Freehand Teddy Bears Nail Art (inspired by Tartofraises)

Hi Lovelies,

This is a manicure I've been wanting to do for a while and I finally found the time and COURAGE to give it a go.  If you haven't discovered Tartofraises yet, go over to her YouTube or Blog and you will be amazed!  She is the queen of One Stroke nail art and her designs are so beautiful and delicate.

I came across her design of those cute scruffy Ourson Teddy Bears.  She made it look easy enough that I thought even I could do that. So I got out my acrylic paints out, some basic paint brushes and gave it a good go, even tried painting with my left hand!

I give all the credit to Tartofraises and I hope i gave her some justice.  I hope you like my attempt at re-creating this cute design, I sure did have fun trying to re-create it.

Materials Used:

Base Coat: Orly Bonder

Base: China Glaze Pelican Grey

Art Work: Acrylic Paints

Top Coat: Poshè

Tartofraises Inspiration for this creation:

YouTube Post here

Blog Post here

Ourson Teddy Bear

Thanks for stopping by

Summer Challenge Day 55 - Surfin USA

I had real fun doing this one. 

I thought Surfin... I thought surfboards... I thought bikini's.  Right?

I will have to give credit to JulieG713 and her youtube video on Summer Bikini nails tutorial here for the bikini designs.  This is where I saw them and got the idea from.  I thought about adding a surfboard accent nail since the theme was 'surfin' in the USA.

Hope you like it :)

I used a lot of colours for this. The base are OPI Did You'Ear About Van Gogh? and on my ring finger is OPI No Room For the Blues

For my bikini's from Thumb to Pinky:  China Glaze Happy Go Lucky, OPI Dutch 'Ya Just Love OPI?, OPI Kiss Me on The Tulips and China Glaze Man Hunt.  I used white acrylic paint for the surfboard and black arcrylic to draw on the string bikini's.

Yep, I had heaps of fun doing this.  I thought it looked very cute.  And i was pleaseantly happy with my attempt at recreating JulieG's bikini design :)

xx Karen

Next...

Day 57 - Orange + Green

Summer Challenge day 18 - Ballooning or Kites

Here is my Summer Challenge for Day 18 - Ballooning or Kites.

I chose to do kites because I remember as a little girl over summer, my brother and I would play with our kites on the beach near our summer holiday house.  My kite was green and had a mouse on it, my brothers was blue and had a racing car.  That's how clear and wonderful my memories are from when I was little girl.  I'll definitly be taking my little girls (when i have children that is) to do the same thing one day. xx

I appologise for my discuting cuticles.  

I used two coats of Maybelline mini colorama in Party Blue (#96) stamped clouds from Konad image plate m79.  The kite I painted with a detail brush and acrylic paints.

Next...

Day 19 - Ice Cream Sundae

See you next time

xx Karen