Anniversary Favors - Making Stained Glass Coasters

A 25th or 50th wedding anniversary is a wonderful milestone. If you are arranging a party for the anniversary couple, you want anniversary favors that will help guests remember long after the party ends.

Making stained glass coasters is one way to achieve that, if you enjoy crafts. You can create vibrant, rich anniversary favors that sparkle on the table. These are especially lovely for winter anniversary favors.

If you are making stained glass coasters for silver anniversary favors, be sure you incorporate light, silvery colors. For golden anniversary favors, use bright gold glass with ruby, blue sapphire, and emerald.

Making stained glass coasters can be simple or complex, inexpensive or costly. The decision is yours.

* Making stained glass coasters from a kit
* Making stained glass coasters with raw materials

Making stained glass coasters from a kit is by far the easier option for anniversary favors. Kits usually contain everything you need, including instructions. Some kits are expensive, but you can also buy a kit of 6 stained glass coasters for about $10. If you have the time, or help, to make the coasters, each anniversary favor will cost less than $2.

Tile Stained Glass Coaster

You can create tile stained glass coasters, and have a more durable anniversary favor. Design these imitation stained glass coasters online at CafePress. They will make them to order, and ship them to you. These anniversary favors will be twice as much as the cheapest kits, but worth it.

Design imitation stained glass coasters in a computer graphics program. You can do this in one of two ways.

* Find a copyright free stained glass graphic online.
* Create your own stained glass graphic on the computer.

Make your design 5.25″ by 5.25″ square. Choose colors that are vibrant, whether light or dark. If you wish, work into your design the couple’s names and the date of their wedding.
Save your design as a jpg or png file at 200 DPI or higher. Follow instructions at CafePress for uploading your image and creating your tile coaster anniversary favors. Each coaster anniversary favor may be unique, or you may create one and order as many copies as you need. The price will be the same.

Tile stained glass coasters preserve the idea of stained glass, while giving a simpler solution for anniversary favors.

Cardstock Stained Glass Coaster

Perhaps the least expensive way of making stained glass coasters for anniversary favors is to have a stained glass design printed in full color on cardstock coasters. Companies that do custom printed coasters for public relations gifts offer this service, charging between $0.50 and $1 USD per coaster.