Meet the team

Vince Fakey

Chairman

Vince founded the company in 1996 before handing over to his son Satyen in 2010.

Satyen Fakey

CEO

Satyen is our CEO and oversees every aspect of the business & key national accounts.

Claire Brudenell

Marketing and Licensing Manager

Claire is in charge of overseeing the Marketing department, she also looks after artwork licensing of new & existing designers!

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Alice Roberts

Design & Product Manager

Alice is our Design Manager who has final say on all of our fab products & collections. She ensures we are always on-trend!

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Tamie Satchell

National Account Manager

Tamie plays a key role in the company as National Account Manager. She manages a portfolio of key craft accounts.

Nikki Holt

Commercial Development Manager

Nikki is our Commercial Development Manager and works on bringing exciting new products to our national accounts.

Wajahat Baloch

Financial Controller

Wajahat keeps a check on all the finance, to ensure we can keep bringing out our wonderful papercraft collections.

Lisa Mckinven

Executive Assistant to the CEO

Lisa provides high level administrative support to the CEO by managing day-to-day operations including maintaining the CEO'S diary, appointments, correspondence & research requirements.

Dyanne Owen

Finance Supervisor

Dyanne is a tough cookie in the office as she also looks after the finance side of the business, keeping on top of all of our payments!

Sandra Astill

HR Coordinator

Sandra is our go to person as HR coordinator. She also looks after payroll and purchase ledger.

Adam Poxon

Senior Graphic Designer

Adam is our Senior Designer and helps train new designers as well as manage everyone’s work load. He also works on branding and makes sure our designs are top notch.

Cat Madeira

Graphic Designer

Cat is a graphic designer within the Marketing team who designs all the stunning printables and banners you see on the blog. She is also a photography whiz!

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Yann Vouloir

Export Sales Administration and Development

Yann looks after all of our international customers and is always willing to offer a helping hand!

Katie Chilcott

Sales Executive

Katie is a friendly voice on the phone as she looks after sales accounts as well as offer solutions to problems customers may be facing.

Jonathan Ward

E-Commerce Specialist

Jonathan is our E-Commerce Specialist, who is working hard to grow our online customers.

Jessica Whotton

Sales Administrator

Jess is our Business Administation Apprentice, who works closely with the Sales team to keep on track of all of our amazing crafty products coming into stock.

Charley Muttitt

Graphic Designer

Charley is our Graphic Designer who gets trendy with her papercraft designs and looks at what’s hot in the crafting industry.

Sarah Shields

Junior Graphic Designer

Sarah is one of our Junior Designers who has a talent for design and creates fantastic artwork for products and collections.

Charlotte Bolton

Junior Graphic Designer

One of the newest members of the Design team, Charlotte is responsible for designing lots of cute pieces for our papercraft collections!

Kathy Hodson

Craft Coordinator

Kathy is our Craft Coordinator who demonstrates on Create and Craft TV and Create and Craft USA. She also showcases brand new collections at her fab craft demonstrations and video tutorials.

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Ryan Clowes

Videographer

Ryan creates fantastic videos to show off new products and to give crafters easy step by step tutorials to follow.

Angel Cooke

Marketing Assistant

Angel is our Marketing Assistant, helping to keep the Marketing team super organised! She loves to craft and many of her super cool makes appear on the blog.

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