My little girl turned 5 years old last week. When she was born, it was hard to imagine this little tiny baby eventually growing into a walking, talking school aged kid.
And then I blinked… and she was grown! A perfect little mix of both me and her daddy with her own wild personality.
Each year I let my girls pick their birthday party theme. This year Natalie picked a tea party theme.
Her party invitation is a freebie from The Shoppe Designs – get it HERE. I altered it to fit the tea party theme.
I enjoy doing themed parties, creating the decorations, and baking special birthday cakes for my girls. I’ve built quite the collection of party decor, but I still like to make something unique for each party.
This year, I made a yarn wrapped letter banner and paper tea cup cupcake wrappers. The yarn banner cost me $5 – the price of the yarn. And the cupcake holders were made with cardstock I already had.
Yarn Wrapped Letters
I chose the “Bebas” font since it’s bold and completely straight. Then I cut the letters as large as I could on a sheet of red cardstock. I like to use double sided tape or glue to keep the red cardstock stuck to my cardboard while cutting. Cut your letters out of the cardboard with a utility knife for a clean cut.
Start wrapping the cardboard letters with a thick yarn. Thin yarn will work too but it takes forever and I like the look of the thicker yarn better. You will need to stop and start in places so you can cover every section of the letters. Just make sure you start the new piece on the back of the letters.
Once you have finished all the letters, you could leave them as is and sit them on a shelf or table. OR you could hot glue the back of the letters to a piece of twine or rope for a banner, like I did.
Tea Cup – Cupcake Wrappers
The paper tea cups were made with textured pastel cardstock. I tested a few cupcake wrapper freebies I found before I created this template myself. I wanted my tea cups short so the icing on the cupcake would show.
Click to download the FREE Silhouette cut file – Tea Cup Cupcake Wrapper
UPDATED: Click here to download the free PDF file – Tea Cup Cupcake Wrapper PDF
I cut my tea cups on a 12×12 sheet of cardstock. There are two different types of handles. Glue the two matching pieces together for a stronger handle.
Super glue the handle to the edge of the wrapper and let it dry before you bend out the handle. Next, add super glue to the inside of the lower part of the wrapper and attach the base of the cup (the larger of the two circles) by pushing it down from the top.
Then all you need to do is glue your plate for the cup to sit on. The cup and the plate should be two separate pieces.
It sounds difficult but it’s actually quite easy. And you could always skip adding the handle and use them as plain scalloped cupcake wrappers.
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I want to try working with Vinyl
I would like to try to make a Customized Hot Air Balloon Banners
I would give it to my mother in law. She would make all kinds of things for her grandbabies. She is so crafty. I would get her to help me make decorations for wrapping presents. She is awesome at gift wrapping.
I would love to try making the 3D Deer Head Wall Art. It would look amazing with the eclectic decor in my den.
I want to make Christmas cards.
thank you for providing the cup of cha file
Is the cut file still available? Nothing happen when I click on it.
Never-mind, I got it, was clicking on the place on top.
Is there any chance you’d provide the tea cup cupcake file as an SVG? I love it so much but my cutter isn’t a Silhouette :(.
Is there anyway you could make the cupcake wrapper file just a PDF… I don’t have the machine was just going to DIY it 😉
Hi Tara! A few people have asked for a PDF file, and I finally updated the post! Let me know if it works for you!
Thanks so much!! 🙂
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I have been sitting at my computer for hours trying to print out the templet for the tea party cupcake holder. I have tried to save the files….everything I can thing of.
This is the direct link for the printable file — https://drive.google.com/folderview?id=0B980QKOT83aUZDU0OW1FTThmZlk&usp=sharing
If you are still having trouble, please shoot me an email, and I will email the files to you.
So, I was able to upload it to my machine, but it took the dash as cutouts and cut each one out. Do you have the teacup image in a solid line instead of dash line? Thanks.
you mentioned the larger circle is for the base of the cup… what is the smaller circle for? is there any step by step directions? i kind of have the idea but just wanted to make sure that i was going to use the two circles appropriately…
thank you.
The smaller circle is for the plate that the teacup sits on. I know it sounds difficult at first but once you get that first one down, you can make a ton of these really quickly!
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Thanks for the pdf! Is this for mini cupcakes?
Nope, regular full size cupcakes.
Hey! My daughter Tanle is having a Tea Time of “My life” Birthday party! This would be awesome as cupcakes but I am knew to all this. I just got a Cricut maker recently would love to cut these out- is there anyway you could send me the svg file for the tea cup cupcake wrappers?
Hello, Is there suppose to be a small cut out for the tab to fit into on the wrapper?
hello,
Love your cardstock teacup!! Would love to make some for my assisted living residents for a Harvest Tea Party we are having. I’m short on time. I would love it if there was a SVG file so I could cut them out on my Cricut machine. Do you have one? I see you have a Silhouette file, but not sure if I can use that on Cricut. and when I try to go to it, it gives me an error. Can you help? Please
Do you have a jpg file? I would like to cut these out on my explore air but it won’t accept pdf. Thank you!
Hello, I am also trying to access the pdf file or a svg file, if available. Looking forward to making these for my grand daughter’s 1 st birthday ONEwerland theme.
Thank you,
Patty