Decorating Stainless Steel Mugs with the Cricut

January 05, 2019

I made lots of gifts for family and friends using my Cricut. One of my favorites were these mugs I made for my sister. I thought they might be really hard to make but I had zero problems with them.... and I'm still fairly new at using my Cricut.

I purchased a set of stainless steel mugs from Amazon. The exact set I bought are no longer available but these are very similar.

First I cleaned the outside of the mugs with alcohol and let them dry.

I used Cricut Design space to write up some cute sayings in different fonts. I measured where I wanted the design to go and made sure to keep my sayings small enough to fit in the area I wanted them.

I cut my design out of sticky back vinyl.

Then I weeded my designs.

I applied transfer tape.

Using transfer tape carefully transferred the design over to the mug; making sure to really press down well. I always start in the middle of my design and work my way outwards. That way I can avoid getting wrinkles in any of my words.

Occasionally my sayings didn't lay flat. I concentrated on applying the words one row at a time and cut away the transfer paper as I went so by the time I made it to the bottom word I only had that one word to deal with. This helped make sure there were no bubbles or gaps.