Weekly Wrap-Up #7!

I hope you all had a fantastic Thanksgiving holiday! Mine was really nice. My husband and I spent the day with our family and my mom cooked an absolutely delicious meal! We had turkey, dressing, sweet potatoes, mashed potatoes, green bean casserole, corn, cranberry sauce, rolls....mmmm! It's making me hungry just thinking about it!

Besides eating, I have been pretty busy this week, so there's a lot I want to tell you all about! I have a new original painting, Zoe products have been released and Sweet Pea Stamps has released a new rubber stamp set of mine!

Tracey - New Commissioned Painting

I just wrapped up my latest painting called Tracey. It was a commissioned painting and my client requested a purple fairy with cats. I decided to paint a very pretty fairy with three fairy cats sitting upon a mushroom. It's all done in various shades of purple and I created a textured background with salt. It was a super fun painting to work on and I really hope you all enjoy her!

The original is of course sold already, but Tracey will soon be available on prints of all sizes and my whole range of products. I hope to get everything listed sometime this week!

Zoe Products Have Been Released

Zoe products are now available through my Etsy store! Zoe was my pumpkin witch that I showed you all last week. And she is now available on ACEO, 5x7" and 8x10" prints, magnets, stickers, bookmarks, buttons, pocket mirrors and printable coloring pages!

To see all my Zoe products, click here.

New Rubber Stamp Set - Shanna, Gwynth, Talia and Edeline

Sweet Pea Stamps has released a new set of my rubber stamps!

This set includes four very cute mermaids: Shanna, my Christmas mermaid with woodland creatures, Gwynth, my mermaid on the beach with a light house, Talia, my moon mermaid with her mercat friend, and Edeline, my winter mermaid with her harp seal friends!

This set is up for pre-order and will ship on December 8th! And....great news...it's on sale! Regular price is $18.00 and they're on sale right now for $14.50. =)

 To view and purchase my new rubber stamp set, click here.

This next week coming up is going to be busy for sure! Next up on my painting table is Angelique who has patiently been waiting to be painted. I'm also going to sketch out a new Christmas painting that I'm so excited about! I hope you all have a fantastic week!

 

Black Friday Sales - Everything is on Sale - Etsy, eBay & Website!!

I am having some HUGE Black Friday Sales!! If you're wanting to buy some Christmas presents (a lot of my items make excellent stocking stuffers!) or if you're wanting to expand your collection of Nikki Burnette items, now is the time! I don't have sales very often because my items are already very reasonably priced, so take advantage of it while you can! Also, if there's something you'd like to purchase, but I don't have it listed in the particular store you'd like to purchase it from, please let me know and I will gladly list it!

Etsy

Everything in my Etsy store is Buy 2 Get 1 FREE! Buy any two of the same product types and receive one of that product type free! For example: Purchase 2 stickers, receive 1 sticker free....purchase 2 5x7" prints, recieve 1 5x7" print free, etc...! The special is only good on the same product types so, for example, you cannot purchase 1 magnet and 1 sticker and get something free. Also, there is no limit, so you can purchase 4 and get 2 FREE and so on!

I have a huge selection of items on Etsy including prints, stickers, magnets, necklaces, bookmarks, note cards, coloring page kits, pocket mirrors, buttons and my popular printables line! Necklaces and my printables are EXCLUSIVE to Etsy, so if you're interested in purchasing any of those, make sure to do it on Etsy to take advantage of the savings.

Important: Please do not purchase your free items! Please specify which items you would like in the notes section upon checkout or send me a message. This sale excludes original sketches and paintings and will end on Saturday at 1:00 am PST. If you have any questions, let me know!

eBay

My entire eBay store is 25% off through Friday and FREE shipping to US destinations!! This INCLUDES original paintings!! I have 7 original paintings listed on eBay at drastically reduced prices including: Ryla, Cassandra, Astrina, Telsa, Amara, Karmina and Chandra. Along with the originals, I also have an extensive product line on eBay including: prints of all sizes, magnets, stickers, bookmarks, pocket mirrors and buttons!

Website

Similar to Etsy, my entire Website is Buy 2 Get 1 Free through Friday!! This INCLUDES my ceramic tiles!! So purchase any 2 of the same product type and receive 1 FREE! I also offer FREE shipping on my website. So for instance, purchase 2 ceramic tiles and receive 1 ceramic tile free or purchase 2 stickers and receive 1 sticker free. So you cannot purchase 1 ceramic tile and 1 sticker and receive something free...it has to be the same product type.

Ceramic tiles are exclusive to my website, so if you're interested in purchasing those, make sure to do so on my website. On my website I offer: prints of all sizes, stickers, magnets, pocket mirrors, greeting cards and ceramic tiles. This sale excludes custom paintings/commissions.

Please do not purchase your free items. Just send me a message letting me know what you would like! Happy Shopping!

Weekly Wrap-Up #6!

New Painting - Zoe

I'm so excited because I have a brand new painting to share with you all this week! I finished painting Zoe and I just love the way she turned out. I know Halloween is over, but I think you can celebrate Halloween year round! I just love witches, pumpkins and everything Halloween related, so I tend to paint them all the time.

Zoe was a very fun piece to work on. She is a very fun, spunky, flirty witch depicted inside a pumpkin. Jack-o-lanterns surround her on the crisp, fall night and her owl friend is flying over head. There is also a tiny kitty hidden inside a pumpkin! Her outfit is decorated with stripes, stars and moons and painted in shades of brilliant hot pink, purple and black. I think my favorite part is her hair which is two-toned in shades of hot pink and black! 

The original painting measures 8x10" and is up for sale on eBay for a 10-day auction. The starting bid is only $99.99! I really hope that you all enjoy her and will perhaps even consider adding her to your collection. =)

Nikki Burnette 2011 Calendar - 40% Off Through November

I also have other very exciting news! My 2011 calendar is 40% off through the end of November! It is available through Zazzle and features some of my favorite paintings from this year including Arden, Telsa and Cassandra. Just use coupon code: 40CLNDRS2011 when checking out to receive your 40% off!

My 2011 calendar features 12 different images than my 2010 calendar. So if you haven't purchased the 2010 yet, you could scoop that one up too and receive 40% off that one as well. Even though the year is almost over, you can use the tops of the calendars as prints! It'd be a very cheap way to collect 12 of my images.

View and purchase my 2011 calendar here.

View and purchase my 2010 calendar here.

Weekly Wrap-Up #5!

This has been an incredibly busy week! A lot of the things I've been working on this week have not yet been completed. They are still in the works and will hopefully make it onto next week's wrap-up. But I still have some things to share with you all that I'm really excited about!

New Product - Necklaces with Matching Gift Tins

I'm so excited to tell you all about a brand new product of mine that is now available! You can now purchase necklaces with matching gift tins featuring my artwork! They are available in my Etsy store here.

These are 1" circular tray pendants and they're available in 4 different setting colors: shiny silver, vintage copper, vintage bronze and gunmetal black. You can choose from 56 different images! They come with a matching 18" ball and chain necklace. You even get a small matching gift tin featuring your image choice! They're priced at only $16.00 for the pendant, chain and gift tin. These will surely make excellent stocking stuffers. I really hope you all enjoy them!

Copper Setting

Silver Setting

Black Setting

Bronze Setting

Necklace with Matching Gift Tin

Image Choices

Image Choices

Etsy Giveaway

I also wanted to tell you all about a huge giveaway I'm having to celebrate my 500th sale on Etsy!! I currently have 488 sales on Etsy (you can see the number on my main shop page on the left hand side under Shop Info). The person that purchases my 500th item will receive FIVE FREE items of their choosing from my store!! You can choose any product and any image -excluding- originals, sketches and limited edition prints...but anything else is up for grabs!

Keep in mind that a "sale" on Etsy counts as one item purchased. So technically if you bought 12 items right now, you would purchase the 500th item and win the five free items! But keep an eye on it in the next few days because if someone doesn't purchase all the items right now, you may be able to scoop up the free items by just purchasing a few. I'll be sure to make a post on my Facebook page when someone purchases the 500th item so that you all know!

 

I just wanted to do this giveaway as a huge thank you to all my fans and supporters of my artwork! I also wanted to say thanks to everyone who has purchased from my Etsy store since I opened it way back in 2007. =)

If you have any questions about the contest, please ask me! Good luck and have fun!! Hopefully this will be a great opportunity for you all to get some nice stocking stuffers for Christmas. =)

 

 

Weekly Wrap-Up #4!

Hi everyone! This weekly wrap-up is sort of a two-weekly wrap-up. Since I was on vacation last week, I wasn't able to post one. So, I will try and catch you up with everything that has been going on in the past couple weeks!

Interview on the Zazzle Fantasy Art Blog

First, I wanted to tell you all about an interview that I did for the Zazzle Fantasy Art Blog. This blog promotes Fantasy Artists on Zazzle, so I was thrilled at the opportunity to be a featured artist and do an interview for them. They asked me all sorts of questions about how I got started doing fantasy art, my artistic training background, my painting process, and much more. They also featured several items from my Zazzle store and a few of my favorite paintings. They posted it in two parts, so be sure to read Part 1 followed by Part 2, both linked below. I hope you all enjoy it!

Interview Part 1

Karmina Fairy Card - Zazzle

Interview Part 2 

Aelita and Jax Postage Stamp - Zazzle

 New Tube Pack from CILM - Gwynth, Kari and Rose!

CILM has released a brand new tube pack of my artwork. This pack includes my lighthouse mermaid Gwynth, my ocean mermaid Kari and my Art Nouveau fairy Rose! You can purchase the pack of three images for only $5.00.

You can also purchase them individually for $1.85 each!

Also, keep in mind that if you're new to purchasing my tubes, you can purchase the whole set at a greatly reduced price. Right now they're offering all 13 tube packs (39 images) for only $52.00!

These tubes are fantastic for graphic lovers, because you can use them on so many different things such as avatars for Facebook and Myspace, e-cards, signatures and more!!

Name Selected for Pumpkin Witch - Zoe

I wanted to let you all know that I have selected a name for my latest painting, the pumpkin witch. I chose the name suggested by Amber Schultz, Zoe! I thought it fit the piece perfectly: fun, flirty and cute, just like the witch in the painting. Amber will win a 5x7" print of the finished piece. Thanks to everyone who participates in my naming contests and there will definitely be more in the future!

I wanted to show you Zoe with clean lines that I created in Photoshop. I create these clean lines from my rough sketch. The lines are used to transfer onto my watercolor paper for the final painting. They are also used for my coloring pages and for my rubber stamps. While time consuming, they are extremely essential to my whole painting process! I hope you all enjoy Zoe. I will hopefully be painting her soon.

New Commissioned Piece - Tracey

I also wanted to show you all my latest sketch! This is a commissioned piece and will be named Tracey. My customer requested a purple fairy with cats. The color purple, fairies and cats...being three of my favorite things...I just couldn't say no! I came up with a fairy sitting on a mushroom with three fairy kitties all around her. This was a fun one to sketch and will probably be an even more fun one to paint! I hope to be painting her this week as well along with my pumpkin witch.

The original is of course sold, but she will be available on all my prints and products and will be submitted to all of my licensing companies!

The Wizarding World of Harry Potter

During my last wrap-up, I told you all that I was going on vacation to The Wizarding World of Harry Potter! So, I just wanted to take some time to show you a few pictures and tell you a little bit about it. Make sure to visit my Facebook page for all the pictures and information if you're interested!

This Hogsmeade sign was the first thing you saw upon entering The Wizarding World of Harry Potter! The Harry Potter section is actually just part of a much larger Universal Islands of Adventure Theme Park. The Harry Potter section is decently sized, but of course I wished it was much bigger!

Once you walk through the Hogsmeade sign, you see the Hogwarts Express which takes you on your magical journey! It doesn't actually move, but still blows smoke and makes noises. It was very cool!

After that, you get to walk through the town of Hogsmeade! They have all the stores from the books like Honeydukes, Zonkos and Dervish and Blotts. Those are the only stores you could go inside, but they had a lot of other stores that were "closed" but had really awesome storefronts. They also had an Olivanders that you could go inside and there was this little show where they picked one child who got measured for a wand. It was really cute. The stores spared no expense and had pretty much everything in the books! Honeydukes had Chocolate Frogs, Ton-Tongue Toffee, Acid-Pops and Bertie Botts Every Flavor Beans!

I loved the way they designed Hogsmeade with snow covered roof tops. They even had really cool crooked chimneys. The signs all looked old and aged...just like you would imagine!

After that I had to get a Butterbeer! They had a few Butterbeer stands, but the one I posted above was by far the coolest. It looked like a giant keg! I stood in line for about 30 minutes to get my Butterbeer and that is me in front of The Three Broomsticks enjoying it! They said it tasted like a combination of shortbread and butterscotch...I thought it tasted fairly similar to a Cream Soda. Then they put this marshmellow-tasting foam on top. Yummy!

By far my favorite part was the castle, which was massive and beautiful! This is a picture of my husband and I in front of the castle. And there was actually a ride inside! But the best part was (as silly as this sounds) standing in line for the ride. They built the whole inside of the castle, greenhouse, passageways, classrooms, dormitories, wall of portraits...everything! And when you were standing in line, you wove your way around the inside. The first time we went on it, the line was too short and we zoomed through. So we had to go back and check it out when there was like a 45 minute wait to be able to enjoy it all! Below are a few pictures from inside the castle.

All in all, it was an amazing vacation and a wonderful way to celebrate my 1 year anniversary with my husband! I think it is a must-see for any Harry Potter fan. I can pretty much guarantee you will not be disappointed!

Have a wonderful week everyone! I hope to get some actual painting done this week, so I have some fun things to show you next week. =)

Weekly Wrap-Up #3!

Welcome to my 3rd weekly wrap-up! Thanks so much for following along and keeping up to date with everything that's going on my with artwork. This was a wonderful week! It's getting even colder here and the leaves are starting to change into brilliant shades of red, orange and gold. This time of year just makes me so happy! I spent most of my week working on my commissioned piece, but I have several things to tell you about below!

New Stamp Set From Sweet Pea Stamps

Sweet Pea Stamps is the company that licenses my artwork for rubber stamps and they have released my second set! This set includes Arden the forest fairy, Valencia the gothic mermaid, Neva the Christmas angel and Kiandra the harvest mermaid. This set is available for pre-order and guess what...it's on sale! The whole sheet (all four images)is on sale for only $14.50 (regular price is $18.00). The set will begin shipping on November 3rd.

The rubber stamps are sold on one sheet, unmounted. Soon they will be available individually. My first set, Cassia, Telsa, Ryla and Elana are now sold separately as well as together on one sheet.

I just love these rubber stamps! I just got my first sample set in the mail and the quality is amazing. The best thing about these rubber stamps is that you can sell what you make with these! My full angel policy is listed on the Sweet Pea Stamps site.

Dryad Commission

I am all done with my latest painting! This was a commissioned piece from a super sweet client who wanted a dryad. No prints or products will be available of this piece, nor will I be submitting it to any of my licensing companies, but I thought you all might enjoy seeing the finished creation!

This was my first ever dryad. I have been wanting to create one for a long time, but I just haven't been able to find the time, so this was a fantastic opportunity! This was a very challenging piece for me. I try to push myself to try new things on each painting that I create. For this piece I tried out some stippling foliage techniques in the background. I also tried a new wood grain pattern on the tree. The tree terrified me at one point because I didn't think I would be able to pull it off, but in the end I am very happy with how it turned out! I got to a point where it looked good, but wasn't quite there yet, but I was afraid to make anymore changes to it because I had spent hours and hours painting tiny lines. But I finally got brave enough to add some darker colors and I'm so glad that I did! I hope you all enjoy this piece. =)

I also wanted to take this time to tell you all about my commissions! I love doing commissioned pieces, because I think it's so fun to make someone's vision come to life. I create all different sizes (from ACEO all the way up to 11x14) and can also alter the rights of the image to suit your needs. I paint mainly watercolor, but also have experience in acrylic or digital if you prefer those mediums. I have custom paintings listed on my website which are three different basic sizes (ACEO, 5x7 and 8x10). But you can always contact me if you have any questions or if you have something else in mind.

Vacation - The Wizarding World of Harry Potter!

Lastly, I wanted to let you all know that I will be going on vacation next week!! My husband and I are going to celebrate our one year anniversary (and Halloween) in Orlando, Florida at The Wizarding World of Harry Potter! It's probably no surprise from all my witch artwork that I LOVE Harry Potter! I've read the books multiple times and I've watched the movies more times than I can count (mostly when I'm painting!), so to be able to walk around the world of Harry Potter is an opportunity I would never pass up!

That means that I will be putting both my eBay and my Etsy stores on vacation mode starting the morning of Wednesday, October 27th until we return on Monday, November 1st. So if you'd like to purchase anything before then, make sure you do it by Tuesday night! Wednesday will be the last day that I'm shipping, so make sure that you have your payments in by then. Feel free to purchase from my website while I'm gone, but orders will not ship until Tuesday.

I'm sure I will have lots of pictures to share with you all when I get home!! Have a wonderful week and a Happy Halloween everyone!

Weekly Wrap-Up #2!

Hello everyone! This is my second edition of my weekly wrap-up. This week has been a wonderful week! I have been enjoying the beautiful fall weather and working on my latest commissioned painting.

The commission is taking up a lot of my time, but I hope to have it finished next week. I've completed the background at this point and I'm ready to move on to the foreground. It's a dryad piece, so I really pushed myself on the background to create fun textures and foliage effects...something I've never really done before! My customer has purchased full rights to the painting, so unfortunately there will be no prints available, but I hope to be able to show you the final painting when it's all finished.

Unfortunately, due to the commission, I don't have as many things to show you as I did last week. But I still have lots to tell you about!

CILM - Image Packs

CILM (Creative Image Licensing and Management) is a company I'm licensed with for tubed images. For those of you who don't know, tubed images are digital images of my artwork with the backgrounds removed. This allows you to create really fun graphics that you can use on Facebook, Myspace and give to friends as e-cards...all sorts of things!

CILM has released 3 new tube packs of mine and they are all Halloween related images...just in time for the holiday!! These packs are available for only $5 each. You can also buy them individually or buy them all together in a combo pack at a reduce price!

Package 10 - Kalei, Morissa and Rowenia - Available here!

Package 11 - Adrianna, Kamaria and Kiandra - Available here!

Package 12 - Leah, Rhea and Calista - Available here!

Below is an example of what you can create with these image packs. This is a tag created by the very talented Claire. She has taken my Telsa image and added other lovely elements to create this wonderful piece!

Sabrina Products are Now Available

I also wanted to let you all know that Sabrina products are now available in my Etsy store! Sabrina is a very fun mermaid piece that I told you all about last week. Now you can purchase many different products with her image on them!

Sabrina Prints (ACEO, 5x7", 8x10") - Available Here!

Sabrina Stickers - Available Here!

Sabrina Magnets - Available Here!

 Sabrina Buttons - Available Here!

Sabrina Pocket Mirrors - Available Here!

 

Sabrina Printable Coloring Page - Available Here!

New Witch Sketch - Naming Contest

I have also finished my latest sketch! She is a really cute witch inside a pumpkin. She's in a pumpkin patch surrounded by jack-o-lanterns, spooky trees, an owl and an adorable kitty. I will be working on this piece after I wrap up my commission.

The most fun thing for you all is that I'm having a naming contest! Every time I finish a sketch, I host a naming contest. Everyone can suggest names (as many as you'd like!) for my new sketch. Meanwhile, I'm usually working on creating what I call the "clean line" version. This is when I take my sketch into Photoshop and clean up the lines using the pen tool. This version then gets transferred onto my watercolor paper. Whenever I post the "clean line" version, I will announce the name I selected! The person who suggested that name will win a 5x7" print of the finished piece.

Feel free to post your names here or you can also visit my Facebook page and post them there.

I hope you all like my new sketch! The original sketch has already been sold, but the original painting will soon be available for purchase as well. I can't wait to start working on it!