My Christmas season has been fabulous so far, I have watched a LOT of children's films.
And saw lovely friends and family and ate tasty food of course.
As is traditional I decided to make a portion of my gifts this year and I decided to make a selection of coasters.
After umming and ahhing over various tutorials on Pinterest, I bought a job lot of wooden and felt circles from ebay and then began covering them in collage designs.
Some were in sets like these almost obligatory map and bird designs
and roses
and others were one offs.
In all a good crafting activity for giftage, although beware of taking up a lot of surfaces in the home when many are drying at once.
If you are thinking of making some coasters and you want them to be functional as well, make sure you consider the waterproofness of the materials you use - I used found printed papers and book cutouts for a lot of the designs (woo serendipity etc.) but where I did use pictures I'd printed from my own designs I made sure to print them on a photocopier with heat sealed ink, and not on my inkjet printer. I also sprayed the finished coasters with two coatings of varnish, but early results indicate the brand I used might not be particularly heat resistant, so do more research than I did.
Merry betweenchristmasandnewyears
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