Monday, April 15, 2013

But That's Bananas!


WHAT?  You can make your own decals with your Konad stamper?  But that's bananas!  An awesome thing just got, well, awesome-er!

New technique?  Here I come!

For my banana-rific background, I started with a base of Sinful Colors Unicorn, that lovely, sweet lemon yellow.  I stamped bananas using Cheeky CH 20 using Wet n Wild black creme.  To create a little contrast, I filled in the bananas with a nail brush using Sally Hansen Insta Dri Lightening.

To start my decals,I stamped - this is Wet n Wild black creme polish and the image is from Gals plate GA 45.


I filled in my monkey's face using a small nail brush and Kleancolor Mocha.  I let it dry for a few minutes.

Next, I used Orly Prince Charming and a nail brush to fill in the rest of the monkey.  I let it dry a few minutes before applying a medium-thick coat of Out the Door topcoat.


I only have two or three stampers, so I couldn't do the 4 decals all at once (and I wasn't sure how long they needed to dry).  I let the first two monkeys dry overnight and used tweezers to peel them from the stampers.  I made a second set and found that they were reasonably dry within about 30 minutes.  

It worked like a charm!



I'm not sure if you're supposed to use topcoat on the nail before sticking the decal on.  It seemed to work both ways and appeared to blend in a little better without the additional topcoat on the nail.

Omigosh!  So many new possibilities!  Get polishing, Konaddicts!

6 comments:

ManisbyMoore said...

I so want to try this!!! Now I have to find a design I can't mess up!

Robyn Munro said...

This is so cute! I have to try this.

Simo said...

very nice:http://simonails85.blogspot.com.es/

Iris said...

super cute!!!
xx Iris
http://nailartbyiris.blogspot.nl/

Unknown said...

I wrote a blog post about a similar technique but actually yours looks tons easier! Ill be doing it like this in future!! X

Cait said...

This technique just blew my mind. I never knew you could do that. I am terrible at stamping anyway...maybe I should try that. The Monkey is cute!

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