Wednesday, January 11, 2012

31 Day Challenge: Day 30 (Inspired By a Tutorial)

This design was inspired by two tutorials actually, and not one.The first one was for the angry birds and the second was for the green pig!




So yes, for today, I'll be showing you my Angry Birds design!



I spent an ENTIRE afternoon doing this design but it was really worth it! Just looking at it makes me smile!

Polish used:
China Glaze Hey Sailor
China Glaze Flyin' High
China Glaze Happy Go Lucky
Elianto White
Essie Playa Del Platinum
Elianto Twilight
Cumulonimbus (my own franken)
China Glaze Four Leaf Clover
Black, white, yellow, red and green acrylic paint

WOKAY, I'm finally left with one more challenge to go! Now I've got to think about which challenge was my favourite one and I have go to recreate it!

Tuesday, January 10, 2012

31 Day Challenge: Day 29 (Inspired By the Supernatural)

The first thing that came to mind was to use all the Halloween themed images on my Bundle Monster plates for this challenge but it would be highly unoriginal because that was what most people did.

So I went googling around and I saw this! Gosh, all my friends know I'm in love with the Supernatural TV series! I've been faithfully watching it since 2006 I think and I love the Winchester boys so much! The plot has gotten a little lame over the years, with the whole apocalypse thing and now the leviathans and I really miss the good old days where they used to hunt different demons every episode.

The inspiration was season 7's title card with the smashed up mirror:



And this is what I came up with:



I painted a navy base with TFS BL604 and stamped on a broken glass image from the Bundle Monster BM 208 plate using China Glaze Millennium. I had some difficulties when I did my pinkie and the image didn't transfer properly the three times I tried so upon the third try, with fragments stamped on, I resorted to painting on the remaining line, which explains why some lines are thicker than others.

Look like I have to practice stamping more!

Monday, January 9, 2012

31 Day Challenge: Day 28 (Inspired By a Flag)

Since I was a teenager, I've had this strange attraction to the Union Jack so obviously I was pretty stoked to paint it for this challenge. Weirdly, I've never done a Union Jack manicure so this is my virgin Union Jack nails!

I chose to do a deep blue base with OPI Dating a Royal.



Dating a Royal is slighter darker and more purple than this. It was quite a difficult colour to photograph. Dating a Royal has a jelly finish and it really is a very pretty colour. It does give off a certain royal feel. Very British!



I decided to do an accent nail because doing Union Jacks on all my nails would be overkill and I like it! I used Daiso's nail art polish in white and red.

On to Supernatural nails for the next challenge! From what I envision, it will be very Halloween-esque. See you then!