Tumbled Tile Coasters

Here is an easy gift. I made 2 of these for thank you gifts, for the coaches of Matthew's Upward basketball team. This is such an easy gift to create. All you need is a good stamp set, some Tumbled Tiles from Lowe's, and some colored Stazon Inks. You can get the Stazon Ink at most craft stores. Stazon ink is very permanent so it does not bleed when it's wet. Think of a Sharpie Marker, but big like an inkpad.

For the basketball tile, I stamped the basketball first (retired stamp set called "Have a Ball!") on the center left side of the tile, using Pumpkin colored Stazon ink. Then I stamped it again, and again, up a little higher to make it look like motion. Then I stamped a net around it with Black stazon ink, and a pretty Bible verse in Timber Brown stazon ink. I hope these coaches will use these coasters for their morning coffee, and think of what a blessing they have been to these little boys this season!!!

While I'm talking about tiles, here are a couple more that I have made as gifts. I made a ton of these church ones at Christmas, as well as other designs, only using Timber Brown for all of the tiles. The monochromatic color scheme made it super easy and they came out so pretty. They were great Teacher gifts and I like the idea of putting God's word in front of them each day with their morning coffee! On the backs, I put 4 little squares of cork, using a hot-glue gun to attach each square.

This one below is made with Lovely as a Tree set, my all-time favorite stamp set to use for manly cards. Trust me, if you don't have this one yet, you need it!! I will show you so many ideas you can do with this beautiful stamp set.

For this tile, I put the large pine tree and the Bible verse on there first, with the Timber Brown Stazon ink. Then I took the stamp that has the long row of trees, and stamped off some of the ink first onto scratch paper -- then stamped it on the tile -- so the lighter ink gives the appearance of distance.

I made about a dozen of these and I give them out to friends when I need a quick gift.

Try stamping a Tumbled Tile! Let me know if I can help in any way.