abbi and her mom's nails that were done today

abbi wanted the blue snowflakes.....so she got it!

her mom said to surprise her so i gave the water marble another go...they turned out better than when i did mine (pictured in a post below)

*i didnt do these nails to make a profit. i did it to do them.

christmas designs

here are some links to some fun ideas that i would like to try but probably will not have time. if you try them, post pics so i can see!

santa, penguin, snowman, reindeer, gman

red and white...stars and snow

christmas leopard (!)

zebra christmas (!)

holly

filled stockings <~ robin can be a little overwhelming at first but when you use the craft paint and mess up, it comes off with rubbing alcohol

blue christmas <~ she has some pretty cool halloween nails too

cutepolish  <~ she has all kinds of easy designs for all you beginners out there

starting over

in case you didnt see the post, everything i had posted got deleted so i had to start all over last night. i got all the pics posted that i had saved, but im still working on putting links up for tutorials and inspirations. thanks for your patience!

christmas trees and candy canes

just something i did real quick...literally took me like half an hour. i'm not too satisfied with it, but it will work for now to get me through christmas shopping and gift wrapping until i have more time to do them on friday. of course by then, i have to have a bomb diggity idea to blow everyone outta the water for christmas....

^^^northern lights top coat. the little iridescent glitter is awesome!^^^ 

christmas tree tutorial
candy cane tutorial

candy cane water marble

okay i said i wasnt going to ever do water marbling again, but i changed my mind. i had to give it another try. this time i used tape on my fingers instead of petroleum jelly and the clean up was waaaaaaay easier. just a pain to get the tape on my right hand.....but i used a white base coat and marbled with red and my northern lights top coat (which is amazing btw....i highly recommend the awesome glitter top coat!) when i sat down to put the holly on, i realized that i dont have any red 2mm stones (crap), only magenta colored stones. 

water marble tutorial

snowmen

i redid the nails because i didn't like the every other design....and im not a fan of the red and green color combo...yuck

ended up doing snowflakes again.....yea i know in the top pic my nail is broke, messed up, and all white instead of just a white tip. blame it on the frantic end of semester running around and studying.

snowman tutorial   <~ i didnt use this. the design i did is really simple but this one is easy too

check the below post for a snowflake/gradient tutorial

snowflakes!

wishing for snow....this is the design i came up with to wear to my husbands military christmas dinner/party. i love it

blue gradient <~ not what i used or colors i used. i did a white base, then sponged blue so it faded and at the top i mixed gray and white to have more faded. then i sponged blue glitter on the bottom of the nail and iridescent glitter at the top

another gradient tutorial

this wasnt gradient...just painted red and sponged some white on randomly. and yea, snow flakes are white, but black stands out better