Stand-up Spiders – Plastic, Card, and Foamboard!
For Halloween, spooky spiders are a feature. You can find plastic spiders and similar in the shop, but if you want to give it a personal touch, why not make your own? Black card and a pair…
Face painting for trick or treat!
For Halloween, Art and Craft Valley have something a bit different. Instead of painting a canvas, paint your face! Add the finishing touch to your costumes with facepaints – and blood (fake of course). Snazaroo’s face-painting kits…
Pom-pom pumpkins
With Halloween coming up, here’s a craft idea for you: a pom-pom pumpkin! You’ll need scissors, orange wool, yellow or brown felt, and either a pompom maker, or two pieces of card (the side of a cereal…
Paperblanks – Truly Gorgeous Notebooks
It may seem odd to visit an art shop for stationery, but these Paperblank notebooks are works of art in their own right, and since there are useufl for everything from school to NaNoWriMo in November, budding…
Dazzle with Diamonds!
If you are looking for a new project, why not add some sparkle to the walls? Diamond Dotz are craft kits that allow you to create innovate and delightful fabric images. By placing small plastic ‘diamonds’ on…
Spraying away
Art and Craft Valley have a new stock of spray paints in. Montana Cans Gold NC-Acrylic Spray paints are some of the best around. A drip-free acrylic paint, it is quick-drying, so over-painting can be done quickly…
Painting with Pens
There’s a new stock in at ACValley, to add to the existing range of artists’ marker pens and fineliners. Posca Paint markers are paint in a tube, designed to work on most mediums. As they are paint,…
Curios – Another Rarer Manikin
In one of our previous Curios posts we featured a wooden horse manikin. Meant as an artist’s aid and reference for drawing horses, this is rather rarer than the standard human form and human hand artists models…
It’s Clay-time!
In stock at the moment at Art and Craft Valley, we have a range of different types of clay and polymer clay for different projects. You don’t need a potter’s wheel to work with clay, just space,…
Curios – An Artist’s Wooden Horse
In the decades that Art and Craft Valley has been in Coulsdon, the shop has accrued some rare and rather unusual items. Rather than covering an individual craft, for these Curios posts, we thought we’d feature some…
