Category Archives: Creative habits

Creative habits like writing, doing daily art cards and change I want.

The Blue Watercolour Tide

Posted on 2012-01-25 by iHanna

It’s already week 4 of 2012! I just noticed how quick the days roll by. I think I haven’t taken good care of those days. Sometimes I feel like I don’t know how, but I really want to make an … Continue reading →

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Summer time Index Cards

Posted on 2011-06-29 by iHanna

The weather today has been lovely, and summer is showing up on my Index Cards too. They are filled with the lightness and smells of summer. I’ve just uploaded these (the cards from 11-18 of June) to my flickr photo … Continue reading →

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Cathcing up on Index Cards

Posted on 2011-06-19 by iHanna

Index Card June 6th. Drew the Swedish flag with creamy oil pastel crayons, and added the date stamp and an image that I previously coloured with watercolours. It was Sweden’s National Day, and I was feeling it… Index Card June … Continue reading →

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Summer Project: Index Card A Day

Posted on 2011-06-17 by iHanna

I like to infuse my summer with creativity, something messy that reminds me of how much I need creativity. It’s especially important when I’m working in an office during the day, to take time in the evening to make something. … Continue reading →

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Pitt Brush Pens

Posted on 2011-02-24 by iHanna

For Christmas I got a lot of nice black pens that I’ve been drawing with in the margins of my diary. I also bought myself/got a Manga Set of gray toned drawing pens (along with glue sticks and other pens). … Continue reading →

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Art Journaling check in – Week 1

Posted on 2011-01-07 by iHanna

First check in with the idea of Art Journaling every day / being Creative Every Day – week 1 2011. Julie Fei-Fan Balzer confesses on her blog today that she didn’t do anything in her Art Journal for the first … Continue reading →

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Designing a perfect life

Posted on 2010-12-30 by iHanna

Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die, life is a broken winged bird that cannot fly. /Langston Hughes I guess one of the reasons I usually fall in love with this short time between the new and the old … Continue reading →

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I created 30 collages

Posted on 2010-12-03 by iHanna

Collage number 30. I’m calling it Magpie love. The thirty days of November’s Art Every Day Month is finished and I have made 30 collages that I am very much in love with. When I started I had big plans … Continue reading →

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Its been snowing here

Posted on 2010-11-26 by iHanna

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 … Continue reading →

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Art is my healthiest habit

Posted on 2010-11-23 by iHanna

“Trust this” art collage by iHanna. Day 23 of Art Every Day month November 2010. Todays card with layers of this and that, mostly beige tissue paper, lots of tissue paper. Even painted tissue paper from before. I always use … Continue reading →

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