Day 94

I have no idea why I didn't come up with this craft idea sooner.  I saw a similar craft online today, and revised it to tiles I already had done.  For our wedding, we had planned on making coaster sets with movie monster posters as give away gifts, raffle item type thing...it was going to be so much fun...but anyway, I had made a couple sets to see how they would go, and now that the wedding has been upended, well I had them laying around and wasn't too sure what to do with them.  Then today I saw ceramic tile bookends online and I thought "DUHHHHHH"!!!!!  I have so many books lying around, so of course a set of bookends would be perfect! 

All I needed was four of the movie poster tiles I had already done, four plain tiles and the hot glue gun.  I hot glued one movie poster tile to one blank one, so I then had four sets of sandwiched tiles.  I then took one set and hot glued it to the edge of the other.  I didn't even have to wait for it to dry, it dried on contact!!!  Which is why they are a bit crooked, I didn't have time to correct it.  But overall, they are F A N T A S T I C!!!! 

I am totally in love, I want to sell them to the masses, because they just are so fun and awesome!

Here they are done and doing what they were made to do:

Here they are before I glued everything:

Here is a close up of the finished bookends:

And a front view of the finished bookends:

Day 51

I decided today that we needed coasters for Spring, and then the more I thought about it, I decided that we need coasters for all four seasons, SO this is part 1 of a 4 part seasonal craft!  When Summer gets a bit closer I'll do a set for that season, then Fall and then Winter!

Here is Spring.  I took four ceramic tiles, two pages from my spring scrapbook paper and my trusty stinky Mod Podge.  I cut down the paper to just under 4".  I cleaned the tiles with rubbing alcohol, smeared them with Mod Podge and then smeared the back of the paper with some more Mod Podge.  I centered the paper on the tile and then smeared more Mod Podge over the paper.  I have to do 5 coats, waiting 20 minutes in between each application.  So I don't have a finished picture, but you get the idea!  I'll add a picture of the dried coasters tomorrow so can get a real view of them.

UPDATE 3/29/11: ADDED FINISHED PICTURE AT THE END!

Here are the four tiles pre-paper application:

Here is the Spring paper I chose, two sheets:

 The paper cut down and the Mod Podge ready to be applied:

Here they are with two coats of Mod Podge, only 3 more to go!:

 Here is what the bottom will look like once they are done, felt dots:

 

 

Here they are all dry and ready to go!

 

Day 3

Today I had to run over to Jo-Ann's for some craft supplies and I saw the cutest thing! They had white plaster bobble heads! Different animals, cats, dogs, teddy bears, etc. I am a sucker for bobble heads and cats so I HAD to get one. (I picked up Stan a bulldog, so he could paint with me!) There were cute little various acrylic paints so I picked up some of those too! So for an hour Stan and I painted our animals and they came out really cute. My hands are not very steady, and the bobble head didn't help, but overall I think it came out quite adorable!!