How to Make a Floating Tea Cups with Cascading Paper Flowers

Paper flowers are just as versatile as real blooms, if not more so because of their longevity. I’m always looking for new ways to decorate and craft with my paper blossoms. In today’s tutorial, I will show you step by step how to make floating teacups with cascading paper flowers!

This floating teacup craft is a beautiful handmade gift to give or a way to use a special piece of china in a new way. I think this is an excellent Mother’s Day gift! Your teacup will literally look like it is floating mid-air as if by magic. Let’s start with the supplies you will need for making this whimsical craft below.

Supplies

• Teacup and saucer – if you do not have one already check out eBay for some great options!
• A metal fork
• Hot glue gun
• Gorilla glue
• Paper flowers
• Moss and/ silk flowers
• Vase fillers or small rocks
• Small silicone mat

Paper Flower Templates

I used a variety of paper flowers to create this look. Specifically, my set of 10 rolled rosettes and my ruby rose template design. I also added in some paper vines to enhance the flowers using my whimsical vine, and leafy vine set. With the blue and purple teacup, I also used my poppy style paper flower.

If you want a large variety of paper flowers to work with, I highly recommend my ebook The Joy of Paper Flowers which comes with 24 templates and tutorials including the ones I used in the video. Or if you prefer to pick and choose, then download as many or as few as you wish here in the shop.

I sized all my paper flowers to make about 1.5 – 2-inch blooms using my Cricut Maker and Cricut Explore machines. The paper rosettes are particularly easy to create and make a lot of quickly.

Freebies

I also have a Freebie Vault with a couple of small blooms inside that you can use for this project as well!

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Constructing the Teacup

The first phase is to build the teacup structure. In a lot of similar tutorials, I have noticed crafters using only hot glue. When I tried this my hot glue just peeled away from the glass, so I chose gorilla glue to reinforce the hot glue and it worked perfectly!

I started bending my fork into a deep curve and then attaching the fork handle to the inside of my teacup with a little hot glue first then with my gorilla glue. Once I added my gorilla glue, I placed the silicone mat inside with weighted rocks or vase fillers to let it set up.

You will want to repeat the whole process a second time before connecting the folk to the saucers. Watch the full video here to see how I did it.

After your gorilla glue dries (typically 24 hours), you can start addressing the instability of the teacup. I discovered that no matter how I bent my fork the floating teacup was not altogether stable. So I glued down some weighted rocks or vase fillers as a counterweight.

Next, begin adding your moss over the rocks first with a little hot glue and then build up some silk greenery, and paper vines for the base.

Adding Flowers

Now you are on the fun part with adding paper flowers! I recommend playing around and laying out your design first before gluing anything down. Once you are happy with the layout glue down your paper flowers with hot glue.

For the fork handle, I like to cover it will some paper vines first and then add some flowers over the top.

Scroll down to watch me build this step by step in the video below!

What do you think of this floating teacup tutorial with paper flowers? I’d love to see how yours turns out. Be sure to join my Facebook group here and show off your crafts!

How to Make Floating Teacups – Video Tutorial

The video tutorial below walks you through the whole process visually step by step. Hit play to see how it is done! Be sure to subscribe to my YouTube channel for more videos weekly!

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