Hot Off The Stamping Press: New Emily de Molly Nail Art Stamping Plates!

Hiya stamp champs,

That's right a double post day! Why? Because the stamping press is sizzling!  It's so hot even I'm feeling the burn lol.  So this was a total out of nowhere discovery.  You may not know this but I kind of regularly stalk Hayley of Emily de Molly.  The truth is I've been in love with her nail polish since I discovered it some 2 years ago.  Then she was still shipping directly from Australia to the US so I have some of her "vintage label" bottles.  Nowadays you have to get it through resellers if you want it here in the US, but I still like to stalk her page for new colors and update, and since she created her stamping plates almost doubly so.  Imagine my surprise when my eyes alighted upon these pretty babies....

Hot Off The Stamping Press: Bundle Monster Create Your Own 2014 Collection!

Happy Hallloween stamp champs,

I'm so bummed I wasn't able to create more Halloween nail art for this year.  It's been hectic in more ways than I can describe, but one thing always cheers me up when I'm feeling bummed....that's right new nail art stamping plates.  I think a lot of ladies look forward to the Bundle Monster plate releases.  They are affordable and offer a nice array of images that you can use in collection over and over again.  To this day my favorite BM Collection is the 2012 plates and the HD Collection.  Useful and so cute! Plus it doesn't hurt that they are uber affordable.  What's great about the CYO plates is that they are created, for the most part, by the fans who entered their own designs.  I have promised myself that if they do anymore I will try to enter some, but for now let's take a look at this new collection, and later I'll tell you how you can save a few bucks while you're at it..

Unfortunately I can't zoom in on the images any further than this so you will have to go to the website and check them out with the automated zoom for a closer look.  But what' I've seen on the zoom I really love. They have a few stock images that are par for the course but a lot of these designs are very unique and cool looking!

Hot Off The Stamping Press: MoYou London Cookbook Collection!

Hey stamp champs,

A late week post on the MoYou London plates that are releasing this week and guess what?  MoYou London has released an entire new collection called the Cookbook Collection! I for one am so excited as I love cooking, well eating other peoples' cooking.  I can cook but the effort is often too much for these days aside from the occasional monster vat of chili, homemade ice cream, and quiche.  Anyway how cute is this idea? Let's take a look at what MoYou came up with this week....

“I read recipes the same way I read science fiction. I get to the end and say to myself "well, that's not going to happen” ~ Rita Rudner

Nail Art Stamping For Beginners: How To Successfully Start Nail Art Stamping!

Updated 1/2015

Welcome to the classroom stamparistas,

This is the start of my Beginner's Series on Nail Art Stamping.  It's actually been a long time coming. In fact this is draft 2, the first was deleted by blogger sigh, but I've been slowly and carefully crafting what will be a 3 part series to help those that are just beginning to stamp or for those who what a good start point before making purchases. This series will act as a guide to those new to stamping and a resource for pros or vested stampers to point out in aiding others.  I figure as I've been at this stamping thing for about 8 years now I've accumulated lots of tips and tricks that will hopefully help you become successful at the craft of stamping, and assist in getting over that hump of frustration that one can experience when starting out.  Part 1 is all about where to begin when you first start stamping.  Don't forget I also have up a Stamping 101 page with some resources that you can check out as well. Now let's get started.....

Hot Off The Stamping Press: B.Loves Plates Nail Art Stamping Plates!

Hiya stamparistas,

As I said before the old adage of when it rains it pours is true! Especially regarding stamping plates. It seems every time I look up a new brand of nail art stamping plates is emerging and certainly there are more plates than ever available on the market with all kinds of different approaches.  Today's new brand is B. Loves Plates, a new indie brand from Poland.  Ah the global experience is real over here. I love discovering new brands from all over the world and it's the first time I've seen a Polish brand. So let's see what B, reminds me eerily of Gossip Girl, has to offer....

Twenty one serious images of the geometric variety from simple to very vey intricate.  This is a solid plate to add to any collection.

Born Pretty Store Nail Art Stamping Plate Update: BP vs BornPretty Plates What's The Difference?

Hey stamp champs,

I wanted to address the difference in the Born Pretty Store plates when I noticed.  While looking through all the available plates on the website lo and behold I recognized the first set of Born Pretty plates from 1-10 and the bundle currently listed  from 1-10 on the website were all different! Sigh.  I can't say I'm happy about that when I noticed the first set has images that are much smaller compared to the new plates.    So this is basically what happened.  If you were like me and got the first set of plates that released from the Born Pretty Store brand they were the smaller images and the plates are labelled as BornPretty.  At the time  of the initial sale and release these plates were $18.39USD not the 0.99 cents per plate that was offered yesterday but roughly $2.39USD per plate.

Above are the old/first release of the Born Pretty Store plates from one month ago. If you want to see close up individual images of all the plates see my original post here. Now take a look at the BP plates which launched yesterday and are essentially the larger version of the BornPretty plates though many have been completely redesigned.  Especially BornPretty 06.  I'll show you that one individually below.

Hot Off The Stamping Press: New MoYou London Scorpio Zodiac Collection Nail Art Stamping Plate!

Hey stamp champs,

It's the season of nail art stamping plate shopping and October is about turn over to November so you know what that means.  It means its time for a new Zodiac plate to release from MoYou London! That right Sorpio's rejoice for your time is nigh (lol)! Let's see what MoYou London came up with now...