Quick Quotes Off the Page! Topiary in a Teacup

Hello, Alicia posting today with a flower project.  Our challenge this month at Quick Quotes.  I have upcycled a fancy teacup for display.  My mother used to make crafts like this years ago but not with paper, she used real flowers.  As a matter of fact she supplied me with the teacup!

I manually cut and embossed each flower and inked generously with Antique Linen PowderPuff Chalking Ink.  I then rolled the flowers using a dowel to keep them rounded.  Finally I added a dab of hot glue to keep them together.  Here they are after inking:

It took pretty much all of 100 flowers.  You can't tell but this is a miniature teacup.  The Styrofoam ball I used was only 2 1/2 inches.  Because of the tiny dimensions I used the smallest 3-D flower dies I had in my collection.  I though about electronically cutting them but the embossing details added so much texture especially when inked with Quick Quotes powderpuff chalking inks it was worth the effort.  I used pins with pearls on top to secure them to the ball.

I used half a ball at the bottom of the dowel for the base.  It fit in the teacup like a charm!  I covered the top (flat side) with leaves from the same die set, again with a beautiful emboss only more enhanced with Green with Envy PowderPuff Chalking Ink.  I added a few flowers at the base.  I didn't want to wait for paint to dry so I wrapped the wood dowel in gold washi tape that matched the gold detail on the teacup.  Finally, I added a bow with just a little sparkle.  

Aren't the details of the cup exquisite?  I didn't want to actually alter the tea cup so thanks to the perfectly sized Styrofoam balls the topiary simply sits inside the teacup! I hope you have enjoyed this project. Please join us by August 25th for the Quick Quotes Flower challenge.

Quick Quotes Products used:

Honeycomb 105 paper

Urban Oasis 101 paper

Antique Linen PowderPuff Chalking Ink

Green with Envy PowderPuff Chalking Ink

other products used:

Spellbinders Bitty Blossoms

Martha Stewart ribbon

gold washi tape

pins with pearls

Styrofoam balls

wood dowel

hot glue

I would like to enter this in the following challenges:

http://unstampabelleschallenges.blogspot.com/2016/08/time-for-new-challenge-60-for-august.html until 8/26

Here's a tutorial on how to create these flowers.

http://craftybootschallenges.blogspot.com/2016/08/anything-but-card.html until 8/27x

http://craft-deebowz.blogspot.com/2016/08/august-challenge.html until 8/30x

http://alteredeclectics.blogspot.co.uk/2016/07/august-over-here-at-altered-eclectics.html until 8/30x

http://rheddscreativespirit.blogspot.co.uk/2016/08/august-challenge.html until 8/30

http://eclecticellapu.blogspot.co.uk/2016/07/august-challenge-here-already.html until 8/30
Pink team floral

http://pileitonchallenge.blogspot.com/2016/08/pile-it-on-115-die-cut-embellishments.html until 9/3

http://frillyandfunkie.blogspot.com/2016/08/floral-infatuation-challenge.html until 9/6 (C10)x

Thanks so much for stopping by!

Alicia