My Little Sweatshop

I’m finally adding this but we did indeed finish our glass magnet project. It was during the Christmas season and my mom kind of went a little crazy buying us things at Michael’s since we don’t celebrate Christmas like usual folk. We never really do the presents-thing and I think I’d like to continue that trend until I’m forced to. Alright so everything is pretty cheap for doing this. We got some scrapbooking paper of birds and other fun things but I think next time I’ll just find photos I’m fond of or a find another theme. We used Elmer’s crafting glue (which had a really strong vinegar type smell to it, ick) and just kind of trial and errored everything we did. Which usually is the best way to figure out what techniques are the best. We cut out from the scrapbooking paper the designs we wanted and then once they were glued on we’d trim anything off that we needed to. I think they turned out pretty nice.  We made a whole bunch but had fun doing it together. Ohhh sisters…

Large Glass Magnets and the scrapbook paper

Ok so as you can see, you can also buy the larger sized glass pebbles. They have a few more imperfections I found on the flat side but I like them better because of the size. The bag came with different colours and unfortunately, the blue ones don’t look as good when finished and you can’t just buy the clear ones separately. They aren’t very expensive, so I’d go for it and maybe use the blue ones for something else instead.

the smaller glass pebbles

Starting out

I'm tracing out the goods, some birdies, polka dots and random

Here are how some of them turned out, I think we made good scrapbook paper choices

Glass Magnet Birds... The Birds! The Birds!

Pink Glass Magnet Designs

Look how many we made

Satisfied Crafters

Alright so that was that for making glass magnets, pretty fun and easy to do so I’d suggest giving it a go for sure!

Tags: crafters, Glass, glue, magnet, pebbles, pencil, pictures, scrapbook paper

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