My childhood faves c 1979

This is for the latest challenge over at Journalling Junkie- to scrap your favourite cartoon character- i wasn't sure I had one until I went back to the very simple cartoons of my early childhood

 My Printer has gone mental ( even a change of ink has not worked) The pictures I wanted to print out for this LO are all yellow as you can see from the photo but hopefully it doesn't matter too much as they are to go on tags that are hidden in the LO so they can wait until its working1

My LO is called c1979 and its about the cartoons I loved as a kid

each tag has a photo and a short description of the cartoon and a seventh tag has some general thoughts

so here is what is on each tag

1. Bod

Bod had the most fantastic theme tune- very bad animation and a frog who lead an animal band and was rewarded with milkshake. Bod had an Aunt Flo and he was completely bald

find him on you tube here here

2. Mr Benn

MR Ben-he's here

Mr Benn lived on his own- everyday ( it seems) he went to a fancy dress shop and when he tried something on he went through a door to an adventure ( until the shopkeeper appeared). Another great theme tune and a fab voiceover- 

3. Ivor the Engine

Ivor the Engine- here

Ivor was a Welsh Engine on the The Merioneth and Llantisilly Rail Traction Company Limited and was driven by Jones the Steam- he was good friends with a Dragon called Idris who had hatched in his boiler- 

4. Jamie and the Magic torch

Jamie! Jamie!

Jamie and the Magic Torch
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Down the helter skelter, faster and faster,

Towards Cuckoo Land.

Wordsworth! Wordsworth!

Following hard behind.

Ready for adventure, always there to lend a paw

...or hand!

these were the lyrics to the theme tune!)

Jamie and the Magic torch- here

5. Noggin the Nog

Noggin the Nog- here

Noggin the Nog was the hero and Nogbad the bad was the villain. These were stories of old norse (ish) mythology, dragons and princesses   

6. Mr Men

Mr men- here

The Mister Men were voiced by Arthur Lowe which was part of the magic of the programme which wasn't much more animated than the pages of the books they came from

last tag

The cartoons I loved most as a child were very gentle, no battling skeletons or fighting warriors. Just very simple quiet stories of steam ttrains, dragons, and adventures in a clothes shop, animal bands and milkshakes of your choice. The voiceovers and music were also fantastic and bring back so many memories when I search for them on You Tube

I love pictures

Unlike Sue I am not a collector of quotes- I don't think I've ever come across a quote that i thought I'd like to remember- so when this challenge came along I was totally stumped- I googled qoutes but there were just too many, and after reading half a dozen that were too twee I gave up.

Pinterest finally came to my rescue with this beauty " I love pictures because the best thing about them is they never change even when the people in them do"- What a great quote to use on pitures of my little boy when he was just a baby. ( he's 6 now)

fall in love

This one is for Creative Scrappers sketch- it didn't turn out as I expected- I'm having major issues with my printer but I was sure I has a few small prints of last autumn in my box of photos- so I happily started sticking and glueing and stitching and then i couldn't find the photos- well I gave up after about 20 minutes of searching and I'd found this cutie to use instead- so instead of being a fall photo its now "fall in Love"! He he!

Sad little tiger

This Lo is for Shimelle's starting point

I used the same colour theme as well as the same arrangement of paper  as my inspiration from Shimelle's starter- I've used this super cute picture of Arthur in a tiger hooded towel- I can't remember what he was so upset about but the look on his face is an absolute picture of despair- Am I a cruel mother taking pictures like this? I have to say there are more than one .Whatever it makes for a great LO- I have an even larger version of this picture that I'm saving for another LO!

This was her starting point

laugh

This one is for Sketchy Thursdays' latest sketch - its a very faithful copy of the sketch really- although I didn't set out to make it one,

the photo is from my birthday this year when we went to the Winkel van Sinkel in Utrecht for tea and cakes

( you gotta just love the name Winkel van Sinkel haven't you)

this is the sketch

last night

Here is my version of the pagerize challenge for Scrap OUr Stash this month

I decided to lift the whole  LO of the LO (if you see what I mean) 

I also decided to make my own background paper ( based on a very old piece of paper I used recently - you can find it here    The old paper had a stitched effect on it- so I made one of my own.

The LO is about our last night in the Netherlands before we moved back to the UK- we went for pizza by the Oudegracht in Utrecht and then wandered the streets back to the station-its a group photo of us around a light in the ground in one of the small alleys by the canal. 

documented

For some reason Arthur wanted to take a picture of himself as a baby to school this week- so this lead to a few delightful hours of looking at photos  and videos of Arthur and Stanley as babies- Arthur was really funny- he kept looking at videos of himself and saying "look at what he's doing"


Anyway it gave me a chance to go back and document some things from before I started scrapping. these photos are stills from a video of Arthur - i was trying to get him to say nose, hello, bye, Stanley, obviously things he was saying all the time ( but not for the camera)


This Lo is for the October challenge at Kraft It Up- the challenge is to use kraft and then one of the following techniques
minimalist
shabby/ vintage
monochrome


I went for the monochrome in red - I did mean to do shabby but well i got distracted