Honestly, I'll take inspiration just about anywhere I can find it, so when I was looking through my stamping plates and I noticed the graphics on the back of the Pueen Visual Wonderland 01 Stamping Plate* and a lightbulb hit, I went with it. Earlier this year, I had the idea to create a mani pairing two different full cover stamping images on the nail to make a blocked design and I felt like the sort of graphic optical illusion type images on this plate would work perfectly to create a really simple but impactful mani. 

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Happy Mani Monday, my friends! Admittedly, as I sit here and write this, I am grasping pretty hard for the energy and inspiration to do so - but what else is new as this winter seems to go on forever? Anyone else feeling pretty deep in the seasonal blehs at the moment? Just me? Anyway, for February's #CBBxManiMonday theme, we're doing Pink & Red for, I believe, the third year in a row, and of course I had to lean into Valentine's Day for this first one. 

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