Friday, January 8, 2010

My Christmas craft project


I had lots of Christmas projects I wanted to make for gifts, but there wasn't enough time in the week between finals and our trip to get to all of them. This is the one project I did manage to make - bottlecap magnets. I found instructions on this blog post, but did mine a little bit different. Instead of using images from an old calendar or magazine, I resized 24 pictures (each image to 1000 x 1000) and put them together to make a 4-by-6-inch photo (4000 x 6000 ... that way, each image was one square inch). Then, to make cutting out the holes easier, I bought a one-inch hole punch at Michael's. Other than that, I simply followed the instructions on the blog and the resin package. They were a big hit with the family! I forgot to take pictures during the making ... these are the ones we gave to Chris' parents.

Now that I've done it, I have lots more ideas to try using the same basic method. What kinds of crafts did you do for the holidays?

3 comments:

Leia said...

Next time your are in town it would be fun to do some of your crafts with all the girls. These magnets are super cute!

Melynda Hache' said...

I am so with Leia on this. Too cute!!!

volksbloggin said...

I love this project Tammy. Maybe Christmas gifts for next year? Last night I worked on updating Olivia's baby book with the latest pictures and written entries about first wave goodbye and such. Does that count as a Christmas craft?