It's not that I'm a computer nerd, but old CD's just seem to pile up around
our house. Here are some craft project ideas for recycling them, instead
of throwing them out!
SCRIPS & SCRAPS WREATH
You will need:
- 7 CD's
- Hot glue and white craft glue
- Christmas florals, scraps from other projects, ribbon, etc.
- Acrylic paint - red, green, gold (optional)
 Use
one of the CD's for the center of your wreath. Glue the other CD's around
the edge, overlapping slightly. I used a combination of white glue and hot
glue. If you prefer, you could use any circular form, made of wire or flat
cardboard even.
Paint a design on the CD's if you like. The large wreath here was painted
with red around the outer rims of each CD, gold around the inner rims,
and a squiggle of green in each center. The acrylic paint goes on rather
thin, so I used two coats in some places. It might have worked better
to use oil paint.
Just about anything can be used to decorate your wreath. Use things
that are colorful, sparkle, or just things that please your eye. All the
things on this wreath were scrips and scraps from other projects - bits
of ribbon, pine cones, coiled red chenille... I never throw anything away.
SILK F CD WREATH
 You
will need:
- One gold CD
- Hot glue
- Silk fs / Christmas florals
- Ribbon
This wreath is very simple to do. Take one gold CD and decorate to make
a wreath you can hang on your tree or on a wall. I like to buy silk fs
and Christmas florals on sale and take them apart. This wreath is a combination
of leaves and petals from several different silk fs. Use a wire cutter
to take the f apart and hot glue them in a pretty arrangement on the top
of the CD. Make a small bow from ribbon and glue it to the center of your
leaves/petals. If you like, glue some f buds on top of the bow. Then attach
a piece of ribbon to the back to hang. |
