This Twenty to Make Gift Makes title produced for the magazine Crafts Beautiful is an exciting selection of fantastic projects using crafts such as sugarcraft, sewing, knitting, papercrafts, crochet and many more.
Make a stylish leather jewellery cuff, a faux fur hot water bottle cover, a beautiful papercut or a decoupage mirror. This book includes 21 projects taken from 20 previously published Twenty to Make titles.
Louise Crosbie has a Facebook page called Zuzu's petals altered art, which currently has 747 followers, and she also helps run the Facebook page for Calico Crafts, for whom she is also Design Team Coordinator and Head Designer. This page has 1147 followers. Her blog zuzuspetalsstuff.blogspot.co.uk gets around 3000 visits a month. As well as working with Calico Crafts, Louise has been a 'helping artist' for DecoArt for the past year, and from March will be on the full design team. She's just become a designer for DoCrafts, and will be designing for their Creativity magazine. Louise has also designed for The Craft Stamper, The Artistic Stamper, Katzelcraft (a French rubber stamp company) and Crafty Individuals. She runs workshops from her home in Scotland, and has also done workshops and demos for craft groups and shops around the UK.
Natalia Colman is an author, teacher and jewellery designer who has had a passion for jewellery all her life and uses it extensively in her fashion styling work. Natalia has produced a range of jewellery making books including Silver Clay with Style and best selling DVDs Silver Clay Made Simple and Further Adventures in Silver Clay. Natalia lives in West Yorkshire with her daughter Estella who is following in her footsteps as an avid jewellery maker. http://www.bynatalia.co.uk/
Anna Nikipirowicz was taught to knit and crochet as a child by her very talented mother, but without practice, the techniques were quickly forgotten. In 2005 she rediscovered her skills and an obsession was born. A few years ago, she started designing and selling her patterns, and her designs are regularly featured in craft magazines. Anna is a keen YouTuber and runs her website www.moochka.co.uk where she shares her love of knitting and crochet. Anna is also a workshop tutor, teaching knitting and crochet across the UK.
Anna has written a number of best-selling, much-loved books such as 'Crocheted Wreaths for the Home', 'Tunisian Crochet Stitch Directory' and many more. Anna lives in Hertfordshire with her husband and cat.
Instagram: @annanikipirowicz
YouTube: Anna Nikipirowicz
After leaving school, Louise Firchau studied art and design, art history, illustration and typography, and enjoyed card making, glass painting and sketching. In 2000 she was inspired to start paper cutting, and in 2010 she started her own online company called Paper Panda, making typographical lyrical paper cuts from recycled paper. Since then Paper Panda has grown enormously and she now sells paper cuts and giftware in a range of distinctive styles. Louise has a huge following and has taught thousands of people to paper cut though online groups using her paper cutting starter kit, which she also sells from her on-line shop.
Monica Russel is a best-selling Search Press author with over 95,000 books sold throughout the world. She runs a knitting business through her website www.theknitknacks.co.uk, and she designs all her own patterns and knitting kits, which use only natural fibres. She attends many craft and knitting fairs and has had numerous patterns featured in knitting magazines and books.
Monica lives in East Sussex, UK.
