Bible Verse Painting

 

I was at Michael's the other day, and I finally got the big 7 (I think) pack of canvases that I'd been eyeing for basically forever. I chose the square ones because I made the mistake of asking my mom's opinion when really I wanted the rectangle ones, but oh well. So I got it home and wasn't sure what I was going to do with all of them, but I figured that at some point in my lifetime I'd find something to do with them (plus I had a coupon, so really I HAD to buy them.) 

I've had this idea for a while, so I decided I'd give it a try. I started out by picking my colors and doing some mixing on my palette. Then I just got to work painting random stripes all over the background so it was pretty much covered. I didn't intend for this to be perfect, and it's not, so that's good. I just did what I wanted to do and created this kind of cool multicolored background. Then I got the darkest/brightest color I'd made and drew a cross as the picture in the background, and detailed the edges with a few strokes of white. Then after everything dried completely, I wrote one of my favorite Bible verses in Sharpie. 

1 Corinthians 13: 4-8 and 1 Corinthians 13:13

I'd really like to do this again with the same general idea: stroke-y background, main solid picture, and verse or quote. It was almost too easy and really fun :)

Nail Art #6- Roses

My cuticles look really nasty in this picture, my apologies. And I had some trouble with the blue because it's about 10 years old , so they don't look that great. But I've been wanting to do roses for a long time now and It was the best blue I could find that I already had that matched the picture in my head.

So I just painted my nails a few coats of blue so it was completely opaque, then let it dry completely. Later on, I did some pink dots using the end of a paintbrush. Then before the pink could dry all the way, I went back with the paintbrush end of the paintbrush (?) and swirled in some white. Finally, I used the paintbrush to draw little "leaves." I think it's really cute and sweet, but some people probably think they look nothing like roses, because they don't really. But I know what they're supposed to be!

Sally Hansen Salon Effects Nail Polish Strips

A while back I used the Sally Hansen Salon Effects Nail Polish Strips (a little longer name, please?) in Girl Flower. I LOVED them and the design and everything about them except how hard it was to get them perfectly on (definitely a perfectionist here.) Recently, I did the nail strips in Fly With Me. This time was not so fun, and it was probably mostly my fault. It was a lot harder this time to get them perfectly on my nail with no bare nail exposed, so I'd have the sides completely messed up. It's hard to explain, but if you have a lot of patience I'd go for them. If not, stay away from these things. I think they're like $11? Maybe... anyhow..

Nail Art #5 4th of July Water Marble

Here's my water marbled nails for the 4th of July! I used a sparkly red color that I can't remember the name of to save my life, and Sephora's Opening Night.