All occasion card featuring a collage background and a shimmery heart

I made this card for DH for our anniversary!!!  Similarly to my Father's Day card for him I started with a distressed brown piece of cardstock.  I auditioned paper scraps until I was happy with the layout and then glued them down.  There is music, tools, book & dictionary pages!!!!  Once it was dry I embossed it with a sheet music embossing folder (CB) on both the bottom left and the upper right.  I printed the little heart with an arrow (Wikiclipart) on white cardstock, trimmed it out and then watercoloured it.  I added red shimmer paint over the heart.  I specifically embossed the edges using a checkered embossing folder (TH)  by very carefully inserting only the area I wanted embossed into the folder before running it through my Big Shot.  I sponged the edge with brown ink to highlight the embossing.  I added two little lengths of suede cording and then tied them together with beige twine.  I cut a square of brown cardstock just a bit larger and embossed it with an all over pattern before mounting it to the back.  I adhered this focal element to my background and then the whole to a red card!!  So glad to have this man in my life and to be able to celebrate our time together!!             Therese