Wednesday 30 October 2013

33DC2013 Day 17 - artwork featuring your favourite brand


My favourite brand... Catrice. It's also the brand I own the most polishes of (60 or so). Catrice polishes are not expensive (€2,99 here in NL, bit cheaper in Germany), they dry fast and often only need 2 coats. They change their main collection around once in a while and usually have a new Limited Edition out each month (they release more LE's in Germany though *pouts*). They make cremes, shimmers, metallics, the odd duochrome and a few glitter toppers.


From left to right:
  • Catrice - LE Matchpoint C01 Team Lucky Mustards
  • Catrice - 04 Orange-Utan
  • Catrice - 690/19 Fred Said Red
  • Catrice - 17 Caught On The Red Carpet
  • Catrice - 890 How I Matt Your Mother

I did a yellow to red gradient, representing autumn colours. If I'd had any leaf stamping plates I probably would have stamped leaves. But I am still waiting for the MoYou Mother Nature image plates I ordered to arrive (pre-order means a long wait). Therefore I went with something linked with autumn... umbrellas! It does rain here a lot in autumn (and winter, spring and summer, but shhhh). I used plate GA38 from the Gals Fairy set.



I used How I Matt Your Mother (adore the name) to stamp with, it dries matte btw... lovely vampy purple! It's not the easiest polish to stamp with (dries too fast), but I don't own a black Catrice polish (yes, shame on me).



I wish the Fairy set had a single umbrella as well. To get the single umbrellas on my nails I had a cotton bud with nail polish remover at the ready to remove unwanted umbrellas from the stamper.



The last picture shows my right hand, slightly different. I really liked the autumn colours, though I barely have anything in my wardrobe in those colours. I'm still a gradient novice, for some reason I can't get it to look as smooth as others. If you have any tips, I'd love to hear them!

10 comments:

  1. Mooie gradient! En die parapluutjes zijn erg schattig.

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    1. Dank je :). Vond het wel toepasselijk met het weer wat we de laatste tijd gehad hebben ;)

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  2. So pretty <3 I also used Catrice for this part of the challenge :)

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    1. Thanks! I love Catrice... and I'm totally envious of all the LE's you can get that we can't over here in NL!

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  3. I love the umbrella stamp! It's so cute! Your gradient is awesome too! (:

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    1. Thanks hun! The hubby loved the umbrellas as well, you should've seen his face when I took it off (it was chipped, so it had to go)

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  4. Ahhh so cute! And your gradient is flawless!

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  5. This is so pretty. I also really enjoy Catrice. I wish we got more LE's here too.

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    1. I agree, if I'd live closer to the German border I could hop over and get more LE polishes... my wallet would probably not agree though, so perhaps it's for the better... ;)

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