Friday's Challenge - OOPS

I was doing a little blog surfing and saw a track-back to my earlier challenge post and someone had commented on the card I made a few weeks ago as part of my challenge.  I went looking to see the one I made last week only to see that though I'd posted it on a forum, I had inadvertantly forgotten to post it here on my blog... OOPS.. 


So here it is a little later than planned.. I reposted the original entry from when I shared it on the Scrappy Quilting Forum. 


 I made this one today for my Sister-inlaw's birthday. In a sense I lost my challenge since I used one of my new textures embossing plates and the Big Shot, I used my pastels to essentially sponge paint the embossed background, and then I used some retired Stampin' Up Ribbon also - but I figured the overall idea was to make sure I was making at least one card a week to get back in the habit. I do consider myself somewhat redeemed since the Card stock I used isn't SU, the ribbon is retired, and I used my fiskars paper edgers as well. Last but not least the Stamp I chose was from a retired stamp set. 

Today it was a challenge just to figure out which of the new toys I wanted to play with first, so having finished something may very well be a freakin' miracle.

Would anyone like to get into the challenge with me? Don't forget to share your work - we'd love to see it!