Mélanie always begins by meeting the occupants, searching for the story to tell, capturing the essence of their expectations and looking beyond them as well. The research phase is very important because it is this that builds the project. It is structured between meetings and discussions around sketches often accompanied by written documents. The result is, in short, a synthesis of the refined research and combines the story told with the chosen project.
As for card making, she does not impose any particular constraints on herself, like a craftswoman who shapes the material, she combines words to create soft and benevolent rhymes.

An important step in her work is the choice of the support materials for her creations. From the start, paper seemed obvious. The idea of ​​transmission, of leaving traces - the opposite of current digital -, the fact that offering a card is offering a real gift, which awakens all our senses: the smell of the paper, the touch of its texture, the sight of its grains and the text or illustration ... but also this link to nature through the provenance of the raw material itself. She uses paper handmade in her region, from recycled linen, hemp and cotton plant fibers, in a 16th century paper mill and using the last 19th century paper machine in France still in operation.