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I’m so happy to finally share with you more about this fantastic line from Lindy Stamp Gang. It’s been out there for a bit now. We are now introducing the Mad Hatter line from Lindy Stamp Gang.

Thanks a lot to those of you arriving here from Limor’s blog.

There are 8 new colors in total: 4 Starburst Sprays (2-tone spray, with shimmers), 4 Flat Fabio (no shimmer), but also coordinating Embossing Powders and Glitters.

I wanted to do a spread in my Art Journal for that blog hop going on ( We also are celebrating the new ladies who entered our family. You will be so amazed at all the diversity that now composes our Design Team. Such a great amount of talent and no one does the same than the other). New blood was found during our DT call, and I am so happy with the choices that were made. We are all passionate about Lindy Stamp Gang’s products.

Here is my spread:

It is PINK ! I know… what’s going on with me ? Well… you’ll understand when you’ll play with the Cheshire Cat Cherry Starburst Spray. It is a vibrant hot pink with such a beautiful shimmer (click the image on the left to enlarge).

I started with this big stencil cleaning leftover, it was a LSG spray too but honestly I can’t remember which one exactly. I wanted it to be the focus point of the page and started from there.

I sprayed I’m Late, I’m Late Slate over the entire spread, so it would not be white anymore. It is a subtle color, so it left me plenty of room for the next stages. Once heat dried (not patient enough to wait for it to hair dry), I sprayed Cheshire Cat Cherry in a way that makes me think it is coming from that doily shape, like a falling star. I then sprayed Curiouser Chartreuse to add a bit of pop around.

The center part of the doily was feeling too empty, so I grabbed this amazing stamp set from Mama Elephant and played with several of them.

I inked the round «Love» stamp with embossing ink and then applied Midnight Sapphire embossing powder. I love how imperfect this looks, and bumpy. Dark blue and hot pink = gleeeeeee !

I first stamped long arrows with the Weeping Willow Green embossing powder. I liked the very subtle effect and that I needed to look for it to see them… but I eventually stamped shorter arrows and embossed them with Midnight Sapphire, so it will bring back the center of the doily.

I took the sprayer from the bottle of Down The Rabbit Hole Starburst, and dropped it here and there.

I wanted to try to create my own glittery medium and am so happy with how it turned out. I am not a glitter kind of girls, I love shimmers but glitters… well, not so much. However, these babied in the Mad Hatter set are scrumptious. I used Silver Moon, it is a very fine powder that once blended with gloss Gel Medium created that beautiful glittery paint I applied with my Catalyst blade over the pink trail to have a fairy dust effect (who does not need some fairy dust, right ?).

I finished my page with some quick writing (no thinking, just writing) with a Faber Castell india ink pen.

Discover the projects of the other DT members on the blog, right there.

Next stop on our blog hop is Ivett, you can check her project here.

I changed my process a bit for this month’s Color Challenge over Lindy Stamp Gang.

This color combo is way out of my comfort zone, I like all the colors it contains but honestly I don’t think I’ve ever actually used them together. This was the perfect thing to try it. This time, I did not use ALL the four colors, I let the lavender color aside, but I did not spray the deeper violet evenly so there is a variation in how it looks.

Can’t wait to see what you will create with this palette !

Please, scroll to the bottom of this blogpost to have the list of all the products I used to create this Art Journaling spread 🙂

I am thrilled to share with you a new {Art Journaling In Motion} video. It’s been such a long time since the last one, don’t you think ?

The quest of getting rid of my perfectionism is still there. I am looking to capture the essence of what comes to me more the physical look it actually has. Weird ? Maybe.

I started in a page that already has a bit of stencil cleaning left overs (I hate wasting these beautiful inks when I spray so they always end up randomly in my journal or one of my sketchbook, or this big paper pad I dedicate to painted pages creation).
Of course, as usual, I did not have any idea of what I would actually create. I wanted to feel free, so I began with that intention in my Heart. Knowing I would use some Lindy’s sprays, I started by gesso-ing my page. Some artists really dislike Clear Gesso, but I personally love it because of the grit it adds to my surface, and it makes it perfect for sprays (in my opinion). You’’ll see in the video how when I apply that beautiful orange paint, we can see the strokes left from the Clear Gesso

Then, I sprayed Voodoo Violet Blue Starburst spray which is a deep violet color with a gold shimmer. This is when I began to visualize a sky.

I am obsessed by the Moon (more on that later). It is a never-ending Love story I have with her, so she had to be there in some way. I decided to roughly tear a piece of printed piece of deli paper and glued that down (it is The Crafter’s Workshop Solace stencil you see, the 12×12” size. One of my favorite).
I used one of my favorite stamp, it is a big Hero Art stamp they created for Studio Calico a while back now. After stamping with Versamark (a special ink for embossing), I sprinkled it with Silver Moon Mistletoe embossing powder. It is very subtle, but this was the look I wanted so no surprise at all.

What would a moonlight sky without stars, eh ? So I simply splattered some Silver alcohol inks until I was pleased with the result. I like that it is an opaque ink. I could also have used a pearlescent acrylic ink with its

I won’t lie: drawing is not one of my strengths, but I get to accept it and know that with practice and some dedication, I’ll get where I want to be. This deer-ish creature was not meant to exactly look like one, I really wanted his essence to be there; and for me, I reached this goal.

I covered the brown acrylic paint with a layer of Crème Brûlée Starburst shot, to give it a little something something additional. I painted the antlers with Ponderosa Pine Olive Magical Mica, using my water brush.

This Deer appeared to tell me I was guided, even when I thought I was alone, so I use The Crafter’s Workshop arrow stencil, in 12×12”, with Fuzzy Navel Peach Starburst spray. I did tone on tone on purpose, I wanted it to be there but not in the face.

For my journaling, I started with a beautiful stamp by and from Mindy Lacefield with grey ink, about making mistakes, chaos and letting go (puuuuuuhrfect !). Then, I added my own words, not overthinking it, just letting it out.

I am really pleased with the results. YES, I can see all that I could have done differently, but in the end I just love what it brings to me when I look at it.

Here is the video, I hope you enjoy (if you have any question, please please ask in the comments):

Here are the supplies I used for this journal spread:

Curently…

Obsessing over Alice In Wonderland. Do you believe I’ve never actually read the book ? booo hooo

Listening to the newest album from The Civil Wars, can’t get enough.

Loving my art journal all over again.

Eating the Rainbow (in form of salads).

Enjoying regular walks with the Witchlets, while they are riding their bikes.

Missing the Water.

Reading Brené Brown about imperfections, Mary Oliver’s poems…

Writing pages and pages of letter, that will then go overseas. Snail Mail powa.

Sharing my spiritual beliefs with the Witchlets (finally).

Looking forward to a lot of things (Parrain Pierre’s visit, Grenouille’s Birthday, back to school, my birthday…)

Playing Plants vs Zombies 2 on my iPad Mini. ooooh I’ve been waiting for it, and harassing my husband to know where it would finally be out. Currently in the Sea levels.

Going deeper thanks to Visual Quest, learning shamanic Painting and Journeys.

Trusting that I will have it all figured out again.

Believing in the power of art.

Thankful for the long learning curve that my life is.

I loved it since I paused my eyes in its name. Soul Food. It resonated a lot with me when Mystele announced she was one of the three hosts (with Jeanette House and Heather Santos) gathering plenty of diverse and talented artists around this wonderful project they called Soul Food.

I was recently asked to join the rank of sous-chef alongside a LOT of other amazing artists (we will communicate the up-to-date list very soon).

We will share unique projects via video, sometimes PDFs, and…. the yummiest thing is that each and every one of us will also share a recipe dear to her. I already know what mine will be, and seen what the others are cooking up. You won’t be disappointed, trust me (there are recipes from all over the Woooorlddd).

Want to know more ? here is what to expect from the class:

Informations more detailed will come as the date of beginning approaches.

You can sign up right here (or simply get infos I forgot to give you).

I hope to see you in the kitchen Studio ! 🙂

Last Monday night (last week) was supposed to be special. We are a family of geeks, each of us in our way. See, we love constellations and it is in our family plans to learn how to recognize them in the sky together. There was a meteors shower and we were supposed to go out, lay down, and watch the sky to see them fall.

Well… Chéridoo had to work, so I worked a little too, both in our computer room. The girls wanted to be with us, so Grenouille started to play a bit on the keyboard I got last Christmas, and Koala ask me if she could use my mini djembe (an african drum) and I answered «yes, as long as you are extra careful with it» which I know she would be if reminded to (this drum was given to me by my Senegalese penpal of several years when I was a tween and it was really dear to me). And BOOM we went in a split second from having fun to my djembe complety crashed on the floor, me yelling «I told you to be careful ! can’t I trust you with that ??» to my six and a half year old (and yes, I do feel bad about my reaction).

My husband tried his best to help me calm down «she did not do it on purpose, it slipped. And YOU agreed to let her use it. YOU said it was okay for her to play with it.» and so and so. I know he was really wanted to diminish my anger and sadness, and to help Koala to feel better about breaking my drum, but it just made me feel even worst because I already knew that yes, it was my own fault (I did not want to be the «no sayer» mom once again).

I then decided that it was better for everyone that I wind down alone in my Studio, so I opened my art journal, where there only was stenciling left overs (the orange chevrons and the targets). I did not want to do anything complicated, I just needed to let it out. fast. easy. This is also one of the reasons I love cleaning my stencils and my palette on journal pages, so it gives me a start afterward.

I spread the left page with some Lindy Stamp Gang (=LSG) Starburst (it’s a brand that created two-tone spray inks and products). Then, I stamped the bubbles you see on top of the right page, it is a stamp from a set by Mindy Lacefield with Archival ink (which is my go-to ink, I use it for everything because it won’t bleed).

I did some mark making with Neocolor II (=watersoluble crayons), sprayed it with water to make it bleed and spread (be careful if you want to try that because you never know what result you would get).

I really wanted to keep what was there when I started the page, and this stencil from Stencil Girl is just one of my current favs (more on that soon).

I made color blocks with the Neocolor II, and acrylic paint. The pretty face (just the face+upper body and arms)is from the same set from Mindy, I used it with black Archival Ink.

I didn’t want perfect, so I simply went further on the lines and it became these 80s-like pants. She is holding her broken heart, not wanting to give up on it. Not yet.

While the water was smudging and blending the colors together, I was visualizing my anger going away. And it worked (I knew it would, but still). Scratching into the wet paint helped quite a bit, too.

By the time this spread was done, I was calm again, went to apologize for my reaction (and briefly explained why it was a precious item for me) to both my daughter and my husband. And we went on the balcony to watch for meteors 🙂