Stamping Sunday: Green

Ok, so as most of you can tell from my most recent posts, I am addicted to stamping.  and some of the lovely ladies on PAA created another group dedicated to just stamping! And similar to the Purple Crumpet Fairy Challenges, these challenges are every sunday, and have random themes for example: with a certain color or the last number of the plate ending in a 5.

This week's challenge is Green!  Because I have not returned home to my beloved stash The only green I had with me at home was one I gave to my sister. lol.  So I used this Essence Color and Go polish called Lime Up!

I used a Color Club Cold Metal from the Foiled Collection to stamp with, and it looks fabulous!  :)

Oh and this is Red Angel plate RA114.

XOX Caitlin

Sister Stamping!

My sister really likes my image plates, and she wanted to do her nails with the stamper by herself.  She stamped a few weeks ago, and today she wanted to do it again.

This is what she came up with:

 She used an essence color and go grey polish, Sally Hansen Silver Sweep as the stamp, and Red Angel RA106.

XOX Caitlin

The Cure for the Wingless RA Fairies!

OK, so I know alot of ladies have been dissappointed with the fairies on the Red Angel plates not having wings, so I wanted to do a post where I give them wings! And I have just that for you today!

As I show you in a previous post, there are 2 Red Angel plates that the fairies do not have wings.  here is a photo as a reminder:

As a result of a computer malfunction(Im assuming) the fairies are wingless, so they look like dancing girls. 

The remedy I have for that is double stamping.


I used HALF of the butterfly on the Red Angel plate RA119, and the Fairy body from RA113, and this is what happened!

I think that it turned out really cool.

I used Wet N Wild Black creme as the base, and Sally Hansen Silver Sweep as the stamping polish.

How to get this look:

• Choose a very well pigmented stamping color that you know works well.
• Stamp the fairy body FIRST!
• if you have a double ended stamper, the small end works great for the butterfly wing, if not, just carefully place the middle part of the wing close to the fairy body.  
• Please note: this will take a few tries to get right.  it took me about 10 tries to figure out the right position of the fairy body and about 10 more to get the wings to match up, but once you figure out the position it is well worth it to end up with pretty fairies with pretty wings!!

I hoped this helps some people out, especially the ones who are heartbroken from not getting fairies with wings.  These things happen, and when they do we can just make them better! :)

I personally like the way my wings turned out better than the fairies that already have wings.. But that is just my opinion!

XOX Caitlin

Walmart Stampng Experiment

Ok so I wanted to try to use my new stamper/scraper/polish set from WalMart.

(Warning lots of words!)

This is a picture that I had on the previous blog post, and this is a comparison of the size of the stampers. They are the same size.

Ok, For this post I used a base of Wet N Wild Black Creme.

I used 2 types of polish to compare, and the two stampers to compare.



On the Pinkie finger: White Flirt polish that came in the pack and stamped with new Pink Stamper

On the Ring finger: White Flirt polish that came in the pack and stamped with the Purple Double Ended stamper.

On the middle finger: Wet N Wild French White Creme and stamped with the new Pink stamper


On the Index finger: Wet N Wild French White Creme and stamped with the Purple double ended stamper.

so it goes: pinkstamp-Flirt, purplestamp-Flirt, Pinkstamp-WnW, Purplestamp-WnW

In conclusion:

I tried the scraper, and I personally don't like it. I will continue to use my gift card. I'm sure it is fine, I just have to get used to using it, and right now I prefer the gift card.

Both of the stampers work the same.  And I believe are of similar quality.  although I needed to buff the pink stamper before I picked up the image, which is common with most stampers.

In regard to the Flirt stamping polish, I believe it is very nice.  It shows up more opaque and stronger against the black polish.  It shows up better than the French White Creme, which is on the last two nails in the picture.

In conclusion I think this would be a great thing for people who are looking to get into stamping but are a little worried about not being able to do it. It is something that takes practice but a few short tips I have for beginning with this set:

• buff the stamper with a file before you begin to prep it.
• I would reccomend using an old gift card for your first time, it is just easier to get all the excess polish off.
• work fast and have the clean stamper 
• have polish remover/acetone on hand to clean the stamper and plate after every use
• It takes practice, and once you get the perfect image on your stamper you will be so excited to put it on your nail! 

Again it only cost me $6 at walmart for the pink stamper set with white polish, and you can see the results above. :)

Hope this was helpful to anyone!

XOX Caitlin

New Stamper Set at WalMart

My friend Kirsten of Geeky Owl(check out her blog guys!) posted a picture to PAA of a new stamper set at Walmart, so I ran out to get it.  And now I have pictures to show you!!

This set is made by Fing'rs, and the title is Flirt Nail Art Stamping Set.  I believe that this is currently in the process of being stocked at Walmart; because my store was being restocked after the holidays.  From what it looked like they are going to be a part of their normal stock. Mine was still being replenished and it had the paper saying what goes where, so I'm hoping that they will be readily available in most stores.

On to the pictures:

This is what the packaging looks like. 

The set when removed from the packaging.

The scraper: It is not metal! I am excited to have a plastic scraper now! This feels like it will work great!

The stamper.

A white nail art stamping polish. Size .17 fl oz

The Image plate that comes in the set.

This is a picture of the size of the scraper and how the end of it compares to the Stamper from the Salon Express kit.   I have not used this new stamper yet, so I will come back with a review later on!

There was also a pack next this scraper set that looks similar to 2 image plates I already have, and they are also made by Fing'rs.   The set of 2 extra plates cost around $2 I think.

The price of the set Above was $6.

Just wanted to let you guys know about this!

XOX Caitlin