Tea Time by Gill Humphrey

I love tea! and teabag houses are definitely one of the things I love to create and so for this post I chose to work with the Teapot MDF kit. I constructed the teapot first which may seem a strange thing to do before covering with papers but actually worked really well. The house was then painted with two coats Ivory paint.

Next comes the slightly more fiddly bit of this make. I decided that I would cover the outside of the house with rice papers choosing the new A6 Alice Forever backgrounds. The reason I chose these is because the imagery is more suited size wise to the teapot than the traditional A4 rice papers. I chose 6 of the papers for my project! (there are 8 in the pack), adding them as shown in the photographs. When placing the rice papers on the front and back of the pot I lined one straight edge against the side of the spout and was careful placing glue on the opposite side so that I could remove the excess paper following the curves of the pot. I then used a scrap of rice paper to fil in the part of the lid area not covered by aligning the straight edge against the spout. Once the rice papers front and back had dried I used a scalpel to cut off the excess and open the windows back out and then added the contrasting paper to the handle and spout.

 

The two sides of the pot were covered using a single sheet of the A6 paper cut to size and ensuring that the text was orientated horizontally.

 

The lid was covered inside and outside with another piece of the rice paper.

I applied gold metallic wax around all of the edges and the undecorated painted parts of the teapot. Finally I embellished my teapot with wooden shapes.