April Challenges - A Smoosh and some Spirals

This week's #smooshynailsunday colours just screamed mint choc chip icecream to me, and a lot of others too, I think. Minty green, chocolatey brown and a cream, beige shade - yum!
I used Leighton Denny Morning Dew, Not Tonight and In the Buff  and I think they worked well together.
Then I used it as my base for Spirals for #clairestelle8april. I used a large spiral pattern on Pet'la Plate Spinning and Leighton Denny Not Tonight over the smoosh.
Then I used a smaller spiral pattern from the same plate with Leighton Denny Really Royal. This actually looked pretty good but it didn't like the camera so much.

Mint choc chip smoosh!

Pet'la Spinning and Leighton Denny Not Tonight

Pet'la Spinning and Leighton Denny Really Royal

January Challenges - Winter Berries

I am still loving my new BundleMonster + Sloteazzy BM-XL210 plate and this time I have used it with Hit the Bottle Snowed Under over Leighton Denny Morning Dew.
Then I used it again with A England Proserpine.
The prompt was Winter Berries for #clairestelle8jan. I used Pet'la Plate Golden Russian and Esmaltes da Kelly Naomi over the watermarbled stamping mani. Naomi is a dark red although I think it looks a bit brown in these pics and it was really hard to get a good shot of these, so again I resorted to a matte top coat.

BundleMonster + Sloteazzy BM-XL210

BundleMonster + Sloteazzy BM-XL210

Pet'la Plate Golden Russian and
Esmaltes da Kelly Naomi

 

Pet'la Plate Golden Russian and
Esmaltes da Kelly Naomi - matte

 

 

October Challenges - Pumpkins (again)

The #daysofcolourchallenge was Pumpkins. Now I already did pumpkins earlier in the week and I was moaning that I only had one pumpkin plate. A kindly soul suggested I did them freehand - what!?!? but she very helpfully pointed me to the work of Kelli Dobrin, and her video on You Tube.
Kelli did this super cute, super simple mani with pumpkins and I have failed miserably to copy it!!!
I'll stick to stamping and just vary the colours in future I think!! or buy another plate.
I started with a base of Leighton Denny Morning Dew, a lovely minty green,
Then, having decided freehanding onto my nails was bound to be a disaster, I made decals using Nails Inc Instyle Peach Sorbet, Nails Inc Atomic and Nails Inc Hampstead Gardens.
It all went as well as could be expected but instead of looking super cute they just look un-inspiring.
I wouldn't have posted them at all but since I said I was doing them I thought I'd better. I am certainly not posting the unedited version! It took some effort with sharpies and Kandy Colors jellies to get them looking remotely like pumpkins!!
Well, you know when you do a mani and you can't bear to take it off - this is NOT one of those moments :(

 

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