Paper People
Coming Soon

by Blue Stiggy

3rd - 5th July 2026

A gentle creative online retreat for people who want to slow down reconnect with creative activities and bring small acts of paper based creativity into your everyday life

We’ll be dipping our toe in to writing, drawing, sketching, mark making, calligraphy, poetry and journaling

Registration Opens 18th June want to be notified?
pop your email address below and i’ll keep you updated on progress and drop you a line when registration opens :)

Find a few minutes in your day to do something creative

You are creative - you always were - 3 days of guided sessions each one 20 minutes or less to help you to reconnect with your creative self in a small sliver of time.

Meet the Speakers

  • Mel Rye

    Mel is an artist and educator who helps people make art that feels joyful, meaningful, and unmistakably their own - especially if they think they can’t draw.

  • Heather Leavitt Martinez

    Heather Leavitt Martinez is a lettering artist, visual facilitator, author. Through visual tools and Appreciative Inquiry, she helps people make the invisible visible, find language for what matters, and create the conditions for focused, creative flow.

  • Cynthia Hauk

    Cynthia Hauk, MFA is the founder of Mindful Creative Muse
    Through simple doodles, mindful mandalas, mark making, and art journaling, she helps students to reduce stress, reconnect with creativity, and create with more self-compassion and ease.

  • Susan Yeates

    Susan Yeates is an artist, author, and creative guide who helps people reconnect with their inner artist. Whether you're picking up a pencil for the first time or returning to your sketchbook,

  • Mia Botha

    Mia has been a creative writing coach for more than 16 years.and has taught, coaxed and encouraged hundreds of writers over the years. She formally trained as a copywriter and earned her degree in creative writing. She has been writing stories her entire life.

  • Kim Houssenloge Mak

    Kim Houssenloge Mak is a writer, story gatherer, and memory keeper who encourages women to capture the everyday moments of their lives in words. She is the founder of Betty Mae Wrote, a cosy space dedicated to letter writing, personal life story writing and slow seasonal living.

  • Lauren Clark

    Lauren is a lifelong paper lover and the creator of Found and Flowered, a journal brand designed to help you fill your blank pages, create regularly, and let go of perfection. Her work is rooted in everyday magic, finding inspiration in vintage details, the natural world, flowers, and fairylands.

  • Shelley Skail

    Shelley Skail is a Scottish writer and artist. She takes inspiration from fairytales and the natural world, creating layered, dreamlike art. She lives in Edinburgh with her husband and daughter.

  • Traci Skuce

    Traci Skuce is a writer and story mentor who helps writers connect the craft to their lived experience so they can finish stories that are more intimate, textured, and alive.

Words ~ Marks ~ Thoughts


You dream of finding a way to carve out time for yourself and your sketchbook, journal or notebook a way that’s doable with your hectic schedule, and helps you to reconnect with your creative self.

Registration Opens 18th June want to be notified?
pop your email address below and i’ll keep you updated on progress and drop you a line when registration opens :)