Before & After: Coffee Klatch (Spellbound Nails Marauder's Map + UberChic Beauty Coffee Addict mini plate)

(Press samples and affiliate links ahead!)

Hello!


How's it going!? I got a little bit of good news today--it looks like at least most of my files are going to be recovered, so yay! ::happy file recovery dance:: So let's celebrate with another one of my favorite things: coffee.


For today's mani I started with a base of Spellbound Nails Marauder's Map, from Ashley's Harry Potter Book 3 collection:

Spellbound Nails Marauder's Map

I've been really digging the dry-brush technique lately, so I decided to do that here. I used Spellbound Nails Milky Way and Hit The Bottle Polish Everyday I'm Truffling (you can also find HTB at Beautometry.com) to do a dry-brush cross-hatch pattern on the background, then I stamped my images from UberChic Beauty's Coffee Addict mini plate with Messy Mansion Carbon:

UberChic Beauty's Coffee Addict mini plate

Here's how it came out:

Spellbound Nails Marauder's Map + UberChic Beauty's Coffee Addict mini plate

Spellbound Nails Marauder's Map + UberChic Beauty's Coffee Addict mini plate

Spellbound Nails Marauder's Map + UberChic Beauty's Coffee Addict mini plate

I love love love how this came out! The dry-brush technique is such an easy way to get good texture and dimension, and these colors are relaxing and chic. I love this almost as much as real coffee...sigh...:)


Happy stamping!
M.