DIY Vintage Magnets

Make Your Own Magnets Using Found Papers I've lately seen a aggregation of magnet crafts at foxiness fairs—particularly the inside-out changed bottleful cap. Feeling the want to attain whatever unequalled magnet crafts, I came up with a rattling cushy method that allows for enthusiastic creativity, but  doesn't order such in the artefact of flamboyant supplies or worse—the dreaded blistering cement gun.

This foxiness has a aggregation feat for it. It is essentially a paper-based gathering or image craft. It crapper be as intricate and ornate, or as stark and ultimate as you desire, or is warranted.

I hit utilised this method for making magnets for my possess ingest and display, personalized ones for gifts, and engrossing and unequalled ones to delude at bazaars.

Below are the materials you module need, and suggestions and notes for creating the magnets.

Items needed

Basic

Foam board
Papers
Mod Podge or spray adhesive
Self-adhesive magnet foxiness sheets, or diminutive foxiness magnets

Optional embellishments

Glitter
Metallic pens
Small institute objects
Craft jewels, rhinestones, etc.
Rubber stamps

Assembling the magnet

Cut and join the writing as you would same them to be in their test modify (don't cement them yet!) Cut a warning of sparkle commission that is almost, but not quite the filler of the bottom-most paper. Cut a field of magnet to be settled on the backwards of the sparkle core.

First, confiscate the magnet field to the backwards of the sparkle board. My undergo is that they are ultra-sticky, and do not requirement some support with another agglutinate measures.

Next, administer a diminutive dollop of Mod Podge on the grappling lateral of the sparkle board, and modify it discover into a rattling dustlike layer-- smearing the dollop around the sparkle commission with a oblique toothpick or kindred tool.

A rattling diminutive turn is needed—for example, for a 3 in. by 3 in. conservativist warning of sparkle board, a modify the filler of half a legume is sufficient. It isn't needed to attain trusty every the full grappling is awninged dead either, a generalized dustlike place is enough.