Pastel Eggs in a Basket ft. Bundle Monster Holiday Collection

Hello Readers!


Today's post is for the 30 Days of Color Challenge, where we are encouraged to pull out our unused polished to create a mani inspired by a weekly prompt. This week's prompt is "pastels", and in honor of the upcoming holiday and because I only have 2 plates left on my "unused plate" list and I wanted to cross one off, I decided to go "Easter" for this prompt.

In case you were wondering, the Easter egg pattern was on the unused plate. I've used the basket weave stamp a few times before.

I picked a very pastel palette, and decided to try to stamp with lighter colors to play up the pastel... ness... of my mani. The "Pink Pineapple" polish was my unused color for this mani. I found this recently at the Dollar Tree when they put a million of those Revlon Parfumarie polishes out- mine still has quite a few left. This polish had a kind of crelly formula and I put about 4 coats of it on.

My Easter egg image comes from this plate, which is part of the Bundle Monster "Holiday" collection. I originally thought it would be pretty to do all my stamping in gold, but after I finished the reverse stamping it looked pretty washed out so I stamped over it with white. I tried to line it up, but it's a bit offset. *shrugs shoulders* I'm going to pretend that's what I was going for here.

My basket weave pattern is also from the Bundle Monster Holiday collection. I used this around Thanksgiving for a very different look, but here I thought it would be fun to layer it over a pastel color to give an Easter Basket look. 

Thanks for stopping by today! Be sure to check out the link-up below for more "pastel" manis!

Challenge Your Nail Art: Pumpkins

Hello Readers!

Today I have a response to the "pumpkins" prompt for the Challenge Your Nail art group on Facebook. I've been looking forward to October for months now because I have been so excited to do fall and Halloween manis! So I'm excited to be participating in the group to see even more fun fall manis.

So today's stamping heavily features Bundle Monster's "holiday" round plate collection, which is an older collection. I made a pumpkin decal and had fun shading it in, as well as shading my leaves. I've really been enjoying coloring fall leaves in; they are really fun to do. 

I also used this moyou london dupe plate for the second time this month:

As well as this farm themed plate from Bundle Monster's "Fuzzy and Ferocious" for the little barn:

I was originally going to do a scarecrow on my accent nail. I actually got it all painted for the decal and when I flipped it over, I hated it. So I decided to change directions and try out the barn image instead. In retrospect, I think the overall look would have been better if I had stuck to the basketweave background on all the nails and just had the one with a pumpkin. Oh, well, you live you learn right? I actually tried to take one of the smaller pumpkins and stamp it onto the foreground on the barn landscape, but it just didn't work. The scale was off and it looked too simple because all the other images have thin black borders. I tried to add detail to make it fit, but it was a fail so I ended up scraping it off and re-stamping the lower portion of my grass there. I later added little pumpkins just using a dotting tool, and then added a little highlight on them with a smaller dotting tool. 

Anyway, I hope you enjoyed this fall-themed manicure. Thanks for stopping by today!