As a fun little project for this week (shoved into the later hours of Monday night!) I made some bottle cap magnets. They were super simple and had great results. Earlier in the day, I’d picked a few photos and cropped them into 1″ circles and put them all on a 4×6″ image and then had them printed at Target ($0.19/ea).
So with the photo settled, I prepped the caps. I tried to take out the liners, but they were difficult/impossible to take out entirely and I’m not absolutely sure this step was necessary. I ended up shredding my finger with the pointy tool I was using for this. Tons of fun.
Then they got a quick coat of white craft paint.
While they were drying, I took the opportunity to put some sticky-backed magnets on the back of the caps. If I did this again it might be worth it to invest in a 1″ circle punch for neater results, but this works well enough.
And I cut out the little photo circles.
After that all there was left to do was glue them into the bottle caps. I used a bit of 3M Maximum Strength adhesive, but many things, like Gorilla Glue or E3000 would work just as well.
I am very happy with how they turned out! They will look very cute on the fridge or wherever they end up.
That is a great project. Would make neat favors also:)
Cute! For cutting out the circles, seeing as I’m horrible with a pair of scissors, I’d be tempted to try my scrapbooking punch with the 1″ circle.
I thought the same thing! But I couldn’t quite justify $9 for a new punch just for this project. But if I ever decided to do them larger scale, it would be worth it!
Love this!
Great job! And thanks for linking up!