For my birthday recently, I received Paint Sharpies. These are the best. They actually hold up with the whole sharpie on dishes thing. They are great. I've been trying to find a project to use them on and I finally figured it out. I am making a batman mug for my husband. I found the idea on Pinterest, and I'm totally stealing it.
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| Photo from Pinterest |
To start with, you will want to refer to my prior blog about how to use your own images. I got the Batman image off of the internet and used that, but the method is still the same. To check that out, go here.
I'm not using the same font in the picture above because I want it to look like a font found in Batman. In order to do this, I am using dafonts.com and the Batman Forever font. I had to download the font, so I did that and then I closed my Silhouette Studio (so the new font could be included in Silhouette Studio). Once it was open, I went to work.
After I got all the font and the image on, I sized it to fit my mug by measuring the mug and highlighting the whole image and text to be sure that it was all the right size. Once it was all selected, I could shrink it or enlarge it as necessary. Once that was completed, I cut out the image into vinyl and removed all of the images that I was going to be filling in.
Be sure when you do that, that the insides of the letters stay in place. I then, using the transfer tape, moved the vinyl to the mug. This was very challenging for some of the insides of my letters, so it wasn't as perfect as I would've liked, but the Batman logo looked good!
It was very hard to get the vinyl to lay flat on my round cup - that is something I am still trying to master, but I made it work just the same.
I then removed the transfer tape and went to work stenciling in my design. A normal sharpie will not hold up after being washed (even if it is "sealed" in the oven), so I got these fancy-schmancy sharpie pens: Water Based (although I hear oil based is even better), Sharpie Paint Pens. These actually do work. I've tried it, so I know. You can get these online or, occasionally, find them in craft stores. I found some primary color sharpies, but I went with these fun glittery ones. Because nothing says "manly" like a little bit of glitter! ;)
From here, I followed the directions for the Paint Sharpies and begin stenciling in my image and text.
And so began the waiting game. Once the stenciling was completed, I stuck my mug in a corner for 24 hours to let the ink dry. After it was dry, I removed the stencil. This took quite a bit of time because (since I used vinyl) the surface was very sticky and I had trouble removing it.
However, once it was all removed, I was ready to stick it in the oven. In order to make your mug dishwasher safe - you must bake it. I placed my mug in the oven (upside down so it wouldn't fall over), then I turned my oven on to 350 degrees, making sure that the mug started at room temperature and warmed up along with the oven. Once the oven reach 350, I started my timer for 30 minutes.
After 30 minutes, I turned my oven off and left the mug inside. I left the mug in there until the oven was cool. Thankfully, it was a chilly day so I just opened up the oven door and let the house warm up while the mug cooled off.
I then was able to take the mug out of the oven and it was ready to be used!
This was definitely not the cleanest looking design, but it was creative. I think in the future, I will stay away from the fonts and just do the image. The font got a little botched because it was hard to stabilize it. Also, I would recommend taping a piece of thick paper onto the mug as the stencil instead of vinyl because the vinyl was so sticky, there is still residue on the mug that I'm working to get off. But, for a first try - I'd say it's not too shabby. :)
It was very hard to get the vinyl to lay flat on my round cup - that is something I am still trying to master, but I made it work just the same.
I then removed the transfer tape and went to work stenciling in my design. A normal sharpie will not hold up after being washed (even if it is "sealed" in the oven), so I got these fancy-schmancy sharpie pens: Water Based (although I hear oil based is even better), Sharpie Paint Pens. These actually do work. I've tried it, so I know. You can get these online or, occasionally, find them in craft stores. I found some primary color sharpies, but I went with these fun glittery ones. Because nothing says "manly" like a little bit of glitter! ;)
From here, I followed the directions for the Paint Sharpies and begin stenciling in my image and text.
And so began the waiting game. Once the stenciling was completed, I stuck my mug in a corner for 24 hours to let the ink dry. After it was dry, I removed the stencil. This took quite a bit of time because (since I used vinyl) the surface was very sticky and I had trouble removing it.
However, once it was all removed, I was ready to stick it in the oven. In order to make your mug dishwasher safe - you must bake it. I placed my mug in the oven (upside down so it wouldn't fall over), then I turned my oven on to 350 degrees, making sure that the mug started at room temperature and warmed up along with the oven. Once the oven reach 350, I started my timer for 30 minutes.
After 30 minutes, I turned my oven off and left the mug inside. I left the mug in there until the oven was cool. Thankfully, it was a chilly day so I just opened up the oven door and let the house warm up while the mug cooled off.
I then was able to take the mug out of the oven and it was ready to be used!
This was definitely not the cleanest looking design, but it was creative. I think in the future, I will stay away from the fonts and just do the image. The font got a little botched because it was hard to stabilize it. Also, I would recommend taping a piece of thick paper onto the mug as the stencil instead of vinyl because the vinyl was so sticky, there is still residue on the mug that I'm working to get off. But, for a first try - I'd say it's not too shabby. :)
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