Craft Night Recap - Coaster!

Last night I was back at Crazy Beans for my second craft night! I loved making mugs on our first craft night, however it was post blizzard so we didn't get the huge turn out I had expected. Last night certainly made up for it! It was packed!

For these craft nights at Crazy Beans I have been trying to think of things that would be useful and cohesive with the cafe theme. Our first project was perfect, we did mugs. I have been back since then and was glad to use customers using some of the mugs we had made! This time around I thought coasters would be appropriate. I had done these a while back with Michele and I also used a whimsey box to make some. Here is what some of the madness looked like!

This is a pretty simple project, and here is a quick little how to:

Materials & Tools

• 4 x 4 white tile (gloss or matte finishes work)
• Felt 
• Hot glue gun 
• scrap paper 
• tissue paper 
• washi tape 
• Mod Podge 
• foam brush
• Enamel spray

Instructions

• Use your hot glue gun and attach some felt to the bottom of the tile. This step helps prevent the tile from scratching up your table! You can also use cork. 
• Take your scrap paper, tissue paper and washi tape and arrange how every you would like. You can also print out pictures to use. Go nuts, have fun! 
• Once your stuff is arranged how you like take your foam brush and mod podge over your images on the tile. Let it dry for a few minutes. 
• After your coaster has dried a little bit take it outside (or a well ventilated area) and spray a few coats. Let it dry for at least a day before using it. 

Here are some of the finished coasters from our crafty adventures from last night!

Craft Date with Short Girl, Long Island

So do you have any friends on Facebook that you actually haven't met in person? I have a few and one of them was Michele from Short Girl, Long Island. She is a bit older than me but we hung around similar circles and she was always the friend of a friend but I had never actually met her! We also went to school with each others brothers, weird! (also that sounds like a pretty cool band name) So we decided to hang out and have a craft night. We have a lot in common and I have a feeling it was the first of many craft nights.

Michele brought over some stuff to make coasters. It was a fun craft that was simple and ended up looking great! Michele has a tutorial over on Short Girl, Long Island, so go check it out!

I dug around to look for some stationary to use for my coaster. I came across a bag I had saved from going to the Harry Potter exhibit. It was a cool bag that was worth saving (so don't judge me). The coaster does a good job, in my craft room I usually have some tea or coffee and now I have a coaster to rest my mug on so I don't risk ruining any projects! Here is my finished coaster!

I introduced Michele to the freezer paper stencil technique. I have referenced it a bunch of times before but have yet to post a tutorial and I promise you it is indeed coming! While doing it with Michele, I did some experimentation and make bug. After it had dried I took some sand paper to it and it came out looking distressed. What do you think?