Anything goes Challenge at Cardz TV & Crafts & Me

Hi Everyone,

Just wanted to post a Birthday Card that I made for my son's birthday this Oct 31st and this years Xmas Card.  I am entering it into the CARDSTV "Anything Goes" challenge and the Crafts & Me Anything goes challenge.  Here is the challenge rules for Cards TV: Challenge#118 Use your Cricut to make a card, Layout or craft project using any cartridge(s), any theme and any colors you'd like.  My son's birthday is on Halloween so I used a halloween theme and this is the Xmas card that I am sending out this year for Xmas.  The challenge at Crafts and Me is Challenge#105.

Products used:
For the Halloween Birthday Card:
Paper Doll Dress Up Cricut Cartidge
Free Printable Halloween Papers from here:  http://www.sherykdesigns-blog.com/2011/08/free-scrapbooking-digital-papers.html
Puzzle piece shapes I bought from the Dollar store here and covered with some of the printed paper
Die-Namics Die and Stamp Set called "Polka Dot Greetings"
Free Spider Web border SVG Cut File from Penny Duncan
Orange Bazzil Cardstock
Orange with Black Polka Dot Ribbon
And Various Tim Holtz Distress Inks to distress the edges of the diecuts.

For the Xmas Card:
A Quilted Christmas Cricut Cartridge that I won in the Xmas in July Challenge on Scrappy Go Lucky blog
George and Basic Shapes Cartridge to cut squares for the frame
Snowflake Embossing folder (this has no name on it so not sure where it is from)
Burgundy Check Ribbon
Burgundy Bazzil Cardstock
White Embossing Powder
Happy Holiday Stamp from Katie & Co
VersaMark ink pad
Snowflake stamp (Not sure where this is from - it doesn't have the name on it any longer)

That's it.  Thank you for looking!

You Are So Beautiful

This is another scrapbook page of my granddaughter Suri taken on her 2nd birthday.  The paper collection I used was from Kaisercraft the Dancing Jewel Collection - this paper is double sided called Quartz.  I used both sides.  I love the colours in this paper.  I started out on the background paper by using a 12X12 template (stencil) by The Crafter's workshop called Flutterby.  I used texture paste to put the butterfly design on the right side of the paper.  The texture paste is somewhat transparent when it dries so you can still see the paper design through the butterflies.  I then used a free svg cut file called "Gothic Gate" that I got from svgcuts.com and I painted the base of it plum and after that dried I painted crackle medium on it and let dry, then painted cream on top and you can slightly see the plum colour through the cracks in the paint.  I designed the svg cut files for my fuchsia flowers and the svg cut of my granddaughter Suri.  I put the paper doll behind the wheelbarrow to make it look like she is sitting in the wheelbarrow.  The wheelbarrow was stamped with "Stamps Happen, Inc." stamp #60024 wheelbarrow and then I cut it out and added some handmade flowers to it.  The "You are Beautiful" label is from a die cut and stamp set by Die-namics called Polka Dot Greetings.  I really love the De-namics sets because you get several mix and match stamps that can be used on the die cut made from the die that comes with the stamps.