Posted by on Feb 11, 2012 in Celebrations, Tips | Comments Off on Bottlecap Conversation Magnets

Bottlecap Conversation Magnets

First let me say that today has been a day!  Both of my little people slept terrible last night.  My six month old is barely napping today.  My three year old is not napping today.  He then proceeds to pee down the hallway this afternoon.  He’s a good 4 months into potty training with like one accident so far.  Mommy needs a time out when Daddy gets home!

Also, please tell me that some of you have craft ideas in your head and when you go to do them, they fail.  And fail miserably sometimes.  I have seriously had three different ideas for Valentine’s and all three failed.  Ugh!

So, today’s craft has evolved from what it was originally supposed to be!  After a couple of misses, I settled on these bottlecap conversation magnets.  And I think they’re just adorable.

Have any of you heard of Pick Your Plum?  It’s basically a daily deal site that specializes in crafts and things of the like.  It’s amazing!  And everything I’ve purchased there has been awesome.  Occasionally they’ll do a box full of random things and you have to purchase before you actually know what’s in there.  I’ve purchased two boxes so far.  What I love is that I get stuff in the box that I’d typically never purchase.  (See my Scripture Board post).  And these bottlecaps came from my most recent box.

I looked through Pinterest for some bottlecap ideas and came across these Bottlecap Necklaces from How Does She?  While I wasn’t going to make necklaces, I was going to “string them up” and use them for something else.  Alas, that didn’t work. So, I began to think about what I could do with them and I thought of these magnets.  Who doesn’t need more magnets on the fridge?

Basically, I took the plain bottlecaps and spray painted them pink.  I used my Cameo to cut out some circles with phrases you’d normally see on Conversation Heart candies and created these magnets with the sticky circles included in my pack.

 

Super easy.  I had these two pictures already on my fridge.  This one is from the first Christmas Eve that Jonathan & I were married.
Picture quality is terrible in the original picture.

 

I love this picture of me and my dad.
No, your eyes aren’t blurry.  Again original copy is super blurry.
And here are a few others.
Super easy project and really fun.  I have a ton left over so I may make up some other fun ones.  Side note: my house is rather dark.  It’s an older home and all the trim is super dark mahogany and original to the house.  So, my kitchen is dark too and the pictures were crummy.  I took the magnets and pictures and put them on a cookie sheet and headed for the living room.  You do what you have to!

Thanks for reading!  Now, off to tend to my little people!

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