Supplies:
- Stemless wine glass or other clear container. Dollar Tree has some nice options.
- Extra fine glitter. One or two colors.
- Mod podge. I recommend using dishwasher mod podge. Make sure you note how long it takes for the mod podge to fully dry before getting it wet. I still would not put this piece in the dishwasher. I would wash it by hand.
- Sponge brush to apply the mod podge.
- Paint brush to brush off extra glitter between layers.
- Dry erase marker.
- Blue painters tape.
- Cricut machine or other similar machine to cut vinyl cat pieces.
- Permanent vinyl in black, pink and/or red, white, and green. Make sure your vinyl is the same color on the back as it is on the front for the cat’s body (black).
- Optional: Transfer tape for your vinyl.
- Something to protect your work surface and help contain the glitter so you can put the extra back in it’s container.
- Optional: mini vacuum to help clean up glitter. Works best if you move it in a circular motion when picking up glitter.
- My design can be found for free in my library.
Steps:
1. Clean your cup.
2. Measure and size the entire cat to fit on your glass tumbler. Hide or delete the extra set of pawprints you do not wish to use. Then use your cutting machine to cut out all of the permanent vinyl pieces.
3. Place the paw prints to the sticky side of the black vinyl of the full cat body. The paw prints can be sticky side to sticky side or the vinyl side to the sticky side of the black vinyl as long as the paw prints vinyl is the same color on both sides.
4. Place full cat body vinyl piece on your glass. Make sure to leave enough space at the top so that your lips will not touch the vinyl when drinking from the glass. This will help keep the vinyl nice and not wear down as fast over time.
5. Set a dry erase marker horizontally on an item that is the same height as where you would like your glitter to come up on your glass, about where the cat’s elbows are. With your glass flat on a desk or table rotate it against the dry erase marker as it sits horizontally on the item of your desired height. This will create an even line all the way around your glass.
6. Place your blue painters tape along the line you created with the dry erase marker. You can apply your painters tape in one strip or pieces if you have trouble keeping it straight on your line.
7. Apply a layer of mod podge directly over your vinyl pieces and all areas of the glass under the blue tape line. It is okay if you get some mod podge on the blue tape. I recommend doing a dabbing motion around the vinyl areas to help prevent any mod podge from getting under the vinyl.
8. Next apply your extra fine glitter. I recommend placing a piece of paper under your glass to catch any extra glitter that falls off. You can then pour that extra glitter back into it’s container.
9. Once your glass is completely covered in glitter below the blue tape line (make sure you cover the very bottom of your wine glass), place the glass upside down to dry.
10. Once it is dry take a paint brush and brush off any extra glitter.
11. Repeat steps 7-10 to get a good coverage of the first color of glitter.
12. Repeat steps 7-10 but this time with your second color of glitter. I found only one layer of my second color was needed, but you can apply two if needed,
13. Before your last layer of glitter has fully dried, remove the blue painters tape. If you wait for the mod podge to dry, you might pull off some of your glitter and thus not have a clean line. Go slowly.
14. Once the last layer of glitter has fully dried and you brushed off any extra glitter, apply another layer of mod podge only over the glitter. This will hold in the glitter.
13. Once the mod podge has dried, you can apply the rest of the vinyl pieces.
Even though we used dishwasher safe mod podge, I would still hand wash this glass. I forgot to cover the bottom of my wine glass with glitter, but it still works with this design. I may go back and add the glitter layers to the bottom of my glass. You could also do this design and techniques on other glass pieces as well.
If this was a little difficult for you, then you can check out my traditional peek a boo wine glass here. I did not layer any vinyl and only used one color of glitter.
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