Glass Bead Magnets + Organza Bag = cute & cheap gift!

I made a bunch of sets of glass bead magnets for my kids' teachers for Christmas this year and put three in a little organza bag, cut out a cute holiday design on card stock for the tag, and voila!  Super cute and super cheap holiday gift and all the teachers loved them!

Here's my original post on the magnets. Though, after making many of these, I highly recommend the stronger magnets.  As my further "scientific" testing has proven that they definitely work better to hold themselves and other items to the fridge.

You can Google holiday clip art to find a shape to print out on card stock for the tag if you're not one for drawing one yourself.

Also, I bought 100 organza bags for cheap on Amazon, like $8 or so.

Chalk Board Message Magnets

I thought up this idea by combining several crafts I saw on Pinterest, and after several trial and error attempts, I came up with a design that I was pretty proud of.  My fabulous and super-supportive cousin-in-law even ordered 30 of them from me for her work's holiday party.  She used them for place markers at the luncheon and wrote everyone's name on them.

For one message magnet, you need the following:

- Piece of chalk
- Clothes pin
- Magnet for back of clothes pin
- Gorilla glue or super glue to adhere magnet to clothes pin
- Small piece of scrapbook paper to decorate the clothes pin
- Mod Podge to adhere paper to clothes pin
- Canning lid - I use the larger size
- Magnet for back of canning lid
- Chalkboard contact paper cut in a circle for front of canning lid
- Piece of ribbon tied in a bow to decorate lid
- Hot glue to adhere ribbon to lid
- Decorated Bottle cap - you can do this in a variety of ways - see my post on bottle caps.
- Magnet for back of bottle cap

Step 1: Clothes pin

Take a clothes pin and cut a piece of scrapbook paper the size of the clothes pin.  Use Mod Podge to adhere paper to clothes pin and then also put a layer on top of paper to seal it in.  Let dry. Gorilla glue or super glue magnet to back of clothes pin.  Once it's all dry, clip your chalk in the clothes pin.

Step 2: Canning lid

Cut out a circular size of chalkboard contact paper and adhere to middle of canning lid.  Adhere magnet to back of lid using gorilla glue. Let dry overnight. Use a drop of hot glue to place ribbon on the top front of lid.

Step 3: Bottle Cap Magnet

You can make this in a variety of ways.  Use Mod Podge to glue a piece of scrapbook paper in the center and let dry. Then, top with a resin dot or with Mod Podge Dimensional Magic (my new favorite crafting supply). Once that's dry, use gorilla glue to adhere magnet to back.  Even if you buy the self stick magnets, you will still want to glue it on.  They don't always hold for very long.  Let the glue dry overnight.

Step 4: Put it all together!

Here's what 30 of them look like (these are the ones for my cousin-in-law's co-workers - they're teachers, hence the apple theme):