Festive Card and Gift Wrap Lino Printing

Design and print your own christmas cards, tags and wrapping paper ready for the festive season.

In this relaxed half day workshop, you’ll learn how to create your own unique festive stamp carved from lino and have fun experimenting with the printing process, repeating, rotating and offsetting your design to print your very own Christmas cards, tags and wrapping paper.

Guided at every step by the tutor, you will create your own festive design and learn how to transfer it onto lino, use lino cutting tools to carve your designs and explore the print making process, including how to repeat, rotate and offset designs.

You will be able to experiment with colour and process, printing onto different formats - cards, tags and wrapping paper - with one-to-one support when needed.

This workshop is suitable for both absolute beginners and those who have worked with lino before and want to develop their format.

Tutor Jo Shearer is an artist and art educator living and working in Leicestershire. Jo studied BA (Hons) Visual Arts and English Literature and a PGCE in secondary art. She taught in schools and colleges in Hertfordshire and Leicestershire for over 10 years.

After leaving mainstream education she continued her love of teaching through tutoring and went on to develop workshops like this one. She enjoys the freedom to work in a variety of media and believes that art is for everyone.

This fun and relaxed workshop will start at 10:30am and finish at 2:30pm, with a short break for lunch. Our café will be open or you are welcome to bring your own refreshments.

All materials are provided and absolutely noexperience is necessary!

Participants must be aged 14+. Under 18s must be accompanied by a paying adult at all times.

If the course/workshop you’d like to book is sold out, we do operate a waiting list - simply contact our box office team on / and ask to be added to the waiting list. We’ll then contact you if a place becomes available, with absolutely no obligation to accept it if you’ve made other plans!

Please ensure that you agree to our updatedTerms & Conditions before booking as courses/workshops are non-refundable in some circumstances.

We aim to make all our sessions as accessible as possible and carers/PAs are very welcome - just remember to book their free place when you book your session. If you'd like to talk to us in advance of booking or attending your sessions to discuss your access needs, our Box Office team is here to help! Email, pop in or call, open 7 days a week.

We have four blue badge parking spaces outside Attenborough Arts Centre, plus double yellow line roadside parking very close to the building for blue badge holders for up to three hours if our parking spaces are occupied.

Free parking for all customers is available after 5pm on weekdays and all day at weekends in the University of Leicester car park next door to Attenborough Arts Centre on Lancaster Road. The closest public car park for parking at all other times is Victoria Park, 5-10 minutes walk from us (near De Montfort Hall).