I was at Wal-Mart Saturday getting some things and had to go ahead and purchase Eminem some school Valentines (iCarly ones). I was done the seasonal aisle and was struck with inspirations by seeing some napkins. Small white cocktail napkins with multi colored hearts. Too cute. So for a whopping $1 I picked them up.
I was just going to make one decorative tile or maybe 2 when the craft bomb went off and set me to thinking. So later I went to Home Depot, purchases some supplies and set off crafting.
These are the cute tiles I made - very simple and just about the same directions as making the coaster with the tiles.
It starts with these supplies:
ceramic tiles - 12 x 12 cost $1.90, 6 x 6 cost $0.48 and 4 x 4 cost $0.16
modge podge
paint brushes
scrapbook papers
craft knife
and my cute $1 napkins
2. I set them out and started to Modge Podge them to the tiles.
I also got a few wrinkles in the paper, so they are just going to add some character!
I was just going to do this one big one and use the 6x6 tiles for something else, but I thought my little Valentine area needed more so I started cutting out hearts.
These are the small and medium tiles.
3. I did about 5 coats of Modge Podge letting it dry good between coats. I sprayed some poly on it too for good measure.
On the smaller ones you could put the little felt tabs on them to use as coasters.
A great thing about the napkins is that each napkin has 4 little squares. There were 24 napkis times 4 pieces in each, so that is 96 decorative sheets for $1.
I spent $3 on the tile and I purchased the paper in bulk pads 50% off at Hobby Lobby. It probably comes out to 1 cent each square.
A quick, easy and cheap Valentine decoration to perk up your living space!
XOXO, Striker
