Naturally when I discovered porcelain chalkboard paint I had to grab some. The inventor must be some kind of genius. Now I have the most amusing coffee mug ever, and you can have one too. This is a much easier version of the hand painted mug project—no drawing or painting skills required!
you’ll need:
a porcelain mug (mine is from CB2)
painter’s tape
Pebeo Porcelaine 150 Chalkboard Paint (available at Dick Blick or Amazon)
(Don’t use regular chalkboard paint. This only works with porcelain paint.)
a soft bristle paint brush (a watercolor brush works well)
how to:
1. Make sure your mug is clean and dry.
2. Use painter’s tape to mask off the part of the mug you don’t want to paint, 0r you could skip this step and paint the whole mug. Personally, I think it looks snazzy only partially painted.
3. Apply the paint with a soft bristle brush. If you mess up just wipe the paint away with a wet paper towel and try again. Please note that this particular porcelain paint says it’s not recommended for surfaces that come in contact with food. (Although it’s water based and nontoxic, so I don’t understand what the problem would be.)
4. As soon as you are done painting carefully remove the tape. If you remove it before the paint dries, the tape will be less likely to peel up the edges of the paint.
4. Let the paint dry for 24 hours. Then, bake your mug according to the paint package instructions. After baking turn off the oven and leave the mug inside until it has gradually cooled to room temperature. After you bake it the paint is dishwasher and microwave safe.
5. I recommend chalking up your mug before you fill it with a hot beverage. (I learned this the hard way!)
(Check out that extra large marshmallow floating in my hot chocolate. Oh yeah!)
I’m trying to buy these items but I can’t order them from amazon.com as I’m in Canada. Does anyone know a solution for this or a retailer in Canada that would sell the porcelain paint particularly?
I can find a mug here, and it looks like the mug website will ship in Canada.
Hey! Heres another site that carries it, I’m not completely sure if it ships to canada, however. You can check it out though! Good luck with your mug! :D
http://www.dickblick.com/products/pebeo-porcelaine-150/
You’re in luck—DeSerres sell Pebeo Porcelain paints and it’s cheaper than Amazon.
http://www.deserres.ca/en-ca/search/pebeo-porcelain-150-paint/PPPOR/
Cheers!
Will the mug break in oven from heat when baking at 300 deg. F?
Mine didn’t!
As long as you put the mug in the over BEFORE turning the oven on you should be fine. If you put a room temperature mug in a hot oven then you increase the chance of it shattering.
Very cute! I’m going to add this to my list of crafts to do!
I really do love this idea…trying to come up with ideas for my granddaughter & I to do together. This just may be one she will like. Thanks for sharing..already thinking of things to do with it.
Re lettering: Tape two pencils, markers, etc together. Hold at 45 degree angle & start writing. This will give you the thick & thin lines in calligraphy. Fill in thick areas. Good luck!
Thanks so much Sally! I will give that a try!
Loved this! will link to your blog from one of my DIY article.
i absolutely love this.. going try this asap but with a bigger cup. going try Michaels or Jo-Ann hopefully they have it dont buy anything online..
Can you redo the continually wash the chalk off and write new things? Or is the one chalk design you put on there stuck for life? Thanks!
You can wash the chalk off and write new things—just like a regular chalkboard.
Any idea how many mugs (roughly) you can get out of a bottle that size? I’m trying to figure out the cost-effectiveness of doing this as gifts. Thanks!
I would guess you could do at least 10 mugs (half painted like I did) with one bottle of paint.
I have been painting glass and tea sets for almost 2 years and one bottle of paint goes a very long way. You would be surprised. I have done about 5 sets (4 per set) of claret glasses, the entire bases covered in paint plus a variety of decorations (I have done sports teams, ladybugs, dragonflies, etc). I will link the bee glasses I painted and you can see just how much paint is used (I did about 3 or 4 layers on the bases to make sure it was opaque). After one set, just a small fraction of paint was gone from the bottle. this is the link so you can see: http://www.etsy.com/listing/81630127/custom-hand-painted-claret-glasses-set
Happy painting!
I really love your idea of creating a chalkboard mug and I’d rather have a try myself. Even if I haven’t try making DIY things, this seems easy for beginners like me to follow. However, as I’m not living in the US and Amazon doesn’t ship this product outside the US, do you know any other online shops that I can try to get this paint? Thx~
Will this work on wine glasses, too? I saw some wine glasses at World Market that had an oval of “blackboard” surface on them,,, but not sure glass can handle the hot oven.
The paint container says it works on glass, but I would be concerned about baking a fragile wine glass.
Amanda–I bake the wine glasses all the time and I have never had one break from the heat.
Oh sweet! Thanks for letting me know Stacey. I’m going to have to try this with wine glasses. It would be perfect for labeling them with people’s names!
Wow… This is a brilliant idea…!!! Lovely work..!!
Hey!
I loved the idea and as soon as I’ve read your post I ordered this paint!
Found it here, though:
Since it was out of stock on the other website
It arrived yesterday and I just tried it! Can’t wait for it to dry so I can bake it and start writing on it (:
Loved your website and specially your DIY posts!
I was glad the paint was rather cheap, because I’m from Brazil and it doesn’t sell it here!
Have a great day :)
Ooops, forgot to link the website!
http://www.markersupply.com/cheaandac.html
Oh my god, I love it! :)
Can i bake it in a microwave oven? or must i bake it in those big oven where you bake a cake?
It needs to be baked in a regular oven, a microwave oven won’t work.
Hey I’m from Australia and REALLY struggling to find this type of paint. Any suggestions
How long does it need to bake for? doesn’t say on paint bottle
Do you think if I use another color beside chalkboard black, I’ll still be able to write on it?
No, I don’t think so.
This is adorable! Can’t wait to do this for my whole family :)
can u put it in the dishwasher or should u just hand wash it
It can go in the dishwasher.
Love your DIY ideas!! Will have to try this one, along with the others!
I will be doing this tonight! I finally have all of my supplies. :-) Question, though! After we do finish baking and decide to put chalk on it, is the chalk able to erase? You said you recommend chalking it up before filling it with a hot beverage and you learned that the “hard way.” What happens if I do it after? Am I able to write on the chalkboard again? I figured yet, but want to be sure before I put something on it that is permanent.
The chalk erases just like a normal chalkboard. If you draw on the mug while it is full of hot chocolate you might spill it all over yourself. :)
Oh. -_- Haha. Ok. :-) I shall attempt to do this now and will update tomorrow on how it worked for me! Thanks for the great craft!
LOVE this idea. Popped it on my Facebook page!
Ommgshhh this is sooooooooo cute!! And beautiful pics btw~
This was such a fun DIY project. I did it for a white elephant gift exchange and they were super popular. I made 4 mugs, about 3 coats each, and it took about 1/3 of the bottle.
I used retro diner-style mugs from a thrift store, and the effect was amazing.
HINT: if your mug isn’t a perfect cylinder, it’s REALLY hard to get a straight line with tape. By doing a sloppy taping job (but no folds or air bubbles), and then holding a box cutter utility knife at the right height (held firmly on a stack of books for instance), you can rotate the mug INTO the knife. It gives an almost perfectly straight line. It works just like a can opener.
The paint can tend to pull off with the tape if you wait too long, so as soon as the paint is dry to the touch, apply the next coat.
Very helpful! Thanks! I literally had the same issue when i realized my mug isn’t a perfect cylinder. I used smaller pieces of tape to get the straight line.
Also didn’t realize how many layers I had to paint till I started. Did it with 2…but then the paint was to thick in places and you can see drip marks. :(
I was wondering can you use regular paint and bake it in the oven and still be able to use the coffee cup to drink out of
No, I’m afraid you can only use the porcelain specific paint I linked to in the post. Definitely don’t bake regular paint. There’s no telling what kind of fumes that would give off.
Hi, i have recieved my paint but just realised I bought stoneware mugs, will it work with this or ceramic mugs of does it have to be a porcelain mug?
Im making it for mothers day.
Dick Blick’s website doesn’t specifically say stoneware will work, but it does say “any slick, non-porous item, including china, porcelain, ceramic, metal, and more”.
I only got regular chalkboard paint… what’s the problem with that one?
@ my country they told me that it was ok… but what can you tell me!?
Is the glaze on the mug a problem for painting?
Please help me!
I got everything but it’s just regular paint and isn’t necessary to bake it!!
xoxo
Regular chalkboard paint will chip and wash off the mug. The porcelain chalkboard paint is permanent after you bake it and will not come off with washing.
Too cute! I am going to try this over the weekend, even though the hot drink season has passed… haha. =)
Thanks for such an awesome tutorial!
Hot drink season is never over! At least not in Vancouver. :)
I’ve made two mugs and they are currently in the oven. I’m praying they don’t explode on me. Looks cute though. I do recommend using mugs with straight sides as the rounded ones I bought proved to be a little tricky with the painters tape. There was some seeping underneath and I had to play tidy up.
that’s nice and easy, definitely must try.
btw, i saw your blog thru blog search looking for DIY tutorial (chalk mug), open several links and saw these pictures too to another blog, FYI. http://pepperbuttons.blogspot.com/2011/12/tutorial-diy-chalkboard-mugs.html