One of the cousins recently turned nine and we had the chance to make for her the cutest present ever. Ever!
This gift was so easy and so fun, and was even more meaningful because it was hand-made!
Here is how we did it. I say we, because as I like most projects, little hands helped.
The first step, and probably the most time consuming part, was finding head shots of the kids where you could see their entire face directly from the front. I'm not necessarily known for those posey posed pictures.
But once those were found and printed on regular paper, the rest was super easy.
I cut around the faces, trimming right along the chin and hair.
On cardstock I did a simple doodle sketch of a body wearing a t-shirt and added arms, legs, and a neck. I made it small enough that the heads would be a bit over-sized, similar to bobble-heads.
On the t-shirts I wrote out fun messages, like "I heart..." and "Girls Rule!"
I pasted the heads onto the cardstock bodies and, before trimming, covered the front and back with clear contact paper
I then trimmed around the entire body and head, making sure the paper was never thinner than the width of the clothes pin, which really only seemed to be a concern around the neck area.
Helping hands then glued the bodies onto one side of a clothes pin and stuck a magnet on the other side. We used magnets that had a peel-off sticky side, but I imagine glue would work fine as well, and old magnets could certainly be re-used for this part!
And voila, here are your quirky message magnets!
Even though I had been brainstorming these for a couple days, I didn't anticipate how adorable they would turn out! Perfect for gifting and bringing a smile to the lucky person whom you want to send messages of love!
The next time I make these -- and there is bound to be a next time -- I will tweak them a bit. But I think these are quite perfect themselves.
Whose face would you like to have on a quirky message magnet?
