Sunday Stamping - Over A Gold Base

Hey there!  For this week's Sunday Stamping theme, we're doing gold base or gold stamping images in honor of Childhood Cancer Awareness.  I recently did a cancer awareness mani so, instead of doing awareness ribbons again, I thought I'd do something that might appeal to the kids.  So this is me sending the children and their families some love.

Purple Waterfall Nails

Hey there!  It's the second last post of the Crumpet's Nail Tart's 52 Week Pick n Mix Challenge.  This week's prompts were Violet and Waterfall.  I believe waterfall manis were the creation of the always amazing Nailasaurus.  I've only tried the waterfall mani once before so I still don't have it down pat but I do think it's a great look.

The Digit-al Dozen does Re-Creations: Day 5 Concentric Dotticure

Hey there!  It's the final day of one of my favourite Digit-al Dozen weeks to date, Re-Creation week.  I'm so sad to see this week done.  The ladies of the group are such amazing nail artists that it's been really fun to see their takes on everyone's past manis.  For today I have a dotticure, originally done by Jacki of Adventures In Acetone.  After trying this for myself, I give her mad props for the number of dots she managed to get on her nails...I didn't even come close!

The Digit-al Dozen does Re-Creations: Day 4 Hawaiian Nails

Hey there!  Today I have my fourth re-creation of a previous Digit-al Dozen mani to celebrate the group's third birthday.  The original, by Sassy Shelly, is another one of my favourite DD designs that I had bookmarked long before joining the group and knew I wanted to try for this week.  I made a few mistakes but still had to include for Re-Creation week because I loved her version so darn much!

The Digit-al Dozen does Re-Creations: Day 3 Dry Marble Nails

Hey there!  For the third day of The Digit-al Dozen's Re-Creation week, I had to try this dry marble nail art from Dressed Up Digit's Childhood week.  The irony here is that Laurie is one of my nail stamping idols and the mani of hers that I picked to do doesn't even involve stamping!  Hers was inspired by a bowling ball so, even though I can't bowl to save my life, anytime I looked at these all I could see was bowling balls too!

The Digit-al Dozen does Re-creations: Day 2 Hammered Gold

Hey there!  For the second day of The Digit-al Dozen's Re-Creation week, I have my attempt at one of favourite DD mani's ever - Hammered Gold from The Dalai Lama's Nails.  Hannah's nail art is always amazing and I had a LONG list of manis of hers I wanted to try but I went with this one because I remembered how much it stood out to me when I first saw it last year.  Mine are nowhere near as good as hers but they were really fun to do!

The Digit-al Dozen does Re-Creations: Day 1 Lisa Frank Leopard Stamping

Hey there!  This week is going to be so much fun!  This week commemorates the third anniversary of The Digit-al Dozen and to celebrate we're doing re-creations of old DD manis.  I've been a Digit-al Dozen fan since I first started following nail blogs so it was SO hard to pick just 5 manis to recreate.  I narrowed it down by picking manis from the current members since they're the amazing ladies that have been so incredibly welcoming to me in the group.  Sadly, since there's only 5 days in the week, I can't do everyone so I'm can't copycat all of my talented friends.  I think we should do this theme every month, haha!

For my first re-creation I decided to recreate this Lisa Frank mani from Kirsten (aka Geeky Owl) during Childhood week.  It also ended up being a re-creation of Jacki's (from Adventures In Acetone) Decade's mani since I used the similar stamping images as both of them so today is a two-for-one!