Block Printing for Kids
Here’s a new craft for kids of all ages (and if you think you are too old for this, you aren’t), with a fun introduction to Lino printing. These kits contain everything you need to get started…
Make your own Stained Glass for Christmas
For Christmas 2024, you can find a range of craft kits in store including Pyrography and calligraphy or even Rock Painting, but for this update we’re focusing on stained glass. There are always a range of ink…
22 years of Art and Craft Valley
That’s right – AC Valley turns 22 today. 22 Years of Art, Craft, Wool, Knitting, Sewing, Painting and many more crafts. To Celebrate, we are offering 20% off Christmas Fabrics. So stop in and help us celebrate.
Tutorial: Sequined Pudding decoration
Making sequin decorations with polystyrene shapes is an old technique. When I first encountered this forty years ago, it was called pinfleur, but since then it has been called pin-art, sequin art and many other names. Whatever…
Crafty Polystyrene shapes
Make your own Christmas Decorations, with these shapes as a useful base. There’s a range of shapes in stock, from basic shapes like rings and balls to more complicated cones and bells.# Make an indoor wreath by…
Now on Bluesky
Art and Craft Valley is now on Bluesky! We’re just getting started, but we’re on there as ACValley. For anyone not familiar with Bluesky, it is a new social network, similar to a much simpler version of…
Christmas Materials
UPDATE: To celebrate 22 years of Art and Craft Valley in Coulsdon, get 20% off your Christmas fabrics in Dec 2024. Drop into the shop or call us on 0208 660 3222 to place a phone…
Canvasing the Neighbourhood
There’s a new range of canvases and painting equipment in at Art and Craft Valley – but mainly Canvases. Daler and Rowney Stretched Canvas are available in a range of sizes, so many in fact that they…
Its Fireworks Night!
“Remember, remember the fifth of November Gunpowder, treason, and plot. I see no reason That Gunpowder treason Ever should be forgot!” Stay safe and enjoy the fireworks!
A Warm Glow for Bonfire Night
With Halloween just behind us and Bonfire Night parties incoming from Friday the 1st to November the 5th, why not go for a safe glow? There’s a full range of Glow in the Dark paints, and make-up,…
