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GIRL!!!

Meet Elizabeth Teagan born on Tuesday, September 27th!  And, in case you don't realize Elizabeth and I share the same birthday.  She graced us with her presence on my 40th!  What a miraculous gift. 

Our hearts are filled with joy!  God bless!

Prince John

Prince John as a tiger?

Milt Kahl considered this for the villain from "Robin Hood" at least momentarily,

as you can see in some of these early design sketches. 

But his brother King Richard "The Lion Hearted" obviously had to be portrayed as a lion, so the tiger idea was dropped.

Ollie Johnston of course animated this character. I remember Ollie talking often how much he enjoyed animating Prince John (as well as Sir Hiss), and he thought that Peter Ustinov for his voice was just great.

Here is a funny story Ollie told me about Milt Kahl and the issue of screen credit for "Robin Hood":

" Milt liked what I was doing with Prince John, he was very complementary about my animation. One morning he came into my office and said that I should get top billing this time within the "Directing Animators" credits. Milt usually got that honor,

because he designed all the characters. Milt was going to talk to management that afternoon. So I said OK thanks, and almost forgot about it. The next morning Milt stormed back into my office, this time with an agitated attitude. 'You know, I am the character designer around here and do all this extra work. I should get top billing on this film.'

I just said, that's fine by me, Milt, no problem. I later found out that he had discussed the credit issue with his wife the night before, and she wasn't  too happy about it."

There you have it, 1970ies politics at Disney.

That being said, I find all of these drawings just beautiful!

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Infinity Tattoo, Get inspired by some great images

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Infinity Tattoo, meaning and pictures

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Challenge #10 sponsored by Heindesign

Goodmorning this Wednesday. Today we have our tenth challenge for you and we are grateful that you all joined us till now and every week there are more people who are joining us. We love it ;o)

This week's sponsor is Heindesign and your price will be a set of their Acrylic paints, 2 Stamps and sponges. Isn't that just generous? Heindesign is a almost 25 year old company - 1987 we did bring stamping to Europe. We is Wolfgang Hein a trained window decorator and Photo-Designer and a group of nice well trained people who are working for Heindesign since many years. Since the beginning of our business we were dedicated to teach people to be creative with stamps. First we were teaching on flea- and art markets. Later we printed catalogs to reach more people. Than in the 90ties we used the internet to show our ideas. We are producing our own stamps in our little factory. Our big vulcanizer "Olga" is pressing rubber everyday since many many years. In cooperation we producing designs from Judi-Kins too. The quality of our stamps gets praised where ever we go, but we just try to make good stamps - deep rubber nice handle.
Here is some little inspiration for you, the cards the Design Team made for you as samples ;o) You can click on the names and you go straight to their personal blogs to see the details about their cards ;o) They love to recieve your comments ... This week's sketch is made by Monique and you can find that sketch at the end of this post. Please do not post it on your blog but link to our blogpost. Thank you ;o)  Made by Monique
Made by Nicole Made by Renata Made by Wilma Made by Betina Made by Carol Made by ClaireMade by Janneke  Made by Linda
No card from Linda this week she is sick. We all hope you feel better soon darling ;o)

Made by Marion
And ofcourse our lovely Guest Designers Made by Annemaire en Merit Made by Dina Here is the sketch that Monique made for you this time ;o) You can rotate the sketch and resize the elements, as long as you follow the original sketch and use a stamped image or digistamp, that way your entry qualifies for the prize draw. To join the challenges and to be eligible for the prize made ​​available by the sponsor of that challenge, we have a few rules. You can find them here.  Let's get started again on a Christmas card. That way there will be no or at least less stress at the end of this year!!
Enjoy!