It will take no more than two hours to make a magnet, and the craft needs another day to dry. At first, the souvenir smells strongly of glue, but after a couple of days the pleasant coffee aroma returns.
To create a beautiful and unusual heart you will need:
- Checkered sheet of paper
- Simple pencil
- A sheet of thick paper (you can use packing cardboard)
- Magnetic tape (approximately 3x3 cm)
- Transparent glue (for example, "Moment Crystal"
- Coffee beans - about 3 tbsp. l.
- A piece of satin ribbon (2.5x10-12 cm)
Step 1. Make a pattern and the base of the future magnet
To make the heart proportional, make a sketch on paper. To do this, fold the notebook sheet in half. Mark the expected width and height of the heart. Draw half a heart, cut it out and unfold it. Press the pattern onto the cardboard, trace the outline with a simple pencil and cut out.
Step 2. Cover the base with coffee beans
Before you start covering the base with coffee beans, they need to be sorted into small and large ones. Since the coffee bean coating will be two layers, select the best specimens for the top of the product.
Glue the outline of the product and begin to carefully lay the coffee beans with the convex side up. They should fit tightly to each other, protruding slightly beyond the edges of the base. After filling the entire base, to do this, apply a thick layer of glue to small areas of the cardboard blank and immediately lay out the coffee beans.
Glue the second layer of grains so that they fill the voids of the first row. Apply literally a drop of glue to the convex side of each grain and connect it to the bottom layer. At the end of the work, press the product firmly onto the table with your palm so that the top layer of grains is leveled.
Step 3. Make a bow and decorate the heart
The texture of the coffee beans is beautiful on its own, so don't overdo it with decorations. You can decorate the coffee heart with a simple flower or bow.
To make a bow, cut two pieces from the satin ribbon - 8 and 3 cm long. To make the edges crumble, they need to be burned. Mark the middle of a long piece of tape. Fold the edges towards the middle with an overlap. Make a row of stitches down the middle of the tape, pull the seam together and secure the thread.
Mentally divide the smaller piece of tape into three parts along the length, bend one third of the length towards the middle to the wrong side, coat it with glue and press the second edge to the adhesive surface. Glue the resulting center to the base of the bow.
Glue the finished bow to the coffee heart. You can decorate the coffee beans with glitter or spray paint the surface. It is better to apply the paint with a sponge to avoid drips.
Step 4. Glue the magnet
To complete the work, glue a piece of magnetic tape or just a round flat magnet to the back of the product.
To create the “Coffee Trio” I used many different materials, tools and decorative elements. But the beauty of this master class is that you can use not all of the above, but only part of it, or vice versa, something beyond what is on the list, and in the end you will make exclusive coffee magnets for the refrigerator with your own hands.
So, I found the following useful in my work:
- Scissors
- Glue "Moment Crystal"
- Magnetic vinyl
- Brown and light brown pigment ink sponges
- Oil paint, color - mars brown dark
- Beige linen lace
- Stretch lace cappuccino color
- Wooden and plastic buttons
- Red Iris threads
- Needle with big eye
- Narrow satin ribbons, brown and red
- Jute twine
- Matt acrylic varnish
- Brush
- Double sided tape
- Cardboard 2 mm thick
- Piece of paper
- Pen
- Coffee beans
- Ground coffee
I only had linen in a rather gray shade, and I wanted to bring it closer to the color of coffee so that they would look more harmonious next to each other. To do this, I diluted three teaspoons of instant coffee in boiling water and soaked the fabric in it for an hour. Then I rinsed it under running water and placed it on a very hot radiator. As a result, the color of the flax became more brown, and “burn” also appeared - I really liked this effect.
Then I cut out a heart-shaped template from paper and used it to make three blanks from thick cardboard 2 mm thick.
Coffee magnet (master class No. 1)
I covered the first blank with double-sided tape, and glued linen on top.
You should not cut the fabric according to the template and then try to glue it evenly onto the workpiece. It is much simpler, more convenient and neater to first glue a piece of flax to the cardboard, and then trim off the excess along the edges.
Then, using Moment glue (you can use hot melt glue or any other transparent superglue), I laid out and secured the coffee beans along the perimeter of the heart in one row. I laid the grains with both the flat and rounded sides up in a random order, fitting them tightly together.
Then I covered the end of the workpiece with two turns of jute twine to hide the not-so-pretty cut of cardboard and traces of glue between the coffee beans and the workpiece. The twine is also secured using Moment glue.
Next, I laid twine along the inner perimeter of the heart made of coffee beans, decorating the ends in the form of a bow.
I decorated two round wooden buttons with red “Iris” thread; a needle with a large eye helped me with this.
The edges of the buttons were tinted using sponges with pigment ink. First I went over it with a light brown sponge, and then with a darker brown one.
The cardboard on the back side of the heart was also tinted with pigment ink, so that it would be nice to look at the craft from the inside out.
I glued a piece of magnetic vinyl.
And finally, I glued pre-prepared buttons on the front side under the bow.
So I made my first coffee heart magnet with my own hands!
Coffee magnet (master class No. 2)
The second blank, like the first, I covered with flax and laid coffee beans around the perimeter. And then I applied glue along the inner perimeter, poured in instant coffee granules, gently pressed them with my fingers, and simply shook off the excess granules that did not stick and left them until the glue dried completely.
Instead of instant coffee, it is better to use ground natural coffee to create a coffee magnet with your own hands. It can be coated with varnish so that the pieces hold tighter and do not crumble or fall off. With instant coffee, coating with varnish or glue is not possible.
I decorated the ends of this heart with beige linen lace, securing it with Moment glue.
Then I tinted the lace with oil paint. You could also use pigment ink, as with the first magnet, but in this master class I wanted to show different materials and methods so that everyone could choose what is more accessible.
For tinting I needed oil paint “Sonnet”, color “mars dark”, a piece of dish sponge and a piece of cardboard. I squeezed a drop of oil onto the cardboard, then dipped a corner of the sponge into it and began to spread the oil from the sponge onto the cardboard. Only when the sponge leaves a dry, GREAT trace of paint, can you begin to tint the lace, lightly touching the lower edge of the heart.
Instead of a dish sponge, you can use a cosmetic sponge - the smaller the pores, the better. But you should remember that after such use the sponge will be damaged, so the sponge is cheaper.
After tinting, the heart resembles a chocolate cake with buttercream :)
I made a bow from a narrow brown satin ribbon, added a plastic flower button and decorated the second coffee heart with this composition! 🙂
Coffee magnet (master class No. 3)
I did not cover the third piece with flax, but completely covered it with coffee beans. I glued the first layer with the flat sides of the grains facing down.
And I glued the second layer intermixed, tightly laying the grains one to one, and in some places even placing them sideways.
After the glue dried, I saw that it was shiny in some places between the grains, and I didn’t like it. So I covered the entire front of the heart with Sonnet matte acrylic varnish. In bright sunny colors, the heart glares a little, but now evenly.
I decorated the ends of the third heart with cappuccino-colored stretch lace, securing it with Moment glue. This lace stretches. And due to the tension, it tightly clasps the heart, wrapping itself on the front side, which is what I needed.
I glued a narrow brown satin ribbon over the lace. It turned out very tasty! 🙂
I decorated the wooden flower button with red thread, as well as the round buttons for the first heart.
In this small master class you will see how to quickly and easily make an original heart magnet for the refrigerator. This magnet can be used as an inexpensive and unique one, or you can keep it in your collection of magnets that decorate the door of your home refrigerator.
Materials for the master class:
- a foam tray (the kind usually sold in fruit or cookie stores);
- coffee beans and spice - cloves;
- Moment glue;
- acrylic paints in brown and pearlescent colors;
- stationery knife;
- brushes;
- pencil;
- magnet.
So let's get started:
1. Draw a heart on a foam tray with a pencil; if it turns out uneven, you can easily correct it.
2. Using a stationery knife, cut out the heart.
3. Cover it with brown acrylic paint.
4. Slowly, paint the heart on all sides, paying special attention to the sides.
5. We attach the coffee beans on top of the heart using Moment glue.
6. First, we mark the outline of our heart in a circle with coffee beans, then we fill the core with them. As a result, the entire surface of the heart should be covered with coffee beans.
7. Now the small voids between the coffee beans need to be filled with cloves. If the stems of the carnation are too long, you can break them off a little.
8. Coat the stems of the cloves with glue.
9. And glue the cloves between the coffee beans.
10. Use pearl-colored acrylic paint to paint the heads of the carnations.
11. Take a magnet. Apply Moment glue to one of its sides and wait 5 minutes.
It's no secret that on February 14, Valentine's Day, it is customary to give gifts that symbolize love and tenderness for our other half.
We will make an unusual Valentine's gift for all coffee lovers. I'll tell you how to make a magnet with your own hands in the shape of a heart decorated with coffee beans.
For work we will need:
- thick cardboard
- brown sealant or fabric (burlap)
- Moment-gel glue or glue gun
- magnet
- natural coffee beans
So let's get started:
First, we make a blank for the future magnet from paper and transfer it to cardboard, and then cut it out with scissors along the contour. You can immediately draw a heart on cardboard and cut it out.
Glue a magnet to the back of the cardboard heart blank.
On the front side I covered the workpiece with brown sealant (but you can do without it). Alternatively, the front side of the heart can be painted or glued with fabric, for example, burlap will look beautiful.
When the base is ready, use glue or a glue gun to begin gluing the grains.
Please note that the grains must be glued with the flat side up!
In principle, the fragrant magnet is already ready, but... Now the fun begins - decorating a refrigerator magnet with your own hands!
For decoration, you can use anything: dried orange, lemon, cinnamon sticks, star anise, jute rope, beads, etc.
Decorate the heart the way you like! Glue all decorative elements with glue.
Now the gift magnet is definitely ready! This heart will bring comfort and the alluring aroma of coffee beans, star anise and cinnamon sticks into your home.
I wish you great love,
Mutual, pure, strong and beautiful!
So that it grows in your soul,
And your life became happy!
Let this feeling make you happy
And it charges the soul with positivity!
Appreciate him and take care of yourself!
In love, be brave, kind, patient!