TV demonstrations

TV shows are great for letting your customers know what the latest products are, how to achieve similar results and enthusing them to buy. We are lucky enough to have one of Ideal World’s Create and Craft demonstrators working with us on an exclusive range. Nancy Watt regularly appears on Create and Craft, which you can watch on Sky Channel 671, NTL Channel 747 or Freeview Channel 22.

Sunday 26 July 2pm Ideal World

BRAND NEW and licenced exclusivlely to Hobby Habit - MARVEL invertage including Spiderman, Captain America, The Hulk and a whole lot more.

Wednesday 3 July 11am  - Ideal World

Sandra Kuck Christmas invertage, decoupage and fabulous stamps - hot off the press and available only through Hobby Habit.

Wednesday 27 May 11am - Ideal World

Exclusive to Hobby Habit - Nancy Watt and her lovely lady designs! Don't miss these fabulous creative crafts.

Thursday 26 March 11am - Ideal World

Brand new designs demonstrated by Nancy Watt. More information to follow as these are literally going to be hot off the press and available through Hobby Habit.

They have proved so popular! Now they're on IDEAL WORLD!

_{Monday 9 March at 12 noon.}

Nancy Watt, designer and TV demonstrator, will be showcasing her own designs on Ideal World along with the great new designs from Tim Wright.

Ideal World is on Sky channel 644, Virgin on 747 or Freeview channel 22.

Make a date with Nancy and enjoy a couple of hours of entertainment and crafty new products!

Nancy Watt's new designs are available now on our website.

Tim Wright and his range of 1950s Art Deco is also proving a big hit. Difficult to read the messages here but take a look at the website and you'll really enjoy these fabulous fifties ladies.

Remember, you have to register to buy these online as they're for trade only. The process is simple and quick (even we can do it) so register today and get these fresh new products in your shop!

Meet Nancy Watt

I have always had an almost unstoppable urge to be creative. I know that a lot of card makers and crafters have that same feeling. I used to call it my therapy, but I think it is more than that.  I really “need” to draw, paint, sew, arrange flowers and, of course, make cards. I have been very fortunate to turn this “urge” into a career.

How did I get into the spot I am now? I remember when my daughters were choosing their options for GCSEs and I told them about the ‘O’ levels that I did, apart from the obvious academic subjects I also took Art, Theatre Arts, Stage Design and Costume Design and they say that the kids today have strange subjects! Absolutely no use at all on a CV to get into banking but I loved doing them. After ‘A’ Levels and Art College, I decided to stop messing around being arty and went off to “proper” work in the City of London – it was fun and I did well but in hindsight the most valuable outcome for me was the opportunity to become computer literate. After ten years marriage and two lovely girls followed. However, I did manage to squeeze in various courses in floristry, dress making, silk painting and glass painting. When the girls were little, I put all this to good use and made Christmas decorations, garlands, wreaths, painted glass baubles and candles and sold them at craft fairs. I loved doing this and it meant that we always had a fantastic Christmas.  However, I wanted to do something that would give me income all year around so I started a small business working from home as a Graphic Designer, doing newsletters, magazine layouts, logo and stationery design, flyers, brochures and so on. This was lovely as it still allowed me to be creative, increase my computer skills and knowledge of software such as Illustrator, Photoshop and QuarkXPress to name just a few. It also gave me an invaluable insight into the print industry.

About six years ago I started to do Craft Fairs again, only this time I concentrated on making cards from my own watercolours and designs. This proved very successful and shortly afterwards, I was approached by a manufacturer of craft products to demonstrate on a TV shopping channel and at other live events.   That shopping channel then asked me to demonstrate for them and introduced me to other companies and I added the role of freelance demonstrator to my CV.  At this point I decided to throw caution to the wind and combine my Graphic Design business with my “hobby” designing papercraft products.  It was a big learning curve, but I was very fortunate that a number of UK and European companies commissioned work from me.  The workload increased to such an extent that eventually I decided to drop the non-craft-related work and concentrate on craft design – no contest really! My exclusive designs for Hobby Habit have been so successful and I love working with Gill and the team.

Apart from my demonstration work for Ideal World and Create and Craft, I continue to do freelance design for an assortment of UK and European companies, including Hobby Habit, and have added an American company to my portfolio, which is very exciting indeed. I have also recently produced my own range of Stacker and Twister sheets (Ladies of Fashion and Shoes Glorious Shoes – both subjects close to my heart) and the next range is almost ready to go. You can see them right here on this website and even go and buy them online!

Remember to keep checking the website for new products!