Gettin' My Craft On!: Coasters

First set of coasters for some Kansas peeps (KS map)

Today for crafts at JCRV, we tried another thing I'd found on Pinterest. I think they'll make fun Christmas gifts.

JCRV ladies made these

I bought a case of 50 from Lowe's (10 cents each), a bottle of Mod Podge, acrylic sealer, sponge brushes, and adhesive cork. I have an abundance of road maps (those paper things we used to use before GPS). So I plan to use those. Other ideas are magazine pix, scrapbook paper, family photos, party napkins, funny papers. etc.

First brush on a coat of Mod Podge and place your pic on the top of the tile. Smooth out bubbles with fingers. Let it dry for about 10-15 minutes. Then brush another coat of MP over that. Give it another 10-15 minutes. Brush the sealer over it and let dry for about 30 minutes.

cork on bottom

Place adhesive cork to the bottom.

I will give a set of 4 as gifts and tie with a pretty bow.

3-26-12: We had our LAST craft day today at JCRV. Rather the last one for this year while I'm here. This has really been fun this year. Crafts every Monday for nearly 3 mths! It's kinda like church camp or a crafting retreat!

Last week I told the ladies about making tile coasters to see if they'd like to try that this week. After a few minutes of telling them about it, Becky my Indiana peep, said "what are 'tal' coasters?" Cracked me up! Languager barriers aside, we had a wonderful day today in PERFECT weather, making "tal coasters"! I had also found some porcelain tiles of various shapes and sizes the other day at a resale shop's garage sale. All I could put in a box for $1. Fun! So we played with those today, too.