New Cards & Running

I've not been making cards lately...not that I haven't wanted to! I'm dying to spend some time in my "room". Just so many other priorities going on at this time and many sinus headaches!! But I did get a chance to make a couple yesterday. The first one was for Color Throwdown #38 and Flourishes FTTC11 to use paper piercing. The throwdown colors were Ruby Red, Basic Gray and Baja Breeze and the piercing was done on the Ruby Red scalloped layer. I made it as a CAS (clean and simple) card but didn't post it as such. Using my new Martha Stewart butterfly punch I placed them randomly with tiny black Kaiser pearls on the large one.
The next one is gold embossed and water colored. Embossing is one of my first loves and I didn't realize how much I had missed doing it. This stamp, Riot of Petals, is gorgeous when embossed with a metallic. Much intricate cutting was done, then layered onto ivory cardstock.
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A little running info...
I haven't run a long distance since my half marathon at the end of February. I'd really like to run another one but doing 4-5 miles at a time isn't going to get it. So, I pulled myself up by the bootstrings (never had those!) and ran 8 miles today. After running 5 miles in the morning a couple of days ago, I worked out quite hard later that afternoon with some friends using the P90X DVD's (which I loved). I got a little sore and tight in my legs. So with soreness in every step this morning, I raised my head high and pushed on. This was a slow run for endurance and for working out the soreness. I finished well and feel less sore. Hope to start...and stick with...a "running plan" to do a long run each week with fartlets on other days to help increase my speed and endurance for future races.