Give Her Coffee & She'll Go Away - Gilmore Girls Coffee Mug

 
A Gilmore Girls Twist On a Starbucks Style Design

 Misc Things You May Wish To Know:

• For Where To Find The Free SVGS & How To Modify Them, Scroll Down & Look for the large "THE DESIGN" section.
• This cup is from Amazon.  No special name brand.  I probably spent half a day shopping for the prefect coffee mug, then got fed up and just ordered whatever was on the screen at the time.  That's how I normally shop, anyway.  It worked  out ok this time, I love the cup.  It comes with metal straws too, for cold liquids.
• Permanent vinyl, no need to seal it.  Frisco Craft brand is my favorite - super cheap, free shipping with Amazon Prime, fantastic to work with!  Limited colors.  For most other colors, I use Orcal.  Here's a list of my favorite vinyl's, best prices I could find, etc.

 I don't drink Starbucks  coffee, but I do love their cups! I made so many mistakes with this project.  But it's purely for me, and I love it - someday I may redo it.  It's my take on a "Starbucks Style" cup. Just a month or so ago I read a comment from a Designer where she said she never seals anything on her coffee cups, if the designs fall of in the dishwasher, she just puts on a new design.  (They hold up really well, no need to seal, just hand wash. Although I've had quite a few go through the dishwasher many times with no problems too.)  That was such a freeing thought to me.  It doesn't have to be perfect.  I can always just redo it later.  I'm not selling - this is just for me.  I'm sitting here drinking out of my coffee mug with the not perfectly lined up circles, and you know what?  I LOVE this thing.  Today. Tomorrow I may redo it when the imperfections drive me nuts.  You just never know with me.

If I was able, I'd gladly make this an svg you could download.  But that has exceeded my attention span.  Again, someday I may come back to that.  For now,  I can, much more quickly, tell you how to do this yourself. 

I apparently can NOT tell you how to perfectly line up two circles, as you can see, I didn't manage to do that. Even though I placed the entire design on contact paper before putting it on the cup. I thought it was lined up on the contact paper. I was wrong. My biggest tip is to NOT try doing 15 things at once. (Yesterday I was writing a post on the history of the local Whiskey Insurrection of 1794, while turning a bushel of tomatoes into sauce, while sorting out soap supplies to make pumpkin soap, while working on no less than 12 - seriously, 12 - cricut projects on my dining room table. Oh, and I was doing laundry. I tend to either do everything at once, or nothing at all - I have no normal, rational, in between mode. Did you know that the Riot Act was a real thing? Like the Miranda Rights speech we know today, it was read to unruly crowds. If they didn't calm down an clear out within an hour, the penalty was death. That's from that Whiskey Insurrection article.)

If you are a Gilmore Girls fan, you know that this refers to the first time Luke & Lorelai met.  She came into Luke's for coffee, he was busy, she was annoying (for good cause - coffee....) She rips out a piece of the newspaper horoscope and writes on it "You will meet an annoying woman today.  Give her coffee and she will go away."  You can see a video clip where Luke pulls out the "horoscope" from his wallet, telling this story, 8 years later, when the two are finally on a date, here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mt266f7Ijuw

If I were reading this, I would probably be rolling my eyes about now.  " could you just stop rambling and tell me how to make this?"  So I'll make this section really large for those of you who wanted to just skim through and find it:

THE DESIGN

• FREE Luke's SVG
• FREEE Starbucks Ring SVG
• FREE Santana Black Font (The "Starbucks Font") 

Full disclosure, as if I have not already disclosed enough...

There's supposed to be another piece, which has "Stars Hollow, CT" under the circle on my cup.  It ay appear there in later photos.  Currently, that piece is cut, but missing.  My dining room table looks like a bomb hit it, I have so many projects in progress - so when it shows up, I will add it.  The letters are cut out of the rectangle - the rectangle is larger and will hold up better when this inevitably gets tossed in the dishwasher.  Small letters are always  the first to be lost in the dishwasher.  :-)

Delete all the extras from the starbucks ring - including the white circle.  Then duplicate it, and contour out the stars on the duplicate. 

How to Contour In Design Space: https://fieldsofhether.blogspot.com/2020/04/how-to-use-contour-in-design-space.html

That gives you the plain yellow circle.  Add the Luke's cup in the middle.  Select the circle and the cup, at the top of the screen in design space choose Align/Center.  Then either attach or weld.  Either works for this - attach is easier to undo.

The text in the circle is a PAIN.  Normally I type all of my text in fontlab pad and upload it as an svg, because Design Space doesn't read font kerning, or anything else designers program into fonts, so they are always spaced weird and missing cool things that you'd see in any other program.

BUT you cannot curve text you upload as an svg.  So I typed it in a text box in Design Space, used the curve feature... and it was spaced really, really weird.  So, uncurve, ungroup the text, and place each letter one by one.  

Once the text is on there, slice it from the ring.  We used to have to weld text before slicing but most of the time that's no longer necessary now!  

Change the colors to whatever you want, cut, weed, and then try to do a better job of lining up the circles than I did.  That's it!

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If you like the look of the Starbucks "rings", there are SO many free ones already made!  Wraps for the cups too.  Here's a list: https://fieldsofhether.blogspot.com/2020/08/free-starbucks-inspired-coffee-ring-svgs.html

Looking for more of my Gilmore Girls Projects with cricut?  Find those here: https://fieldsofhether.blogspot.com/2018/03/gilmore-girls-cricut.html