Let the kids decorate and give as gifts they ll be a treasured memento.
Drawing on ceramic mugs with sharpie.
Step 1 wash your mugs thoroughly with soap and water.
While sharpie mugs are very popular right now there doesn t seem to be any consensus on how to best make the mugs.
Choose the right sharpie for mugs.
Step 2 once the mugs are clean it s time to decorate.
Diy sharpie mugs are still all over pinterest but do they really work.
You can choose to bake the mugs twice to really set in the sharpie drawings.
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.
I have seen this pinned many many times on pinterest including pinning it myself.
I did it once before when i found this awesome product and did this tutorial.
The only problem i ve read over and over is that regular sharpies will come right off.
Pick your favorite colors of sharpies and go to work.
Add accent colors if necessary.
It sounds so easy and awesome.
Get all the grime and dust off to ensure the markers stick to the mugs well.
Hand wash the mug gently instead of throwing it in the dishwasher as a machine washer may ruin the design.
How many of you have seen those sharpie painted diy mugs all over pinterest.
So i jumped on the bandwagon again.
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.
The ceramic sharpie train that is.
The marker is not actually wash resistant when applied to ceramic.
Diy anthropologie coffee mugs drawing on ceramic with sharpie posted by honor on friday february 1 2013 under.
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.
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.
And who wants a coffee mug they can t wash.
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.
This diy works best with cheap dollarstore dollartree in particular ceramic mugs.
To make your sharpie mug washable and usable you need to make sure you use an oil based sharpie marker.
This is because there is less glaze on them so the paint can adhere better to the ceramic when baked in the oven.
Next preheat your oven to 425 degrees fahrenheit place the mugs on a flat baking sheet and put the baking sheet in the oven for 20 30 minutes.
To make sharpie mugs start by tracing or drawing your designs directly onto white ceramic mugs using oil based sharpie paint markers.