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Sugar Bubbles SB049 Swatches and Decal Tutorial

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Hi Lovelies, I hope you are having a good week? I have another stamping swatch post for you today plus a tutorial for making your own decals. Last week I purchased a new Sugar Bubbles stamping plate from  Rainbow Connection  because the minute I saw it I knew I needed it. This plate is full of 80s and 90s cartoon characters and as I grew up watching some of these there was no way I could not get this. The characters include Care Bears, My Little Pony, Doug, Rugrats and lots more and there is so much detail in these images. I like the Sugar Bubbles plates because they are so detailed and well etched but I do find with some of the finer lines cotton wool gets caught so I just run over with my finger to clean it. I always use a quick, firm scrape with these plates and I find with my trusty Sticky Fab ur Nails stamper I always get great results. I did these swatches on swatch sticks and for anyone who wishes to know the background polishes are all 6 from the Bundle...

Stamping Decals on my Uberchic Mat

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Happy Sunday Nail Girls. Hope you are having a great weekend! Today I am blogging about one of my newest purchases but definitely a favourite. Last week the lovely Sarah of She Sells Seashells announced she had stocked the new Uberchic Mat (plates are coming soon) so I knew I had to get one as I was wary of ordering direct as I know a lot of UK girls have had custom charges and for £11 it was a no brainer! So this mat is silicon and perfect for making decals, testing polishes, comparing colours, swatches and I'm sure lots of other things, Its also safe to use acetone on so easy to clean up but the dried polish just peels right off. So here's what I did - 1st I used my Leighton Denny one for all to paint in the nails on the mat, you can see in the picture where I have polished, This is the top of the decal and means it will peel right off. While they were drying - they need to be completely dry, I got my other bits out. For this I used Fab Ur Nails FUN14 plate...