Homemade Gift Idea - Refrigerator Magnets

Refrigerator magnets make a remarkable homemade gift idea because they're amusing to make, pretty smooth, and can be pleasant for people to acquire due to the fact you clearly can personalize it with the aid of the use of snap shots that are specific to every present recipient. You can use pictures in their youngsters, their favourite musician or actor. If the person is into birding, you may use photos of different species of birds. If the present recipient is into astronomy, you may use photos of a galaxies or other phenomenon.

Items you will need:

Flat glass gem stones...

Flat glass gem stones are like flattened glass clear marbles that are perfectly flat on one side, and rounded on the other. They can be discovered at Michael's, your local craft save, or at on line stores like wholesalersusainc.Com. They are available a wide range of sizes and colorings. I could stick with the clean half of inch to 1 inch varieties, as the magnets will help them higher, and they have a greater gem-like look at a smaller size.

Magnets...

Avoid the thin sheet-like adhesive magnets as they'll now not help the weight of the glass very well. I might recommend robust 3/sixteen" non-adhesive thick circle magnets. I observed a few at Michael's, and at store-on-crafts.Com. You additionally might want to try your local craft store or hardware store.

Adhesive...

Any robust clear adhesive from your neighborhood craft keep will do the process, but I even have found that Diamond Glaze Adhesive dries crystal clear and Magnet Bonding Adhesives very securely.

Images...

The critical component is to think whilst determined on photographs is who is receiving the gift, and what are they interested by. You can clip pics out from magazines, use a number of your own snap shots, or download unfastened pics from a royalty loose web site like everystockphoto.Com. You'll need to get the a part of the image down to a size so that it suits the diameter of the glass marble. There many methods to do that at the computer. If you've got a software like Photoshop simply move as much as the Image menu, go to Image Size and simply input the dimensions there. If you're using Windows's Paint, use the square choice tool to draw a box round your image and drag a nook factor to resize the image to the favored dimensions. In the utility Preview on a Mac, visit the Tools menu, select Adjust Size and enter the dimensions there. I think there are methods to do this in different packages like Microsoft Word, in addition to many different methods, or just reduce the pix out of snap shots or magazines

The procedure..

Putting it all collectively is quite clean.

Cut out your photograph to suit the diameter of the glass marble gem.
Use the clean adhesive to glue the face of the picture to the flat side of the glass marble gem.
Let dry... It shouldn't take too lengthy however talk to the instructions at the adhesive tube.
Glue the magnet to the back of the photograph.
Let dry and your gifts are done!
I had plenty of a laugh making those items. It would be a laugh to get youngsters involved on this, because they in all likelihood would have a knack for locate some amusing and humorous pics and thoughts to use.