Stamping! with Pet'la plates, A England Saint George and Mentality Green Opaque over Fancy Gloss Pumpkin Patch

I have a 3 part mani to share with you today, a new polish and 2 new plates. This is also my Chinese New Year mani but I'll try not to make the post too long!!
I started with Fancy Gloss Pumpkin Patch, which is a beautiful pumpkin orange with really pretty glitter that picks up red, yellow and green in the light. I think this might have been limited edition (for Halloween) but I bought mine from Rainbow Connection and it is still available there.
The polish applied well, good coverage in 2 coats although I could see the nail line in the light. Not so much that it worried me but I am finding the longer my nails are the more I can see it as light shines through - I'll have to learn to live with it!
I did this mani over 3 days, so yesterday, Chinese New Year, I added the Mentality Green Opaque and used Pet'la plate Golden Russian. I love the Pet'la plates - they are brass so they look a lot different to all my other plates but the quality is excellent.
I think the metallic Mentality polish worked well over Pumpkin Patch, a lovely contrast between the soft polished sheen of the green  and the sparkly intense orange.
Finally, today, I added a 2nd layer of stamping with A England Saint George, a gorgeous dark intense holo teal and Pet'la plate Flake No More. I love it!! I think the dark teal with the paler green work really well against the orange, and again the plate was brilliant.
I love double stamping, it's a bit trial and error for me but sometimes you get some really lovely combinations, and whilst I wouldn't wear orange for more than a day or two, I'd happily wear this for some time!

Fancy Gloss Pumpkin Patch

 

Mentality Green Opaque
and Pet'la plate Golden Russian

 

A England Saint George and
Pet'la plate Flake No More

 

Stamping! Blue roses and stripes

Yesterday was the A2Z challenge, and I did black and white stripes. Later in the day I was looking at my nails and I thought - blue roses - that's what I need on these, and then I thought I'd probably need some green too.
I didn't want the whole nail covered so I used one of my Moyou London Mother Nature full image plates and picked up a stamper head full of leaves with Mentality Green Opaque. Then I just pressed the tip of my nail onto the edge of the image, and actually got 3 or 4 nails out of each stamp as I wasn't too particular about the actual image or placement. I then did the same with Mentality Blue Opaque and a stamper head of roses, just picking up 2 or 3 roses for each nail. It was all a bit hit and miss but I think the overall effect is really pretty.
I struggled a bit with photos. The light wasn't great so the pictures are not the best.
I wasn't entirely sure where the idea for this came from but when my daughter came home she took one look and said, I had a dress like that! Of course she did, a lovely T-shirt style dress, black and white stripes with blue roses on!
I took a quick pic of this mani with a matte finish too - think this might be one where the glossy finish was better, but I love it anyway.

Blue roses and stripes

 

 

Blue roses and stripes - matte

Stamping! Messy Mansion 20 again with Mentality Green Opaque

Today's stamping was not a huge success. When I used Messy Mansion 20 a few days back I didn't really pick the image up as well as I thought I should so, having asked for advice, I was determined to try again. I decided to stamp over yesterday's mani, with Mentality Green Opaque and see if I had more success with a thicker polish.
I added some more ATC This One's For My Peeps to the mani, just a little dabble with some saran wrap so the base was pinker. I think this was quite successful, I do like the effects of saran wrap manis, but with hindsight I would have been better off stamping directly over the untouched mani.
The image picked up very well, but the contrast over the pinky blue marbled base wasn't great so the stamping couldn't really be seen clearly. The colors look great together but it did look a bit random - it made me think of Avatar. I think there must be some fantastical creature out there with this mottled green, pink and blue skin!!
The contrast would have been better over the darker base, so Messy Mansion 20 will have to stay out and be tried again. I think next time I won't try to be too clever, just a simple plain base and one of the Mentality Opaque polishes. I just have so many ideas I want to try but I would do well to remember "less is more" !!
Anyway, a quick pic of the saran wrap base and a few of the colourful end result :)

saran wrap base

Messy Mansion 20 and Mentality Green Opaque