Sea Salt

Ahoy!
BeYu has brought the next "must have" polish - Sea salt nail lacquer.
http://www.beyu.de/cosmetics/naegel/effektlacke/sea-salt-nail-lacquer_id_1212_0.html
There are 4 nuances: Oriental Salt, Dead Sea Salt, Acquatic Salt and - that what I got  - Chily Salt.

Basically it's the same sand polish as ever, but it's matte and contains grains of other colour then the base one. So you can imagine to see the sea or mountain salt...
Here we go with two coats of Chily Salt polish.

Actually I thought immediately about see sand on a beach with is "decorated" with small parts of sea shells and tiny colourful stones.

That's why the salt (I mean sand) is accompanied by sea shells, sea water and surf, and ship equipment to complete the sea theme.

Stamping with MoYou Sailor-04, essence and BM-414. Blue waves are essense 146 that's what I mint!, china glaze 1218 Isle See You Later and clear polish.

Lacy

Today I do a many for the theme "Lace" (FB group AiS Sunday challenge).
I gathered already some plates by different makers with lace patterns, so it's a good opportunity to try them on.

Base is Yves Rocher polish 64. Menthe, which is actually dark green of the brilliant green kind. Then I stamped with BBF-04 and light green KONAD polish.
On the accent nail I used Dance Legend Kiwi Smoothie, MoYou Bridal-06 and the Menthe as stamping polish.

"It's good to touch a green, green lace of home..."

French Manicure Pens

I found French Manicure Pens by Rival de Loop Young in a local store of Rossmann.
They are available in five colours: white, rose, blue, green and black.
This is a try to make some stripes with the pens. But it turned out not that well...

First of all the liquid is too thick to soak the pen point from inside. Other way from the outside it hardened a way too fast. And the ingredients of the liquid were not very clear. First I thought it would be polish. But it doesn't solve in acetone. Maybe it was kind of acrylic paint.
Or maybe I am just not that skillful with the stuff like nail art pens...

Germany vs. USA

Today Germany is playing against the USA. It is my second many with flags for Germany, the first one was for their first match in World Cup vs. Portugal. Sadly enough I didn't take any pictures that time... The idea of painting two team's flags came from Didoline Nails.

And here we are: Germany with a ball (Ballbesitz!)

And the USA team:

They came to the pitch together.

And... Ready?..

Opening whistle, GO!

I got a piece of "world cup cake" in a bakery for this occasion. Actually the cake has only German colours: black and red (currant) and yellow (canned peach). The cake implies the hope of  Germans to win the World Cup once again.

Stamping with KONAD m52 (ball) and BM-H25 and Cheeky CH4 (USA flag).

Dress Code Happy

This was a haul from p2 limited edition "Dress Code Happy". 040 Green  Garden is lime yellow sand polish with pearly gloss. The matching party are pearls (or caviar pearls).

To feel more summer freshness let's add same citrus slices:

It is Bundle Monster BM-308.

White Lilies and Green

Hello,
this time the challenge is stamping over green base.
Essence' green palette is rich, and the polish names are funny. So the base was the polish "L.O.L.".
I made stamping decals from the image of lilies (Bundle Moster BM-314) and painted lilies with white and light green.

I can always pepper my nails with glitter: 

Pastels

Hey ho and all heil spring!

The sping came this year early, even our sakuras have ceased blooming, although they usually bloom about middle of April. Anyway the mood is springlike and AiS (FB group Adventure in Stamping) challenges us to use pastel tones today.

And here we are:
Butterflies and butterfly wings (Bundle Monster BM-424 and BM-307) with several Catrice LE's and grey stamping colour by essence.

Unfortunately the grey contour is slightly translucent, and I noticed it clearly only on pictures :((.