Archive for October 29, 2011

Personalised stamp mug with textured paper background

Another new personalised mug design from mug shop this design has a  stamp shaped area where the personalisation is inserted as well as a coloured paper textured background.

stamp personalised mug from mug shop

Our new stamp design personalised mug

As with the majority of our personalised mug designs this mug design can be personalised with a name or message of up to 45 characters long, including spaces and is available in eight different colour variations including Blue, Brown, Green, Orange, Pink, Purple, Red or Yellow.

Personalised Gradient Stars Mug design

With all that is happening on the website, namely the  creation of the new Mug Shop news blog, Mug of the month awards as well as the launch of our become a designer scheme we have not spent as much time as we would have liked on the creation of new mug designs.

Well that is all about to change as we are now going to introducing new designs regularly for your enjoyment both in-house and from freelance designers and partners.

The first new creation we are going to launch is our Gradient stars personalised mug design which is going to be part of a gradient range set. It can be personalised with a name or personalised message of up to 45 characters long, including spaces and is available in eight different colour variations including Blue, Brown, Green, Orange, Pink, Purple, Red or Yellow.

gradient stars personalised mug design from mug shop

our new gradient stars personalised mug design

Have a good one …………………and enjoy that cuppa!

Personalised Halloween Mugs

If you are really set on scaring someone for Halloween then have a look at our  skulls personalised mugs range which has been designed by the illustrator Clem Wigley. Quite simply its a skull design that will freak people out as you tip your drink up and sip from the top of the skull.

personalised mugs for halloween

scary personalised mugs for Halloween

Clem was asked to do a range of monster mugs specifically for the Mug Shop that would be both funny and at the same time gruesome and his range of Monster Mugs are surely that.

From Monsters to Squirmy things

With the success of the Monster Mugs range both through our online shop and High street retailers,Clem has once again decided to team up with the mug shop to create a new range of Squirmy mug designs. The first few mugs have just been proofed and believe us when we say they provide both a fun factor as well as a Yuch factor. To view the latest designs mugs go to squirmy mugs.

Our monster mugs and squirmy mugs as well a load of other scary designs can be viewed on the website by clicking Halloween mugs in the left hand menu.

Cheers
Brinley

Become a designer with Mug Shop

With the introduction of the Mug of the month awards we felt it would be the perfect time to also introduce our You design scheme which is open to anyone, not just professional designers.

The scheme allows you to submit a mug design to us, or several, and if we think it is good enough we will add it to our online catalog.

become a designer with mug shop

become a designer with mug shop

When someone buys a mug with the your design on, you will receive £1 if your design is personalised, 70p for a non personalised designs and £1.30 for photo mug designs, which roughly equated to a 10% commission. So if you think you have a good design, send it to us and we will do the rest.

For help on sizing your designs to make them suitable for mugs click here.  If you want to create your design from scratch then use the following dimensions: width 20cm x height 8cm with a resolution at 150ppi and they can be in full colour RGB.

Click here to upload your artwork & register

Drop us an email if you have any questions.

Mug of the Month – September

Finally we have a winner!

Our hearty congratulations to Michelle Rice – the first ever winner of our ‘Mug of the Month award’, which showcases the best customer designs each month as selected by our illustrious panel (namely staff).

Michelle will receive a £10.00 voucher to use against any purchase on the mug shop website, with free shipping.

Her winning design is shown below:

Michelle Rice - Winner September Mug of the Month

Michelle Rice - Winner September Mug of the Month

 

What Michelle's design looks like on a mug

Michelle's design shown on a mug

Category: Design your own mug

Template: Created by Michelle

Wales RWC Heroes 2011

Now available on the mug shop website is the Welsh heroes Mug design celebrating the wales Rugby teams heroic exploits at the Rugby world cup in New Zealand 2011.

Wales RWC Heroes 2011 mugs

Wales RWC Heroes 2011 - click to view

Well done the lads!

Sorry – results out soon

Apologies but Mug of the month will be announced next week as we are still debating the winner!

 

Mug of the month

It’s taken a while but its finally here……………….

From the very first day we went live, the staff at mug shop have been enjoying the designs that customers have create for their mugs. Some of the wording on personalised mugs has been touching, silly, rude and damn right hilarious.  Just as impressive have been the host of truly brilliant Design your own mug creations which have left us in wonder of the depth of your creativity. Then there have been the photo mugs which  in all honesty mostly lean towards the wacky side and tend to make us smile and sometimes guffaw. (seriously, that’s the sound we have been heard to make.)

Mug of the month competition

Mug of the month competition is launched

 

With so many funny and brilliant mug designs being created we have always chatted about putting them up on the website so that others can share in the fun and finally its happening because every month from now on (and if we get time, retrospectively) we are going to select the best mug designs created by you and post them here for everyone can see .

The designs selected for inclusion each month will receive a £10.00 discount voucher which can be uses against any future mug shop purchase.

Have fun and and happy designing.

PS: our opinion is final & no legal action can be taken against us ……….. etc etc etc

Personalised Business mugs

bulk business mugs

bulk business mugs

 

We get a lot of enquiries from companies and organisations asking for discounted bulk mug quantities. So here’s a beginners guide to business mugs to make that job a little easier.

The beauty of purchasing your business mugs from the Mug Shop is that we offer quantity price breaks if you order over a certain quantity. So, for example, we offer one price for 5-49 mugs and a cheaper price for between 50-99 mugs and then another even cheaper from for over 100 mugs. So if you are going to buy mug within the quantities shown then have a look at our Bulk Mug Orders Section.

If you don’t want a large quantity of mugs then that’s not a problem either because unlike screen printing which has large setup costs our mug printing process comes with no setup fees so if you want 5 or 10 mugs that’s fine.

As for artwork we normally print at 300dpi which means that if you want the best print quality on your mug then save your design at this resolution for the optimum results. To help you with designing your bsuiness mug have a look at our range of blank mug templates that are pre-sized to make the design process easier.

If you are not sure about how to do use the templates or get stuck then just drop us an email and we can walk you through how best to do this or alternatively you can make use of our mug design service and we will do this work for you.