Christmas Advent Mini Muffin Tin

I saw this idea back in September while I was looking for different Super Saturday craft ideas. We didn't end up using this as one of our crafts (it would have taken way too long), but I made one anyway (since I made it in September, I've been dying to post it, but I wanted to wait till it was closer to Christmas).

I bought the mini muffin tin at Wal-Mart for $4.50 and the rest was all stuff I had lying around. Since this is a muffin tin, I'll be putting little candies behind each number for my kid(s) to have as they count down the days.
I did mine a little different than Tami did in her post. I used my Cricut to cut the numbers out on white cardstock and adhered them to the paper - I didn't want that much white and I didn't really like the simple ink printed look.

I cut out the squares of red/green cardstock (and used my corner rounder punch to round the corners) and then cut out circles - sadly, I don't have a circle punch, so I had to cut these out by hand :( Then I mod podged the papers and numbers together. Once that was dry, I added embelishments to random squares with ribbon, brads, eyelets and little paper punched shapes.

Final touch, add the magnet squares to each corner on the back.

Halloween Magnets

I have a ton of Halloween decorations that I made last year and some this year that I'm still working on . . . so I'm going to start staggering them through my posts.

I made these magnets last year using the glass drops (clear stone shaped glass pieces with a flat bottom and a convex top. I glued paper to the back side and attached a magnet to the back with a hot glue gun.

To the front, I rubbed on the vinly cut outs. You can make these without the vinyl and they still turn out really cool.

Non-holiday ideas . . . My sister-in-law teaches 8th grade and was looking for ways to decorate her classroom - so I glued some thumb tacks to the back instead of a magnet so she can use them on a cork board.

I also used sculpey clay and made candy corns too. After they had baked in the oven, I used a hot glue gun and attached the magnet to the back.

Jumbo paperclip magnets

I saw this idea on Create a Life you Love and thought it was perfect for what I wanted to do.

So I got these jumbo paperclips at Walmart for 97cents for a pack of 10. They are about 3 inches long - so they are not the normal "jumbo" that the stores usually sell.

I used magnets that I had on hand from Michael's when I used a 40% off coupon - love those coupons! And I have scrapbooking flowers that I used.

Process:

1. Superglue the clip to the magnet, then glue the flower on top to cover up the magnet.
2. I got on the computer and printed out the first letter of the girl's names I was making these for
3. Cut out the letters to go in the center of the flower
4. Using diamond glaze, cover the letter/paper to add dimension and shine ** the lady's blog I found this idea on used a laminator to laminate the letters - but I don't have a laminator - sad, I know. I couldn't find the diamond glaze anywhere, so I bought it online at Jo-Anns. They didn't have it in their stores by me, but they did online, weird.

5. Let the glaze dry overnight
6. Glue the letter on the flower
7. Voila - you're done

I made these for the YW in my ward (church) that went to Girl's Camp this week. They have "mailboxes" that the leaders put something in each day, and I didn't want to do the traditional candy/note combo. I know that when I went to Girl's Camp, I always came home so upbeat and ready to read scriptures more, so I made a Daily Scripture Chart for them to hang on the clip and put it on their fridge. Here's the link to the document I made for the check off sheet.