Pinterest Challenge: Handpainted Mugs

As promised, I'm here for a Winter Pinterest Challenge inspired by two of my favorite bloggers- Sherry at Young House Love and Katie at Bower Power.  It actually inspired me (a word I've seen little of recently, if you remember from the last post) to create several small projects over the weekend!  Woohoo!  More to come on those later :)

The marker or paint decorated mug is nothing new on the ol' Pinterest, but I've been "pinning" and not "doing" for far too long.

This was my PINspiration (muahaha), from Wit & Whistle... adorable blog, by the way.

Courtesy of Wit & Whistle

Amanda actually used porcelain paint for her mug, but I went a different route.  I've recently been loving on the Sharpie paint pens, and scored one for about 3 bucks with a coupon at Michaels.

While I was there, I just happened to find this kid-geared mug and marker set on sale for $1 :)

After using a pencil to mark where I wanted my vertical lines on the top of the mug, I drew them on with the Sharpie paint pen.

Then I went back and connected the lines to make it chevron style.  Once it was finished and sat overnight, I baked it to set the paint.  I started with a cool oven, added the mug, and heated it to 350 degrees.  Thirty minutes later, I turned off the oven and left the mug inside until cool.

Not perfect, but I'm kinda diggin' the imperfections.  I was a little antsy to use that paint pen again though, so I found another white mug in the cabinet and added some doodles.  I repeated the whole oven process, too.

I'm seriously crazy about these Sharpie paint pens now.  I even created a little print for the dining room after I was out of coffee mugs!  Come back soon to catch a glimpse :)

Thanks to Sherry and Katie for hosting the Pinterest Challenge- Winter Edition!