Materials
- Color prints of vintage Halloween postcards. Either select a variety or one great image. Depending on the magnet style you go with, the images (or magnets) may have to be cropped to fit.
- Sources - find online (highest resolution possible), right-click and save to your hard-drive (e.g. Antique Halloween e-Cards). You can also buy books of reproduction postcards (e.g. Old-Fashioned Halloween Cards: 24 Cards
) -- since this is for personal use, you should be able to copy a couple and reduce the image size.
- Resize in whatever way works best for you, depending on which magnet style you decide to go with. If you don't have access to any photo-editing software, I can recommend www.picnick.com. It's free and you don't even have to register. (I did register for the most basic access and have never received any spam.)
- Magnets
- Business-card-sized magnets are, to the best of my knowledge, the thickest and would actually hold a piece of paper on your fridge. Buy a package at the office supply store or collect actual business magnets and cover up image w/ your own! If you go this route, the existing vintage images will have to be trimmed a bit because the proportion is slightly off (or you could trim a bit off the magnet to keep the image as-is).
- Skip the glue and buy printable sheets of perforated cards (Avery Ink Jet Magnetic Business Cards
) or magnet sheets (Avery® Magnet Sheets
). If you go with the full-size magnetic sheets, you can keep the cards' original proportions; however, they are very thin and would only serve as a decoration. (I haven't used the perforated magnetic cards so I don't know how thick they are.)
- Glue stick or rubber cement
- Scissors or Paper cutter
- Cut out images
- Glue to magnets
- Package (think cellophane sucker wrappers from the cake decorating section)
- Give (make sure you keep one for yourself!)
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