ihanna.nu 2021-12-21 22:50 Working in my Christmas Journal | Journal with me If you have the time, feel free to watch the Christmas journaling videos x 3 – below and let me know if you enjoy them. Probably the... ihanna.nu 2021-12-08 02:41 Making a Christmas Junk Journal for myself How do you put a Christmas junk journal together? How do you decide what cover to use and what papers to include as pages? Here are some of... ihanna.nu 2021-11-26 22:51 Shop for Christmas Junk Journals December is getting near, and in December I usually do some journaling in a Traveler’s Notebook December Daily / Christmas Journaling... ihanna.nu 2021-10-25 22:28 100 DIY Postcard Ideas In today’s blog post I am sharing with you one hundred mixed media ideas for creating awesome DIY Postcards! Enjoy! Video: 100 DIY... ihanna.nu 2021-10-24 00:43 The DIY Postcard Swap Fall 2021 + e-mail difficulties The highly requested and much beloved iHanna’s magnificent DIY Postcard Swap...
ihanna.nu 2021-10-13 01:33 Flip-through of Summer Junk Journal Hi, this is the next to last episode of the Summer Junk Journal video series in which I have filled the pages of a hand-made by me Junk Journal. Where I have talked, painted (watercolors and acrylics), collaged and...
ihanna.nu 2021-10-08 00:32 Calming Scalloped Pattern | Paint along with me! For one of the last pages in my Summer Junk Journal I had a blank watercolor paper to fill, so I decided to film the process of me filling it with this fun, easy to create scalopped pattern in rows. I filmed my process...
ihanna.nu 2021-09-28 00:31 All-over-Collage – process in Summer Junk Journal Something I like to do every now and then in my Art Journals, and more often in altered books, is to create an “all-over collage” type of page. A collage of colours mostly, of magazine backgrounds and maybe...
ihanna.nu 2021-09-22 03:30 Top Ten Books to read this Fall #TBR I have already read more this year than any previous year, mostly thanks to audio books while I do embroidery or other crafts. But since fall is coming on strong, why not ponder what to read next already? It is always...
ihanna.nu 2021-09-16 14:57 To paint is to love again Today some views from my Hahnemühle Watercolor Sketchbook. To me it’s an Art Journal, but with watercolor papers that I like to fill with doodles in watercolor. One of my favorite activites. To paint is to love...
ihanna.nu 2021-08-24 04:57 Book-review | Kaffe Fassett in the Studio: Behind the Scenes with a Master Colorist If you are a fan of colorful textiles and patterns then I am sure you know about the designer Kaffe Fassett already? He designs the coolest quilting fabrics around, and then uses his own designs to compose quilt...
ihanna.nu 2021-08-13 19:13 I love the word Doodle more than Drawing I love the word “doodle” because it is so open-ended and non-judgmental to me. It is an activity that has no agenda of being accurate, perfect, life-like or even close to rendering reality. Instead “to doodle”...
ihanna.nu 2021-08-08 03:02 Video | Summer in my Art Journal Summer journaling is no different than any other kind of journaling you do, except, it happens in summer. In my case, mostly outside on the balcony or at least with the balcony door wide open while I fill my one and...
ihanna.nu 2021-08-05 02:00 Junk Journals & Doodle Books | release 3 A big, yummy pile of journals has hit the shop again and I wanted to share all of them with you guys in the hope that maybe you’ll be inspired or even feel the urge to buy one. In any case, I am having so much fun...
ihanna.nu 2021-07-22 21:48 Summer Crush: Hello Kitty – my old friend The summer journal that I made for myself is going strong. My ambition was to work in it every day, but so far I have been doing “a little something” every second or third day through the summer. In June I filled...
ihanna.nu 2021-07-20 21:00 My Summer Art Journal with Embroidered Cover This weekend I shared how I stitched and composed the textile cover of this journal, but today already, let’s look at some of the pages inside this Art Journal [with a video flip-through of the finished book] that I...
ihanna.nu 2021-07-18 23:09 Boro | Up-and-down stitching & patchwork I have been working on a piece of textile art that was destined to become the cover for a personal art journal project of mine. I was going for a soft, romantic look so that my journal would be calm on the outside and...
ihanna.nu 2021-07-11 04:30 WIP Crochet Granny Blanket Among all the things I love doing, crochet is a favorite. This spring I fell in love with it again as I experimented with crocheting some ribbons. When I had enough, or rather felt like I wanted to make something...
ihanna.nu 2021-06-23 00:01 How to be an Artist To feel like an artist, you need to make art. Often and a lot. That is how you become an artist. iHanna This is one of my favorite art pieces – one that I feel very proud of. I love how textured it is, and how I used...
ihanna.nu 2021-06-10 02:07 Wee Art Books At the end of the month I release a new batch of journals in my shop, and my previous batch was number one that was announced to the subscribers of my Newsletter, because they always get first dibs. If you want to be...
ihanna.nu 2021-06-08 21:06 Textile Love: Mending a quilt I consider myself a collage artist and book maker first, but I also have this huge love for textile art. I do everything from quilting to embroidery, slow stitch, knitting, crochet, wall hangings from textiles – those...
ihanna.nu 2021-06-01 01:02 Spring is my favorite season Swedish spring is amazing. It starts somewhere in March if we’re lucky and goes all the way until the end of May if summer isn’t early… Every week there are some new spring flowers popping up through the ground,...
ihanna.nu 2021-05-18 20:27 Fill a tiny journal last prompt: Polka Dots I am a sucker for polka dots as a decorative pattern. I just love how they look on all things and clothes, on my table as well as on art journal pages and collages I make – or even as embroidery. In our project...
ihanna.nu 2021-05-09 23:54 Fill a tiny journal: Washi Tape Love This post is all about our lov… obsession (!) with washi tape! Imagine a never ending sticker – on a roll, in all the world’s most beautiful patterns and colors? And it already exists, and it is called washi...
ihanna.nu 2021-05-03 01:18 Fill a tiny journal: Colorful Colorful to me, is an easy prompt. I can do almost anything and it would fit within the category of “colorful”, or flip to almost any of the pages in any given journal and it would be that; colorful. I love happy,...