DIY Handmade Christmas Card Workshop – Brisbane
✂️🎄 Cut • Paste • Celebrate 🎄✂️
Get ready to unleash your creativity and make unique, heartfelt Christmas cards using collage and mixed media techniques. In these hands-on 2-hour workshops, you’ll explore layering paper, fabric, found objects, inks, stamps, and glitter. You will also use pom poms and more to create cards rich with texture, colour, and personality.
Whether you’re a seasoned crafter or collage curious, you’ll come away with a set of beautiful handmade cards. You’ll also gain fresh ideas to carry into your holiday season. BYO drinks and snacks. Come create and leave the cleaning to us!
🎨 No Experience Required 🪩 Open to All Levels of Artistry 📚 All Materials Provided
✨ What to Expect ✨
🎄 Festive Inspiration: We’ll begin with a warm welcome and a quick introduction to holiday card-making traditions. This will spark ideas for festive colours, motifs, and personal touches.
✂️ Explore & Create: You’ll dive into a curated collection of papers, vintage imagery, stamps, inks, and embellishments. With demonstrations and hands-on guidance, you’ll learn techniques for layering and composition. Additionally, you’ll explore adding mixed media details to bring your cards to life.
💌 Make & Take: Across the session you’ll design and complete a beautiful set of handmade Christmas cards. They will be ready to gift to friends, family, or keep as keepsakes.
🫶 Share & Celebrate: At the end, you’ll have the option to share your creations, swap tips, and celebrate the joy of making something truly personal for the season.
✌🏼 Still not sure what to expect? Read this blog post here, it goes over (mostly) everything to expect!
🕒 Workshop Breakdown 🕒
| Time | Activity |
|---|---|
| 1:00 PM – 1:10 PM | Welcome, Housekeeping & Material Overview |
| 1:10 PM – 2:45 PM | Creating Collaged & Mixed Media Christmas Cards |
| 2:45 PM – 3:00 PM | Workshop Wrap Up |
🎁 What’s Included 🎁
👉🏻 All art materials (festive collage papers, vintage ephemera, stamps, inks, scissors, glue, embellishments & more)
👉🏻 Step-by-step guidance in collage & mixed media card-making
👉🏻 A set of your own beautiful handmade Christmas cards to take home (ready to gift or keep!)
👉🏻 Take the leftover papers & festive extras to finish or make more masterpieces!
✨ Details ✨
✂️ When: Sunday, 7th December 2025 – 1:00 pm to 3:00 pm
✂️ Where: Paint’N’Unwind, South Brisbane
✂️ Cost: $59.35 AUD per person (includes booking and processing fees)
✂️ Who: Open to anyone aged 11 y.o. and above.
Spaces are limited, so secure your spot today. 🧡 The Collage Collective is where mindfulness & creativity meet. 🛍️ Support a small and female-founded business today!
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