you carved out some YOU time this holiday season to express and nurture your creative soul so you can show up more joyfully for others?
your art journal became a sacred space for self-care to honor the big and small blessings in your life, and invite more magic to show up?
you could begin the new year with renewed inspiration, positive energy and dreams just waiting to come true?
Open your art journal & join me in the “New Beginnings” online class!
click the video to see inside the class:
In New Beginnings, we’re going to close the year with a gratitude page, and welcome the New Year with a “word of the year” page.
Self-paced online class with instant, lifetime access, private community forum with weekly support and optional Facebook group.
To me, art journaling is more than just making art, it’s the best kind of creative self-care! I love how this beautiful practice allows me to explore two of my favorite things in a creative way:
Expressing gratitude for the gifts of life that bring me joy and help me grow.
Cultivating the dreams and wishes of my heart, which often helps them come true!
I’ve made it a practice to close each year with an art journal page about gratitude, and then welcome the New Year with another page about my “word of the year.” This “woty” is a special word that will accompany me and bring me guidance for the next 12 months. Every year I think I'm going to "choose" my word, but almost every time it's the word that seems to choose me!
In this class, you won’t exactly find lessons, but personal and spontaneous sessions that I’ve filmed over the years, from 2017 to 2022. I invite you to join me in the studio and get a peek at my authentic process! Every year the journey and the result are different. I hope they’ll inspire you!
“Laly, you are the best gift I have given myself in a very long time! I am completely enchanted, energized and inspired. Thank you so much!”
To get the good vibes going, we’re going to start with a simple gratitude ritual. Then I’ll take you through the making of 1, 2, 3, 4…5 pages! Some of these sessions will be shorter, so that you can feel inspired and get started quickly, while others will be a lot more detailed, to really guide you step by step. You can do them in whichever order inspires you! No matter the page, you’ll be right by my side as I share my authentic, spontaneous art journaling practice with you.
Take a moment to relax, breathe, and smile!
To get the good vibes going, I invite you to join me for a sweet and simple gratitude ritual. I do it almost every year and all you need are two candles and something to light them. Or you can simply watch along as I light mine!
year 1
The first year of my "New Beginnings" practice, I created two separate pages: one for gratitude, and one for my Word of the Year. My word was "home" and what's really magical is that many of the elements on this page turned into reality the following year! We moved into a beautiful old house with tall white windows and a cute garden shed very similar to the ones on this page… Art journaling and gratitude can both be wonderful tools to help you manifest your dreams!
year 2
In this shorter session, you’ll see how I created a gratitude page over an existing collage background (if you have an unfinished page in your journal, it can be the perfect starting point!). This gratitude page was very special to me because it was the last page I painted in my first art journal, before starting a brand new one for the new year!
I did create a "woty" page that year as well, but it felt too intimate to film. Art journaling is a personal process and I encourage you to do it just for YOU. Not every page is meant to be shared!
year 3
Follow along in this detailed session where I combine Gratitude and my Word of the Year into a single page, with a fun starting point using Feng Shui! There are so many ways to begin a page, and this time I decided to try a tool I love to use at home: the Feng Shui grid (or"Bagua"). It’s a great way to take a look at every important aspect of our lives, then shower each one with gratitude and good vibes! I hope you’ll give it a try, then watch the magic unfold as you build up the layers of your own page.
year 4
Gratitude and my Word of the Year came together serendipitously to create this cozy page that oozes with good vibes! In this detailed, step by step session, I’ll walk you through how to gather inspiration that resonates with your “woty”, build up the page with words, paint and images, journal with your “woty” and the two magical words “what if?…”, then follow your heart until your page feels just right!
I do a gratitude page and a Word of the Year page every year, so as I keep filling my journals, you’ll find additional page examples in this bonus section of the class!
In total, New Beginnings has over 2.5 hours of high-quality video lessons, including 1 sweet & simple gratitude ritual, 3 detailed, step-by-step sessions and 2 shorter sessions. With lifetime access, you’ll be able to revisit the lessons and create new pages every year!
I show and explain everything in detail, and I encourage you to make the process yours and work with what you’ve got. If you've ever taken a class with me, you know I like to keep it clear and super inspiring!
The class is in English with English closed captions available.
Self-paced online class with instant, lifetime access, private community forum with weekly support and optional Facebook group.
“Dear Laly, I’m so in awe of your creative thinking and how you put everything together. Rather than just copying your work, you really inspire us to follow our own path. This is so special, it has meaning and invites you to connect with your own work, I love it. Thank you so much!!”
Beautiful Pages from the students!
Self-paced online class with instant, lifetime access, private community forum with weekly support and optional Facebook group.
I'm Laly, your guide for this creative journey
I'm so glad you’re here! I’m a mixed media artist from France, and I’m here to help you turn your creativity into a fulfilling, soul-nurturing practice.
The beautiful energy of gratitude is one of the key ingredients that make the holiday season so magical. When you take stock of all the gifts, big and small, that you’ve received month after month, and when you find the silver lining in difficult times too, you realize how much is possible, no matter what.
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“Laly’s classes each teach something different. Her approach to art journaling has changed the way I approach my own work. So often Laly’s voice is in my head, encouraging, inspiring, motivating. She is such a great teacher who inspires you to be who you are fearlessly.”
