Hip {Hostess} Gifts|pt 1

What role do you play in Thanksgiving? Are the gracious hostess or are you so bad in the kitchen that no one wants to do Thanksgiving at your house ever again? Or, do you just really not enjoy spending all day in the kitchen, stressing over whether people will like your food, or get food poisoning? I fall somewhere in between no one wanting to come and not really wanting to have the pressure of cooking for a large group. But do you know what I love about being a guest at other people’s Thanksgivings (other than the obvious of not having to cook)? Bringing hip hostess gifts! That’s right, invite me to your house and I’ll bring you something pretty!

Over the next week I am going to share with you some of the fun hostess gifts I will be bringing with me to Florida next week!!

First up is a fun set of coasters!

When I first saw Lauren McKinsey’s sneak peek of her casual Thanksgiving collection that was featured in Giggle magazine I fell head over stiletto heals in love with the little turkey she designed for the collection. It is right up my polka-dotted loving alley! I knew that I wanted to do something fun with the turkey graphic and thought she would look very cute as a set of coasters. Custom coasters are really fun and easy (and cheap) to make.

Supplies:

4.25″ white ceramic tiles from the home improvement store of your choice

4×4″ paper – I printed out one of the banner pieces from the Casual Thanksgiving collection from Lauren McKinsey on regular printer paper, but you can use any kind of patterned paper, wrapping paper, something you print off your computer, anything!!

A sheet of felt (cut into 4×4 squares) – I bought the Eco Felt b/c it was thick and sturdy

Mod Podge – I used both matte & outdoor for this project, you can use any kind you want

Hot Glue

Acrylic Sealer (optional)

Step 1 – optional – Spray the paper you want to glue to your tiles with acrylic sealer on both sides and let dry. This helps the paper from wrinkling or bubbling up when you do step #2.

Step 2 – Apply a medium layer of matte Mod Podge to the top of the tile and center your paper on the tile.

Step 3 – LET IT DRY – like for real, this step is very important, so important it needs its own step!

Step 4 – apply a light layer of matte Mod Podge on top your paper

Step 5 – LET IT DRY!!

Step 6 – apply another thin layer of matte Mod Podge on top of your paper

Step 7 – I will just let you guess this one, it rhymes with Get Mit Try!

Step 8 – I applied a thin layer of outdoor Mod Podge to give it a little more water resistance. In the past I used outdoor Mod Podge for every layer of my coaster and to this day it is still rather sticky.

Step 9 – Using your hot glue gun run a bead of glue around the back of the tile and glue your felt on.

Step 10 – Let cure for a couple days before you use the coasters to allow the Mod Podge to fully harden. It’s ok if you don’t have a few days, but make sure to let is cure overnight at least.

I bundled my coasters together with a little ribbon I had laying around and as soon as I go get a magenta ink refill I will print out a cute “I am thankful for you” gift tag from the collection to attach to the tiles as well! Of course, these will be part of a little goodie bucket I am putting together…more posts to come!!

(Oh, and I might have made this cute little Tom into a t-shirt, too!)

Comments

staci @ lizard n ladybug says

November 18, 2011 at 1:43 pm

Those shirts are adorable!

Dorangela says

November 18, 2011 at 2:42 pm

You Rick Stacy! That’s all I can say about that!

Dorangela says

November 18, 2011 at 5:01 pm

Rock 🙂

jmueller says

November 18, 2011 at 6:04 pm

I made three shirts today too – but, mine turned the polka dots yellow 🙁 I used the Avery labels – do you think that I ironed too long or was too hot? They are still super cute – just not as crisp and white as yours.

Stacy @ She's {kinda} Crafty says

November 18, 2011 at 9:15 pm

I also used the Avery heat transfer for light materials. I would guess that you did leave the iron on it for too long and in one place for too long. I find that medium pressure and about 20 seconds per pass is enough, let it cool slightly them peel back, if it doesn’t peel well, try again for 15 seconds and so on

Kim@todayismysome-day says

November 19, 2011 at 5:12 am

Super cute shirts and very thoughtful polkadotted gift 🙂

Kim
http://Www.todayismysome-day.blogspot.com

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