Got a pile of old paper bags, used greeting cards/gift wrappers, festive angpaos, or beautiful boxes/cardboards that are too pretty to throw away? It’s time to give them a second lease of life with your creativity! Join us for a hands-on, therapeutic, tech-free break from studying!
🎨 What You’ll Learn to Make:
- Aesthetic Gift Tags & Cards: Learn how to upcycle everyday commercial brochures, cardboards, cards, retail tags, and wrapping paper into unique stationary.
- Upcycled Festive Gift Bags: Turn ordinary paper bags and recycled materials/used festive angpaos into stunning, premium-looking gift bags complete with decorative tassels. If you paint, samples of painted bags are also available for inspiration!
- Snack Box Overhauls: Discover how to transform everyday clean food packaging—like old Kinder Bueno or Tai Cheong egg tart boxes—into chic, usable gift cards/tags.
Speaker(s)
Ms Ho Kwai Yuen
Kwai Yuen is the Director of Sterling Property Consultants, a property consultancy firm providing consultancy work, property valuations and sales/leasing services. In her career spanning more than 30 years since her graduation from School of Building and Estate Management, NUS, she had also worked in other property consultancy firms like Knight Frank Pte Ltd and Colliers International, to name a few.
In her spare time, Kwai Yuen spends her leisure painting and upcycling cardboards, magazines, used gift wrappers, greeting cards, and even clean food boxes/bags into gift tags and gift cards. A firm believer in reducing waste and saving the environment, lots of pretty “trash” that passes by her way is given a second lease of life and becomes “treasure” to someone else.
The proceeds from the sale of her recycled gift cards, gift tags and gift bags at various charity fund raisers have raised much over the years to benefit the needy in the society.
She hopes that this workshop will inspire and create a spark in anyone who cares to stop and ponder when he/she sees something that is too pretty to be thrown away - can I give this a new lease of life?
Workshop Details
Wednesday, 7 October 2026
3:00pm to 5.00pm
Yusof Ishak House Level 5, Lumina Room
Who should attend: All NUS undergraduates looking to destress, get creative, and practice zero-waste living.
What to Bring: Your own clean stash of used paper bags, old greeting cards/cardboards, used wrapping paper, angpaos, or small retail boxes to customize your crafts! If you have your own cutting tools/adhesives, you’re welcome to bring them too! 🛍️
Only 40 slots available! Registration is on a first-come, first-served basis.
Registration open date: 13 September 2026.
Register by 6 October 2026.
Personal Developement
Date: Wednesday, 7 October 2026
Time: 3pm – 5pm
Event Venue: Yusof Ishak House Level 5 Lumina Room
Faculties: College of Design & Engineering, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, NUS Business School, School of Computing, Faculty of Science, Faculty of Law
Target Audience: All undergraduate students
Dress Code: Smart Casual