My mom told me she wanted some photo coasters last year sometime. This was another project that I started months ago and got stuck, ran out of time and just put it away. But I dragged it back out for Mothers’ Day.
I got some tumbled stone tiles at Home Depot. I think they were like 30 cents each, but I can’t remember.
I was generally following a tutorial using tissue paper, but ran into problems putting it through my printer, so I decided to just use photo paper instead.
I cropped, re-sized and printed out some photos. Cut them to size and then glued them to the tiles with Mod Podge. I gave them a quick coat of water-resistant sealer to prevent the ink from smearing. And after it was dry, I coated the tops of the photos with Mod Podge and let them dry. Then I gave it a few coats of clear sealer to finish things off.
Next I glued some thin cork coasters to the bottom of the tiles with hot glue. In hindsight, it might have been smart to heat up the tiles, like setting them out in the sun so the glue wouldn’t cool and harden quite so fast.
I also might consider using tiles with a flat surface in the future since I won’t be using tissue paper. Pretty cute though! And they look way more expensive than they actually were.
