Cake Topper Inspiration!

Sacha looks like she had a wonderful 6th birthday in Australia. She had a Belle and Boo treehouse inspired party at 'The Fig Tree Playground' on the esplanade in Cairns.

Look at her amazing cake and home made cake topper! The sweet tooth in me is desperate for a slice, nothing I love more than buttercream icing! Thanks to Yuliya, who was kind enough to share the lovely photos and give us an insight into how to make this stunning cake topper.

To make your own topper like this you'll need:
*A Belle & Boo paper plate *
*Water balloons
*Craft Wire
*Bamboo skewer or ice lolly stick

Cut into the Belle and Boo paper plate around the characters. Punch a hole through the plate just above Belle's hands. Affix the cutout plate to the skewer.
Blow up your balloons. Twist the craft wire together until it has enough strength to hold the weight of the balloons and tie the craft wire through the pole you punched earlier.

* Please note that we are sold out of our paper plates at www.belleandboo.com! We're currently in the process of updating the party range too so we won't be getting these plates back in stock. However, they are available from various online retailers world wide. Just do an internet search for them!

Love, Clare

Be Inspired By.... Fabric

We adore these patchwork skirts made by Lalalingy of our 'Woodland Walk' fabric combined with pretty florals and spots.  We hope this gorgeous perfectly mismatched approach inspires you as much as it does us.

(Image Credits: Lalalingy)

Have you been sewing with our fabric? Show us what you've done. Tag it on Instagram as #belleandboo or send us an email.

Love, Clare x

Be Inspired By... Fabric

Since our fabric launched in Spotlight we've seen an amazing array of home sewn Belle & Boo creations from our friends in Australia and New Zealand.

Be inspired by this 'bff' embroidery on our 'Woodland Walk' fabric created by Sarah for her daughter's birthday. So pretty!

(Image Credit: Saraha on Instagram)

Have you been sewing or creating beautiful things with our fabric? Show us what you've done. Tag it on Instagram as #belleandboo or send us an email.

Love, Clare

x

Be Inspired By.....

Welcome to one of our new regular features on the blog! It's here we plan to inspire you of all the lovely crafty/diy things you can do with Belle and Boo goods. We're hoping to not only offer inspiration but occasionally tutorials too. You'll be able to find all our crafty posts from the new craft menu button above.

First up is tape! 

We spied the gorgeous tape creations below over on our Instagram and all examples use our Parade Tape.

Ikea picture frame with cut out 'Belle and Boo' decorative tape on the edges.  (I always love a bit of Ikea Hacking!)

(Image Credit: Bestowed Collections)

Beautiful birthday parcel wrapping

 (Image Credit: Lalalingy)

Using tape and twine to spruce up noodle boxes to then use as gift boxes!

 (Image Credit: Lalalingy)

Have you done anything creative with our tape? Or do you plan to? Let us know what you're up to by sending us photos or if you're on Instagram then hashtag the picture #belleandboo so we can see it!

Big thanks to the ever creative Lalalingy and Bestowed Collections for sharing their photos with us.

Clare x