Handmade Gifts Making – notebooks, postcards and framed collage

Handmade gifts just hit different. We’re slowing down and making things that can actually mean something. One week before Christmas, we’re diving into crafts of gifting, from notebooks to framed collage. During this 3 hour session we’ll be introducing simple stitching technique with saddle stitching (stapled binding) and Singer sewn binding (thread stitching), using mixture of different types of paper, to build them into scrapbooks, pocket journals or sketchbooks. Together with cutting up paper scraps from magazines we'll create postcards and collages in frame of your chose, using composition and layering principles. For ready-made gifts we'll prepare the wrapping.

To offer personal artworks, place for journaling, grocery lists, projects, to-dos or memories. For friends, lovers, coworkers, family members or yourself. Join us and leave with gifts that feels like yours.

Materials needed for the workshop are provided, including glossy, acrylic, kraft paper, magazines, string, thread, fabric scraps, envelopes, wraping paper, stickers, tapes, glue, markers. Feel free to bring along whatever random treasures you want to work with.

About Julia:

Julia Dżbik – artist working with collage as @papers_scraps, focusing on creating minimalist, editorial-style illustrations and zines experiments. Recent master's graduate in Management of Cultural Organisations, member of mais uno +1 collective, interested in rethinking alternative ways of working. At Collage Working Club facilitator of After hours and occasional Scissor sessions.

Collage Working Club (CWC) is a weekly open workspace for artists working in the medium of paper. Organised in the format of alternate ‘drop in’ sessions and workshops masterclasses, it has both a regular facilitator, whilst also involving the artist community in the sharing of knowledge and skills. Providing materials, education and connections is the primary aim of CWC, and it will do this through the interdisciplinary art of collage as both an art form and a tool for personal growth.

O Collage Working Club (CWC) é um espaço de trabalho semanal aberto a artistas que trabalham com o suporte papel. Organizado no formato de sessões alternadas e masterclasses, tem um facilitador regular, ao mesmo tempo que envolve a comunidade de artistas na partilha de conhecimentos e competências.Fornecer materiais, educação e ligações é o principal objetivo do CWC, e fá-lo-á através da interdisciplinaridade da colagem como uma forma de arte e uma ferramenta para o crescimento pessoal.

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