Nintendo Perler Bead Coaster Set

[artoo1121]

Hey everyone!  I thought I would share these awesome coasters with you guys, even though I didn't make them.  My boyfriend made these coasters and the box for his brother's birthday.  He made them out of perler beads and it took him FOREVER to come up with the designs for all of the coasters.  He got the idea for the box from a post I showed him on Craftster, (I think!  It was a while ago) and it took about 2 weeks to finish.  Anyway, here are the pics!

A view of the box and all of the coasters:


And a closeup of how the coasters sit in the box:


There is corkboard on the bottom of all of these to make them waterproof.  Anyway, I hope you guys like them!  He's really proud of them. 

He also wants to say that it took 8,414 beads to do this.  (bragger)  =)

[instantkarma]

Those are rock-awesome. Would your boyfriend possibly be interested in sharing some of the patterns he used? I'd love to make a few of them (especially the green one with the mushroom).

[artoo1121]

Well, he's an art major, so he's kind of creative and just made it up as he went along.  But I have a better picture if you want!

[madame_caligula]

That's just way too many kinds of cool. I love them!

[ghilie]

Crafty boys are the best, aren't they?

[instantkarma]

Yay! Thank you so much!

[Caclark4]

Freaking awesome!

[bluwave06]

They are really great!! He did a great job. Mario is the best game ever.

[lee-lee ess.]

holy crap, that's awesome!!!!   I especially like the mario one, and the box was just too great of an idea.
 
It amuses me that your boyfriend knows how many beads went into that, lol.

[Babyangel]

Those are amazing and I'm insanely jealous! Give your boy a pat on the back he ROCKS!

totally hit "this ROCKS"