Lone Pine Designs: With Gratitude

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.

Wednesday, September 15, 2010

With Gratitude

Last week's OWH Stars and Stamps midweek throwdown was to make a Fall themed thank you card. I used the lovely Stampin' Up set With Gratitude...I love all the leaves in this set so I stamped them all on the background and stamped and sponged the maple leaf under the raffia bow. I think raffia is perfect for this time of year!