CHRISTMAS & LEOPARD Milky Way tumbler TUTORIAL!

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Hey guys, I am starting with this Hydroflow mug I got at Tj Maxx. I love this brand. It's what I use every day for my coffee. I prepped it with mattify and spray-painted it white with some behind-the-scenes info about this cup. I did this months ago. I don't remember exactly what it was, using deep forest and this pretty red doing some swirls. But this sweet girl, veronica, ordered this from me. She does cups, also. Her shop's name is Veronica's creations. she wanted me to put that on her cup, and she gave me free rein to do what I wanted. She wanted a Christmasy pretty cup. So, I spread on some really thin layer of epoxy once that was dry. This is my artistry epoxy, yeah, as I said, this cup was even done, maybe four, five, six months ago. So, this is snowy that I'm putting on here.

I covered the white and went a little over the red and green. This is 1225 from my Christmas collection. It's a beautiful red iridescent holographic mix. It's more a deep red than this is laguna from my beach collection. It's more of a deep teal. But I thought it would be more pretty than the standard, bright red, and you guys know I love understated, more elegant things rather than cheesy bright interface things. So I chose to take more of that white and do a little ombre effect on the sides of the colors. Then I sealed that with clear spray paint and now went on with a thicker layer of the artistry epoxy.

Then I cut out veronica's creations in this beautiful rose gold vinyl to put on there. I decided to put veronica in the rin ed section and her creations in the white area. So, her name will be on the whole front of the Cup. When working with a swirl design, I make your decals go with the swirl instead of straight across. I think it looks nice, it works well with the cup, and its design makes it a little more cohesive. If that makes sense, then I wanted to add some leopard print. I love leopard print. I think everyone knows that by now I don't think I'll ever get sick of it. This particular one had weird dots in the middle of some spots.

I removed those before putting them in the cup. Next, I cut out sections of the leopard print where I thought it would look good. I was trying to go on either side of the name, but I thought it would be cute to do leopard print with the milky way and the Christmas colors. All of it together makes the perfect combination, then do another layer of the artistry epoxy. After that was all nice and laid out, I took some of my wave white pigment, put it in the extra Epoxy, then mixed it up and used the little stir stick to make little Lines, and there's no real rhyme or reason.

I tried to stay in the green and white section for this; I didn't want to get all over the cup. I didn't want to get on top of the leopard spots, trying to stay in that little section there. Once I had it look how I wanted it, I took my little embossing gun and blew it with some heat. You want to move that color and blend it a little bit, but you want to ensure not to overheat it. It's going to start running and dripping and not looking good. Be very careful of how much heat you're adding to one area of the cup, then add some golden hour from my beach collection to give this a sparkle, going right on top of the areas where I did the White lines. I love golden hour because it is a little bit lighter gold, but it's a bit of a deeper gold, and it s iridescent and holographic. It pretty much goes with anything.

I love how it added a nice color shift to it and a little sparkle. After that, I believe I added two more layers of epoxy to finish off this milky way cup. Then I did it. I love how it turned out. It's very Christmasy, but it's understated and exquisite. Thank you for ordering this, and I will see you guys in the next one.