COW PRINT TUMBLER using ALCOHOL INK and GLITTER!

https://youtu.be/XUI7tZek0yQ

Hey Guys, I am starting with this adorable coffee mug. I got this on Amazon. It was a little pricey, but I will link it down below. If it's still available if you guys are interested, it's a very different shape for stainless steel, and I loved that it had like this coffee cup lid. I wanted to test it out, but you can see it snaps closed. It won't spill. I like that feature. And, as I said, it is stainless. I love trying different shapes and different types of cups.

So it did have this rubber on the bottom. I peeled that off and would have left it if it hadn't been so roomy, and I knew that putting the epoxy over it would cause it to flex and crack. So I had to dig out the rest of the rubber down there, but then I prepped with mattifying, of course. Then, once it was prepared and I had cleaned out most of that rubber under there, I'm going to fill in and make the bottom level with the fast-set epoxy. This is the thick one-to-one facet, and it worked. I was pleased.

I mixed them and poured them in slowly. I didn't want to overfill it, so I went in the side on that little inner rim part and gently pushed it in there. You can see here I'm getting it wholly lovely and level, and then I torched it. Once that was dry, it was dry in an hour. It was crazy. I'm taking some white color fix paint and coloring that so that it blends in with the rest of the cup, and I figured since my white is a little brighter, I'll paint the entire cup.

I went ahead and did a full coat on the whole cup. I went in with a second coat, and this is where this process is going to be fast with the wet color-fixed paint. I went in right away with snow and medium. This would also work with snowy, but I thought medium would be better, so go right over the color, fix the paint paintings while wet, and go right on with glitter. I did full coverage of the white glitter, and while the paint was still wet, I will go in with blackened brown alcohol ink. I'm also going to use some copper to give it more color.

Now starting with the brown, just going around making splotches like, honestly, don't try to think too hard about this because you'll end up making it look too perfect. It's like, it's perfect but imperfect, and the point is, cows don't have perfect calves. So we're trying to make it look as realistic as possible; this way, things that were the easiest way possible will be easier. I thought the item would be more complicated, but it was easy. These cow tumblers are so cute. I cannot get over it. I want to make like 500 more.

Then for the little dots, I tapped the glitter, and then I realized later that I shouldn't be touching the cup because the glitter was still wet or the paint under the glitter was still wet. You could move some of that glitter. You see, they moved it a little bit. I was like, "Oh, I shouldn't do that." So instead of going on with black, I'm going on with the middle or sides of the spots. I did this by randomly adding depth and different colors because cows don't have one shade of brown. They have all different variations of color. Now I'm adding the copper. It added more of that ready-made orange tone that cows have a lot of the time, but you could do whatever colors you want. I really liked how this looked, and I went back with some black after this because I felt like there was too much copper.

I went back to something more black, simply to make it a little darker I am obsessed with how it turned out because it's so easy to make it look like a cow and then let it dry before sealing it with clear spray paint. I gave it about two or three coats of spray paint, and then, once it was all dry, I went on with my artistry epoxy. This is the fast set that I'm using. Even though my regular one is in the background, I think the whole cup I used was fast-set on this one. I have here cut out two different colors of vinyl and a shape. Check out my shape tape video to see how I cut out the shape tape decal.

I'd show you how I did that, but I wanted this as a coffee mug. I thought it would be cute since it's like a coffee cup. Just do that in the coppery color, the black, and then here's the shape tape. Then I first pick up the shape tape on something. This is clear packing tape to transfer to the cup, then stack that on top of the copper one, then finally on top of the black one, and then I set that to the side. I wanted to add a little splotch of color behind it.

I did this turquoise color because I'm in Texas. I sat there for like 30 seconds and was able to spray the white. I let that dry, then went in with some acetone to rub this away and make it look a little distressed, and I wanted to make sure I didn't go over where I was putting my decal. So I cut out a piece of tape in that shape. I wish I had marked it with a pencil or something because you'll see when I take the tape off, it has a clear line of white where the rest of it has a little bit of that turquoise on it, so wiping that as I see it makes, it looks random and distressed, I had it where I wanted it. I am going around the edge to clean it up, then taking a q-tip, getting in there, and cleaning up all the edges nicely. We have no messy look if that makes sense. Then it was time for the decal.

I wanted to test if I could do the decal right over the paint instead of what I usually would, just a layer of epoxy and then a decal over the epoxy, but I wanted to see if it would work fine. The decal part worked fine, but you'll see the glitter was a mess, but I worked it out, and I like to test things and see what works and what doesn't—you never really find new ways of doing things.

If you're not willing to experiment and try out things, that's one thing I'm always doing. Sometimes it's a failure, and sometimes it turns out great. I put my coffee decal right in the center and then peeled off the top, peeling off the top layer of shape tape. I'm going in with the small cut of oryx. It's a dark brown, and I feel like I had used a medium cut, but I stuck to the white paint a little bit. I think even if I had sprayed clear spray paint over it, it would not have stuck, but because it was not 100 dry and was fine, like smaller glitter, it did not want to come off.

So I ended up taking white color fix paint and going in. I had to do two coats and paint over it, which took a little bit, but it was faster than redoing the whole decal, and I also liked the fact that I could cover up more of the turquoise color. I thought it was looking a little too blue to be choke-wise turquoise. If I could say that, I covered some of that up and brought the bright white back.

That's what I ended up looking like. I love how it seems a little more distressed. There's some white paint on there. Then I sealed that with clear spray paint and then went in. I believe I did two more layers to finish this cup. Then I did it, and I'm obsessed with it. It's so cute. I did put the lid on. I tried to put the lid on, but it didn't want to go on very well because it screws on, and the epoxy made it thicker. I need to shave down the top edges a little bit. Keep that in mind if you want to order this cup, but look how cute she turned out. I cannot get over how pretty it is, and I'm getting ready for many cow tutorials because I'm obsessed.

Let me know what you guys think. Thank you, guys, for watching. I will see you at the next one bye.