Winnie the Pooh and the Blue Balloon

 

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I've always loved the Winnie the Pooh stories by A.A. Milne, and the drawings by E.H. Shephard that are just perfect.  I have prints of several of them in the house, two just above my desk here in our study!

I was thrilled when I found that Spellbinders and Simple Stories have got together and created a beautiful range of crafting goodies using the original pictures as their inspiration - I really hate the Disney versions of Pooh and Co, and have avoided anything crafty using them like the plague!

 

Winnie the Pooh and the Blue Balloon

 I've used dies from the Pooh and Piglet set to make this card, based on one of my favourite Pooh tales "Winnie the Pooh and the Blue Balloon" in which Pooh rolls in a [puddle to disguise himself as a rain cloud and floats in the air on the string of a blue balloon as he tries to raid a bee hive for the yummy honey.

 I made a large card, coloured the outside and inside with shades opf blue ink and mousse, then cut an oval aperture in the front of the card. I cut sprig dies using Winter Evergreen Foliage die set in various shades of green card to make the overhanging tree branches then added Pooh and his balloon. 

I printed out the words from the story to add to the card, then assembled Piglet, some flowers and some honey pots at the ready to the lower edge, and a few extras to the inside  the card. The bees were cut out from some paper I had in my stash

I used:

Pooh & Piglet Etched Dies from the Say Cheese Classic Pooh Collection 

Winter Evergreen Foliage

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I've used dies from the Pooh and Piglet set to make this card, based on one of my favourite Pooh tales "Winnie the Pooh and the Blue Balloon" in which Pooh rolls in a [puddle to disguise himself as a rain cloud and floats in the air on the string of a blue balloon as he tries to raid a bee hive for the yummy honey