TORTOISE COASTERS

I have a friend who loves his tortoises, so I have just made a couple of drinks coasters to remind him of his pets!  They are a combination of collage and paint.  The background has torn up maps and painted papers collaged together and then painted with transparent acrylics.  The tortoises are also formed from collaged decorated papers with extra details added. The edges of the coasters were edged with a metallic gold pen and gold paint was splattered all over.  They were sealed with acrylic wax so they can just be wiped clean...

CRAFTY COASTERS

Take one old love letter torn up and written in ink, together with some hearts punched out of painted paper, to decoupage some old drinks coasters.  The matt medium I used to glue them made the ink run, a deliberate effect as I wanted to evoke times past and distress the text. A marker was smudged to add extra details and the mats were sealed with a decoupage varnish so they can be wiped clean.