Today's project involves a little traveling. Over the weekend, I visited two Newport Mansions: Marble House & The Breakers. Both are spectacular and unbelievable. I'll post a few photos at the end of this email. At the end of each mansion tour is a gift shop and one item caught my eye because it reminded me of the line of birds in the Free as a Bird stamp
set.
Here is the description of the Newport Budgies: A Newport Mansions exclusive reproduction. This lamp features five glazed white canaries seated on a perch, a reproduction of an English porcelain original from the collections of the Newport Mansion
Kingscote; finished in glazed snow white, inspired by the pure white marble of Marble House. This unique piece is also reminiscent of the mid-19th century aviary which formerly filled the 1837 Gothic Revival summer cottage with the chirping of tropical birds.
I love to be inspired to create cards from non-card ideas. I am always taking photographs of things I see. I also think the challenge of coming up with a design is fun. Here is my interpretation of the reproduction of canaries in card form:
I embossed the birds with black embossing powder and colored them in with the Blends Markers (lights & darks of Granny Apple Green, Daffodil Delight and Calypso Coral, leaves
in Mossy Meadow). The background leaves are stamped tone on tone with Granny Apple Green.
In this card, I embossed the birds in white on a Smoky Slate background. To create a marble look, I used a Very Vanilla layer between the Smoky and Whisper White layers. Both cards used the Whisper White Flax Ribbon to break up the stamped leaves background from the plain top.
This is the card I copied the layout from. This is one of the three designs we will be making in the September card class (the one postponed from August 15). The versatility is great with this set because you can do the same layout with different colors
and you have all new cards.
The Free as a Bird set is sold individually as well as bundled with the Stitched Nested Labels dies (saves 10% as a bundle). I have been using this set and dies a lot lately and will share more samples with you through emails as well as on my website and
Pinterest page. See the Free as a Bird products here.
I hope that you see things differently and try to translate what you see into cards. Be sure to share them with me!
Just Announced - Paper Blades & New Trimmer
I wanted to give you an update on the Trimmer Blades for the retired Stampin' Trimmer. The last shipment of blades has come in and will be available on Tuesday, August 27 beginning at noon, eastern time. Maximum of three packages can be
purchased per order. Item# 126995. Once these sell out (history shows they will sell out before the hour is out), they are gone and no longer available through Stampin' Up!.
The good news is the new Paper Trimmer is expected to be available for purchase before the end of 2019 and will sell for $25. I believe it will be a similar type of trimmer as the one that just retired, but with different and no longer hard to get blades. Once I have more information about the trimmer, I will share them with you.
10 days left to join and get more with the Starter Kit
Earlier this summer I let you know that you can join Stampin' Up! and my team of Wicked Stampahs with a great Starter Kit incentive. This joining incentive is only good until the end of August.
Purchase a Starter Kit by the end of August for $99 and choose $155 of any products AND receive a $10 coupon to use in September.
**If you purchase in the next 10 days, you can even choose products from the upcoming Holiday catalog**
I hope you can see by my weekly emails, posts and YouTube videos that Stampin' Up! is fun. Why not join in the fun? Give it a risk-free try. Do what you love and love what you do (I think I took that from Life is Good but that's how I feel).
If you have ANY questions about joining, Stampin' Up!, my team or what it takes or means to be a demonstrator (which can vary person to person), please reach out to me either by replying to this email, sending a separate email to christine@mailsomethingpretty.com, texting or calling me at 339/788-1915 or even stopping by my
house. I love to talk and share what I love about Stampin' Up! and showing you that you will too.
To read a bit more about joining and the link to join:
Don't forget about next week's Christmas Card Class
My holiday pre-order arrives tomorrow and in it is the Brightly Gleaming suite that we will be making our cards from. Once I have the cards made, I will send out an email with the photos. This suite is truly beautiful with metallic copper mixed
with rich Night of Navy, Pretty Peacock and Mossy Meadow tones. There is a double ornament punch pack with matching ornament stamps that will be great for cards, tags/labels and Christmas Crackers.
Class - Wednesday, August 28
at 10 am & 7 pm
You choose to make 6 cards for $30
or 12 for $45
Be sure to RSVP!
A few Newport photos - a great place to visit!
My daughter & her cousin standing at the gates of The Breakers.
Front entryway of The Breakers.
Backyard view from Marble House.
Even on a bad weather day the view is beautiful.
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