Mother’s Day Mugs and Tumblers

Hammered Tumbler

1. Begin with properly fired cone 04 bisque. Moisten a sponge and wipe bisque to remove any dust.
2. Using the Soft Fan with EL-130 Sea Green or EL-127 Rose Granite, apply 2 coats to the outside of the tumbler. Apply 3 coats to the inside. Allow glaze to dry between coats.
3. Using the Soft Fan with EL-101 Oyster Shell, apply 2 coats to the outside. Allow glaze to dry between coats.
4. Using the Script Line with PC-601 Clear Cascade, apply a ½” band going around the outer, top.
5. Stilt and fire to cone 06.

Knit Mug

1. Begin with properly fired cone 04 bisque. Moisten a sponge and wipe bisque to remove any dust.
2. Using the Soft Fan with SC-3 Wine About It, apply 1 coat over the knitted areas on the mug. Allow glaze to dry. Wipe most of the glaze off with a damp sponge, leaving it only in the crevices.
3. Using the Script Liner with SC-1 Pink-A-Boo, SC-3 Wine About It, SC-13 Grapel and SC-89 Cutie Pie Coral, apply 2 coats to each of the corresponding “stiches” in the patten. Refer to the pattern below. Allow glaze to dry between coats.
4. Using the Script Liner with SC-1 Pink-A-Boo, apply 2 coats to the border “stitches”. Allow glaze to dry between coats.
5. Using the Script Liner with SC-3 Wine About It, apply 3 coats to handle and areas above and below the stitching. Allow glaze to dry between coats.
6. Using the Soft Fan with SC-1 Pink-A-Boo, apply 2 coats to the inside of the mug. Allow glaze to dry between coats.
7. Dip into NT-CLR Clear One Dipping glaze.
8. Stilt and fire to cone 06.

Meadow Mug

1. Begin with properly fired cone 04 bisque. Moisten a sponge and wipe bisque to remove any dust.
2. Using the Soft Fan with SC-10 Teal Next Time, apply 1 coat over the flowers. Allow glaze to dry. Wipe most of the glaze off with a damp sponge, leaving it only in the crevices.
3. On the DSS-0113 Bugs screen, locate the small butterflies. Draw an outline around them in permanent marker. Cut them out with excess screen around the edges.
4. Squeeze around 1 TBS of SC-10 Teal Next Time onto the palette. Add a pinch of AC-310 Silkscreen Medium. Mix with a palette knife until it becomes the consistency of peanut butter. You may need to add more silkscreen medium or glaze.
5. Place one butterfly on the outside of the mug (shiny-side down). While holding the screen firmly in place, take a small amount of premixed silkscreen medium, and gently rub in circles starting in the center and working outward. Repeat going around mug with the different butterflies.
6. Using the Script Line with SC-6 Sunkissed, SC-9 Jaded, SC-13 Grapel, SC-89 Cutie Pie Coral and SC-97 Cant-elope apply 2 coats to the flowers and butterflies. Allow glaze to dry between coats.
7. Using the Soft Fan with SC-1 Pink-A-Boo, apply 2 coats to the inside of the mug. Allow glaze to dry between coats.
8. Using the Soft Fan with FN-203 Dry Champagne, apply 3 coats to the outside of the mug and 1 coat to the inside. Allow glaze to dry between coats.
9. Stilt and fire to cone 06.