Art,Art and More Art

Hello Nail Surfers...

     Welcome to the Beach.

  I am sorry I have not posted on a daily basics. My goal is 3-4 times a week. I am always on FB you can find me Here and also on my Fan Page Here. I also post all my work on Pinterest too. Found Here.

 I completely understand if you do not do FB. I'll still be here to on my blog. :)  I am usually on my Ipad and I can not upload my pics from that.

 About a month ago I got an ImagiNail Art printer. I finally took it out of the box and hooked it all up. Yes its great and yes I love it. But I still really prefer to stamp and do free hand art. Am I crazy? You can use any image any design your little heart desires. Anything on Google,your personal photos ,anything you can imagine   its possible. Its a very fast process too, like seconds.Clean tho it not easy and the ink stains your skin and any exposed nail plate. I am really debating on sending it back because of these issues. Its not a cheap machine to be sitting around collected dust either.And it has to be used atleast 2X a week or the ink will dry up. The ink can be bought at any store that sell printer ink , however the special polish and IRC coatings is all special order. I have ups and downs on this machine. I have not practiced much with it either to make such a decision on true quality.Other than that I have been painting and arting my nails like crazy.

Today's pics are Mani's I have done recently.

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HIGH TIDE WARNING!!!!

All the above are done with the printer.

"Glam Rock Nails"

Cheeky Mega C plate &M 96

"Come Fly with Me"

"Come Fly with Me"

IP-MJ 3 can be purchased here 

"Come Fly with Me"

This 1 came out so pretty and bold.

Plates  MJ 3 & CH- K

"Come Fly with Me" close ups

"The Royal King and Queen"

Such detail in this image.

"The Royal King and Queen"

I was amazed how nicely these all fit on my nails.

And its a Cheeky plate. Alot of people have over looked  these  images.

"The Royal King and Queen" Close-ups

Cheeky's XL C plate

Cheeky actual has alot of XL plates that have some really nice designs.

So if their Summer Set isn't you,check out the other plates they offer.

Cheeky's Site this site is cheaper in price than Amazon and may offer

different plate groupings.

"Slithering Mani"

Yet another Cheeky Plate. XL D

I have had my Cheeky XL plates before they even came to FB 

and before the name grew big. 

"Slithering Mani" Close-ups

Again I am very impressed in the detail.

I painted my nails with SH Extreme Wear "Wet cement"

than spot sponged on some darker grey,white,silver and a light grey

acrylic paints,then TC and stamp. 

"Snakes from around the World"

Of course I wanted to test my abilities and use different colors.

Extreme Close -ups

See what a little color does to an image?

It really came out nice. The yellow I'm not digging to much.

I need to work on that snake more for more details to pop.

Well Surfers..How's that? Yeah I was MIA here, But I have been

 busy painting away. I hope you enjoyed my post.

Thank You All for "Coming to the Beach"

The Official EyE Test

Hello Nail Surfers,

 Today I have a mani to share with you that really looks like eyes looking back at you. I really Love using these plates.They stamp perfect every-time and as you can see they have great full nail coverage. 

She has so many plates to pick from. I want them all . One thing I have noticed about her plates is that they are very unique plates. No dupes here. And I love that plus she makes new plates more often than other plate company's.Shipping is fast and  packaged very well. Oh and OMG she has stamping polish. So need those too..

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I  used Funky Fingers White,Wet`nWild Black and Sinful Black.

IP MJ 3

You can purchase this plate here

Thank yous for Surfing my wave today. (:

Cheeky's Order

Hello Nail Surfers,

How many of you ordered the new Cheeky set?  (Summer Set)

For all those who did order your plates are being dispatched out tomorrow :)

Here's  some additional information on this set.

1.       The plates are 15% bigger.

2.       It comes in a very high quality packaging that wasn’t before.

3.       It comes with the nail art license/scraping card that wasn’t before.

4.       The branding of this set is 10 levels above competition.

5.     The Full nail images are bigger than previous set.

And all the above for extra $3 relatively to the previous set…

With that being all said. I do have some mani's to share with you.

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"Dessert with Cheeky "

CH 41 & CH 42

"Chocolate Lovers"

I had to go back for seconds

"Red Hot Chilli Peppers"...ROCK ON!

CH 52 ,Cheeky Mega C (guitar)

MJ 3 & FUN 1 plate

Matte Version

Thank You Sufrs for coming to my wave. Hope you enjoyed it.

For those who are interested You can your Cheeky Summer Set Here

And MJ & FUN 1 Plates Here

Pretty in Pink

Hello Nail Surfers,

How are you all doing? I'm good. (: Just painted away here.. I really need to pace myself out more.

But who we kidding here? That's just not me (:  I have lots to share with you still. Today I'm going to share some Pink nails. Pink is my ultimate favorite color than Black and well, I cant leave out the other colors now. I Like all  the colors. 

When I stamp I like to use images that have been over looked. Its a challenge at times but it's fun. I still do the traditional images too but love to add twists to them. Some turn out and some don't. I post even my fails.And will tell you why I feel it failed and how or what i should of done definitely .  I'll even redo the fail mani just so I feel better. Nobody likes showing the failed attempt. I take it personally and tell myself I could do better, I should of done better, and than I achieve my mani better. Plus  its more practicing. My cuticles and I don't always agree.And you will see that too. I'm not a pro, nor a professional licensed technician  I do housework and yard work too. My nails take a beating too. I use to always bite my nails. Then I'd bite the skin around my nails. I no longer do either but I do have a love-hate relationship going on with my cuticles.

Habits are hard to break and in time my goal is to have nice and pretty cuticles (:

HIGH TIDE WARNING!!! 

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"Sweet & Evil Cotton Candy Mani"

IP - MJ 2 & QA 5

both found Here

"Girl Power"

IP- CH 50

Cheeky's New Summer Set

Due to be released in about 1 week (:

"Rich Argyle and Famous Swirls"

IP- MJ 2 (argyle) found here

& CH 52

"Make an Entrance with a Star"

IP- BM 322

Thank You for surfing my wave here. Hope you enjoyed it as much as I did.

Girl Power !

Hello Nail Surfers,

  How are you doing theses days? Are you getting impatient waiting for Cheeky? . I am. L.O.L

If it wasn't for new new squishy stamper alot of the images would not fit me proper. So I am in need of these bigger full nail designs. Today I did a mani thats very girly/tropical/ summery. Now please keep in mind this is just a sample set and the images are not perfected.

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I used Funky Fingers White as a base 

and CG Purple Panic (neon) on accent

IP-Cheeky #50

Thanks for catching the wave and checking my blog out (:

Cheeky Summer Set Up CLOSE

Hello Nail Surfers,

 Today I took many pics. This is my sample set of Cheeky's Summer Set. Many of you may have already seen the set, but here's a close up view. Hopefully they will be releasing these soon :)

Warning..High Tide.. (pic heavy)

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Yes 29 was skipped.

Hopefully when the set is released they will all be in numeral  order.

This is just a sample set. The new finished set will have new packaging ; large plates ; and bigger full nail designs.

Thank You for Joining me today :)

NiNja Fighting with Ninja Blood!

Hello Nail Surfers,

               Happy Friday..I did this Mani earlier this week. I wish the ninja stars showed up more on camera. I wanted to keep then Silver VS Black only so it looked more real..I wanted my ninja's to be facing each other so I did the stamp transferring technique. My squishy stamper did not want any part of this. It was to sticky and would not fully pick up the image. So I used 2 Konad stampers and it work great. I also wanted these ninja's to shed blood. I thought it would be easier to use acrylic paint watered down VS polish. This also gives a chance to erase if I didn't like it. 

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I used tape to cover skin around nail and wrapped 2 nails to protect them from splatter.

 I used Funky Fingers White  and Wet`N`Wild Black as a base.

IP- OB 22 here

and Mash 47 here

Exotic Jungle Queen

Hello Nail Surfers,

                                Todays Mani  I wanted something different,something I have not seen used  yet. 

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CG Exotic Encounters & Jungle Queen

I did 2 coats but 1 would of work too.

Applications was OMG so smooth and easy

A Series - A53

Swatches. These images are huge.

Gotta Large thumb? No problem

I did use Sinful Blk for stamping.

He Loves me :) ;He Loves me not :(

Hello Nail Surfers,

 I have been busy painting like crazy. There are so many great nail plate sets and I've been using them all.

When ideas come to me I gotta do it. I really need to just keep a book of my ideas and use them as I go, but whom I kidding. We all get excited for certain images, designs,plates and plate sets. And that same excitement is how I feel on nail art ideas. I have heard alot of people saying that they soo want the new Cheeky Set, But with the other sets already released and purchased some think their significant other my not feel that same excitement. So they want to do a special Mani's for their man using Cheeky's new plate #53.

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I used 2 coats of CG Pink Plumeria

which is thin and kinda runny 

So take your time with this color.

White is Funky Fingers 1 coat :)

IP- CH 53 with Sinful Black

Would you do a special Mani for you man?

I do all the time and he loves it.

Marilyn Monore

Hello Nail Surfers.

.Hows your weekend going so far?  Mine is going pretty good. :)  I am having loads of fun making all these mani's.. I have alot to still with you guys. This particular Mani I loved so much. I hated to take it off. I usually don't do the same mani 2X ,but with all my plates and certain images I will defiantly do it again and hopefully the 2ed time around it can last longer than a day or so.  

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Originally I had planned with black film strip stamp,

and stamping Marilyn in a beige glitter.

I didn't take a picture with her on here but it was hard to really see her,

so I took all this off and went back to the drawing board.

And now she is visible. I reversed the colors and it worked great.

The white is Funky Fingers

CG Fast Track for the film strips

sinful Blk for Monroe

Plates can be found here

I am really impressed with how great My Online Shop/Fab ur Nails

plates work. I am hooked with her plates.She has sooo many new and unique images.

Whats your Favorite mani that you have done and will redo again?

Alert..New Set Coming SOON!!!

Hey Nail Surfers,

Have you heard? Cheeky has shown all their new plates for the Summer Set Collection! All of them..

Which means I can now post 2 mani's I did ahead of time for 2 plates. :) I'll post them here soon.

Heck I'll just post them now with Cheeky plate preview. :)

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The Full set!

Now the mani's I made.

CH 33

A closer view.

.Now keep in mind I'm working with just a sample set.

Cheeky has fixed all the kinks out already:)

Crisper images and bigger images too :)

CH 38

Sharks,Blowfish,Dolphins,Seashells with Sand,

Seahorse and a Crab.

A Closer View.

As you can see the sample set does not fit my nails great,

plus the image has a curve for french tip but that forces me to have my 

art face me and I prefer it going outwards. So I lost a few cm of the image.

BUT... Cheeky is making the images bigger :) so I can't wait to use these all again.

Which is your Favorite plate?

Are you planning on adding this set to your collection?

Fox Racing Nails

Hello Nail Surfers.   I did this Mani earlier this week. And I loved how it turned out. Fox is a name brand for racing equipment. Dirt bikes,4 wheelers,trick bikes etc..They sell protective gear and fashion gear.

I wore my Fox top with this Mani. Its black with the fox 1/2 white 1/2 pink. It totally matched my nails :)

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I used Fab Ur Nails Plates. Which is found here

She has soo many different designs and they are unique too.