How To Make Glass Glitter Magnets

Supplies needed to make your own glitter glass magnets:

• Flat glass marbles (or you can get a bag of them at the Dollar Tree for $1.)
• Nail polish that has a lot of glitter in it
• Rare Earth Magnets
• Liquid Fusion Urethane Adhesive

To make your own glitter glass magnet, start by picking out your favorite glittery nail polish and put on a generous coat on the flat side of the glass gem. I advise letting that fully dry overnight before you glue on your magnet.

Once your nail polish has fully dried, then add a tiny dab of this Liquid Fusion Urethane Adhesive on top of the nail polish.

Gently place one small rare earth magnet onto the glue. Let this sit over night until it is full dry before you attach this to a magnetic surface.

I like to make these in batches at a time – I’ll put nail polish on around 30 glass gems, and then glue on the rare earth magnets all in one batch.

The rare earth magnets are so strong that you need to keep each magnet at least 6 inches away from the other magnet, or they will attract to each other and not dry onto the glass gem. They are a bit tricky to work with when you first try them. It will get easier with time to get used to the small and powerful little magnets!

You read that I like to make “batches” of these – so you may wonder what I do with all of the glitter glass magnets that I make?!

I actually sell these in sets in my Handmade Amazon Shop called  Magnet Menagerie!!

My shop includes a variety of decorative refrigerator magnets – not just glitter glass magnets. My number one seller are actually these  butterfly magnets. 

I also use these magnets for these DIY magnetic boards to hold on laminated inspirational messages. You can either make your own magnet board, or check out the ones I have for sale over at Magnet Menagerie.