Original Valentine's Day Cards

I created a series of Valentine’s Day cards this year. They are may be available for ordering here someday... I enjoy designing greeting cards–something about the importance of both the imagery and concise wording. I created this one first:

It incorporates the last five lines of Shakespeare’s Sonnet XXIX (29), my favorite of his sonnets. I originally put the whole sonnet on there, but it ended up being too crowded. The cards are printed on 8.5 x 5.5 inch cardstock so the canvas ends up being 5.5 x 4.25 inches. Kinda small for an entire sonnet. So I trimmed it down to the best lines. Then from that I created this one:

I used the outline of one picture to mask another picture. I scanned in a doodle of a heart and incorporated that in. Then I made an even more simple card:

This one is the also what the inside of the first card looks like.