All occasion collage cards with corrugated backgrounds and layered collage elements

I made these two cards a few days ago.  I started with two pieces of dark brown corrugated paper - chocolate?? - and assembled a few collage elements from my desk, stash and a box from the shelf marked "Clipart" which had not seen the light of day for quite a while.  I brushed a bit of gesso on the corrugated paper and then added a bit of colour.  Once it was dry I found this paper doily on my desk and added a bit of colour to it as well.  The two ivory embossed strips were also found on my desk.  I dug the two fabric pieces from a scrap bin in my craft room and then I went looking for the paper flowers.  I coloured the turquoise one with watercolour to coordinate with the fabric. I found the collage elements - bird and cage, love/bird, friendship, two girls - in the clipart box.  I have no idea as to the origin of these pieces but they worked really well with my pieces.   I added the strips of ivory, the paper doily, the fabric, the paper flower and then the collage elements before adhering these large elements to my large kraft cards.    Therese