NORDIC SNOWFLAKE MUG

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Hey guys, welcome to day 8 of my 12 days of Christmas! Today is this adorable snowflake mug.
I can’t get enough of this style. So there’s just one big white snowflake on the front and a different style on the back. But it is just so gorgeous. This glitter is Baby It’s Cold from my Christmas collection. When I saw this sweater, you guys, I had to have it because how absolutely perfect is this?

When you find an outfit that matches your tumbler, that is goals, that is goals right there. Let’s get on into the tutorial for this adorable little snowflake mug. Don’t forget to stay tuned for tomorrow for day nine. So I found this adorable little campfire mug. It was at TJ Maxx for only $3.99. I thought it was just so cute. I actually used the same style for one of my Christmas cups last year but I think it’s a really cute mug as it is but like always, we’re going to glam it up a bit. So starting off with Mattify to prep the cup.

Then I painted it this really pretty blue from Rustoleum. It’s like the chalk line or whatever. Once that was dry, I took some Artistry epoxy and just did a really thin layer to lay down our glitter and my paint did drip a little bit but it doesn’t matter because we’re just going over with glitter.

You just want to really make sure to get all over the whole entire handle and make sure there’s no drips or globs. So then going in with Baby It’s Cold from my Christmas collection. I am obsessed with this glitter, it’s so pretty.
It’s just a beautiful mix of a baby blue, silver and white. This is currently out of stock until I get more of the white to go in this but I will have it back in stock and it will be regular.
All of my Colorflex colors are going to be permanent unless it’s like a special edition but so far I don’t have anything like that.
But we’re just doing a full coverage in this glitter including the handle and the bottom.
So now it is dry, I’m going in with my first layer of Artistry epoxy. I like to pour it on my hand when I’m doing a chunkier glitter like this. I just feel like I have more control over where the epoxy is going and I can use more than just dipping my finger in it because you definitely are going to use more going right over the glitter since it kind of seeps in between the glitter.
Then I usually stop it to kind of work around the handle. Just making sure I’m getting the whole handle covered and not globby or chunky or anything.

Then going on with another layer of the Artistry epoxy.
We just want a really smooth base for our decals.
Then I cut out some snowflake decals in this white vinyl.
My silhouette this day was just giving me problems. It did not cut very well. I think I needed a new blade. Yeah so I ended up having to really work at weeding these out, which it should have just been pulling it off in two seconds but of course no it did not work that way and I had to sit there and weed it for quite some time.
I just really love the style of these snowflakes and I just wanted one big one on the front
and one big one on the back.
So then using some packing tape to transfer these to my cup, sometimes you just got to use what you have on the hang around and it worked. It worked fine it just wasn’t the best.
So now just placing that right in the middle of the front
and then, because it was kind of going under the little lip, I had to slit the tape to kind of get that to lay down flat.
There was also these little design lines inside the middle snowflake part, which didn’t weed out in the beginning so I just weeded them off the cup directly.
So then the front was done,
then adding the one to the back.
Then add more epoxy.
Then the fourth and final layer for this cup.
Then it was all cured and done.
I am just obsessed with this style of the cup, the mug itself and the snowflakes and the sparkle of Baby It’s Cold. It all just worked together so well and I am just so pleased with how this turned out.

So now lets style this for a gift. So I thought just having the mug as it is and I found these little chocolate covered cookies for $5.99. I think these were from Burlington.
Like how perfect are these socks that I found? These are MK socks, and they were only $5.99 at TJ Maxx. They’re just perfect.
I got some silver tinsel from Hobby Lobby just to kind of throw in there.
So now adding my tinsel.

I just find that when you do gifts like this and you kind of make things match, it just looks like it is such a better gift than if it were just three random things that didn’t have to do with each other. I think matching the color or the style or the theme just makes it so much more special and thought out and just the presentation ends up being a million times better than had you not done that.
So just sticking those in just like that.
Then I kind of trimmed off the tensile and it was getting staticky so it took me a few minutes to remove the extra.
There we have our little gift. How cute, who would not want to get this as gift.

Well that’s it for this cup guys. Stay tuned for day 9 tomorrow. Bye!