Thank you all for your patience and taking part in this Giveaway. Here are the lots allocated according to the contest guidelines!

The winner of the Jar is Riechan! & the tiny consolation prize goes to Icitea!
Congrats to the both and please drop me a message with your shipping address.

As for the rest who joined my contest giveaway, please don’t be disheartened as there will be more giveaways coming up with even prettier handmade items
Just make sure you sign up on our mailing list!

I had always love the sweet stuffs from this Japan shop, they are soooo well made & adorable! Today, I wish to share this pretty shop with you.

Happy Closet

Although she doesn’t ship internationally, her pictures and products are still eye candy to me and an inspiration for all sweets deco craft artisans!

Thank you so much for your support during our 1 year sale. We have another good news to share with you!

We just managed to get distribution rights for most of our Japanese products and this resulted in better rates for us. And in turn, we are extending our discounts into cost savings for you!

With immediate effect, all prices of these products are reduced:

1. Padico products – Clay, Whipped Cream, Silicone Whipped Cream, Deco Sauces, Clay Craft Kits: AT LEAST 20% reduction
2. Decora/Decoration products – Silicone creams, Deco Glue, Deco Paint, Magic Tip, Sponges etc: 15% reduction

Also, we have adjusted the shipping to a much lower fee, to allow you to enjoy paying the shipping at cost and nothing more. We in fact will absorb a portion of the shipping & handling fees for you. We dare say that we might have one of the lowest prices around now and this will stay as long we can provide.

All of our 3 shops are adjusted to the new prices and you can be assured to purchase at any of our shops to enjoy your new cost savings.

With your support, we believe we can continue to provide better prices and better products for you. So, please hang in there with us!

Hey hey, it is time for another of our Giveaway!

If you would like to make this, I created another post for its recipe – Check it out!

Decoden Lollipops Jar

Simple Silicone Cream Adjustable Ring

How to enter the Giveaway:

You have to let me know which particular cabochon you love most from our shop and post your comment here on this post.
That’s it!

To increase your chances of winning:

1. Tweet about “Contest Giveaway: Decoden & Whipped Cream Affair @Sophieandtoffee http://bit.ly/bcmmGj” in your Twitter.
2. Publish this Contest Giveaway on your Blog and provide your link in your comments.
3. Publish this Contest Giveaway on any Crafting forum and provide your link in your comments (Repeat forums will not be counted).
4. Purchase worth of SGD30 or more at our website during the period of the giveaway and quote “giveaway” at checkout message.

I hope the above are enough to help those who really wants to win this item!

The Silicone Cream Adjustable Ring will just be a small consolation prize for one of those who entered but did not win the Jar.

Results will be randomly picked with more lots for those who had increased their chances – Thank you!

* Contest deadline: 30 Apr 2010, GMT +8 *

This is a Decoden Jar decorated by me using purely our supplies. I had really great fun with it!

♥ Recipe ♥

IKEA Jar
Fuwa Fuwa Whipped Cream
Clear Pink Glue Stick
7mm Half Pink Faux Pearls
4mm Round Multi-Colored Faux Pearls
Decollage Clear Chocolate Sauce
Polymer Clay Sprinkles
Polymer Clay Sticks
Glitter Lollipop Cabochon (Front right)
Pink Lollipop Cabochon (Front left)
Swirl Pink Lollipop Cabochon (Back)
Pink Donut Cabochon (Back left)
Sweet Cupcake Cabochon (Back right)
AB Faceted Pink Heart Rhinestone (Front left)
3mm Pink Rhinestone with Tip end
2mm Clear Rhinestone with Tip end

♥ Point 1 ♥

An important point to note in this recipe is that, the Fuwa Fuwa Whipped Cream has to be thoroughly squeezed/squashed/pressed before cutting the pack for application. If not, the clay will not turn creamy and your results will not be good. If proper handling has been done to the Fuwa Fuwa Whipped Cream, the result will look like a vivid real whipped cream with good texture.

♥ Point 2 ♥

The hot glue has to be applied from the top so that it drips down to create the icing sauce effect.
The rest is pretty simple and I bet a beginner can do it, because I am one! I hope you like it!

Wow, time really flies and a year has passed.

I remembered when we first started selling supplies (ToffeeHouse), I was juggling with my day time job and could not wait to come back home to start on either my sewing (Yes, I was sewing a bit back then!) or answering customer’s queries!

When I have the courage to finally quit my day time job to concentrate on our supplies shop, I know I have to stock up on the different designs and start to look for high-quality items supplied by reputable factories.

We started with stocking up every part of space in our house possible. We work till wee hours to get orders shipped on the promised days. We had a faithful motorcycle which we travel on to brave raining days to our post office.

Over the year, because we have many loyal and fun customers (like you!), we told ourselves that all the late nights and long hours are worth it! It was totally awesome to have customers who turned friends, to leave us appreciative feed backs that felt like a pat on our shoulder. Friends who just love chatting with us and sharing with us their creativity.

Today, because of all the love and support shown to us, we managed to have a cabochon factory, small transport car for delivery, a new website for local customers with customizable purchases, a small humble office to better manage logistics inventory and to facilitate work flow.

S&T Office

These could not have happened if not for you.

To express our deep gratitude, we will be having a 18% discount sale for all purchases made on our new website and we will also include a cabochon freebies pack for every purchase! This promotion starts today 5 Apr, will last for 8 days and ends on 12 Apr – promotional code happy1year. Also, we have 4 sets of Re-Ment Magnets to give away! Find out more on our web shop.

Freebies Pack

Re-Ment Magnets

Over the year, we have met with a lot of steep competitions from other sellers and had some of the nastiest setbacks, but we are very grateful for those who had stayed with us. Please do not hesitate to drop us a mail to let us know how we can improve, to be the best we can for you.

THANK YOU!

♥ Ayu & Brandon

Yesterday, I tried to use our clays with our new 3D flexible molds and they work! I took some photos to share with you and how easily it is to use compared to other molds which needed releasing agent or any other techniques.

The example shown was by using Fuwa Fuwa Paper clay with one of the 3D flexible mold.

I took a bit of the clay and press it firmly down into one of the design on the mold.

Because the mold is so flexible, I do not need to wait for the clay to dry or the need to put any kind of releasing agent. No need any other removing technique, I just simply bend the mold to pop the clay out.

And “Ta Da!” We got a cute tiny clay chocolate made from the flexible mold. No fuss, no mess, so easy!

Hence, these molds are good for clay craft as well as acrylic art. The designs on the mold are relatively smaller, excellent for nail art designs, earrings, and other small craft projects

We managed to get our hands on these molds and had launched it for sale yesterday at our online shops.

These molds are high-quality flexible acrylic molds made with no smell and are used for mainly nail art and other small items handmade projects like earrings and necklaces.

3D Nail Art Molds are made in Taiwan and have many cute and kawaii designs just like Floree. However, the latter molds are more for clay art while 3D Nail Art molds are more for acrylic art.

Acrylic molds have to be used with acrylic liquid and acrylic powder and no glue is required to stick it your nails – it’s that easy! Currently, we are not selling the acrylic liquid coat and acrylic powders – you are able to purchase them online readily as well. If there is a demand or requests from customers, we might consider selling them.

Take a look at the videos below produced by 3D Nail to find out more.

As promised, I finally made some very sweet french macaroons for an exciting contest giveaway!

The winner will receive this full set of macaroon charms come in 3 different sizes of french macaroons in pastel colors. A key holder carries the macaroons as well a key ring and a clasp holder to hook into your bag!

I made the pink and turquoise macaroon with Hearty clay by blending in different colors of the clay to achieve the final result. As for the yellow macaroon, Fuwa Mousse clay is used. I added some of our in-house rhinestones to deco the macaroons. I hope you like it!

Now for the entry into the contest, it is very simple! You earn points by doing the following:

Earn 1 point
Kindly browse our Sophie & Toffee Craft Supplies Shop and let me know what is the one thing which we should improve in or products which you think we are lacking. Leave your reviews on this blog.

Earn 2 point
You can help us to advertise this contest giveaway by tweeting (If you have twitter), or any of the networking sites, or post on forums, or your blog, or any kind of advertisement. Kindly leave the link here to inform us where the advertisement is so that we can take a look! 2 points are given for each kind of advertisement.

And if you really really would like to win this macaroon charms, you can earn 3 points by:
Making a purchase of minimum USD$20 in our supplies shop and quote “contest giveaway” on your checkout message.

The results will be announced on the 21 Jan and the item will be posted to the winner on 22 Jan.

I would be honored if you take part and have fun with me!

I made these french macaroons!

We starting selling deco sweets kits from Japan due to requests from customers and I decided to buy 1 for myself to try because they just look so captivating and cute!

I use the tools and supplies from the kit and made the macaroons, it is my first time and i made the 3 macaroons in 30 mins and let them dry for awhile before applying the silicone cream. The mold included in the kit comes in so handy, and made everything so simple. The instructional manual is especially friendly although it is written in Japanese. If you are interested in clay making and is a beginner, this is a kit which i recommend.

It was fun and i will be making more macaroons to give away next week for the New Year. So if you like the macaroon charms i made, do check back often for the giveaway!