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In honor of Mother's Day, which is on May 12 this year, we are celebrating with some FREE printable cards for our lovely readers. We decided to illustrate the cards with animal moms and their babies, just because we all love drawing animals and who doesn't love a cute animal baby or two! All these cards are free to print out and use for your personal use only. Not for resale. Thank you! And Happy Mother's Day to all the hard working moms out there.
xoxo ~ Nina, Shirley, Jennifer, Bee, Julissa and Cally
Those card are so adorable! I just posted them on my german blog: http://schoenstricken.de/2013/05/muttertag-gruskarten-zum-freien-download/ and put a link to your site! Thank you. I already printed the one with the foxes. LOVE them. Best from Berlin, Jessica
Happy April everyone! This month we've been thinking about Earth Day. Earth Day celebrates our amazing planet and all the beautiful plants and animals that live here with us. We must all remember to appreciate nature and continue to learn new ways to protect it.
Here are some nature inspired pictures to help us celebrate. Have a fantastic April!
Cally, Nina, Shirley, Bee, Julissa and Jennifer xx
Nina
Cally
Shirley
8 Comments on Earth Day Fun, last added: 4/17/2013
encore des créations ravissantes !... j'adore : merci pour le partage !... je cherche des freebies sur le web et je partage mes liens sur Pinterest : je viens d’y ajouter celui-ci !... http://pinterest.com/lemondedis/ (j'ai déjà plus de 13000 liens vers des téléchargements gratuits !)
Hello everybody, Happy February! Valentine's Day is coming up soon, and we thought we'd share some free printable Valentine photo frame cards with you all! Just click on the link underneath each frame you wish to download, then print, trim, attach your photo and give it to someone special! We also have a guest illustrator on board this month - please welcome Jack Knight. Thanks Jack for your fun contribution this month! We wish you all a fabulous February :)
Nina, Julissa, Jennifer, Cally, Shirley and Bee xo
Great job, I love all thing you doing here, maybe someday you invite me to participate with you, I'll be very happy to do it, happy valentine to you. zapatagudiel@yahoo.com
Happy New Year everyone! It's 2013 and all of us here at www.welovetoillustrate.com wish to say Thank You for all of your visits and comments, and we look forward to spending the new year sharing our posts with you each month.
We wanted to share our annual post-year Illustration Round-Up with links below for our January post. If you missed anything, you can click on the links below to take you to each month's posts and downloads.
As we start the new year, we hope you all have a happy, healthy and peaceful year ahead..may you all find time to create, enjoy moments with family and friends, and pass along a bit of kindness to others along the way.
Thank you for your visits and support..it means a lot to all of us! - Julissa, Cally, Jennifer, Nina, Shirley and Bee -
Happy New Year everyone! It's 2013 and all of us here at www.welovetoillustrate.com wish to say Thank You for all of your visits and comments, and we look forward to spending the new year sharing our posts with you each month.
We wanted to share our annual post-year Illustration Round-Up with links below for our January post. If you missed anything, you can click on the links below to take you to each month's posts and downloads.
As we start the new year, we hope you all have a happy, healthy and peaceful year ahead..may you all find time to create, enjoy moments with family and friends, and pass along a bit of kindness to others along the way.
Thank you for your visits and support..it means a lot to all of us! - Julissa, Cally, Jennifer, Nina, Shirley and Bee -
Thank you all from the bottom of my heart! I have enjoyed each and every post and all of the fun freebies you've shared all year! Happy New year to you all! Best wishes for a fabulous year ahead!
Hello December! It's that most wonderful time of the year!
It's a time for celebrating with family and friends and gift giving, so we wanted to give all of our lovely blog readers a fun download this month. We all decorated a little Christmas house that is three-dimensional once it's cut out, folded and glued together. You can make a row of them to display on a shelf or mantle or you can get a little more creative and make them into ornaments for your tree. Have fun crafting!
Happy Holidays from all of us!~ Nina, Bee, Shirley, Jennifer, Julissa and Cally
those are the cutest little gingerbread houses i have ever seen!! i hope you continue to do more free downloads:) thanks a bunch...off to print them now.
Thank you so very much for all of your continued generosity. Even though many of us fail to post a thank you, we truly enjoy and love the darling, detailed, delightful art work that you post for us. I have several grandchildren that have been the recipients of your talents. They will surely love getting these as well.
Grazie infinite per questi stupendi disegni...un augurio speciale a tutte voi che ammiro tantissimo di un felice natale e uno strpitoso anno nuovo!!!baci Laura
Thanks so much for these adorable houses! I was so excited to find them, my themes this year are houses, woodland creatures especially mice and squirrels and always gingerbread! so they are perfect for our Christmas! Can't wait to check out your site, too!! :)
Thank you all for sharing these. I am having a gingerbread house theme party for my daughter's birthday this week and these are going to make lovely decorations. I had found another gingerbread house printable, but it was very traditional looking. These ones will be perfect for the kids!
These are all brilliant!!! I am having a Christmas gingerbread house decorating party for my daughter and her friends this weekend. These houses would be perfect for a display or filled with sweets. Thank you they will love it!!!
Thank you so much for these. Ever since we had to go gluten-free and sugar-free, gingerbread houses have been in short supply around here. My kids are going to be thrilled! :)
this is truly so generous of you all! I am astonished at the level of detail in all of them! I love seeing how your different personalities come out in each of them. I was super stoked when I downloaded paperglitters house of her site..then stumbled across the rest of these and OH MY! I can have a whole village of lovely little houses!
I am printing them up and having my darling daughter help me fold them to make ornaments for our candy/gingerbread themed tree. We also plan to use them for her classroom gift. She is doing an oral presentation on her favorite tradition, making Gingerbread houses with her family, and these will be the perfect addition to her speech. Adorable visual aid, holiday favor and ornament all in one. I can not thank you enough! Jennifer Post already looking forward to next years houses!
Thank you ladies so much for sharing these beautiful creations. I've printed them all, and plan to tuck a gift card inside each one for my nieces and nephews. Merry Christmas!! Love you!
These are so sweet and perfect for us! I simply don't have time this year for making actual gingerbread houses with my girls, so we will be adding a little glitter to these lovelies. Thank you and Merry Christmas!!
O thank you for these..they are totally cute and my 2 little ones will adore maikg them and setting up a snowy village scene.. happy christmas sara,fern,iris
Thank you so much for these adorable houses. I hope you don't mind that I've featured them on my blog today http://handmadebylilli.blogspot.com/2012/12/christmas-y-things.html
Hi Everyone! We are so honored to be featured in the latest edition of Where Women Cook magazine! We want to express our heartfelt thanks to Salli Swindell and Nate Padavick of TheyDrawandCook.com for showcasing us. Salli is a contributor to the magazine and wrote a wonderful article about our group, stemming from Julissa's brainstorm of getting us all together to form our group blog.
Here's a link to the magazine which is now on the stands and available at Barnes & Noble. (Click on the link to page 90 (it's not really 90 pages) but keep watching the page numbers go up.)
Thanks again, Salli - and thanks to our wonderful followers for your support through all of the years we've been contributing to www.welovetoillustrate.com. We hope you all have enjoyed our posts and updates and continue to visit us in the future! ~ Bee, Cally, Nina, Jennifer, Julissa & Shirley
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Welcome August! We're now in the thick of the Olympics (if you've not yet visited our London post, please do!) and summer is in full swing, but we're ready to celebrate the kids this month with some free back-to-school downloadable stickers and lunch-box notes! Simply download the PDFs, print on sticker-paper, cut out, and enjoy..and please remember these are for your personal use only, and not for resale or distribution – we really appreciate it!
Every month, we enjoy creating these post challenges, and we love hearing from you. Each comment is read and it means a lot to us, so thank you! We hope you enjoy these fun downloads and wish you all a very happy and creative August ahead!
Thank you so much for this post. I want to let you know that I posted a link to your blog in CBH Digital Scrapbooking Freebies (please, notice the new url for my blog), under the Page 2 post on Aug. 02, 2012. Thanks again.
Happy July everyone! This month we've been inspired by the Queen's Jubilee and the London Olympics, and we've created some London-themed illustrations. We hope you enjoy!
We also have a WINNER of our print giveaway hooray!! The random number generator has picked..... comment number 10! Congrats Fi! Please drop us an email at welovetoillustrate[at]gmail[dot]com with your postal address and choice of print and we will send it out to you :) Have a lovely July everybody
~Nina,Cally,Julissa,Bee,Shirley and Jennifer
Nina
Shirley
Jennifer
Cally Congrats Fi! Comment number 10 was picked by the random number generator!
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Many moons ago I visited the UK for a week and spent a few days in London. I fell in love and love all things London that remind me of that wonderful trip. These are awesome :)
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
Hey Guys, Great giveaway, would LOVE to win this!! :D They're such lovely images that its hard to choose which one I would want, but in the end, I think my favourite has to be Cally's little lion, aww it looks so sweet :D
I only just discovered this page, via Shirley's blog. I enjoy her work and like to receive an email hen her page is updated. Now I shall subscribe to this one too....
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!
6 Comments on ........................................................................................., last added: 5/16/2012
What lovely projects you have been working on. Lovely illustration ladies (like always) so thanks for sharing and I have never seen anything like the BBQ range before - what a great idea! :)
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
Thank you so very much! Love love your site! Just became a follower. I am a teacher, and a mom of two small boys. They are going to love these projects! Also, I am a scrapper, and I already have an idea of how to use the cute pink bunny in a layout. Thank you!
Thank you so much for this post. I want to let you know that I posted a link to your blog in CBH Digital Scrapbooking Freebies, under the Page 5 post on Apr. 02, 2012. Thanks again.
Happy October everyone! Time for a spooooky and fun Halloween post! This month we've made cupcake toppers and they're free to download for personal use. Simply print them onto card stock, carefully cut out each topper and tape a toothpick or cocktail stick to the back and stick the topper into a yummy cupcake. Be sure to send us pictures of your creations :)
And we're very pleased to have a special guest illustrator with us this month, the very talented Tamara Henderson! She has also designed the brilliant banner for October. Be sure to visit her fab blog.
Thank you so much for this post. I want to let you know that I posted a link to your blog in CBH Digital Scrapbooking Freebies, under the Page 4 post on Oct. 01, 2011. Thanks again.
Hello friends and happy November! This month we thought it would be fun to set up shops at Envelop and try our hand at designing some pillow covers. Several of us packed our stores with many fun designs so make sure you explore the store links below!
Special thanks to Fhiona Galloway who participated as our guest illustrator this month. She's responsible for our fabulous November banner. Visit her websiteto see more.
Hello and Happy December! We are continuing with our guest artist series and are joined this month by the super talented Brad Renner. Brad designed our oh-so-fun December banner and also did the challenge with us. We're so lucky - his illustrations are brilliant!
The challenge this month was actually given to us by the lovely ladies from Scraptus, a blog group of crafty scrapbookers, based in Montreal. They challenged us to create pages of Holiday themed scrapbook elements and we thought this would be a fun thing to do and a fun thing to share with our readers during this Season of Giving.
You can see what the Scraptus girls created with our elements on their blog, starting on Friday, Dec. 2. Their blog is written totally in French, but even if you can't read what they wrote, you can still see all the fab designs they created. All the pages are free for you to download here and use for your personal projects. And, you don't have to be a scrapbooker to use them. Cut them out and adhere them to solid covered gift bags, use them as gift tags or even use them to make holiday cards or ornaments. The possibilities are endless!
Happy Holidays! Nina, Cally, Bee, Julissa, Shirley and Jennifer
Thank you so much for this post. I want to let you know that I posted a link to your blog in CBH Digital Scrapbooking Freebies, under the Page 12 post on Dec. 01, 2011. Thanks again.
Oh my! These are the best ever! I saved them all and can't wait to see what I can do with them! Thank you and happy holidays to each and every one of you! I always look forward to these!
All of your scrapbook elements are adorable guys! They'd make the perfect festive gift tags to jazz up a lucky person's present-thanks so much! Happy Holidays
Happy New Year to you all! We hope you are having a fabulous Festive Season. May 2012 bring lots of love, laughter and good times your way! We thought we would do a little round-up of some of our favourite posts from 2011, so see below for links to some of our 2011 highlights.
Thank you all for being so supportive throughout 2011, we LOVE having you come visit and we hope you have enjoyed reading our blog and downloading our freebies. We hope to bring you lots more goodies in 2012. Have a fantastic January!
- Julissa, Cally, Jennifer, Nina, Shirley and Bee -
Hello friends and happy February! This month we've got some adorable, FREE Valentine's Day Cards for kids. They are perfect for handing out at school and also fun to share with friends, family & loved ones. Print, cut and enjoy!
A very special thanks to Lucy Boden who is our guest illustrator this month. She created our cute banner. Thank you, Lucy! To see more of her work, please visit her website.
Thanks for stopping by and happy February! Julissa, Shirley, Jennifer, Nina, Cally and Bee
Thank you so much for this post. I want to let you know that I posted a link to your blog in CBH Digital Scrapbooking Freebies, under the Page 6 post on Feb. 01, 2012. Thanks again.
Who are these for? Kids like me? Oh, I love them all! Thanks so much for sharing. I look forward to your printables every month! Maybe I can share these with some kids! heehee! ♥
These are beautiful! This is my first visit to your shop, now I'm a new follower here. I'd love for you to come link these up to the 14 Days of Valentines linky party, hoseted by myself and two other blogs... http://www.justalittlecreativity.blogspot.com/2012/02/valentine-countdown-party-come-link-up.html Hope to see you there!
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:
Beepresents: Coming soon: Two board books for Hinkler publishers titled Bedtime and Snuggles due for release in May - stay tuned! * A range of ceramic mugs for Australian ceramics company Ashdene. Here is a little tiny teaser:
Callypresents:A new book!
The Elephantantrum, Illustrated by Cally Johnson-Isaacs and written by Gillian Shields is now available to pre-order here.
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.
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!
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8 Comments on Happy Halloween Cupcake Toppers, last added: 10/3/2011
I love your cards!!! This is kind of late, but= I love your Christmas gingerbread houses!! they are so super cute!! :)
you guys are really awesome!
thank u, thank u, thank u!
Your cards are so cute and sweet!
these are so cute! thank you so much!
Those card are so adorable! I just posted them on my german blog: http://schoenstricken.de/2013/05/muttertag-gruskarten-zum-freien-download/ and put a link to your site!
Thank you. I already printed the one with the foxes. LOVE them.
Best from Berlin, Jessica
Beautiful artwork....such a diverse group of talent here! Nice job!
So cute:)))*****