Peter is Scottish. We just celebrated his birthday. His BD cards 'must' have something Scottish on them ... so... these are, ahem, "Scotch Pines".
This is the card I made for our fellowship group to give Peter. The 'first' card started out with some plaid ribbon on the vertical piece, but that card now sits on the 'salvage' stack... it just was not "working" (maybe because it had no green in the plaid). I ended up making the vertical strip from the flip side of the green CS... and this one worked.
The trees were embossed with a Tim Holtz embossing folder then sanded. The edges of all CS were sponged. The only 'stampin' is the BD greeting that was punched out and sponged after being stamped. That and the buttons are up on dimensionals.