During the Cut Out + Keep office Christmas party we decided to try out the wonderful Brini Maxwell Christmas ornament kit that we had been sent. The kit includes everything that you need to make three lovely and kitschy ornaments, along with instructions to guide you through the process. The ornaments were relatively simple to make, but I think it would have been a lot easier if there were some photos to follow in the instructions.

Some of the embellishments were a little fiddly to add (but we had drank several glasses of Baileys beforehand). One tip: if you struggle to make the pins fit through the beads, use two pins in one bead.

The final ornaments look great and add a nice homemade touch to the tree (check out our photos). These kits would make great presents and would lead to a fun family-crafting hour on Christmas day.

You can pick up your own ornament kit from Felix Populi.

We've got a Brini Maxwell ornament craft kit and 2 copies of her book, Brini Maxwell's Guide to Gracious Living up for grabs in our holiday-themed craft contest. So kick off the new year in style, and enter your projects now.

For a chance of winning, simply enter your holiday-themed craft projects below. You can enter up to 3 times, so good luck!

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Our latest Crafty Superstars, the Chicks With Sticks want to teach you how-to knit. Check out their section for 3 wonderful projects that will get you started. Check them out now >>

Christmas has come to Cut Out + Keep and we have over 70 (increasing daily) crafty projects to help you decorate, prepare and celebrate.

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Our top how-to picks: Felt Christmas Snowman, Candy Cane Cupcakes, Festive Door Knocker, Kellogg's Xmas Tree, Flower Christmas Wreath, and a Beautiful Paper Snowflake.

Check out our latest Crafty Superstar Kate Shirazi, author of the book Cupcake Magic. She's posted 5 delicious recipes for cupcakes that you can try out at home. Yummy!

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Felt your own cute mini pumpkins, perfect for Halloween!

Check out this how-to on flickr!

We're happy to tell you that Snippets 12, The Day Of The Dead Issue is now online for you to read

In this issue we've got interviews with Melora from Rasputina, the Crafty Chica, Baking With Medusa, Adrienne King from the Friday The 13th movies,and roller girl Toni Carr. We've also got a costume competition, so if you're dressing up, make sure to enter your photos! Read it now >>

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Halloween has come to Cut Out + Keep and we've got hundreds of spooky craft projects to get you inspired and prepared for the day. Some of our favorites include Little Pumpkin Cupcakes, a Bat Costume, some Gruesome Knitted Eyeballs, a disgusting looking Brain Specimen Shot, Felt Jack O Lanterns, the Cheescloth Ghost, gory buy tasty Skull Crushers, make-up techniques for creating Fake Bruises, a Giant Spiderweb, beautiful but deadly Spider Web Earrings and this technique for Carving a Pumpkin. Check them all out here and happy spookings everyone!