Lone Pine Designs: Thanks fairy much!

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.

Wednesday, April 28, 2010

Thanks fairy much!

I made today's card for this week's Operation Write Home Sketch Challenge. I was colouring this cute fairy from Pink Cat Studio and thought she'd be perfect for this layout. Her wings are sparkly to match the sparkle in the red designer paper. I don't normally work in these colours but I was using the ladybug as my inspiration!