To Make the Miniature Tea Cups
- Cut out the long green and patterned strips. Starting at the green end, coil each strip loosely with the green side facing out.
- When you have the entire coil loosely shaped, hold the centre of the coil with a pair of tweezers or a quilling tool, and re wrap the coil tightly. Remove the tweezers or quilling tool 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 only one complete wrap of the coil, and glue the last 1/8 inch to the coil beneath it. Set aside to dry.
- If you want plain green cups with no pattern, cut off the patterned end of the strip before you coil it.
- When the tab at 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 entire cup and leave it aside to dry.
- If you wish you can add a second layer of glue later, colored with brown water color 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.
