Showing posts with label coasters. Show all posts
Showing posts with label coasters. Show all posts

Friday, June 22, 2007

Coasters as Coasters!

You know the coasters that everyone is crafting with? I thought that maybe it would be fun to do a couple to actually use as a coaster in my craft space.

I am still experimenting with this, but I'll show you what I did so far. I've got too much going on to really devote the time I need to, but last night I just had to at least try it before I put away the coasters until after the move.

I mentioned this on Gingerwood a while back and was advised ( by Nancy) to use craft or pigment ink and heat set it, but instead I used StazOn because it was out already. I colored it with watered down Alchohol inks. I'm not satisfied with the results yet, but I thought I would show you anyway to save you time should you decide to experiment.


I abandoned this coaster with it's stained glass image from My Heart Stamps 4U because I didn't get a perfect image (my fault) and my alcohol ink color choices are limited. When I used the wrong color for the background and I decided to stop because I really didn't have time for something this detailed anyway. (I am going to stamp a few of these beautiful images to color for later, maybe even on vellum)



Then I went to another stamp sitting right in front of me. These stamps arrived yesterday from The Stampbuzz. Both the butterfly and the saying are Stampendous. Again, I used the Stazon, but the image didn't turn out as crisp as I wanted.
However, when I get to do this for real, I'll try the alcohol inks again because the colors don't run when re-wet. I tested it by pouring water on it. Once it dried it was back to normal.