Lone Pine Designs: Tuesday Trigger: Poppin' Off The Page!

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, July 8, 2010

Tuesday Trigger: Poppin' Off The Page!

Here is this week's Moxie Fab World Tuesday Trigger photo...

...I must admit that when I first saw this photo I thought I might actually give this week a miss! But I must say it's good to step out of the box creatively every once in a while and play with colours and styles you wouldn't normally work with. I think that is what I enjoy most about the Tuesday Triggers. The flowers in the photo reminded me of a flower in the Ippity set Faith Blooms...

...so I used it as the centres of all my flowers and I had fun doodling around them in the same style as the photo. Surprisingly I don't own any black and white designer paper so I paper pieced the background with black and white stripes and little punched out black circles. I couldn't find a sentiment that I liked and I really need some thank you cards so I drew the "Thanks" to fit the style of the flowers...and lastly I used foam dots to have the flowers poppin' off the page!