Creative Challenge | Celebrate Your Creativity
From the first prehistoric cave drawings, the need to be creative has been a part of being human. We should embrace it and enjoy it simply for its own sake. read more Creative Challenge | Celebrate...
View ArticleFlash Post | Pressing Matters
Slamseys is featured in Pressing Matters magazine. We're celebrating with a discount on September courses.read more Flash Post | Pressing Matters
View ArticleDo you panic when your read “Bring your sketchbook to work from”?
Do you panic when you book on a course and receive the instructions "Bring a sketchbook to work from"? Here are some ideas to kickstart your bank of ideas.read more Do you panic when your read “Bring...
View ArticlePrintmaking Workshop FAQs
Printmaking course FAQs - everything you need to know before bookingread more Printmaking Workshop FAQs
View ArticleTeach Your Own Craft Workshop
If you have a skill to share, running your own workshop is an enriching and rewarding experience for you and your students. The problem can be taking that first step into the unknown, so here are some...
View ArticleHow to Plan your Craft Workshop
If you're a creative, artistic or crafty person, there are lots of reasons why you should run your own craft workshop. If you have a skill to share and want to know how to start teaching your craft,...
View ArticleMaking Printmaking Greener
The issues around climate change and the environment are complex and trying to find the right way to be greener can be overwhelming. How we’re making our printing classes greener Ideas for greener...
View ArticleChristmas Trends 2019
Every year, retailers and journalists attempt to reinvent Christmas celebrations, trying to persuade us that avocado is the new Christmas turkey or that we should decorate our trees entirely with black...
View ArticleWould you like to learn Printmaking?
Are you curious about printmaking? Would you like to learn how to make a screen print or cut lino? Make this the year that you book a printmaking class and try it out.
View ArticleThe Easy Way to Make Lined Envelopes
It's so rare to send letters nowadays that it's worth a little effort to make it extra special. A lined envelope is glamorous but incredibly simple to do.
View ArticleQuick Hand Printed Cards
I like to have a supply of cards printed and ready to send. It's easy to cut a few foam shapes, stick them onto a piece of cardboard and start printing these colourful cards.
View ArticleIn Isolation
If you find yourself marooned alone in isolation or unexpectedly at home with a bunch of children for longer than the anticipated two week Easter holidays, here are a few distractions to pass the time.
View ArticlePrintmaking for Children
some parents are apprehensive about printing at home with their children, so we've put together some tips for parents and some printmaking activities you might like to try
View ArticleBeing Creative in Lockdown
Here are the three activities that could help you if you’re looking for a creative way to get yourself moving with some art and craft projects or maybe to retreat for a short time each day to make...
View ArticleFinding Creative Inspiration
Times are strange and though we may be inching back to normality, things will never be the same. We’ve been forced to redefine our lives, to question our values and think about what makes us truly...
View Article5 Inspiring Lino Artists
Are you looking for some linocut inspiration? Here are my favourite five inspiring artists working with lino. Follow the links to see more of their work or follow them on Instagram.
View ArticleA New Direction
it's been very strange here over the past few months. Farming carries on but there have been changes for the printmaking.
View ArticleIntroducing the 2020 Slamseys Creative Summer Challenge
It’s mid-July, so it’s almost time for the annual Slamseys Creative Summer challenge to spark some creativity. What is the 2020 Slamseys Creative Summer Challenge? This year we’re calling it The ABC...
View Article10 Alphabet Projects
This year, the Slamseys Creative Summer Challenge is loosely themed around the alphabet and so today we have 10 Alphabet themed projects for your to try ...
View Article10 Ways to Boost Your Creativity
The need to be creative is part of being human but sometimes we have to make a conscious decision to step away from the drudgery and busyness of everyday life and make time for it, to allow ourselves...
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