Nail Crazies Unite - Blue, Silver and White Winter

Well, this week's prompt was Blue, Silver and White Winter and you can't get more wintery than snowflakes. I love snowflakes and I have plenty of plates with snowflakes on so any excuse to use them and I'm happy!
I started with a silver gel base. Gellifique 6056 is a one step gel of very fine silver glitter in a clear base. I used 2 coats. It was not fully opaque but enough for a base under stamping and as my nails are no longer stained I didn't mind that coverage was not 100%.
I started with a large snowflake image from Pet'la Plate Flake No More with Moonflower Polish Azul (Blue). I like the Moonflower polishes, I have 3 so far and they stamp nicely but I don't find the coverage great on negative images, or large areas of stamping. I think I need to work to find a better technique for spreading the polish but that aside the blue stamped well for this snowflake image.
I then added a much more delicate snowflake from Beauty Big Bang 06 and Moyou London White Knight.
Finally I added some trees with Messy Mansion MM30 and A England Natasha's Dance.
I was pleased with the wintery look of this mani!

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Nail Crazies Unite - Nautical

This week's prompt (well, last week's - late again! and too late for the inlinkz) was nautical.
Messy Mansion sent me MM93XL to review a while back so I thought I'd better use it again as it hasn't had a lot of use.
I started with a base of Itsy Nails In Deep, a lovely watery blue, perfect for a nautical mani.
Then I added one of the rope images with Moyou London White Knight.
Then I added the anchors with A England Natasha's Dance. I chose 2 images, the smaller anchors on index and little finger, and the larger images on middle and ring finger.
As a final touch I coloured the larger anchors in with my Sharpies, but the colour wasn't quite close enough and I didn't top coat the final stage for fear of smudging!
The photos aren't brilliant and I think a matte top coat would have helped, but again, I didn't want to smudge the colouring - sorry!!

MM93XL

MM93XL

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Nail Crazies Unite - Sweets

This was a tricky one, I really struggled to find any plates with sweets on apart from Messy Mansion Merry Christmas.
So, after trying and failing to come up with an alternative solution, I went with that plate.
I started with a base of HJ Manicure Candy Pink and then stamped sweets from Messy Mansion Merry Christmas on each nail with Moyou London White Knight.
I wasn't sure if they looked a bit plain so I also did a coloured version using A England In Robe and Crown and Leighton Denny Rebel.

Sweets ; Messy Mansion Merry Christmas 

 

 

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40 Great Nail Art Ideas - Kids TV

Kids TV for #40greatnailartideas - well this was a toughie - in the end I went with my favourite TV programme when I was little, and even then you have to use your imagination a bit! I always loved this pink stripey cat and it is no coincidence that my daughter is called Emily!
I used Bundle Monster BM-S161 from the Fuzzy and Ferocious set 2 and Moyou London White Knight over Nails Inc Sugarloaf Sunset.
I showed my husband and asked him which children's TV show this was and he got it staright away so hopefully not too abstract!

Nails Inc Sugarloaf Sunset

 

Bundle Monster BM-S161

 

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