Supplies Calypso Coral cardstock - Roughly 2½" pieces of A4 cardstock to cut out teapot pieces Whisper White cardstock - Roughly 2 pieces of A4 cardstock to cut linings and make the flower Pool Party cardstock - 4" x 3"; 4" x 2" Domestic Goddess DSP - 2½" x 10½" Inks Stamp sets Punch Tools Accessories - Versamark; Calypso Coral; Pool Party - Mixed Bunch; Tea Shoppe; Teeny Tiny Sentiments - Blossom - Big Shot; Perfect Polka Dots Embossing Folder; Scallop Circle Die; Crop-a-dile - 1 silver brad; a 1¾" Styrofoam ball Instructions Print off template (attached) and cut out required pieces for teapot as marked on the template. Use Versamark to stamp the flower image from the Mixed Bunch stamp set onto the side, lid, handle and spout pieces of the teapot. Fold long all the score lines as shown on the template. Place doublesided tape onto the tabs on all side panels (on the opposite side to the embossing) as shown right. Attach all four sides to one of the base panels as shown left. This is the inside of your pot.
Flip over the assembled base and apply double-sided tape all around the edges as shown right and adhere the second base panel in place. To make the lid, use a paper piercer to make a hole in the center of the lid panel and in the end tab of the teapot knob as shown, left. Place the brad in the lid panel from the inside, set aside. Assemble the knob using tombow glue to adhere all panels except one. With the lid panel on your work surface with the brad sticking up, place the knob onto the brad lining up the pre-pierced hole. Secure the brad and then adhere closed the final side panel of the knob. Assemble the remainder of the lid using the tabs and double-sided tape. To make the spout, use a bone folder to slightly curve the top and bottom panels as shown left. Use tombow glue to adhere the longer panel to the bottom of the two sides of the spout and the shorter panel to the top of the two spout sides. With the base laying flat on the work surface, use double-sided tape to attach the spout to one of the panels of the teapot base. Use a paper piercer (or similar long object) to push down on the double-sided tape from the inside of the spout to secure it.
Use a similar process to assemble the handle of the teapot and secure this to the opposite side panel to the spout with double-sided tape. To decorate the inside of the teapot, use the Whisper White cardstock to cut out four lining panels and one scallop circle. Use the Perfect Polka Dot embossing folder to emboss the scallop circle and then use the large hole on the crop-a-dile to punch a hole in each scallop around the edge. Secure this to the center of the teapot base. You can decorate you teapot lining panels anyway you like. In this example I used Calypso Coral ink to stamp the flower from the Tea Shoppe stamp set randomly onto the two side panels and the corners of the top and bottom panels. The top panel has the tea for two greeting stamped in Pool Party ink and the bottom panel has the modern label border in the same ink. I used the happy mother s day greeting from the Teeny Tiny Sentiments stamp set to fill in the modern label outline. I used Pool Party ink to stamp the large teacup and the three small teacups from the Tea Shoppe set onto Pool Party card stock, then cut each tea cup out. I adhered the large one to the left hand panel with dimensionals and the three small ones to the right hand panel again with dimensionals. To make the teacup with flowers for the center of the teapot, first cut out the teacup in Domestic Goddess DSP using the template provided. Fold along all of the score lines and use a bone folder to slightly curve the sides of the teacup. Use tombow glue to adhere each of the tiny tabs that are on the base tabs of the teacup one to each other to start to make a round base. As you adhere the last tiny tab in place also place glue on one of the handles and glue these together at the same time. Finally attach the base of the teacup. The Styrofoam ball in the teacup will hold roughly 6 carnations, each needing 3 layers of cardstock. To make the carnations, punch out 18 blossoms from Whisper White cardstock using the Blossom punch. Use paper snips to cut down each of the scallops around the edge of all flowers. You need to snip down to leave only about ½ cardstock in the center of each flower. Use tombow glue to attach three blossoms together and then scrunch up the layers into a ball. Use a hot glue gun to adhere the flowers onto the ball in the cup. Scrunching and unscrunching all the
layers until you get the effect you are after. To finish off the carnations lightly sponge the tips of each flower with Calypso Coral ink. NB: For more information on how to create the carnations, there is a video tutorial available at: http://youtu.be/atjso6bsaww Use double-sided tape to hold the teacup in the centre of the teapot and you are finished.