This contest is now closed. The winner is: Sarah Elizabeth Borgnis! Remember, if you didn't win, you can still take advantage of the great deal Silhouette is offering to Cupcake Project readers. See the details at the bottom of this post.
In grade school, I was a straight E student (our school used "E" for Excellent instead of the standard "A"). My only S (for "Satisfactory") was in spelling (hooray for the invention of spellcheck!). However, if they gave out a grade in cutting, I would have gotten my only F. As a lefty, I could never get the school's scissors to cut - even the ones with colored rubber on the handles designating them for southpaws.
Recently, I've come across a few tutorials on how to make your own cupcake wrappers like the ones that I purchased from
Sugar Cat Studio for
Wedding 3.0. They involved buying craft paper, printing a wrapper template on it, and then cutting it out. I didn't even bother trying. I assumed that my wrapper would end up looking like a newspaper shredded by a cat's claws. I decided to leave cupcake wrapper making to the E+ cutters.
Things changed when I got an email from Shelly at
How Does She asking if I would be interested in reviewing a
Silhouette digital cutter. Yes, please! A digital cutter, for the uninformed (like I was), works like a printer - only instead of printing, it makes perfect cuts! I cut the wrapper above using the Silhouette, and look what else I made:
Even though I am a complete non-crafter, I'm already thinking of other ways that I could use my machine:
fancy cards,
t-shirt designs (with
vinyl transfer paper),
scrapbooking,
gift bags, and so much more.
You want one, don't you? Thought so! :)
Luckily, Silhouette gave me an extra one to give away! Here are the details:
), you certainly don't need one to make cupcake wrappers. I'm writing this post in two parts: "How to Make Cupcake Wrappers Without a Digital Cutter" and "How to Make Cupcake Wrappers with a Silhouette Digital Cutter".
