I’d like to start my blog today with thanking Joanna for being so awesome and for bringing so many beautiful scrappy supplies into my life – where would I be without The Paper Teapot? I’m so glad I found this place in 2013!
This project was a last minute decision but a very fun one. I have never made a bunting before but thought it would be fun and would give me a chance to do a mini tutorial on using the silhouette machine.
The first step is to decide on a shape, which to me was obvious…teapots! I googled ‘teapot silhouette cut file’ as there are loads of free images out there that can be used as is or modified to suit. I found this website which had a lovely teapot shape with a teacup. This cut file was really for an easel card but it is easy enough to change this. http://www.birdscards.com/vintage-tea-easel-card/. Here is the cut file shown in silhouette.
I wanted to use the Bo Bunny Soiree 6×6 paper pad for this project and I wanted each teapot to be as large as possible. I copied and pasted the plain teapot to a new drawing and resized to fit nicely in a 6×6 square. To make this easy, I set the grids up by opening the grid setting window and changing the Spacing to 3 (it won’t allow it to be set to 6) and the divisions to 1.
Now I could put 4 different pieces of paper on the cutting mat and cut 4 teapots in one go. I copied the teapot 3 times and placed inside the 6×6 squares making sure there was enough space around and then sent to the silhouette. It cut brilliantly on cardstock setting with only one cut.
Obviously I needed a fifth teapot so I set up the cutting mat with two more pieces of paper for the teapots (I changed my mind about the green paper) and two pieces of paper for the teacups. I placed the teacups all within the same two pieces of paper and to mix things up a little I mirrored two teapots and three teacups so they were flipped over.
Next I used some silhouette chipboard to cut the same shapes out again. This chipboard is a great weight to add a little bit of sturdiness to off the page projects or for some dimension. It cuts really well without having to worry about testing before running the real cut; set the material type to chipboard and make sure it is set to double cut and don’t forget to change the actual blade!
Now I had awesome teapots and cups to stick together and decorate…the fun bit! I confess that I had a little help, my sister came for coffee with my dear niece and they helped me glue and choose ribbons and flowers. My niece decorated one of the extra teapots I had cut, didn’t she do well!
Here are the finished teapots.
And this is the bunting strung up. And yes my walls really are that colour!
I love love love these little teapots and I hope Joanna thinks they are as cute as I do! Happy birthday!!
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