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First off let me start this post by saying “THANK YOU!” My birthday week has been amazing and I can’t wait to celebrate virtually with you all tonight on Craft-Tastic LIVE @ 6 pacific 8 central 9 eastern.

If you haven’t already RSVP’d please do so here and don’t forget to invite your friends! We are going to have some great giveaways from CutNPaste Memories, Alesia Fowler, Cynthia Gagen and myself. Here’s a sneak peak at what you could win.

We might even have some virtual cake! It’s a Craft-Tastic you won’t want to miss LIVE tonight @ 6 pacific 8 central 9 eastern!!

Yes I realize it’s mid March and I’m finally posting all of the crafts I blazed through in February…… No words can explain what a random and totally crazy month it was, so here’s pictures!

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Ever since the Andrea Currie Crafts: Paper Bag Tea Cup Valentine show people have been hounding me for a template. I’m quite flattered that the craft turned out looking so good that everyone who didn’t watch the video assumed a template was needed. As much as I love making templates for my lovely fans this project really doesn’t need one. It’s just a matter of some clever folding and simply placed staples. The best part is you don’t need much to create this project. Most materials you have laying around the house. Of course since I’m an embellishing queen (sometimes over embellishing) that loves to create different embellished versions of each project.

I’ve been debating if just having the video was a good enough explanation of how to create these cute little tea cups and it turns out the audience is asking for more visuals and instructions. I can’t say no to that, now can I? So here we go!

Materials
- Brown Paper lunch Bag
- Scissors
- Glue stick or glue runner (any glue that’s good on thin paper)
- A little bit of colored paper ( about 3 inches by 3 inches)
- Stapler
- Stamps and ink
- Stir stick or straw
- Any other light embellishments you want. I used a punch for some hearts and so on.

Keeping your paper bag flat cut the bottom of the bag off.

Fold in half joining the open ends together. Draw a half tea cup shape leaving the fold as the middle of the tea cup. Then cut this shape out. Once complete you will unfold once to see your complete tea cup shape.
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Unfold the whole piece of paper (it’s like an accordion) so you have the peak of the paper in the middle.

Fold each tea cup bottom towards the center of the peak. They should be touching and perfectly mirroring each other.

Now decorate to your hearts content Just remember that the paper is lightweight and will hold up its’ form better with light weight embellishments such as stamps. I slapped on a few paper hearts for this example.

Once you are finished embellishing you will need to flip the paper over to prepare for stapling. You will need only two staples on either side of the project. make sure to staple in the middle of the crease as evenly as you can. The staples serve as feet when you stand up the tea cups.

You can make any sort of handle you want. I just folded over some scrap paper and cut out a heart leaving the bottom of the heart in line with the fold.

Just put some glue up the sides of each tea cup shape. Stick the handle on before you join the shapes. When joining the shapes you are also going to want to work the paper around the staples which causes a little puckering. Do your best to join the shapes from base to top. It’s hard to get it perfectly aligned so don’t be surprised if you need to do a little trimming.

cute little tea cup!

Decorate a stir stick and add your favorite tea or Valentine’s Day message and wha la cute little tea cup!

Also if you are feeling like another round with even more umph I suggest you use your next paper bag cut out as a template for heavier paper like this one!

Have fun and if you get lost you’ll find Lot’s of good tidbits to be had in the video

I love crafting and I love Valentine’s Day decorating. I also love spreading some free downloadable templates!

If you missed the Valentine’s Day Garland show give it a gander here: http://www.ustream.tv/recorded/4248098
And don’t laugh at the fact that I can’t rock the hat I made at the Crafty Chica’s booth! Follow along with the downloads here: http://andreacurrie.com/downloads.htm
OR make your own! It’s super easy and you can’t beat the price

For my late Aunt Wendy and doggie Izzy I created the mini shrines out of some altoids cans, sparkles and embellishments.

Let me know if you want more detailed instructions on how to make these.

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