A cup of flowers with their own hands: a master class. How to make a soaring cup with flowers?

Do you like making gifts in the style of hand-made? Looking for new ideas and opportunities for doing such souvenirs? Study the material in the article and you will get a very original cup with flowers. With your hands (a master class to help), you can follow all the step-by-step instructions and make a souvenir. This ordinary object seems to float in the air, while a "flower drink" streams on the saucer. This gift is sure to please everyone and can decorate any interior.

Prepare everything you need

In order for you to get a beautiful cup of flowers, with your own hands (the master class is given below), you need to buy or get from your stocks the following tools and materials:

• Tea pair (cup and saucer). It is better to use the kit, because in this case the elements correspond to each other in size and design. If you have separate, for example, unnecessary tea supplies (items remaining from the services) try to make them look harmonious in combination and have a suitable pattern. If the picture on them is completely different, it is worth decorating and the surface of porcelain.
• Wire or wire for the frame.
• Thread or twine to create a connecting surface between the fastening elements.
• Sandpaper or bar for surface treatment of porcelain in the places where the frame is attached.
• Glue or thermo gun.
• Artificial flowers and other decor (ribbons, bows, coins, coffee beans).

As you can see, all materials are simple and accessible.

How to make a cup of flowers with your own hands: useful tips

The most important stage in the creation of such a souvenir is the implementation of a wireframe connection between the cup and the saucer. It is on its strength, quality and reliability that it depends how long such a gift will please the owner with its beauty. If the connection is poor, after a while the cup just falls off and the impression of a spectacular souvenir will be irretrievably lost. It's unlikely that the new owner of the soaring cup will want to repair your creation. Most likely, he will deliver both objects separately and each time they will remind you that the gift or purchase was made poor. So it's worth trying and doing it right.

The sequence of work should be as follows:

1. Prepare two wires or metal frames from the wire. It is better to use a pair, not one. So it will be more reliable. The size of the cut parts will be about 30 cm. You can take a single element without cutting the workpiece.
2. Determine the location of the wire to the cup and saucer. These parts must necessarily be treated with sandpaper. The rugged part has better adhesion properties than the lacquered glossy. The surface must also be degreased. You can use acetone.
3. First, attach the wire to the inner surface of the cup, then bend it 180 degrees. The cup will be like a clamp. Aim the workpiece at the desired angle to the saucer. There perform the fastening element to the plane.
4. The second wire bend in exactly the same way.
5. Attach the workpieces to the parts and thickly glue with glue or treat with a thermo gun.
6. The main technological stage is completed. It's a good idea to wrap the frame with threads or twine, forming a surface for the arrangement of flowers and decor. Each turn is also well treated with an adhesive.
7. Then you can proceed to the most interesting and creative process - decorating a tea pair.

How to make a cup of flowers with your own hands: a master class

So, to make a beautiful souvenir from an ordinary tea pair, proceed as follows:

1. Connect the cup and saucer with a wire frame.
2. Wrap the wireframe with threads.
3. Take artificial flowers. If they are purchased, remove the elements from the stems.
4. Glue the large parts to the saucer in place of attaching the frame.
5. Place small elements where the wire is glued to the cup.
6. Fill the flowers and leaves with a surface of threads between the frame. Try to do immediately so that the parts of the structure are completely zadekorirovany. No twine, no wires should be visible.
7. Decorate the souvenir with an additional decor: coins, ribbons, butterflies, beads, sequins.

What shades are better to combine

To make a beautiful floating cup with flowers (photo below), it is very important to choose harmonious colors in the composition.

You can act in two ways:

1. Choose contrasting components (orange with blue, yellow and purple).
2. Perform compositions on close combinations (pink, yellow-orange, blue-violet).

Pay attention to the size of the elements of this or that shade. It is better to put a few big bright accents and complement them with other smaller pieces.

How to make flowers from nylon

A floating cup with flowers can be made not only from purchased items, but also from ones created independently. Techniques for performing floral elements are very different. You can use and fabric, and satin ribbons, and even paper.

It is easy to make flowers from nylon. Usually, the wire frame is used to make the petals, which forms the contour of the element. On the workpiece pull the capron and fix it. When the right amount of petals and leaves are made, the parts are assembled into a single whole. In the case of decorating the cup, individual flowers can even be anchored on the base with wire.

How to decorate from chiffon

A floating cup with flowers can be made using ornaments from this material. From it, it is easy to cut out the blanks for the petals according to the pattern, to work the edges over the candle, so that the fabric does not crumble and connect the parts into a single flower.

Roses can be made from a strip, collected on a thread in a frill. This option also turns out beautiful and natural.

Kanzashi technique

A very unusual floating cup with flowers can be made using blanks made by this method. Such flowers will not be naturalistic, but decorative, but very beautiful.

They are made of specially folded squares cut from satin ribbons of different widths. Overflowing texture, bright color combinations, additions made from beads, will help create a real masterpiece. It will take longer than using purchased artificial flowers, but such a gift will be truly unique.

So, you learned how to make a cup of flowers with your own hands. A master class and useful tips should help you implement this interesting and original idea. Prepare materials and tools and start an exciting creative process.