Starbucks Tumbler Project & Where To Find Blank Tumblers!

How To Personalize A Starbucks Tumbler for your next vinyl project!

Recently I picked up a cute Fall themed Starbucks tumbler which I’ve decided to personalize as a gift for my niece (who has just discovered Starbucks)! I’ll share the whole process with you in this post, and then I’ll show you where you can buy blank Starbucks Tumblers online!

Cricut Starbucks Tumbler Project

Materials Needed:

• Blank Fall Starbucks Tumbler
• Cricut Explore Air 2 or Cricut Maker with the fine-point blade
• Several different colors of permanent adhesive vinyl (including green and black for the Starbucks logo)
• Cricut transfer tape
• Happy Fall Y’all free SVG from LoveSVG.com
• Free Starbucks Logo SVG (I’ve also seen Fall pumpkin spice Starbucks logos out there too!)
• Santana-Black Regular Font (Starbucks font)

Here’s the blank Starbucks tumbler I picked up for this project…so cute!

1. Starbucks Font & SVG

First, I needed to work out what font the Starbucks logo is. Once I know what font it is, I will be able to add a name to the logo which perfectly matches the word ‘coffee’.

I used Font Squirrel’s Font Identifier to do this. I just uploaded an image of the Starbucks font, and the Font Identifier matched it with a font that I could download for free.

I downloaded the font Santana-Black Regular font and installed it onto my computer.

Here’s how to make a personalized Starbucks logo:

1. Upload the Starbucks logo SVG to Cricut Design Space
2. Insert the logo into a new project
3. Decide what size you’d like your logo to be (mine is 3 inches wide)
4. Click ‘text’ and type the name you’d like on your logo
5. Change the font to Santana-Black Regular (should appear in DS if you’ve installed the font onto your computer, though you may need to sign out and back into DS for it to appear. See more info about installing fonts here
6. Use the curve feature to curve your name (if this doesn’t work well you can also click ‘advanced’ and ‘ungroup to letters’ to rotate each letter individually
7. Once your name is perfectly positioned on the logo, select both the name and the logo and click slice
8. Delete any extra sliced pieces and you are left with your own personalized logo!

I also added the ‘Happy Fall Y’all’ SVG into my project, which I will put on the back of the tumbler.

I also made this design 3 inches wide and added a weeding box around it to make weeding easier (more weeding tips here). I duplicated the leaves from the Happy Fall Y’all design a few more times so that I could cover the tumbler with them.

Now I’m all done designing and I can continue on to the mat preview. Here you should check that everything is showing up correctly. You don’t need to mirror your mats if you are using adhesive vinyl.

2. Cut Out Your Designs

• For the Explore Air 2: Set the dial to ‘Vinyl’.
• For the Maker: Choose ‘Vinyl’ from the material settings in Design Space.

Place vinyl shiny side facing up (backing paper underneath) on your green StandardGrip mat.

3. Weed Your Designs

After everything is cut out you need to remove all the excess vinyl, so that only your designs remain.

As a lot of the pieces in my design were very small (especially the hand-lettering), I decided to reverse weed most things. Reverse weeding can be a life saver for intricate designs!

Here’s a short explanation of how to reverse weed:

1. Place transfer tape over top of your vinyl design
2. Peel away vinyl backing paper from the back
3. Remove the excess vinyl (you are now weeding on the transfer tape instead of the vinyl backing paper)

See our tutorial on reverse weeding for a fuller explanation.

I will separate all the different types of leaves and scatter them around the tumbler.

4. Apply Vinyl Designs To Tumbler

Now you can start applying your design onto your tumbler.

Here’s a few tips for applying the vinyl:

• Make sure the surface is clean – prep it with some rubbing alcohol
• Press down along the center and work from the center out towards each side
• Use a squeegee to burnish your design after it has been applied
• If there are any bubbles you can cut these with an exacto knife and release the air

Hardest part done…

All done. Perfect for Fall!

Whooops, I lost her nose!

Check out these tips on how to apply vinyl to a curved surface – there are a few tricks to make it a bit easier! It’s certainly different to applying vinyl on a flat surface.

The pumpkin shaped lid is so cute!

Let me know what you think in the comments at the end!

Now we’ll take a look at where you can find blank Starbucks Tumblers online.

Blank Starbucks Tumblers

These blank tumblers range from cheaper plastic options, to the more pricey models such as the Starbucks Gold Swarovski Tumbler (with wood box none the less).

The best place to buy blank tumblers is here on Amazon (in my opinion). And the best spot to pick up an already customized Starbucks Tumbler is here on Etsy.

Starbucks Stainless Steel Tumbler

A stainless steel tumbler is a great candidate for personalization and customization 🙂

Here are some of the best picks we found for you to check out!

Starbucks Tumbler With Straw

Glass Tumbler

Etsy Tumblers

If you just want someone else to make a custom Starbucks Tumbler for you, you have to check out Etsy!

Etsy has the most incredible range of options available, with tumblers in all colors and sizes, with everything on them from vinyl, to glitter, to Swarovski crystals!

Thanks for reading – please leave any comments or questions below 🙂

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