Blushing Heartfelt Blooms
Today, I’m CASEing (Copy and share everything) Karen Barber. She posted a gorgeous card using the Stampin’ Up! Heartfelt Blooms Stamp Set, one of the 2018 Sale-a-bration (SAB) products. Take a look at Karen’s card here.
Karen Barber has been one of my favorites for creative inspiration since my first year as a Stampin’ Up! demonstrator. She was a presenter at my first Stampin’ Up! Convention, and I loved her style and her personality. She was so gracious and kind and her creations are always gorgeously elegant.
Here’s my copy of her card.
I changed a few things when I created my card – the color, the ribbon, and the Textured Impressions Embossing Folder – but that’s all. Instead of Soft Suede, I used Blushing Bride, one of my favorite colors, and definitely my favorite pink. I love the dusty color, and it’s perfect for vintage cards.
First, I stamped the flowers on a 2-1/2″ x 4″ piece of Very Vanilla Cardstock, then again on the edges of a die-cut circle. I embossed the 4″ x 5-1/4″ Blushing Bride Cardstock layer with the Brick Wall Textured Impressions Embossing Folder, layered the stamped panel over it, then added some 1/4″ Copper Trim and Gold 1/8″ Ribbon. I love mixing metals!
I decided to use the Thinking of You sentiment from the stamp set. I’m sending this to a friend who doesn’t share my love for Blushing Bride, so I was definitely thinking of her when I pulled out my Blushing Bride cardstock and ink. I stamped the sentiment in Soft Suede, then layered the circle to a Blushing Bride scalloped circle. After adding a bit of Copper Metallic Thread to the back, I adhered it to the card and added some Pearl Basic Jewels. Easy! I added the stamped/embossed layers to a Blushing Bride card base.
You can watch a quick video with tips and more fun samples using the Heartfelt Blooms set here. And if you order the Layering Circles Framelits, the Copper Trim, 1/8″ Ribbon, Metallic Thread, and Pearls Basic Jewels that I used on my card, you can select the Heartfelt Blooms set – or any of the Level 1 SAB products – free.
Karen’s post brings up a pet peeve of mine. The title of her post is, “Clean & Simple – Not My Forte.” First of all, I think she does Clean & Simple very well. But my pet peeve is when people use “forte” in conversation and they mean “strength.” (Please know that I’m not talking about Karen’s post now. She used it in a perfectly acceptable way!) People pronounce it “for-tay,” like the dynamic level in music. Some friends and I had quite a discussion about this one day, and no one believed that if you use it to mean “strength,” it’s pronounced “fort.” The others had never heard it pronounced that way, so they didn’t think it was correct. And, of course, because most people pronounce it incorrectly, some dictionaries have changed to pronunciation, saying it can be pronounced either way.
Here’s why I stand firm in my pronunciation. The word for “loud” in Italian is forte, and it’s pronounced “for-tay,” because it’s Italian. But the word for “strength” (like, “my forte is music”) is pronounced “fort,” because it’s French. And if you’ve ever studied French, you probably know that they never pronounce half the letters in their words. As a matter of fact, if that “e” weren’t at the end, even the “t” wouldn’t be pronounced. (It’s a lot like that pesky “u” our Canandian neighbors and their British and South Pacific friends add to words like “colour” and “neighbour.” Those of us here in the US are very conservative with our letters. There’s even a push to remove the “gh” in words like “light and tight” and just add a silent “e” at the end. But I digress.)
If you’ve made it all the way to the end without pulling out your hair – YAY for you! Thanks for stopping by Stamping with Buffy. Have a lovely day!
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Such a beautiful card, Buffy! Thanks for the lesson on for-tay vs. fort; I did not know the pronunciation difference! I look forward to my next argument – er, discussion – with friends over this one! 😉
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Thanks, Deborah! I didn’t know the difference until one of my college profs used it and explained the difference. I just heard that “irregardless” had been added to the dictionary. UGH! Just because some people use words incorrectly is no reason to validate them. sad We are butchering English down here.
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This is the nicest card I have seen using that stamp. Beautiful! After they put ain’t in the dictionary I got disgusted.
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Awwww – thank you, Susan! Glad you like it. 😉 “Ain’t” being validated frustrated me, too.
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Lovely card. And I chuckled all the way through your vocabulary lesson…thanks!
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Thank you! Glad I could make you smile!!
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Hi. I am one of those Canadians who use the “u” in colour, etc., but, I agree wholeheartedly that our English language is being butchered. I like your card so much! I discovered your site on Pinterest & am glad I did. I understand the difference between forte & fort as well as I sing in a choir of 75 people & love music. I also help lead worship in a very small church (30 – 40 people).
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Thanks for your comments, Teri! I had to keep checking to be sure I didn’t write that. (I sing in a choir and was also the worship leader in our church for years.) We could be twins!!
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buffy, I have this stamp set, but can not get the beautiful image that you have, there is no detail in mine at all. Please tell me what I am doing wrong. Joan
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Maybe nothing! It’s a fussy stamp; you need to be sure your pad is inked enough to give good coverage, but not too inked that it blurs the details. I had to play with mine a lot on scrap paper before I was happy. All that said, you could have a bad stamp, so you may want to call Demonstrator Support (if you’re a Stampin’ Up! demonstrator), or have your demonstrator call (if you’re not a demo). Good luck!! (Can you take a photo of your stamped image and send it to me? I’m not sure I’ll be much help, but I can try!!)
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I will scan a picture of the one I stamped, can you tell me how I can send it to you. Thank you so much for your response.
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Thank you so much for reponding to my problem, My demonstrator lives in IL I live in FL, we became friends through a site called World of Crafters, we are a group from all over the world that love to make cards, using all kinds of different sources, ie stamping, tea bag folding, iris folding, and a lot more. I am not a experienced stamper, so I asked a member of our community stamping group (actually there are only two of us right now) to try stamping this for me, she didn’t get the great results that you have had. I am going to try and scan the one I did with Memento Tuxedo Black and as you can see it didn’t turn out very good. My demonstrator gave me a # to call and tell them my problem, but before I do that I wanted your input. Thanks so much
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That sounds like so much fun! I love getting together with crafting friends!
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Buffy I think I know one of my major mistakes is that I embossed using fine detail ink. It really shows up in the scanned picture, please tell me how to send it to you. thanks again
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Thanks, Joan! I sent you a facebook message. If it looks like there’s a problem with the stamp (and I’m going to a Stampin’ Up! Event this weekend, so I can show other demonstrators and see what they think!), I can call for you, if you’d like. I’ll be in touch!!
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I love the card, I made some cards using this stamp, but never this one. I will have to try it. Finally, some one who appreciates the correct use of the English language. My pet peeve is the use of the word “at”. Ex. Where is it at. My response is between the A & T. You never end a sentence with a preposition.
Happy stamping!
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Thank you! And “where’s it at?” is the worst! If you want three syllables, just ask, “Where is it?” (I have the same answer – “Between the a & the t on Preposition Street.”)
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I’ll have to remember Preposition Street, great addition to between the A& T.
Have you tried the Apron of Love Stamp and Die set. I found a stamp set with the Stampin Up logo along with other stamps. I cut a black apron and embossed Stampin Up on the pocket. I think it turned out nicely.
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I haven’t gotten that set yet (I know, right???). I’d love to see your project! Can you post it on my facebook page? https://www.facebook.com/stampingwithbuffy/
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