Cardmaking - embossed tree with a maple leaf punchie over a striped background

Working on cards I need for June!  It is fast approaching!!

I started with a dark brown card and cut some striped decorative paper into strips and adhered them into place.  The embossed tree is an element I had in my stash which I then created a background using scraps of cardstock.  I added paper piercing with my pattern tracing wheel around the edges of the image and then on the green edge of the layer.  I trimmed the green edge along the line of paper piercing. The tree needed a bit of something so I added a piece of cording which I tied on the front and then overlaid a maple leaf punchie.  That was much better.  I layered it onto the layer I had created and mounted it to my card front using 3D foam tape.  I added some white brilliance ink to the top of the tree with a stamp pad.  Adds some dimension!  

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