I made a homemade stencil for the one in pic shown below.
Here is the supplies you need:
1. Clear Glass stones for the magnets (Hobby Lobby and Dollar Tree, 1" or more in diameter) Amazon?
2. Lamenting Paper, to make the stencil
3. Scissors to Cut out stencil
4. Fine ink pen or paint marker
5. Clear Polish with Silver Glitter in the polish (Dollar Tree).
6. White Polish
7. White acrylic paint
8. Strong 5/8" disc Magnet ( I got mine from Amazon).
10. Super Glue to glue down the magnet on back of stone (or other glue that will work on glass)
1. clean the stone with some alcohol and when dry apply a coat of some clear silver glitter polish and let it dry.
2. I took some laminating paper and cut out a small square large enough to trace a stone on. I traced around the stone.
3. Start cutting out the circle, but don't go completely around, but cut down to one of the corners of the square and cut completely off the square and make a tab, cutting back down to the circle and go the rest of the way around the circle cutting it completely out; by doing this, you will have a tab to work with to make it easy to peel the circular stencil off also to grip the stencil when placing it on the stone..
4. Now peel the sticky side up and away from the paper side of your stencil at the tab you just made. Then place a long strip of paper across the peeled up tab between the sticky part and paper part extending outside the circle, pressing it back together, you will use this tab to peel the stencil off the paper side and gripping the stencil when placing on the stone.
5. Fold the circular cutout in half. If your circular cutout is oblong, decide whether you want the heart to be on the stone on the tall side or the wide side and fold accordingly.
6. Now you want to draw a 1/2 heart shape on the circle midways of the cutout. If you are real good at getting the hear drawn in the middle of the circular cutout and making a nice shaped heart, go ahead and free hand and draw your 1/2 heart aiming to center it in the circle and then cut it out. Unfold the circle and you will have a cut out heart stencil. *(Now if you are not good at doing this so free handed, like me, I took another smaller square piece of thick paper and folded it in half and cut out a heart. You can practice doing it several times to get it shaped the way you want it doing this way. Then place the folded heart onto the circular stencil trying to center it, lining up the straight edge of the heart onto the straight edge of the stencil centering it. You decide how big you want the heart to be, but you want enough outer edge of the heart to be able to be decorated with glitter.
7. Then trace around the little heart and cut out the heart where you traced. *(Keep the heart that is cut out and the smaller heart you made, and you can use for another stone the same size.). Unfold the stencil.
8. Before placing the stencil onto the stone, in order to make it easier to place the stencil centered on the stone, take a fine ink pen or paint pen and trace around the outer edge of the heart on the plastic part, not the paper side of the cutout heart on your stencil.
9. Then I peeled the stencil off by peeling it off where the tab is. Place the stencil centered onto the stone; because you outlined the heart with ink or paint pen, you can see the heart easier, due to the stencil being clear and the stone being clear. Press down well to stick to stone. If you mess up, you can unpeel and try it again or as many times you need. Make sure there is no wrinkles in the stencil.
10. I took Clear Nail Polish with Silver Glitter and coated the cut-out heart area, don't make it too glittery, you want to see the red come through when you paint it on. Let that dry. Now take red acrylic paint and paint the cutout heart area with one coat of paint. When the paint is dry, put another layer of paint on the area again. Now let it dry overnight, so a clean cut of the heart is more likely to happen when peeling off the stencil.
11. Now remove the stencil, very carefully; start at the point of the heart and peel slowly all the around heart. If you don't get a clean cut, you may have brushed with the red paint too heavily. Finish decorating it as you wish, around the heart. The one in the pic I brushed some of the silver glitter polish around the heart, and then sprinkled some additional fine silver glitter on so it would stick. Then let it dry. Then I took some white polish over the whole stone and let it dry. My white polish just was not covering it well. So I brushed it with some white acrylic paint. After that was dry, I brushed more white finger nail polish on it and let it dry. Then put one more coat of the white polish on and let it dry. The polish gives it smooth glossy finish.
12. The pic looks like there is black specs, but it is silver. I then super glued a strong disc magnet to the back of the stone, I got from Amazon.
I hope this idea blesses others! God Bless!
