Knitty Nails: December Challenges

Tuesday, 15 December 2015

December Challenges - Winter Wonderland

Today's challenge for #clairestelle8dec was Winter Wonderland.
I started with the gorgeous dark purple of Freckles Polish I'm The Fairest. This was from the November Paint the Rainbow box and is a wonderful deep dark purple jelly packed with sparkly glitter.
This polish applied nicely but as it is a jelly, I probably needed a third coat or a layer of undies. I would probably go for undies as I tend to get uneven patchiness as I layer up jellies no matter how hard I try. Anyway, it is gorgeous, I love a deep blue indigo type purple.

Then I stamped with one of the very new and exciting Messy Mansion plates which I got from Nail Artisan. Messy Mansion have just brought out 3 new ranges of plates and this is one of the Tristaenia range. All the plates in this range are split so one half is the negative of the other - I couldn't resist although I did only get 2!! Obviously I used the Merry Christmas one for this mani.
For my winter wonderland I chose the street scene, houses and trees, and stamped using 2True Pro Metallica Artemis.
Then I added a few snowflakes with QA86 and then OPI Pirouette My Whistle, just to make sure it looked properly wintery!