This is a free Christmas mug mockup PSD: a white 11 oz ceramic mug in a cozy holiday scene, shot from two angles, with a full-wrap smart object for your design. We made it ourselves for Mckups. It’s free for personal and commercial use, print-on-demand listings included.
We built it because we couldn’t find a decent free one. Plenty of mug mockups out there, plenty of Christmas scenes. A free file that puts the two together, wraps the print around the mug properly and doesn’t look like a 2014 stock photo? We came up empty. So here it is: fir branches, pine cones, a chunky knit blanket, warm fairy lights, and hot cocoa in the second shot.
What’s in the free Christmas mug mockup
- Two PSD files: Hero (eye level, handle on the right, 4500 × 3000 px) and Cozy (from above, with hot cocoa, 3200 × 4000 px)
- A full-wrap artwork canvas inside the smart object: 2550 × 1050 px, 8.5 × 3.5 in at 300 dpi, with guides for the part each view shows
- The print bends around the mug: it narrows towards the edges and follows the curve of the rim, so a straight line of text looks like it’s really on a cylinder
- Glaze reflections sit on top of your design, so it reads as printed ceramic, not a sticker
- Mug colour and inside colour change separately, one swatch each
- In the Cozy view the cocoa is its own layer: hide it for an empty mug
- RGB, 8-bit, sRGB. ZIP, 87 MB, with the Displace maps, a README and the licence
How to put your design on the mug
Open either file in Adobe Photoshop. In the DESIGN group, double-click the YOUR DESIGN thumbnail. A second tab opens; there, double-click YOUR WRAP. That’s the full wrap. Hide the Merry & Bright sample, paste your artwork, save and close both tabs. The mug updates.
The two views show opposite halves of the same wrap. Hero shows the left half, Cozy the right half, and the edges of the canvas meet behind the handle. So if you sell a mug with a name on one side and a pattern on the other, one artwork file gives you both product shots. Keep anything important at least 0.25 in from the edges; the guides mark the spot.
One tip from building it: on a red or green mug, skip pure white for the print. A warm cream reads like real ceramic ink. Pure white looks pasted on.
Great for
Etsy and print-on-demand listings for December. Use Hero as the first listing image and Cozy as the lifestyle shot next to it. Holiday promos for a café or a small roastery. Gift-shop previews for a client who wants to see their logo on a red mug before ordering 200 of them. And Instagram or Pinterest posts, where the vertical Cozy shot fits without cropping.
More free mug and Christmas mockups
Need a mug without the holiday props? The free mug mockup roundup collects 21 ceramic, enamel and travel mugs, and the cozy mug on a table mockup is another of our own files, warm but not seasonal. For the rest of a Christmas range, the Christmas mockups collection has 23 more festive PSD files and online editors. And the free crewneck sweatshirt mockup was built the same way as this mug, if you sell matching merch.
Download the free Christmas mug mockup
The button below downloads the ZIP (87 MB): two PSD files, the Displace maps, a README and the licence. Free for personal and commercial use, including client work and print-on-demand listings. Please don’t resell or re-upload the PSD files themselves. Made by Mckups.
