Thursday, September 13, 2012

Twinkle twinkle little star...

Twinkle twinkle little star... :) these were so easy to do. I just sponged colors onto a black base coat and added white dots. Soooo... These are your colors:
- Black!!!
- White
- Metallic light blue
- Light orange
- Yellow

Tools:
- Dotting tools!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
- Sponges

Directions:
1. Paint solid black over a thick base coat. I used Essie's "Licorice."
2. I sponged light blue into 2 corners of my nail really lightly. Kind of like a cloud. I used Essie "Coat Azure."
3. Then I sponged a little bit if orange in side the bigger blue area. I used "Brazilliant."
4. Then I sponged on the yellow lightly in a few random spaces but mostly over the other to colors. Make sure the other colors are still
Visible.
5. Add a little scattering of white dots over the nail. On each one make a cross that looks like a twinkling star.
Ta-da!!! :)

Wednesday, September 12, 2012

Up up and away!

Hi everybody! Sorry I haven't posted in so long! It has been a crazy summer but now that school is starting I'll start posting again. Anyway... This is a hot air balloon (in case you couldn't tell) flying floating in the sky with some birds. I did my birds the lazy way, :). To do this design you will need these colors:
- light sky blue
- white
- black
- bright yellow
- bright orange
- bright blue
- greenish turquoise
- brown

Tools:
- Sponge and dotting tools for clouds
- Skinny brushes

Tips:
- For the clouds, I sponged little bits of white onto the light blue and then did a group of dots resembling a cloud inside of it.
- Think of the design on the balloon as a bunch of Ms stacked on top of each other.
- Make balloon part as big as possible so the design on the balloon part is more noticeable.