CAS-ual Friday, A 1st For Me :)

So I decided to play along with the CAS-ual Fridays challenge this week. This particular challenge is to use a song as inspiration. For some reason after I read that I got the song "If I Die Young" by The Band Perry stuck in my head. Here are the lyrics:

"If I Die Young"

If I die young, bury me in satin
Lay me down on a, bed of roses
Sink me in the river, at dawn
Send me away with the words of a love song

Uh oh, uh oh

Lord make me a rainbow, I'll shine down on my mother
She'll know I'm safe with you when she stands under my colors, oh well
Life ain't always what you think it ought to be, no
Ain't even grey, but she buries her baby

The sharp knife of a short life, well
I've had just enough time

If I die young, bury me in satin
Lay me down on a bed of roses
Sink me in the river at dawn
Send me away with the words of a love song

The sharp knife of a short life, well
I've had just enough time

And I'll be wearing white, when I come into your kingdom
I'm as green as the ring on my little cold finger,
I've never known the lovin' of a man
But it sure felt nice when he was holdin' my hand,
There's a boy here in town, says he'll love me forever,
Who would have thought forever could be severed by

The sharp knife of a short life, well,
I've had just enough time

So put on your best boys and I'll wear my pearls
What I never did is done

A penny for my thoughts, oh no, I'll sell 'em for a dollar
They're worth so much more after I'm a goner
And maybe then you'll hear the words I been singin'
Funny when you're dead how people start listenin'

If I die young, bury me in satin
Lay me down on a bed of roses
Sink me in the river at dawn
Send me away with the words of a love song

Uh oh (uh, oh)
The ballad of a dove (oh, uh)
Go with peace and love
Gather up your tears, keep 'em in your pocket
Save 'em for a time when you're really gonna need 'em, oh

The sharp knife of a short life, well
I've had just enough time

So put on your best boys and I'll wear my pearls 

 

It may seem a bit morbid at first but really it's not ;) I love this song, it's just gorgeous.

Here is what I made...

 The line "lay me down on a bed of roses" made me think of this patterned paper. It's from the Recollections Floral Garden stack.

 The song makes me think that I should tell the people I love, that I love them and I'm thinking about them everyday. :) The stamp is old Inkadinkado and I used some black Colorbox ink to ink it up with. The twine is Pink Sorbet from The Twinery.

 The metal heart and dots are Colorbok.

 I used my BigKick and my Spellbinders Lacey Squares dies to make the focus panel. I used a scrap sheet of polka dot paper that I had used to cut some butterflies out of. The polka dot paper is Recollections from the Floral Garden stack and the butterfly punch is Martha Stewart. The pearls are Studio 112 (and were inspired by the line "so put on your best boys and I'll wear my pearls." :)

The border punch is Fiskars Apron Lace.

 

Well hope you like it! I really really really like this card and think I will use this idea of songs for inspiration in the future as well. Thanks CAS-ual Fridays! :)

 

I would love to hear what you think so please leave a comment if you wish! :)