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Tune inthis June

Behind the scenes of your favourite crafting club The latest from CCHQ

Here at Create and Craft we know that it’s never too early to get started on festive crafting, so join us as we launch our very special Christmas event this June. Tune in for a range of seasonal goodies from all of your favourite brands, plus loads of member discounts and new and exclusive products. You won’t want to miss out on making this Christmas your craftiest one yet. But wait – there’s more! During our Christmas event we’ll be running some prize draws and a special promo: if you buy three items, postage and packaging is only £3. This event promises to be bigger and better than ever before, so set your alarms and we’ll see you at 8am on June 8th!

Messages of Some of your fave presenters have been crafting their way through the lockdown just like you. We’ve checked in to find out where they’re finding inspiration

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Ideal Shopping Direct has been working hard behind the scenes to support the NHS and our community. Here’s how we’re lending a helping hand…

● We’re donating essential items such as hand sanitisers to NHS staff, care workers and care homes. ● We’re donating toiletry bundles to local food banks to support those in our community who are most in need. ● We’re donating new shoes to carers in care homes to say thank you for all their hard work. ● We’re donating mindfulness colouring sets to young, vulnerable people in hospitals, teens in children’s services, and carers.

● We’ve worked with Craft Cotton Company to help donate hundreds of metres of fabric for those making scrubs for frontline NHS workers. ● We’re saying thank you to our NHS and Emergency Services employees by giving Blue Light Card holders a 10% online discount. We know our amazing crafty community has been hard at work too, so let us know how you’ve been helping out. We’d love to hear from you! Email editor@

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“Send and share your pictures” “Even though this may be an extraordinary time in which we cannot craft with our loved ones, friends or usual groups, we can instead make our work that bit more special by sending pictures and sharing them online. Social media has become a lifeline to everyone at home isolating and staying safe. I’ve loved using social platforms during this time to hear about the new crafts people have tried, interesting techniques they have found and also the inspiration they are finding!”

Stephanie Weightman

Dan’s hosting a weekly quiz “Never before has craft been so relevant and important, and I’m taking great comfort from interacting with our community. Since lockdown, my wife Emily and I have been hosting a weekly Facebook Live quiz on my craft page full of fun chat about all sorts, including craft, cooking and fancy dress... with the odd question thrown in too!”

Dan Bancroft

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Some of your fave presenters have been crafting their way through the lockdown just like you. We’ve checked in to find out where they’re finding inspiration “We’re all good in the Love hood” “Thank you” “Firstly I want to say that I hope you are all safe and that you are managing to cope with all the hardships this pandemic has wrought. I cannot imagine how hard it must be to not be able to see your crafty friends and loved ones for so long, particularly if you are shielding as I know quite a few of you are. I am lucky, I have the company of my wife, but we haven’t been able to see her parents who live just a mile away for a long time.

“Andy and I have contacted a few of our amazing craft companies – Toni Darroch and Stamps By Me, Selfie Clothing and Sandra Rushton’s Santangle – to arrange giveaways on our Facebook pages for our crafters. We have already given away a ScanNCut, and we still have more to come! We have also started a giveaway with our first of many ‘ShareBears’ – a little bear wearing a T-shirt that says I love Create and Craft!

“We’ve also been collaborating with you. Andy has compiled a Create and Craft playlist featuring songs chosen by presenters and guests that anyone can listen to on Spotify – just search for ‘The Create and Craft Playlist’.”

Andy and Loen Love

“I would like to thank every single one of you who has taken the time to get in touch and let us know that we are keeping you company every day when we are on air. This means a lot – believe me. Also, it has been great to interact with many of you via Facebook Live and I intend to continue doing these occasionally after this is all over.

“Please stay safe and look forward to a time when you can see and hug your loved ones and also to a time when we can all meet again at one of the many live events that we all attend.”

Martyn Parker

Nigel raised £1,500 for the NHS! “It’s been a really odd time lately, but on a personal level it has been lovely to see how people have been coming together to support each other, and that has been especially evident in the world of craft.

“I have found it very uplifting to receive and hear so many messages from lovely viewers telling us how pleased they are that Create and Craft has been able to continue on air to provide inspiration and fun. I’d also like to thank everyone who sponsored me to dye my hair blond, then silver, then it went blond again! To raise more than £1,500 for the NHS was amazing so a million thank yous. Big love to everyone!”

Nigel May

“You’re our lifeline” “We are all so lucky to be able to continue bringing you our live shows at Create and Craft. I can’t imagine how difficult it must be to be totally confined to home with all the frustrations that brings. Many of you have said we have been your lifeline, but believe me I see it the other way around. Without you watching and supporting us we’d have no channel!

Get crafting with Sarah Cawood

Throughout the lockdown, crafty mum of two and regular C&C guest Sarah Cawood has been taking over our Instagram page, hosting regular live craftalongs that aim to help get kids involved with crafting.

Both parents and children can get their craft on with Sarah’s fun and easy-to-follow projects, which normally use bits and bobs from around the house, such as glue, pencils, bits of fabric and scraps of paper. Catch Sarah every Tuesday and Sunday at 10.30am on the Create and Craft Instagram page, @createandcrafttv.

JUNE 8th-19th Christmas 20th-21st Summer Sale

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“Personally, I’ve been very fortunate to find my isolation in the shape of a farm near the studio. Farm owner Trudi and her family were going to stop their B&B business a couple of years ago as they found it interfered with the running of their farm. I managed to persuade them that I’d be no bother, and I am now the only regular with my own room in a barn and a few sheep outside for company.

“Back home in Bournemouth, my partner is running his business from home with my mother-in-law isolated in her half of the house. My parents live nearby, so when I’m not at C&C I’m busy making sure they have everything they need until the next time I’m home. I am personally seeing the world in a totally different way, and I hope that all of us will get some positives out of this extraordinary time. Thank you for watching and being there.”

Dave Bradford

JULY 9th-12th Advantage Crafter 20th-26th Flexi Event AUGUST 3rd-9th POD week 20th-23rd New and Exclusive 27th-31st August Bank Holiday