Lone Pine Designs: Birthday Wishes

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, May 6, 2010

Birthday Wishes

My first card today was made for this week's Operation Write Home sketch challenge over on the Stars and Stamps blog. I stayed true to the sketch and kept in clean and simple (CAS) using {Ippity} stamps and paper. Don't forget I sell these lovely stamps and paper HERE and that this time next week {Ippity} is releasing it's Spring Collection.

I 've also been working on some birthday cards as I seem to have very few left in my stash and wanted some masculine ones so I made these two cards and kept them CAS.