RE: OpHumanAngels: Operation Magneto
Sure! I just took old magnets from businesses, like these:
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Some pretty scrapbooking paper, which I painted Elmer's glue (white glue, all purpose glue) on the back with a paintbrush, and stuck it to the magnets over the ad side. Let that dry, then you can decorate with stickers and other embellishments. I used glue-on ones (the snowflakes on the intramural snowshoeing team one), brads, and these other kinds that go on like snaps, I'm not sure what they're called, but they look like this:
To use the brads and the snap-type-ones, I use my tool called a Crop-a-dile, which is this:
On the sides, it has pointed hole punches (it can cut through a soft magnet just fine, whereas a flat paper punch probably wouldn't), so I punched holes for the brads (those things that you push through and then bend pegs on the back to hold it in place). For the snap-types, the top of the cropadile is a snap-attacher type tool, so I used that. Alternatively, you can use one of those chisel-type things where you push it into the piece and hammer it through.
Then I painted on a coat of glaze so everything stayed put. Let that dry. After, I pressed them flat in-between a stack of books, but some of them still got a little warped either from the glue or the glaze or both, in which case you can bend them the other way, and you'll hear a little crackling, and it will straighten out then. That's it! :)
Wow! Love the crop-o-dile! I was wondering where the magnets came from, I haven't seen them used in that way in the uk, but perhaps I haven't noticed them 😂 Thank you for the explanation 😍
Here they are usually for delivery food businesses (so, all those pizza ones and a sub sandwich place that delivers, as seen in my photo), or emergency type numbers, like plumbers - the hope being that when something is flooding your apartment, you'll call the first and easy number that is sitting on your fridge instead of googling and price comparing, because water is flooding your home. LOL
I see them less now because many of them used to come on the covers of phone books, which we don't really get anymore. Sometimes they come in sales adverts or on newspapers - which I don't get anymore.
I have a couple of stacks of them because I felt bad throwing a bunch of magnets in the trash, and so I put them in my craft supplies figuring I'd do something with them someday. Now I finally have! LOL.
But this stack was the REALLY old stack, of ones from my college town (hence, all the pizza and subs delivery for late night student life, lol). I know I have more somewhere in the craft stuff, but it's a bit of a mess right now, so I'll probably end up doing a part II op again someday when I find more. ;)