The Digital Dozen DOES...Autumn!!

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It's time for another week with The Digital Dozen!! This week we're doing Autumn themed nails.  I was so excited about this theme and then when it crept up somehow I lost all my motivation. Then I ended up doing a bunch of looks which were sort of fails and then I had to re-do them and....well they're at least close to being wins! ;P  Here's my first look!




On Thanksgiving a few years ago I did a turkey themed look using my nails as feathers with my thumb as the turkey head.  So from that I sort of sprung up this idea to do leaves.  My nails are a perfect shape for this but the only issue for me was that it came out a bit too similar to the feathers. :/  However, there is a win in there too because I am one of those people who love holiday nail art but HATE that it really has to be removed the next day or it looks kind of dated. :/ So you can wear your turkey for a day and then swap out your thumb for a leaf and voila! Thanksgiving to fall with only two nails to change! :)  I hope you enjoy these! Don't forget to check out the other ladies art below!

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The Digital Dozen does....FLORAL

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It's Digital Dozen time again!! This week's challenge was floral. I have to admit it's not my favorite theme. If you look back over my designs you'll find I rarely do anything floral or even too girly really.  This made it a REAL challenge for me! I see really amazing designs all the time with flowers on them but it's just really not my thing so I had to search for inspiration!  I actually ended up with too many designs because at first I just grabbed all my floral stamps and went to town and then I thought, no, that's a cop out, I'm going to try harder than that.  So I apologize in advance for what is sure to be a very amateur week from me! The important thing is that I pushed myself and went for it though!  Today's design is based on a pattern I saw on a shirt.  When I first did it I left the centers of the flowers empty and I think I liked that better than after I added the yellow, but I digress. It's floral and not a total mess so I'm happy with it!! :) Check out what is sure to be much more amazing art from my fellow dozener's  below!



Midi-evil...

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It's day two of the Digital Dozen metal challenge! Today I have some sort of simple nails for you! I wanted this to stort of read as gold midi rings. I used a neutral base color and then painted on some dainty little gold rings!  I felt it came out really well in person although the picture isn't doing it a lot of favors!  I'm also experimenting with a new nude tone here. This one is Zoya Avery.  I normally use Butter London Tea with the Queen as my nude base but I think I rather like this one too.  It's a little more yellow than my skin tone but it works! Don't forget to check out the other girls art for day two of Metal Week!!

The Digital Dozen Does...Metal!

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It's time for another Digital Dozen challenge! This week we're doing metal!  You can definitely take that a lot of different ways but I went fairly straightforward today.  I wanted this to sort of emulate flatware but without being super obvious and I'm quite happy with the way they turned out.  I'm still figuring out my new camera but I hope that soon I'll have it down and be able to capture the stunning finish of this OPI chrome finish. It's incredibly shiny and reflects light and color in a super cool way.  It's definitely a must have polish in my book! I hope you enjoy these simple nails today! Be sure to check out the other girls designs below!!

I Love the 80's!!

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So it's day four of The Digital Dozen decade challenge and today I'm hitting the 1980's.  For this theme day I went with a few different things! I started with a pastel water marble with some holographic glitter and then added some shapes and topped them with a galaxy.  On my index, which is my accent here...I went with some holographic stripes through the galaxy.  I wish the holo had been more apparent in this but the weather has been sort of not great for glitter. :(  After I completed this masterpiece of art I showed it to my husband who promptly asked me what it had to do with the 80's.  To that I say THIS:



and this...


and whatever the heck THIS is...


along with any number of rock music videos!!  I wanted to sort of create a mixed art look! Despite the fact that I'm still working on perfecting my galaxy skills I think it came out rather well!  Here's a fun 80's nail polish ad for you!!


Check out the other girls art below!!
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The Digital Dozen DOES...Decades!!

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It's time for another week of art with The Digital Dozen!! This week we're doing a decades theme which is exciting news for me because I LOVE throwback designs.  I decided to do some ascending decade art so today we're starting with the good old 1950's and by weeks end we'll be up to the 90's.  Today's design really didn't come out how I'd intended at all.  It's rather sad really but I got a lot of compliments anyway so I'm hoping that it's one of those times when I'm being much harder on myself than is entirely warranted.  The idea was a chrome logo across a cherry red background.  Example:


The text is where I really lost it though.  It should have run together a bit differently.  Still I think the idea works!  I hope you all enjoy it too!  For fun here's a 1950's nail polish ad for you!


Check out the other ladies art work below!!


When it rains, it pours...

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So today's brand post is both inside AND outside the box. The design of it is quite straightforward but then it's not really very obvious to anyone looking what the brand is.  Have you guessed it yet? 


It's for Morton Sea Salt!  I had the container on my counter and thought the design was really pretty. It ended up being a great week to unveil it!!  Even though the brand logo is the little girl with the umbrella, all the Morton  brand salt products include the navy so I think it still works! ;) Check out what the other ladies came up with below! (And please excuse my photography on this one. My camera went ten shades of crazy for some reason!)

Taste the rainbow...

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It's day two of Brand Week with The Digital Dozen and today I've gone a bit more abstract. I didn't want to do lettering across my nails and I also like that this was quite wearable without anyone wondering why I'm promoting candies!  Normally there would be a rainbow stripe with white letters and the dots beneath so I just eliminated the rainbow stripes and went with the dots on the white.


Simple and effective!! Don't forget to check out what the other ladies came up with for today's challenge!!


The Digital Dozen Does...Brands!

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It's time for another week of Digital Dozen nail art!! This week the challenge was brands.  I started out trying to think outside the box and then sort of ran low on ideas! Today I'm starting with the one I  liked least.  It's fairly obvious that it's for Target, but as my husband aptly pointed out (after I was FINISHED!!), that's not really a brand so much as a store!! Either way though, it came out decent.  It's certainly not my favorite of the week but we all have our days! I hope you all enjoy it! Don't forget to check out what the other ladies came up with!


Not my Cup of Tea...

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It's the final day of vintage week with The Digital Dozen!! Today I modeled my design after some vintage china tea cups I have which I love.  I think this one came out pretty much exactly like I wanted except for maybe that the flowers are a bit more dark than I anticipated.  I also love the way the chrome looks here. I've just nearly captured it's super shiny, reflective finish here and it really mimicked the platinum ring on my cups perfectly! This picture is quite dark but it's the china which inspired me:


I hope you all enjoyed this week with us! Please check out my fellow ladies designs below! Don't forget to check back later in the day for some Valentines looks! ;)


Enter the Circus...

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It's Day Four of the Digital Dozen Vintage Week!! I can't believe this week has nearly ended already! It seems like it's only just begun.  So these nails are actually the second ones I did for the week but for some reason I ended up liking them more than the ones that came after! That's how it always goes isn't it?  Anyway these are sort of based on those old circus tents. My husband said they reminded him of Water For Elephants which wasn't really what I was going for but fits nonetheless! I hope you enjoy them! Please don't forget to check the links below to see some more vintage themed nails!!


Wood if I could...

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It's day two of Vintage Week with The Digital Dozen and today I went with a pretty abstract 70's kind of theme. I was going for kind of a pine wood look with some fun stripes. I liked it in the end but this is also one of those times when I wish I'd stopped long before I did! I really loved the ring finger but then once they all had stripes I kind of felt it was too much! Oh well, in the end it still had the effect I was looking for! Reminds me of 70's pine paneled walls and furniture!


I love this kind of thing! I hope you all enjoy the design today and please check out what my fellow Dozener's came up with for today!!

Pay no attention to that man behind the curtain...

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Well it's the final day of black and white week with The Digital Dozen.  Honestly when the theme first came up all I could think of were all the black and white films I so love watching! But I wanted to have a variety for the week so I tried to narrow it to just a few!  It occurred to me somewhere a long the way that one thing I love just as much as old films are films whose stories are told both in black and white AND color. Pleasantville, The Giver, The Wizard of Oz...I'm sure there are others but The Wizard of Oz is I'm sure one of the most recognizable black and white to color films there is. SO...I decided to do a little play on it and do a black and white to color design based loosely on the film. I did a field of poppies as my design so it would be something recognizable but simple as to not take away from the fade.  I hope you enjoyed the artwork this week! Please check out what the other ladies came up with for today! Thanks for following along! :)

Shades of Grey

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It's day four of Black and White week with the Digital Dozen.  Today I went kind of simple.  I have like, A MILLION shades of grey in my collection. I don't know why.  I mean, obviously I love the color but there aren't a whole lot of uses for that many shades of grey and I can't remember having ever just polished a flat grey nail.  So today I decided to put them to good use!  I pulled out an oldie but goodie, Cover Band's Sticks and Stones, and threw it over the top for a bit of pizzazz and then I matted the whole thing. I actually really loved how it came out. I got a lot of compliments on it despite how drab it seems!  Maybe it's just that time of year! :)  Please don't forget to check out what the other ladies came up with and stay tuned for tomorrow's final design!


The Writings on the Wall

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It's day three of Black and White week with The Digital Dozen. Today's nails aren't really black and white but are more a play on words.  It's "right there in black and white" is a phrase people use frequently and so I wanted to do these black and white words on paper. I had a lot of fun with these and it reminds me of how much I really love writing myself! I used to write a lot of short stories and I've kind of gotten too busy to do it over the years. So it's a little bit of a personal theme as well!  I hope you enjoyed them, and don't forget to check out what the other ladies came up with for today!

Rosebud

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It's day two of the Black and White challenge with The Digital Dozen!  Today I wanted to try a new design and as you can see, it did not go so well!  I think I needed to choose different colors because my ring finger sort of just looks like some blobs.  But I still had fun with it.  The inspiration was Citizen Kane. A black and white film by Orson Welles.  I've seen the film a few times and honestly, I'm not super impressed by it but apparently it's supposed to be the greatest American film of all time. In either event at the end of the film he dies with a snowglobe in his hand and the last words he utters are "Rosebud".  It ends up that this is a childhood sled he had, which is the only happy memory he has of his entire life. Sad, no? I made some red rose buds to sort of emulate this.  I hope you liked it and don't forget to check out the other girls artwork for day two!!

The Digital Dozen Does...Black and White

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Well it's time for another week of fun with The Digital Dozen!! This week our theme is Black and White. It's an interesting theme because it seems very straight forward and yet it's also very open to interpretation.  I started simple today with this dotticure.  It was one of those that I liked better from a distance! I had fun with it though! I can't wait for you to see what the next week has in store for us! Don't forget to check out the other ladies art work below AND don't forget to check out the new Digital Dozen blog as well as our other social media sites for fun tips, behind the scenes info and updates from all us ladies! :)

Flashback Friday: Pop Art!

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It's the final day of the Digital Dozen Skittle Challenge and for today we're going to have a little Flashback Friday! The nails you see above come to you all the way from back in March of 2011 when I had just started blogging and was very new to the world of free hand nail art! In fact, Pop Art! was the fourth post to ever hit my little blog.  I had these weird decals I got somewhere and I wanted to use one and it sort of ended up with this! I used a stamp for the dots and I was so very proud of myself for that free handed word on the bottom! Those were the days before clean-up (and the days when I still REALLY needed it!) and before I bothered really worrying about a uniform shape for my nails. So how did the flash forward come out?


I used primary colors this time since they're more pop art than neons. I still had a decal but it looks kind of spongy now! I don't mind it though cause it reminds me of how my brush art sometimes looks when I don't want to be heavy handed.  I freehanded my dots this go round as well although they're not as uniform as I'd like so I almost wish I'd stuck to stamping! All in all though, I prefer the new look! Which is your favorite?

And don't forget to check out my fellow dozeners art below!!

Three's a crowd...

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It's day four of The Digital Dozen's skittle challenge! Today is kind of a throwaway! I had some new stamping polish I picked up super cheap at my local Five Below and I wanted to try it out PLUS I've been itching to try free hand tiger and giraffe so it kind of came together from that! The stamping polish is kind of a fail. It's no darker than my regular black polish and it also smeared a little. Otherwise I'm pretty happy with these nails though! I wish I had used a different color for the leopard because it kind of runs into the design and for some reason the nude background made my light brown color look purple-ish. But you win some you lose some! Don't forget to check out what the other ladies came up with for today!!

Hearts of Blue...

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It's day three of the Skittles challenge week with The Digital Dozen!  I really don't know where the inspiration for these nails came from. I saw the color combination somewhere and really liked it and then I just sort of randomly put patterns on the top! I like the idea of skittles but I'm more of a one or two nails kind of girl than a "let's do every nail different" one! It works great when the patterns and colors mesh but it's so hard to know until it's done so I played it safe by just mixing up bases and patterns! I hope you're enjoying the week! I created this look with a brand new brush set I got for review from the Born Pretty website! The full review will be up next month but I can't wait to show you all the awesome brush sizes and shapes! It really has opened up a whole new world of design for me! Please don't forget to check out what the other girls came up with below! And if you're following along on Vine or Twitter be sure to check in today for a preview of some upcoming designs!




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