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Teddy Bear playing cards & artwork

Published July 03, 1996 Updated April 16, 2023

Teddy Bear playing cards & artwork, 1996.

Peter Wood On the Cards
 Mr Scaffold  Mr Medic  Mrs Dough  Mrs Cabbage
 Miss White  Miss Cabbage  Master Chalk  Master Medic

Above: 8 cards from "Teddy Bear Happy Families" designed by Peter Wood and Simon Wintle.


'With The Bears…'a CD-rom loaded with artwork by Pete Wood, in .TIF and .BMP format, including a complete theme-deck of Semi-Transformational Playing Cards ready to make-up and publish on your own desk-top in your own style - see ready-made examples below which are also included on the CD.

Recommended for aspiring playing card designers. Any dtp package can be used.

All images, indexes, pips, back designs and other ready-made artwork are licensed and free to use for non-commercial purposes. Decorate your website, design letterheads and greeting cards, make playing cards….

 


Semi-Transformation playing cards
      included on the CD-rom. Semi-Transformation playing cards
      included on the CD-rom.

Above: two alternative versions of Little Ted's New Adventure Semi-Transformation playing cards made up unto fully playable packs which are also included on the CD-rom: a) Little Ted's Psychic Adventure Fortune-telling cards, b) Little Ted's Classic All-New Adventure playing cards.

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By Simon Wintle

Member since February 01, 1996

Founder and editor of the World of Playing Cards since 1996. He is a former committee member of the IPCS and was graphics editor of The Playing-Card journal for many years. He has lived at various times in Chile, England and Wales and is currently living in Extremadura, Spain. Simon's first limited edition pack of playing cards was a replica of a seventeenth century traditional English pack, which he produced from woodblocks and stencils.

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Teddy Bear playing cards & artwork

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Teddy Bear playing cards & artwork, 1996.