Lone Pine Designs: Season of Blessings

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, September 23, 2010

Season of Blessings

Today's card is for OWH Stars and Stamps sketch challenge. Here's this week's sketch...

...and here's my card. The main stamp and sentiment are from Unity's KOTM and the little leaf on the background paper is from the Stampin' Up set With Gratitude. I used SU markers to colour the stamps before stamping.