Vintage Magnets

  Awhile ago I made these adorable little alphabet magnets inspired 

by my BFF Bec at Little Lucy Lu.  (She is SO creative and awesome.

You really should go check out her blog sometime.)  

I never posted my finished product on Sweet Little Gals, so here you have it.  

Sweet little alphabet magnets, homemade.   

I love 'em so much I think I will eventually make about twenty sets of them!  {grin} 

And the fun thing is I thought of another way to make them

only with a vintage twist.  I'm so excited about it!!

Here's how I did it...

I used the same little wooden discs as I did for the alphabet magnets 

and painted them with Krylon spray paint, white and celery {green} 

(And I somehow missed taking pics of the painting process, oops!) 

Here's the cool little discs

Then I sanded and distressed the edges of the painted discs 

to look like this (SWEET huh?)

I used these two colors of distress ink

(Walnut on the white discs, both colors on the green discs for a different look)

Then here's the part where I did things a little differently...

I took my newest issue of Flea Market style magazine

(I just LOVE this magazine)

You could use whatever magazine you want!!

And traced little random circles out of it (using the alpha stax sticker

as a pattern) to look like this

I cut out a whole bunch of them!

Aren't they CUTE?

Yeah, I cut out each and every one of those circles :)

Then I used Modpodge to put them on the painted discs

Added magnets on the backs of them with 

Gorilla glue

And here you have it, cute little vintage magnets!!

 Now I just can't WAIT to put them on my fridge!