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Make your own epoxy coasters

Make your own coasters with epoxy! The resin art coasters you make with this are beautiful. Completely to your own taste, ready to decorate the dining table or as a luxury coaster for a glass of wine.

Are your coasters ready for renewal? How fun is it to make them yourself! After reading this DIY about making coasters, you can get started right away!

Supplies:

1 x Epoxy Coaster Making Kit . This includes:

  • 1 x silicone coaster mold
  • 1 x 250 grams resin & 1x 250 grams hardener
  • 1 x pot of gold decoration flakes
  • 2 x liquid pigment colours (with the set you can choose between different colours)
  • Nice manual booklet with examples

    Tools

    Pdf manual making epoxy coasters

    How to make coasters in 5 steps

    Step 1: Mixing the epoxy

    The Epoxy Coaster Making Kit contains 500 grams of epoxy resin. This comes in two bottles that need to be mixed together. The bottle (A) resin and (B) hardener. This epoxy resin is very suitable for making art such as coasters, but also jewelry or key rings.

    We start by mixing the resin (A) with the hardener (B). The ratio of this epoxy is 1:1. That means that you use the same amount of resin as hardener. Calculate how much resin you think you need for the silicone mold that you are now going to fill and weigh it. Do you only have one mold? Then do not mix more resin than fits in here. The resin must harden for 24/48 hours. After this you can make the next coaster.

    mixing epoxy resin


    Weigh and mix exactly the same amount of grams of resin as hardener and add this to a silicone mixing cup. Mix for at least 3-5 minutes with e.g. a wooden mixing spatula. Also go well along the edges of the mixing cup, so that everything is well mixed. The mixed resin that we are going to use now is called the epoxy resin.

    Step 2: Add the decorations to the epoxy

    The package contains a jar of gold decorations. You can of course also use other decorations (for example glitter). Mix 1/3 of the epoxy resin or less in the first cup with (gold) decorations. You can choose how many decorations you want in your resin art coasters.

    mixing epoxy resin
    mixing epoxy casting resin

    Step 3: Mix the epoxy with the darkest pigment color

    The starter pack contains two bottles of colour pigment. You can of course also buy them separately in our webshop. In this example, we keep the colours pink and white. In the second cup, we mix 1/3 of the epoxy resin with the darkest colour, in this case pink. Start by adding a small amount of pigment, so that you can always add more if you want more colour!

    epoxy mixing

    Step 4: Mix the epoxy with the lightest color

    In the third cup we mix the remaining epoxy resin with a light color, in this case white. Again, start with a small amount and add until you have the right color.


    Step 5: Pouring the coasters

    Now we can get started. You can choose for yourself how you want to make the coaster. Always pour the epoxy resin from the outside in. In this example, pink is the dominant color, so we pour the resin with the pink pigments on the outside first. After this, we pour the epoxy resin with the white pigment color in the middle of the silicone mold. Make sure you know how you want to pour the mold, so that you can work layer by layer. This will give you the best result!

    silicone mold coaster castingsilicone mold coaster casting


    Blow with a heat tool (or a lighter for example) over the epoxy resin that you just poured into the silicone molds to get any air bubbles out. A hair dryer is not hot enough. Let the epoxy resin dry for at least 24-48 hours. Then remove your beautiful resin art coasters from the mold.

    silicone mold coaster casting

    Applying a gold border to epoxy coasters

    Are you curious about how to finish the edges of epoxy coasters nicely? The best markers for this are Posca paint markers .

    Posca markers are perfect for finishing Resin Art coasters, cake stands, paintings and more, thanks to their opaque colours and durable finish they ensure a professional look to your artwork.

    For questions about the markers, please contact our customer service. Apply a beautiful gold or silver border and enjoy your own beautiful homemade coasters!

    homemade epoxy resin coasters

    More information?

    Do you have questions about making art, jewelry or casting/coating floors or other objects? At itsOkay, several epoxy experts work with each their own expertise. We are happy to help you.
    Please contact itsOkay customer service or take a look at the Epoxy knowledge center .


    About itsOkay

    Do you also like to craft and develop your creativity? Then itsOkay is the store for you! ItsOkay is the Epoxy Specialist of Europe. Active since 2018 and therefore a large online epoxy store for more than 6 years.

    In addition, our epoxy specialists always work transparently and give you honest and personal advic

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