Tile Coasters...

[daisygirl016]

I've seen some great tile coasters done and was wondering a few things:

I've seen images that are stamped (w/staz-on) and then colored in. What do you do? Stamp then color with markers? I know that sounds like a silly question but I really wasn't sure!! Can someone point me in the direction of finding an easy tutorial on this? Believe it or not, I'd like to make some for Christmas and I figured experiment now rather than later!

Thanks!!

[shadowkat1283]

I found some beautiful tile coasters in the gallery and then when I found one I liked, I PM'd the person who made it to ask how they did it. I'm experimenting now too. I stamped with Stazon and then used chalks to color it. Some people say to bake them and some don't, some people use a sealer and some don't. It's all pretty confusing! I'm going to try a couple of things and see what works for me.

Kathy

Kathy

[daisygirl016]

just stamping on them, coloring (with chalk?! didn't think that one!) and sealing either with an acrylic sealer or modge podge maybe? I saw someone did both but modge podged it three times!!

Aren't there special tiles your supposed to get? At home depot or lowes right?

[EvaC]

You want to make sure that you use an ink or coloring medium that is not water soluable (sp?). Palette ink, stazon, sharpies, some chalk inks (pigment based inks), Fabrico markers/ink, all purpose inks and brilliance or some of the ones that I have used a had success with.
Be careful to heat set in between colors to keep then from running together...especially the black ink. Som epf the things listed above wont work well together...such as stazon and sharpies.
Do a final heat set in the oven when you have yourproject complete.
Different sealers will do react to different inks..some will run but off the top of my head I am unsure of which brands react with which inks...
There is a leanring curve but I think it is minumal Good luck ;)

Marbled Tumble tiles are what I buy