Hi Everyone!!! Yay for the weekend! Today it's a nice sunny brisk day here in Wisconsin. No huge plans for me this weekend but we are doing some Spring cleaning in Fall lol. Windows, walls, floors and ceilings are getting washed and we are steam cleaning the carpets. I'm hoping to get over to Michael's and pick up some cinnamon pine cones too! I love those things SO much and love having my house smell like cinnamon and vanilla
I'm also trying to find some time to catch up to the Bingo game we have going on in the Advanced Nail Stamping Group. We have a winner already but the rest of us wanted to keep playing. Now I have to do a skeleton and a black cat mani! I have a great idea for my skeleton mani too!!! Hopefully I can pull it off. I was thinking of combining and doing a cat skeleton but let's face it my free hand is not good and so far no one has come up with a skeleton cat image for stamping. I hope someone in the know is reading this for next year!!
I do have this pre Halloween mani to share with you today. I find myself enjoying the sort of scary but not gory Halloween looking things. I guess the more gothic looking images. I did this one hoping for an overgrown cemetery feel
I did free hand the cross here and was actually pretty impressed with my efforts!
I wish this picture wasn't so fuzzy but this is one of those mani's I didn't take many pictures of for some reason
I used my CZ grass plate again, can't believe how much I love this plate! And Bundle Monster assisted with the raven. Hauled out one of my OPI Sands for the non accent nails--really like this just dark black sand with no glitter to it.
I'm pretty sure there will be tons of Halloween mani's this week, hopefully this one that hasn't been done before.
Hope you all have a great weekend!
Hi Everyone!! Happy Wednesday! I think you all know I don't do cute too often but we had a challenge going on in the Advanced Nail Stamping Group and we had to do mummies. It's hard to be original when it comes to a Mummy mani. I mean come on we've all seen them and they are all pretty much the same with some eyes peeking out of some criss crosses. So I wasn't feeling too excited about this challenge and really wanted to try to do something different. That's how I came up with the Mummy Date Night!
I did some stamping with FUN and Messy Mansion for this one!
And I actually free handed the eyes lips and moustache!!!!
I think this one turned out pretty cute--what do you think????
Soooo in the middle of my Digit-al Dozen Does Autumn week life got in the way and not in a good way. 'sThursday night I got home way too late to post and on Friday my sweet Bobo, our first chinchilla crossed the Rainbow Bridge. While it's true we had Bobo for 11 years chinchillas live into their 20's so we were not expecting her to leave us so soon.
I know for most people a pet is a dog or a cat and definitely not a chinchilla but we love our chinchillas and they are just as much a part of the family as our cats are. She was our first, she was my favorite and the pain of losing her hit me pretty hard.
So today I'm posting my acorns and leaves mani--way late but sometimes you just have to stop and cry and eat desserts until you feel better
Today I just loaded up all things fall and did a Fall French Tip look with leaves and acorns
I think it's rather funny that I love wearing nudes every now and then. I am a hard core vampy and dark colors lover but man oh man I love to wear nudes!
I used my long forgotten because honestly they aren't that great because they bleed like hell Kleancolor metallics for my maple leaves.
It's funny how when you first start stamping you think the Kleancolor metallics are the second coming of Christ. But when you've had 687 mani's ruined by their bleeding you just get so over them
Bundle Monster and MoYou plates for my stamping
I really love the vibrancy of my Mundo's against this nude base
I don't do french tips often but I always like how it looks when I do!
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!
OMG don't look! This is soooooo embarrassing! The Crumpet and I are wearing the same outfit! This has honestly never happened to me before!
LOL! I'm sure by now you've guessed most of us in the Digit-al Dozen have known each other for years and have been hanging around the same shady joints for years. Debbie and I are definitely those two people. We have totally different styles but on this day we found out we both did something so similar it was just hilarious to me.
She posted a pic of her mani while mine was freaking drying! She lives across the pond for god's sake and here we were doing something really similar without even talking about it. We thought it would be a great idea to post them today.
I guess you'll have to decide for yourself who wore it better!
I did this mani with a ton of Darling Diva Witchee Collection Polishes--Shapeshifter, The Archanist, The Alchemist, Cast A Spell and The Witching Hour. I also used her Green Diamond and well as Jade Mystic Gold
My base is the gorgeous Billy Bones from Pahlish. Seriously in love with this polish. I know it's hard to see all the ultrachrome flecks in it but trust me they are there and gorgeous!
I stamped using one of my MJ plates. FINALLY used this sucker! I've had it for awhile but finally peeled off the blue film! MJ XLV has a lot of cool leaves and flower images on it
I know I sure loved this happy little accident! I can't wait to check out what everyone else came up with today! Is anyone else wearing my outfit?????
Hi Everyone! Happy Monday! This week kicks off The Digit-al Dozen's Autumn week and living in Wisconsin I am happy to report we have a kick-ass Autumn season! Autumn or Fall to me means a gorgeous scenery of yellows, orange, greens and browns. It's apple harvesting, and corn harvesting and of course pumpkin picking! It's comfortable days with cooler nights. It's Packer football season spent watching the game with family and friends. It's also Halloween! There is alot going on in the Fall!!!
Today I decided to kick off my Digit-al Dozen week with a look that goes from Fall to Halloween--sweet to badass with just a couple of little change ups. I actually really love this mani both ways! First I started with one of my favorite Fall colors--Cast A Spell from Darling Diva. This gorgeous coppery orange is from her Witchee Collection--my favorite collection of hers. I stamped first the BN01 Bridal Nail collection from Messy Mansion.
This right here is just drop dead gorgeous to me. Nothing says Autumn like orange and black together
I think this image makes this look so classy!
I love the Bridal Nail set from Messy Mansion all the images are just stunning
To give this same mani and edgier look for Halloween I grabbed MM58 and a couple of the wicked cool skull images!
Same mani with just a couple of badass additions!
How cool is the dude on my ring finger???!!!
Total BADASS! I love how with just these little additions I was able to turn this Autumn tapestry look into a wicked Halloween mani!
I'm going to head over to see what everyone else came up with for today!
Hi Everyone! Happy Monday! It is definitely starting to look like and feel like Fall around here and I am elated! I hauled out a bunch of my "ready for Fall and Winter" polishes which means the Darling Diva Witchee Collection is front and center. In my humble opinion this is the best collection she's had and I am so glad I have all of them!
I decided to start out my week with the gorgeous The Witching Hour which is a gorgeous dark teal. I also hauled out my Uber Chic Wild West 01 plate--the one I bought 2 months ago and still had the freaking blue film on it and my Mundo Aqua to come out with this beauty!
This is one of those really easy and simple stamped mani's that just look stunning
Tone on tone stamping is always going to be my favorite I think
I know alot of you just live for summer neons but man oh man oh man these dark colors are my fave and I'm so glad I have a few months to play with these babies!
I've got some nice Fall/Autumn ideas churning in my head right now and would really like to do something with a dark brown. Hopefully we'll see something cool with brown in the next few days!
The leaves are starting to turn here so definitely signs Winter is on its way--but hopefully it won't rush!
Thanks for stopping by!!! I hope you all have a fantastic day!
