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Tumblers have been received, so now I can share! I created a couple of legacy tumblers of a Scottsburg legend for two very special ladies.

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It's been a little quiet on this end for the past week or so. I had some EPIC resin disasters that left me frustrated - I was testing out a different brand of fast cure resin that TOTALLY screwed up a couple of tumblers in an order, as well as one of my personal tumblers, so I was working to get everything redone and caught up. Now things are back on track, and I am cranking out a few more orders - I have two on Tina right now that I am looking forward to showing you, but I need to wait until they are delivered tomorrow!

While I had a couple of orders on the turners tonight (we'll be building my turner box tomorrow, so I won't be quite so limited! YAY!!), I worked on and completed a design for a new one that is very special to me. I'll get it on the turner tomorrow morning, and then post a video - I'm excited to show you guys this one!!

I'm handing these off to the customer this evening, but I wanted to share a picture of the finished tumblers. Each one ending up taking 3 coats of resin after the designs were put on, but they are all now smooth and shiny and ready to delight!

Designs have been completed on all four, and they are just pending resin. Twenty-five little grinchbabies in all - with twenty-five names.

In the morning I'll pop on my logo sticker and a QR code, and get these on the turners. Almost at the finish line!

Now for the designs on the back part of the tumblers. I went with an easier one (with only three grinchbabies, as opposed to the one with nine) first, to see how everything would work out. I had a Grinch Christmas ornament svg - it was outline, so I hid all the unnecessary contours, and just left the ornament - and designed everything to go with it. The baby Grinches are png files, so I utilized Cricut's print then cut feature - they are printed on vinyl sticker paper, and then the Cricut cuts them out - which is probably my FAVORITE Cricut function yet.
Once everything was cut, I layered all the different elements, and then applied them to the tumbler. This one is now ready for (what I hope will be) the final coat of resin.

Had to work through some layering issues - but once I got everything figured out, I've managed to spend the day picking and layering and applying the front designs on these tumblers. They are turning out to be SERIOUSLY adorable!!

I'm working on a new order of four (mostly) matching tumblers, and I thought I'd take you guys along for the ride to see the process.

I start with a stainless tumbler, give it a quick sanding and wash, then throw on a quick coat of spray paint+primer - it keeps the stainless from showing through.

In this case, I've covered the tumblers with a coat of glitter glue, and then covered them in white glitter.

Once dried, I sprayed a couple of layers of triple thick, to ensure that the glitter stays where I want it to when I resin it. Don't want patchy spots!

Next is the resin - here, I've mixed silvery white mica powder in with the resin. I want to give the tumblers some extra shimmer and shine. Fine glitter, such as the cut that I used on these, has a tendency to soak up the resin - so I'll have to give these a sanding and another coat (possibly two) after this coat cures.

So while I work (and wait!) through all the resin steps, I'll go ahead and start working on the design.

I updated the description on the Voodoo Doll tumbler - this has been sold, but if you like it or the base design, you can order one like it!

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