Lone Pine Designs: Cards for Diggers

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, February 24, 2011

Cards for Diggers

Cards for Diggers is the chosen cause for A Cause for Cards this month. "Diggers" is an Australia military slang term for soldiers. The challenge this month is to make a Mother's Day Card using the colours Red, White and Blue in honour of the Australian troops serving overseas and a flower image in honour of Mum.

Supplies:-
Stamps - Bountiful by Penny Black and Mother's Day Script by Hero Arts
PTI white cardstock
Brilliance ink
SU markers
SU DSP
Copics
Nestabilities
SU coloured cardstock
Foam dots
Brads
K & C Co flowers