Simples Week 11 ~ Gradient

Hello Dahlings!

 

Yes, I'm a bit behind this week.

Between procrastinating over stamp camp prep

& my teeth giving me a hard time,

I just haven't felt like doing much at all.

I've even felt too guilty & in pain to paint my nails!

(oh da horrors!)

 

But I did get this week's Simples assignment done

& I have started on my prep.

(after getting this posted I'll be sitting down

to a 6+ hour Netflix marathon of movies

while I cut cardstock until either my hands fall off

or I get all 4 cards done. It could happen!)

 

On to da nails!

 

For week 11, Debbie has us doing Gradients.

I LOVE GRADIENTS!!!

 

She made this awesome TUTORIAL VIDEO

where she shows us how to do gradients 5 different ways!

Yet, with all this new technique info available

I did mine da same way I always do

cuz I just wasn't up thinking all that much.

 

 I did okay, all things considered.

I went with da basic rainbow thing using red, yellow & blue

in the hope that they'd blend enuf to make all da colors.

I needed to bounce more but my bouncer was too tired.

 

 Da line up ~ The Devil Wears Polish Cornucopia, Autumn Nights

& Cranberry Crush along with da bit of cosmetic sponge I used

held in reverse grip tweezers.

(all 3 are from da Fall Preview Collection)

 

I trim my sponges down to pieces that are about 1/4" wide

by a little less than da length of my ring finger nail.

This gives me room to bounce up & down da nail as well as side to side

without making a big ole mess on da skin around da nail.

 This is 2 easy peasy nice & easy coats of Cornucopia

It has these itty bitty flecks of pinkish purple

that my camera refused to see

but it gives this lovely warm gold a bit of flash

along with da subtle rainbow.

 Sun pic!

Tho' getting sun pics when wearing holos is a good thing,

I've never liked my pics with my palm showing,

but I don't always have something suitable on hand to hold.

So I took a piece of self-adhesive black felt

& wrapped it around an empty TP tube

that I flattened into a long oval shape

that fits under my fingers nicely

& gives me a backdrop for sun pic manis.

 

Not my best gradient ever, but it does da job.

 

>^. .^<

 Hi Meowmy!

I'se gonna nap now.

 

Thanks for stopping by!

~ Inky