26 Great Nail Art Ideas - Christmas Preparations

This weeks prompt was Christmas Preparations - I hate wrapping and am no good at baking so for me the best Christmas preparation is decorating the tree.
We haven't done ours yet this year, but I always dream of a nice dark tree with silver/white decorations, so that's what I did on my nails.
I started with my fanbrush base of green, red and blue (Ard as Nails Missy, 'Ard as Nails Lazy Afternoon and Barry M Laguna) and then I used a lovely plate I got last Christmas Messy Mansion MM30.
I used A England Proserpine for the dark boughs of the tree and then used For Your Nails Only Snow Queen for the decorations.
I was really pleased with the outcome but it was so dull outside I did struggle to capture this one, despite taking over 100 photos.

fanbrush base

Messy Mansion MM30 with  A England Proserpine

Messy Mansion MM30 with  A England Proserpine
 and For Your Nails Only Snow Queen

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When Colours Collide - Green and White

The most recent When Colours Collide challenge was Green and White.
I chose Freckles Polish The Very Hungry Caterpillar as my base. This polish does not have a blog post if its own because despite being very beautiful, I could not get enough decent pictures of it.
I captured the gorgeous golden flecks but none of the sparkle so I will have to try again on a better day!
I stamped with Messy Mansion MM30 and Hit the Bottle Snowed Under but I thought it looked a bit plain so I added a quick dusting of Violet Rose Polish Thistle.
We had another excellent response to this challenge and created two collages.

Freckles Polish The Very Hungry Caterpillar

Messy Mansion MM30 and Hit the Bottle Snowed Under

with Violet Rose Thistle

 

 

40 Great Nail Art Ideas - Christmas

The prompt for this week for 40 Great Nail Art Ideas was Christmas.
I have just got my hands on Messy Mansion MM30 and it seeemd to me there were two images just made to be used together, the boughs of a christmas trees (I think that would be the right term) and baubles with pine cones.
I decided to start with a pale base so I used A England Cathy. Then I did the tree with Colors by Llarowe Magnificent Maleficent and the baubles with A England Let Me In.
Although quite a green teal, the CBL seems to have stamped quite blue over the lilac grey, but trees don't have to be green, do they?
I think the colours all work quite well together, a bit on the subtle side but I like them.

Messy Mansion MM30

 

 

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