We've all gone a bit dotty!

It was glitter and glue at the ready for the preparation of our big December Christmas Crafters shoot. Having found the perfect location, decided on a colour theme of monochrome, coupled with a style theme of circles and dots, we set to work calling in fabulous outfits for our girls to wear and making all manner of props to create the perfect shot! Company\'s designer Ann was in charge of finding gigantic balloons, whilst art editor Tanita put in a call to Hobbycraft to see if they could help with glitter, glue, paint and all the other things to make this shoot work. Here\'s what Ann had to say:

\"This was one of the most fun concepts to find props for as we got to be kids again and play with giant balloons, glitter and paper cutting! It reignited an old creative spark for craft from my playschool days and I relished with glee the opportunity to inflate the giant balloons. We had a trail run in the office and there was a huge audiences we all watch it go larger and larger! I was so nervous it would pop and blow up in my hands. We had to stop far short of the potential 6ft that it could have got to! The black paper circle were all created by an amazing giant hole punch from Hobbycraft, simply brilliant. We got through over 4 packs of black card but we were so thankful that we didn\'t have to cut them out by hand.\"

On the day it was all hands on deck to blow up balloons and attach dots to the walls. Assistant fashion editor Emma had rails and rails of amazing outfits for our girls to try, and once hair and make-up had been done the transformations were complete. All the girls looked amazing and trying to choose just one shot of them was tricky as there were so many to choose from!

Check out the December issue, on sale now, to see how the final feature looked! Now we\'re off to try and come up with something bigger and better for next year.....!

We\'ve all gone a bit dotty!