Monday, July 21, 2014

Come Sit By Me on the Garden Bench!

Good morning!  Sherry here today and I have a 5.5 square card to share with you.  When I first got the idea for this card, I was actually thinking about one of my favorite movies . . . Steel Magnolias . . . and all the great one-liners.  One of my favorites is, of course, “if you can’t say anything nice, come sit by me.”  Quietfire has a similar quote in the Garden Bench Collection, “If you can’t say something good about someone, Sit right here by me.”   I also remembered that I had in my Spellbinders’ stash the Shapeabilities Garden Bench.

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I’m sure the first thing you’ll notice is that I did not use the entire quote for the card.  I went with the shorter version, Come Sit by Me, thinking to myself that if I did it this way, I could use the inside of the card for a personal note . . . whether it be funny or lending a shoulder to lean on.

I used the Prima Something Blue collection for the card and a cream card stock for the card base and sentiment.  The garden bench was die cut/embossed using a darker piece of the paper collection, and mounted on a coordinating lighter piece of paper.  The same dark paper was used for the Elegant Ovals base.

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The sentiment was stamped on cream card stock in Archival Potting Soil, then die cut/embossed with the label die from Spellbinders A2 Divine Eloquence.   The ribbon was some I had previously dyed that was in my stash jar.  I loved the way it picked up the colors in the flowers and stripes in the paper and decided it was perfect for the card.

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That’s all for me today!  Thanks for stopping by and joining me.

SHERRY SIGNATURE





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9 comments:

Heather said...

very neat, great colors.

Pam said...

Love that movie, that quote & your fab card! Beautiful.

Tammy P. said...

Beautiful card! I love how the ribbon picks up the colors, as you noted. I also think it was a great idea to just use part of the quote to make this a card for so many occasions. Lovely!

I'm a Little Teapot said...

Lovely card, Sherry! Great idea to use only the "sit by me" stamp and leave the inside blank.

Steel Magnolias is a good movie. Will have to take time to watch it again!

Anonymous said...

So pretty. I love the ribbon, and using part of the saying is a great idea. I really love Quietfire's stamps and I think you really did justice to the lovely script, this card is 'fancy' without being too fussy :) Thanks for sharing your creativity.
Mickey Drake

Yogi said...

very 0retty. Have a great day

Janet L. said...

Such a pretty card, Sherry. I like the quote and the use of the partial bit, lending the card a multi-use component. I've still not dyed any seam binding, but I always like seeing yours. I need to get with the picture, it seems!!

Holly said...

Very pretty Sherry! I like that oval too.

Yvonne said...

Gorgeous project!

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