Drink Coasters

The Secret of Making Your Own Personalized Drink Coasters

Personalized drink coasters are great ideas not just for putting the needed materials for your tables but also for releasing the artist in you. It always feels great if something has that personal touch.

You can make personalized drink coasters out of old cards. The steps are unexpectedly simple. First, photocopy images from postcards or greeting cards. Black and white images are alright. Cut the images to your preferred size. Place the photocopied images facedown on white cardboards. Rub wood stain marker (xylene is the ingredient primarily responsible for image transfer) over the images. Protect the boards with a clear sealer when they are dry. An important tip for this method is not to use images with readable words as the letters will be transferred to the boards and will thus be reversed.

There are other practical tips for making personalized drink coasters if you want to employ more complicated and more professional forms of printing. For instance, coloring books, animation posters, or craft stencils can be used as patterns if you have limited artistic skills. Cut shapes and figures from posters and coloring books, or you may use stencils in making nice paper cutouts. Resizing the shapes through copy machines may be done if necessary.

Choices for your personalized drink coasters depend on what your unique needs are, how much your budget is, and for what purpose will your coasters be used. Coasters can be used in many ways. They can be for inspirational messages or lobbying calls of non-profit organizations or for promoting novel ideas or simply for self-expression.

Choices for your coaster designs are not as complicated as you think. You have just to consider three factors. They are coaster thickness, coaster materials, and the types of images that you want to be printed on your coasters. The personalized drink coasters cardboard that you will need will be based on these considerations. You may not be a professional artist or a large-scale entrepreneur in drink coaster manufacturing but being clear with your options for your personalized drink coasters is just easy and will make things easy for you.