What to do???

[vanoro11]

I placed an order from Vistaprint for what I thought were business cards...I checked back and I accidentally (my fault) ordered "magnetic" business cards (not what I wanted at all)..now what do I do w/all these magnets. Please help me come up with something I can turn these in to???

Thanking y'all in advance for any ideas or suggestions.

[BillieDee]

Sounds to me like they're a great beginning for refrigerator magnets. You can make them different sizes, too. Glue on colored paper, flowers, beads, and stamp on sentiments. Looks like you've started your stocking stuffers

[MiamiKel4]

Oh bless your heart - sounds like something I did recently with my son's party favor boxes - order 35 thinking they were one but "one" turned out to be a pack of 4! So, yes .... 140 gable gift boxes later .... rofl!

I say decorate them and give them as gifts! Add some cardstock or DSP to the front of them, and add a little notepad to the bottom - maybe like little shopping lists that go on the fridge

Teachers might like them as well - if you have a child(ren) or church, etc, you could print out their name or school/church logo and it would be a nice little thing for the parents or parishners to have to keep handy.

They also stick to the inside of kid's school lockers

Best of luck, hope you let us know what you do with them!

[thechecker]

Just a thought- if you purchased them to hand out, magnetic business cards are a fave
at my house! We use them to hang things on the fridge...which keeps the business name handy also.

Anne

[ocbdrb]

If you have kids, you can scan their artwork and print it out the size of the magnets and put them on your fridge. Makes the fridge a lot less cluttered and you can add name and dates to the scanned image.

[ocbdrb]

You can use them for your family Chrismas pic. Print them out and send to family. I love putting pics on the fridge.

[JoyceL]

If your purpose of buying the business cardstock is to make business cards then the magnetic ones serves the same purpose. Usually pple throw away or misplace business cards but if u were to give a magnetic one probably they will stick it on the fridge and be reminded of your business.

[cardmaker2]

I save fridge magnets on purpose to attach to the back of my workshop invitations. My invited guests put up card on the fridge and it stays in their memory. I use my paper cutter to cut them down neatly.

Another thing is you can make a card with a magnetic book mark in it. Let me see if I can find a sample. Magnetic Bookmarks by pmb1121 - Cards and Paper Crafts at Splitcoaststampers bookmark This is as good as any; there are a lot under magnetic bookmark as a gallery search.

[Barbara Jay]

If you don't want to use them as refrigerator magnets with your name or pictures then use double sided tape and put them in CD cases to store your Nesties
I have used several business card magnets I was given this way

[cdjkssss]

When my kids were younger (kindergarten-ish), I printed up all of the Dolch sight words, along with some family words (names of relatives and friends, our address, etc.) and other useful words and then glued them onto business card magnets and cut them up into individual words. This big collection of words lived on the inside of our metal front door for a long time. The kids loved making sentences with them as they learned to read.

[pjw2855]

Magnetic business cards are even better than just plain paper ones. Just hand/send them out as you would have the plain paper ones. Much better advertisement than paper. The reasons given below explain very well.

Patti

[ceramics]

Looks like you have a ton of ideas already! If you don't want to give them out to customers, etc (which are great in their original use), I love the idea of decorating them as fun refrigerator magnets. adhere cardstock and run them through the big shot to make great shapes - even snowflakes and fun shapes for the holidays!

Whatever you decide you can't go wrong. I have made quite a few magnet book marks!

[vanoro11]

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Originally Posted by vanoro11

I placed an order from Vistaprint for what I thought were business cards...I checked back and I accidentally (my fault) ordered "magnetic" business cards (not what I wanted at all)..now what do I do w/all these magnets. Please help me come up with something I can turn these in to???

Thanking y'all in advance for any ideas or suggestions.

Just read an e-mail from Vistaprint regarding my inquiry about accidentally ordering "magnetic business cards"...they are sending me "regular business cards" at no charge...great customer service and satisfaction. Now on to creating "something" with those magnets!!!

Once again...thanks for the great ideas!!!