April Challenges - A Smoosh and some neon

Well you might notice the posts have slowed down and actually some manis may not even get a blog post. I am trying to keep up but it's just not happening.
You can always follow my blog facebook page, my personal facebook page and my instagram to see what I am up to, just with less words!!! that might be a good thing!
Anyway, this week's smoosh was black, white and hot pink - I used Nails Inc Nottinghill Gate, Barry M White and A England Camelot. Nottinghill Gate didn't turn out that hot, maybe I should have added a second layer but I don't like to mess with smooshes! The end smoosh was quite pretty I think but more subtle than I planned.
Then I stamped with with Bundle Monster BM-S301 and A England Camelot. It was quite tricky to choose what to stamp over black and white - I didn't want to add more colour and I think maybe there are a couple of black patches that don't look so great but overall it was OK.
Then I made it Neon for #clairestelle8april with my Kandy Colors neon jellies - Grape Much?, Hey Girl and Retro. I did it all detailed like lead lighting on my left hand and just blobbed it on messily on the right. I actually preferred the messy version so I added a second more random layer of colour to both.

smoosh!

Bundle Monster BM-S301 and A England Camelot

Kandy Colors neon jellies

More Kandy Colors neon jellies

July Challenges - Holo / Leadlighting

For those who read my blog regularly, sorry about the flurry of blog activity! It has been a busy week and now I am catching up!
The challenge yesterday was Holo / Leadlighting for #30daysofcolourchallenge.
I started with SV by Sparkly Vernis Blurple Ice Cubes, the most gorgeous pale blue lilac holo, which I have worn before but I think this picture is better :)
I stamped with Messy Mansion Leadlight Lacquer A04 and China Glaze Liquid Leather and that looked so good I took a couple of pictures. It almost seemed a shame to hide the holo!
Then I leadlighted (is that a verb?) with Kandy.Colors Hivis Wat, Retro, Carnival and Grape Much?
The Kandy Colors are great for lead lighting, just the right level of colour - they are perfect! and I am really happy with the way this turned out.

SV by Sparkly Vernis Blurple Ice Cubes

Messy Mansion Leadlight Lacquer A04
and China Glaze Liquid Leather

Leadlighting with Kandy Colors jellies

 

An InLinkz Link-up

May Challenges - Kaleidoscope

Today's challenge for #clairestelle8may was Kaleidoscope. I did have a plan for this mani but the arrival of the Kandy.Colors neon jellies tempted me to change my mind.
I used all six colours. In my mind these were 6 neat segments but in reality 6 blobby overlapping segments. Not that it mattered since I was stamping over it anyway, and I rather liked the resulting water colour look that I got.
I stamped using A England Lancelot again as I thought black might be a bit harsh and I used Moyou London Kaleidoscope 06. I haven't used this image before so I am not sure if the slightly poor pick up of image was the plate, the scraping or the polish. Lancelot is running pretty low so I am inclined to think I didn't have enough polish on the plate, and that maybe I should have scraped in 2 directions to distribute the polish better.
I am pleased with them anyway - the jellies are lovely and bright and make a great base for the Kaleidoscope image.

Kandy Colors jellies, Moyou London Kaleidoscope 06
 and A England Lancelot

 

 

  

Kandy Colors Northern Lights

Leadlighting! Kandy Colors neon jellies and Pet'la Plate Calaveras

This wasn't a challenge - well not in the normal blogging sense of the word, but boy was it challenging!!
I ordered some jelly polishes last week from Kandy.Colours and they arrived yesterday so of course I had to try them out. The set I ordered was called Northern Lights, a full set of 6 neon jellies - they are so pretty and just the right level of colour to add a tint to a mani (picture at the end of this post just so you can see how pretty they are).
I didn't think I could change my plans on any of my scheduled manis so I did a little extra one, as suggested by Morven of Pretty Quirky. She very kindly reminded me I hadn't used the sugar skulls Pet'la plate.
I began with a base of Barry M Coconut, and then using A England Camelot I stamped a selection of the skull images onto my nails from Pet'la Plate Calaveras.
I thought they looked quite cool just black on cream so I did take a picture before tackling the colouring.
Nothing like starting with a real challenge - the plate is so detailed that colouring the images took forever. The elements to colour are so tiny, but I decided to use a very small brush rather than a dotting tool, just to save a bit of time and get a slightly smoother finish. I think I did a reasonably neat job but it took a lot of effort, especially to do the right hand! I also decided that I wanted to use all 6 colours in a rainbow effect and I think that added to the challenge but now they are done I do think they look quite cool.
I think I might go for a slightly less complex design next time I do leadlighting and of course now I have jellies I can try the long awaited pond mani!

Pet'la Plate Calaveras over Barry M Coconut

Kandy.Colors Northern Lights neon Jellies
 and Pet'la Plate Calaveras

 

Kandy Colors Northern Lights