Hello Craft is excited to be giving away two craft books from the London-based Black Dog Publishing.

Two lucky crafters could win one of the books in the Making Stuff series; Making Stuff: An Alternative Craft Book or Making Stuff for Kids.

Re-released to coincide with the publication of its sequel, Making Stuff has tons of projects for both the seasoned crafter and the craft dabbler. The beginning of the book lays out the basics so you’ll have no problem crafting any of the 50+ projects that include making a notebook out of old records covers, sewing a smock-dress, or making origami lights.

Black Dog’s latest book, Making Stuff for Kids, contains 176 pages of craft projects geared for 4-11 year olds, but packs enough kitschy coolness for kids of all ages.  Parents are even provided more advanced projects such as knitting and sewing, so they can craft for and with their kids, but at a more grown-up pace.

Kids’ projects include making cereal box theatres and soft toys, to creating paper flowers and making smiley house pin boards — a project by plush crafter extraordinaire and Crafty Bastards vendor Heidi Kenney, of My Paper Crane. Kenney’s house also adorns the colorful cover.

Wanna Win?
Entering this contest is super easy! Just make a comment on any Hello Craft blog post from today through August 31st, and you’ll automatically be entered to win.  You can double your chances of winning by recording your craft story on our Handmade Podcast, or by registering for our upcoming Field Trip to the Biggs & Featherbelle warehouse in Baltimore.

Exclusive Discount!
The nice folks at Black Dog Publishing have offered Hello Craft readers an exclusive discount of 50% OFF(!!!) both of the Making Stuff books. To take advantage of this offer, simply email Jessica at jess@blackdogonline.com and mention the code HELLO CRAFT OFFER. This discount is good thru August 31, 2009.

Tina Seamonster and her crafty clan will be testing out the projects in the latter book, so stay tuned for her official review of Making Stuff for Kids!