Funky fridge magnet

I found magnetic paper at my local small town supermarket. I got quite excited and snatched it up. The pack comes with three A4 magnetic paper sheets and so I decided to experiment with one of the sheets and see how easy it would be to make fridge magnets. I found this funky cardboard cut out at my local craft store and bought that. My head was brimming with ideas so I also bought medium sized wooden letters (watch this space for that project). You can't really tell but I decided to be funky with the paint color and spray painted the sign in fluorescent fire orange. A funky color for a funky magnet. This whole process was a trial and error experiment, starting with how best to attach the cardboard sign to the magnetic paper. My deco-podge is finished but I do have clear tokreen glue/paint and so decided to use that. Self adhesive magnetic sheets may have been easier to work with for this particular project. If you wanted to glue your sign straight onto a magnetic strip or sheet that didn't have a paper face then I guess you would need to use some sort of silicone as the magnet doesn't have a porous surface. Seeing as I only have tokreen and decided to use that, I glued my sign to my magnetic sheet. The tokreen paint has glue like properties and hardens the material you paint it onto, making the sign sturdier (by my logic). I think I read once that tokreen takes like 24 hours to dry but I didn't have that kind of patience so as soon as the color turned from white to clear I assumed it was dry, tested it with my finger and proceeded to the cutting stage. This is where I encountered the first of the "speed bumps". 

I cut it out with my scissors as much as I could and then I used my craft knife to do the finer cutting where my scissors couldn't reach. It was easier said than done and didn't exactly make a smooth cut all around but instead of trying to do a perfect job and going grey in the process I decided to do the best I could and then give it a second coat of paint to cover up any of the white paper that showed. Next time I'll therefore leave the painting for last. 

Here you can see some of the white paper peeking through

 Before painting the next coat I used my bamboo skewer (?) (a very long toothpick, pictured above) to add some extra tokreen to the edges of the magnet. This was just to re-stick the bits that pulled loose during the cutting process and to seal the cardboard funky fridge magnet. Once dry I gave the magnet a few more thin coats of the fluorescent fire orange spray paint. When that was dry I stuck it on my fridge and suddenly wondered why I had gone through this whole process If I could have printed it straight from my computer. Duh, the magnetic paper is designed to go through a printer. I could have just printed the word funky, or whatever else I wanted, straight onto the paper and then cut it out and paint it. Why did this only occur to me once I had finished the whole process? No matter, I had fun on this DIY fridge magnet adventure.