- Two years ago, I made a video
where I customized Starbucks cups.
Ever since then, I've been customizing
both disposable and reusable cups.
And today we're back with another customization video.
Now through my extensive experimentation,
with both the reusable and disposable cups,
I prefer to use the disposable ones because it is very nice
for many different mediums, as opposed to the reusable ones,
where you can pretty much only use paint.
So today I wanna use markers, and colored pencils,
and paint, and all sorts of stuff.
So we'll be using these cups.
And what's nice about these is you can still reuse them.
They make great little like gift baskets for your friends.
If you want to put like candy,
or gift cards and stuff in them.
And then you can just pass them around.
So here are some Starbucks cups that I have customized
in past videos.
And these are not all of them
because as I said, they make great little gift baskets
for special occasions for family and friends.
And I have done that with a few of them.
Now I'm really excited for today
because I have some really cool ideas for these cups.
I have Gouache paint ready.
I have markers.
I have colored pencils.
Everything is spread out around me.
(hands clapping) So let's jump
(relaxing instrumental music)
I have two sizes of Starbucks cups.
So I think we're gonna start big.
A nice pastel rainbow has been chosen.
So for this cup I want it to feel like bright and happy,
but with a twist.
(relaxing instrumental music)
Okay, the first layer is done.
You might be thinking maybe we're doing
some sort of paint dripping cup,
but the truth of the matter is
last night I was talking in a group chat
with my best friends,
and we were making these friendship quizzes.
And one of the questions was,
what is your favorite flavor ice cream?
And that question is inspiring this cup.
You wanna know my favorite flavor ice cream.
It is cake batter, but it has to be from Handel's Ice Cream
because everybody else's tasted it different. (chuckles)
(relaxing instrumental music)
Mira from the future here.
We are going to
play a game (children cheering)
throughout this entire video.
So while I customize these cups
you are gonna on an Easter egg hunt.
That is right, I'm literally doing an Easter egg hunt
in my video
because I kind of just want to bring some fun times
to the internet.
(hands clapping) And I think
it doesn't really matter what age you are.
Easter egg hunts are fun!
(hands clapping) So they will be
popping up periodically throughout this video.
And the game is you have to say, how many are in the video?
Now I am going to make this pretty challenging.
And if you win the Easter egg hunt
(hands clapping) I will reply to you
with a gold star emoji.
Unless this blows up, and y'all get the answer right then.
Well, you defeated me 'cause I can't keep up
with tons of comments, but I'm gonna try.
So enjoy the Easter egg hunt.
I hope you have fun.
And I'm gonna throw you guys for a loop,
if you wanna find the eggs
you have to start back at the beginning of the video
because the game already started.
So far, we're two colors in,
and I do want some ice cream cone to show.
So I think I'm gonna not do like a lot of color
for the following sections,
'cause priorities, you know
(relaxing instrumental music)
Even with a simple cup design,
like what I'm doing right now,
each cup usually takes me one or two hours to do.
Three colors down, yeah.
(upbeat instrumental music)
Hopefully we can make the cone show up,
but if not I have a backup plan.
(relaxing instrumental music)
Okay, so since I want the cone to show,
we're gonna pivot a little bit
and go back to the top of the cup,
'cause there's a lot of pink on this cup.
We can do purple up here.
(relaxing instrumental music)
Okay, I'm really glad I put the purple up top.
That changed so much about this cup.
Okay, now I need to choose a color for the ice cream cone
at the bottom,
and I'm so excited for this part.
(rattling)
(pen squeaking) Oh my goodness,
this is perfect.
(pen rattling) Yes!
Light Suntan is where it's at.
(relaxing instrumental music)
It probably took me an hour just to shade all the like
little drippy ice cream sections.
But now we're moving into the,
(finger tapping) cone.
I'm really excited for this part
'cause this is kind of what made me want to do this piece.
It may be kind of hard to do this.
(relaxing instrumental music)
This is a lot harder than it looks. (laughs)
It'd be easier if the cup was just not this shape.
(relaxing instrumental music)
(pencil sharpener whirring)
Oh, she is pointy.
(relaxing instrumental music)
Starting to regret all these little details.
(pencil scribbling)
(relaxing instrumental music)
I am done with the cone.
That is so exciting.
Now I do think we should make this
look a little more exciting
because right now there's no highlights
but I have a POSCA Pen and a white Gelly Roller.
So let's just kind of see what comes of this.
I think we can do some pretty sweet highlight.
(relaxing instrumental music)
This idea has lived inside my mind for a couple of days now,
and it's just so cool to see it come to life on a cup.
Like, ah!
(relaxing instrumental music)
Since I literally spent maybe three hours on that cup alone
we're gonna do something a little more,
simple, minimalistic, and modern
(hand tapping) for this little cup.
Take our old crusty palette here
and this beautiful green Gouache.
I'm really hoping this matches the Starbucks circle,
but I think it will actually be a little bit darker.
Let's paint this entire cup green.
It's a little darker, but you know what?
I think it will actually look really cool.
(upbeat instrumental music)
This is gonna give the cup a really nice matte finish.
Man, I need just a little bit more paint.
Can I open this one handed?
(bright suspenseful music) Is this is a bad idea?
(bright suspenseful music)
(cap thudding)
Did you see that?
Legit opened it with one hand?
(bright suspenseful music)
Let's try to close it now.
(bright suspenseful music)
It was actually harder to close it with (chuckles) one hand.
(bright suspenseful music)
Hello, it's a new day,
and we're gonna finish this cup here,
and I'm also gonna be a little hint dropper here and say,
that the thing that I'm doing
on this cup is going to relate a little bit
to my next video.
'Cause I already filmed my next video. (laughs)
So yeah, you'll see.
If you catch it comment on next video, all right?
I'm so excited for this cup.
(pen rattling)
We have our trusty POSCA Pen.
What we're gonna do here is something like really modern.
So I hope you enjoy it.
(upbeat instrumental music)
Now, it's time to do all the fun little details.
I keep feeling paranoid
that this is like not dry yet, but it is.
(upbeat instrumental music)
It is so satisfying making all these lines
'cause like I'm not shading.
It's just lines, and it looks so modern. (chuckles)
(upbeat instrumental music)
All right, so far, this is how it's looking.
We need to do something sweet to this.
You guys know this is my trusty baby.
My gold leaf marker.
(upbeat instrumental music)
Let's have some fun with this.
(upbeat instrumental music)
Oh no, this might be running out of ink.
(marker rattling)
(marker tapping)
I'm trying here.
Ooh, got some.
(upbeat instrumental music)
Ooh, yeah, this is a little lumpy.
Trying to remedy the situation.
(upbeat instrumental music)
Wow, look at that. (laughs)
I like it.
Okay, so really wanted to do like a band of gold
on the bottom of the cup and the top,
like the same thickness as this band of gold.
However, we squeezed just as about as much ink out of this
as we could.
I was literally using this like piece of wax paper
to get all the drops out of the marker. (chuckles)
I think in the case for this cup anyway
less is just kind of more.
I really prefer the simplicity of it.
(upbeat instrumental music)
So we did a bright cup.
We did like a moody modern cup.
Let's see what's going down next.
I have these like doilies.
(wrapper rustling)
Hmm, this might be really cool.
(upbeat instrumental music) (paper rustling)
Okay, so we can kind of make this into a stencil.
Is this worth it like making the bottom look lacy?
Or is this just gonna be...
(upbeat instrumental music)
If I were to do this shell pink would look cool.
What did I do with my scissors?
(upbeat instrumental music) (paper rustling)
In theory, this is a really cool idea.
But in reality, I don't know.
I don't know how this will play out.
I really don't.
We'll see.
I need like three hands.
This is really hard to do.
I'm just trying to tape it around the thing, you know?
(upbeat instrumental music)
(tape tearing)
Desperate calls for desperate measures.
Okay. It's like sticking, so I'm just gonna leave it stick.
I'm a little nervous that I'm gonna ruin this cup.
So be kind to me guys, this is,
we're getting into something.
(rattling) (hands scraping)
Yeah.
(upbeat instrumental music)
We'll need a lot of paint.
So I guess this one will be more like dainty.
Let's really just hope for the best.
Here we go.
(upbeat instrumental music)
(paint squishing) (upbeat instrumental music)
I'm gonna leave like a white border
around the logo on this one, I think.
I was just kidding, I'm not
doing the white border after all.
Sometimes your paintbrush just kind of wanders, you know.
(upbeat instrumental music)
Moment of truth for our little doily stencil.
Let's hope this worked out.
I'm honestly a little nervous about this.
So let's see what happens.
(upbeat instrumental music)
Oh my goodness. (stencil rustling)
That is cool.
It's definitely crooked.
Like, you know, whatever, but I can touch that up
and make it not look crooked.
So I don't care.
Get this little paintbrush here.
Any little bits of crookedness we can fix.
(uplifting instrumental music)
So it looks kind of like lace.
Okay, next we're gonna to do a bunch of little like roses.
(uplifting instrumental music)
This one is so like dainty and springy.
It makes me just like wanna have a tea party.
All right, let me be real.
I think we need to add a little bit of like a peachy orange
just so it's not so pink, you know?
So let's do another type of flower.
(uplifting instrumental music)
It's not like super visible
but it kinda like how subtle it is.
(uplifting instrumental music)
Okay, we have these flowers.
I'm really tempted to try to get more ink out of this.
(marker rattling)
(marker tapping)
Just wanna do polka dots, you know?
You're so cute.
(gasps) I actually got ink out, yes.
Bring on the gold.
(uplifting instrumental music)
All right, here's our dainty little lacy floral cup.
I feel like this cup would probably
have the pink drink in it from Starbucks,
if this was the type of cup that held cold drinks.
However, I also think this would be a great cup for tea,
'cause it definitely gives me tea party vibes,
like for sure.
It's just so dainty and elegant.
And I just love how those polka dots made this cup look.
Anyway, this was fun.
I really enjoy customizing Starbucks cups.
I don't really know why I enjoy it so much,
but it just makes me really happy. (laughs)
So I hope you enjoy it too.
I hope this inspires you to customize items without fear,
or just draw stuff and express yourself.
Or maybe even treat yourself to a nice coffee, you know,
or whatever you drink.
Man, I'm trying to decide which one is my favorite.
I think it's definitely one of these two,
but I like this 'cause it feels summery.
But I like this one because it gives me
home interior aesthetic vibes, you know. (laughs)
Like I would totally have this on an accent wall
in my house.
Alrighty, thank you for coming along
on my Starbucks cup customizing adventure with me.
I hope you enjoyed it,
and I hope you have a fantastic day, bye.
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