Stained Glass!

Hi Everyone!!! Happy Friday!  And it is a glorious Friday at that!  I am happy to report no coughing at all so far today! Yes that is cause for celebration!  My strained voice is finally gone, no more coughing and I'm pretty sure I can smell again.  I sure hope so since tomorrow I'll have corned beef cooking in beer for several hours!

A couple of weeks ago I was thrilled when I received the entire Bridal Collection set from Messy Mansion to review.  Messy Mansion has been doing exceptional plates for sometime now and this Bridal Collection set is no exception.  They are the perfect size for my nails width wise and plenty long enough for my long nails too.   Not to mention they are etched to perfection!

I was really eager to get started on doing some mani's with them and then BAM struck down by cold from hell.  So naturally since I was feeling a lot better last night I sat down to start working with them.  I picked the 04 plate right off the bat as it has some really unique images on it.  With the help of some sheer tints from Polish 10.1 I did some leadlighting and came up with this fantastic stained glass look!

I stamped over Milani 3D Holographic Hi-Tech and then did some added leadlighting with 10.1 Polish in Blueberry Blue and Lemon Cupcake.  As it turns out Lemon Cupcake is not that visible in the light LOL!

If it was a sunny day out I'd get out there and get some pics outside but nope cloudy as all get out today

I really do love how this turned out!  The ease of a dotting tool made this leadlighting easy to do too.  Leadlighting is actually a technique the stamping world took by storm after Julia from Messy Mansion first coined it

I love this image from the Messy Mansion Bridal 04 plate.  It is perfect for a stained glass look and it has a ton of potential with decaling as well.  I know this is an image I will use again.

Messy Mansion plates can be found on their site HERE as well as through Amazon.com

If you're like me--too lazy to make your own sheer tints--you can find the 10.1 Polish sheers HERE 

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

Roses in Winter

Hi Everyone!  Oh My Lanta I've been MIA for a bit!  Sorry about that but I just sort of fell off the face of the earth with no real reason lol!  It might be the crushing  Packer loss or the fact we got a freaking foot of snow this past weekend with more to come! UG!

Today I have a beautiful mani to show you that I did with FUN 13.  A few months ago the very lovely and super talented Johanne of Fab Ur Nails posted this gorgeous mani she had done using FUN 13 and some sheer tints over a holo.  I just fell in love with it so HAD to try to recreate it.  Johanne is not only a dear sweet friend she has been my inspiration for many, many beautiful mani's.

Here's my recreation of her stunning roses!

I started off with a base of China Glaze Sexagon and then used my fabulous sheer tints from Polish 10.1 to recreate this mani of Johanne's

Isn't this just a gorgeous mani?

When you leadlight with sheers you can do so many things!

This is Johanne's mani

I just love everything about it and have always loved her beautiful long nails!!!

Here's a picture of ours together

Gorgeous aren't they?

10.1 Polish has clear jelly sheers as well as some sheer holos!  They are just awesome for leadlighting!  If you'd like to check them out you can find them HERE  Kelly has a lot of great polishes and is always coming up with new things!

I'm so glad to call both Johanne and Kelly friends and thanks to both of them for their inspiration!

The Digit-al Dozen Does Floral

Hi Everyone!  Happy Monday!  I actually won a Fantasy Football game yesterday AND my mom and I went to see Gone Girl so really great day for me yesterday.  Have you seen that Gone Girl movie?  Holy cow that thing was a real nail biter!  Thankfully I managed to rein myself in and my nails are still intact.  

I recently required the very lovely OPI DS Classic from a friend who just wasn't feeling it anymore.  I was so thrilled to snag it as it's truly gorgeous.  It's a great nude scattered holo and it was the perfect backdrop for my floral mani today!

I also used my FUN 7 plate for the lovely flower stamping

I enlisted the "leadlight" technique and filled in the flowers with a lovely deep red jelly polish. Normally I hate jellies because of visible nail line, but they are perfect for doing leadlighting

I do love this combination of nude/brown and red how about you?

I'm stopping over to see what everyone else came up with today!

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A little more "leadlight" in your life!

Hi Everyone!  Happy Monday!  Looks like we might have a cloudy day today so I decided to brighten it up a bit with another "leadlight" mani.  This time I went for something cute, which is funny because I don't really "do" cute.  This was super easy to do and this time I used 3 colors from Color Club's Take Wing collection

The leadlight technique simply involved filling it or painted over a stamped design.  I stamped with black over a white base for this one.

I stamped using CiCi & SiSi 07 and filled in with Color Club Sky High, Daisy Does, and Wing Fling

This is the 2nd time I've tried the technique and each time I've done it, it was very easy to do.

We might hit the 60's sometime this week so I think it might finally be time to set aside all the dark Winter colors and bring up some fun bright and pastel colors!

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

It's great to have friends!

Hi Everyone!  A couple weeks ago I went over to my friend Emily's house to hang out and we did tons of fun mani's.  I love getting together with my nail friends to try out new things and just spend quality time with someone who doesn't think owning a million nail polishes and a million nail image plates is a bad thing.

I met Emily through the very blog!  She discovered we lived in the same city so she messaged me and the rest is history!  I love hanging out with her.  We both love nail polish and nail art, we both love makeup AND Emily plays the piano for me whenever I'm over there.  It's just so much fun.

We want to try the "leadlight" technique which is something Julia from Messy Mansion came up with.  She actually has made some polishes in her leadlight line that are designed to be layered or applied OVER stamping instead of doing the long, drawn out decal method.  Currently we aren't able to get the leadlight polishes in the states but Messy Mansion is working on that.  That ding dang OZ not allowing nail polish in or out of the country ARG.  Good thing they have kangaroos down there and Alex O'Loughlin and wombats, and koala's otherwise I'd really not like them much!  OH and of course good thing they have Messy Mansion down there LOL!

Emily and I both tried out the "leadlight" technique using some of the old Revlon Fizzes.  They are much to sheer to wear on their own really but they make a great topper and they are perfect for the "leadlight" technique which is layering over stamping by the use of nail art brush or dotting tool.  We both used a dotting tool.

First up mine!

I chose to stamp with EDM05 and then layered red, orange and yellow--Revon Watermelon Fizz, Orange Fizz and Pineapple Fizz over the flowers

I made sure to start with a light neutral base before stamping over it--I chose My Vampire Is Buff.

Here's Emily's stamping!

Roses!  I love them.  I want to try this image of hers next time we hang out.  Having a polish buddy is so great because you can share!  Which means really you have TWICE as much polish!  Woot!

What do you think?  Do you like this technique?  I think it's pretty cool.  As most of you know I am not a jelly fan at all because they are just so sheer, but now a world is opened up for me!  Jellies, especially those with some sparkle are great for this technique.

As soon as the leadlight polishes are available in the US, I'm going to be all over them though!

Thanks for stopping by!!  Happy Friday!  I hope you all have a fabulous weekend!