Lone Pine Designs: A Card for the Fall

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.

Sunday, August 15, 2010

A Card for the Fall

I grew up in Australia and I never really experienced the Fall (we actually call it Autumn in Australia) until moving to New Hampshire. Wow, what a spectacular time of year! The colours here are absolutely amazing and although it's lots of work picking up all the leaves and pine needles I really don't mind. I love the crackle underfoot, the wonderful smell and of course all the beautiful, changing colours.

This week's OWH Stars and Stamps midweek throwdown challenge is to make a fall themed, any occasion card with no sentiment on the front. I used a stamp from the new Ippity set So This is Love and airbrushed it with my Copics.

Supplies:-
Stamps - So This Is Love by Ippity
PTI white cardstock
Brilliance ink
Copics
SU coloured cardstock
SU DSP
Paper flowers
Nestabilities
Button
Embroidery thread

9 comments:

BeckyAugust 15, 2010 at 9:47 AM
What a wonderful and dramatic card, love the colors.
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BeebeebabsAugust 15, 2010 at 4:17 PM
Such a pretty card tfs!
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TammyAugust 15, 2010 at 5:39 PM
Love the image and fabulous colors.
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paigeAugust 15, 2010 at 7:08 PM
This is a beautiful card! Very striking in design and color.
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UnknownAugust 15, 2010 at 9:20 PM
This card is fantastic!!! I just love Fall...I mean Autumn. It is truly my most favorite time of the year.
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Jan HunnicuttAugust 15, 2010 at 9:45 PM
Christy this is absolutely gorgeous! I understand about not understanding fall, I live in Arizona we don't have fall either and I vaguely remember it from being a child. I do love the colors though! Thanks for playing along with us at Operation Write Home!
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ddazzled71August 15, 2010 at 10:09 PM
Another stunning combination of orange and black....I love the dramatic effect of these colours and the bare tree stems create on your card.
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Lynn McAuleyAugust 15, 2010 at 11:35 PM
What a gorgeous air-brushed background for your wonderful trees!! A sensational creation, Christy!
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dawnmercedesAugust 15, 2010 at 11:50 PM
You gotta love so many of the seasons you have now!! GREAT card!
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