We have gone with the Cup we made the other week when someone was looking for a quick line work design to make at
a football awards ceremony evening. I have posted some variations and how we ended up with the design we have here,

https://www.balloonchat.co.uk/balloon-chit-chat/cuptrophy/

I will post the step by step tutorial over the coming days.

This is the complimentary packs we are putting into all orders being shipped out for this month.
Hope the Cup/Trophy is of use to a few.

Pre stretch the first Chrome Silver as you do need a lot from this balloon, pull the balloon through your finger and thumb.

Inflate leaving 7 fingers un-inflated, make a small 1 finger bubble that will be made into a pinch twist after you make the fold twists.
Then make a 3 finger fold twist followed by two more 3 finger fold twists.

You need a 6 finger bubble followed by two 1.5 finger bubbles and make into pinch twists.

Then make a 6 finger bubble and a 1.5 finger pinch twist, make two 2 finger bubbles and another 1.5 finger pinch twists.
The two pinch twists are where the handles for the Cup/Trophy will fit later.

Then the last bubble needed from this balloon is another 6 finger bubble that is twisted into the lower two pinch twists.

The cup/Trophy will hopefully be looking a little like this.
If you make from a non Chrome balloon you might need to make all the dimensions a little smaller to get this from just one balloon.

Inflate the second Chrome leaving 4 fingers un-inflated, attach to one of the top pinch twists.
Make a 4 finger bubble and then a 12 finger bubble and twist this into the two lower pinch twists.

I then made a 6.5 finger bubble and a 2 finger bubble and twisted this between the two 2 finger bubbles from the first balloon.

Then make another 2 finger bubble followed by a 6.5 finger bubble and twist the balloon back into the two lower pinch twists.
(The 6.5 finger bubbles help keep the top of the Cup/Trophy level due to the pinch twists where the handles attach)

You then need a 12 finger bubble and a 4 finger bubble and attach to the other top pinch twist.

If making the Cup/Trophy for line work it might be OK to leave like this but to fill in the top section a little.

Inflate the last Chrome about half way and attach to one of the top pinch twists. You now need four 3 finger bubbles.
Make the first 3 finger bubble and twist this between one of the 6.5 and 2 finger bubbles.
Then make another 3 finger bubble and twist around the opposite side pinch twist.

Then make another 3 finger bubble twisted between the other 6.5 and 2 finger bubble and the last 3 finger bubble back to the first pinch twist.
Discard the rest of this balloon, although you could have a 4 finger bubble to fill in from the top centre of the cup
down to the two lower pinch twists. You can see the bubble added in picture 18 and not in picture 17.

The finished Cup/Trophy.

I also made with 160 for the handles as proportionally you might prefer that style?

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