Faux Coaster with Amazing Casting Products

Good day, I'm here again showing you how to create coasters using an everyday household object.  I have an obsession with coasters.

I started with a couple of lids from some containers that I hoard!  

I mixed up my Amazing Casting Resin which will give me a nice white layer 

and you can view the instructions HERE!

I poured the resin to about half way up the lid lip.

I found a wine cork print from the internet and printed it out

and cut circles a bit smaller than the lids.

After the resin set up which only took about 5 minutes

I painted some Mod Podge onto the hardened resin.

See how the resin isn't quite up to the top of the lid?

(I left the resin in the lids though and I'll explain later why I did that.)

Then I placed the circle papers onto the Mod Podge

and painted some more Mod Podge over the top

after the initial layer had dried completely.

I did let this set up for about 2 hours to make sure the

Mod Podge dried all the way.

If you look closely I did have a bit tearing

but I didn't get too worked up about that.

Maybe I should have left the Mod Podge dry underneath

a bit longer before apply more Mod Podge to the top.

After I made sure my Mod Podge had dried completely,

I pulled out my Amazing Clear Cast Resin and some glitter.

I mixed the resin up and you can view a video tutorial on that HERE

and poured a bit of glitter into the mixture.

and slowly poured it into the lids.

I let this set up for about 24 hours

and popped out my resin coasters.

They are gorgeous!

I had made one with some magazine paper also.

 I hope I've inspired you to use something you have laying around to create a mold.

What object would you use as a mold?

Thanks for stopping by and as always, have a great day and God Bless!

Wine coaster

Good morning, 

I just wanted to show you a quick coaster idea.  I love to recycle and today I made a coaster for me.  Yes, I made something for myself for a change.  I took an old scratched cd that was in my "recycle to be used" box and mod podged some purple paper that I got from the Robin's Nest.  Since I've been on their design team I can honestly say I have so fallen in love with her papers.  This paper is called Plum Classic Glitter cardstock. 

 It so reminds me of a grape...you'll find out in a bit.  It's got bits of glitter embedded in the paper and is so sparkly cute.  Go check out all her papers, I'm sure you will find something you can't live without.  

I cut a circle of the exact same size as the cd, see the glittery paper?

If you are on facebook I'm sure you've seen all these fun and crazy sayings.  My daughter actually added this one to my timeline because I'm a wine fanatic and that's when I knew I wanted to make something with the picture.  Now you understand what I meant about the paper looking like a grape?

So I burnt the edges of the picture a bit to make it look old (I remember doing this in with my Holly Hobby pictures in middle school).  Boy does that age me or what?

Then I mod podged the papers to the cd, inked the edges of the cd and a bit around the picture again.  Sealed it really well with the mod podge again and 

now I have my very own wine glass coaster.  What do you think?  I'm loving it for sure.  I did paint the underside of the cd and added some felt "feet" so as not to scratch my wood furniture.  Now I just wish I had some time off to relax with my glass of wine and new coaster, but I'm sure I will fit a glass of wine in somewhere soon.  

As always, have a great day and God Bless.