princessekrus
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I was inspired by everyone on here, and hockeymom, who is insanely talented. Chip and Figment are free-drawn with nailpolish, and Ariel is a tattoo that I embellished after putting it on the band. Also - the ariel band was originally pink, but I used purple to cover it.
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And these were the final ones. The middle one is my DD4's - she wanted to do one herself, and we had so many that I figured, why not. It ended up looking kind of cool and stainglass-y.
And yes, the castle is a blatant attempt to copy hockeymom's amazing castle band. I am nowhere near as talented, but I love it just the same.
For those using tattoos, and looking to get good color saturation even on dark bands, I tried the plastic bag method mentioned in a much earlier post, but wasn't successful. For a couple of the bands, I just painted white under it, and then blended it with another light color to create a faded technique (Mulan and Elsa I did this way). I did it with the Anna band too, but then went back and traced, very carefully, in purple around her.
However, for my last attempt at Ariel, I found that if I removed the plastic sheet that covers the tattoo, and then very carefully covered the image with white nail polish, I could still transfer the tattoo fairly successfully to the magic band. However, I say "fairly", because I tore two tattoos before I was successful. You also have to make sure that the white nailpolish is totally dry (think at least an hour), before trying to do a transfer.
Can't wait to try them out in the parks starting tomorrow!!!!! YAY!!!
I was inspired by everyone on here, and hockeymom, who is insanely talented. Chip and Figment are free-drawn with nailpolish, and Ariel is a tattoo that I embellished after putting it on the band. Also - the ariel band was originally pink, but I used purple to cover it.
details:
And these were the final ones. The middle one is my DD4's - she wanted to do one herself, and we had so many that I figured, why not. It ended up looking kind of cool and stainglass-y.
And yes, the castle is a blatant attempt to copy hockeymom's amazing castle band. I am nowhere near as talented, but I love it just the same.
For those using tattoos, and looking to get good color saturation even on dark bands, I tried the plastic bag method mentioned in a much earlier post, but wasn't successful. For a couple of the bands, I just painted white under it, and then blended it with another light color to create a faded technique (Mulan and Elsa I did this way). I did it with the Anna band too, but then went back and traced, very carefully, in purple around her.
However, for my last attempt at Ariel, I found that if I removed the plastic sheet that covers the tattoo, and then very carefully covered the image with white nail polish, I could still transfer the tattoo fairly successfully to the magic band. However, I say "fairly", because I tore two tattoos before I was successful. You also have to make sure that the white nailpolish is totally dry (think at least an hour), before trying to do a transfer.
Can't wait to try them out in the parks starting tomorrow!!!!! YAY!!!
Ok, I've got the tattoos and base coat. Now I need all of you great designers advice. There is a lot of post to have to go back through and read up on. However, I've tried following all along and getting tips which I should have been writing down what works and hasn't worked. Do I put the base coat on 1st and let dry then apply tattoo? Do I just lay the tattoo on and rub with wet cloth like I would if it was on the skin? After applying tattoo I apply base coat again? If I want glitter polish when is the best time to apply it, directly on top of tattoos or apply base coat 1st then glitter polish? If I decide to paint the bands with acrylic paint, I paint the band with acrylic, base coat, tattoo, glitter polish and base coat?? If steps or wrong or I need additional steps added please let me know.
