Art Practical: Art & Junk Journals- How to Fill Your Pages

This course is creative, practical and hands on, designed to give you the opportunity to develop your own unique artistic style as well as building your confidence in your own creative skills. By The end of your course, you'll know how to create beautifully decorated journal spreads and have a wealth of techniques to continue your creative journey. Perfect for anyone who loves paper crafting storytelling or experimenting with artistic styles

Throughout this course we will look at:

 Essential tools and materials

 Safe use of paper craft tools

 Designing a range of ephemera pieces to personalise your pages

 Adding depth and texture to your spreads.

During each session you will have the opportunity to comment on your classmates work, and receive feedback on your own from both tutor and fellow learners.This sharing of what we have made can be incredibly inspiring and instil confidence in our own work and creative ability.

This course is suitable for beginners as well as those more experienced crafters and as far as supplies go you will needs a random selection of the following:

• card-stock- old cereal boxes, or your scrap box pieces.

• plain and patterned paper

• a pencil and ruler, glue – wet, or stick, tape runner, mod podge.

• old books, magazine pages, papers for collage

• Fabric scraps, ribbon, lace

• Broken jewellery pieces – beads, chain links, charms, clasps etc