Glass Keepsakes - Part One

Glass Keepsakes
I have been looking for these glass disks forever it seems
and of course they have 'always been there'
So I found them, and wanted to make some magnets and some pins and then I had a light bulb moment---
What if I made a bunch of them - like a theme -
or a dream - or of the family - the vacation -
inspirational verses - my pets
my visual bucket list - stuff like that I would put
on these glass disks, then I would have then sitting on my desk at work
in a nice dish.  Maybe just for me..to remind myself of why I work, what I am working for, motivation to keep the dream alive. Or just enjoyment of my family on little glass disks that I see everyday. Perhaps people would come by, pick one up
ask about it - who, what, where, when and why
Perhaps on the back I would put names, places, dates, and
times - do you get the idea, can you think of your own ideas that you see yourself making?
Do you have a child in college - have pictures of the college, the school logo, a picture of the child in the school sweatshirt....etc
How about pictures of your recent vacation?
Or pictures of things on your bucket list, places you
want to go, things you want to see...
Well now that we have dreams of what we will do
with these little glass gems -- lets get started.

What we need...
glass disks
scissors
hot glue gun/glue sticks
regular glue that dries CLEAR
paper punch (I used a 1 1/2" circle)
fabric (felt) cork, foam, heavy paper for the backing
strip magnet, pin backs
and all the pictures you have sorted out and
want to use

Line up your pictures within your circle punch and punch away

Put glue that dries CLEAR on the flat side of the glass disk

Now smear the glue all over the flat side of the dish,
all the way to the edges, a nice thin coat.
Place the picture on the disk with the picture
face down on the glue, turn the disk over
and make sure the parts of the picture you want
most to show are within the glued disk area
as you will be cutting off the extra from around the outside
of the disk