Ambassador for Sophie & Toffee

Hello everyone!

I recently became one of the ambassadors of Sophie & Toffee,

an online shop which sells all kind of deco and art supplies like cabochons, clay, kits, and so on.

If you are interested in these things, please check out their shop!

I wanted to became their ambassador because they have a wide variety of things available, not only ready made deco supplies but also clay, kits, findings, molds and miniatures.

I just love the items they sell and would buy 80% if I had an nonstopflowing cash supply. The owners are very nice and friendly too which I think is higly important in stores, on- and offline.

Their prices are also reasonable. And I just LOVE the name ^^ How cute is that, Sophie & Toffee, I always imagine a little girl in a giant milkshake/icecream for some reason ^^.This is what the other ambassadors have to say about Sophie & Toffee:

sassyNpunk loves Sophie and Toffee because they provide crafty people and small businesses with the best and most kawaii supplies around! Come check out all of our one of a kind pieces made with the help of Sophie and Toffee products @www.sassyNpunkBoutique.com"

"I love Sophie & Toffee because it's such a convenient and easy way tobuy Japanese craft materials... where you'd normally have to searchetsy for days to find all the items you need, I can just get them allfrom the one shop! I also like that you have a high standard of theproducts you select for your shop. You can never really determine thequality of an item from just photos, but I always feel a little moresecure shopping from a "real" store rather than a private seller. Andin my experience the items have been great in quality compared to whatI used to buy (especially the metal hardware!). And of course, thewebsite is totally cute and the staff is really lovely and helpful through the facebook page ♥" 

"I love Sophie & Toffee because I have a passion for crafting! The Sophie & Toffee website always brings a great deal of inspiration to me. I love all the cute products this company has to offer. I am so excited to be a part of the Sophie & Toffee family of ambassadors!"

You can expect a review of some of their newest items tomorrow!

(this post is crossposted to Riechanster.)

Featured: GentlemanBunny

First up in a series of feature posts: GentlemanBunny,
I have been a fan of hers for more than 1 year. She makes amazing little cute things,
one of her specialties is making little people from different movies and groups.
But I'll let her do the explanation.

1. Who are you and what do you do (decowise)?
My name is Päivi (or Shiri, or Gentlemanbunny as known in the internet world). I create tiny deco items using polymer clay. I usually sculpt miniature foods like cute cupcakes, cakes, sushi and make those into charms and jewelry (earrings, pendants, rings). But the sculptures are so tiny that they can also be used to decorate your phone or camera, for example.

2. When did you start working with clay/ to make little desserts and things?
I first started with real clay when I was a teenager. I made all sorts of pottery items (bowls, mugs and ornaments). But then after I found polymer clay, and saw how easy it was to use (that you could bake it in your regular kitchen oven, unlike real clay) I was hooked. The first items I ever made were tiny little figureens of animals like bunnies and cats. After awhile I begun to make miniature cakes, lollipops and other food related items.

3. Where do you get your inspiration?
I get my inspiration from everywhere - basically the daily life. I sometimes browse through cook books of flickr food photo galleries to get inspiration - and to challenge myself into making something I've never made before. I also get lot of inspiration from music and movies. It's fun to make miniature foods but I also love making miniature people, actors, musicians and movie characters.

4. You have a wide variety of things you make as we can see on your youtube channel, what are your favourite things to make? And what is your absolute favourite?
Well, bunnies are easy and fun to make. But they are also very delicate because of the tiny ears. Also, with bunnies you can make them into "sceneries". For example I've made easter bunnies, halloween (witch) bunnies, christmas (elf) bunnies and so on. It's fun to have a simple character which is easy to make and build something (foods or items) around it.

5. And lastly, do you have any tips/tricks that you want to share with our readers?
Love what you do and keep pushing yourself. When I make my tutorials I usually have an idea on my head, take some clay and press record on my camera. I don't reherse my tutorials and sometimes the sculptures end up looking very different from what I was thinking at first. You don't need a lot of clay or expensive tools. Just a few blocks of clay and some tools you could find around the house like a food knife and a toothpick are great to start with.

Thankyou very much for this little interview!

Here are some of my favourite videos of her:




If you want to see more of GentlemanBunny's creations you can visit her blog , her etsy, House of Mishibu and her deviantart.

(all photographs belong to GentlemanBunny and are posted with permission)

Addicting clips ~ RRcherrie

Have you ever heard of the little Japanese boxes with all different types of things to craft food?
Edible or non-edible?
Watch this:

His/her clips are very addicting, RRcherrie has great editing skills and the videos are pure enjoyment.
I warn you though, if you watch, you're going to keep watching 'till you've seen them all ^^

Call to you guys!

Hi everyone!

I'm looking for people who would like to post as a guest on All about Deco.

You can show off your creations but 

Your post has to got some tips and tricks, perhaps even an tutorial to share with our readers.

Interested? Leave a comment or contact me through blogger.

What to deco?

So you feel like decoing, but you have absolutely no idea what you can prettify?
Don't worry, take a look at this list and I'm sure you'll be decoing in no time!

• Barrette
• Belt
• Book Cover
• Boxes
• Business Card Holder (thanks Bonita)
• Wooden Bracelet
• Bursh (make-up / hair / paint / ...)
• Calculator 
• Camera
• Case for your glasses
• Cellphone
• Clutch
• Closet
• Computer mouse
• Computer screen
• Cup
• Earrings
• Extern hard disc
• Glasses
• Hat
• Headphones
• Jewellery box
• Lamp (desk / flashlight / ...)
• Laptop
• Lenscase
• Mirror
• Nails
• Pens
• Pencase
• Piano (if you're up for a challenge)
• Radio
• Ring
• Scarf
• Schoes

Be aware that if you deco something and it breaks your warranty is no longer available. So make sure you can remove your deco on valuable things like cameras, laptops, ...

If you have any ideas, feel free to leave them in the comments.
I'll add them to this list ^^

link: https://sites.google.com/site/allaboutdeco/all-about-deco/what-do-deco

Sauce - part 1

You've made your icecream sunday, a cookie or whipped creamed your cellphone, but it just needs a little touch...
How about some sauce to top it off?

Fabric Paint(Fabric paint that dries a thick coat)
You can use fabric paint that dries up as a thick coat, pink for strawberry sauce, brown for chocolate sauce or caramel, ...
Beware that when it's fully dry, you can still make little indents in it for example with your nail. So maybe not that good choice if your item is going to get smashed around a lot, although most of the time this won't be a real problem.
Touch: rubbery
Finish: MatteDrying time: 2-5 hours-more (depends on the brand)
where to find it: craft store OR make it yourself
                                                                               Price: cheap-expensive (depends on the brand)

Hot Glue

Instead of using regular gluesticks for your hot gluegun, you can use coloured gluesticks! Jup, you can get them in pink, brown,

red, white, ... to make your decosauce.

Finish: matte

Drying time: a few hours or quicker
where to find it: online stores (etsy, ebay, ...), definitely check out your craft store too but I have never found it in mine
Price: depends...
(image: yippiekawaiiyeah!)

Tutorial links!

Here's the list with links to our tutorial list on the All About Deco website

Cabochons
Tutorials which show you how to make different cabochons to use in your deco-projects.

Miniatures
Tutorials for little miniature pieces like icecream, macaroons, waffles which you can use for charm bracelets, mobile straps, and lot's more.

Molds
How to make your own molds, so you can recreate your favourite cabochons over and over again.

Others
Random things that didn't fit in the categories above like a polymer clay encyclopaedia, tips & tricks, how to make a whipped cream heart earring hanger
or perhaps some more info about the different types of deco.

Techniques
Tutorials which show you lot's of different techniques for example whipped cream techniques, creating fake sugar or making your own flat pearls.

Youtube
Tutorials found via youtube.

You have a tutorial you'd like to share?
Email me at riechanster[at]gmail[dot]com !