Lone Pine Designs: Faux Challenge

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.

Friday, May 28, 2010

Faux Challenge

This week's {Ippity} challenge was to create a project using your {ippity} stamps and incorporate something FAUX. It can be anything faux...such as faux stitching, faux buttons, faux tearing...the options are endless!

I couldn't decide what faux thing to incorporate so I chose a few. There is faux stitching around the centre circle to match the stitching on the background paper, I used a thin strip of patterned paper under the embroidery cotton to replace ribbon and I made a faux button to match!

Supplies:-
Stamps - Delightful Little Things by {Ippity}
DSP by October Afternoon
SU coloured cardstock
SU circle punch
SU markers
Nestabilities
Tim Holtz distress Inks
Scallop punch
Embroidery cotton
Foam Dots