Crafting With My Favorite Bear

I've loved Pooh Bear since I first saw him on TV when I was a kid. I loved his little round self, his penchant for honey, his slow way of talking and his little giggle. When my kids were little, they had the collection of Pooh stories and we read them over and over. I even have video of my daughter doing a play she wrote for the characters and her Pooh impersonation. So, when I saw a Make Cards Today Pooh Bear magazine that was available overseas, I bought it in a hot minute so I could have the stamps and printed pieces of the friends from The Hundred Acre Wood. It took a long time to get here, but I'm so happy I ordered it!

It sat for two days before I could create with it and now, of course, I can't stop. For this card, I used a watercolored background (using Tombow markers) I had already stamped and made a fun cut on the front panel that I saw on FB.

For this card, I used the same background stamp, but went with a rainbow background. The Pooh Bear was just an outline but on this scalloped die, I just used some alcohol markers to make him the right color.

 

This card is pretty small...I had made it with leftover piece of balloon paper and was just waiting for a focal point. The tag included with the magazine was just right.

I made one more card, but sent it off before I took a photo, for my Pooh-loving friend's birthday. I think his calm demeanor, along with his cuteness and determined search for honey are what make me smile. When I realized how wise Pooh is, along with being funny, I liked him even more. Here's one of my favorite quotes.

Happy Friday!

Chark

At Least I Have A Picture

So, there was a company called Northridge Publishing Company and they printed the little square magazines like this one.

I got a project accepted and then they stopped publishing, disappeared off the face of the earth and they kept my project! It still makes me mad. Some people were subscribers and tried to cancel but were charged for months and lost money, so at least I didn't get swindled. I just didn't get published but not returning it was kinda crappy, because it had pics of my kids. I took a picture of the front of the little tag album and that's all I have left. boo hoo!

 

I'll try to move on and leave the bitterness behind (I'm doing great so far haha), but I thought I'd at least share the project here. I used tags from Prima and lots of little travel goodies to make a mini album of our trip to New Orleans as a family. 

Do you ever make mini albums? I have a few—including Halloween and Christmas that come out at the holidays as part of the decorations. What else can you do when you have a million pics? You can't make a million scrapbook pages, so mini albums it is! Plus, they're fun because they come together so quickly and you can make the subject whatever you want. 

I might have to remake this one...I still have lots of NOLA pics leftover and I did two pages already!

Happy Wednesday and leave me a link to any mini albums you've made—I'd love to see them!

Chark

Happy New Year's Eve!

Hard to believe it's that time again—the time when the year rolls over and I forget and write 2014 on everything for two months. 2015!!! Are you kidding me?!! I remember in high school (way back in 1986 when research papers meant going to three different libraries and we had to wait for Saturday mornings to watch cartoons and email was not a word) we used to imagine what the year 2000 would look like. We'd say, "we'll be 32!!" like that was some crazy age. Now, of course, I'm 46 and 32 seems like a fine age. :)

Ah well, there are definitely good things that come with time passing and aging. For example, I'm doing a lot more creative work than I did back then and am enjoying it so much. And I managed to get published in Paper Crafts Magazine in the last issue ever. I'm sad about it ending, but happy to have made the cut!

I got an email that said I could share the link, so if you want to see my projects, check page 26 and 30. Here's the link to the magazine's last issue. February 2015. If you don't have a subscription, you can preview the issue.

Here are two screen shots of the mag. I'd post my original pics if I'd kept them, but apparently I didn't. 

See? Always keep photos you might need. I'm still learning new things even at the advanced age of 46...it's all good!

Happy New Year!
Chark