DIY Coasters

 My soon to be roomate Kirsten and I, both addicted to pintrist, have been trying out some new DIY for our new house this fall. One of the ones we did were coasters. we found some ways to make coasters personalized with your own pictures, or pained ones. We tried both but fell in love with the picture ones. In fact we decided we wanted to try to fix up an only coffee table by tile-ing it with picture tiles.. just like these coasters.

Materials:

4" by 4" porcelin

Modge Podge

Paint Brush

clear sealer

Hot glue gun

some type of thick fabric

pictures of choice

The tiles were only 33 cents a peice at lowes, the modge podge, paint brushes, sealer, hot glue gun, and fabric i all had at home, and the pictures costed $1.19. the whole project all together was under 3 dollars.

The first thing you want to do is cut the pictures so that they fit just slightly smaller than the size of the tile.

Then you layer modge podge onto the tile and place the picture on top to glue the picture down.

Next you want to evenly apply a layer of modge podge over the top of the pictures. It will look cloudy at first but after a couple of hours the glue will dry and look like a clear sealant is on top.

Once the glue is dry, this may take several hours, paint a thin layer of clear sealer on top and around the sides.

Let them dry again for another couple of hours. While they are drying you can take your fabric, i used fabric made for a couch cover, and cut it out to just slightly smaller than the size of the tile. Once you have enough squares cut out, you want to hot glue them to the under side of the coaster. This way they wont scratch any wooden surface or if you like to stack them to store them, they wont be able to scratch the other ones.