Cardmaking - pieced backgrounds with layered focal images

 A couple of cards for special occasion for my family members!!  I decided to use up a stash of brown card and envelopes which have been there for a while.  For the first card I added a pieced background using strips from my stash. The heart is a focal element I found in my stash which I layered with a green circle (nestibilities). No record of where the image came from.  The second card used a diamond background paper on a brown card . I cut it in two and added a strip of contrasting paper.  I added torn piece of vellum which I embossed with diamonds (oops!  diamonds are going the wrong way). I added this cup (Melonheadz) which I had watercoloured and fussy cut in a previous cardmaking session and found that the colouring did not coordinate as well as I had planned.  Worked really well here!!!  Therese