Sunday Stamping - Inspirational Word Nails

Hey there!  Today's Sunday Stamping challenge of Inspirational Word Nails couldn't come at a more appropriate time for me.  My Uncle Dennis was diagnosed with esophageal cancer two years ago.  Since then he has undergone surgery and chemo and suffered two heart attacks.  Unfortunately a couple of months ago it was discovered that the cancer is back, has metastasized and is now incurable.  But he's going to fight to stay around as long as possible.  He is the sweetest man - he will do anything for someone who needs help.  It feels silly to just do my nails in honour of him but I guess I did it anyways.

Sunday Stamping - Over A Radial Gradient

Hey there!  Oh geez, the prompt for this week's Adventures In Stamping Sunday challenge is one of my worst nail enemies...the radial gradient!  I think I would happily water marble with terrible polishes than do a radial gradient.  But enough complaning...I sucked it up and attempted a radial gradient.  However I learned that, when trying something that challenges you at the best of times, it is probably best not to start it at bedtime.  While I don't completely dislike how my gradient turned out, I did manage to leave gaps in my stamping (despite it being an awesome plate), smudge a nail and leave my cuticles a mess.  So here we have my less-than-stellar stamping over a radial gradient.

Sunday Stamping - Using Plate Number 43

Hey there!  Wow, I managed to get enough internet service to write a post from my little vacation at the cabin.  I've been struggling to get online all week but I did get online enough to see that this week's Sunday stamping challenge theme was to use a plate numbered 43.  Well, that made my choice easy since I only brought one set of plate up with me.  So I used Born Pretty Store's BP-43 and one of my newest ILNP polishes and did a bit of easy double stamping.  Please excuse my lighting quality...I'm not hardcore enough to bring my light box up with me :-P

Sunday Stamping - Over Pink Glitter

Hey there!  I have a quick post today for today's Sunday stamping challenge.  This week we picked "Over Pink Glitter"...a relatively easy one for me since my sister is obsessed with pink glitter polishes.  But I ended up using one of my own glitters, Gloss 'n Sparkle Strawberry Spring with some name-appropriate strawberry stamping.

Sunday Stamping - Circles

Hey there!  This week's Sunday Stamping challenge theme is "Circles" so I did these quickly earlier this week.  Stamping circles can be challenging if you use a squishy stamper like I do because the stamping can distort the circles into weird oblong shapes.  I apparently had that issue and a naked spot issue...grrrr!

Sunday Stamping - Plate Ending in A-M

Hey there!  I missed last week's Sunday Stamping theme because I was out of town so I had to make sure I didn't miss it again this week.  Sadly this was one tough theme (Plate ending in A-M) for me since I realized almost every plate I have ends in a number, not a letter.  Luckily I remembered that the Pueen Encore set of stamping plates all end in A or B so I grabbed Pueen SE02B and had my way with it with this faded leadlighting mani.

Sunday Stamping - Large Flowers

Hey there!  I just got home from my parents' so I'm not writing this until Sunday night and I'm pretty darn tired but well worth it to spend Father's Day with my dad.  This week's Sunday stamping challenge theme is large flowers so I'm (finally) using the large sunflower image from UberChic Beauty 1-02 and a couple of the OPI Color Paints that I just received after ordering the mini set.

Sunday Stamping: Let's Go Fishing

Hey there!  This week's Sunday challenge is a call for summer-themed nails.  I haven't been able to go fishing yet this summer so I decided to do some fishing-themed nails (a fun summer pastime for my family) to try to call on the weather gods to not make our lake so wavy so I can actually get in a boat without risk of seasickness.  And it's the second time in 3 weeks that I used this Winstonia plate for a Sunday stamping post.  I must like it!

Hawaiian Flowers Over Blue Glitter

Hey there!  For this week's Sunday Stamping theme, we have a pretty open theme of "stamping over blue glitter".  Well I had just received my order with some of the new Bundle Monster Polynesia plates and I had this mani in mind from the second I ordered them so the timing was perfect for this prompt.

Sunday Stamping - Reptile Skin Nails

Hey there!  This week's Sunday stamping challenge theme is Snakeskin & Other Reptiles.  I do love scaly stamping patterns.  For this time around I used a pattern I hadn't tried before.  I'm not sure what reptile the pattern is meant to be but I was thinking of it as a "disco snake" since this is way more sparkly and colourful than any reptile I've ever seen in real life.  Maybe it's a sparkly chameleon!

Sunday Stamping - Leopard Print Chevrons

Hey there!  I know, I know I'm very late for my Sunday Stamping post.  I'm at the family's cabin for the long weekend and to say getting service up here is challenging would be an understatement.  But it appears I have a bit of signal at the moment so I'm using it while I can.  This week's theme was animal print and chevrons and I took it as an opportunity to use my brand new Messy Mansion's Accessories Kit 2.0 which happens to have a chevron stencil in it.

Sunday Stamping - Color Crash, Pastels and Neons

Hey there!  This eye-blasting mani comes thanks to the Adventures in Stamping group on Facebook.  This week's Sunday stamping challenge is "Color Crash, Pastels and Neons).  So I did just that and stamped neons over a pastel base.  It turned out better than I thought.  I even had cashiers telling me they liked them.

Sunday Stamping - Birthday Plate Numbers

Hey there!  Today's Sunday stamping post has a kind of fun theme.  The challenge was to use plates with the numbers of your birthday month and day.  This was definitely a challenge for me since my birthday is 11/30 and there aren't a lot of plates that go up to 30.  But I was up to the task and came up with this fun mani.

Sunday Stamping - Neon Rainbow Roses

Hey there!  This week's Sunday stamping challenge was a tough one for me but I ended up loving it and wearing this mani for two whole days this week.  The theme this week is "flowers is unusual/unnatural colors" which was tough for me because I couldn't think of any colors that flowers didn't come in.  So I hit up Google and this is what I came up with....neon rainbow roses.

Sunday Stamping - Breakfast at Tiffany's

Hey there!  This week's Sunday stamping challenge is all about classic movies.  While I'm not a big film buff (I'm more of a TV junkie), I was a huge fan of the song Breakfast at Tiffany's back in the day so I did watch the movie.  It was so long ago that I don't remember the movie but, luckily, it's so iconic that hopefully you don't need to know the movie to recognize the theme here.

Sunday Stamping - Pink & Teal

Hey there!  Happy Easter to those of you who celebrate it or, for those who don't, happy Sunday!  This week's Sunday stamping theme is "pink & teal".  Anytime I think of those colors together I think of the tropics so I did more tropical flower stamping for this theme.  I actually wore pink & teal nails twice this week since the first ones didn't work out so well as you'll see at the end of this post.   

Sunday Stamping - Easter Nails

Hey there!  It's time for this week's mani for the Sunday Stamping challenge.  Since next weekend is Easter and folks might be too busy celebrating to do their Easter nails on Easter Sunday, it's the theme for this week.  Of course I'm posting pretty late on Sunday, as is my style, because I just got home.  I left this morning for brunch and didn't get back home until 9 pm after going to another friend's house for birthday dinner.  Busy, busy day!  Good thing I got these done a couple of days ago so I didn't miss today's challenge.

Sunday Stamping - Purple & Orange

Hey there!  How's everybody's first weekend of spring going?  Mine came with lots and lots of snow and a really long walk to help my friend drop off his political flyers...followed by not getting off my couch for the next 36 hours, haha!  But today's nails don't fit with my snowy environment at all.  This week's Sunday challenge theme is "purple & orange" so I came up with this bright mani.

Sunday Stamping - Black & White

Hey there!  Oh I'm so lazy with the blog on Sundays!  These pics were all edited and good to go and yet I'm not actually writing up my Sunday stamping post until after 9 pm...and it happens every week!  But I can't resist participating in the Adventures in Stamping themes so it's better late than never, right?  This week's theme was black & white so I used a couple of images from the UberChic Beauty stamping plates that I'm currently in love with!

Sunday Stamping - Better Than Jamberry

Hey there!  This week's Sunday stamping challenge is "Better Than Jamberry".  In other words, doing a stamping manicure that looks like a Jamberry Design.  I didn't actually have time to do my nails for the challenge this week BUT, luckily, a different Facebook group had the same theme awhile back but I never got around to posting these so I can still participate this week.  In the photo below we have my stamped nails with a comparison to the original Jamberry design.