How to make Christmas magnets with your own hands. DIY New Year's magnets How to make a New Year's magnet with your own hands
Good mood to everyone! Do you feel that the New Year is already somewhere close! And the closer we are to January 1, the brighter the aromas of the holiday are felt. Fresh needles from Christmas tree markets, just brought from the store and immediately eaten by a tangerine. But here comes the smell of coffee (perhaps even with cinnamon): fresh, hot, so cozy, inspiring...
Perhaps it’s time to continue to expand on the topic of New Year’s gifts and souvenirs! And on the agenda we have coffee magnets, Christmas trees and horseshoes🎄. These fragrant beauties are not just a cute decoration for the refrigerator or something, they are a whole repository of New Year's mood. And also a very cool, albeit modest in size (but most importantly, with a soul!) present that many people can make.
Magnets made from coffee beans are a very convenient option for New Year's souvenirs. With little time and money spent on purchasing materials, we get truly handmade and unique gifts that will be appreciated by your guests, family, friends, and especially those who cannot imagine a day without a cup of coffee☕. Although, from experience, even non-coffee lovers are very pleased to receive such a thing.
The manufacturing process itself is no less pleasant. What a aroma it is while the grains are being selected! Glue Moment doesn't count 😀
Today I will show three options for making New Year's magnets from coffee beans. And you, of course, can come up with your own design. Waiting for us:
But first, let's look at the materials:
- millboard;
- brown (and also white) acrylic paint;
- coffee beans;
- glue Moment Crystal or tar glue;
- leg-split;
- magnet;
- decor: burlap, metal balls, bells, star anise, etc.
- acrylic contour “Gold”.
And also a stationery knife, pencil, ruler, sponge.
A few words about the choice of materials
Cardboard You should take a thick, gray one, like for cardboard. Dye artistic, glossy, good quality is preferable (if the paint is construction, after drying the surface must be protected with varnish).
For a magnet with decoupage, we will also need acrylic varnish, a napkin with a small motif, and a flat brush.
Concerning glue– you can use both Moment “Crystal” and hot melt adhesive. I prefer the first, despite its smell, because... Although hot-melt glue is more pleasant to work with, after hardening it becomes more noticeable among the coffee beans, and the beans themselves sometimes fly off.
Christmas magnets made from coffee beans
So, first, let's prepare the groundwork. For all types of New Year's magnets from coffee beans, it is done the same way.
We draw Christmas trees and a horseshoe on cardboard. Using a stationery knife, cut them out.
Next you need to tint the surface on both sides. To do this, we use a sponge and acrylic paint and our favorite technique of a smacking brush))) We'll have to wait a while. Until the paint dries thoroughly, first on one side, then on the other.
Attention❗We paint over one of the Christmas trees (which is for decoupage) completely on one side only. I'll show you how much later u.
Coffee magnet Christmas tree with burlap
We will decorate the first coffee magnet - the Christmas tree - using burlap. We cut out a triangle from this material, slightly smaller in size than the base. Using the “Crystal” Moment, we glue it onto the cardboard.
Lubricate the stump with the same glue on both sides and, starting from the bottom, wrap twine around it. We don't cut it yet.
We apply glue around the perimeter and carefully fix the twine around our coffee tree.
It's the turn of the grains. I like to alternate coffee beans on magnets so that it looks natural, somewhere you can see a beautiful groove, somewhere you can see a rounded back. We select the grains according to size and gradually glue them. It’s better not to spare glue here.
All that remains is to add some finishing touches, namely a beautiful star anise and tinting. We tint the twine along the edge and the stump with brown paint, and then go over the top of the star and the stump a little with gold paint.
Magnet - a horseshoe made of coffee beans
Next we'll look at creating a fragrant horseshoe. This coffee bean magnet is made no more complicated than the previous one, by analogy and even simpler.
From burlap we cut out two small pieces in the shape of a horseshoe (the photo shows one of them). Along the perimeter of the horseshoe we glue a thread of twine, as well as pieces of burlap.
We select and glue the coffee beans, closing the gaps with paint.
We knit two metal decorative bells. We make a small neat bow from twine (there is a master class on this topic). And we glue all this from below using either hot melt glue or the “Crystal” Moment.
The horseshoe magnet made from coffee beans is almost ready!
Coffee magnet Christmas tree with decoupage
Here’s another beautiful idea for a New Year’s coffee magnet – decorate it using decoupage. We have already discussed in the article the creation of an interesting little thing designed using this technique (if you haven’t seen it, take a look, don’t be lazy). Here we are interested in New Year's themes.
So, remember, at the beginning of the master class I talked about tinting the base on only one side. What about the other one? We tint the other side only along the edge. And after drying, cover the corner on which the drawing will be pasted with white paint.
We tear out the desired motif from the napkin, and then separate the top layer. We place it on the white part.
Now let's take the varnish. We drop a decent drop in the center of the motif and very quickly spread it over the surface to the edges.
After the varnish has dried, you can slightly sand down any uneven spots on a napkin if they suddenly appear. And then we apply brown paint so that, firstly, to cover all the white gaps, and secondly, to give a neat look to the edges of the napkin. To do this, use a sponge to touch the napkin itself, creating a rounded outline. Let it dry.
Before gluing the coffee beans onto the future magnet, let's add a few accents using an acrylic outline. I made a spiral on the stump and circled it in dotted circles. After this, cover the surface with another layer of varnish.
All that remains is to glue the grains and add a few small beads - balls.
Another New Year's magnet made from coffee beans is almost ready! Almost - because the most important touch remains - the magnet itself.
We place the magnets in the center of our Christmas trees and horseshoes (from below), glue them using the “Crystal” Moment.
And now it’s definitely ready! Let's consider:
In the second photo you see another coffee Christmas tree magnet, such a rocker one with a guitar🎸. But the branded magnet 16+))) ⬇
In general, as you can see, there are options for every taste and color! And for one aroma – the aroma of coffee! 😉
I hope you found it useful and interesting today! New Year's theme is one of inspiring ones. So why give store-bought magnets with standard animals when you can make your own unique masterpiece! Try it! I have collected even more New Year’s ideas with soul for you in this article: .
And if you are partial to twine, welcome to a special review of ideas and master classes on twine →: .
Good luck to you, great inspiration and joy from the process!
And all the best and brightest!
Your brownie Elena.
On the eve of the New Year, each of us begins to stock up on gifts for loved ones! And today I want to offer you to make small gifts for your dear people with your own hands - these are New Year's magnets “Winter Hut”. We will make them from salt dough (can be replaced with self-hardening clay). I chose salted dough, because the ingredients for it are available to everyone, and you can make such products with children!
For work we will need:
- salted dough (the recipe I use will be below);
- stack, stationery knife;
- toothpicks, needles;
- a plasticine board or ceramic tile (where we will roll out the dough);
- acrylic paints (if there are metallic colors);
- gouache (black and ocher);
- brushes;
- felt;
- magnet;
- varnish (I used colorless Varnish XB-584);
- rhinestones (I have a diameter of 3 and 5 mm);
- glue (Moment, PVA);
- optional white glitter;
- sponge.
Salt dough recipe (I’ve made it many times already):
- 150 g water + 1 tbsp. l. Mix simple wallpaper glue and let the glue dissolve thoroughly;
- 200 g flour + 200 g fine salt + 2 tbsp. l. (with top) mix potato starch separately;
- combine everything + 2 tbsp. l. vegetable oil.
For several magnets, the amount of salty ingredients can be divided in half.
It is better to prepare the dough in advance (I make it the night before and put it in the refrigerator overnight, wrapped in 2 bags).
Important! When working with salt dough, always keep the bag closed, the dough dries quickly!
We will have two versions of magnet huts!
Magnet “Winter Hut” with two Christmas trees
1. Roll out the dough, cut out the blank for the huts according to the template (the edges can be trimmed with a brush and water). Let's outline where the logs, roof, and snow will be. We make a sausage from 4 mm dough, cut it into approximately equal parts, lubricate the workpiece with some water and begin to place our logs, flattening them a little. 
2. While our logs are not dry, we go over them with a needle, we get an imitation of wood. Make two more sausages, flattening them a little. Using a needle or toothpick, we make curves on one edge and transfer our blanks to the hut, having previously lubricated the places with water, then we make indentations on the rounded blanks (I did it with a dots, but you can also use a regular toothpick). We make a pipe over the roof, go through the dough with a needle, imitating bricks. Next, we roll the ball, flatten it, cut it in half, we only need one part (this will be the window above the roof), attach it to the hut, make indentations, and we get a window.
3. Make a thin sausage, smear it around the window with water, wrap it in the sausage - it turns into cashing the window, flatten it a little.
4. In the middle of the hut there will be a main window made of a rectangular piece of dough; we make indentations in it. We roll the sausage, divide it into four parts according to the size of the window - these will be the platbands. We flatten the workpieces and transfer them to the hut, not forgetting to lubricate the gluing areas with water.
5. Now you can sculpt the Christmas tree. We cut out three trapezoidal blanks of different sizes, round each blank, cut the bottom edge into three parts and round it with a toothpick (you get twigs). At the beginning, we place the largest piece down and in increasing order. We go along the edges of the branches with a needle.
6. We will get two Christmas trees, tall on one side and smaller on the other. We make indentations in the Christmas tree that are slightly larger than the rhinestones themselves, because as the salt dough dries, it becomes smaller. We make snow on the roof, in front of the hut, on the windows.
Magnet “Winter hut” with snowman and Christmas tree
Let's move on to the next version of the magnet. The first stages of modeling are the same as for the first hut.
1. Let's make the platbands at the roof a little differently, small curves at the edge and indentations in them using a toothpick. We roll the ball, make an oval, cut off a little at the bottom, we get a semicircular blank for the window. We attach in the middle of the hut and indentations. 
2. Take a strip of dough, place it over the window and flatten the edges a little with a knife or stack.
3. We do the same at the bottom of the window. Next, we make the shutters: we cut out two rectangles, cut them at an angle and attach them to the hut.
4. Let's make a snowman. We roll three balls of different sizes, flatten each ball and start attaching it to the hut from the largest one, roll four balls, these will be the arms and legs of the snowman :) We make a hat from a triangle of dough, a scarf from two stripes. The nose is a triangle-shaped carrot made of dough. The Christmas tree is molded in the same way as on the first hut. 
Our blanks for the magnets are ready, let them dry thoroughly (I leave them on the battery for 2 days). First, they are dried on foil, and when they are dry, I transfer them to cardboard, because... the foil does not allow air to pass through, and the workpiece does not dry out.
Our huts have already dried, now we cover them with black gouache (brown is also possible). When the gouache has dried, we begin to carefully wash it off, so the product turns out to be embossed. The blanks have dried out from the water. Let's start painting. We take brown acrylic paint and with a thin brush we go over the logs of the hut. Next, we cover the platbands: in the first hut we cover the platbands with gouache (ochre), in the second with blue acrylic, and the snowman’s outfit is also blue.
When the paint has dried, we paint the frames of the windows with white acrylic, and we tint the trim of one hut with white.
Then mix green and a little brown, cover the Christmas trees with it 
We need to make “frozen” windows. We drop blue and white paint directly into the window, quickly mix it with a needle, and add a little more white around the edges. We additionally cover the ocher-painted frames with paint of a different color (I have acrylic metallic bronze; if I don’t have it, you can mix brown and yellow acrylic paint - you’ll get beige frames). Paint the snowman with white paint. Next, we take a sponge and begin to swab with white paint where we will have snow (I also went over the logs with a brush). We make the eyes and mouth of the snowman. We tint the snowman's hat and scarf with silver paint. 
First we coat one side of the magnet with varnish, when it has dried, we coat the other side (the varnish that I use gives a little yellowness to the white color, after drying the varnish the snow was again covered with white paint). We take felt, trace it, cut it out, this will be the back side of the hut.
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 made sure that there were no knots on either the front or back side, since these Santa Clauses can be used not only as magnets, but also as Christmas tree 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
- To lift, we knit 3 chain stitches = 1 stitch, and we knit another 12 double crochets 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 the 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 make not magnets, but toys for the Christmas tree, then instead of a magnet we attach a satin ribbon of a suitable color.
- We cut out a rectangle of the required size from corrugated cardboard, fold it 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 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
- I got such funny Santa Clauses
- 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!!!
New Year is approaching. 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.
A personalized handmade gift will always be greatly appreciated. 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 should be painted 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 will need
- - cardboard
- - raffia of different colors
- - glue
- - decorative material
- - magnetic tape
- - scissors
Instructions
In order to make New Year magnets, you will need an unnecessary cardboard box. Cut out the Christmas tree blanks from it. Take the raffia and start wrapping it around the Christmas tree from top to bottom, periodically applying glue to the cardboard. Raffia does not have to be green; you can use brown, turquoise or other colors. New Year is a cheerful holiday; you can be a little naughty by deviating from the traditional color of the Christmas tree. New Year's gifts should be bright and original.
As soon as the base for the magnet is ready, start decorating. Elegant braid, beads, rhinestones - everything is suitable for decorating a Christmas tree magnet.
Cut out stars from silver, gold cardboard or paper and stick them on the Christmas tree. Glue can be replaced with double-sided tape.
You can also take an easier route. Buy a set of New Year's stickers in the handicraft departments. By New Year you will definitely find them on store shelves. The sets contain a lot of New Year-themed stickers: snowflakes, stars, bows. This will make the work much easier. Just peel off the top layer and stick on.
To attach magnets to the refrigerator, use magnetic tape. Cut the required amount and glue it to the magnet. Pack the magnet beautifully and give it as a gift.
The Christmas tree does not have to be wrapped in raffia. You can use decorative paper and braid as the main decor.
