Thursday 1 January 2015

Crumpet's Nail Tarts - 31 Day Challenge 2015

Hello lovelies, happy new year!  So, I doubt it's escaped your attention that this blog has been a little neglected recently, and I've had times where I haven't posted for over a week.  I know it's not that long really, but it is the longest I've gone in the last year and a half, so it feels like a lot.  I've wanted to get back into a better routine for a while now, so I'm jumping in with both feet, and I'll be attempting this 31 day challenge to start off the year.  (alongside my usual Thursday A2Z posts, of course)  The first prompt is "follow a tutorial", and I didn't do so well...............

If you're in the Facebook group "Adventures In Stamping", you may have already seen the awesome foil stamping tutorial that the lovely Conny from Nails by Conny posted there.  If you're not in the group, or you just haven't seen it, she stamps an image on the nail with model paint, and then applies the foil to the stamp straight away.  The foil transfers onto the stamp and viola!
My base colour is Barry M Gelly - Blackberry, and I stamped this swirly image from Pueen SE04B from the Encore set with Revell Model Paint - Black Gloss.  Then I applied my foil to the stamp, smoothed it out, and then pulled it up again.  As you can see it did kind of work for me, but I'm definitely missing a few spots here and there, including a massive section on the ring finger.  I used a couple of coats of LaFemme Clear as a a top coat, and I didn't find that it wrinkled the foils much at all.  It had some pretty nice shine to it too, which I was pleased about. 

When I did the thumb, something funny happened.  When I pulled the foil up, it pulled up about 70% of my base polish, near the cuticle.  I guess I didn't quite give my base long enough to dry!  It was stuck to the foil, so I actually just pulled it off, plonked it back where it was supposed to go, and top coated.  Amazingly, it was barely noticeable at all, except for a tiny bit on misalignment on my part.  I did forget to take photo's of the thumb though, so sorry about that.  
So, this is certainly far from perfect, but I think, with a little bit of practise, this will be a technique I love.  You can see that it works, and I think that if I could sort out those bald patches, then this would be a really amazing mani. Especially on a black base!  (I chose blue today so that I'd be able to see how much of the stamp actually took the foil) I definitely want to try this technique again soon, so watch out for that.

That's all from me today, but I'll be back tomorrow with a tape mani for tomorrow's prompt.  At the moment I've done the first four days, and I know what I'm doing for five, so I'm hoping I can keep up with this challenge.
In the meantime, don't forget to check out all the other awesome bloggers participating by visiting the thumbnails below.


                                  



10 comments:

  1. Even though it didn't turn out perfect, I still think it looks pretty great!

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    1. Awww, thanks Jessica! I'm not discouraged anyway, this is going to be so cool when I've got the hang of it completely :D xx

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  2. Ooh this technique looks great, I am waiting on some foil glue so I can try foils soon :D

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    1. It's really cool, isn't it!? Foils were one of the first things I tried, but it's only recently I found something that doesn't wrinkle them when you top coat. It's a huge bonus that it's so cheap, and the model paint was only a little over £2 posted too! Looking forward to seeing what you do with foils :D xxx

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  3. j'aime bien ça donne un résultat super mignon
    bises

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    1. Merci belle ! Je ai aimé aussi, malgré les pièces manquantes : D xx

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  4. Oooh this is really cool! Nice job!

    What I like most is the design could be interchangeable. It looks like you base-coated and foiled then stamped on top, or you base-coated, stamped and foiled…just like those awesome mind-bender images!! Those are my favorite types of stamped nails :)

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    1. Awwwww, thanks Monica! I didn't really see that before, probably because I remember which way I did it too clearly, but I do now. I love those kinds of mani's too, it's always fun when you can't quite work it out :D xx

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  5. I love the explosion of sparkle and color in this look! Rest assured a "civilian" wouldn't even know anything wasn't exactly the way it was supposed to look. I think it's beautiful!

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    1. Awww, thanks gorgeous! This has always been my favourite foil for that very reason. It's like a holographic carnival on your nails! In real life the black was barely visible over the navy anyway - I didn't even notice I'd missed that bit until I saw the photo's :D xx

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