My mom has a Samsung smartphone and she wanted us to bling her cell phone for her! She spotted our one and only hot pink bling Hello Kitty cabochon and loves it. Using a silicone clear case, we managed to design something which might suit her taste.

Half way through the process, we realised that we used 5mm rhinestones which might be too big! But I guess it still turns out nicely. How do you like it? ^^ Does it give you a royal feeling? lol

A note to self, for silicone case, you need a really strong glue. Our deco princess glue does not seem to stick so well on silicone. In the end, we have to use super glue to stick the cabochon, but it surely caused some chemical reaction to the case!

As I mentioned above, we only have ONE pink Hello Kitty Bling Cabochon. BUT, the clear one you see above will be available soon at Sophie & Toffee. The eyes, nose and whiskers are hand bling by us ^^ Do you prefer the pink one or the clear one?

Follow us on our Facebook page to know when the clear Hello Kitty Bling Cabochon is available for purchase!

Here’s more ideas of what you can start making for Christmas gifts! Besides decorating cases like how Duygu does it (below pictures), Maria whips up her barrettes/hair pins! They are our other 2 winners of our Cabochon Giveaways. Currently, we are sold-out on our white deco whipped creams. But we still have stocks in other colors, you can check them out here. We will hold our Cabochon Giveaways yearly, so stay tuned for the next year!

Duygu:”I love shopping with Sophie&Toffee because they provide exceptional customer service, value every single customer they have and make shopping so much fun. There is so much to explore, so much to get inspiration from and a whole lot of sweet things to choose from.
Thank you for your great service!“

Maria:”I love that you keep such a high variation on your cabochons and seem to always strive towards finding something that fits everyone, both in style and price. It’s also great to see that you don’t stick with one brandname regarding clays and whipped creams since different brands fit different crafts.
Also it’s so easy placing and finishing an order that you have no reason not to do it!“

On Monday, we announced our 5 lucky winners of our Cabochons Giveaway! (2 persons have yet to respond so we might be up for redraws!)

We have Danielle of Facebook Page joliepetitedeco who makes lovely whipped cream decoden! Using different cabochons from Sophie & Toffee, she whips up delicious-looking and kawaii theme of mobile cases.

She says:”I love shopping at Sophie & Toffee because they always have exactly what I need, everything is so cute and affordable, and always in perfect condition.”

Hop over to her Facebook Page to view more of her wonderful work!

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And our second winner is Keisy! She also makes decoden cases, but hers has a particular color theme to each of her cases and has a Gothic touch. Very mysterious yet captivating! Using mostly pearls and rhinestones, she pastes these tiny ones with cabochons, bead by bead to create that beautiful enchanting case.

And this is what she says:”I love Sophie & Toffee because theres such a great selection of stuff to satisfy my creative needs! I look forward to making alot more things and also starting a business with my passion of crafting…thanks for the inspiration!”

We hope these are enough to inspire you to make something special for someone this Christmas! And for anything with crafting, there is always Sophie & Toffee

We did this video awhile back without much monitoring of the feedback and today, we took a look and was glad to see that we have many views and some comments! This actually motivate us to produce more tutorial videos hehe.

Here’s the first video which we made on how to successfully use a Fuwa Fuwa Clay Whipped Cream pack. We had several feedback in the past who told us that they had difficulty using it. We want you to know that with the right steps, it is not that difficult after all!

This is a paper type of clay, does not need to baked and is air dried. It’s texture after drying is spongy and matte. It might have slight cracks after some time, if you did not mix the pack well or did not apply any sealer.

We still have this whipped cream in stock! Others are already sold-out and we will only be looking to restock the rest of the whipped cream in January next year (hopefully!)

Let’s discuss if you had any success with this brand and type of clay or the difficulties you had!

Hand-picked cupcake & sweets theme series – I really liked the new cabochons released this week. Also, this post marked my first come-back on this blog for the longest time! I decided to continue to write on this blog. Everything which interest and inspires me and also about our supplies shop. Definitely all things cute and lovely!

My next post will be the winners of our awesome 5 packs of Cabochon Giveaways!

We have prided ourselves to be the pioneer of churning out new cabochon designs weekly and have been looking for ways to enjoy economies of scale with means of raw material bulk purchases. We now can extend this savings to our customers. Also, with the emerging of new sellers and copycats, we see the need to remain competitive and yet still giving the best we can.

We had spent days in prices revamping for our shops and now customers can reap what we sow. All prices are now effective lowered at a whooping 30% storewide to cabochons, pearls & rhinestones. All adjustments have been made at our Webshop, Etsy and Dawanda.

Over the next few weeks, we are looking to lower other prices for Japanese products as well as we are now direct import from Japan factories. So continue to stay with us and watch our pace!

Of course, the other stuffs still remains the same: Flat rate shipping, friendly & prompt customer service, excellent packaging and a passion for handmade.

Do you know Camera’s Day is on June 29? We were having some fun exploring Etsy’s Treasury East and decided to curate a list! Here’s our few interesting finds on Etsy for Camera & Photograpy lovers. – Brandon

It is time for another contest giveaway, and we really think hard for this item for giveaway.

It took us about 2 hours to brain-storm what girls like you and me would like to carry around on our Iphone. Trina and I finally decided that it has to be glam and bling but not too over-whelming like those in the market. I myself love white and so we went ahead with a Snow White Bling Decoden Iphone Case!

Snow White Bling Decoden Iphone Plastic Clear Case

It might look simple but with either an white or black iphone, the contrast and effect can be quite different & pretty:

With a white Iphone

With black iphone

Of course this contest giveaway DOES NOT comes with the Iphone

Every details on this iphone case is hand-glued, hand-pasted, hand-designed by myself & Trina. There are rhinestones running along the 2 sides, and on the case itself. And a crystal chain running in S shape down the case.

We really hope you like it!

Now, if you like it and would like to win this item, you can do any of the following to enter:

1. Leave a comment on this post telling us why would you like to win this item.
2. Join our Facebook Page and invite your friends who would like us. Leave a comment on our wall “I want to win Snow White Bling Iphone Case!”
3. Subscribe to our Mailing List at our Website
4. Make  purchase of at least SGD15 at our Website and leave comment at checkout “I want to win Snow White Bling Iphone Case!”

Each of the above will get you 1 lot/entry for the contest, up to 4 entries for you! The winner will be randomly selected and announced on 7 June +8 GMT.

Looking forward to your comments and entries! ♥ Ayu

Floree Clay is relatively new in the international market compared to other Japanese brand like Padico & Fuwa Fuwa. Though it is an excellent and high quality clay, there are many who does not know the attributes of these range of clay. Today, I am going to intro a bit on these Floree Clay and what crafts they are suitable to use with.

◎ – Yes
△ – Medium
× – No

Yosuke’ll clay = Exoak = Transparent Clay
(Direct Translation from Japan Site)

From the chart above, you will have an idea which clay to use if you want to succeed in crafting your desired items. For example, if you want to make those pastel colored fake sweets, you would want to use either White Oak or any Lightweight clay. However, from the clay, you can tell that other lightweight clay does not have the good properties which White Oak Clay has when come to crafting fake sweets.

Floree White Oak Clay

Next, we will talk about water resistance. In general, all Floree Clay has better water resistance compared to other clay. Water resistance that is, when in touch with water, the shape of the clay will not be easily distorted. All air dry clay will definitely turn soft when soaked in water because they are made of flour, unlike Polymer Clay, but Floree holds the strongest water resistance attribute.

Clay Water Resistance Comparison (Left: Floree, Right: Other)

Lastly, many of artisans use molds to construct their clay shape and often, they face the difficulty of removing their clay from the molds. With no proper handling, clay shapes can be distorted and not perfected. There are many different techniques of removing clay from molds but if the clay strength is strong and with higher flexbility, it will help heaps!

Floree has manufactured their clay for easier removal with use with their molds as illustrated below:

Clay Elasticity & Flexibility (Left: Floree, Right: Others)

Clay release/removal from molds (Left: Floree, Right: Others)

Ultimately, it will depend on your own ease on which type of clay works for you and the type of project you are in.

I personally love Fuwa Fuwa pastel & glitter colors, Hearty’s economical value and Floree’s quality.

Here’s a story of a mother’s love for her little boy who inspires her to create all things cute in his little world. How she paint her dreamy world into picture prefect in her creations.

Jaclyn’s creations are cute & girly! And I specially love these few items which I picked from her cute shop.

The three little pony necklaces reminds me of “My Little Pony” which I used to own when I was younger and I remember it was yellow in color! The cupcake pin cushion is so sweet, I would love to stick my pins in them
The cookie bows are made in the sweetest pastel colors and not to forget the amazing lip gloss lollipops! Each of the round casing of the lollipops can be opened and it acts exactly like a lip balm yet so adorably cute to own one and carry it around in my bag!

Jaclyn has lots of our creative and interesting creations in her Etsy shop, do visit her today to show her your love!