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 reason we all go so haywire at Christmas time with the endless unrestrained and often silly buying of gifts is that we dont quite know how to put […]
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 my thought process about just that. It’s not a tutorial, but hopefully you’ll find the video inspiring. Last year I wanted to do a series on YouTube […]
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 type of thing. I have listed a couple of the same type of junk journals I make for myself in the shop, and they are delightful! If you haven’t picked out a journal to […]
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!
The DIY Postcard Swap Fall 2021 + e-mail difficult...
The highly requested and much beloved iHanna’s magnificent DIY Postcard Swap Fall 2021 is open for new and old participants – you are invited to join! It’s the same concept as it has been during the past twelve years of hosting this fun, international swap on my blog. But in case you’re new or you […]
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 shared inspiration. As a last installment I wanted to share an entire flip-through with you guys, […]
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 and talked a lot – so…
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 patterned papers that fills the entire page from top to bottom or like today, from right to […]
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 fun to look at books newly published, and dream about tea, candle light and […]
To paint is to love again
Today some views from my Hahnemhle 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 again. Its only when we look with eyes of love that we see as the painter sees. His […]
Book-review | Kaffe Fassett in the Studio: Behind ...
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 patterns that works well for his bold fabrics. That’s what I think he is most known for, […]
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” is (to me) to relax and let what ever comes up in your mind come out on the page. […]