The table started with one shoebox of scraps
Snip & Stick is a collage and scrapbook workshop in Alsancak, İzmir. We keep the tables small, the piles enormous, and the pressure at zero.
A hobby that outgrew the kitchen table
It began as Sunday afternoons in a Karşıyaka flat — a shoebox of ferry tickets, torn magazines and a single glue stick shared between friends. When the shoebox became three shelves, Defne rented a sunny room on Kıbrıs Şehitleri Caddesi and put six chairs around a long table.
Six years later we have hosted more than four thousand makers, from total beginners to grandmothers who cut cleaner lines than any of us. What has not changed: everything lives on the table, nobody is told their piece looks wrong, and everyone leaves holding something framed.
We are deliberately small. We take six to eight private bookings a month and cap every open class at twelve seats, because a collage table only works when there is room to spread out and make a proper mess.
How we run the table
Mess over polish
There is no wrong collage. We nudge composition, never correct taste. The wonky ones are usually the best.
All materials, no upsells
Paper, tape, frames, tea — it is all in the seat price. The only extra is printing your own photos.
Twelve seats, tops
We could pack more chairs in. We do not. Room to spread out is the whole point of a collage afternoon.
Screens stay in bags
Two hours of scissors, glue and conversation. Phones come out only to photograph the finished piece.
Who is behind the table
The two of us run the room between the classes. Real people, real glue on our hands.
Defne Aydın
founder & hostTrained in graphic design at Dokuz Eylül University and spent eight years in an İzmir print studio before the shoebox took over. Defne runs the weekly classes, the kids' Saturday sessions and private groups, and has a weakness for old maps and ferry timetables.
Baran Yıldız
materials & framingPart bookbinder, part scavenger. Baran sources the trays — vintage postcards, seed packets, fabric offcuts — and frames every finished piece by hand. If a tray looks freshly interesting, it is his fault.
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