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Merry Christmas.

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Dbarr - Below is a msg I posted for a gal on one of the forums who wanted to make stencils for flower pots. You can use the same principles for making your initial coasters.

You can purchase single tile squares at Home Depot or other home building store (Lowe's for example) relatively cheap, under 50 cents I believe. Wipe them down with rubbing alcohol to get fingermarks or the oils they leave behind when touched.

In the Donna Dewberry One Stroke Glass & Ceramics decorative painting book, she gives these instructions for baking items: Allow paints to air dry for 21 days or Bake. To bake, let paint dry one hour then place project in a cool oven. Heat oven to 350 degrees and bake projects for 30 minutes. Allow oven to cool with project in it. Hand wash project or clean in the top rack of your dishwasher. You can then purchase cork backing in sheets at craft stores, it's not much at all. Cut it out to fit the tiles and use a good glue to put the cork on the tiles.
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This is what I wrote for the other gal:

I will add that you can reuse the adhesive stencil, just wash it off and lay it back done on the clear plastic you cut it out of -- Sal
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At Michael's Craft Store, Joann's or even Walmart & Target you will find "Plaid Brand" Adhesive Stencil Blanks. Print out your word, I would suggest that you make your stencil letters a little thicker in font size (try just using "Bold font") so you will be able to have something to cut - not just like cursive writing. Here is a pic of a small wooden sign I made using the Plaid Adhesive Stencils and just printing the words onto a plain piece of paper. I made the letters big enough and thick enough so I could cut them out of the paper using an Exacto knife. Go slow when cutting with the Exacto knife, you won't cut what you don't want to be cut. On the corners of the letters, again, just go slow in cutting. I then laid the cut out words onto the stencil, taped it down and then traced the letters onto the stencil with a pen. Then I cut out the letters using an Exacto knife. I placed the adhevise stencil onto the wood and using a stencil brush, painted several coats of the gold paint, letting it dry a bit in between coats. For the letter "e" in Merry, all I did was cut out a piece of the adhesive stencil on the corner of it in the shape of an "O" and stuck it in the whole cut out top of the "e." Same with the "a" in Christmas. Be careful when stenciling with paint. You dab the stencil brush into the paint, you don't want to soak it with paint, just the flat end bristles. Then lightly swirl the flat end bristles onto a paper towel, removing some of the paint. The reason for this step is if you have way too much paint on the stencil brush, it is going to seep under the stencil and you are going to have a mess. Next pounce the stencil brush up and down over the cut out words. Don't pounce hard, just enough pressure to put the paint onto the pot. Let it dry slightly and repeat the steps, paint on brush, pounce onto paper towel, pounce onto pot until you have built up the paint onto your pot to what you want it to look like. Let it dry. Be very careful when removing the stencil from the pot. Don't lift a corner up and rip it off fast like a bandaid (LOL), lift up the two end corners on one end and slowly peel it off the pot - because if you go too fast you're going to "rip" the paint off the pot. Practice on something first - even paper. Since the stencil is adhesive, you can even try doing one letter first, on the first round of paint onto the stencil - easily lift up the corners of one end and peel it back slightly so you can see how you're doing. Then, without pulling on the stencil, lay it back down onto your practice paper or pot.

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Thanks so much!!!!!!!!!!

Thanks so much for the info! What kind of paint did you use? I am looking for a gold metallic paint. Thanks again!

Crispy4, Hi and welcome to the Holiday forum. I'm sure they probably used the Permenamel or other glass paints.

I have a thought I wanted to share. You know how there are so many different letters in the scrapbooking isles? Why couldn't you just use the adhesive letters, stick it on your tile, then seal it? Much faster than having to stencil or paint it on.

Good luck with your project, and I hope you'll share a pic of your finished project with us.

Luvs