Lone Pine Designs: Snowbody Like You

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, July 23, 2010

Snowbody Like You

Monica, over at Gardner's Basket, is hosting this week's challenge for the blog group Tangled Up in Creativity. She has challenged us to make a Christmas Card without using the traditional reds and greens.

I used the SU colour Baja Breeze with white for this cool snowman card. The stamps are all from the Ippity set Kissmas & Mistletoe and I punched the snowflake stamp out with a Martha Stewart snowflake punch which was almost a perfect match! So much easier than cutting all those snowflakes out by hand!

Ps. I'm loving the new Stampin' Up rhinestones...I think they are my favourite item in the new catalogue!

Supplies:-
Stamps - Kissmas & Mistletoe by Ippity
PTI white cardstock
SU marker
SU coloured cardstock
DP - K&C
White silk ribbon
Martha Stewart Snowflake punch
SU Rhinestones
Foam dots