Sunday Stamping Challenge and Avon's Vintage Blue Swatch

    In the facebook group Adventures In Stamping, our challenge for today was the sky is the limit.  I don't have to many stamping plates yet so I wasn't planning on participating but a thought pooped into my head.  I had just bought an Essence plate that had a sneaker and a high heel shoe on it and I remembered when a bunch of kids in my neighbor hood threw a bunch of shoes over the telephone lines last year and I thought, hey, that is perfect.  This is what I came up with.  It seemed like such a better idea in my head but oh well.  It turned out decent but I don't know how long it will stay on my nails.  I spent a lot of time on it and don't know if I want to redo my nails again today, I'm pretty tired. :-)

 Without the shoes and powerline

Outside in natural light

 Inside without flash

 Inside with flash

Base coat: Chip Skip from OPI and Yello-Out
Base color: Vintage Blue from Avon - 2 coats
White clouds (applied with a dotting tool), power line, and power pole: acrylic paint
Red shoes: Ruby Slipper from Avon
Orange shoes: Clementine from Sinful Colors
Green shoes: Not Now from Pure Ice
Blue shoes: Why Not from Sinful Colors
Purple shoes: Midnight Plum from Avon
Top coat: Out the Door

I look forward to your comments.  Don't be shy!

Wet N Wild Beautiful But Dangerous Over Sally Hanson Mellow Yellow With Swatches

     Beautiful But Dangerous is one of Wet N' Wilds new colors that has been released in their Sparks and Stripes Collection.  I really loved this color in the bottle but I really am not sure what color to wear it over!  You should see my table.  There are tons of random blobs of color with this glitter over it as I was trying to figure out what to apply it over.  This was the best one I could think of.  I did get compliments on it so it can't be that bad...  What do you think?
    I am really impressed with the opacity that I received from Mellow Yellow.  This was reached with just two thin coats.  No brush strokes and full coverage is a hard to find object when it comes to yellow so if you're looking for a lovely yellow to wear I highly recommend this one.

                         Inside with no flash                                                   Outside in natural light

                       

Inside with flash

Inside, no flash.

Outside, no flash.

Base coat: Chip Skip from OPI and Nail Envy from OPI

Base color: Mellow Yellow - 2 coats from Sally Hanson

Glitter: Beautiful But Dangerous from Wet N Wild - 1 coat

Top coat: Out the Door

Wet N Wild Spontaneous Combustion Over Avon's Jade Plus Swatches

     As I mentioned in yesterday's post I am going to show you what Spontaneous Combustion looks like layered over something.  I wasn't sure what to layer this over so I decided to use one of my unswatched colors so I could show you two things with one post.  I know, I know, I am THAT cool.  Or ya know, what ever.  Not much else to say about this other than I am glad that I picked it up.  The colors in this glitter as SO me!  I am bummed that the Jade bubbled though.  I think I shook it to soon before I applied it because it isn't that old of a polish.  And in case you are wondering why there is so much glitter at the tips, it is because I did it that way on purpose.  :-)

Outside with no flash

Inside with no flash

Inside with flash

Base coat: Chip Skip from OPI and Nail Envy from OPI

Base color: Jade from Avon - 2 coats

Glitter: Spontaneous Combustion from Wet N' Wild

Top coat: Out the Door

Tomorrow I will show the other glitter that I purchased from the Starts and Stripes collection; Beautiful But Dangerous.  What do you think of this glitter!!??  Love it, hate it, or eh who cares?

Wet N' Wild Limited Edition Sparks and Stripes Collection

     So, as far as I can tell, this collection was released at the very end of April and is so far pretty hard to find.  I spotted it at Fred Meyers, so check there!  Go.  Now.  Need.  To.  Buy.  Well, if you like fun, cheap glitter.   This is what the full display looks like.

Starting in the lower right hand corner and going counter clock wise we have Spontaneous Combustion, Starts and Stripes, Explosion After Dark, School of Pyrotechnics, Beautiful but Dangerous and Light With Caution.

Spontaneous Combustion has gold, blue, green, and purple hexagonal glitter in it.

 

Stars and Stripes has silver starts and bars in it.  Of course in lighting the shift colors

Explosion After Dark has red, black and silver hexagonal glitter in it.

School of Pyrotechnics has blue, gold, purple, red, and green hexagonal glitter in it

Beautiful but Dangerous has black, blue, purple and gold hexagonal glitter in it

Light With Caution... I cant even describe it!

     I bought Spontaneous Combustion and Beautiful but Dangerous.  Have you guys seen these yet?  Are you going to buy any?  Tomorrow's post will contain a mani with Spontaneous Combustion.  I got a lot of compliments on it today!!  Have a great evening!

Essence You Belong To Me Swatches and Sunday Stamping

     Good morning every body.  I hope that you are all having workless, sunny, and fun relaxing weekends.  I worked yesterday but did get to do one of my favorite things last night.  Go to the Cigar Bar at McMenamins, sit around a fire pit, sip a beer, smoke a cigar cigarette, and hang out with good friends.  To me, this is one of the most relaxing, care free things to do.
     One of my girlfriends mentioned that she had seen a blue and brown combination of something the other day and how pretty it actually was.  This has made me want to do a blue and brown stamping combination for like the entire week!  While I was at the book signing for Jen Lancaster on Wednesday I also came across a Konad kiosk and was so excited.  I was finally able to buy my first Konad plate.  I have wanted m65 for a very long time and yay, it would go great with the brown and blue combination!  I almost pissed my pants when she told me it was 7 dollars though!  That seems a bit extreme to me but what do I know, I had never bought one before.  It was also perfect because when I checked what the design was for my Adventures In Stamping Group on Facebook it was to do a design with a plate ending in 5.  The starts were aligning for me!
     The starts aligned until I went to find a nice deep dark chocolate brown yesterday and I COULDN'T FIND
ONE!  I was very distraught over this.  My entire week of do a cute brown and blue mani down the drain.  Sure I probably could have gone to an actual beauty supply store instead of Fred Meyer, but I only had 5 dollars.  I settled for a new blue and figured I could use my Nude It! from Essence for the brown, which is more of a taupe color but they looked really cute together.
     Fail!  I couldn't get the Nude It! to stamp.  It dried way to fast on to the stamp and wouldn't transfer.  Frustration level became very high.  I decided to try the Venus from Avon that I picked up while at the book signing and while I wasn't 100% pleased, I still am enjoying in.

 Outside in direct sunlight

 Inside with no flash

 Inside with flash

     One last thing.  I love the name of the blue I used, You Belong To Me, because it made me think of Taylor Swift, because that is one of the titles to her songs, and then reminded me of a blue dress that she wore in one of her very first music videos.  I'm almost 100% sure this is how they came up with the name for the polish. ;-)

Base coat: Chip Skip from OPI and Nail Envy from OPI
Base color: You Belong To Me - 2 coats from Essence
Stamping color: Venus from Avon
Top coat: Out the door