Since the panels themselves are brown in color, I wanted to brighten up the wells of the coasters with a coat of white paint. By doing this, the pigments added to the resin will be more vibrant once poured into the bright, white wells. No need to be perfect with this since any mistakes will be sanded away in a later step.

While you wait for the white paint to dry, start picking out a variety of yellow and gold paints and pigments. Have fun with this step! Mix colors together and don’t be afraid to get creative! Once you have your paints ready to go; mix up a batch of MAS Epoxies’ Table Top Pro LTD and pour resin art goodness into miniature cups. (Plastic medicine cups work great for this type of project!) Stir in your pigments and start pouring your honey-colored epoxy into the wells. Take your time, this is not a race!

Once the epoxy is completely cured, we will need to make sure that the coasters are flat and level. Using a palm sander, sand the tops of the coasters until they are nice and smooth. Clean them off with a soft rag and add painter’s tape to the entire back of the coaster. Make sure to firmly press down the tape so it has a tight seal.

This step is super simple! We want to seal in all of those beautiful honey wells with a coat of clear epoxy. You can add a bit of glitter or gold flakes if you want to jazz it up a bit. Make sure to pop any bubbles with your torch.

While the epoxy resin art is curing, prepare your vinyl design. I used my iPad and the Procreate app to create these little bee vinyl stickers. Apply the stickers to the fully cured and sanded epoxy layer and seal it in with one last layer of clear epoxy. Remove the tape from the bottom of the coasters (use a heat gun to make the process easier).

If you would like to add a bit of cork to the back of the coasters, now is the time. I used a sheet of cork, cut the pieces out to the proper size and adhered them to the back of the coasters.