All Occasion cards featuring paper pieced backgrounds and little watercoloured images

 I had started sorting pieces for these kits for my last card making class at the end of January and this past week I finally cut all the extra pieces I needed and got the cards made up.  It always goes so much faster when some of the pieces are already to go and card kits are fastest.  Quick and easy cards in minutes.  With every thing cut and ready to go I got these done fairly quickly.  The colouring takes the longest time but I love the process so that is what I do for the sheer joy of watercolouring.   The little potted plant is from Craft Starters - I recently bought a variegated snake plant so I added some different colours to the leaves to replicate the look.  More depth and dimension and therefore a bit more interesting!!!  The little cupcake is from Black Berry Jelly Digitals.  I watercoloured it to coordinate and then added a little clear glitter to the sparkles and the flower centers.  The Canada Geese are from Arthurs Clipart (no longer on line).  I used a diamond format and left them black and white.  The little cup is a stamped image which I acquired in an image swap and do not have credits for it.  I watercoloured it red to contrast nicely. It is layered with a brown scalloped circle (Nestibilities).  So a few more cards for my stash!!!  

Valentine's card featuring a serendipity background, an embossed strip and a fussy cut heart

This is my Valentine's card for DH.  I did get it done on time.  I am just slow at getting it onto my blog.  I started with a deep maroon card and then created this fun collage background using a scrap of hand decorated paper to which I glued a variety of paper scraps.  I then added some tissue paper which I had coloured to give a bit of red to the background.  It did not show up as much as I would have wanted so I used a deep red stamp pad and just touched the surface once it was dry.  Perfect!!!!!!  I trimmed a strip of red and embossed it with a heart embossing folder (CB) and layered it with gold paper before adhering it to my card.  The heart is from a clipart site and I added the Always before printing it.  I fussy cut it, used a black marker on the edges and then coloured it to coordinate using gold shimmer paint for the heart and red watercolour for the banner!!!  I used 3D foam tape to adhere it over the red strip!!  We had a good meal at home and played my favorite board game - Carcassonne!!  We will go out on the weekend when it is not so busy! Therese
 

Custom birthday card with a dictionary page background and a watercoloured book shelf with ribbon

 I made this card for a friend who has a special person in her life celebrating a significant birthday!!  This person is an author and loves to read and books!!!  I found this wonderful book shelf (Pixabay) which I watercoloured after adding a font greeting.  I trimmed the bottom edge with scallop decorative scissors and used a push pin to pierce each scallop.  I ran my pattern tracing wheel on the other three sides.  I added green ribbon that coordinated with the fern border and tying a short piece to the length to simulate a bow.  I dug through my dictionaries for creating (they are falling apart) and found the words wonderful and woman that perfectly framed my image.  I trimmed the dictionary page and layered it with background paper that contains letters.  I adhered the background to a blue card and added the book shelf image using 3D foam tape.  Two great cards to celebrate significant events in life!!  Therese