To Make the Printable Dolls House Tea and Coffee Mugs
- Cut out the coffee mug sides and bases. Roll the side sections over a pen or other round surface to curve them. Glue them together with a 1/8 inch overlap at the back. Set the side sections aside to dry.
- When the sides are dry, glue the base to the sides and press it onto a coffee cup base, the same way you made the sugar pot. Set the mug aside to dry.
- Make the straight sided tea mugs the same way. The tea mugs need to be curved to form a shape wider at the top than the bottom.
Shape the Saucers
- Cut out the saucers and shape them by running a rounded toothpick or embossing tool around the inner circle of the saucer on the printed side.
- Flip the saucer over and run a circle around the outside of the one you made on the other side.
Make the Cup Handles
- Cut out the straight cup handle sections removing all traces of the colored lines.
- Run an embossing tool down the length of the handle, causing it to curl slightly.
- Use tweezers and your fingers to fold or roll the handle in half, lengthwise (this takes patience.)
- Glue a 1/4 inch section in the center of the handle where the long edges meet. Set aside to dry.
- When the centre section is glued, cut the handle slightly below that area, and unfold the edges slightly. Add a dab of glue to the wrong side of this tab, and glue it to the back of a cup or mug, along the seam line and near the bottom.
- Set this aside to dry in place. (see photo)
- When the tab has dried in place, holding the base of the handle, curve the handle with your tweezers to make it have the shape you want and cut it slightly longer than you need.
- Turn the top end of the handle down towards the base of the cup or mug, and add a dab of glue to this turned over tab. Use tweezers to glue it in place just below the edge of the cup as in the photo. Set aside to dry.
To Make the Round Tea Cups
- Cut out the long patterned strips. Starting at the ble end, coil each strip loosely with the blue side facing out.
- When the complete coil is loosely shaped, hold the centre of the coil with a pair of tweezers, and re wrap the coil tightly. Remove the tweezers when the coil is large enough to handle, and continue to make a tight coil with the entire paper strip, ending with the patterned end.
- Trim the pattern so that it makes one complete wrap of the coil, and glue a 1/8 inch end to the coil beneath it. Set aside to dry.
- If you want plain blue cups (no pattern), cut off the patterned strip end before you coil it.
- When the end of the coil is dry, use a pen, or rounded end of a pencil, to gently push the coil out from the centre, making a cup shape. Do not push to hard!
- Tap the base of the cup down on a firm surface to make it flat.
- Spread a small amount of glue inside the cup and leave it aside to dry.
- If you wish you can add a second layer of glue colored brown to make it look like tea or coffee.
- When the glue on the inside of the cup has dried, make handles as you did for the straight sided cups and mugs. Set aside to dry.
