Thank you!

Hello to the beginning of summer and Hello to all our blog readers! This month we wanted to give a big Thank You to all of you who visit our blog, follow us here and on Twitter and maybe even leave us a comment or two. We appreciate all of you! To say thank you, we will be giving away one of these 4" x 6" images of your choice to a lucky reader. Just leave a comment below and at the end of the month, we will randomnly choose a winner. You can use the image for a thank you card or even frame it as a mini print. We left the challenge open, as far as images go, so there are looks of fun and different things to choose from.

Wishing you a wonderful June.
~Nina, Cally, Julissa, Bee, Shirley and Jennifer

Cally

Julissa

Bee

Nina

Shirley

Jennifer

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And now for some news!

We hope everyone is having a nice May! All of us girls here at www.WeLovetoIllustrate.com have been hard at work on various illustration projects but we thought we'd take a moment to share some of our recent news.

If you're out and about shopping, see if you can spot Nina's super fun line of 

BBQ themed products! 

This collection was licensed through Unique Party Supplies, and includes paper plates, napkins and tablecloths. They sell to major retailers like Target and Walmart.

"Little Dog, Lost" illustrated by Jennifer was released this month!

Written by Newbury Honoree Marion Dane Bauer, this book has been receiving wonderful reviews including a starred review from Kirkus. Take a sneak peek at Jennifer's blog.

Jennifer also illustrated a sweet story in this months issue of 

Highlights High Five Magazine!

Julissa has added a new print to her Society 6 shop! 

She also has prints available of her NYC Getup created for our 

May fashion post, along with many others. Check them out here!

Spring Fashion Show!

Hello friends and welcome spring! We thought it would be fun to celebrate the changing of the seasons this month with our own little May fashion show!

Enjoy! xoxo Jennifer, Cally, Bee, Shirley, Julissa, and Nina 

Shirley

Julissa

Jennifer

Cally

Nina

Bee

♥ Free Easter Printables ♥

Happy April everyone!  This is the month of Easter fun and crafts!  We've been making lovely printables which are free to download for personal use.  We hope you enjoy them and we hope you enjoy your chocolate eggs too!
Cally, Bee, Shirley, Julissa, Jennifer and Nina x

Bee

Download Bee's design here

Shirley

Download Shirley's design here

Julissa

Download Julissa's design here

Jennifer

Download Jennifer's design here

Cally

Download Cally's design here

Nina

Download Nina's design here

illustrated recipes

It's the middle of March (already!) so it's time to post about any recent project news that our group has to share.

Have you heard about They Draw and Cook? It's an incredibly awesome site run by the brother and sister design team, Nate Padavick and Salli Swindell, where artists and designers illustrate recipes and post them for downloading or you can just browse through all the fantastic recipes. There's so much more to it, but we won't go into it all here, you'll just have to go check it out for yourself!! theydrawandcook.com

They have contests every once in awhile and the current contest is put on by Kraft Foods. The challenge was to include an illustrated version of the Kraft logo and an illustrated version of one of their products, that was used in the recipe. The recipes were chosen from a list of approved Kraft recipes. Shirley and Nina both entered the contest, so we thought we would share what they did. So much fun!

Nina

nina's recipe on TDAC

Shirley

shirley's recipe on TDAC

March....of the Chinese Zodiac Animals!

Welcome March! We're celebrating the Year of the Dragon, 2012 by illustrating our favorite zodiac animals. The year of the dragon is said to be a very lucky year. We hope that 2012 has been good to you so far..and in celebrating the Chinese thoughts for this year, we hope that it continues to bring peace, health and prosperity to you and yours.

~ Bee, Cally, Nina, Jennifer, Julissa & Shirley

Nina

Visit Nina's shop for available prints

 

Bee  

Visit Bee's shop for available prints

   

Shirley

Visit Shirley's shop for available prints

Julissa

Visit Julissa's shop for available prints

Jennifer

Cally

The animal names in Mandarin:

1. Shu (rat)
2. Niu (ox)
3. Hu (tiger)
4. Tu (rabbit)
5. Long (dragon)
6. She (snake)
7. Ma (horse)
8. Yang (sheep)
9. Hou (monkey)
10. Ji (rooster)
11. Gou (dog)
12. Zhu (boar/pig)

For more information about the special Year of the Dragon, here is a good link

and here is a good link for all of the zodiac animals as well. 

Thank you for stopping by and celebrating illustration with us...

your comments and visits make our day!

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And now for some news! 

We hope you're all enjoying February so far and and we thank you for sharing this journey of loving illustration with us here at www.WeLovetoIllustrate.com.

We've all been busy these past few months with our own personal projects and thought it might be nice to let you all know of some of our news...so without further ado:

Bee presents:
 Coming soon:
Two board books for Hinkler publishers titled 
 Bedtime and Snuggles due for release in May - stay tuned!
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A range of ceramic mugs for Australian ceramics company Ashdene.
Here is a little tiny teaser:
 

Cally presents: A new book!

The Elephantantrum, Illustrated by Cally Johnson-Isaacs
and written by Gillian Shields is now available to pre-order here.

Nina presents: A new book!  

The current website is in Spanish, but the books are also available in English.
The owner could be contacted directly, as she speaks english. These books come in boy and girl versions and are personalized with a head shot photo of the child included on each page in the story.
 

El Globo Rojo de Niña or Niño (The Red Balloon (girl or boy)), illustrated by Nina Seven, text by Georgina Jijena Sánchez, is now available here.

Jennifer presents: Three new books!   

Here are a few books of Jennifer's that have been published this year.

Stella Batts Needs a New Name written by Courtney Shienmel
See more at www.StellaBatts.com available here

Far Flutterby written by Karen Kingsbury available here

The Little Bully written by Beth Bracken available here

 

Julissa presents:  

 Coming soon: 

An interactive storybook of
The Itsy Bitsy Spider

A storybook for an educational publishing company in Australia titled,  

My Pop's Garden
Here is a teaser:
 

Shirley presents:

  Coming soon: 

An educational e-book titled:
I See My Colors!  

Also available, previously released e-books: 

Launch! is available here

The Gingerbread Man is available here

Thanks for reading and visiting..
we really appreciate your visits and comments a lot!

~ Bee, Cally, Jennifer, Julissa, Nina and Shirley