Our oldest neice on my husband's side keeps making us older... we are about to be "great uncle and aunt" for the THIRD time. Seriously, I am not 40 yet. Being married to a man who's oldest brother had kids young who then turned around and she has had kids young... sheesh. I mean, don't they all want to be like us?? Old and still dealing with preschool? Um, no. In fact, my oldest brother in law likes to remind us that at my husband's age all his kids could drive. Yea, well. We did whatever we wanted for a looooong time before we had kids! :-)
So, I saw this sketch (really a card, but I knew what the sketch would look like) on Lauren Meador's blog. Hmmm, I like it. So, I decided to pull out some supplies and see what I could come up with. This is mostly SU In Color stuff (sorry, I don't know all the names). I know it's Blushing Bride (pink) and Poppy Parade (red). The dsp is Garden Party (maybe??) and then I tied a pretty pink bow in front and used Bella Baubles on the top left. The panel is a cricut cut.
A few months ago on the Cricut MB a woman was challenging others to use (go figure!) their cartridges. No design studio, no gypsy, and not just look at your carts, but break them out. She'd list one per week and everyone would post their creations. Well, a woman posted a dragonfly card and envie similar to this (not CASE, but I wanted to give her credit for the idea) and I fell off my chair because I could not believe THAT creation came out of THAT cartridge. I mean, I'd had that cart since the beginning of having a cricut. No way, could it produce anything like it. So, when a birthday of a special girl came around, I decided it was time to challenge myself.
t the way I wanted it too... don't you love that! The strip of paper on the left matches b/c this paper is double-sided paper, so after measuring, I just cut it and flipped it over! I think ALL paper should be double-sided! Don't you :-)??
Awhile ago I was able to make a few cards using the same basic supplies. First, I stamped several bellas and colored them. Then, after I picked the printed papers I would use, I stamped the bellas again and cut them out and paper pieced them. All the cs was PTI and dsp (pp) is SU. I am LOVIN’ these colors!! This ribbon is also PTI Lemon Tart. I made such a big bow for this card, but it turned out so nicely, I had to use it!!
Enjoy!
Kristin
This is the last item (but filled to the brim with goodies inside for my SS) that I have to show you that I made for my SS. I altered this tin and used some my cricut and design studio software to make the label on the front. I stamped it in CTMH Hollyhock which matched the paper perfectly. The ribbon I've had for awhile, and used Bella Baubles on the front.
(but I'm getting ever close to 40 and that time hasn't happened yet!). I celebrate all week long in what was dubbed the Birthday Extravaganza by some work friends years ago. 
Here's another sneak peak! We had to make a birthday card, so I used some cute Tea Party dp paired with CTMH Sweet Leaf textured cs. I cut a flower from one of my cricut carts and put a Bella bauble on it for some bling. I paper pieced Eloise (my fave way to show her off). I went back and "fixed her face" after I photographed this... didn't realize what happened till after the fact! The sentiment is CTMH Say it in Style. Of course, I used stickles on her wings for some final bling!
Here's another PTI lavender moon card, this time with a Bella image that I've paper pieced and a CTMH sentiment stamp. I also paper pierced around the image to make it stand out a bit.
Can you believe today is Father's Day?? Wasn't Mom's Day just a couple of weeks ago?
A friend of ours is having a baby girl after having 2 boys (she will be spoiled!!). So, of course I *had* to make her an ALL girlie card with LOTS of bling and STICKLES (love those!). I also pulled out my fave "bella baubles" and used stickles to adhere it to the center of the "flower" on the onesie shirt so it would bling it up a bit too.
Happy Mother's Day all you mom's out there!! 
The card sketch is actually my own... I kept trying to make it fit one of my other sketches, but finally gave up.
This was Mojo 77 Monday sketch. I used the Verve butterfly stamp. I stamped it first onto CTMH sweet pea paper in Breeze. Then, again in Breeze on white cs. I cut out the inside of butterfly and paper pieced onto the cs. I sponged some darker green and blue (garden green and indian corn blue?) ink and cut out the image. I cut out another circle of PTI Sweet Blush and then a scallop of the Sweet Pea pp. I inked the square pp panel with breeze, another pp (green polka dots) sweet pea pp rectangular panel wan adhered to PTI Sweet Blush cs base. Two bella baubles and 1 little flower gem I've had forever (that I got from who knows where?? none scrap, stamp related) and done!
