Bubble Beads

I'm absolutely going to do this, possibly right now! yours are very neat looking, by the way!

does hot glue work?

Love the "Oh." comic so simple and cute!

i made these things a few years ago but not by gluing stuff on.. didn't think of that! i painted at the back of these things.. don't have a pic or i would post it!

THAT IS REALLY COOL!!!!

I wanted to amke these, but seeing the little Mew angel ones makes me want to make them even more!

these are great - and all the different versions too... will deffo have to get these beads, thanks for your tute ^.^

I've always loved this idea. When I was younger I painted flowers and such on the backs of some of those and glued them to flat thumb tacks... I'd love to make magnets with some of my old sheet music or vintage road maps of London! XD

These are so sweet - and look fun to make!
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Ooh!! maybe I could somehow make Cameo's or whatever they're called out of these!

Thanks for the idea this is going on my to do list.

May give it a go

fantastic. i have a bajillion of these bead things hanging around. this'll be... i don't know, interesting? now i need some glue...

I love these, I made some too! I found out that by Google Image searching for pictures I want and then copy and pasting them into Word I can totally resize the pictures to exactly right for my bubbles!

Cool idea! I've seen similar ones elsewhere and always had it in the back of my mind to make some too.

Oh I forgot to mention...when making these in bulk, it goes a lot faster if you get a circle paper punch the size of the beads to cut out the circles rather than cutting them out by hand.

Gift idea: Find a piece of scrap metal (make sure the edges aren't sharp!) and stick the magnets to it. Put the whole thing inside a cellophane bag, add a pretty ribbon, and you've got a great (and inexpensive!) gift!

Enjoy!

These make great magnets! I've been using the same technique for years to make magnets. Tip: use a good heavy duty magnet, not the self-adhesive magnet tape stuff.

made them..
love them.
Thanks for the geat idea!

i found glass beads that are use for the bottom of fish tanks and they work great!

Try taking your photos at an angle, that worked well for me.

so, i'm super hooked, and i'm making them with baby pictures and such for the parents and inlaws for x-mas... you have any tips, though, for taking pictures of them? when i take a picture, you can't see the pic inside the bead because it's blurry (i guess because the top of it is domed).

Great craft!! I love it!! I use these beads as tokens in a game I play, and now I can be even more original than I already am.

I live in Scotland and I got mine in Au Naturale - part of International. Look in home stores, I'm sure Ikea was selling them too.

Yeah I do, the angels are cute.

The ones I had are only about the size of a penny. Where do you live? x

I got them in Tesco. x

All Purpose Glue.