Make your own fridge magnets in hand lettering style

Statement magnets to spice up your fridge

DIY fridge magnets can help you give your fridge a truly unique flair. It’s easy with handy magnetic sheets! Magnetic sheets have paper on one side that can be decorated, coloured in and cut into your desired shape with scissors. The edding 1340 brushpen and the Brushpen Colour Mixer will help you to create wonderful magnets featuring sentiments in beautiful colour gradients. Whether you use uppercase or lowercase lettering, hatching, embellishments or stars – there are no limits when designing your magnets! Once you’ve finished each section, cut them out and arrange them as you wish on the fridge door. The best part? You can always rearrange, change or add to your chosen message. In our example, we chose ‘You are the gin to my tonic’.

Categories: Kitchen
Hand lettering
Products: Fibre and felt pens
Materials: Paper, carton and cardboard
Difficulty: Easy peasy
Downloads: Images (ZIP)

Step-by-step

Step 1

It’s really easy to mix colours with the edding 1340. For each gradient, you’ll need two brushpens. For the pink-yellow gradient, for instance, add the pink pen to the top of the Colour Mixer and the yellow to the bottom so that the tips touch. Hold the Colour Mixer vertically and wait for 1–2 seconds.

Step 2

Once the yellow pen has absorbed the pink shade, you can start to create your gradient. Your brush strokes will start out as bold pink and gradually change into yellow, as in the words ‘gin’ and ‘tonic’. You can mix together any colours you want using the Brushpen Colour Mixer. You won’t believe how many incredible colour combinations you can come up with!

Step 3

For the remaining words, we used a black pen. You could use different writing styles for your lettering, whether using cursive text or block capitals, narrower or wider letters. Try experimenting with different techniques. Once you’ve finished your design, cut out the words and remove the film from the back of the sheet.