Card exchange about a week ago that I couldn't make it to, but I sent my cards with someone else. Theme was to embellish store-bought cards. I found packs of cards at Michael's for 50 cents each, so that was sweet and cheap. I actually found it kind of hard trying to decide how to embellish a card that already had a design on it compared to creating my own card from scratch.
I ended up with this:
which turned out better than I was expecting. For a while, when the card was only partially complete, I was feeling pretty blah about it.
And a little collage of the other cards: