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Making STD magnet designs

posted 4 months ago in DIY
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    tcarril2    June 1, 2013   Chicago

    I'm trying to do my own DIY project by making save the date magnets. I'm clueless on how to start. Do you know where I can find templates or better yet how I can custom design my own? Do I need a special type of computer program or is there a website where I can start from scratch and design them? Any suggestions will help as I'm confused on how to get started.

    Thanks!!

     
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    careanne    June 9, 2012   Michigan

    I think vistaprint does magnets...

     
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    KristenGotMarried    May 19, 2012   The Cbus

    You can build your own on Vistaprint for sure, including adding pictures.  I did this from a blank slate and just played around with fonts, colors and layout.

    Making STD magnet designs :  wedding std invitations magnet diy SaveTheDate Magnet 2

     
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    Westwood    September 1, 2012   Wisconsin

    Magnetstreet has templates and such too.

     
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    tcarril2    June 1, 2013   Chicago

    Thank you bees for your suggestions!!

     

     
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    tcarril2    June 1, 2013   Chicago

    @KristenGotMarried:  Your STD are beautiful!

     
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    thursdayschild    May 2012   Port Hueneme, CA

    123 print printed out magnets and they turned out nicely. There's a blank template available on that site as well. They shipped quickly, and shipping costs are included in the price you see.

     
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    langel86    October 27, 2012   Chicago

    im ordering mine from vistaprint- they have the guidelines on their site for printing specifications... im a designer so i made my own... here ya go.....Making STD magnet designs :  wedding std invitations magnet diy Savethedate

     
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    tcarril2    June 1, 2013   Chicago

    @langel86:  They look amazing! You did an awesome job on them!

     

     
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    SarahConnors    June 9, 2012  

    I made my own STD magnets but I went all out DIY and made little wooden ones to go with our rustic/vintage whatever the heck it ends up actually being (lol) VT wedding :)

     
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    tcarril2    June 1, 2013   Chicago

    @SarahConnors:  Do you have pictures? Sounds like a cool idea! How did you make these?

     
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    SarahConnors    June 9, 2012  

    Making STD magnet designs :  wedding std invitations magnet diy DSC04066 @tcarril2:  This is them! :) :) I found a log behind my mom's barn garage, sliced it with a chop saw (with some help from my fave professor), dried the slices out, and then wood burned each one of them. I used Apex Magnets- these super small but super strong magnets I glued to the back with Elmer's All-Purpose glue, and ta-da!!! :) I ended up making about 90 of them, though I only needed about 65-70, and hand delivered as many as I could. They're about 2 to 3 inches wide, less than a centimeter thick- though no two are the same :) I'm in love with them!

     
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    BayStateBride    September 1, 2012   Cow Hampshire (wedding in MA)

    I used Vistaprint for STD magnets. I found a free collage template on the Scrapbooks Etc website. Then I used Adobe Photoshop to add pictures to the template. I saved it as a pdf and uploaded it to the Vistaprint website.

     
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    tcarril2    June 1, 2013   Chicago

    @SarahConnors:  These are beautiful! So unique and creative!

     

     
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    SarahConnors    June 9, 2012  

    @tcarril2:  Aw thank you! I'm an Art major so I literally can't bring myself to pay for things I could easily create myself- and the best part of DIY is being so able to create exactly what you want! I saved a FORTUNE doing these! This coming weekend I'm making the invitations- yep, making from scratch 100 invitations- and I couldn't be more excited! They will end up costing less than 10% what we would pay for something similar from a company or another artist. So worth the time put in!

     

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