Festive Christmas Decoration Workshop

Beaded Christmas Decoration Workshop


Claire Bentley
Claire Bentley
5.0 (4)

3 hours

Class size 1 to 12 (public classes), 1 to 30
  £35 (PayPal Pay in 3 available)

Spend three relaxing and festive hours creating your own sparkling beaded Christmas decoration.
We'll begin by learning how to work with wire to create the three-dimensional framework of your decoration. You'll then add your chosen combination of beads and crystals to build up the design and bring your decoration to life.
There will be a beautiful selection of beads and colours available for you to choose from. You might opt for traditional festive colours, rich jewel tones, icy winter shades, or something completely different to complement your own Christmas décor.
I'll guide you throughout the workshop, helping you with the different techniques and showing you how to assemble and finish your decoration ready to hang.
At the end of the session, you'll leave with your own beautiful handmade Christmas decoration – something special to bring out and enjoy year after year, or perhaps give as a thoughtful handmade gift.
What you'll learn:
  • How to work with wire to create the framework of your decoration
  • How to thread and position beads to build your design
  • How to combine different sizes and styles of beads and crystals
  • How to create a balanced three-dimensional decoration
  • How to choose and combine colours within your design
  • Simple jewellery-making and wirework techniques
  • How to assemble and professionally finish your decoration ready for hanging
All the wire, beads, crystals, tools, and materials you'll need are provided, with plenty of individual guidance throughout the workshop.
What you'll get
What’s included: Introduction to essential tools and techniques, all materials provided, step-by-step guidance, a relaxed, welcoming atmosphere, and a completed bouquet of flowers.
Knowledge required
Beginner-friendly
What to bring
Just your crafty self!
Location

Frinton-on-Sea

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Claire Bentley
Claire Bentley

5.0 (4)
female Women-owned

Jewellery and beads have been a passion for me since I was a child. From an old tin of jewellery, beads and buttons given to me by my grandmother, I continued to feed my hobby with trips to bead stores, searching junk shops for old jewellery and making my own jewellery to sell at craft fairs.
Luckily for me, my childhood hobby turned into my profession, and I have been in the jewellery industry for over 30 years since graduating from the prestigious Central St Martins college of Art in London, with a BA Hons in Jewellery Design. Learning my trade in commercial retail environments, I have designed for most of the UK high street fine jewellery retailers and, also with my love of fashion and colour, have worked alongside the buying and design teams of most of the UK’s clothing stores too.
In recent years, I have been working as a freelance designer in Jewellery and graphic design, plus focusing on branding and social media for Jewellery brands.
Various opportunities opened along the way to enable me to share my design skills and experience by running courses and workshops, sparking a passion of teaching.
At the start of 2025, I set up my own website to promote crafting for creativity, community and well-being. The aim is to explore different craft activities through workshops and kits to create at home. I am passionate that everyone should have access to being creative and to develop artistic skill to help with their overall mental health.
As for me, I find inspiration everywhere, from the flowers in my garden, a ceramic tile on an old building through to decoration on a food label or pebbles on the beach. I love colour hence my obsession with beads and I am drawn to anything that has pattern on it - a running joke in my family, as I will often be found taking a quick photo of some random item that has a fab intricate design on it!
My desire to pass on my own skills to others was influenced by my lovely Mum, who sadly passed away in July 2024. She started out as an occupational therapist where crafting was the main form of therapy and then followed her creative passion and taught embroidery for the rest of her working life.

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