Decorating the cup

How nice it is to drink your favorite drink from a beautiful and original cup. And at home it’s not at all difficult to decorate any plain cup. The whole job takes one hour. That is, in any free time you can sit comfortably at the table and start decorating the cup.

For work we will need:

Cup without a picture.
Napkin for decoupage.
Acrylic paints of different colors.
White outline for ceramics or universal.
PVA glue.
Scissors.
Varnish for ceramics or any decorative art.
Empty unnecessary cup or lid.
A medium-sized brush and another small thin one.
Cotton wool.
Alcohol or any degreaser.
Hairdryer

First, you need to treat the entire cup with a degreaser in order to remove all the stains on it. Take a splash of alcohol on a cup or cotton wool and wipe the entire cup. Now, you need to take the cup carefully so as not to leave fingerprints on it.

Next, take a napkin with a design you like and use scissors to cut out fragments of the picture. The napkin consists of three parts and we need to remove two unnecessary layers and leave only the last layer with the applied pattern.

Pour some PVA glue into an empty glass and dilute it with plain water. You need very little water. We will glue our napkin onto this composition.

Place a napkin on the cup and, starting from the center, glue the napkin in small pieces. The brush should be well soaked in glue. And when we use the brush, we try not to rub it several times in one place, otherwise the napkin is very thin and can tear.

We take a hairdryer and start drying the cup. PVA glue dries in literally five minutes. When the glue dries, the napkin becomes dull and needs to be given brightness and color. To do this, I took acrylic paints and started painting over bullfinches and spruce branches. After painting, we also dry the cup with a hairdryer.

Now I took a white outline and made “hooks” and “dots” in random order. Since my cup is red and the bullfinches are also the same color, I needed some kind of finishing between the colors and I thought white fit perfectly. If your cup is white, then you won’t need any finishing.

The contour was also dried with a hairdryer. Now I took a decorative varnish and painted the entire design in two layers. Each layer was pre-dried with a hairdryer. When opening the cup, we try not to let the varnish go beyond the edges of the design, but also to paint it completely. The quality of the varnish will determine how long the design on the cup will last you. If the picture is well varnished, the picture will not wash off.