The new Mini Bears and Birds digital stamping images include three bears: Bearly Adequate, Chubby Cubby, and Cubby Cousins. This is a photo of the original 15" Cubby Cousins from my teddy bear book. The book included patterns for cross-stitched blocks and a bear-sized quilt with the letters B-E-A-R.

Photo © Lee Phillips. Used by permission.

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The newest set of Angels Landing™ digital stamping images, Mini Bears and Birds, includes a teddy bear named Chubby Cubby. His saying is, “When you’re a chubby cub, there’s more of you to love.” This is his closeup photo from my bearmaking book.

Photo © Lee Phillips. Used by permission.

This artist teddy bear came in two [...]

A new set of Angels Landing™ digital stamping images for May 2009 has just been released: Mini Bears and Birds. Teddy bears have always been special to me. As a teddy bear artist, I made well over a hundred of them, and my first book had sewing patterns for six bears. This is a scan [...]

With a whole animal kingdom to choose from, why did I start with Aussie animals for one of my first sets of digital stamps? Of course there is a good reason.
As stories go, this one began years ago. Back then, I had licensed a line of collectible figurines to a wonderful little company [...]