Lone Pine Designs: With Sympathy

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.

Tuesday, November 2, 2010

With Sympathy

I decided to make a sympathy card using last week's Play Date Cafe challenge which was to use black and white with a splash of burgundy!

The little tiny scalloped edge of the burgundy cardstock was made by using my Fiskar paper edgers. I started scrapbooking 15 years ago and over the years purchased about 14 different fancy scissors by Fiskars as they were very popular back then. They have since been replaced by die cutting machines, nestabilities and guillotines with fancy blades and for many years I didn't use them. Recently, I found them in the back of my cupboard and decided to pull them out and use them...I'd forgotten how much I enjoyed using them. They are quick and easy, they have some really nice unique shapes and they can be used with all the new technology like the nestabilities die I used on this card.