eVideo

English

2022-10-24 18:33:50

Maker extraordinaire,Courtney is the author of5 art books translated into 6 languages.Courtney teaches workshops all over the country and online atCreativebug.com where she is Edior-in-Chief. Her work has been featured onOh Happy Day,Design Sponge, theSF Chronicle, InstagramandBuzzFeed.She makes something everyday and can be found oninstagram as @ccerruti She sees books as objects to be read and re-purposed, candy wrappers as paper flower petals, toilet paper tubes as a menagerie of animals. She sees the potential in the discarded, history in the mundane and art in the everyday. She saves everything, makes anything and teaches from a place of passion and authenticity. Courtney believes everyone is creative and she'd rather spend an evening drinking tea and painting than doing anything else (except maybe scavenging treasures abroad). You can find her books online and at your local bookstore.

Any gift can be elevated with a thoughtful presentation. Artist, educator, and gift-wrap authority Courtney Cerruti share some of her favorite wrapping and trimming techniques with an eye on eco-friendly combinations and elements. Learn furoshiki-inspired ways to enclose presents with fabrics, and use and reuse things you have at home to create beautifully wrapped gifts that are nearly too pretty to open. For additional classes using the furoshiki technique, see Megumi Inouye's Wine Wrap and Tin Wrapping classes.

Latest version of the following browsers: Chrome, Safari, Firefox or Internet Explorer. JavaScript must be enabled. Broadband Internet connection.

Closed-captioned.