Lone Pine Designs: Sending You 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 20, 2010

Sending You Birthday Wishes

Last night was my monthly stamp club meeting that I attend and the theme for our card swap this month was anything masculine. This is a Stampin' Up club so the card needs to be made from SU materials so everything on this card except for the eyelets is from Stampin' Up. I took the Happy Birthday stamp from the set Four Square and stamped it several times in different colours to make the background. I only own Stampin' Up's ink spots and I had to make 12 cards so this ended up being a lot of stamping!