May Flowers-A Hobby Polish Link-up

It's finally here, the May Link-up for my Hobby Polish Bloggers group. The theme this month is may flowers. 

To create this I used Mrs. Robinson by Color Club, Purple Petal by Salon Perfect, Seche Vite topcoat and my Molotow white acrylic pen.

Just the nails.

I took my idea from a shirt that I got on clearance at the end of last season. I didn't stay with the pink coral and  smoothed out the edges of the flowers, but the general idea is there. The little finger was just to small to get the amount of flower petals I wanted so WaaaLaa...a butterfly was born!

Two views of just Mrs. Robinson. This is a neon magenta with a satin finish. My design does have a glossy topcoat.

Well, that's it for me this time around. But I am taking part in The Hobby Polish Blogger's group link-up. This is a great group of bloggers on Facebook that are very supportive and always are willing to give help to other bloggers. So check some of their art out below.

Take care, and until next time polish on!

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Pick N Mix-Geometrical Design With Blue, Green and Yellow

Hello on the cold, cold Sunday. Or at least it is here. It's 23* with a strong wind chill...Brrrrrrr. I haven't been out yet but need to feed my ducks and chickens. My darling husband did a big favor for me and fed my Alpacas<3.

On with the challenge. I am very late with it this week and almost didn't do anything. But I hate being a quitter and someday I may quit but I guess not today.

The promps were geometrical nails with green, blue and yellow. Mondrian had been back in my mind all week. I did try some stamping but didn't like it. Out came the paint brushes. 

I know that Mondrian has been done a lot, but this is my Mondrian! 

I used four polishes on this one. The base is Color Club's Look Don't Tusk.  The fill in colors are Illamaqua's Radium, Cult Nails' You're My Dandelion and Cult Nails' Nakizzle's Sizzle.

Here is one of Mondrian's later styles. I don't know if most people are familiar with this softer more painterly style that he later developed. When I would teach Mondrian to my 1st graders, I would always start out with the more recognized styles and then would finish up with some paintings of this style. 

 Sticking this one here so I can grab it for IG

So there you go, #21 is done! Take care and stay 
warm.

Terri

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52 Week Pick N Mix-Light Blue And Flowers

Hello Everyone!

I have week #19 for the 52 Week Pick N Mix Challenge. The promps this week are Flowers and/or pale blue. I decided to combine them and do both. I will say I wore this one for awhile, loved it! We have had up and down weather in Missouri this week and these nails were just a pick me up.

My first decision was what to have for the base. I really like Sinful Colors' Cinderella. Cinderella is a light blue with pink-orange shimmer. But Cinderella is also pretty sheer and I didn't have the patience for 3-4 coats.

That is where Ozotic 751 came into play. It has a similar blue tone but also has a slight pink duochrome and I was hoping that the pink might show just slightly through the one coat of Cinderella.

And I know you are muttering, "she did what?. Yep, I put a cheapie ($1.99 at Wall-mart) on top of Ozotic  and it got me the look I wanted. 


I hand painted parts of flowers with my Molotow white acrylic pen. I like just having parts of the flowers coming in from the edges. I have always likes when things are coming and going from the canvas edges and I guess nails are no different. 

Color Club's Blue Beaded added some darker blue and some textural interest. Blue Beaded is an interesting polish. It's not really a glitter and it does seem to have micro beads suspended in a clear base.

Ozotic 751, Blue Beaded and Cinderella

I love these fine point pens by Molotow. I got a few last Fall at the Kansas City Art Institute's Bookstore.

That's it for this round. So until next time, take care.

Terri

 This is another link up so check out some of the great designs below!

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Pick N Mix #15-Pink, Aqua and Dotting Tools

 Hello Everyone, 

Week 15 of The Pick N Mix Challenge is here with pink, aqua and dotting tools.

  

 I used two pinks, two aquas, a inky blue base with a special matte/glitter topper.I love projects where I can use a bunch of colors and brands. This was certainly one of those.

I started out with a big dot of East Austin at the top of my nail and then went from there with contour dotted lines. This is a very straight forward design, just follow the dots!

From Left To Right: Orly's Fancy Fuchsia, Mineral Fusion's Lagoon, Milani's Ink Spot, Color Club's East Austin, My-Stash's Shaken Not Stirred, and Jenna Hipp's Freshmaker.

That's what I did for this round. this link up is a dual one. There are two challenges with this code. So doubly enjoy! Until we meet again, take care.
                                                                                            

 Terri

And here is my IG photo, if you follow me there. I really like rectangles, but squares are the thing over there.

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52 Week Pick N Mix #13-Grey And Distressed Nails

This week's challenge was distressed nails and/or grey. I thought this was sort of strange, being Christmas week, but I did combine both promps. I love simulated texture. These nails looks jagged and like they have real tactile surface but they are smooth. And they were so much fun to do. I think I will be doing more of this style, just for me.

First, I went with a blingly silver glitter base in Color Club's Sex Symbol. Then the dry brush layering happened. I first used Dove by Zoya. The second polish was Moon Rendezvous by Deborah Lippmann. This added some blue grey to the mix. The last grey I used was Elevation Polish's Kita.  I then added some black with Zoya's Willa. The last step I did before I added the top coat was to dab on some more silver glitter. 

A Close Up 

The silver kept it from being so dreary. It sort of looks like grunge with sparkle.  

So Here's The Crew

From Left To Right" Color Club's Sex Symbol, Zoya's Dove, Zoya's Willa (mini on side) Deborah Lippmann's Moon Rendezvous and Elevation Polish's Kita. I also used Zoya's Color Lock system that was part of my Black Friday Mystery Bag. Willa was also part of the Mystery Bag.

Well, that's a wrap up for this one. Gotta go bake, shop and clean house-all that wonderful getting ready for Christmas stuff. Take care and Happy Holiday's.
                  
                                                               Terri
                                                                                                  

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Cranberry And Gold Nails

This was one of my nail looks this past month. I combined the Vintage OPI color, My Throne For A Cranberry Scone (From the British 2003 collection), a Winter Affair (a gold foil from Color Clubs Christmas 2012 collection), and finally Gianna,  a wonderful jagged irregular glitter from Julep that just came out this year. 

Nail Journal #4, August '13-Orly

Polish: Base coat-Orly's Life's A Peach
             Top Coat-Orly's Peaceful Opposition

Notes: Life's A Peach is a beautiful peachy orange that I love for Summer. I then created a gradation with Peaceful Opposition. Peaceful Opposition is various sizes and shapes of silver glitter suspended in a milky white base. I love what this top coat does to a basecoat. 

Orly is cruelty free.

"I Just Love The One Color" Of The Week

August '13 Nail Journal #1-Life After A Broken Nail-10 Polishes Of Fun

August '13 Nail Journal #1

Life After A Severely Broken Nail
Tearing Through The Polishes

The next month with be just single colors. With the exception of foils and metallics,  I add some type of topper if possible. I want to distract from the one nail that is incredible short.

Hashtag from the new Jenna Hipp "What's Hot" mini collection. I love this color. It has a brightness and cleanness about it. 

On day 2 I changed the look up with Color Club's Snowflakes from the 2012 Winter Affair Collection. Snowflakes is a flakie top coat. On top of Hashtag it flashed orange and gold. It did not take a great picture but the look was very nice and I got a few complements. So I guess that the Winter Affair can also be a Summer Fling. 

Jenna Hipp's Freshmaker: again from the new Jenna Hipp "What's Hot"mini collection

Changing it up with a top coat of Nfu-Oh #54-I don't need to talk about Nfu-Oh flakies;don't need to say anything, it's Nfu-Oh

Modern Romance by Essence-part of their Colour & go series. I really like this line. The price is right and the brushes are wonderful. The bottle caps match the polish which is another plus. This particular shade was a bit thin but not bad. Modern Romance is a light peach with a pink shimmer, really quite lovely

Changing it up with Sakura Matsuri by Rainbow Honey. Sakura Matsuri is the namesake of the collection.

This is a base coat of Son Of A Gun, the first Ulta lacquer that I bought (in January-probably something psychological about me picking orange at the beginning of winter.  In the end, it is just a average orange cream.

Changing it up with an OPI vintage classic, Man Of La Mancha.  La Mancha was part of their 2003 Holiday On Broadway collection.
This one is not 3 free. Anything before '04 isn't going to be. 

And I wore two single coats. this first one I needed to do something with but it was the first polish on after I broke the nail and I really wasn't in the mood.  The metallic shimmer needed nothing else. 

And I love this shade by Cosmetic Arts. It's a branch of Color  Club and has no name. In my stash I call it
 #14-Deep Lilac Metallic Shimmer

All of these polishes are cruelty free. The OPI was made before December, 2010.

That's it.

24K Cotton Candy

Hello, today I have super easy way to have special nails without to much work. This is nice for beginners who want something special. I did this for Mother's Day and enjoyed making and wearing this nail project

Any color will work but my base coat is Orly's Cotton Candy. I read about it on a nail blog and immediately went to Amazon and Ebay looking for it. I have always enjoyed when bloggers who have been at this a while pull something out of their personal collections and tell me why they love it so. It sends me looking every time.

The top coat is Mentality's 24K Gold. This is 24 karet gold leaf in a suspension coat. It is beautiful stuff. I had to work on the placement of the gold flakes but it was fun and I felt I was making a design. This bottle goes for $14 but there is no shipping. And a little bit of this goes a long way. Next month I am getting the white gold leaf and it is only $11.

The accent nail is painted with Color Club's Winter Affair from this past Christmas (purchased at Sally's Beauty). Any gold would do and probably a gold glitter would also work. But I wanted something that looked like the gold leaf to match the gold flakes. 

 Mentality, Orly, and Color Club are all cruelty free.

 Have a great weekend. I am going to be wearing Zoya's PixieDust in Godiva and can't wait. Terri