Fold and glue miniature baking and candy cups to make flowers, or cut them into leaves.
Tools and Materials
Two paper cups
Fast-drying craft glue
Small gold brad
Paper Cup Flowers How-To
1. Snip two paper cups in half, as shown. Turn halves inside out.
2. Pleat each half, as shown. Secure pleats with a dab of fast-drying craft glue.
3. Join four pleats at their points with fast-drying craft glue.
4. Affix flower inside a third inside-out paper liner if desired. To finish, pierce the flower with a small gold brad. To make a more ornate flower, you can place a bit of embossed gold trim at the center before adding the brad, or glue cutout leaves beneath the flower.
Resources
Trim: similar gold and white, white braided (No. 900-00161-WT), and gold rickrack (No. 11041) from M&J Trimming. Paper Dresden Trim: Wild Rose Spray in Gold (DT030G) and Floral Hearts in Gold (DT007G) from blumchen.com.
thank you ! I've been looking for this site and didn't have the name right!
I found the site for the paper cups, it is www.vikingimporting.com it really has lots of products and for really good prices.
I foud them!! (after looking for 30 min) www.intheoven.com
http://www.vikingimporting.com/ is the website. It was confusing, but finally found it. Hope this helps "kargrego."
I'm unable to find the pretty paper candy cups that Martha used on her show today - she mentioned "Viking Imported" but all I see there are candy bar wrappers. Can someone help me find the pretty candy paper cups she mentioned today? Thanks!