These Engraved Wood Drink Coasters are a unique and homemade gift for the hostess with the mostess. These Engraved Wood Coasters are elegant, stylish, and extremely useful gift that anyone can make for very little money.
You should buy a nice set of Wood Drink Coasters that you think is appropriate for about $7 or less. Check out the wood working aisle at Michael’s Arts and crafts and save up those 40% off coupons!
You can also buy the wood-burning tool at Michaels for about $8 with about 8 tips.
To Make Engraved Wood Drink Coasters for a Hostess gift you will need:
The first step is to choose nice Wood Drink Coasters. Look for wood drink coasters that have a lot of flat surface on the front of them, possibly a wide trim or border for lots of engraving.
Now, once you have bought your wood drink coasters you can determine what design or words you want to engrave with your wood-burning tool.
Now, you can do anything from simple words to a more difficult image. The trick is to transfer it to your wood drink coasters.
Whatever image or words you chose to engrave on the board you can use a sheet of graphite to transfer the design to your wood drink coasters.
Take your drink coasters and lay them out on a sheet of white paper. Trace the wood drink coasters with a pencil. Now, you can create your designs inside of this plate charger shape you traced.
If you want you can make words, monograms, the date, the year, or even names.
Now, Simply lay the sheet of graphite down first on the wood drink coaster, and then lay out your image, words, or whatever on top. Now, use a pen to trace all the needed lines, edges, and details.
Tip: Tape your graphite down at the top. Tape your image down at the top of the paper as well. Now, when you are working you can easily lift them up and take a peek at how your image or words are coming out on the wood drink coaster. If you move the image out of place without the tape, it will be almost impossible to return it to the right spot.
Now, once you have finished tracing your image onto the wood drink coaster it is time to start engraving the image with your wood-burning tool.
Now, to use a wood-burning tool the rules are simple. All you need to do is first read the instructions it came with. Now, before you plug the tool in you need to install the tip you want to use. Now plug the wood-burning tool in.
It works just like a pencil. I recommend having a scrap piece of wood you can play around on nearby.
Simply place the hot tip down and start tracing out your image or words on the drink coaster. You can outline them like a coloring book and later change the wood-burning tip to a wider one to fill in.
Now, if you used an unfinished wood drink coaster you can stain it with some colored wood stain. It comes in every color from red to blue. You can also use traditional wood stain colors.
