DIY Customized Starbucks Cups Decal made with a Cricut #starbucks #coffee #cricut

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Learn how to make your own DIY customized Starbucks cups in this step-by-step tutorial.  These personalized and reusable cups are great for gifts, parties, and special events!

I. Love. Coffee. In fact, I have no shame in admitting that it’s coffee that’s fueling my productivity this month … well, that and your enthusiasm, of course! (Thank you!) Many people share my love for coffee, and Starbucks coffee in particular. There’s one just five minutes from my house. The baristas there may or may not recognize us by our order and our voices in the drive-through lane. Again, no shame! If you’re a Starbucks coffee lover like me, or know one, I have a fun project for you — a personalized Starbucks cup! So for Day 14 of The Great Maker 25-Day Gift-Away Challenge, I am showing you how to make your own DIY customized Starbucks cups that you can wash and re-use over and over!

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Watch my full step-by-step DIY Starbucks cups tutorial (or keep scrolling if you prefer a step-by-step photo tutorial):
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I’ve designed my customized Starbucks decals in two ways. Either you can just put a personalized ring around the existing Starbucks logo that’s preprinted on Starbucks cups, or you can create a full decal from scratch and put it pretty much anywhere you want … even on something like a pretty glitter tumbler. My decal has a crafty lady on it instead of a mermaid, because crafty is as good as coffee! So you get to choose which decal type works best for you.

DIY Customized Starbucks Cups Decal made with a Cricut #starbucks #coffee #cricut

DIY Customized Starbucks Cups with personalized decals - Greg's Coffee and Cup of Sunshine

Now, a couple of things about the Starbucks decal rings. First, while some of the Starbucks logos on the cups are perfect circles, most are not. So you’ll want to measure your logo to know its exact dimensions and whether or not it’s a circle or an oval before you make your ring. I will show you how to do that, as well as how to resize a ring to fit your cup’s logo size. I have free ring patterns for both the perfect circle logos and the oval logos.

Second, the real fun of this project is personalizing the ring with a name! So I will show you how to do that in Cricut Design Space using the built-in Curve Text feature on the Desktop version. But don’t worry — I won’t leave out those of you who are on iOS and Android which do not currently have the Curve Text feature in their versions of Design Space. I will show you another way to curve text inside Design Space.

For this project, I’m primarily using 16 oz. reusable plastic Starbucks cups (the Grande size). I’ve also put the decals on various other Starbucks cups I found so you can see how that works, too!

The designs for the cup decals are free on my blog! So let me show you how to find them then you can make your own!  You can customize your own or use my free files!

Ready to make your own DIY customized Starbucks cup? Let’s do this! This post contains some affiliate links for your convenience (which means if you make a purchase after clicking a link I will earn a small commission but it won’t cost you a penny more)! Read my full disclosure policy.

Materials to Make DIY Customized Starbucks Cups

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Free files for DIY customized Starbucks cups are in Design #179 in the free JenniferMaker resource library.

How to Make DIY Customized Starbucks Cups!

Step 1: Get My Free Starbucks Cup Decal cut files

My free customized Starbucks cup SVG cut files are ready and waiting in my library for you. Get the free DIY customized Starbucks cups files (Design #179) from my free resource library (get the password to the library in the form at the bottom of this post).

Step 2: Upload the Starbucks Decal Files to Cricut Design Space.

Here is what the Starbucks Decal SVG cut file will look like when you upload it to Cricut Design Space:

Starbucks Decal SVG Cut File uploaded to Cricut Design Space to make DIY customized Starbucks cups

Tip: If you’re not sure how to upload an SVG cut file to Cricut Design Space, watch this helpful video training series I made. If you’re on an iPhone or iPad, here’s how to download and upload SVG files to the Cricut Design Space app.

Decide which of the designs you want to use and hide or delete the rest.

To do this, with the designs selected, click on the ungroup button, then select each design you don’t need and either click the red X to delete or click the eye for that design in the layers panel to hide it.

The logos are sized appropriately for the 16 oz. to-go travel cup (the “Greg’s Coffee” cup in the video). If you use a different cup, you will probably have to size the logos to the dimensions needed for your cup.

The logos that are designed with no center will be slightly larger in size to encompass the Starbucks lady on the cup.

To completely cover all of the Starbucks design on the cup, you will need to cut a solid white circle to use with the Crafty Lady logo.

This will allow you to have a solid white background to lay the logo on before applying it to the cup.

Step 3: Measure Your Starbucks Logo and Resize Your Rings

It’s important to measure your Starbucks logo, because they aren’t all the same size or shape on all the cups. Seriously! Some are perfectly round, others a little ovalish. So measure both the width and height. If the two numbers are the same, use the “circle logo” files. If the two numbers are different, use the “oval logo” files.

Step 4: Customize the Rings with Your Name or Text!

If you’re not using the pre-designed logos in the file, you can put the words you want to use on the blank logo and slice them out.

To get a good view of the logo, zoom in on your design using the plus sign in the bottom left hand corner of the Design Space window.

Click on the Text Tool to begin typing the words that you want on your logo.  I recommend uppercase letters.  I used Cricut Sans Bold for my Greg’s Design.

With the Crafty Lady logo still grouped, place the word(s) you are going to use on the top half of the logo over the logo.

With the word(s) still selected, use the curve button to shape the word into a curve to fit on the logo top half.

You may also want to adjust the letter spacing using the Letter Spacing button.

Adjust the overall size of the word(s) if needed to get a good fit inside the top half of the logo.

Follow the same steps above to get the word(s) that you want on the bottom half of the logo.

Once you have your words the size you want and in the place you want them on the logo, you will want to slice the words out of the logo so the white of the cup can be seen through them.

To do this you will need to select the top word(s) and the logo together (click on the top words first with the mouse, hold down the shift key on the keyboard and click on the logo layer the word(s) are on). With both objects selected, the slice button at the bottom of the layers panel will become active. Click Slice. (If the Slice button is not active most likely you may have more than the two layers selected).

Delete the layers that were sliced out (usually two layers, the words and the pieces of the logo removed).

Follow the same steps to remove the word(s) from the bottom half of the layer. After deleting the sliced out images, select the whole logo and click the ATTACH button on the bottom of the layers panel to keep everything together when cutting.

Step 5: Cut Your Vinyl

Using a green StandardGrip mat, place your permanent vinyl FACE UP the cutting mat. Remember to select the proper cutting material, and load your fine-point blade into your Cricut machine.

Note: Not sure which side of the vinyl goes down on your mat? Read my guide here!

Step 6: Weed Your Cut Design

Once cut, carefully weed the excess vinyl from your decal using a weeding tool.

Once your design is weeded, apply regular transfer tape to the Crafty Lady logo. Use your scraper tool to get a good adherence between the vinyl and the transfer tape. Remove the paper backing off your Crafty Lady logo vinyl decal.

Step 7: Apply the Logo to the Cup

Lay the Crafty Lady logo vinyl design on top of the white circle and use your scraper tool to adhere the two layers together.

To minimize bubbles, bring the two sides of the logo together so the middle of the logo can be laid down on the cup first.

Roll one side of the logo down on to the cup at a time.

Step 8: Smooth out the Design on the Cup

Use the scraper tool to smooth out the design and get a good adherence to the cup.

Now you can remove the transfer tape and the vinyl design should stay on the cup!  And that’s it! Now make yourself some coffee and take a break!

I suggest that you hand wash your cups to prolong the life of the vinyl on the cup.

Answers to Your Questions About DIY Customized Starbucks Cups

Q: How do you make a custom Starbucks cup?

A: The easiest way to decorate your own Starbucks cup is to use my free Starbucks SVG files and follow the full video tutorial. You can make DIY customized Starbucks cups using my designs or create your own with my tutotial.

Q: How do you put your name on a Starbucks cup?

A: Use my free download as a starting point and make your own design with your name. The logo design isn’t actually a circle, so don’t be surprised when you see that when you open Cricut Design Space!

Q: What kind of vinyl do you use for Starbucks cups?

A: I used permanent adhesive vinyl to decorate my reusable Starbucks cups.

Q: Do you need to seal vinyl on Starbucks cups?

A: No, you do not need to seal permanent adhesive vinyl designs on DIY Starbucks cups as long as you make sure the material sticks well and stick to handwashing.

Q: How do you make vinyl stick to Starbucks cups?

A: Getting vinyl to stick to a curved surface can be tough! Make sure to really burnish the Starbucks cup logo under your piece of transfer tape so the adhesive totally bonds to the plastic.

Q: Can you put heat transfer vinyl on coffee cups?

A: Yes! I have a tutorial on adding HTV (or iron-on vinyl) to coffee cups with lots of tips and tricks.

Q. Are your free SVG files just for personal use or also commercial use?

A: You can sell completed DIY custom Starbucks cups using these digital files, we only ask that you give credit to JenniferMaker.com and do not sell the digital download or zip folder. If you use these SVG designs, please share photos with us! We love supporting your small business!

Get my free DIY Customized Starbucks Cup designs and SVG cut files

I’d love to see your DIY customized Starbucks coffee cups! If you make some, please share a photo in our Facebook group, email it to me at [email protected], or tag me on social media with #jennifermaker.

Love,

JenniferMaker.com

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DIY Customized Starbucks Cups with personalized decals - Greg's Coffee and Cup of Sunshine

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  1. I can see why my mother absolutely adores your site. And she is sending me her current Cricut machine as she is upgrading. She told me to come here and look at your tutorials. She also said you remind her of me. 🙂 Thank you for this. I think I know what my daughter is getting for a treat sometime soon. 😀

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