Tiles and Coasters

I’ve had tiles and coasters in mind for a long time. I just like them for decoration, but they are also useful as a base to display something, a way to protect a surface, or just to show off an image you like. I don’t have a kiln at the ready and don’t really want one, so I use polymer clay. The finish has the feel and texture of kiln-fired clay and I can also build with it as well as paint on it.

Special: Two Tiles for $25.00

Maybe you want a set or it’s hard to choose just one, this special discount applies all the time on all designs of 4 x 4 tiles for $15.00, nature and cats: buy two tiles for $25.00, use the discount code 2TILES25. You get a $5.00 discount when you buy two. All tax, shipping and handling are included in that price. Buy one for yourself and one for a friend!

NOTE: All the tiles shown below have been sold in December 2022. However, I will be making more in a month or so. I use the same artwork, but the size and finish on each may be different from what you see here. Send an email if you’d like to know more.

Feline Tiles

Garden Sketch With Mimi tile.

Garden Sketch With Mimi

January Light tile

January Light tile

Leaves and Shadows tile

Leaves and Shadows tile

Mewsette in Colors tile

Mewsette in Colors

Mewsette's Indigo Nap tile

Mewsette’s Indigo Nap

Kelly on the Windowsill

Kelly on the Windowsill

Top of the World

Top of the World

Stanley With Geraniums

Stanley With Geraniums

World Cat round tile

World Cat round tile

Dreams of Three round

Dreams of Three round

Nature and Flowers Tiles

Columbines Tile

Columbines Tile

Evening Wildflowers Tile

Evening Wildflowers Tile

Poppies tile

Poppies tile

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Coasters

This 4” round coaster is made from white polymer clay and stamped with my brush pen sketch “Three Cats Looking”, painted red orange, then given a wash of white.

Because they are handmade and shaping, stamping and drying changes their dimensions, they are not uniform in size, shape or thickness, but that makes each one unique.

NOTES ON USE:

  • These are not safe for use with food.
  • These cannot be used as a hot pad for items taken out of the oven or microwave or off the stove, any item which has been heated by cooking—the polymer will soften from the heat.
  • These work great as a coaster for items filled with hot food or liquids, like mugs of coffee or tea or dishes filled with cooked food. There is not enough heat transferred to affect the polymer.


The coaster is 4″ white polymer clay with “Three Cats Looking” stamped and impressed into the clay. It’s then painted with violet paint and given a wash of white to enhance the dimension of the sketch.

I love this little brush pen sketch and I’ve always wanted to do something with it, so I had a stamp made to play with. I may paint one or two of these too, and some other ideas include a square or rectangular dish. I really, really want to do something with the tail to let it hang off an edge or something, but I’m just not sure the polymer clay will stand up to a beating with a tail that thin.

And just to prove that my designs are “inspired by cats you know”, here is the photo I took when I sketched the three of them. You can read about the designs in my original post for this daily sketch.

photo of three black cats from behind

Mewsette, Mr. Sunshine and Jelly Bean

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Three Cats Looking Coaster

This 4” round coaster is made from white polymer clay and stamped with my brush pen sketch “Three Cats Looking”, painted violet then given a wash of white.

Because they are handmade and shaping, stamping and drying changes their dimensions, they are not uniform in size, shape or thickness, but that makes each one unique.

NOTES ON USE:

  • These are not safe for use with food.
  • These cannot be used as a hot pad for items taken out of the oven or microwave or off the stove, any item which has been heated by cooking—the polymer will soften from the heat.
  • These work great as a coaster for items filled with hot food or liquids, like mugs of coffee or tea or dishes filled with cooked food. There is not enough heat transferred to affect the polymer.


The coaster is 4″ white polymer clay with “Three Cats Looking” stamped and impressed into the clay. It’s then painted with violet paint and given a wash of white to enhance the dimension of the sketch.

I love this little brush pen sketch and I’ve always wanted to do something with it, so I had a stamp made to play with. I may paint one or two of these too, and some other ideas include a square or rectangular dish. I really, really want to do something with the tail to let it hang off an edge or something, but I’m just not sure the polymer clay will stand up to a beating with a tail that thin.

And just to prove that my designs are “inspired by cats you know”, here is the photo I took when I sketched the three of them. You can read about the designs in my original post for this daily sketch.

photo of three black cats from behind

Mewsette, Mr. Sunshine and Jelly Bean

More like this

Find more Trinket and Decorative Dishes and Tiles and Coasters in my Handmade Gifts Gallery.

Other items with the same art or design To find all items on this site with the same art or design, use the search box for the name of the artwork and you'll find all that's available.

Flourish-darkgray-100Don’t miss any new items or opportunities!

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For art, photos and writing as I develop it, visit my blogs.

See feline art and photos as they happen on The Creative Cat, along with feline news, health, welfare, rescue stories and more.

See daily photos as I post them on Today.

Read poetry, short stories, essays and more on Paths I Have Walked.

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© 2022 | www.PortraitsOfAnimals.net | Published by Bernadette E. Kazmarski

All images used on this site are copyrighted to Bernadette E. Kazmarski unless otherwise noted and may not be used without my written permission. Please ask if you are interested in using one in a print or internet publication. If you are interested in purchasing a print of this image or a product including this image, check to see if I have it available already. If you don’t find it there, visit “purchasing” for availability and terms.

 

Three Cats Trinket Dish

This 4” round coaster is made from white polymer clay and stamped in royal purple with my brush pen sketch “Three Cats Looking”. NOTE: This dish is not safe for food or water.



The coaster are 4″ white polymer clay with “Three Cats Looking” stamped and impressed in Royal Violet ink. I love this little brush pen sketch and I’ve always wanted to do something with it, so I had a stamp made to play with. I may paint one or two of these too, and some other ideas include a square or rectangular dish. I really, really want to do something with the tail to let it hang off an edge or something, but I’m just not sure the polymer clay will stand up to a beating with a tail that thin.

And just to prove that my designs are “inspired by cats you know”, here is the photo I took when I sketched the three of them. You can read about the designs in my original post for this daily sketch.

photo of three black cats from behind

Mewsette, Mr. Sunshine and Jelly Bean

More like this

Find more Trinket and Decorative Dishes in my Handmade Gifts Gallery.

Other items with the same art or design To find all items on this site with the same art or design, use the search box for the name of the artwork and you'll find all that's available.

Flourish-darkgray-100Don’t miss any new items or opportunities!

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For art, photos and writing as I develop it, visit my blogs.

See feline art and photos as they happen on The Creative Cat, along with feline news, health, welfare, rescue stories and more.

See daily photos as I post them on Today.

Read poetry, short stories, essays and more on Paths I Have Walked.

. . . . . . .

© 2022 | www.PortraitsOfAnimals.net | Published by Bernadette E. Kazmarski

All images used on this site are copyrighted to Bernadette E. Kazmarski unless otherwise noted and may not be used without my written permission. Please ask if you are interested in using one in a print or internet publication. If you are interested in purchasing a print of this image or a product including this image, check to see if I have it available already. If you don’t find it there, visit “purchasing” for availability and terms.

 

These 4” round coasters are made from terra cotta polymer clay and impressed with a real leaf from one of the trees on the Panhandle Trail: sycamore, oak, maple and beech. NOTE: This dish is not safe for food or water.


Temporarily sold out!

I am currently sold out of these coasters and I guess I’ll have to wait for spring to have more leaves to make them! I will post about them when I make new sets, so check back here or follow my blog.


Trees of the Trail coasters

“Trees of the Trail” coasters, terra cotta polymer clay with the imprint of a real leaf that’s from one of the trees growing on the trail—in fact, the sycamore leaf is from the sycamore tree I sketched in “Sycamore Moon” and the maple leaf is from the tree that holds “The Rope Swing.

I roll and cut the 4″ circles, press the leaf into the surface, bake the coaster and let it cool, then wash natural white acrylic paint over the surface, wipe it down, wash it again, and repeat until the leaf impression holds enough white to be distinguished and the surface has a light patina.

This is a brand new design and an experiment with the technique to get what I was visualizing with actual living leaves, and it worked! Another experiment earlier this month did not work, so this makes me very happy, and I have four sets of these coasters for my 2018 Panhandle Trail show.

More like this

Find more Tiles and Coasters in my Handmade Gifts Gallery.

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Read poetry, short stories, essays and more on Paths I Have Walked.

. . . . . . .

© 2022 | www.PortraitsOfAnimals.net | Published by Bernadette E. Kazmarski

All images used on this site are copyrighted to Bernadette E. Kazmarski unless otherwise noted and may not be used without my written permission. Please ask if you are interested in using one in a print or internet publication. If you are interested in purchasing a print of this image or a product including this image, check to see if I have it available already. If you don’t find it there, visit “purchasing” for availability and terms.

 

Wildflower and butterfly coasters

These coasters are purchased lightweight wooden disks, 3-1/4″ x 1/8″ thick to which I heat transfer my art and photos onto the surface. I made several dozen as an experiment before my 2019 Panhandle Trial exhibit and as it turns out I just love them. The heat transfer renders the design permanent and water resistant and I added a light coat of matte varnish to the edges and back.

Because I had my hip replacement surgery so soon after my Panhandle Trail exhibit I am only just getting around to adding small cork disks to the back to raise them a bit from the surface and make them a little more non-skid, and I hope to photograph them individually soon. For now please reference the photo below, and the list of design names below that, to order your coasters.

29 new coasters.

29 new coasters.

Names of designs

(Some appear twice.)

Row 1: Single sunflower, Silvery Checkerspot on Fleabane, St. John’s Wort, Sunflower Faces, Tiger Swallowtail on Joe Pye, Silvery Checkerspot on Butterfly Weed

Row 2: Woodland Sunflowers, Three Sisters, Three Sunflowers, Daisies, Tiger Swallowtail Landing on Joe Pye, Silvery Checkerspot on Fleabane

Row 3: Pinks and Mallow, Blue Hyssop, Daisies and Pinks, Wild Sweet Peas, Monarch on Echinacea, Silvery Checkerspot on Butterfly Weed

Row 4: Daisies and Blue Hyssop, Fiddlehead Fern, Nodding Trillium, Daisies Vetch and Hen’s Foot, Fritillary on Milkweed, Tiger Swallowtail Landing on Joe Pye,

Row 5: Blue Asters, Cranesbill Geraniums, Spring Cress, Tiger Swallowtail on Joe Pye, Monarch on Echinace



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For art, photos and writing as I develop it, visit my blogs.

See feline art and photos as they happen on The Creative Cat, along with feline news, health, welfare, rescue stories and more.

See daily photos as I post them on Today.

Read poetry, short stories, essays and more on Paths I Have Walked.

. . . . . . .

© 2022 | www.PortraitsOfAnimals.net | Published by Bernadette E. Kazmarski

All images used on this site are copyrighted to Bernadette E. Kazmarski unless otherwise noted and may not be used without my written permission. Please ask if you are interested in using one in a print or internet publication. If you are interested in purchasing a print of this image or a product including this image, check to see if I have it available already. If you don’t find it there, visit “purchasing” for availability and terms.