Saturday, November 19, 2011

Christmas Coasters!

My daughter & I started making Christmas presents today for Austin's Pre-K teachers and Maggie's other grandparents and are THRILLED on how they are coming out!  Our plan is to make 4 4" coaster, 1 7" hot plate, two pot holders and two dish towels for everyone on this list.  We've started with the coasters and the pot holders (my next blog will feature how to make the pot holders), here's how we did the coasters:
 
These are the supplies we used:
20 beverage size napkins (when we opened them we realized that we had two different designs so we cut the napkins into quarters on the folds)
20 dinner size napkins (we did the same thing with the dinner napkins as we did with the beverage napkins)
bottle of Modge Podge
4" (approximate size) plain tiles (purchase at a "seconds" store)
1 can of spray Modge Podge sealer
Cork (cut 1/8" smaller than the tiles)
Glue to adhere the Cork to the tiles

Following the directions on the Modge Podge we coated the tiles and then placed the napkins on the tacky tiles, smoothed them out and let them sit until they were dry.  It took 3 more  coats of the Modge Podge letting the tiles dry between each coating.  Once we were done with the Modge Podge and the tiles were completely dry we then coated each tile with the Modge Podge sealer, the final step was to adhere the Cork to the back of the tiles.  You can use any type of glue you want, we used an spray adhesive.

Let me know what you think!  Personally I think they are great!

1 comment:

plain jane said...

First off to anyone that reads this we are sisters trying to get motivated on our holiday projects. Now I almost spilled the beans to Mom what you where making.You did just great at explaining project.