Travel by Dragonfly

Hello everyone!

Travel by Dragonfly

It's very far away 
It takes about a half and a day to get there 
If we travel by my uh, dragon-fly ..

Jimi Hendrix

Travel by Dragonfly

The theme in Adventures In Stamping on Sunday was "butterflies or dragonflies". When I told my friend that I wanted to make dragonfly nails, he smiled, and asked if I had heard the song Spanish Castle Magic. I have heard the song many times, but didn't remember Jimi Hendrix lyrics. So I looked up the lyrics on the Internet, an also found out that dragonflies fly very fast...

Travel by Dragonfly

I tried several times to make this mani the way I wanted it to be. First with a gold magnetic wave background, and then some times with China Glaze108 Degrees as a base, because I wanted to stamp notes on some areas on the nails, but couldn't get them straight. Although I added top coat before stamping, I ended up waisting a lot of polish, but late one evening I found out that I could cheat, and stamp over the base coat, so that I just would have to remove the base coat when I failed, and then add the pink after the stamping. But the China Glaze polish was less transparent than I thought, so I had to use a jelly instead of the second coat. Stamping on the base coat made it easier to remove parts of the image, but after a while I gave up trying to stamp notes straight, and made more black and pink dragonflies. So, although it might look like I put "insect jelly" on my nails, no dragonflies were harmed...

Travel by Dragonfly

Used:

China Glaze: 108 Degrees -pink
OPI: Houston We Have A Purple -red jelly
Konad: SP Black -black stamping polish
Konad: SP White- white stamping polish
INM: Out The Door Northern Lights Hologram Top Coat "Silver" 
Stamping plates:
Cheeky: Jumbo plate 10 Happy Nails -dragonfly image
Konad: m73- notes image

Travel by Dragonfly

Travel by Dragonfly

Travel by Dragonfly

Travel by Dragonfly

Travel by Dragonfly

Travel by Dragonflies

Travel by Dragonfly

Travel by Dragonfly

Travel by Dragonfly

Travel by Dragonfly

Travel by Dragonfly

Cheating like this is easier when I want to use parts of a full nail image, and stamp more on the same nail, but then I have to use transparent polishes. So what I've learned is that I need to practice stamping, and not start with too difficult designs.


Lani