31 Day Challenge - Day 30 - Inspired by a Tutorial

Who better for a tutorial than Dora the Explorer? She is so educational and helpful. She teaches children Spanish all day every day. So today she's teach you how to say "nail polish" in Spanish.

Apparently it is "Esmalte De Unas"

Thumb - China Glaze Dance Baby

Index - Essence The One & Only

Middle - Sally Hansen Xtreme Wear Blue Me Away

Ring - Revlon Sorbet

Pinky - Sally Hansen Xtreme Wear Green with Envy

I love how the thumb turned out. It may be on of my best lettering jobs in nail art. Usually that is what I struggle with the most. 

Dora herself was done with acrylic paint, but the lettering was all done using the nail polish shades listed above.

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Blue's Clues

Blue's Clues aired from 1996-2006 and served as a cutesy preschool educational program. It was formatted in a way to tell one story, beginning to end, camera moving left-to-right like reading a storybook. And they concentrated on having it involve the viewer, rather than just be a one-way conversation. With long enough pauses for the young minds to think and process what was going on. It is/was a really sweet show. I remember watching it some as a kid (even though I was a little older than it's target audience).

Blue's Clues was suggested by Linda from Copy That, Copy Cat & Brenda. Thanks ladies!

Thumb is Steve's shirt

Index is Pail

Middle is Mailbox (I still remember this song)

Ring is Blue (actually a girl dog, not a boy)

Pinky is Mr. Salt

 Tutorial:

Base polish is Sally Hansen Xtreme Wear Celeb City and the green is a franken of mine.

All of the rest of the steps are using acrylic paints unless specified otherwise.

 (I used Sally Hansen Green With Envy as the other shirt stripe color)

 (Here I used China Glaze CG In The City for Mr. Salt's shaker. It was the perfect color and glitter is always better than a gazillion tiny polka dots)

Adorable! Share them with your friends. Oh and check this out, Simply Rins has already done a pretty awesome set of Blue's Clues nails here.

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