Festive Papercutting with Lucy

Lucy was back for another Festive Papercutting workshop today, helping create beautiful lanterns, cards and gift tags.

Using very sharp blades against a soft craft mat it required lots of concentration!

The tree lanterns are lovely with small birds and rabbits amongst the tree trunks.

When fingers needed a rest from using the knives, Lucy taught everyone how to make little origami stars.

Thanks to everyone for coming.

Classes Galore!

We've been so busy with classes recently, mix that in with a new phone (learning how to transfer photos over to the computer!) and a family wedding, I'm afraid I've got slightly behind on blogging our classes.  

So to follow will be a summary of our recent classes which consisted of Watercolour, Papercutting and Free From Cookery

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Claire and I had ran a Sunday Watercolour class for the first time and our theme was St Ives Harbour, the pictures were amazing, it was a long day, Claire included so many techniques!

Lucy returned to run a Personalised Papercutting Class, this was great as everyone had sent Lucy the names and celebrations they wanted on their cards and Lucy prepared the templates before the class.

We had a delicious lunch of Spring Risotto with wild garlic, and slow roasted tomatoes with toasted seeds.

Festive Papercutting with Lucy

Lucy returned to Treetops today with a Festive Papercutting class.

There were options to create lamps and cards.

Lucy had put together some great templates for everyone to work on, from baubles to polar bears and mistletoe to reindeer.

During the day you go through several blades as it's really important to keep the point sharp to create sharp neat lines.  Especially for these Christmas trees and reindeer.  We also used self-healing mats, which are really important to protect your surfaces.

Lucy will be back at Treetops in 2019, let me know if you would be interested in joining the mailing list for her new dates.

Meet Lucy our new Papercutting Tutor

This is Lucy Nichols one of our new tutors for Autumn Term.

Lucy is a paper and textile artist.

Interestingly Lucy comes from a Mechanical Engineering background, which she studied at Imperial College, followed by a background in IT management!  She had always loved being creative and this took her back to University to study some more, where she really enjoyed working with paper along with her love of textiles.

Our first class is An Introduction to Papercutting

 Thursday 4 October

10am - 3pm

£60

Using templates, Lucy will show us how to be creative with paper and make some lovely things.

Lunch and all of your materials are included.

Lucy returns for a Festive Papercutting class

Tuesday 6 November

10am - 3pm

we will be making cards as well as these fantastic lanterns.

These are perfect classes for if you want to try something new and creative this term.