Please Take This Magnet and Stick It....

To your fridge that is. 

I've completed my second attempt at wedding related DIY projects and I have to say they turned out fabulously! Not to toot my own horn but BEEP-BA-BEEP-BA-BEEP! They were fantastically easy in addition to being fantastically inexpensive.

Aren't they adorable? We couldn't decide on just one picture for our cards so we decided to have three different ones! As we told our guests, if they don't like the one they get then they can just trade with someone else-like Pokemon cards.

I know you're all DYING to know how I made these things, and although it felt like it sucked the life out of me making them it really only took about 8 or 9 hours total to make 40ish cards. It just felt like longer because it was a little boring watching the Cricut cut, over and over again.

Watching Jeff Dunham's Christmas special made the Cricut cutting a little more bearable.

 Fishie Kitty supervised from his perch over by the Christmas tree that we'd just put up, which also makes the BEST kitty toy EVER!...
















 
and FI Fishie vacuumed the apartment, or at least he pretended to.

Meanwhile I ran 45 photos through the Xyron machine to make them into magnets. Which, by the way, is easier said then done-you have to give enough space in between the photos otherwise you wind up with one photo on top of another and then you have to throw both photos out...not that it happened to me or anything, I've just heard it happens to other people-sometimes.
 



After I'd run about a million of them through the xyron machine and wound up with a nice little pile of magnets on the floor...









 It was time to cut them out...I tried using my straight paper cutter first but soon found that the rotary cutter I use for quilting worked MUCH better...

Even FI Fishie decided to help out, after his "vacuuming" of course.

Next it was time to babysit the Cricut and let it do it's thing...although it was boring sitting there watching it cut, I've gotten enough compliments on the cards that it was completely worth it.

 Being the indecisive bride that I am I couldn't decide on one photo or one color so we wound up using 3 different pictures with 4 different colors on the front...making for 12 different combinations.







 Another overlooked detail was the cute little polka dot edge that I meticulously hand punched out with a cute little punch I found at Michael's for 40% off.









We'd budgeted $200 for these cards and by mostly using supplies I already had on hand (xyron machine, hole punch, etc.) I was able to complete the project for a little over $100. The most expensive thing I bought was the refills for my Xyron Machine which were normally priced for $34.99 and I bought all of them on sale for 40% off.

Xyron Magnet Refills	$89.65
Cardstock	$3.98
White Cards	$5.99
Photos	$8.55
Total:	$108.16

Did I make this project harder then it needed to be? Should I have just stuck with 1 photo and 1 color?