Hi, I'm Sophie and welcome to my world. Today I have a little craft for you that
was inspired by RaChil at cwaftyblog and she made this cute
adorable washi tape mug. And I thought that looks like fun so I started
playing with the materials and i think I'm gonna to make you my own version of Rachil's
washi tape mug. So here's the first thing you're gonna need a mug now
don't go out and buy expensive mugs you don't need to do that. What you want to looks for
though is a plain mug, one that is just a ceramic
mug. I have found that the best mugs though are the ones that go up and down
straight see how this has sort of a slight incline to it? You really,
you can use this that's totally fine but you will have issues if you
want to go around and around the outer rim with that so if you wanna do around
around designs I would stay away from this kind of mug and go more with a
straight up-and-down mug. You're gonna need of course washi tape and then the most
important thing you're gonna need Mod Podge but the thing about this Mod Podge
you wanna make sure you get the waterproof Mod Podge waterproof Mod
Podge is going to work best for this project. Regular Mod Podge is
actually water soluble and so what will happen is it will actually wash off and
all of your beautiful designs will just kind of slide down when you wash
it. If you've got a mug you're gonna want to wash it right because you're gonna
drink your tea or coffee or whatever you gonna want to wash it now here's the
thing if you're just making this mug to be on your shelf and you're gonna put pencils
into it, that's fine. Then just use regular Mod Podge but in this case I'm
gonna be using waterproof Mod Podge and that is going to be for sealing
everything. When I use Mod Podge I like to use a sponge brush. I'm going to be using a
sponge brush and I'm also gonna be using an X-acto knife. Now I'm gonna have a
pair of scissors on hand just in case but the X-acto knife I have found is
really really really really important when you're making your rim and you
want to cut right near your handle so let's get started here I've got a little
paper plate for my work surface when I decide to do my Mod Podge so what I
want to show you is how easy it is to go around the perimeter here and I am
really really fond of this tape that has the polka dots on it so I'm gonna start
myself with a straight line, so what I'm gonna do is actually trim this edge here with my
X-acto knife always be careful of course with your X-acto knife and then I'm going
to take my tape and I'm gonna place it right up at the edge here of my handle and
I'm not going to worry about going on to the handle because watch what I'm gonna do.
Start laying this down straight I love washi tape because you can pick it up and
reposition it so see how that's right there around the mug handle
I'm just gonna take my X-Acto knife and with my X-Acto knife I can just cut and pull that
away. Alright of course because I'm trying to do a nice job here for you guys to
see it decided to do it wrong so hang on one second let me do this again
because I do want to see how easy this is to do so
got it up there let me get a good angle here I think what happened is I had it at
a bad angle. I also might need a sharper blade cause it's catching. You can
see how nice and smooth that is. And then I'm just gonna come around with my tape and
as I said you can kind of pick it up and position it and make it go wherever you
want to go now
something that I learned while I was working with this, you really really
really don't want to put this on the lip of your mug where your mouth is gonna go
I would
not put tape and most of that is because you know who wants to put a chemical
into your body if you don't have to. So because I'm gonna be painting this
I'm gonna use my X-Acto knife to get in there and cut that really nicely
and I just push that back. Look how nice and neat that is so I've got this
pretty rim and then I can continue decorating this I'm gonna make this one
nice and simple because I do want to come over here and show you the
difference when you try to do a straight across on something that has this angle
to it so watch what happens here I'm not gonna take the time to put it against
the...as you start to go around this goes nice and straight this is gonna gently start to slope up
and so to make this a straight line what you're gonna actually have to do like I
did on this one over here is you're gonna have to cut your washi tape every
inch and then reposition it, go another inch, cut it, reposition it, go another inch so
you can see how that can get a little tedious whereas here when you have a
straight up-and-down mug you just go straight around now that being said
these mugs are great for up-and-down designs so if you want to go up and down like this, these
make great mugs for that and then you can use a thinner tape and these are
great I love these thin washi tapes and these I got at Oriental Trading
and they're great so that I can go I'm leaving a lip there for my
lips and then you can come around with this skinny band over top and what's
great is it can end and give you a nice smooth finish for the top and its
much more easy to use in that you can pretty much go around and not have to
cut it at all because it's such a thin tape so you can get that nice thin
line there so we're gonna get to the next step though which is once I've had
it beautifully decorated all you gotta do is take my Mod Podge and again make
sure you're using the waterproof version and I'm just going to take my Mod Podge and
I like to use sponge brushes with Mod Podge because, I just like to use it because I
find that it goes on smoother I can get up into the crevices and cracks and
things like that and also it's just easier to use than a paint brush it
doesn't leave streaky marks. I'm just putting my Mod Podge on here and you want to give
yourself a nice coating make sure that it goes all over and try to stay away from the
lip of the cup. Here's the thing it is non-toxic so it's not going to be the
end of the world if you get it on there but again why put chemicals close to your
mouth if you don't need to so I'm just gonna cover that really quickly like
that. There you have the beginnings of a very cute little mug and you can even put
them on the rim here this one I had a lot of fun doing this one. This one was
my first one that I experimented with and this is how I realized that you
know it doesn't hurt to have it this high but it's better to put it a
little lower where your mouth is gonna go now I did two coats and two coats
was perfect so you want to coat it once let it sit for about
half an hour to 45 minutes because it's a thin layer that you put on there put on a
second coat and then once you've done that you should be able to wash it
should be able to get it wet without any problems. I haven't put it in the
dishwasher yet so I would say
hand wash I will put it in the dishwasher and hopefully by the time
that this one goes up I'll be able to put a little post that will tell you
whether or not it's dishwasher safe and how it holds up so far I've been using
my mug for a week and I have been using it without any problems I will keep you
posted as to how it does by the time this video goes up. For more great ideas
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