Sunday Stamping: The Great Thanksgiving Heist...

Is seems like ages since the last time I participated in a Sunday Stamping challenge for the group Adventures in Stamping. With the holidays quickly approaching, this week's theme is Thanksgiving or Winter nails. I chose to go with the Thanksgiving theme and I'm happy to present my manicure to you. I have affectionately been referring to it as "The Great Thanksgiving Heist"...

The manicure started out with a base of Nicole by OPI Who Red My Journal??? stamped with Essie Good as Gold using Messy Mansion plate MM19. I recently purchased the Essie Mirror Metallics collection (all except for the silver) for stamping and they all work perfectly! Essie Good as Gold is just slightly lighter, more of a champagne gold, than my favorite Maybelline Bold Gold, but works just as well...

I created stamped decals for the rest of the images. The woodland creatures are from the same Messy Mansion MM19 plate. I stamped with SinfulColors Black on Black and then colored them in using acrylic paints. The pumpkin is also stamped with Black on Black using Bundle Monster plate BM-H11 and colored in using acrylic paint. To give the creatures a bit of a base to stand on, I added gold tips using Good as Gold...

I imagine the little fox sneaking in to steal the pumpkin for a big Thanksgiving celebration in the forest. The two hedgies are standing guard while the theft takes place. The perfect heist, although looks like the hedgie on my pinkie nail is asleep on the job. This is because I used a stamper to stamper technique to flip him and he got distorted in the processes, but I think it turned out even better that way...

Let me know what you think of this manicure!

Thanks for looking!
Anutka :)

** Polishes were provided to me for review by the manufacturer or their PR. **

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Dotty Trees with Messy Mansion...

Yesterday I showed you a fun dotted manicure and promised to show you how I took it a step further. I wanted to pair the dots of the manicure with the dotty trees on the Messy Mansion "in the forest" plate. I imagine that if there was a cotton candy tree, this is how it would look at night...

I started out with my dotted manicure from yesterday. For detail on the colors used, please refer to this post. For the stamping I used Essence Stamp Me! Black and the Messy Mansion plate MM19. I found it was best to scrape very lightly over the full sized tree image to avoid removing too much of the black on the empty spaces. The images turned out very crisp and clean...

If you look closely at the black area on the index finger, you can see some of the dots showing through the black. The plate stamped well, the polish just wasn't opaque enough to overpower the bright dots. Sadly this is the best stamping black that I have at the moment. I ended up going over some of the black areas on my middle and pinkie fingers with acrylic paint so the dots peeking through wouldn't detract from the pattern...

I love these happy little dotty trees so much!

The plate comes with a protective blue cover. Don't forget to remove this if you want to actually stamp something! The back is just metal with no protective covering which makes the edges a bit on the sharper side...

What I absolutely love about the Messy Mansion plates is that every little bit of space on the plate that can be used for a stamping image is used! There is no wasted space here. And seriously, how adorable are all the little critters! The birch trees make me sentimental for my childhood. I really just need more hands to try all the manicures floating around in my head right now...

The full size images are large! They are 17 x 22.5mm. Great for long nails and wide thumbs! No double stamping with these for me...

You can find this and other Messy Mansion plates at http://www.messymansion.com.au/.
Shipping for plate only order is just $2.50
Also, check out Messy Mansion on Facebook...

What do you think? Do you like my dotty trees? :)

Thanks for looking!
Anutka :)

** Polishes and stamping plate were provided to me for review by the manufacturer or their PR. **

** For more information please see the disclosure policy **