Approaching New Year. And as always, the hackneyed question comes to mind: “What should I give to this or that?” The idea of making a refrigerator magnet will be a godsend.
Individual gift self made will always be highly valued. In addition to the fact that your gifts will be original, you can also kill not two, but three birds with one stone.
The material for making magnets is waste, one might say, rubbish, which is simply a pity to throw away. This is already the second hare - waste disposal. And the third hare is savings! Making cute magnets costs mere pennies.
Damaged CDs.
Glitter glue for decoration.
A printout of a drawing or a napkin suitable for the theme.
PVA glue.
Varnish.
Magnet.
Scissors.
Superglue or heat gun.
Other decorative elements at your discretion.
Let's make a refrigerator magnet with our own hands:
1. Prepare the disk. Naturally, you will not glue on the mirror side. This means that you must first degrease the surface and remove any inscriptions or stickers. In order for the drawing to be as clearly visible as possible, the surface on which you apply the image must be painted in white. Simply make a base layer of white paper and let it dry. You will also strengthen the hole and your chosen pattern will not “fail” in the middle.
2. Next, apply a layer of PVA, and carefully, helping yourself with a brush, place the design you have chosen. If this is a drawing on a napkin, then separate all the layers, leaving only one with the drawing. And if it is a printout, then you must thin the paper without damaging the image. The printout must be made on a laser printer. Because inkjet uses water-soluble ink. And you risk dissolving the entire pattern, since PVA contains a certain percentage of this liquid. The image should lie smoothly on the surface of the CD without wrinkles.
3. After the product has completely dried. We open it with varnish or coat it with PVA diluted with water. This action will extend the life of the magnet and give it gloss.
4. The contours of the picture can be marked with glitter varnish or some kind of inscription can be made. Here you can add decorative elements of your choice.
5. Let's not forget about the magnet. Glue it with superglue or a heat gun.
The souvenir is complete - the refrigerator magnet is ready! Give more because giving is better than receiving. At least that's what popular wisdom says. Happy New Year!
You can make these colorful cats yourself as gifts for family and friends, or decorate your Christmas tree or interior with them. And for us, this is, first of all, a New Year's magnet for the refrigerator. It will not only delight you with its appearance, but also with a pleasant coffee-vanilla aroma, since it is soaked in a coffee solution with added spices. If you are worried that the cat on the refrigerator door will be bored alone, make him a company of equally charming friends. The costs of sewing such toys are small, most necessary materials found in every housewife's home.
To work you will need:
- white fabric (calico);
- padding polyester;
- needle, thread, scissors;
- instant coffee, ground cinnamon, vanilla, cocoa;
- PVA glue;
- acrylic paints;
- tassels;
- black gel pen.
Step-by-step master class on creating a New Year's magnet with your own hands
The cat will be about 9 cm in size. You can copy the pattern from the monitor by attaching a sheet of paper to the image. Or print it and then correct the image, since it is somewhat distorted from the photo.
If we will use the template repeatedly, it is better to cut it out of thin cardboard. This template is both more durable and easier to trace.
We trace the pattern on the double folded fabric on one side only.
Sew the details on sewing machine, leaving about 2 cm between the cat’s legs unsewn. Through this hole we will turn the workpiece inside out and stuff the toy with padding polyester. But first, let’s cut it out, departing from the line about 0.5 cm for allowances. So that the seams on the finished toy do not pull or wrinkle, we make teeth on the seams. After this, the seam becomes more elastic and even.
We turn the carcass inside out using a stick or the tips of scissors in narrow places. Just be careful not to accidentally pierce the fabric.
Before stuffing, fluff the padding polyester. We push the padding polyester into the ears and legs in small portions, trying not to leave any voids. We do the stuffing moderately, evenly distributing the filler inside the toy.
Sew up the hole and attach a thread between the cat's ears. We will use this thread to tie the toy to the gas oven grate to dry.
Let's make the pompom on the hat more expressive. To do this, we fasten a thread at the place where the cap meets the pompom, wrap it several times around the base of the pompom and fasten it again. When wrapping, you need to tighten the thread a little.
Now we paint the cat with a coffee solution, which we do like this: pour 75 ml of boiling water into a deep bowl, add half a tablespoon of instant coffee, the same amount of vanilla, half a teaspoon of cocoa and cinnamon. Mix everything well, add a tablespoon of PVA glue and mix everything well again. For such cats, this amount of solution is enough for 10-15 pieces.
We take the solution a little onto a toothbrush and rub it well on the fabric.
We tie the cat painted with coffee solution to the oven rack for baking. At the same time, we set the fire to minimum. Keep the toy in the oven for 10-15 minutes. After baking, the “skin” of the cat becomes rough and tough. It is easy to draw on such a surface.
Drawing a cat with a simple pencil a muzzle, elements of clothing, we add some objects to the paws.
Using acrylic paints we paint those elements of the toy that will be colored. The entire body of the cat should not be painted over, because in addition to creating a bright image, the toy should also remain fragrant. Usually the coffee-cinnamon aroma lasts for several months.
After thoroughly drying the painted areas, we outline everything with a black gel pen; you can apply blush with dry pastels and shade the eyes. That's it, the toy is ready. You can hang the cats on the Christmas tree by attaching a thin ribbon or string, or you can glue a magnet on the back with superglue and decorate the refrigerator.
We invite you to familiarize yourself with the process of making cute Christmas magnets with your own hands.
To make New Year's magnets you will need:
Cotton threads (“Pechorka”, “Iris” or others) + hook No. 1;
Corrugated cardboard;
Double-sided tape, scissors;
Magnetic tape.
Christmas magnets step by step:
To lift, knit 3 chain stitches = 1 stitch, knit another 12 double crochet stitches into the ring (photo 2). Leave the white thread for a while, insert the hook into the last 2 loops of the 13th stitch and pull through the pink thread (photo 3). Knit 6 double crochets with pink thread, while “knitting” the pink and white tails of the thread inside, as in photo 4.
Close the circle with a connecting stitch (in the third chain stitch of the first white stitch) (photo 5). First pull the tail of the white thread, then the pink one, pull it as tight as the connected element will allow, and then carefully cut off the tails (photo 6). Turn the knitting and knit 2 double crochets into each pink stitch of the previous row, 14 stitches in total, cut the pink thread, leaving a “tail” of about 1.5-2 cm (photo 7).
Continue knitting with white thread. Knit 3 lifting chain stitches (photo 8). Knit a puffy stitch into each stitch of the previous row (3 double crochets from one stitch with a common top). There is 1 air loop between the “lush” columns (photo 9). Finish the row with a connecting column in the 3rd air loop of the lifting column (photo 10).
Turn the knitting over. In each v.p. (chain loop) between the lush columns of the previous row, knit a lush column (i.e. knit in relation to the previous row in checkerboard pattern). Between the lush columns v.p. - “pico” - v.p. “Piko” - knit 3 ch. and return the connecting column to the first loop (photo 11). Direct the pink thread parallel to the row being knitted (photo 12).
Knit 14 single crochets, tying a pink thread inside (photo 13). Knit a hat for Santa Claus. Using blue thread, knit 14 single crochets along the front side, while knitting the blue tail of the thread and the white tail of the thread of the previous row (photo 14). Turn the knitting over, knit 12-10-8-6 stitches in the next rows, leaving the first and last stitches of the previous row unknitted in each row (photo 15).
In row 6, leave the first 2 stitches unknitted so that the hat begins to tilt slightly to one side. In the 7th row make 1 ch. rise, knit 3 single crochets, starting with 1 loop. In row 8, knit 2 single crochets, skipping the first. In the 9th row, knit 1 ch. rise and knit 1 single crochet into the first loop (photo 16).
Wind 5-7 skeins around your index and middle fingers, fold them into a figure eight, and tie them with red thread (photo 17). To avoid knots on the inside, pull the thread to the wrong side and the same thread to the “face”, tie a neat knot under the “mustache” (photo 18). Glue a magnet of a suitable size using hot melt glue or any other universal adhesive. Decorate the hat with a white bead, attach it to a blue thread, and sew on bead eyes. If instead of a magnet you want to make a toy for the Christmas tree, then instead of a magnet, attach a satin ribbon of a suitable shade.
Master class “Fridge magnet – New Year’s souvenir from an old CD”
Osinovskaya Tatyana, 13 years old, studying at the creative association “Art Studio” of the Municipal Budgetary Institution “Syavsky Center for Children’s Creativity” in the village of Syava
Supervisor: Sokolova Svetlana Sergeevna, teacher additional education MBU DO "Syavsky Center for Children's Creativity" in the village of Syava
Description: A master class can be useful in a teacher’s work junior classes, additional education teachers, parents.
Purpose: DIY gift for friends and family for the New Year, interior decoration.
Target: teach a wide audience of handicraft lovers how to make unusual New Year's souvenirs friends and family.
Tasks:
Learn to make crafts from waste material- CDs.
Develop creative initiative.
Cultivate interest in joint creative activity children and adults.
Compact Disc is an optical storage medium in the form of a plastic disk with a hole in the center, the process of recording and reading information is carried out using a laser. Initially, a CD was created for storing audio recordings in digital form, but later it became widely used as a medium for storing any file data in binary form, not only with the ability to read the information recorded on them once, but also with the ability to write and rewrite it.
For true craftswomen, this object of scientific and technological progress has become a wonderful material for realizing various ideas and fantasies.
Crafts made from non-working CDs are a great option for recycling garbage that usually accumulates at home and is a shame to throw away. Such products can be a wonderful decoration for your apartment. For example, you can make a refrigerator magnet from an old disk. So we started preparing for the New Year and made gifts for friends - New Year's magnets for the refrigerator. (photo 1)
Materials for work:
- old CDs
- paper napkins with a New Year's pattern
- acrylic paints (can be replaced with gouache and primer)
- thin thick cardboard
- white landscape paper
- PVA glue
- glue “Crystal Master”
- flat self-adhesive magnet, you can use any other one
- sponge
- tassel
- scissors
Sequence of work
1. Prepare the back of the magnet.
Trace the disc on white landscape paper and cut out the piece from the paper.
2. Trace the end-to-end circle of the disk on thin, thick cardboard and cut it out. We will need it to make the surface of the disk even.
3. Use Crystal Master glue to glue the paper back to the disk.
4. Before the glue has dried, immediately insert a cardboard center blank into the middle of the disk.
5. C reverse side stick a magnet.
6. Paint the front part of the disk with acrylic paint, preferably in two layers. We chose white for the composition. If you don’t have acrylic paints, you can paint it with gouache, after first covering the disc with primer.
7. Apply paints of contrasting shades along the edge of the disk with a dry sponge.
8. When the workpiece is dry. Attaching a fragment paper napkin in the center of the disk and smooth it with gentle movements and at the same time glue it with PVA glue.
9. When the glue dries, apply a second layer of PVA glue. During the work, the idea came to decorate the magnet with crumbly glitter. Sprinkled them on glue.
10. We got this beauty in just 2 hours. We wish everyone New Year's inspiration. DIY Christmas magnets
On the eve of the New Year, we all stock up on gifts for our family and friends, but there are still many friends, acquaintances, and colleagues who also want to do something nice on the holiday. I decided to make refrigerator magnets.
Such magnets are not my invention, but I decided to tell you in detail how I knitted them. I placed emphasis on ensuring that there were no knots on either the front or back side, since such Santa Clauses can be used not only as magnets, but also as Christmas decorations, decorating the Christmas tree with them!
For work we will need:
1. Threads - cotton ("Iris", "Pekhorka" or others), 2. Hook (I have No. 1), 3. Scissors, 4. Corrugated cardboard (or any other cardboard for creativity), 5. Double-sided tape, 6 . Magnetic tape
- For lifting we knit 3 air loops= 1 stitch, we knit 12 more stitches with 1 crochet into the ring
- Leave the white thread for a while, insert a hook into the last 2 loops of the 13th stitch and pull the pink thread
- We knit 6 double crochets with pink thread, “knitting” the white and pink tail of the thread inside, as in the photo
- We close the circle with a connecting stitch (in the 3rd chain loop of the first white stitch)
- First we pull the white thread (tail), then the pink one, pull it as tightly as we can with the knitted element, after which the tails can be carefully cut off
- Turn the knitting and knit 2 double crochets into each pink loop of the previous row, 14 double crochets in total, leave the “tail” of the pink thread about 1.5-2 cm and cut off the thread
- We return to knitting with white thread. We knit 3 air lifting loops
- In each loop of the previous row we knit a lush stitch (3 stitches with 1 crochet from one loop with a common top). Between lush columns 1 air loop
- We finish the row with a connecting column in the 3rd air loop of the lifting column
- Turn the knitting over. In each air loop between the lush columns of the previous row we knit a lush column (i.e. in a checkerboard pattern in relation to the previous row). Between the lush columns there is an air loop - a “pico” air loop. “Piko” - knit 3 air loops and return to the first loop with a connecting stitch
- We direct the pink thread parallel to the row being knitted
- We knit 14 single crochets, tying the pink thread inside
- We knit a Santa Claus hat. We knit 14 single crochets along the front side with a blue thread, while knitting the blue tail of the thread and the white tail of the thread of the previous row
- Turn the knitting over, knit 12-10-8-6 loops in the next rows, leaving the first and last loops of the previous row unknitted in each row
- In the 6th row we leave the first 2 loops unknitted so that the cap begins to tilt slightly to one side. In the 7th row we make 1 ch. rise, knit 3 single crochets, starting with 1 loop. In the 8th row, we knit 2 single crochets, skipping the first one. In the 9th row we knit 1 ch. rise and knit 1 single crochet from the first loop
- We wind 5-7 skeins on the index and middle finger, fold them into a figure eight, tie them with red thread
- So that there are no knots on the wrong side, pull the thread to the wrong side and the same thread to the face, tie a neat knot under the “mustache”
- Glue a magnet of the desired size onto a glue gun or any universal glue. We decorate the hat with a white bead, fastening it to the blue thread that was left after knitting the hat, and sew on beads-eyes. If you are making not magnets, but toys for the Christmas tree, then instead of a magnet we attach satin ribbon suitable color.
- Cut a rectangle from corrugated cardboard the right size, fold in half, i.e. making a postcard. Inside (or on the reverse side if the cardboard is single) you can write wishes and congratulations. On the front side of the card we glue a magnet of the same size as on Santa Claus.
- This is what happened))) You can go further and continue decorating the card with ribbons, beads, sequins, sparkles and anything else that your imagination suggests
- Such funny Grandfathers I got frosts
- And these are magnets in action, i.e. on the refrigerator;))))
P.S. Happy holidays to you! Happiness, family well-being, health to you and your loved ones and of course CREATIVE SUCCESS!!!
