The floating cup is a type of topiary, a tree of happiness and prosperity. Creating a floating cup with your own hands is a creative, very exciting and low-cost process, and its result will delight you!)
The flying bowl looks very attractive and will add additional coziness and comfort to any home or office interior. Can be a wonderful gift for your loved ones and colleagues! Making a floating mug will not be difficult, the main thing is to know the basic principle of its manufacture and pay special attention to details and colors.
Master - Ovchinnikova Yaroslava
Materials
1) tea or coffee pair (cup and saucer)
2) glue for connecting the “flowing” structure with the bowl and saucer. It is better to use the universal Moment gel adhesive for ceramics, plastic or glass. An alternative can be any other adhesive designed to work with smooth surfaces. A glue gun is also used, but it is intended mainly for working with rough surfaces. There is a possibility that the cup will come off in the near future after gluing.
3) thick wire or triple wires. You can use other flexible items, such as old aluminum forks or spoons, or a metal hanger.
4) polymorphus ( superplastic ) – self-hardening thermoplastic. When heated, it becomes plastic and convenient for giving it the desired shape. When cooled, it becomes hard, elastic and durable.
5) masking tape - it can replace superplastic
6) modeling mass , can also replace polymorphus. It resembles plasticine, but unlike it, it hardens well in air. Contains natural ingredients (dough made from cereal flour), so it is absolutely safe for children.
7) decoration items : coins, flowers, pine cones, feathers, candies, beads, buttons, ribbons and much, much more.
Detailed description of production
All necessary materials must be prepared in advance. It is better to prepare a beautiful porcelain service. The advantage of this material is its lightness. The cup and saucer must be thoroughly washed and dried well. They must be dry.
Detailed instructions (a DIY floating cup with flowers is easy to do) are presented below.
The wire prepared in advance must be bent with pliers in the shape of the letter “L”. The approximate distance between the saucer and the cup should be about 10 - 15 cm. A zigzag or curl should form at the end. It is necessary to attach the wire to the saucer and cup to ensure that the structure is positioned correctly. If necessary, give the wire the desired angle of inclination. We align the base of the wire so that it fits snugly against the wall of the cup and the bottom of the saucer.
Now we use a glue gun. First you need to glue the wire to the bottom of the saucer and wait until the glue has completely cooled. There is no need to skimp on glue, because the wire should literally sink into it. This way you guarantee the stability and reliability of the future product.
Now you can glue the wire to the cup. Remember that the glue must dry completely, that is, cool.
The remaining part of the wire must be wrapped with masking tape. Now you can glue the flowers, starting from the top.
When the space between the saucer and the cup is covered with flowers, you can lay out the prepared material for decoration on the saucer in any form. These flowers need to be glued well to the surface of the saucer.
The same procedure must be repeated with the cup. Here we carefully place all the flowers, preferably smaller ones, and secure them well.
Cup assembly process
The process of creating a floating mug is not at all complicated, but there are several important nuances that need to be taken into account when creating it.
The main secret in creating a flying bowl is to choose the right tea pair. The cup and saucer should not be too heavy. If you take this condition into account, it will be easier to create a flying bowl!
We construct the base of the floating cup; this is the element that connects the saucer to the cup. To do this, take a wire of the required length. It is important to note that the distance between the bowl and saucer should be approximately two cups. With these parameters, the flying cup will look most balanced.
Inside the bowl we form a loop from the wire, the diameter of which should be 2-4 cm. This will help to achieve better fixation of the wire in the cup. We twist the second end of the wire into a flat spiral in two or three turns. This way we will get a kind of stand, which we will fix in the saucer.
The tilt radius of the resulting structure should not exceed 45 degrees, otherwise the structure will be unstable!
Next we work with the resulting wire structure.
Polymorphus is the best material when making a flying cup.
Take a piece of polymorphus and immerse it in hot water for 20 seconds. During this time, the material is converted into soft plastic.
We stick the resulting plastic, like plasticine, around the base, giving it the desired shape. If the plastic hardens before you finish the job, simply dip it back into hot water. The prepared base will completely harden within 15 minutes.
If you don’t have this material on hand, you can use modeling compound. An alternative to these two materials is masking tape, which is simply wrapped around the wire base. Or you can wrap the wire with felt or other fabric, after coating it with glue.
An important aspect is to constantly try on the base on a saucer with a cup in order to spot any flaws in time!
You should pay special attention to the edge of your cup in the place where the structure will be attached!
In this place it is necessary to make a kind of step in the form of a support. This way the structure will hold much more securely.
When the base is ready, you can begin fixing it on the cup. Lubricate with glue all surfaces of the base in contact with the saucer and cup. Press firmly and hold for 3-5 minutes. Don't forget to glue a step to support the cup!
We fix the flying cup on soft objects in the desired direction and leave it in this position for 5 hours. During this time, the glue will dry well and securely fix the resulting floating bowl.
When the floating cup is well glued, you need to check how stable it is.
If the saucer is not able to hold the cup, then it is necessary to reduce the radius of the structure until it becomes stable.
Next, we prepare materials for decoration. What the cup will pour out depends only on your imagination and available materials.
The last stage of making a flying bowl is the most interesting and creative. Decorating a spill cup! Apply adhesive gel to the decorative elements and glue them.
It is better to glue the large elements first, and glue the smaller ones last. This will hide small visible defects and gaps between elements.
After all the decorations are glued, you need to let the cup stand for 5 hours so that the glue dries.
The process of assembling a flying bowl is discussed in detail in the Hand-made master class from the Masterclassy website:
Flower topiary
Do you really want to decorate your home with flowers, but there is no way to care for living plants in pots? Why not make an interesting topiary: a floating cup with flowers?
Let's take a simple coffee pair, preferably white, green or pale blue without a pattern, thick insulated wire 15 - 20 cm, pliers, scissors and a glue gun. For decoration you need artificial flowers, rhinestones, butterflies, and beads.
Using pliers, we form a cable of the required length so that all decorative elements fit on it. Do not make the cable too long, otherwise it will not be able to support the entire structure. There is no need to overload it with flowers and butterflies. We give the cable the shape of the letter S. We glue one end of it with a gun to the saucer, the other to the lower edge of the mug. To make the structure stable, tilt the cup slightly forward. Apply foam around the wire frame to create a well-shaped decorative waterfall. If you chose a light saucer and the mug begins to weigh, weigh down the lower part of the structure with plaster.
It is better to start gluing artificial flowers or decorations from the bottom of the mug, gradually moving towards the saucer. By the way, you can glue the flowers onto a foam base, and then onto a saucer. After decorating the topiary with flowers, add additional touches: leaves, beads, a butterfly. A more modest, but no less original option: cover the frame with green paper, and place one single large rosebud in the mug. Having learned how to make topiary, you can give your master class on a floating cup.
Currently, many people are engaged in collecting, some collect stamps, some postcards, some figurines on various topics. And if you have ever collected Soviet coins of the USSR and you have a lot of them and nowhere to use them, pay attention to making a small waterfall from coins.
To make a money waterfall you will need:
Coins;
Strong wire/fork or spoon;
Coffee cup + saucer;
Thermal gun.
Money waterfall from coins step by step:
Break off the excess length of the fork's tines using pliers and bend it so that it is shaped like water pouring out of a cup. Also, instead of a fork, you can use thick and strong wire that can support the weight of the waterfall frame.
Apply glue to the saucer and glue the fork to it so that it is stable. You need to glue a cup to the other end of the fork (you can also use a cream jug or other small utensils).
Apply glue to the coins one at a time and fix them on the fork. Coins should be used in different denominations to make it look aesthetically pleasing. It is also advisable to use yellow copper coins, similar to gold. It is advisable to first paint them gold using spray paint. Lay out all the coins on the surface of the newspaper, cover with a layer of paint - after the paint has dried, you need to turn the coin over and evenly cover the other side. The coins need to be glued in any order, do not forget to glue a few into the cup itself. It will look beautiful if a couple of coins seem to roll out on the edge. The place where the fork is glued to the plate also needs to be decorated with coins - make a whole pile of coins.
You can decorate a room with such a waterfall, and it can also become a gift as a symbol to attract money to your home. Using this scheme, you can make a faucet with “flowing” military-themed stamps or dollars - don’t be afraid to experiment and come up with something of your own.
Hi all! A floating cup already sounds magical, and if this cup is made with your own hands with step-by-step photos and videos, with beautiful flowers, fruits, coins, coffee and even Easter eggs, then this is definitely the best holiday gift for many.
We have a lot of events coming up, including March 8 and Easter, and besides, everyone celebrates birthdays, so such a cup can be presented as a gift. Today I will tell you many options on how to make a steaming cup quickly, easily and for every taste.
A floating cup or mug, everyone calls this composition differently, there are even topiaries with flying mugs, but I haven’t gotten to them yet. Today I will show you many options for such cups with photographs and videos, and also provide a detailed master class, after which you should also have a desire.
I am sure that such a composition of coffee, for example, or fruit, will not interfere with your kitchen and will add some zest to the interior. For good luck, you can make a floating mug from coins or cereals; these are also great for gifts.
Well, friends, go ahead, read, remember, repeat and share information on social networks. Surely you will help someone with choosing a gift.
Flying mug of flowers
Flowers are the most popular decoration when decorating a floating cup with your own hands!
A cup decorated with paper flowers and monograms will look elegant. Pearls will add additional charm to this composition.
Creamy rose buds and white jasmine will help create such an airy, delicate cup.
Airy chiffon, snow-white lace, satin roses and pearl thread will perfectly decorate such a candle stand.
Using an old watering can and basin, you can create a summer flower bed with sunflowers. Breathe new life into old things!
The sunflower is a bright yellow flower that symbolizes wealth and prosperity. With its help, you can create such a sunny floating cup that attracts wealth into your home!)
Master - Svetlana
Surely many people have a teapot from an old set that sits idle and gathering dust. Create a vintage DIY piece in the form of a floating teapot pouring out a floral drink!
Or a floating jug with flowers:
Daisies made using the kanzashi technique from satin ribbons will become a simple, but no less elegant decoration for a flying cup
Flowers made from polymer clay will also perfectly color a floating cup with a bright floral abundance.
Master - Alena Putyrskaya
A terry flying teapot watering a flowerbed with flowers! When creating it, you can simply knit terry cloth for an old teapot or cover the teapot with pom-poms made of thread.
Nata Liana tells how to make a floating cup “Summer Mood”:
Variety of crafts
All needlewomen know that each product is unique. It is also known that you can use various materials to make such a souvenir. A floating bowl with flowers, made by yourself, is an example of a craft that anyone can repeat on their own or make a similar one using other materials. You can see a photo of a floating cup with flowers, made by yourself, below.
The cup can be used for various activities. It is multifunctional. And who would have thought that a topiary could be made from it? Today, not only hand-made floating cups with flowers are especially popular. They make coffee cups, cups with money, kanzashi flowers, cream, etc.
How to properly make such a product? A step-by-step description of how to make a floating cup with flowers with your own hands is presented below.
Floating cup made of coffee beans
Coffee beans are still one of the most popular materials used in decoration. It’s very easy to create such a floating mug, but there are a few secrets .
1. When creating a flying bowl, it is better to wrap the base with masking tape. Next, the resulting “slide” must be painted in the color of coffee with acrylic paint so that the base does not show through between the grains.
2. Another option is to wrap the base with brown fabric.
After this, you can start gluing the coffee beans. There is also one important nuance here.
If you use hot glue, it is better to apply it to the grains themselves, and not to the base. This way, glue smudges will not be visible.
Coffee beans can be complemented with decorative elements such as cinnamon sticks, dried citrus fruits, and clove flowers.
Satin flowers using the Kanzashi technique will perfectly decorate your steaming coffee cup:
Master - Vera Litvinova
The tea pair can be decorated with simple twine. Twine can be used in either natural color or dyed or bleached.
An appetizing cake will perfectly complement your cup. The cake can be “made” from modeling mass by painting it with acrylic paint and pasting it with coconut shavings. Be careful, there is a high probability of not being distinguishable from the real thing!)
Kanzashi Needlework Video tutorials will clearly show how you can make a floating bowl with coffee decor:
How to make a money symbol
A mug hanging over a saucer, from which a waterfall of silver or copper coins flows, will attract money into the house. In the photo, a floating cup with coins looks attractive, and anyone can make such a souvenir.
We will need:
- coffee or tea set from a mug and saucer;
- spoon or fork as a holder;
- metal coins;
- Scotch tape (you can use electrical tape);
- glue and pliers. You can also use a heat gun to secure coins.
Bend a fork or spoon using pliers so that one part is bent in one direction, the other in the opposite direction. The result will be the frame of the future topiary. We wrap the frame with electrical tape or tape. We attach its upper part with electrical tape to the cup, and the lower part to the saucer. Try to ensure that the parts are attached firmly so that the structure is stable.
Apply glue to the saucer and build a pile of coins. Make the same slide in a mug. Glue the remaining coins to the spoon (fork), forming a money waterfall. If you want to make a real money symbol that will work according to the laws of Feng Shui, buy Chinese coins and take a mug with the image of banknotes. Decorate the saucer with real banknotes.
If you want to surprise a coffee-loving friend, replace the coins with large-sized aromatic coffee beans. Place cinnamon sticks, refined sugar and chocolate candies on a plate.
In this case, it is better to wrap the frame with adhesive tape and paint it brown with acrylic paints or gouache. To make your coffee surprise last a long time, coat the finished product with varnish and leave it on the balcony for a couple of days to remove the unpleasant smell.
Flying mug of fruits and berries
With the help of plastic fruits, berries, and mushrooms, you can create such an abundance of fruits and berries pouring out of a cup. Butterflies will perfectly complement your fruit and berry cornucopia.
A floating cup can be decorated with bright gifts of autumn. Dried leaves and flowers can also be used. The mug can be replaced with a wooden barrel made from simple ice cream sticks.
Flowers and fruits are harmoniously combined in a floating stream. Butterflies, dragonflies, and ladybugs will be a wonderful “live” addition.
Work sequence
Making a floating cup with flowers with your own hands takes a minimum of time. This way you can make a great gift for your loved one in just a few hours. So, making such a souvenir includes performing the following tasks:
- The wire must be folded in the shape of the letter “L”.
- On the inside of the cup, use glue to attach a wire at one end. From the other - from above to the saucer.
- Glue each flower one by one from above to the wire.
- Place the flower arrangement on a saucer and secure it well.
There is nothing complicated here. Therefore, we immediately get to work. Where to start?
Floating money mug
A floating mug made of coins and coffee beans looks very stylish. The design technique of using an unfastening zipper will also add originality to your mug. Keys, bells, old small toys - everything can be used as decorative elements for your mug.
With coins you can also use imitation bills in which we pack candies.
The secrets of creating a money mug can be found in the Sveta DIY video tutorial:
The money tap is created using the same principle as the flying mug. Instead of a mug, we use a plastic tap, and a small chest or casket can replace the saucer. Coins will look more impressive if they are coated with gold spray paint or varnish.
Master - Anastasia Spitsyna
Cash flows can be depicted using paper bills.
Master - Oksana Ankudinova
You can see how to create a money tap in the DIY Gifts master class:
Conclusion
Hand made products are especially popular and in demand. You can feel the positive living energy from them. It is very pleasant to receive such a gift, because it is made with your own hands. And this means that the guest respects you and your home. According to Feng Shui experts, flower topiary will bring joy and happiness to the home. Anyone with even a little imagination can make a floating cup with flowers with their own hands. So don't be afraid and get to work!
Recently I caught myself thinking that there are already a lot of small spilling cups on a wire
I did, but never completed a master class on them.
Spill cup
or, as it is also called,
a floating cup
, has become widespread as a hand-made gift, combining extraordinary beauty, originality and ease of manufacture. The most common “waterfalls” are made from coins, coffee beans or artificial flowers.
We have already looked at coffee and floral spillers, but what about coins?
It is more suitable for large tea pairs, since the massive mug is better fixed there. And with a small (coffee) pair it is better to proceed in the following way...
So, let's get started...
To make a small spilling mug on a wire
we will need the following materials:
- coffee tea pair,
- strong wire (I have a piece of steel hanger),
- coins of the same denomination, preferably ten-kopeck coins (130-150 coins - depends on the length of the wire),
- adhesive plaster,
- a can of quick-drying enamel - gold,
- hot glue gun,
- pliers, round nose pliers,
- scissors
- scotch,
- food pouch.
I’ll say right away that I’m showing my method of making such spills. I have already made a lot of them, and I have already formed my own style, which, it seems to me, is the most successful: in which the craft turns out very beautiful, neat, without minor flaws - oozing glue, etc.
Someone paints everything with gold, including the tea pair itself, this is the easiest and fastest way. It seems to me that it is more interesting when the cup and saucer remain in their original color. You can paint all the coins at once, and then start gluing them. But when we apply hot glue to a painted coin and glue it to the money waterfall, our fingerprints may remain on the coin when heated, which then doesn’t look very nice!
Of course, it's up to you to decide! It all depends on several factors: how quickly you want to make the craft and what result you want to get.
So, my master class on wire painting
…
While the coins are drying, let’s prepare a blank, which we will then cover with coins.
To begin, we bend a piece of wire as follows (we make loops on both sides to secure them later on the bottom of the mug and on the saucer).
It’s not very clear, but when I show it on the mug, everything will fall into place. Glue the wire to the mug and cup using hot glue.
You choose the angle of inclination yourself as you like. Since there are coins in the saucer, the craft will be stable in any case. Just don't take a very long wire for a small cup. It will look awkward.
We cover the wire on the cup with unpainted coins, glue them with hot glue, thereby further securing the wire.
We wrap the free piece of wire with adhesive tape. You can make several layers from below.
But we will glue the inside of the mugs with already painted coins... We will also additionally secure the wire on the mug with them.
Inside and a couple of rows protruding from the mug (on the front and back of the mug).
It’s more convenient for me to start from the bottom, it’s easier to control the shape of the “money waterfall”.
Our spill cup is ready for coloring.
Carefully wrap the mug in a regular food bag and tie it.
But we will have to try hard on the saucer, and cover the entire surface that we do not need to paint with small pieces of tape. This is, of course, a labor-intensive task, but the result is worth it.
Like this…
Everyone is ready...
Now we paint everything from a can with quick-drying gold-colored enamel.
Immediately carefully remove the bag from the mug, this is important before the paint begins to dry, otherwise an unsightly mark will remain at the joint.
We will remove the tape from the plate when the paint is dry.
No matter how carefully you glue, the glue will still be visible if it is not painted over. For example, I can show the difference, so to speak, “before” and “after”.
