Making lunchtime more colourful

Create unique take-away coffee cups and lunch boxes with edding gloss paint markers

Add some colour and imagination to your day and decorate a mug, flask or lunchbox with unique and cheerful patterns, funny designs or creative prints. All you need is a great idea and edding gloss paint markers to transform an everyday coffee cup into a trendy, personalised accessory. Breakfast and lunch will taste twice as good when stored in an attractively decorated lunch box! You could decorate your daughter’s lunch box with her favourite song lyrics or your best friend’s with flowers – there's a whole world of designs at your fingertips.

The four new gloss paint marker colours – metallic light blue, metallic green, metallic violet and metallic pink – are ideal for flasks and lunch boxes. These colours show up particularly well on dark backgrounds such as metal, glass, plastic and paper. These new, opaque metallic shades also look great combined with classic gold, silver and copper.

Categories: Kitchen
Special gifts
Products: Paint markers
Materials: Plastic and foil
Difficulty: Easy peasy
Downloads: Images (ZIP)

Step-by-step

Step 1

First, decide on your design (a flower template is included in these instructions or download it here). No need to worry about shiny surfaces – thanks to their special inks, edding gloss paint markers are particularly suitable for shiny and dark surfaces.

Step 2

We recommend you start by tracing your pattern lightly with a crayon, then simply go over the pattern with the gloss paint marker. And that's it – your new lunch box is finished!

Step 3

How to activate your edding gloss paint marker:

Shake the marker vigorously with the cap on.
Place the marker nib on a piece of scrap paper.
Carefully press down on the nib and pump it up and down several times until ink appears.
Ensure the ink starts to flow by drawing a couple of lines on the paper.
Always replace the cap after use.

Products and materials

edding 750 gloss paint marker

edding 751 gloss paint marker

Other materials

Plain coloured thermos flask, a standard lunch box or similar made of plastic or stainless steel
If you wish, a coloured crayon to trace your pattern on the thermos or lunch box