Personalize your home with this DIY coir mat using flex seal colors. This craft will make for perfect home decor that you won’t be able to find anywhere else.
By custom making your own mat, it will truly be one of a kind.
This coir doormat made with flex seal colored spray rubber will take time and patience. It is important to give everything the time it needs.
For this craft, you will need to have basic knowledge of cutting, weeding and transferring adhesive vinyl.
What Is A Coir Mat?
Can you add color to flex seal?
I like to use coir door mats because the natural coir fibers are amazing to trap dirt and mud, but it gives great hold to the flex seal.
Knowing what you are doing will cut the time of the craft down by a little, but each mat will still need at least 24 hours.
Coir Mat Using Flex Seal Colors
Get creative with your personal coir mat. Come up with your own cute and quirky phrases and quotes for your family and guests to see when they come into the house.
You will never see the same mat when you walk into another house because it will be unique to you and your family.
A personalized coir mat will be a great gift for your friends and family. Make a coir mat as the perfect gift for a new homeowner.
Your unique customization will match no other gift!
Flex Seal Colors
Flex seal and flex seal colors is for way more then filling cracks and holes. And even more then making front door mats. I have projects planned for the kitchen and dining area of my home.
One of the benefits of making your own coir mat is that coir is water-resistant and will dry quickly. Due to this, mildew will not get a chance to form on your custom mat.
Another benefit is that you can use it to easily clean off dirt and debris from shoes. No more worrying about the kids tracking in the dirt when they come inside.
Grab The Cut Files
If you like this doormat, make sure you check out this Custom Doormat Using Cricut and Fall Doormat with Free SVG.
How To Make A Coir Mat Using Flex Seal Colors
This coir mat craft will take time and patience. It is important to give everything the time it needs. You have to cut your stencils, take the stencil off the transfer tape, and let the paint dry. Rushing this craft will lead to you not getting the best product as the outcome.
Materials
- Grab the file above
- blank Coir Mat
- Permanent adhesive vinyl or Cricut stencil vinyl
- Transfer Tape
- Masking tape
- Flex Seal
Tools
- Cricut Standard Grip Mat
- Cricut Machine
- Weeding Tool
- Vinyl Scraper
Instructions
If you don't have a cutting machine, no problem! You can get a stencil here and skip down to #8 of the directions.
- Load your design and resize it to the size of your coir mat.
- You may have to separate the design so that it can all be cut with your cutter.
- For this one, I made the design all the same color because we are making a stencil and cut each welded each line so that it cut as 1 piece.
- Cut a stencil with your Cutting machine.
- Weed the inner portions of your vinyl, leaving the voided area, remember we are making a vinyl stencil.
- Apply transfer Tape to your stencil (I use some that I have used over and over so most of the sticky are gone)
- Remove paper backing.
- Apply the vinyl onto the mat.
- Carefully pull off the transfer paper leaving your custom stencil behind onto the mat.
- Use the masking tape to tape down the design to the DIY doormat.
- Using the tape cover the whole mat so that you only get Flex seal colors where you want it.
- Working with each flex seal color 1 at a time, and covering the area you aren't working with, begin to spray the stenciled mat.
- Hold the flex seal nozzle directly above the mat, making sure to stay above and spray over your words until they are fully covered.
- Repeat with each flex seal color.
- Remove the vinyl stencil as soon as you are done spraying, you don't want it to stick or become glued down.
- Allow to dry for at least 24 hours
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