We love giving homemade personalised gifts here in The Mad House and we have been busy pinning personalised and monogrammed mugs for ages. Mini decided that these would make a great Fathers Day mug for MadDad (don’t panic Father’s day isn’t till the 15th June this year). These are so simple to make and if you do not have a Cricut Explore then do not despair as you could either use letter stickers or even print some out on your printer and cut them out.
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Materials:
- Cricut MachineĀ and vinyl or Scrapbooking Stickers
- Porcelain Pens – Not Sharpies
- Mugs – Ours were Ā£1.75 for a set of four from Asda
Top tip – Do not use sharpies. I know there are a lot of pins on pinterest using sharpies, but I tried it and they do come off in the dishwasher. Using porcelain paint pens makes all the difference as we are still using and dishwashing things that we used these pens on three years later.
How to make vinyl template using the Cricut Explore
How to make Dad mugs
- As I said above, do not worry if you do not have one of these fab cutting machines, you can use paper or scrapbooking stickers.
- Position them on to the mugs.
- As this was something the boys were doing we kept things really simple and use gold dots to create the negative space for the letters and then they coloured in the stencil one with silver porcelain pen.
- I think that monograms would look fab with black chevrons or stripes and we are planning those for teacher gifts.
- Once the paint has dried then carefully peel away the stencils and fix the mugs in a non preheated oven as per instructions, this will make them dishwasher safe.
- Dont forget to get your child to pop their name and the date on the underside of the mug.
What a fab ideas I Love these. the gold dot mug looks amazing.
This is such a great idea, thank you I’m pinning this and also going to make some for Father’s Day.
such a great idea for Father’s Day!
What a lovely idea – it’s my first Father’s Day this year… but may create something similar to this for my little one’s Grandpa š
Jen, these are great, they came out really well. And thanks for the tip about not using sharpies. x
Nice idea. I’ve not heard of porcelain pens before. Will definitely give those a try!
A simple idea that looks very effective and is cheap to produce too š
Great tip about not using sharpies. They seem to give very mixed results. Pinned š #pintorials
I saw these on Pinterest. Very cool! I think I need to get some porcelain markers! š
these look great – must try it out!
Love love love this idea……..great post hunny. I shall be having a go at this for sure xx
great idea, my hubby loves it when he gets stuff like this
Oh the panic when I saw this post – then a big sigh of relief as it’s still a few weeks away…the stencilled mugs are a fab idea, might give them a try!
These look great! I am hearing so much about this cricut lately, I fancy having a go with one myself.
Thanks for linking up to Tuesday Tutorials I hope you’ll come back next week too!
Such a great idea! Thank you for linking with us #Pintorials
Jen these are FAB! What a great idea, and so easily achievable š
Great ideas! I especially love the gold dot mug x
I keep hearing nothing but good things about the Cricut and by the looks of it it really is as good as it sounds! These mugs are such an awesome idea for Father’s Day, you can’t beat a homemade gift! xxx
I love these so much…………………….Great idea with Fathers Day coming up xxxx
looks like fun…. the thing is, you never get time to drink what’s in it! š
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Great ideas, love the gold speckled cup
What an amazing idea! Thanks for reminding me about Father’s Day, too….better get onto that….
These are great š My kids made me some mugs one year using porcelain pens and I thought they were brilliant. I know their dad would love these š
What a fantastic idea to create such lovely gifts.Any dad would love to receive these.
I have some porcelain paints – this is a fab idea!
These are great Jen! I must pull my finger out, I haven’t organised anything for Father’s day yet.
I LOVE this idea! It honestly never occurred to me that you could do this at home. I’ve not got anything sorted for Father’s Day yet, but that problem may now be solved!
That’s lovely Jen.
I must use my cricut more
What a great idea, F would love handing one of these over on Father’s day. x
They are fab, and a great idea for Father’s Day. I’m going to be experimenting with etching paste and the cricut soon, can’t wait to see what it turns out like.
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Those cups came out beautifully! I know these are for Father’s Day, but…I want one that says ‘Mama’ with the gold dot design. I love it! Thank you for sharing on Artsy Play Wednesday. I hope will share your creative ideas regularly!