What We Do
A Brief Summary of Our Classes
All of our classes are taught by Craft Centre owner Janey McPartland. Janey has been teaching people from all walks of life for well over 10 years and has proven that anyone can get involved in crafts as a hobby through many outreach projects she has done with both the elderly and disabled communities.
She has also found a great deal of success in recent years with people suffering from Parkinson's disease and has helped many of them recognise that they do still have abilities within themselves to have a good fun and fulfilling hobby. Below are some of the crafts we specialise and teach in however feel free to contacts us if there's something else your interested in.
Rubber Stamping
Rubber stamping, also called stamping, is a craft in which some type of ink made of dye or pigment is applied to an image or pattern that has been carved, molded, laser engraved or vulcanized, onto a sheet of rubber. The rubber is often mounted onto a more stable object such as a wood or an acrylic block to produce a more solid instrument. The ink coated rubberstamp is then pressed onto any type of medium such that the colored image has now been transferred to the medium. The medium is generally some type of fabric or paper. Other media used are: wood, metal, glass, plastic, rock. High volume batik uses liquid wax instead of ink on a metal stamp.
Scrapbooking
Scrapbooking is a method for preserving personal and family history in the form of photographs, printed media, and memorabilia contained in decorated albums, or scrapbooks.
Our classes specialise in exactly this and give you the pride and satisfaction of knowing that you have preserved your own life memories using your own hand. Scrapbooking albums also make fantastic gifts for friends and family to commemorate special occasions/periods in their life.
Card Making
Card Making is the craft of handmaking greeting cards. Many people with interests in allied crafts such as scrapbooking and stamping have begun to use their skills to start making handmade cards.
This has contributed to cardmaking becoming a popular hobby. Craftmaking is seen by many as a progression from Scrapbooking and Rubber Stamping and is widely regarded as the 'next step' in your crafting education.
It's hard to argue that there is anything more fulfulling than making your own personal card for anyone special to you in your life and we hope that through our classes this is something you will build the confidence in, in a relatively short time.
For class dates/times please visit our timetables page.