Lone Pine Designs: You Simply Shine

Lone Pine Designs

"Lone Pine Designs" originated when I first moved to America in 2005 from Australia. My mother in Australia called our new home in NH "Lone Pine" as she wanted my new home, which is surrounded by pine trees, to have an Australian name. The Battle of Lone Pine is a very famous successful Australian battle which took place during the Gallipoli war in Turkey in 1915. It was called The Battle of Lone Pine for the solitary pine tree standing in the middle of the battlefield which surprisingly remained standing at the end of the battle. After the tough few months leading up to our arrival here in America and surviving the first year in a new country I felt like that pine tree still standing in the battlefield. It was in 2006 when I started to sell my work on Ebay that I decided that Lone Pine Designs would be the perfect name for this new endeavour in my life.

Thursday, March 18, 2010

You Simply Shine

I love the set "Shine On!" by Unity. The little lamps are just too cute and the sentiments are great too. I made this first card for a card swap last year and the next two cards just the other day. The lamps have been stamped onto white cardstock and then the lampshade was stamped again onto patterned paper. I cut out the patterned lampshade and used a foam dot to adhere it to the white lamp. It gives the lamp a little 3D look. Look how much I love the colour Rose Red from Stampin' Up!

I made these last two cards to experiment with airbrushing a light coming from the lamp. I cut a wedge shape from paper and masked the area I was airbrushing so it looks like the light is coming from the lamp. I thought it would go nicely with "You make my life bright" and "You light up my life".