Up-Cycle Magnets

UP-CYCLE MAGNETS

Very easy way to save a picture I like, a copy of a painting I can't afford, or even a hotel room key if it's pretty and a great memory - mine is from the a Grand Canyon hotel.  You can always buy magnet paper - super simple to use

but why not use those advertising magnets we get in the mail?!  I used Mod Podge decoupage glue at first

I rough cut - cutting out more than the pattern I want to end up with

and the Mod Podge worked pretty well

and then fussy cut our the pattern you want to keep

I also used just plain glue - and I think that worked out better!

I found a great 'vintage' travel picture of the Hogwarts Express!  Who doesn't want that on their refrigerator?!

I used a magnet from my son's school athletic department, season's over - time to up-cycle!

Just glued it down this time, I think it came out better than the decoupage stuff

and now I have "art" on my fridge holding my grocery/to do lists!

I have a weekend guilty pleasure - I record an early Saturday morning PBS program called "Fons and Porter's For the Love of Quilting"!Yup!  The title is a little hokey, but it's fresh and honest in a home spun kind of way At the end of every show Mary and Marianne Fons always close with a "Tips" segment.  The tips range from taking tools to sewing classes 

to storing thread and project protectors.  If they use a viewer's tip on the air - the viewer gets a year's subscription to their magazine!

Why not give it a try?  

So I sent them my quilt pattern magnets - a little reminder of future projects you'd like to do.

I hope they like it!

Pam