Kim's gorgeous magnets put mine to shame, but I just thought I'd have a go, rather than putting the piece of plastic in the bin and then I can give it to my mum when she gets home from work.
It was really quick and easy to do, so I don't know how useful anyone will find it, but I put together a brief step-by-step guide on how I made it.
First of all, I stamped out and coloured in my image using Pro Markers. The background is a little patchy, as I personally always find Pro Markers a little tricky when it comes to colouring large spaces, especially with pale colours. The image is Smirk.
For the plastic outer-layer, I'm not sure where you would get clear plastic from, (sorry, that's not very helpful!) but you could even used acetate if you wanted, but it would be a little less sturdy.
I cut my image slightly bigger than the piece of plastic, I could trim off the edges after. I didn't want to risk the image being too small. Bear in mind that if you use an image that is large than the piece of plastic, not all of the image will appear on the magnet, as you will have to cut some of it off. You could check out Kim's post though, as she has made some magnets made from one image, but split into separate magnets, like a jigsaw.
Now, you need to attach the plastic layer to the image. I had to rack my brains a little on this one, as I wanted to stick it on without any glue being visible through the plastic.
It's not a perfect solution, but I decided to use double-sided tape, as most double-sided tapes are transparent, once you have peeled the backing off.
I then stuck a little magnet onto the back of the image, which was now attached to the plastic. To do this, I used some more double-sided tape.
Now, it was ready to stick onto the fridge! It's not perfect and not as good as Kim's gorgeous magnets, but I just thought it would be fun to do and very easy too!
I can't believe how close it is to Christmas now, and I break up from school on Friday, yay! It's always great fun on the last day of term too, as we have a non-uniform day, an inter-form talent show, which is fun to watch and we finish at midday instead of quarter-past three.
Thanks so much for looking and have a lovely week!
