The Ridiculous Magnet Project

Well, Mother's day is coming up and I thought I'd do something, you know, family oriented. Someone gave me a craft idea on how to make these little magnet-thingies using the clear glass pebbles they put in vases which magnify little magazine cut outs or clippings if you glue them underneath. So what better than to put cut outs of my family's HEADS and magnify those! The end result was just, kind of ridiculous, but also kind of... what do the kids say these days? Awesome.

Here it is: the little pebbles, you can find in the silk flower department of any craft store, a glue gun, a knife or scissors, little pictures of people or things, and magnets (not pictured). I didn't end up using any felt.
... And here are the magnets! They're already circle shape and self-adhesive!
So I printed out some pictures of the people in question on some nice photo paper. I did some test runs on some non-photo paper first to get the sizing right.
Yay! Stuff!
Magnets
Little heads
I only felt slightly like a psycho/stalker cutting these things out.
I picked out the pebbles to go on top (they're all slightly different sizes).
Then I glued the back of each pebble.
The Cutting
The Sizing
The Gluing
Stick it on and press it flat!
Now we adhere the magnet... aren't these pictures so helpful?
Look! It's a little me-head in a bubble.
Stick on picture
Stick on magnet
Me!
Aww... look at that lovely family. I hope my mom will like them!
But why stop there! Make some for all your friends! Great gifts! Barrels of laughs! Everyone looks slightly handicapped!
Swell
Neato!



Comments

Posted by pedro on Saturday, May 19, 2007 @ 6:08AM
ey! you're beatiful!
Posted by trish on Thursday, May 17, 2007 @ 4:00PM
oh yes! there's iron in your blood!
Posted by Oceaneer on Thursday, May 17, 2007 @ 12:15PM
I made my fridge magnets with neodymium magnets, because I have WAY too many postcards on my fridge.
Posted by Oceaneer on Thursday, May 17, 2007 @ 12:13PM
Although it would be fun to call these "Chick Magnets", I'd stick to the earring backs, as Trish suggested. According to my former magnet supplier in Seattle, some of the really powerful ones can do things like pool blood.
Posted by trish on Wednesday, May 16, 2007 @ 12:30PM
hmm... I hear rare-earth magnets are very strong. I wonder if that would hurt your ears after a while. You could always glue earring-backings or earring clips to the pebbles.
Posted by kencomer on Tuesday, May 15, 2007 @ 10:59PM
have you tried getting a neodynium magnet and using your fridge magnets as earrings? (I've been considering trying to make some earring sets, but I don't have a full set of magnets to test with)
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Supplies

  • Clear glass pebbles
  • Pictures
  • Magnets

Tools

  • Glue gun
  • Scissors

Budget

$5 bucks







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