Scary

Today is the 20th day of September is Stamping Month.  The theme today is "Scary"

I have ripped off this amazing creation by Irina Walerica (http://walerica.blogspot.ru/) click here for the instagram photo that gave me inspiration for my manicure.

I find the scull on this artist plate really morbid.  I chose to stamp with purple since the colour is often used to symbolise mourning or death as are the carnations scattered around those roses.  I lifted the mood slightly by painting the roses pink!

Base colour: Barry M Gelly Hi-Shine, Coconut GNP 28
Stamp colour: Mundo de Uñas Stamping Polish, 14. Violet
Decals:  Barry M Gelly Hi-Shine, Dragon GNP 11
Stamping plate: Moyou London Artist Collection - 11

Indirect sunlight

Bottle Shot

Giant fingers

Tools of the Trade

The decals

Halogen lighting

Enormous fingers!

Hazy autumn sunshine

Bollywood

The AIS challenge for Sunday 10th August is:   Bollywood.  I thought I'd go for a full nail image in a hot summery colour as a background to some striking dark flourishes.  Unfortunately, my stamping was off, and so every finger has a wonky black mess on it instead.  For this reason, I thought I'd start the post with the base stamping images.


Base colour: OPI Ski Slope Sweetie HL E15
Stamp colour: Barry M Gelly Hi-Shine, Papaya 416
Base Plate: Moyou London Suki Collection - 06 and Artist Collection - 11

Under a tree

Halogen lighting

For the black bits:

Stamp colour: Konad black
Stamping plate: Moyou London Pro Collection - 07  XL and Tourist collection - 20

Self timer function helps position fingers to hide wonky stamping

Right hand, missing parts of every flourish

Left hand, spectacularly off center :)

Scary close-up of the base stamping

Angry Lace

So the pretty girly mood didn't last long, and I used the more threatening parts of the Artist Collection plate as an indication of this. I was actually surprised at how well the double stamping worked, although thee middle finger is a little busy looking for my liking.


Base colour: OPI, Don't touch my Tutu with  Konad White
Stamp colour: Barry M Gelly Hi-Shine,
Image plate: Moyou London Artist Collection 11

Artistic Lace

I was in a dainty floral mood when this plate arrived, all the full nail image sections (see plate image below) were so tempting, but I managed to restrict myself to two of them :)


Base colour: OPI, Don't touch my Tutu
Stamp colour:  Konad White
Image plate: Moyou London Artist Collection 11

Moyou London Stamping Plate The Artist Collection 11