An all occasion card featuring a wood grain and embossed background, ribbon and three die cut leaves

I found the plain die cut leaves in my stash and decided to embellish them a bit before adding them to my card.   They are the Tim Holtz Tattered leaves and I embossed them all with the coordinating embossing folder.  The navy I left as it was, highlighted the brown one with a bit of brown ink to emphasize the texture and the last one was white core cardstock so I sanded it a bit which really brought out the embossing.  It was really nice to have them all look a little different in that they were all the same die cut.  I added a length of white ribbon near the top and then played with the leaves until I was happy with the lay out.  I used white glue in a fine tip applicator to adhere them to my background.  I added a tiny white brad on the stem of the sanded leaf and tied a short piece of kraft cording to it before pressing it all the way down which captured it very nicely.  I mounted my large element to a navy card front to finish off my card.  

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