[Text by Amberle Ferrian] "Belle's Birthday Surprise #1" (belbday1.gif, 592x761x2, 15119 bytes) is the 40th in a continuing series of fine Disney fanart drawings by Bob Ito and the 16th in the so-called "Bucketland Cards" series of handmade greeting cards, "when you're too cheap to buy a card." :-) WARNING: This image is a bit on the risque side--nothing nasty, just a bit suggestive, for reasons which will be obvious upon reading the description. :-) In the movie "Beauty and the Beast", Beast made it quite clear that he would do anything for Belle. Well, this thought is put to the ultimate test when her birthday comes along. After all, what do you get a girl who already has access to everything in the castle? Including its Master? The Enchanted Objects thought long and hard about this one, and have decided to rewrap old presents into new packages. After all, the best presents are the ones that keep on giving, right? And since Belle's favorite thing in the castle is Beast himself, and she doesn't want to spend *too* much time unwrapping her "present", and since she's GOT to wonder just how much that long piece of ribbon is concealing on the "present"... This is a handmade birthday card draw by Bob Ito for the birthday of Amberle Ferrian, the FDC walkaround Belle. It, and its two companion cards, spent three months traveling around the world to various rec.arts.disney readers and FDC members to be signed. Overall, 46 of 88 netters who participated in this little project of Bob's :) got this card. The card made a stop at February's Disneyana convention at Disneyland with the FDC Mickey and Minnie, Rich and Carol Koster, and was signed by numerous walkaround characters (including one of Amberle's real-life Belle counterparts, who was sent a photo to prove it :-), as well as some Disney luminaries, such as animators Marc Davis, Ward Kimball, voice artist Greg Marr, and original Mouseketeers Sherry Alberoni, Sharon Baird, Bobby Burgess, Lonnie Burr, Tommy Cole, and Karen Pendenton. The image itself is divided into several sections: Top: front of card Top right: back of card with "Bucketland Cards" logo Bottom: inside of card As with all Bucketland cards, all personal messages have been deleted from the image. And, getting out of third-person talk for a bit :-), I'd like to give another heartfelt THANK YOU to everyone who participated in this project. You helped make this birthday of mine one of the best ever. Bob Ito's fanart drawings are archived at: ftp://ftp.ugcs.caltech.edu/pub/disney/images/ito/ http://www.ugcs.caltech.edu/~dacut/fdc.html Contact the archive maintainer, David Cuthbert for more details, and Bob for comments and queries on the drawings. Please ftp during off-peak hours if possible (4am-11am PST, GMT -0800). Unlike many of Bob's drawings, this image is too large to post to the non-binary newsgroups. If you cannot access the binary picture newsgroups and can't ftp, please drop me a line and I'll be happy to email you a copy. If you would like to receive scans of future drawings as they become available (whenever Bob feels like doing 'em, and I get around to scanning and posting 'em :-) please drop me a line and I'll add you to the distribution list. You may wish to save this description in a separate file for future reference. --- Amberle Ferrian | They are one person Writer/Not Ready For ToonTown Player | They are two alone in future "Disney Improv Nite" show | They are three together theme-park walkaround Belle | They are for each other... and general Sherri Stoner fan/wannabe | --"Helplessly Hoping" in The Future Disney Cabinet | Crosby, Stills, and Nash