Reloved Magazine in the UK features 3 of our Christmas book projects!

It's so lovely seeing our projects in magazines. We're so pleased that Reloved magazine in the UK chose our Glacial Lace Hangings, Stacked Christmas Trees and Bondi Beach baubles.

Cupcake case rosette tutorial

At Craft It Up we've been putting together a display for Buttercreme Lane to show off one of their beautiful cakes. http://buttercremelane.com.au/

We thought it was fitting to use cupcake cases in our 1st place rosette for a cupcake designer!

You could make a rosette for any occasion...why not tell Dad he's 'Number 1' on Fathers Day, or wish someone a Happy Birthday? We've gone with the same colour but you could experiment with mixing it up a bit. You could glue your rosette to an old badge or a broach back (available from craft stores) so that your rosette can be worn all day long!

Craft it Up Celebration Cascarones!

We're celebrating the release of our book in Australia with this gorgeous cascarone tutorial. Cascarones are a Latin American tradition of filling hollowed out, painted eggs with confetti and then smashing them on peoples heads. We think this is such an awesome idea, and that it would be a great way to celebrate! Eggshells can be brittle, so be careful making the hole in the top. Little kids should get help at this point. You could experiment with filling the eggs with different things like sequins, glitter or coloured rice and you could stick stickers on the shell too.

Sydney book stockists

Brilliant to be able to support bricks and mortar bookstores! We'll post the other Aussie states as soon as we have them. In the US the book is available from Barnes and Noble, amongst others.

If you're buying from a bookstore anywhere in the world and they don't carry it...ask them to order it in for you!

Lindfield Bookshop - LINDFIELD
Myer Bondi - BONDI JUNCTION
Myer Chatswood - CHATSWOOD
Myer Macquarie - NORTH RYDE
Myer Roselands - ROSELANDS
Myer Sydney City - SYDNEY
Modern Times Bookshop - NEWTOWN
Bookoccino Pty Ltd - AVALON BEACH
Oracle Books - MOSMAN
Pages & Pages Booksellers P/L - MOSMAN
Better Read Than Dead - NEWTOWN
Shearers On Norton - LEICHHARDT
Kinokuniya Bookstore Aust P/L - SYDNEY
Dymocks Sydney - SYDNEY
Oscar & Friends Double Bay - DOUBLE BAY
Dymocks Chatswood - CHATSWOOD
Hill of Content Sydney - BALMAIN
Berkelouw Books Balgowlah - BALGOWLAH
Berkelouw Cronulla - CRONULLA
Gleebooks Dulwich Hill - DULWICH HILL
Constant Reader Bookshop - CROWS NEST

 

Reader craft pics: Sweden's 'Deck The Halls' Magazine Tree

When we started thinking about writing this book, we were really keen to include beautiful yet functional things. This magazine tree has a triple purpose here: it recycles a What's On magazine, it can be used as a beautiful Christmas table decoration...and most importantly...it's part of a heroic Lego police rescue! Brilliant job William! Thanks for sending it!

Exciting statistics for Sunday night!

 

Tonight we are the: 

•  hot new release in Teen Arts and Crafts on Amazon.com.

• 19th best seller in the Teen Arts and Crafts list on Amazon.com.

• 12th best seller in the Crafts and Children list on Amazon.co.uk.

We're stoked! Thank you for buying our book!