Anniversary card featuring handmade paper, an embossed red rectangle with gold highlighting, an embossed mesh rectangle and a serendipity heart

Another anniversary card!!  I started with a red card.  I used a piece of my own handmade paper for my background, layered on an embossed red layer which has swirls highlighted with gold, a embossed mesh then a serendipity heart!!!  I stitched down the center of the heart which secured all the layers to each other.  I added some lines of faux stitching with my pattern tracing wheel before adhering this large layer to my red card.  

Therese
 

All occasion card featuring a decorative paper background, decorative vellum, stitching and embossing

 I cute little bird which I water coloured to coordinate with my card!!  I watercoloured the edges of the white card, added a layer of floral decorative paper, a strip of blue cardstock, a strip of decortive heart vellum and then an embossed strip of peach cardstock (CB) which I flagged on one end.  After layering them all I stitch through the center of the peach strip which secured all the pieces!!  I added this large element to my card.  The little bird was fussy cut before colouring and then mounted to my card using 3D foam tape.  Cute!!!!  Therese