Its been almost 2 months since I've been on here, ooops! I've been busy with work & whatnot, but don't fret..I never intended on giving up on my blog. I should be posting more often from here on out!
So this weekend I made some magnets for our fridge. If you are craft-a-holic like me, you may even have all of the needed materials in your house!
I made the magnets because there isn't much of a choice of cute looking magnets that are cheap in price & strong...so why not. I am not the first to make glass marble magnets (by far), but they could possibly be the cutest!
Step 1: Cut out circles of scrapbook paper to fit the size of the glass beads. I cut purposefully for most of the circles, such as the paw prints. You can trace them & cut them with scissors or you can use a hole punch like I did. My hole punch was 3/4". You only need one circle per bead that you will be using. Some people use magazine pages by the way, but I was worried that they would be too transparent with the glue.
Step 2: Use school type glue to glue the circle to the glass bead (picture side toward the bead). Make sure that the entire bead (the flat side that glues to the paper) has glue covering the entire side. Also make sure that you don't have too much paper, so that you don't saturate the paper too much.
Step 3: Let dry overnight!
Step 4, 5, 6, & 7: After glass beads & paper circles are dry. For the next step, there are several types of glue that you can use, I used Surebonder 9001 (found at Hob Lobb) which doesn't require clamping (such as Gorilla glue). What I found easiest was to get a baking tray, cover it in a pizza ad (an additional step to prevent contamination to the baking sheet), and lay all the magnets out on top. I then smeared glue on the top of each magnet making sure that they were completely covered (but again not too much). I then took the glass bead paper combo a put one on each magnet. The benefit of using the baking sheet was that the magnets stayed in place & I could apply a lot of pressure on the magnet. My glue required that I let my project dry for 24 hours. I think I only had the restraint to wait 22.
*Please note, school glue will probably not be strong enough for these steps!
Step 8: After dried, take off of baking sheet (clean the baking sheet). & put the magnet on your desired magnetic surface!
I used the particular designs because they match the colors of my kitchen. The red one was supposed to just look like red with black polka dots, but with the bead..they look more like lady bugs! I still love them though. The yellow & white magnets turned out the worst out of all of them. The paper was a light yellow and white checkered design. I think that the glue saturated the paper too much. They still look nice, its just hard to tell what the original design was.
If you have small children in the house make sure to keep these magnets away from them!
Enjoy!
-Alex
