Artist Trading Cards or ATCs

I think I am hooked when it comes to making ATCs. I made my first one a couple of weeks ago, which I am extremely sad that I forgot to take a picture of it. At least I remembered to document these before they are mailed out to their new homes tomorrow.

These skulls were made for an ATC swap. I drew the skull on white card stuck then I freehanded the design, colored it with brush markers, then I cut the skull, cut out the eyes, nose and check with my craft knife.

For the male skull, I covered the ATC blank with a cute skull scrapbook paper I found in AC Moore, then I glued the doll eyes and attached a bow tie.

With Flash:

Without Flash:

For the female skull, I made the skull as I did above but for the background I used a glittery spiderweb scrapbook paper and what I used as I bow tie for the male, I used as a hair bow for the female.

With Flash:

With out Flash:

The ATC below I made for an Alice in Wonderland swap. The person hosting it is doing a whole series of these. where you have to do an ACT for each chapter of the story.

This one is Chapter One:

I drew the background, except for Alice and the Rabbit.

Last but not least. This one is not an ATC but I wanted to show you guys anyway. I made the below bookmark for another swap. Thought I give it an honorable mention since I really like how it came out.

I need to make a few more ATC's when I am done I will post them here. But in the mean time I want to know what you all think? I know I can use some improvement. But I figured the more I make them, the better I will get.

Ciao! xoxo

~ Dissolved Girl

Hump Day Video: Alice in Wonderland

Are you as excited for this as I am?

Alice in Wonderland Exclusive Clip - Clothe This Girl

SQUEEEEEEEEEEEEEE........................................ I cannot wait for next Friday.

Tonight I am hanging with the Drag Queens and playing bingo. Have you ever played bingo with a Drag Queen? I highly recommended, it is a lot of fun.

Ciao! xoxo

~ Dissolved Girl

Nail From Last Week: Thanks So Muchness!

This is the last polish from the OPI Alice in Wonderland collection. This is a really pretty red polish. I like this one much better then Off With Her Red! This time I did my manicure early enough to photograph it in natural light.

Over all I enjoyed this collection, the only thing I wish is that instead of two red colored nail polishes, they would have given us a purple nail polish or a glitter polish with purple in it. I think I am going to have to make myself a purple franken to go with this collection.

Natural Light:
With Flash:

Nail Polish: Thanks So Muchness (2 Coats)
Base: Nail Tek III and Orly Bonder
Top Coat: Seche Vite Dry Fast Top Coat

What do you think?

Ciao! xoxo

~Dissolved Girl

Nail From Last Week: Absolutely Alice

I thought that the Mad As A Hatter nail polish from the O.P.I Alice in Wonderland collection was my favorite but Absolutely Alice is giving it a run for its money.

Nail Polish: Absolutely Alice (2 Coats)

Base: Nail Tek III and Orly Bonder

Top Coat: Seche Vite Dry Fast Top Coat

Everyone that has seen my nails today has commented on how pretty the polish is and I couldn't agree more. It is absolutely pretty!

Ciao!! xoxo

~Dissolved Girl

PS: These pictures are a bit late. This was my manicure from last week. Tomorrow I will be posting the last manicure featuring a nail polish from the Alice in Wonderland collection.

Nail of the Day: Off With Her Red!

Since the Zoya nail polish I spoke of here was a total fail. I decided to continue trying out the Alice in Wonderland inspired nail polishes from O.P.I.

The next one I am wearing is "Off With Her Red!" It is an orange toned red colored nail polish. Not my favorite of the collection. It is not a bad color, it is very nice, I just prefer blue toned red polishes instead.

I wanted to take a picture of the manicure in natural light. But I go to work when it is still dark outside and when I leave work it is already dark. :-(

Nail Polish: OPI Off With Her Red! (2 Coats)
Base: Nail Tek III and Orly Bonder
Top Coat: Seche Vite Dry Fast Top Coat

What do you think?

Ciao! xoxo

~Dissolved Girl

Nail of the Day: Mad As A Hatter

I got my Alice in Wonderland for O.P.I. nail polishes and as soon as I got the package and I took a look at the polishes I knew that the first one I had to try was Mad As A Hatter. I LOVE this polish. I tried to take a good picture of it, indoors, outdoors but nothing catches the beauty that is the glittery goodness. Is like a party on your nails. LOVE IT!

They only thing I did not like about the polish is that it was hard to apply. There was so much glitter that it made the polish very thick and made application very difficult. But small price to pay for wonderfully fun looking nails.

Here is the polish in natural light:


Here is the polish in indoor light:


Nail Polish: OPI Mad As A Hatter (2 Coats)
Base: Nail Tek III and Orly Bonder
Top Coat: Seche Vite Dry Fast Top Coat

What do you think?

Tomorrow I will try out another color from the collection.

Ciao!! xoxo
~ Dissolved Girl

PS: Excuse my dry hands. It is so cold here that there is not enough lotion in this world to keep my hands moisturized.

Alice in Wonderland for OPI Polishes

Today on Transdesign they released the Alice in Wonderland for OPI Nail Polishes that I spoke of here. I had been stalking the site since I walked into the office at 7 AM, waiting for them to become available for purchase. They became available about an hour ago and I am happy to report that those babies will be mine in a few days time. I am all about glitter nail polish even though they are a pain to remove.

While I was on the site I also noticed that the Essie spring collection will be released tomorrow. I am not a huge fan of Essie but I saw that they will have a lilac and coral colored nail polish as part of the collection. I really love both of those colors in a polish and I am really tempted to try them out. But those will have to wait. I will see if the ladies of some of my favorite nail blogs do a review/swatch on the polishes so I can see what they look like and then decide.

Now I am just waiting for the China Glaze spring collection to come out so that I can get my hands on the two yellow polishes in the collection. I am a little obsessed with getting the perfect yellow polish. Last year I got a yellow polish from Sephora as shown in this manicure. But it took so many coats to get it to look decent that it took forever for my mani to dry.

Will you be getting any nail polishes from the collections that are coming out?

Ciao!! xoxo
~Dissolved Girl

Nail Polishes I am looking forward to....

Since Best Buy is still holding my camera hostage everything I have had planned for the last two weeks has been placed on hold. Now I am scrambling to come up with what to blog about and not bore you guys to death. Since I cannot bring you a nail of the week, I will bring you the nail polish collections that I am looking forward to.

OPI Hong Kong Collection:

First Row: A Good Man-darin is Hard to Find, Lucky Lucky Lavender, Meet Me on the Star Ferry.
Second Row: Panda-monium Pink, Pearl of Wisdom, I’m Chop-Ssticking to My Story.

First Row: Bling Dynasty, Red My Fortune Cookie, Hot & Spicy.
Second Row: Dim Sum Plum, Jade is the New Black, Suzi Says Feng Shui.

OPI Alice In Wonderland:


First Row: Off with Her Red!, Absolutely Alice
Second Row: Mad as a Hatter, Thanks So Muchness!

What do you think?

Ciao!! xoxo
~Dissolved Girl

Credit: P'ssion

Have you seen?

SQUEEEEEEE...........


I have no words to explain how excited I am!

Ciao! xoxo

~Dissolved Girl