My first kraftin' kimmie stamps Blog Hop!

How exciting is that: my first stamps release! YeaH!

Hope you'll enjoy stamping and coloring the characters I imagined for you !

Let's not forget the great Asian Inspired beauties from my friend Annie! And there are adorable little Spring Girls from Cheryl Alger too!

As for the blog up, I decided to color Jilly the Jelly! I use watercolor, and a black pen to play with the line texture.

"If you want to start the blog hop from the beginning, just head over to the Kraftin’ Kimmie Challenge Blog! As you hop from blog to blog, be sure to leave a comment at each and every stop because some lucky stampers will win packages of stamps from the new release!! And when you’re done hoppin’, be sure to head over to the Kraftin' Kimmie Store , because ALL the new images are NOW available!"

And now, you are off to the next blog: Melanie's

The beginning of a new adventure: Kraftin' Kimmie's Stamps!

About 3 months ago, I was hanging out with a good friend of mine, Annie, who's designing stamps for kraftin' kimmies stamps. Stamps came on the subject at some point and she said: 'you just have to write to kimmie to see if she would like to work with you'. So I did! And here I am! YeaH!

So After 2.5 months of waiting, I can finally see the beautiful cards kraftin' Kimmie's Stamps design team made with the stamps I created (you can see them too!) And they did such a great job!

On sunday they will be available to all for hours of fun!

L'internation'ART de Roberval part II

Last friday was L'internation'ART de Roberval's opening night. So I left quebec friday early afternoon on board my dirty Volks in direction of Roberval with little stress... ok, OK, with a fair amount of it.

Can you imagine thousands of people looking at my work while I'm beside them? Well I could totally imagine it, and it would have driven me crasy if a friend of mine would not have been there and supported my moral! (by the way, this is Roberval we are talking about... so there wasn't thousands of people, but 300, which is still in anycase quite stressful)

So after a 3 hours drive, we reached Roberval, got to the hotel, find some food, and decided to walk to the library where the event is held. We ended up being late. OuPS! We walked for a while in the wrong direction... And on google map, Roberval seemed smaller too.

But we got there, and we got the hear the ending of Albert Miller speach, and the presentation of the artists exposing.

I did the tour to see with whom I have the joy to be exposing with. And ran into 2 friends of montreal who drove all the way to Roberval to see my work. I was extremely happy to see them there!

For the rest, I think I will need to work on my people skills as I felt totally out of my confort zone standing by my work hoping someone would come to talk to me and unable to start a conversation with the people looking at my paintings. Hopefully it will come with time.

So Roberval being quite far, here is a video which gives you a good idea of what the exposition looks like.

And just a few more lines to thank again Caroline Houde who gave me the opportunity to be part of 'L'internation'ART de Roberval'

And as a reminder, if you past by the Saguenay/Lac St-Jean area before june 8, stop by the Roberval's library to see it!

L'internation'ART de Roberval

How exciting? From april 8 to june 8 2011, my art work will be available to see at the library Georges-Henri-Lévesque in Roberval!!

But what is this art show about? 'L'internation'ART is an event with a simple and unifying concept, based on innovatif artistic practices which allow the discovery of art works of qualities. The european's art is different from the North-American one and this is to open new cultural horizons that Caroline Houde and Hélènecaroline Fournier created this event. The public will find the most diversified expressions, created by artists who offer a sample of the vision of the international art of our time.' (my translation of the explanation given by Helenecaroline fournier, co-commissaire d'exposition).

So here are the other art that will be part of this event: B. Dumont Renard (France),André Bielen (Belgique), Thierry Caland (France), Muriel Cayet (France), Régina-Danielle Désilets (Canada),Caroline Houde (Canada),Isabelle Houde (Canada),Hélène Larouche (Canada),LO (France)
Claudine Loquen (France),Guylaine Malo (Canada),Bernadette Mora (France)
Lynda Ritchie (Canada),Marie-Françoise Sztuka (France)