Art & Craft Valley

26/09/2025

We wanted to use this post to share another website with the cross-stitchers out there. (No, this isn't sponsored in any way, it's just something we found useful and thought you might too!) Since Cross-stitch is popular, here's an easy way to make your own cross stitch patterns for free. Floss Cross is a free site that lets you create your patterns online, change their sizes and adjust the colours to suit your level of experience....

We wanted to use this post to share another website with the cross-stitchers out there. (No, this isn’t sponsored in any way, it’s just something we found useful and thought you might …

01/07/2025

Cross stitch kits are a popular hobby at the moment, and there are a range of tools and tips to help you get the best out of them. For cross-stitchers, here's the Giddy Stitcher, a youtube cross-stitcher, reviewing cross stitch laying tools vs using the Railroading stitch technique to get flatter stitches. She has a range of other guides and techniques that might be of interest to the amateur or experienced sewer, so why not give her channel a look?

Cross stitch kits are a popular hobby at the moment, and there are a range of tools and tips to help you get the best out of them. For cross-stitchers, here’s the Giddy Stitcher, a youtube c…

10/06/2025

There are a lot of tutorials for making Fimo and polymer clay gemstones online. It is a fun way to use up spare clay and make something rather unique at the same time. However many of these tutorials require Mica powder, leaf metal, UV resin, etc. This one by Lovicraft stood out as it can be done with several basic colours of polymer clay and a gloss varnish - and the earring and necklace fittings, of course!...

There are a lot of tutorials for making Fimo and polymer clay gemstones online. It is a fun way to use up spare clay and make something rather unique at the same time. However many of these tutori…

27/05/2025

There are a lot of different arts and crafts available in the shop, but there are an awful lot more crafts out there. We're going to start a bi-weekly post featuring some of the more useful or just interesting videos about crafts, hobbies, and art, and just general notes out there. Ranging from old crafts, new methods and ideas, reviews of craft materials, and introductions to new hobbies, this is basically just a way for us to share the things that we though were interesting and hope you will too....

There are a lot of different arts and crafts available in the shop, but there are an awful lot more crafts out there. We’re going to start a bi-weekly post featuring some of the more useful …

20/04/2025

Happy Easter from Art and Craft Valley! Enjoy your eggs, be they boiled, fried, chocolate, painted, plain, or hidden for an egg hunt!

17/04/2025

It's the long Easter weekend coming up, and in case you get tired of chocolate (or want something to do that keeps your hands busy so you don't unwrap it early) why not stop in? There's a huge range of embroidery, cross-stitch, and tapestry kits for all ages and experience levels in stock - so many they don't all fit on the rack or in the window....

It’s the long Easter weekend coming up, and in case you get tired of chocolate (or want something to do that keeps your hands busy so you don’t unwrap it early) why not stop in? There&…

15/04/2025

Happy Easter Holidays Looking for Arts and Crafts to keep everyone occupied over the Holiday? Have a look for Easter gifts and presents for everyone

Happy Easter Holidays Looking for Arts and Crafts to keep everyone occupied over the Holiday? Have a look for Easter gifts and presents for everyone

29/03/2025

Happy Mother’s Day to all our customers from Art and Craft Valley!

Happy Mother’s Day to all our customers from Art and Craft Valley!      

22/02/2025

Looking to add some new style to your old clothes, consider Tie-Dying them. It's a simple and fun exercise to add some new colour and make something fresh and exciting. Scrunch the clothes up, tie them into knots, add the dye and leave it to soak in. Once the dye has soaked in for a few hours, rinse the clothes off and see what crazy patterns you have come up with. A great way to re-invigorate old T-shirts, jeans and anything else you can think of

  Looking to add some new style to your old clothes, consider Tie-Dying them. It’s a simple and fun exercise to add some new colour and make something fresh and exciting. Scrunch the cl…

20/01/2025

It's 2025, and Art and Craft Valley is welcoming it with a quick sale and a clear out! Knitting patterns in the discount box are now 50p each. The sale is while stocks last, so if you are looking for a project for the next year stop in and stock up on your patterns (and maybe some extra yarn).

It’s 2025, and Art and Craft Valley is welcoming it with a quick sale and a clear out! Knitting patterns in the discount box are now 50p each. The sale is while stocks last, so if you are lo…

08/01/2025

Hope you all had a good Christmas, and now we are back after the break with another craft idea. There's a technique floating around for a while that lets you make your own image transfers with a printer and Mod Podge. Effectively, you make the stencil, then your the glue to transfer only the ink, not the paper to the wood or other surface....

Hope you all had a good Christmas, and now we are back after the break with another craft idea. There’s a technique floating around for a while that lets you make your own image transfers wi…