Discover your creative side on this adults-only themed cruise around Britain

Themed cruises bring together travellers with similar passions and Ambassador is uniting jetsetters with a love of arts and crafts this autumn.

The adults-only cruise line is putting on a Supercraft themed cruise in 2023 around the British Isles onboard its flagship Ambience in early September.

Guests will be able to take in the surreal crags and peaks of the Isle of Skye, colourful houses on the Isle of Mull, and the cultured and cosmopolitan city of Belfast to name a few highlights.

But it’s not just on shore that you can be inspired thanks to the celebrated art and craft experts sailing with passengers on this Ambassador themed cruise.

Famous actress Julie Peasgood will be onboard alongside a team of creative pros to offer a plethora of exciting workshops to help you unearth your inner William Morris (and don’t let what that art teacher said at school keep you from doing so).

Craft sessions include: stained glass flowers & hearts, silver plated seaglass jewellery, Tobermory treasure boxes, tweedy wreaths, embossed leather pouches, lino printing, hand-stitched Liberty print notebook covers and more.

You’ll return home filled with stories of your British Isles adventures and a suitcase packed with your fabulous creations (along with plenty of arty tips and tricks!) from your crafting cruise. That’ll show your teenage self what you’re capable of!

Julie Peasgood

Julie Peasgood is a British actress, TV presenter and author known for her performances in Brookside and Emmerdale, as well as her presence on Loose Women and The Travel Show.

However, Peasgood also has a passion for cruises (she’s taken over 90!) as well as arts and crafts, hence her successful company, Supercraft Cruises. The brand aims to improve the standard and choice of crafts available onboard ships – so you’re in safe hands on this Ambassador themed cruise.

Ali Reeve

Ali Reeve is known for her demonstrations on Create and Craft TV – a popular British television shopping channel dedicated to arts, crafts and DIY projects.

The channel provides a platform for enthusiastic crafters to explore and purchase a wide range of crafting supplies, tools and kits as well as offering live demonstrations, tutorials and product showcases, allowing viewers to learn new techniques and get inspired.

Reeve – a mixed media crafter who uses experimental techniques – has teaching experience and runs Stamps Away, a craft manufacturing company, with her husband Paul Reeve so you can be sure you’ll learn the good stuff from this pro on your Ambassador Cruise Line craft cruise 2023.

Christine Bell

No one embodies Create and Craft TV more than Christine Bell, however – she was the first ever guest on the channel!

Bell has received worldwide praise for her warm presenting style and her respected company Pinflair which features a range of craft and hobby products.

She has also designed an extensive range of her own craft kits and is well known for her cartonnage products and glues (remember, what that art teacher said about sniffing them does still stand).

Melissa Waudby

Melissa Waudby is also a TV presenter on Create and Craft TV and has a company called Simply Vintage Designs which is dedicated to vintage and handmade clothing.

Thanks to her sewing skills, Waudby’s product range specialises in unique mixed media creations with a vintage twist. With any luck you’ll pick up some advice for how to inject life back into some of those old clothes lingering at the back of your wardrobe!

Jennie Turner-Maskell

Jennie Turner-Maskell is a maker, crafter and treasure seeker as well as a skilled and popular tutor. She works in a variety of media and relishes upcycling and using found items (that charity shop down your road will have a whole new appeal when you return home, we reckon!).

Turner-Maskell also runs the award-winning Lechlade Music Festival and produces pop-up craft events and fairs.

Clodagh O’Halloran

Clodagh O’Halloran runs her own company, Acanthus Designs, fuelled by her own passion and training in the art of lino-printing.

O’Halloran now teaches the meditative craft and is a skilled sketcher. She is currently designing her own range of cards using freehand repeating doodles. That’s your Christmas card stash sorted too if you can master the art.

Marilia Carvalho

Marilia Carvalho is a stained glass artist who designs and makes unique stained glass panels. She also specialises in utilising the natural beauty of fossils, agates and other semi-precious stones.

Carvalho accepts bespoke commissions and wide-ranging restoration work, and runs one-day workshops in her studio. Onboard this Ambassador themed cruise she will be offering Ambience guests her popular copper foiling workshops (known as the Tiffany method).

Heck, maybe that’s Christmas presents sussed as well!

Check out more of Ambassador’s themed cruises here: from cricket to music themed sailings!