kids, lets make your valentines...

My children and I decided to make magnetic valentines by decorating the backs of dominoes. This is time consuming but not difficult! If you want to try this at home go out and find some dominoes, I suggest the biggest box you can find. These not only are these addictive but if you forget your baking in the color these puff of like psychedelic marshmallow's for sure. I am a space cadet so I figured this out the hard way many times hence the biggest box out there suggestion. Now that you have your dominoes you want to sand the white side to get rid of the shine. I suggest rinsing them off and wiping them dry because you don't want the powdery residue all over your stamps pads. My children had a great time with the next part from lightest to darkest pick out a few colors and rub your sanded dominoes across the surface of your stamp pad you can go for total coverage or not whatever you want. My kids wanted multicolor so we edged the dominoes in different colors or just smeared on some color on other. Again go from light to dark! I suppose one could wait days for these to dry but when it comes to time I'm on a budget. Place your dominoes ink side up on a parchment lined cookie sheet and put in 250 degree oven and stay in your kitchen and check every so often for the shine of the ink to diminish. Allow to cool and then stamp image,use some caution as the dominoes tend to be slick! Reset the ink again in oven at same temp, allow to cool and spray with an acrylic fixative and apply magnet. See easy peasy!