Course overview

This course is designed to ignite your creativity and equip you with the knowledge and skills to craft stunning, personalised greeting cards to delight friends and family over the festive season. Whether you're a beginner or have some experience in card making you'll learn a variety of techniques and fold styles to create unique professional looking cards that will wow your recipients. On this course we will look at: · design principles · Bought or made card bases? · different crafting techniques · the use of various materials and tools · Dimension and bling. We will use a variety of fun folds, including pop-up and diorama, to create our stunning showstopper cards. Crafting is known to enhance your mental well-being, helping to manage the stress we often feel at this time of year so come and join our friendly supportive group of like minded crafters and make something gorgeous!

Course description

This course is perfect for anyone who loves the holiday season and enjoys crafting, whether you're a beginner looking to learn the basics or an experienced crafter seeking to build on your card making skills.

Each week we will explore together a variety of card-making techniques such as:

· Stamping and Embossing

· Mat and layering

· Decoupage

· Die cutting

· Using mixed media

During each session you will have the opportunity to comment on your classmates work, and receive feedback on your own creations, from both tutor and fellow crafters. This sharing of our makes can be really inspiring and build confidence in our own creative ability.This course will provide you with the inspiration and technical knowledge to go on and create memorable and treasured cards for your nearest and dearest.

We will be using our digital learning platform CANVAS, to set clear objectives and upload our work to. A reasonably stocked craft room is a must for this course and a more detailed list of specific items needed for each project will be on CANVAS a couple of days before, so you can gather supplies and choose the papers you want to use – this is always the most time consuming part!

By the end of this course you will have a collection of beautiful cards ready for the festive season, and the confidence to continue crafting on your own and for any occasion. If you have enjoyed this course and would like to do more paper-crafting visit the ÅÝܽ¶ÌÊÓƵ.org.uk web site and see what’s on offer for the new year.

What financial support is available?

We don't want anything to stand in your way when it comes to bringing Adult learning within reach so if you need anything to support you to achieve your goals then speak to one of our education experts during your enrolment journey. Most of our courses are government funded but if you don't qualify or need alternative financial help to access them then let us know.

What other support is available?

All of our digital content, teaching and learning activities and assessments are designed to be accessible so if you need any additional support you can discuss this with the education experts during your enrolment journey and we will do all we can to make sure you have optimal access.

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