Lone Pine Designs: Washing on the line...

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, September 17, 2010

Washing on the line...

I made today's card for this week's Stampin' Sisters in Christ challenge...use real or faux stitching somewhere on your card/project. I purchased this lovely stamp by Print Blocks Australia about 15 years ago but have never used it on a card...I'm not sure who I would give this to...I think it would be nice framed and given as a gift.

Growing up in Australia we always hung our clothes on the clothesline to dry but I now live in New Hampshire and I don't even own a clothesline...I guess it's not very practical for the weather here! Anyway, I thought it was the perfect image to incorporate stitching...I stamped the image twice, airbrushed one with Copics and coloured the details on the other before cutting them out and gluing them onto the airbrushed one...I would normally mask the details before airbrushing but those little chickens would have been very fiddly...I nearly lost one cutting them out!

Supplies:-

Stamp - Print Blocks Australia

PTI white cardstock

Brilliance ink

Copics

9 comments:

Wendy ten HoveSeptember 17, 2010 at 6:39 AM
Hi Christy!

This one is just tooo cute! Love the way you made this card! Oeh, don't you miss the Australian weather then? Must be hard sometimes... Good thing you didn't cut out the chickens, don't want to loose any, they are so sweet! Love the background!

Hugs,
Wendy
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TammySeptember 17, 2010 at 8:05 AM
Oh my goodness. Wonderful card. Sentiment is perfect for the scene.
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peggysueSeptember 17, 2010 at 9:43 AM
Oh sweet, what a great stamp! The sentiment is perfect for the image and your coloring is wonderful. Thanks for coming alongside Stampin' Sisters in Christ this week!
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jimlynnSeptember 17, 2010 at 10:15 AM
Wonderful card! Love everything.
Lynn
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BeckySeptember 17, 2010 at 11:33 AM
Beautiful card and beautiful sentiment, I just love this..Thank you for joining us at Stampin Sisters in Christ.
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paigeSeptember 17, 2010 at 7:29 PM
Your sewing is great on this wonderful card!
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Patti JSeptember 17, 2010 at 10:15 PM
I totally love this image and sentiment! Great job with your air brushing, and your sewing rocks! Perfect card for the challenge :) Thank you for joining us this week at Stampin' Sisters in Christ! Hope to see you back again next week!
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Lynn McAuleySeptember 17, 2010 at 10:19 PM
Absolutely fabulous!! Awesome work, Christy!!
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KarySeptember 18, 2010 at 2:48 AM
What a lovely card!! Really cute too.
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