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Miniature Polaroid Magnets

July 29, 2011

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During last week’s heatwave Meatball and I spent a lot of time in the basement to keep cool. Browsing through blogs, I stumbled up this Polaroid magnet idea from Ambrosia Girl and thought it was adorable! What a cute thing to pepper the fridge with! And so began this project.

I graciously used the Polaroid template on the website and got started.

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The longest part of this project was probably selecting pictures to use. I also, for some reason, convinced myself I needed twenty of these little magnets. (A few didn’t make it to the end.)

After printing out the pictures, I pretty much followed the instructions on the website verbatim. I even glued the pictures onto the back of old sketchpad, since I have plenty lying around. The other super tedious part was cutting out all the pictures with an X-Acto knife. It could have been that mine was just dull, but it took forever. And my edges weren’t the best. It was at about this point that I regretted, for the second time, printing out 20 photos.

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Finally starting to resemble the final product. The edges on the board were painted with a white paint pen:

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And lastly, after the paint dried, I “laminated” with packaging tape. Here’s the final bunch!

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And here they are, doing their job on the fridge:

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  1. hslaw0905 says

    July 31, 2011 at 8:26 pm

    I hope I made the fridge somewhere!

  2. Chip says

    August 2, 2011 at 1:50 am

    this is great for kids pics…too bad mine are grown. a st. bernard doesn't fit on a stamp!!!

  3. Caroline Garzon says

    August 3, 2011 at 1:27 am

    walsh- i'm working on yours 😉

    chip- if meatball's big head can fit, i'm sure your dog could fit too!

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