Away In A Manger

Challenge You Nail Art's prompt for their 12 Days of Christmas Nail Art Challenge is ice blue and white.  Well when I was trying to come up with something for today I was thinking the prompt was blue and silver.  So, when I did some inspiration hunting and found this design by Mely of Rock Your Nails I thought was great for the prompt, now I realize it is not, but there is no time to go back. . .

I am really proud of this.  I am not happy with the painted on silver stars.  If I ever did it again, I would skip that part.  But still, this is rather cool if I do say so myself.

I used Ulta Moody Blues, Julep Dana, Bess, Liz, China Glaze Liquid Leather, Millennium, and Fairy Dust.

I almost had to give you pictures from a cloudy day.  Luckily the clouds left later in this afternoon and I was able to take pictures in sunlight that could capture the brilliance of FD.  So shiny and pretty!

Well, I hope you all liked this design!  Don't forget to check out the others.

Tootles!
Fitz

An InLinkz Link-up

Be Sure to Bring Your Death Certificate

Have you realized I love Halloween yet?  You haven't?  Can't you read between the lines?

So for the Bundle Monster Halloween Nail Art Challenge I did this. . .

The challenge is Trick-or-Treat and the best part of Halloween is being scared. . . and costumes. . . The best thing about Halloween is costumes and being scared.  Okay, so, that means that this manicure is meant to be scary.  Boo!  Did I get you?

I think I might a bit tired, so that me be why this post it bit all over the place. . .

Back to the manicure!!   I used Julep Mary Lee, Maybeline Color Show Clearly Spotted, China Glaze Millennium, and Konad Special Black.  The nail stamping plates were Betina B-19, Bundle Monster BM-413, and BM-H07.

I hope you didn't mind my weird post and you liked the manni!

Tootles!
Fitz

From the Vault: Valetine's Day Nail Art

This is from the vault.  Last year I did this for Sunday Stamping and didn't have time to post it. . . So I thought I would bring it out now.

I am relatively positive about the nail colors I used which were China Glaze Kinetic Candy, Millennium, and Traffic Jam.  The only one I am not one hundred percent positve one is TJ.  For the stamping I used Bundle Monster BM-323 and GALS GA12.

I like the that you can see the barbed wire behind the heart.  Sometimes you need something a bit more anti Valentines to counter balance all the sugary sweet goodness.

Looking at these picture reminds me how much I really should invest in a light tent.  Time to do some shopping on E-bay!

Tootles!
Fitz

Stamping Sunday meets IT Crowd

So, for Stamping Sunday the prompt is inspired by a show you watch.  This is really rather hard.  So my sister and I sifted through my plates for a light bulb moment and found Bundle Monster BM-415.  One of my favorite shows is IT Crowd.  If you haven't seen it, then you should.

So this is what I came up with.

Orange and Green seem to be rather prevelant in the show.  They are a bit akward together.  Althought these colors alone are really nice.  Same with that glitter polish.  The show is full of akward and not quite fitting together, so I think it all works rather well.

Once you add the stamps it comes together nicely, at least I think so.  I used China Glaze It's A Trap-eze, Millenium, Julep Leah, Marjorie, and Konad Special White.

There really isn't much to say, so I will just give you more pictures.

Until next time!

Tootles!
Fitz

Oh Say Can You See!

I live in the United States if America and with my residence comes a Holiday known as Independence Day or The 4th of July.  On this day we are supposed to remember and celebrate the day the Constitution was signed in 1776.  So in honor of this day and as a prompt from Sunday Stamping (I know I am late, I just didn't get pictures taken) I give my 4th of July Manicure.

I really love how this came out!  The design came from ellandish.  I recently found her on Youtube and am loving her designs.  Plus the quality of her videos is excellent!  I did change a few things due to lack of a particular plate, plus I wanted to stamp the red polish in order to use a sparkly white.

I used plates Winstonia W107 and Cheeky CH51.  Now comes the polishes, there are a few. . . OPI Mad As A Hatter, Essie Butler Please, Konad Special White, Special Red, China Glaze Dandy Lyin' Around, Hey Sailor, and Millennium.

I love that this design is stamping and freehand.  I need to do more freehand.  My roots are there and I am getting rusty.

I forget how much I love MAAH!  It is so colorful and sparkly!  I have no idea if you can still find it, but if you do jump on it!

Well my lovelies, I must be going!

Tootles!
Fitz

Sunday Stamping: Once Upon A Time . . .

Today's Sunday Stamping challenge was to do a manicure that represented our favorite Fairy Tale.  I tried to think of ways to represent different Fairy Tales; Rapunzel, Cinderella, Beauty and The Beast, or The Little Mermaid.  Nothing was coming to mind until I really followed the challenge and thought about my favorite one. . .

So this isn't a very common Fairy Tale.  So you might not know it, however it is the Grimm Fairy Tale The Shoes That Were Danced To Pieces, or The Twelve Dancing Princesses.  I could tell you what it is about, but I think you should read it for yourself.  I really love how the trees turned out, well except for the diamond tree. . . I couldn't figure out how to do it without it looking like another silver tree. . .

I used Bundle Monster BM-213 to represent the shoes and Winstonia W102 to create the trees.  The colors are China Glaze Want My Bawdy, Millennium, Medallion, Angle Wings, Glistening Snow, and Brownstone.  I also used loose glitter for the leaves.

My right hand I just used Medallion over WMB.

The Shade.

My thumb.  I am not sure what  could have done for the diamond tree. . . if you have any ideas, let me know.

Tootles!
Fitz

12 Days of Christmas: Tinsel

I had no idea what to do for this design.  I thought about doing the string technique, but I didn't want to deal with the mess.  I Googled tinsel images and when looking at them I realized I had a stamp reminded me of it.  Bundle Monster BM-312 worked rather well!  Oh, and I am sorry the lighting isn't very good, I did this at night.

I used China Glaze Holly-Day, Millennium, and City Siren.  I wanted to stamp an ornament over the top of them with BM-318, but it didn't show up, so I filled it in.  That red blob is supposed to be an ornament. . .

One more day to go till Christmas!  I hope everyone has a wonderful day!

Tootles!
 Fitz

31 Nail Art Challenge Take Two Day 23: Fashion

I have an elusive pattern.  I have tried two others times before and it didn't work out.  I saw a tutorial by cutepolish and this prompt and I thought. . maybe. . . it couldn't hurt to try again. . .  I was wrong!  My unicorn is the argyle print.

I feel ashamed to show you these, but this is all about documenting my learning process.  I WILL to this design again and I will keep doing it until I CAN do it.  I will until I can say, "Argyle, you are my. . . insert expletive here!"

I only used three colors and they are all from China Glaze.  I used White-On-White, Little Drummer Boy, and  Millennium.

I guess it is not as bad as all that, but it definitely does not look like argyle.  Someday, argyle, you and I will tango again.  Next time though, I will lead!

Check out all the other fashionable beauties!

Tootles!
Fitz

12 Days of Christmas: Wreaths

Okay, I am doing it!  I have finished all the challenges before I leave on my cruise!  The only problem is I don't have the inlink links before hand.  I will pre-write my posts and hopefully I may have some time on my cruise with computer access to link them.

I have to say I was a bit unispired by wreaths, plus the trying to knock out four manicures in two days. . . I am not all that happy with this.  I really liked Chalkboard Nails design and I thought some different coloring might be fun, but my dark green didn't work.  You can't really see the bows.

I used China Glaze Sugar Plums (I love any excuse to use this gorgeous color!), Holly-Day, and Millennium.

Cursed green!  Well, I hope you take a look at the other designers, their work is amazing!  I am so totally jealous!

Tootles!
Fitz

31 Nail Art Challenge Take Two Day 20: Emotion

Aliens, ghosts, the dark.  What emotion could I possibly be doing.  Do you need another hint?  Snail.  Yes, I said it SNAILS.

Okay, so maybe you don't find them scary, but I know someone who does.  This person will go un-named, because quite frankly I try very hard not to tease her about it, even though I find it kind of funny.  So, to justify putting a snail on my nail and calling it fear, I added what the snail would be afraid of.  SALT!  Dun-dun-dun!

I hope you can see the little guys slow run away.  I am discovering the effects you can do with matte polish.  I used China Glaze Gaga For Green, Concrete Cat Walk, White-on-White, Millennium, and Cover Girl Continuous Color Tickled Pink.  Oh, and don't forget Essie Matter About You.  The little guy, we shall call him Gus, was done with Cheeky plate CH43.

The embodiment of fear by its self!

I was honestly at a loss as to what to do, but once I figured it out I had a lot of fun.  I am really proud of this.  Maybe the next time I see my friend this might be on my nails. . . but then I might not have a friend anymore. . .

Don't forget to emote with all the other participants!

Tootles!
Fitz

12 Days of Christmas: Ornaments

I am exhausted!  There have been so many things I have needed to get ready for my cruise and I am trying to get all my manicures done.  I have one left. . . I really hope I can get it done, but I am not sure.  I am so excited for this vacation!  Okay one to the ornaments!

 This was inspired by the tutorial by TheCoolioNails.  I love this and even left it on for a few days!  I got a lot of compliments on it.

I used a few Bundle Monster stamps for the patterns, BM-317, BM-314, and BM-310.  The colors were China Glaze Millennium, Holly-Day, and Red Satin.

This isn't too hard, but it has a great statement!  It even works well on the right side.  The hanging part on the right isn't the best, but I still love it!

Sorry for the picture spam, but I loved how this turned out!  Check out the other designers too, they are amazing!

Tootles!
Fitz