Glass Coasters by Susan Pickering Rothamel As seen on HGTV's "Our Place," Episode OPL-403

Materials List Garden Gallery Pressed Flowers, Fruits, Foliage or Vegetables Perfect Paper Adhesive - Gloss Piñata Ink Duo Embellishing Adhesive Texture Sponge Gildenglitz Gilding Leaf Foil-It Tape Boxwood Tool Four-Inch Glass Squares Fine Grain Sandpaper Floral Napkins Directions Lightly sand the sides of the glass squares to remove sharp edges. Choose napkins with floral design and cut out appropriate sections. Remove backing from cutouts, leaving just the top layer of the napkin cutout. Apply napkin cutouts and/or Garden Gallery Dried Flowers or Fruits to the back of the top glass square with Perfect Paper Adhesive - Gloss and a paintbrush (figure A). Remember to remove the excess layers of napkin. Cover the front side of the back glass square with Duo Embellishing Adhesive and allow adhesive to become tacky. Apply pieces of Gildenglitz - Gold to the tacky adhesive and burnish it with a Textured Sponge. Don't cover the entire piece of glass; it won't matter that there is exposed adhesive. Apply Piñata Ink to the tacky side of the glass square to fill in remainder of the uncovered surface (figure B). Adhere the treated top piece of glass to the treated bottom piece using Perfect Paper Adhesive - Gloss (figure C). Edge the stacked and glued glass "sandwich" with Foil-It tape (figure D). Use a Boxwood Tool to burnish tape to the glass (figure E). This page may be reproduced with permission from USArtQuest, Inc. Italicized products are available from USArtQuest, Inc. and your local retailer, or www.usartquest.com

Figure A Figure B Figure C Figure D Figure E