Nail Stamping - First try!

Hello!

So I finally pulled out my supplies and decided to give it a go!

I have had this Konad kit and plate for about 18 months.  About that time is when I started reading The Nailasaurus and saw nail "stamping" for the first time.  I was at the mall a few weeks later and saw an actual Konad "booth" and I picked up these goodies for like way to much but I didn't realize you could buy this stuff anywhere else at the time. 

Since my nails are still really short I decided I could use my feet as my first palette.  I still wanted to do a 4th of July thing - but simple. (So beware if you don't like feet, there are pictures of toes ahead!)

The little plate "holder" is useless - as I've mentioned before RainySunRayNails has some wonderful videos on her site on how to stamp so I ended up following her method and just placing the plate on a paper towel.  I made sure to "rough up" the stamper a bit and clean the plate and the stamper with acetone.  The Konad scraper is also hard to use and I felt like I was scratching the plate.  I used an old gift card instead.

It took me a few tries to get it down - and I can tell it will get better with practice.  And wa-la!

Toes are soooo frightening close up!  Sorry!

 

And then I grabbed some more patriotic colors and my dotting tool and added some "flair" :)

 

 

The dark blue looks almost black in this picture - but as you can see in the polish picture above it's a true blue.  I actually really like how it turned out.  I think I should be able to do my poor little nail stubs on Wednesday. 

Hope you are having a great weekend and please follow me on Bloglovin' - because GFC is going away at the end of July and I want to be able to connect with all you!

 

 

 

 

Jasmine