Custom Photo Coasters

Custom photo coasters make a very popular personalized gift, partly because they look great but mostly, in my opinion, because they're so functional. That might sound strange - Who wants a "functional" gift? But think about it... Do you really want another framed photo to find a spot for in your home?

Picture coasters are a delightful way to display photos. A new baby or grandbaby, wedding photos, kids, friends, or any other photos someone might want to share with guests. It's a practical, functional, and highly personalized gift that's not boring!

Photo coasters can be made several different ways, ranging from very simple to quite elaborate and time-consuming. The easiest, but not necessarily the prettiest, are to have a photo developing company create coasters from your photographs.

You can create beautiful, stone or wood photo coasters on your own by decoupaging or using other photo transfer techniques.

My favorite personalized photo coasters are glass or acrylic coasters made to add your own photos. The result is even more professional-looking than the professionally printed coasters and they're just beautiful. Try one set with color photos and another with only black and white.

There TONS of beautiful coaster designs to choose from but they CAN be difficult to find walking into stores yourself. Using the web is generally a better bet.

Pictures Coasters as party or wedding favors

Custom photo coasters also make terrific party favors for a wedding, baby shower, bridal shower, reunion, birthday party,... We especially love the idea of giving out a custom photo coaster of the newliweds as a wedding favor.

Are you an artist?

And here's yet another use for photo coasters: Add your own artwork (either made specifically for the coasters OR scanned prints of larger pieces) to sell to art enthusiasts or to give as gifts.