Snow Front Coasters - a home decor item

Sometimes cleaning a drawer has spin off benefits!
When I was cleaning the drawer in the tables beside the couch, I found a coaster with a scene on it - of mountains and trees and water.
My hands froze in mid air. I gasped! The stamp set "Snow Front" immediately came to mind.  I had made a lot of swap cards for On Stage Toronto using this very versatile set - sSo I had an Ah Ha moment. Use this stamp set to make some coasters!

Here is the result:

These are the first successful two.  I had made others but the process of sealing them caused the colours to run.  Mod Podge was the worst offender.
On a piece of water colour paper, I drew two circles approximately 3 5/8" in diameter (one of the layering circle dies), and used the pencil lines as a guide where to stamp the images. Then I used that same die to die cut them.

For the backing, I die cut two slightly smaller circles - one in chipboard and one in cork.  And for this I used one of the original 3 1/2" circle die by Sizzix.  I got the chipboard on Amazon, but you could use some thick card board instead, and the cork at the dollar store.

After the coaster was sealed using 4 coats of a Krylon spray followed by a spray Shellac all three layers were adhered together using a combination of tacky and hot glue.

The sealant used caused the colours to become darker and more intense, so subsequent coaster were made with a lighter colour of ink.

Heartland on Coasters

Yes, I've been busy making coasters.

Today I used one of my Alcohol Ink backgrounds to black emboss images from the Heartland stamp set and Mod Podge them onto tiles.

Here's a close up of each of the coasters:

Coaster 1:  Barn

Coaster 2:  Boy Going Fishing

Coaster 3:  Tractor and Dog

Each of the art pieces, after trimmed to size, had the corners rounded, and the edges sponged with Basic Gray ink prior to being applied to the coaster.

Fish hook coasters for a guy for Father's Day

I made these 2 coasters as a gift for Father's Day.

The coasters are made of 3 layers of chipboard adhered together  After rounding the corners, I used Mod Podge to adhere Smoky Slate Cardstock.  When it was dry, the cardstock was trimmed and the corners rounded.  Then, again using Mod Podge, I adhered a pattern from the Adventure Bound DSP stack.  I also rounded those corners. 

On a separate piece of Whisper White carstock, I stamped 2 images of fish hooks designed by a good friend of mine Murray.  They were coloured with blendabilities and then adhered to the coaster.  The stamped images are from the Stampscape series of stamps.

Mod Podge was applied to the top of the coaster and then they were sprayed with Krylon to waterproof them.

I think they will appeal to a Father who loves to fish.