At the end of last year, I created a Facebook group for everyone in the UK who loves stamping as much as I do. It is a group for people to share manis, ideas and tips, and each week we run a weekly theme for everyone on the group. However; we decided it would make a nice change to have a monthly theme for April instead of the usual weekly themes, so that's how #ukstampersapril was born. The admins decided on 9 prompts between us spread out over the month, and here is how I tackled each prompt with a quick run down of what I used for each mani.
April 1st - Autism Awareness
Products used:
Base colours - Collection 'Canary Yellow', MUA 'Bold Blue', Models Own 'Carat Coral' & Nicole by OPI 'Listen to Your Momager!'
Stamped with Barry M Silver Foil using an unnamed jumbo plate from eBay.
April 4th - Easter
Products used:
Base colours - Avon 'Lemon Sugar', Makeup Revolution 'Lush Lilac', Ciate 'Ferris Wheel' & No7 'Spring Meadow'
Stamped with Sinful Colors 'Snow Me White' using an unnamed jumbo plate from eBay.
April 7th - Monochrome Swirls
Products used:
Base colours - MUA 'Pitch Black' & Sinful Colors 'Snow Me White'
Stamped with MUA 'Pitch Black & Sinful Colors 'Snow Me White' using Pueen plate 13.
April 10th - Spring
Products used:
Base colours: Makeup Revolution 'Adore', OPI 'Suzi Shops & Island Hops' & Rimmel London 'Too Cool to Tango'
Stamped with Sinful Colors 'Snow Me White' using MoYou London Pro 08 plate.
April 13th - Sparkles/Diamonds
Products used:
Base colour: Flash Nails 'Blue My Mind'
Stamped with Barry M Silver Foil using Hehe plate 024.
April 17th - Few of my Fave Things
Products used:
Base colour - Freckles Polish 'It's Not Fir'
Stamped with MUA 'Pitch Black' using MoYou London Mother Nature 03 plate for the branches, and Born Pretty Store plate 54 for the owls.
April 20th - Reverse Stamping
Products used:
Base colours - Laval 'Baby Pink', Mint London 'Karma' & Ciate 'Sugar Plum'
Stamped with MUA 'Pitch Black' using Pueen plate 08.
April 24th - Houndstooth
Products used:
Base colours - MUA 'Bold Blue', 'Ocean Blue' & 'Midnight'
Stamped with MUA 'Pitch Black' using Cheeky Gals plate 02.
April 27th - Neon Geometrics
Products used:
Base colours - Primark P.S Neons Mini Set
Stamped with Sinful Colors 'Snow Me White' using Pueen plate 36.
I really loved doing this challenge and it is the first monthly nail art challenge that I have ever completed so I'm pretty proud of myself!
If you live in the UK and love stamping, or want to get into it, then please do request to join the group. You can find it by searching for UK Stamping Community on Facebook. It really is a lovely, friendly community of like-minded ladies so please don't be shy.
Don't forget to follow me on Instagram to keep up with all of my nail art adventures. You can find me by searching for @thenailandbeautyfiles.
Have you taken part in any monthly challenges recently? Are you a fan of stamping? Let me know in the comments.
Sam x
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