Bottle Cap Coasters Epoxy Resin

Foil and resin epoxy coasters.

Bottle cap coasters epoxy resin.

Coca cola bottle cap coaster. You can use cardboard sheets cork board resin molds concrete etc as your base and glue on the caps using a hot glue gun. These coasters will be made to order so caps can be whatever your choosing. After you re done placing the bottle caps mix another 1 5 oz of resin using a lower amount of catalyst per ounce.

They are inexpensive and a great recycling project to put your old discarded bottle caps in use. These make great gifts as well as beautiful home decorations especially for a bar. Some of the images in this tutorial will be drawings as i was not able to take pictures during some parts of the process. Flip your bottle caps over and place them in the resin.

These coasters are made from 8 beer caps each then poured with several layers of epoxy. Bottle caps can very often be a work of art in themselves and what better way to display them than in a functional bottle opener. Take a natural round or square piece of wood rock or metal. Once your mold is half full or a little more gently place your bottle caps into the resin.

This design also features. Handmade and cast in resin. The next step is to pour the epoxy evenly over the beer bottle caps. Epoxy gives these coasters a see through almost glasslike appearance.

Use your stir stix to gently push the bottle caps into the desired placement. Two are 10cm across x 1cm thick and two 9cm x 0 7cm. Place them in the exact places that you want them. The bottom layer of resin will be a little sticky now so be careful of how you place them.

A touch of tay. This tutorial will show you how to make decorative bottle cap coasters with an epoxy resin liquid glass coating. After you have all the bottle caps glued down make sure you allow the glue to dry for at least 24 hours. Hand made beer bottle cap coasters.

These are not embedded into the resin but are given a resin layer to protect and preserve the piece. You can use different resin pigment colors and a piece of foil added into the mix creates a more textured appearance.