Easter Bunny #1 | Meet Tsatsiki | iHannas Blog Our fluffy little bunny could easily be a photomodel for a Easter Card, right? But then again, he always jumps away... My brother (soon a teenager therefore also called Monster JR) has got the cutest ...

Happy Easter everyone!

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Art Journal Peek: Dark Nightmares vs. Summer Light | iHannas Blog One day you will wake up and there won't be any more time to do the things you've always wanted. Do it now. — Paulo Coelho A peek at another of my Art Journal spreads today. I did the two page on sepa...

Reminder: Notice life. Dark vs. Light

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Amigurumi duckling from a pattern | iHannas Blog When I received the book Kyuuto I decided to try to make an amigurumi from a pattern. My previous ones I've made free hand. I didn't think I would need the book except for great visual inspiration, bu...

Feeling ready for spring. 🧶 Looking back at these cuties:

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Authenticity in a messy life - iHannas Blog I've been thinking about authenticity lately. Authenticity as in what is going on in my real life versus what I show on this blog (right now everything is a mess). How truthful to what is really going...

"Blogging my happy moments actually helps me re-focus on the happiness of creating a second time and how wonderful is that?" — iHanna

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Miniature Art Journal Idea & Drawing time - iHannas Blog So, after finishing the big 365 Collage project I did last year I have been mulling over new ideas around here. I am working with my one word of the year (willpower), and in January it was a huge succ...

Need more playful, just for fun art journaling in my life. Maybe it's time to create another miniature art journal again? It's January after all...

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Its been snowing here - iHannas Blog Collage 24: On a darkish day. During the week it has been chilly mornings but rainy days under a grayish sky - creating slush on the ground that makes my mood sink. On such days I always wish I could ...

It's snowing today too!

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Christmas Journal with Me - iHannas Blog Christmas journal with me, will you? Just remember that journaling can be what ever you want it to be. In previous Christmas Journals, both spiral bound, I have mostly glued in found imagery when I ma...

Tis' the season! Wishing you a creative & merry December.

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Home Comforts: Ivy greenery - iHannas Blog An important part of a cozy home is the greenery, don't you agree? The indoor greenery makes a room feel like a home and not a naked hotel room. Some plants in your home will create a warmer and more ...

I loved this little plant friend

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How to alter bought & unused postcards - iHannas Blog As explained yesterday in my post about my current diy postcard materials and vintage illustrations I also have this stack of unused printed postcards in my possession (most of them were free because ...

Do you have a box of old, store bought postcards that you could never send to anyone? Why not alter them & create some fun, personalized DIY postcards this weekend?

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Humorous Postcard: The Crazy Hat Party - iHannas Blog I love a good pun, but making a Humorous Postcard is not as easy as I thought when I first started out. I thought I could google up some humor and be done with it... But the funny thing about this pos...

Came across an old stop motion video of mine, LOL, if one can call it that... Good times indeed!

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Depressed or tired – cut out and glue pretty images! - iHannas Blog I found this little lady (magazine clipping) in one of the mags from my grandmother. Isn't it cute? It's a little advice sent in by someone named Dagmar, and the text says: When I'm tired or feel down...

My best home-remedy : Cut pretty images out and glue them down!

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#collage #gluebooking #cutandpaste #lifeadvice #retroblogpost

365 Collages | Week 44 | Let it Fall - iHannas Blog You cannot be lonely if you like the person you're alone with. — Wayne Dyer Another week, another batch of collages, very fall inspired. I wish I'd had time to enjoy the beauty of all the orange and y...

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365 Collages | Week 20 | Summer Feels like this - iHannas Blog What does summer feels like to you, if you describe it in art? This is how it feels to me right now, in collage form. Seven new collages - again. The whole value of solitude depends upon one?s self; i...

Summer feels like this

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Index Cards | Delicious ambiguity - iHannas Blog Some stories don't have a clear beginning, middle and end. Life is about not knowing, having to change, taking the moment and making the best of it, without knowing what's going to happen next. Delici...

Quotes, journaling, collage, doodles - on index cards!

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#retroblogpost #mixedmedia #dyICAD #icad #indexcardaday #dailycreativity

Happy world embroidery day July 30 - today & every year! Celebrate by doing some hand-stitching, alone or with a group. #worldembroideryday #världsbroderidagen Graphic by iHanna, Sweden

BTW, Happy World Embroidery Day everyone!

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Save your Candy Wrapper Papers for Collages - iHannas Blog A bowl of candy on the table. Mom got this candy from a visitor from Thailand recently, and the whole family dug in to enjoy it (except me, I didn't much like the taste). Though I didn't eat much I sa...

Still a good idea for anyone who enjoys collage!

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Blue is my mom’s colour - iHannas Blog I made a card for mom before the summer started, to get her some "blue patterns" that I know she loves. She has actually bought some porcelain with these patterns. I really love them too, but they are...

I like pink and I can not lie. But blue is my mom's color!

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#craft #blue #retroblogpost #crochet

Magazine inspiration, social bookmarking and videos - iHannas Blog Any good interior design magazine (or any magazine about creativity, art or craft for that matter) should check out the online blog scene, don't you think so? The blog word, also called indie communit...

Magazine inspiration, social bookmarking and videos
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Monochromatic Orange Art Journal Page - iHannas Blog Orange is red brought nearer to humanity by yellow. — Kandinsky The fourth spread in my Monochromatic Series, and the colour is happy orange. I'm not sure if it is true but I heard that orange is the ...

Have you ever documented one color on a page and used everything you own of that color? So fun.

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Floral arrangement and ampersand wooden printing block from a french brocante. Photo copyright H. Andersson, blogged at https://www.ihanna.nu/blog/2005/07/brocante/

Vintage Brocante inspiration on a Friday!

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#retroblogpost #floralFriday #french #ampersand

Art journaling explorations with portion control - iHannas Blog I believe that part of something is more interesting than the whole. It creates a sense of mystery, an engagement of the viewer to try to figure out what they are looking at. — Michelle Ward January's...

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Reflect upon your blessings - iHannas Blog Reflect upon your blessings, of which every man has plenty, not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some. — Charles Dickens (this goes for gals too) Visit from the cutest and most stubborn...

Reflect upon your blessings, of which every man has plenty, not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some.
— Charles Dickens (this goes for gals too)

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Art Quilting | Not your grandmothers craft but still awesome - iHannas Blog Is embroidery and textile art and crafts too vintage for you? This is not your grandmothers craft, this is is experimental and something to make your own!

I was using "not your grandmother's craft" ironically in this post, because my grandmother didn't love the tribute I made her. LOL

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Heart Shaped Collage | How I heart being an artist even though I sometimes lose my nerve - iHannas Blog I wanted to create heart shaped art, so I did. I cut out hearts from vintage photo album pages that I found at a thrift shop, and then added lots of papers that I like. And glitter! I love these colla...

A blog post on how I heart being an artist even though I sometimes lose my nerve

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How to Microwave Your Cat - iHannas Blog Want to learn how to Microwave Your Cat? If you haven't tried a Wheat Heat Therapy Pillow yet I think you should. I can really recommend you to make or buy your own wheat pillow. It's great! A Wheat H...

Old but fun blog post: How to microwave your cat

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#caturday #retroblogpost #cats 🧶

Images makes me Happy - iHannas Blog We tend to forget that happiness doesn't come as a result of getting something we don't have, but rather of recognizing and appreciating what we do have. — Frederick Keonig I've been thinking a lot th...

Collecting images, in many different forms and notebooks, makes me happy. How about you?

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#retroblogpost #gluebook #happiness

365 Collages | Week 10 - iHannas Blog It's Glue it Tuesday at Artsyville and of course I'm joining! Aren't you? My most important tool is a glue stick! Right now my favorite brand is Uhu! I ♥ a good glue stick and I'm always buying new on...

I love collage SO much.

Collages from over 10 years ago...
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Travel kit: Viviva Watercolor Sheets - iHannas Blog Viviva watercolor sheets, made in India, are portable and fun to play with. I try out all the colors in this first look at them on the blog. Enjoy my friends!

Who enjoys watercolor painting? If you do, and want to travel with your art supplies, then may I recommend you try these (that I tried out last summer): viviva colorsheets!

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Give your [art journal] project some space - iHannas Blog Another page from Smart Journal vol 2. The text on the page above reads: Sometimes it doesn't matter what you create, as long as it is something. The most important thing is that you get started, that...

Advice for self: "Let the blank page see some light and air."

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Square green collage, number 15 of the year, created by H. Andersson aka iHanna. Title: Green Leaves I, made for week 3 of 365 collage in 2025, an ongoing project. #365somethings2025 #365collages2025

Here's one of my favorite collages from this year. More green collage art in this blog post:
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The #BlueSkyArtShow is open every Saturday and today the theme is #Green 💚
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