Crafty Arts Discount Codes & Deals

How to Save at Crafty Arts

Crafty Arts is a UK art and craft supplies specialist that has been trading for over 30 years, covering painting, drawing, illustration, and mixed-media across the full price range — from entry-level hobby kits to professional-grade studio materials. The catalogue is organised by medium (Watercolour, Oil, Acrylic, Pastels & Charcoal) rather than by brand, so ranges like Watercolour Paint, Watercolour Pads, Watercolour Brushes, and Watercolour Mediums sit together in logical clusters rather than being scattered across separate brand pages.

Getting the best prices from Crafty Arts comes down to four things: applying the first-order code, consolidating orders to hit free delivery thresholds, accumulating Reward Points over repeat buys, and checking the clearance warehouse for permanent markdowns before paying full retail.

Start with the 10% off first-order code. Crafty Arts offers a 10% off welcome discount to referred customers — enter the code WP10 at checkout to redeem on your first order. This is the baseline saving for new customers and doesn't depend on seasonal timing. Like most first-order codes, it typically cannot be claimed retroactively after an order is placed, so apply it before completing checkout.

Free delivery at £45 standard, £75 for next day. Crafty Arts offers genuinely generous delivery thresholds for a specialist retailer — free standard UK delivery at £45 and free next-day delivery at £75. This makes consolidating supply top-ups into a single larger order the most cost-effective approach, particularly for hobbyists refreshing paint sets, pads, and brushes at the same time. Spreading small orders across separate transactions is usually worse value once shipping is factored in.

Reward Points compound over repeat purchases. The Reward Points loyalty programme earns points on every qualifying purchase that convert into future discounts. Art supplies are a high-repeat category — paint tubes empty, pads fill up, brushes wear — so loyalty points accumulate meaningfully over a year of regular ordering. Signing up for a free Crafty Arts account before the first purchase captures points from day one.

Check the clearance warehouse for permanent markdowns. The warehouse clearance section on the Crafty Arts site carries end-of-line and overstock items at up to 95% off. This is where discontinued colours, previous-season pad bundles, and overstocked supplies sit — always worth browsing before paying full price for anything in the standard catalogue, particularly if your project is not tied to a specific colour or brand.

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Brands Stocked at Crafty Arts

One of the strengths of Crafty Arts as a specialist retailer is the brand mix across hobby and professional tiers.

Winsor & Newton is the UK's heritage professional brand, best known for artist-quality watercolours, oil paints, and gouache. Their Professional Watercolour range uses single-pigment colours with lightfast ratings, which matters for anyone selling or framing finished work.

Daler-Rowney sits across both student and artist grades, with the Graduate range widely recommended as an accessible entry point before upgrading to their Artists' quality paints.

Derwent is the leading UK coloured pencil specialist — the Lightfast, Procolour, and Inktense ranges cover pencil, watersoluble, and ink-reactivation techniques respectively.

Faber-Castell and Staedtler cover the pen, pencil, and fineliner category. Staedtler Fimo is a recognised UK polymer clay line and a separate category on the Crafty Arts site in its own right, used for jewellery, miniatures, and modelling work.

Royal Talens (Rembrandt and Van Gogh sub-ranges) provides premium Dutch oil and watercolour options. Sakura (Pigma, Koi, Gelly Roll) covers pens and markers popular for urban sketching and bullet journalling. Copic is widely used for alcohol-based marker work across illustration, manga, and architectural rendering.

Jackson's Art Supplies is an own-label range offering professional-quality materials at a lower price than the branded equivalents — useful for artists wanting artist-grade performance without paying heritage-brand margins.

Crafty Arts Product Range

Watercolour

The Watercolour cluster covers paints (tubes and half-pans), pads in cold and hot-press finishes, brushes (synthetic, sable, and squirrel hair), pencils, and mediums. Beginners typically start with Daler-Rowney Aquafine or Winsor & Newton Cotman student-grade paints on a cold-press 300gsm pad before upgrading to artist-grade half-pan sets and 100% cotton paper.

Oil

Oil paint, pads, brushes, and mediums sit together. Oil painting has a steeper starter cost because the medium itself needs solvents, a palette knife, and oil-primed surfaces — but oil paint remains a long-lasting medium for finished gallery work, and once equipped, per-piece cost is comparable to acrylic.

Acrylic

A beginner-friendly medium, covering paints, pads, brushes, and acrylic-specific mediums (gels, retarders, varnishes). Acrylic dries fast, cleans up with water, and works on almost any primed surface, which makes it a common choice for first-time buyers.

Pastels & Charcoal

Dry pastels, oil pastels, pastel pencils, and charcoal sticks with associated pastel papers and fixatives. Soft pastels in particular need dedicated pastel paper with surface tooth to hold pigment — ordinary cartridge paper does not work well for finished pieces.

Staedtler Fimo & Modelling

Polymer clay blocks, professional Fimo ranges, cutters, moulds, and tools for jewellery, miniatures, and model-making. Fimo bakes in a standard domestic oven and holds detail well for small-scale work.

When to Shop for the Best Crafty Arts Deals

Black Friday and Cyber Monday (November) bring the deepest site-wide percentage promotions of the year. Large brand bundles (Winsor & Newton sets, Derwent pencil tins, Faber-Castell sets) tend to see the biggest reductions during this window.

Boxing Day and the January reset are strong for new hobbyists picking up starter kits after Christmas. January is also a good time of year to clear end-of-season stock in the warehouse clearance section.

Year-round promotions. Staedtler Fimo bundle deals and Plaid craft-paint promotions run at various points through the year outside the main sale windows. The clearance warehouse carries permanent markdowns on end-of-line stock.

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