Making Ceramic Tile Coasters

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Making ceramic tile coasters.

Coasters are essentially a necessity for any wooden surface it seems so personalizing some small tiles to be coasters would make a great gift for nearly anyone. Read on for a tutorial on how to make diy photo coasters from tiles. I found these white ceramic tiles at home depot for 0 16 a piece. Watch instructional video now or scroll down for instructions.

How to make easy diy photo coasters from tiles. I make about 150 per week and have never had one returned. Repeat 2 or 3 more times. Then add a coat of mod podge to the tile and place the paper on top.

I use matte polycrylic by minwax to glue the image onto the tile. You can paint on your tiles using special oven bake ceramic paint like the pebeo vitrea paints bake them using the instructions that come with the paint and then coat the tiles with envirotex like i describe on the rest of page check out these adorable hand print tiles made by reader felicity and. I make these tiles and sell them every week at farmer s markets craft fairs and art shows. I decided to include four coasters in each set so i purchased eight all together.

A few years ago i found the coolest craft that also makes great gifts i am talking about waterproof ceramic tile coasters i am hooked on making them. Waterproof ceramic tile coasters. Just trace around the ceramic tile on the paper and cut out. I use a different method than this instructor.

I am making tile coasters that have paper images on them. Making these coasters is very simple. Add another coat on top of the paper and let it dry. You can add felt to the bottom of the coaster to prevent scratches on the table found on.

Sometimes i get asked how to make coasters by directly hand painting on them so here s how. I don t use alcohol i use the blending solution from adirondack that way it flows better and there are no white spots. I tried spraying dupli color gloss products both the engine spray and the gloss clear coat directly on the tile once the image was glued. A couple things we figured out after making a bunch of marble coasters for christmas presents.

We ended up making at least a dozen of these sharpie dyed tile coasters and every single one ended up being beautiful even the ones where my kids had drawn tiny little trees and princesses on them or where they had coloured half the tile with pink and the other half of the tile with baby blue. You shouldn t need to use a tile sealer if you re working with ceramic or porcelain tiles.