I started out by creating a gradient using Borghese Mezanotte Blue, Color Club Chelsea Girl and Wet 'n Wild French White Creme. The tips were stamped using a pattern from an Ebay plate M88 that reminded me of waves. The fish is from a Shany plate SH19. Both were stamped using Wet 'n Wild French White Creme. It all looked kind of boring, so I colored in the fish gold using Pure Ice Bite Me. Then, using Sally Hansen Celeb City, I accented a few of the "waves." I'm loving the touch of metal in this. What do you think the chances are that this goldfish will grant me some wishes? :)
A closeup of the goldfish...
I also wanted to show you the gradient itself. To make this, I used a really easy technique that I was trying for the first time. Instead of adding one color at a time as I have done before, these are all layered onto a cosmetic wedge and sponged at the same time. The result is a much smoother gradient as the colors mix much better. It looks as though it was spray painted. I've seen a few tutorials out there, but Laynie of LaynieFingers has a great how to video on the technique, so be sure to check it out.
I keep thinking of how much this reminds me of my black to white gradient and how much quicker this was to create versus that one... Love learning new techniques!
Have you tried creating a gradient using this method?
Thanks for looking!
Anutka :)
I imagined some kind of an underwater mani the other day, but this is so much better than I could have done! Amazing! Gorgeous! Fishy!
ReplyDeleteawww sooo cute!
ReplyDeletelovely!!
ReplyDeleteBeautiful gradient and design!!:)
ReplyDeletehttp://todoslosesmaltessonpocos.blogspot.com
Oh jeez. These are utter perfection!
ReplyDeleteWow! Stunning! Awesome job!
ReplyDeleteVery Beautiful! I love the gold colored fish!
ReplyDeleteI adore this!
ReplyDeleteWow, it turned out beautiful! I love the fish detail! :D
ReplyDeleteWow, really gorgeous!
ReplyDeleteI love it!! ♥
ReplyDeleteThis is so crazy gorgeous.
ReplyDeleteWow, this is absolutely gorgeous! Those blues are so pretty together, and work great as a background for the fish!
ReplyDeleteThanks for the link, too! I'm so glad my tutorial helped you!
wow this is beautiful it looks like the sea when you are diving under :D
ReplyDeleteSo beautiful! I just checked out the video on that technique... I am SO going to be trying that sponging. Nice work as always :)
ReplyDeleteVery pretty! I have tried this method too, it works like a charm ^_^
ReplyDeleteThank you so much! I'm glad that you like the gradient and the fishy!
ReplyDeleteThe gradient comes together so easily!
@Laynie, the tutorial was great! Thank you. Hopefully others will find it useful as well :)
This is gorgeous!!!! Simply stunning!
ReplyDeleteThe fish is so adorable !! And the gradient is amazing! Love the mani ;)
ReplyDeletePerfect gradient, Anutka!! It's so well executed (as are all your other manis anyway!). Yes, it certainly looks like it's been spray-painted. Love the cute goldfish! :)
ReplyDeleteThank you so much ladies! Your comments are too kind :)
ReplyDelete