Niamh here from down under! It's been incredibly cold down here for the last week or two, and our heater has broken, so working in my studio was not possible. However - to thank the people who came to fix the heater (who were fascinated by the different art in my studio where they had to fix the heater) I made this set of magnets for their office. 
The base was some canvas magnets I picked up cheap at my local K-Mart, but you could easily cover an old advertising magnet with canvas tape to get the same results. I painted my favourite colour combo for the background, mixing pinks, yellows and oranges to get a warm overall colour. 
To add texture to the background I used Random circles stencil and Kelp Forest stencils in the same warm colours over the top. This added subtle patterning to the background and softened the harsher lines where the colours meet.
Next I stencilled a strong contrasting colour to pop against the background, in this case turquoise. I used the circle line mask. This helped to make the background really quirky, so much so, I changed my orginal idea to add collage instead. 
To finish off the magnets I added these quirky collage images from Collage Soup and some snarky sayings from Natalie May. I'm a sucker for big eyes and crazy animals with hats!!! You could seal over the top with a gel medium or varnish, but I just left these as is and they have been pretty sturdy. And they were very well received by the recipients. Plus - more importantly, I got heat again!!!!
Hope you try making your own cute collaged magnets - so much fun, and such an easy way to display your art.
Happy Creating
Niamh
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