This past week has just gotten away from me, I haven’t had a moment to blog and I meant to post this before the big wedding weekend.
Exciting times since this is my first craft DIY post!
I am really happy to share this craft with you, it was a project we did to make wedding favour’s for my good friend’s upcoming wedding.
In light of that we made about 120 of these, which took a while…a little bit. This is a great inexpensive gift idea and if you’re making a few it’s relatively quick to make. There are many tutorial’s on pinterest and online for personalised mugs, in South Africa we do get a variety of marker’s including Sharpies that are becoming more readily available. For this project though I wanted to achieve a paint effect that had some texture. I scoured online and eventually ended up at the Herbert Evans in Rosebank, where a wonderful guy named Henry helped me find what turned out to be the perfect solution.
To make these cute crafty personalised enamel mugs you need the following products:
- Enamel mug which is easily available at major retailers and come in a variety of colors. (R10.00)
- Americana Writer paints (Red and Purple in the picture) by Deco Art. They come in a variety of colours and in a tube with an applicator. (+/- R 30.00)
- Americana Gloss Enamel in black also by Deco Art (+/- R30.00)
- Toothpicks or painting utensils that you are comfortable with.
Once you have all the necessary tools, it’s actually very quick and easy to make a personalised mug. A few things to note before you start is that you should decide on a design or concept before since writing on a curved surface can be tricky. Also, although the paints come with applicators on application it was quite thick so for our design and purpose it worked out better to use toothpicks as a drawing utensil.
Since we were doing multiple colours we first did the black which was the basis of the design and outlined the cute heart accents.
We then left the black paint to dry for a few hours before applying the colour paint. Overall the process of painting on the mug takes less than 15 minutes.
Once all the painting was done we left it to dry overnight before baking the mugs at 180 C for 30 minutes. And that’s it!!… we have 120 personalised mugs to give all the wedding guests. We filled each mug with a tasty single serving size hot chocolate complete with cookies and mini marshmallows.
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