DIY Stenciled Coasters: Metallic & Dramatic!
6 Materials
$10
30 Minutes
Easy
This is a super short and sweet DIY project! Dress up your drinks with stenciled coasters. I show how to make dramatic coasters with metallic and black paints. Of course you can paint with any colors you like!
These are the final result! Make quickly and easily with 4" x 4" wood panels, with cork pieces glued underneath for protection. They are painted with a mix of copper, gold, silver and bronze metallic paints, and stencils painted with black paint. You could also paint a protective clear coating on the coasters.
I found these wood squares in the art section of Michael’s. There are also wood coasters in the woodcraft aisles. But they were thicker, and I liked the slim shape of these wood squares. I also found 4″ x 4″ cork at Michael’s. To make coasters, simply glue the 4″ x 4″ cork to wood squares. I had wood glue with me, so I used that. You can also use Elmers glue or Aleene's Tacky Glue. Then, paint base colors on the wood squares. Paint any color you want. I painted a mix of metallics — silver, bronze, gold and copper — with Stencil Cremes from Royal Design Studio. Let this base color dry. Next, stencil shapes onto the wood squares. You can use stencils that fit within a 4″ x 4″ square. But you don’t have to be limited by that. You can use any size stencil — just stencil a small part of the design on a coaster. I painted stencils with shimmery Frosted Black Stencil Creme. I chose a mix of stencil shapes that made an interesting combo on the coasters. You can see this design was bigger than the stencil so it ran off the edges, and that’s okay! It gives you more design ideas to play with:
I made these coasters for our "second home" apartment in India. It's hot there, so drinks sweat and I needed coasters to protect tables.
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I love your style! Your whole home looks so vibrant and interesting!
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Looks awesome love your beautiful bowls too, thank you for sharing. Makes me want to get busy making them, after all you can never have to many coasters.
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Can you please tell me the type, name of stencils you used.... I like All the one you used. Thank you.