Lone Pine Designs: Festive Friday

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 16, 2011

Festive Friday

I can hardly believe it's the middle of September...the leaves are already starting to change colours here in New Hampshire and Thanksgiving and Christmas are right around the corner! I'm taking a little break from my "Floral Fridays" and replacing them with "Festive Fridays" so I can get a head start on all my holiday cards. There are 15 weeks left until Christmas so I really need to be making several a week!

I have two to share with you today...the first one uses a quote from the Stampin' Up set Occasional Quotes and I wanted to keep the card soft, simple and peaceful. I tore the white paper to create the snow on the mountains and ground and made the magic wand with my Martha Steward snowflake punch.

The second card is another clean and simple design using Stampin' Up's Peaceful Season. I coloured the SU rhinestones with my red Copic marker to make the berries.

Supplies:- Occasional Quotes by SU, Peaceful Season by SU, PTI white cardstock, SU coloured cardstock, Bazzil textured cardstock, SU markers, Copic markers, Martha Stewart punch, fiskar paper edgers and foam dots.

6 comments:

dawnmercedesSeptember 16, 2011 at 12:21 PM
Ooh, I like that holly card best! I can't believe it is time to start thinking Christmas again!
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Lynn McAuleySeptember 16, 2011 at 1:18 PM
Two holiday beauties!! Wonderful work, Christy!

I received you beautiful birthday card yesterday! Thank you so much for creating it for me. I am papering the wall in my craft space with the hand-made work of friends!!
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KarenSeptember 16, 2011 at 2:20 PM
Very pretty Christy. You will have your Christmas cards done in no time.
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http://blog.timetocreate.com.au/September 16, 2011 at 6:37 PM
How true is the sentiment on your first card Christy. Setting yourself a target for the Christmas preparations is a good idea.
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TammySeptember 16, 2011 at 8:31 PM
Beautiful cards and wonderful sentiments. I especially like your use of torn paper on the first card.
Our leaves haven't started changing but the temperature sure did!
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ddazzled71September 17, 2011 at 4:38 AM
Christy what a fabulous idea - FESTIVE FRIDAYS. I too have to get a start on my Christmas Cards so thanks for the gentle reminder and your inspirational post. Both your cards today are fabulous. I have the Occassional Quotes set and I really love who you have created the mountain peaks with the torn paper and your magic wand. The red and green holly is beautiful too!
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