May Challenges - Pink and Lace

There was a theme in one of my facebook groups to do a pink mani for the new royal princess so I thought I'd combine that with #clairestelle8may challenge which was Lace.
I was in the mood to stay with textured polish so I used Avon Stardust Crystallized Pink. It's not that pink to be honest, almost a neutral tone which makes it very wearable as well as very sparkly and pretty.
Then I used Born Pretty BP-02 and Essence Stampy 001 to stamp the lace pattern. This looks really pretty but the contrast is not great - it's quite subtle which I don't mind but it does make it tricky to get a good picture.
I decided not to top coat this and 24 hours later it still looks fine. I love the feel of the textured polish and the matte stamping polish looks lovely and delicate over the textured base.

Avon Stardust Crystallized Pink

 

Lace - Born Pretty BP-02 and Essence Stampy 001

 

Stamping! Born Pretty 02 with ATC Moon Dance

Today I have been stamping again. It didn't work out exactly as I'd planned but I am still quite happy with it. Although I've experimented before, I wanted to try stamping with 2 colours so I chose Above the Curve This One's for My Peeps and Caty Perry-winkle, a pink holo and a blue one, both quite pale colours and quite opaque so I thought they'd work well over Above the Curve Moon Dance that I was wearing from last night. I decided to try a very pretty lacy pattern on one of my Born Pretty Plates, BP02. These plates are really good value and despite the long wait for them to arrive I am really pleased I got them. 

The plan was to do half the image in pink and half in blue, and allow any merging of the colors to happen but although the polishes are opaque enough to stamp with, the colour has not really come through so the whole nail looks the same. Not the end of the world, the image stamped well and the design is pretty, so although I could see my plan had failed I kept going just in case the top coat helped the colours out. It didn't, but the stamps I did on paper worked so I think I was just a bit too optimistic stamping over such a dark colour. Note to self - things to try next - pale colours over white, not nearly black and stronger colours over a dark base.

The piece of paper where I wipe the scraper between scrapings looks really pretty with the pink and blue wipings :)

I could pretend that I'd just used one colour and that it all worked out perfectly but you never know - this might be a useful note to anyone else thinking about trying this. I still consider myself to be very new to stamping, still have heaps to learn and my blog is about what I did and why, so you get it all -successes and failures.

I don't consider this a failure, it is a lesson learned and luckily I still have a very pretty pattern stamped over last nights stunning glitter, the glitters still peeping out between the stamped image and I really like the end result!

As usual where I really like a mani, heaps of pictures. There was no sunshine today but I have a mix of daylight, LED and flash pics.

BP02 stapmed over Above the Curve Moon Dance