Magnets & Fridge Art!!!

The fabulous Kim Costello made the BEST tutorial over at Club Anya this week on making magnets! I immediately had to try it out, it looked like so much fun :0)

I had such a good time I ended up making 3 different magnets:

On the Cheeky Mate (biggest one) I used Kim's method of coating the image in Glossy Accents (GA) and then mounting it on adhesive foam before attaching the magnet to the back.  I just colored it my regular Copic paper, btw, I didn't use anything special.

Pros:

This is nice because you can make the magnet any size you want and you could even use a Nestie on it. 
It's very flexible and will likely stand up to little fingers playing with it ;0) 
Easily done with materials I already had.

Cons:

I needed to add a second coat of GA did get a lot or air bubbles on the second coat. 
This was also kind of messy because all of the GA ran off the side at first.  I think this could be corrected the next time I try it, for a trial run though, this wasn't too bad.

On the two smaller ones I did Kim's method of using Tim Holtz's Fragments pieces.

Pros:

This was SO easy and looked very professional when I was done. 

The pieces are also very lightweight so you don't have to use a heavy-duty magnet, you can still just use regular thin adhesive backed sheets

Con:

There are not many squares in the Fragments pack suitable for larger images

Bottom line

 This is really fun and makes a great project for you and your kids too if they want to try it.  Great idea for small gifts!

Also going to enter this into Quixotic's "Alter It" challenge since I altered the fragments & paper into magnets!

Ingredients:

Stamps - The Greeting Farm (Cheeky Mate, Miss Anya, Spooktacular)

Copics

Glossy Accents

Adhesive magnets

Adhesive foam

Tim Holtz Fragments