Drawing On Ceramic Mugs With Sharpie

Pick your favorite colors of sharpies and go to work.

Drawing on ceramic mugs with sharpie.

And who wants a coffee mug they can t wash. Diy sharpie mugs are still all over pinterest but do they really work. This diy works best with cheap dollarstore dollartree in particular ceramic mugs. To make sharpie mugs start by tracing or drawing your designs directly onto white ceramic mugs using oil based sharpie paint markers.

The ceramic sharpie train that is. Diy sharpie ceramic mugs and cups are such a fun family project. This is because there is less glaze on them so the paint can adhere better to the ceramic when baked in the oven. Carefully draw your design with sharpie paint markers.

You can choose to bake the mugs twice to really set in the sharpie drawings. How many of you have seen those sharpie painted diy mugs all over pinterest. The marker is not actually wash resistant when applied to ceramic. Here is another version of the diy sharpie marker coffee mugs.

I m so glad you landed on our how to make a diy sharpie mug that won t wash away post we are going to make some awesome creations together today. Get all the grime and dust off to ensure the markers stick to the mugs well. Diy anthropologie coffee mugs drawing on ceramic with sharpie posted by honor on friday february 1 2013 under. I did it once before when i found this awesome product and did this tutorial.

Add accent colors if necessary. The only problem i ve read over and over is that regular sharpies will come right off. So i jumped on the bandwagon again. Let the kids decorate and give as gifts they ll be a treasured memento.

Some other sharpie mug methods say 350 or 375 but the hotter the oven the more the original white glaze will melt and allow your sharpie paint to set in so i like to bake my mugs at 425. It sounds so easy and awesome. By putting the mugs in the cold oven and allowing them to preheat along with the oven you reduce the risk of them cracking from sudden changes in temperature. While sharpie mugs are very popular right now there doesn t seem to be any consensus on how to best make the mugs.

Some say that some of the colors change when baked some say that they don t stand up to dishwasher washing or handwashing even and some say that the paint chips off the mugs after a couple uses. Step 2 once the mugs are clean it s time to decorate. I have seen this pinned many many times on pinterest including pinning it myself. Choose the right sharpie for mugs.

Hand wash the mug gently instead of throwing it in the dishwasher as a machine washer may ruin the design. Where people take basic sharpie markers and paint on ceramic dollar store pieces with them it s such a popular idea right now especially around the.