I love me some stamping. And now that I have the basics down I feel like I learn exponentially every time I sit down to stamp. I have been dying to try the brocade design on my new-ish Messy Mansion plate MM18, but it seems like every time I just failed miserably and gave up. But not this time! These might be "duh" things to some of you, but I'm serious it was an epiphany to me.
First lets check out the nails. My base is Colors by Llarowe Coal In My Stocking, a dark gray crelly with silver glitter. I should have took a swatch photo, sorry.... it's amazing though and I got a few compliments at work! For the stamping I used Messy Mansion MM18 and Sally Hansen Ista-Dri in Silver Sweep.
Wintry Brocade Nails Colors By Llarowe Coal In My Stocking Messy Mansion MM18 Sally Hansen Insta-Dri in Silver Sweep |
- Forget those plastic and metal scrapers, use an old gift card.
- Pick up the image by pushing the stamp straight down onto the image. Same for when putting the image on your nail.
- My nails are very curved, so using the big squishy stampers were better for me. My favorite sweater nails I noticed were a little warped and not straight lines because I was previously rolling the image onto my nails with a less squishy stamper.
- I stamped my right hand first to get into a groove. Move on to stamp my left hand... failed 7 times in a row trying to pick up the stamp. WTF. I took a five minute break and capped my stamping polish. When I tried again I picked it up on the first try. I think my stamping polish was getting a little dry, I will be capping and shaking between hands from now on.
- Breaks are good.
- Practice is a must.
- Perfection sucks the fun out of nails. My stamping is not perfect, but it is good enough to be enjoyable!
Wintry Brocade Nails Colors By Llarowe Coal In My Stocking Messy Mansion MM18 Sally Hansen Insta-Dri in Silver Sweep |
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This is so pretty - and I love these tips for stamping! :)
ReplyDeleteThank you! I just checked out some of your stuffs, too--very nice baby blog :-)
DeleteGreat tips! I often struggle with stamping, especially since my nails are very curved. I'll get a squishy stamper asap!
ReplyDeleteThe squishy makes all the difference!
DeleteI see you also have a baby blog! I love when readers comment so I can see what they're doing. Get on facebook so I can follow you ;-)
These turned out beautiful. :)
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