October 22, 2018 POTW Inexpensive Cute Little Magnets

This is my week over at The House that Stamps Built to do my Pick of the Week which is a weekly feature of our design team.

I have 3 great grands (little ones) and a senior buddy and a chemo buddy and I am always looking for cute inexpensive little gifties that I can put in a little padded envelope or include in a box that I might be sending to them.  I used glass page pebbles - which I have had in my stash for a while but was at Dollar Tree last week and saw them there in the house deco aisle, as well as Hobby Lobby.  They come in a few different sizes and for this project I used the larger size.  I also used a scrap of orange thick cardstock, white thick cardstock, Memento black ink, ModPodge, and an 1 1/4 inch circle punch.

The stamps I used are:  2324-C Satisfied  2327-C Thoughtful  2328-C Happy and 2005-D Holiday Penguin.

After stamping and Jac-O-Lattern faces on my orange/yellow designer paper and the penquin on white (colored his cute little hat), I centered each image and punched each out with the 1 1/4 inch circle punch as seen below.

Using an older paint brush I applied mod podge on each circle completely covering with a thin layer.  I put my glass pebble on top and yes you do have a bit of wiggle room to adjust and get in the center  Set aside to dry.

Using glossy accents or clear glue of your choice apply a round magnet to the back of the glass pebble.  again set aside and let dry.  I have tried the strip magnets that you just cut off to size and they are not strong enough to hold the magnet up.

You can use any smaller image as I did with the penguin for this project, would be fun to get the kids involved in and makes a cute little "extra" to tuck inside your gift.

My grand daughter doesn't really like for her kiddos to have a lot of candy so this is perfect in their Halloween/holiday package.  One of the great grands (pictured above)is in kindergarten this year and loves to hang her art work on the refrigerator so this works perfect.