Illustration Friday Post: Renewal

One of my new year's resolutions (I
have many) is to do as many of the
Illustration Friday prompts as I can.
I love the challenge of them!

This week's challenge is "RENEWAL",
and when I saw the word, I instantly thought of butterflies. I also happened to have this lovely vintage image in my collection of favourite images, and it lent itself perfectly to the theme.

All I needed was a quote, so when I found this quotation from the actress Lynn Redgrave, I knew that I was ready to go!

Well, the craziness and wonder that is everything Christmas has come and gone for another year. I have been having a wonderful holiday season, spending some much anticipated days off of work working in my art journal, catching up on movie watching and book reading, and enjoying friends and family. I hope to be posting art on a more regular basis once again now that the new year has begun, so stay tuned! In the meantime, here are a few ornaments that I made that now grace my Christmas tree.

Here are some pieces that I put together for our Annual Christmas Craft and Bake sale that I put together at my day job. In addition to these, I also had some cards, small tree ornaments, and altered domino ornaments (which I will post in a day or two). I love doing Christmas Craft sales!

Mixed Media Artist Blog Feature!

I am so excited!
Cyndi L. over at MIXED MEDIA ARTIST BLOG has done a feature on me today! Talk about validation....
She chose a couple of my favourite pieces featuring my latest love, which is combining vintage images (in the one case a photo of my momma as a little girl) with my own artwork and lettering.

Thank you again, Cyndi - this made my day!

http://www.mixed-media-artist.com/2009/11/mixed-media-artist-nicolette-anderson.html

Love is Like a Butterfly

On the Blissful Art Journaling group, we had a prompt challenge about butterflies. When I think about butterflies, I always think about the this song by Dolly Parton. Inspired by the prompt, and by the exciting buzz going on with my Creative Lettering workshop on the Artists of the Round Table Yahoo Group, I created this piece tonight. I thought it would make a nice card, so I am adding it to my Greeting Card Universe cards, if you would like to order a copy! Please click on the image for a better view...

Frozen

This is my entry for this week's Illustration Friday: Frozen....

This made me think of the Snow Queen, from Hans Christian Andersen's fairy tale.

The quote is from the 2002 movie version of the story....

A combination of a favourite vintage image, my own doodles, and lettering.

Holiday Doodles...for free!

From now until Christmas, if you buy any of my other online classes, I will send you my Holiday Doodles class absolutely FREE!

Holiday Doodles will give you 21 full colour pages in a printable pdf format of holiday designs.
A value of $20

Please visit www.nicolettescreativelettering.com

Stephanie's Card

A friend celebrated her birthday this week, so I made her this card. In case you are wondering, she is a huge Bruce Willis fan. My apologies to Mr. Willis for any discomfort this piece of art may cause.

pumpkin trio

pumpkin trio, originally uploaded by sapphire252.

beautiful

beautiful, originally uploaded by sapphire252.