Creative Coasters

In our house, no drink is ever set down unless it's sitting on a coaster or my dad will be all over your case! So this week we decided to make our own sets of coasters. After searching Pinterest and Etsy for ideas, we gathered our supplies: Mod Podge, cork, scrap book paper, tiles, and a table cloth to protect the kitchen table:

I saw coasters on Esty that were made from old book pages and loved them, so I decided to copy them. Using a duplicate copy of Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, I chose four chapter title pages to use for my coasters (with input from my roomie since he would have to look at them everyday too). My mom chose the coffee themed paper for hers. We each cut 4 in. by 4 in. squares to fit our coaster bases. 

After cutting out our paper squares, we each decoupaged a layer of Mod Podge onto our bases - I chose rough tile and my mom chose cork - and then pressed the paper down and smoothed it out so there were not any air bubbles.

After waiting about 15 minutes for the paper to dry onto the tile and cork, we then painted 2 to 3 top layers of Mod Podge onto our coasters. 

After letting them dry overnight, we needed to seal them with a clear acrylic paint sealer. My mom found spray sealer, and we sprayed 2 coats onto our coasters.

My mom used the cork base so she didn't need to add any type of backing to her coasters, but since I used rougher tiles I added a layer of foam to the back so they wouldn't scratch my coffee table.

Here are my mom's four coasters drying:

And my four on my coffee table:

The Girls Team really liked this project this week. I'm happy I finally have coasters, and I love that they are made from one of my favorite books. My mom's coffee themed coasters look great in her kitchen. The only time consuming aspect of this project was waiting for everything to dry, so we spread this project out over two evenings. As we were making these decoupaged coasters, we were getting great ideas for gifts for friends and family. I already have a list of people I'd like to make them for. We also thought we could trying sewing coasters next time. 

Another successful craft week for the girls of Make It Happen Monday!