to all.  On Sunday I was lucky enough to spend the day with some of my nail polish friends.  We met through a group on Facebook over a year ago and have been having fairly regular get togethers to do our nails and eat yummy snacks.  Usually we just do one hand so we can try lots of new techniques or borrow plates we might not have.  It's just so much fun.

I wanted to work on the this week's theme in the Advanced Nail Stamping group which is a scene going across all 5 fingers.  This is a totally new challenge to us as we've never had that one before.  I mostly focused on doing scenery mani's while the other gals did whatever the heck they wanted LOL! Omg usually we die laughing over something and this time was no different.

Today I'm showing off the first of 3 across all 5 nails scenery mani's I did.  I used the new holo's from 10.1 Polish Disco Ball, It's Raining Men and Night Fever--all of these are named after 70's music/theme--for my gradient and then stamped with FUN20

As truly simply as this mani is I do believe it's quite striking.

Dancing couples on my thumb!

All all across my nails.  The only downside to doing nails at someone else's house is your lighting isn't what you're used to.

I really love how clean and beautiful this turned out.  What do you think?? Would you consider this a scenery mani or when you hear of scenery are you thinking of the great outdoors??

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

The Digit-al Dozen Does Fandom---Goooooooooo Packers!

Hi Everyone!  Oooh this week is off to a rip roaring start for me!  I was struggling to come up with another idea for Fandom week when BAM it hit me! Why not do the true meaning of fandom--fans as in football fans and the best football team there is has the best football fans--that's right us cheeseheads are the best fans evah!

Right now smack dab in the middle of the Stanley Cup playoffs and on the heels of the Belmont Stakes I'm hauling out my football mani LOL!

Hey preseason is starting up soon!!!!! And I can't wait!

I did a radial gradient with Sinful Colors Bananappeal and Illamasqua Rampage then I stamped with my custom plate from Fig Tree as well as CiCi & SiSi.  I just love it!!!

I can't wait for the new season to start!!!

I'm heading over to check out what my peeps did for their day 2!

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