Cork Coasters

Pretty much the only type of craft project I like is one that can be finished in a few hours. On New Year's Eve we went to a wine tasting party. I made these coasters by stamping and embossing small cork pieces.

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The only difficult thing about this project was finding the cork circles. It felt like people around the country were making cork coasters. I went to two Home Depots and two Michaels before finding them. I highly recommend finding the pre-cut circles though as it makes the project much simpler.

Another thing I discovered during this project is that only certain shades of ink show up well on the coasters. I had good luck with black, red, and purple. Lighter colors (I tried pink, blue and silver) did not work as well as they blended into the cork and made it hard to read.

The wine stamp I found on etsy and the circle stamps I found when I was home at Maryland at a store called AC More (seemed to be very similar to Michaels).

From Freckle Rock