DIY tile magnets

I'm officially a DIY-aholic.  This project was inspired by another BDW bride - melmed and her find on style me pretty.

http://www.stylemepretty.com/2009/03/30/diy-coasters/

I loved the idea but thought lugging all those tiles to the Bahamas might get a little heavy.  I marked the project so I can use it in the future as housewarming gifts.  A few weeks later I'm at an art festival and see vendors with similar products - they have the coasters using travertine and photos of Atlanta landmarks.  They also have smaller tiles that look the same but were refrigerator magnets.  So i decided that's what I'm going to do. 

I bought 1 square foot mosaic travertine tile at Home Depot for just under $6.  It consists of 36 2"x 2" tiles on a mesh backing.  I pulled off the mesh backing which came off very easily and cleaned off all the tiles.  It's listed as $7.97 but mine rung up at $5.88.

http://www.homedepot.com/Flooring-Tile-Stone-Tile-Natural-Stone/h_d1/N-5yc1vZar8kZ1z0zizaZ1z11cvn/R-100664320/h_d2/ProductDisplay?langId=-1&storeId=10051&catalogId=10053

At Michael's I bought a bottle of Mod Podge, a foam brush, glue and magnets.  The magnets have to be heavy duty to support the weight of the tile - I bought a roll that was 1 inch wide and 10 feet long (don't need that much but they didn't have anything smaller) and cut pieces to fit.  They come with a sticky back but I glued them because I didn't want to take any chances. 

In Word I created a template for pictures - I made them just under 2x2 so they would fit nicely.  I found some pictures of the resort on-line and used 2 of my favorites and wrote the name underneath.  I cut them with my handy dandy rotary cutter and rounded the edges with my corner punch.  After that I followed the instructions on Style me Pretty except I didn't seal them since they wouldn't be exposed to moisture like coasters.

Here is the finished product - I'll have one of each in the OOT bags.  I also attached the template.

magnets.docx

Those look awesome - wow! I think I might try something like this too! Great work!

these really look professional.  everyone on this site out does themselves with DIY projects.  Can't wait to see what else you come up with

These look awesome! I too have the coasters bookmarked to make for housewarming gifts!

These look great! I can convince myself to buy the tiles since I threw away so much of those when I was an interior Designer so I guess this will stay a "would be nice" idea - although I have some glass tiles left that might be cool to do something with....

wow!  these look really good!  GREAT JOB!  R~

Great idea!

I think I'm going to use this one, but I've got to make 100!

soo creative! Those look Great! Thanks for sharing!

oh man, yet again you have outdone yourself with DIY! your so freakin talented!!!

great work super cool