Southern Scraps

With all the summer entertaining opportunities, it's time to make some coasters to set under all those yummy summer drinks . Here are 10 ways to DIY your own coasters. 1. Dress up some cork coasters with paint .   Homey Home Design   2. Make mini pallet coasters with popsicle sticks .     Cooking Like Lou 3. Mod Podge some scrapbook paper to cork tiles. via twelve o'eight 4. Make coasters with fabric . two shades of pink 5. Paint a chevron pattern on square tiles. Shanty 2 chic 6. Mod podge dictionary pages on tiles.   Southern Scraps   7. Make coasters from Scrabble tiles .     Shabby gals   8. Mod podge your favorite photos to cork tiles.     aka design + life   9. Make coasters from mason jar lids .     via Tidy Mom   10. Make coasters from felt .     The Purl Bee   Linking ...

Need a quick and easy (and inexpensive) gift idea for the last few days before Christmas? Ceramic tile coasters aren't a new idea, but still worthy of the reminder. And dictionary art is growing in poularity so I've combined the two. I made these a couple of weeks ago for my sister-in-law's birthday. I started with a vintage dragonfly image from The Graphics Fairy . I had some ceramic tiles from Lowe's in my stash. I only had three 4x4 tiles and one larger one so she got 3 coasters and 1 trivet as a set. I had picked up an old dictionary from the thrift store for 25 cents. (It wasn't priced and I am a regular face there, so I think she pretty much gave it to me!)