Lone Pine Designs: Go With the Flow

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, December 9, 2010

Go With the Flow

This week's Ippity challenge is to use your very first Ippity stamp. My first two sets were Fishy Philosophy and Devoted but I used Fishy Philosophy first so that is what I used for this challenge. I also used the Mojo Monday sketch for this week too...

...I airbrushed behind the fish and the sentiment with Copics and finished the card with some Stampin' Up rope twine...

...and here are the very first cards I made using this Ippity stamp set...I must really like using those little plastic half bubbles as I just noticed I used them in all three cards!