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As it Happens Craft4Smiles C.I.C. Courses and Activities

Craft4Smiles C.I.C. Crafting Events and Activities - as they happen
We will be posting about our courses and activities and 'as they happen'.
Yesterday - 24.11.20 - the Advanced Crafter Group met for the first of 2 lessons on pergamano - lace-like work on parchment - photos to be posted next week. All were new to crafting when they joined but are now able to produce really good quality cards, framed pictures and a range of other items to their own designs - see the L Collection and Bessie Collections in our Gallery.
Yesterday's lesson was spent the session on pergamano - the art of embellishing and decorating parchment paper or vellum paper through embossing, perforating, stippling, cutting and colouring good quality parchment or vellum.The group will continue with pergamano next week - photos of members's work will be posted in the blog.
Craft4Smiles C.I.C Launch and Sponsored/Free Courses
November 2020 – April 2021 Craft4Smiles C.IC. is a crafting community whose members are passionate about paper and mixed media and have all experienced the benefits of crafting for their wellbeing. We are working hard to enable others to have the opportunity to do the same. Our live on-online paper crafting and mixed media courses - Pop-Up (2hrs), Short (5 – 10 week) and From Beginner to Advanced Crafter (1 – 2 years) – have just been launched. The first short courses start in the week of 16th November 2020. In addition, 32 sponsored/free places* funded by the Co-Operative Bank...