Make Your Ain Compact Disc Drink Coasters

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  • Difficulty Level: Beginner
  • Completion Time: ii hours

coasters-main Has the digital downloading revolution left you with a massive binder full of scratchy compact discs that you never mind to anymore? Well, it'south loftier time you lot started recycling those babies-- and we're not talking about hanging them from your rearview mirror, either. This fun project will take y'all through the step-by-pace transformation from obsolete media to fine-art drink coaster! Considering seriously, y'all're just using your old CDs to set drinks on, anyhow, correct?

What y'all'll need

You'll demand to gather a few supplies before kickoff work. These materials are what we'll utilize to customize and personalize each potable coaster. In addition to an onetime CD, you'll need:

  • Blackness Felt
  • Contact Newspaper
  • Craft Knife
  • Spray Adhesive
  • Watercolors
  • Watercolor Paper
  • White Charcoal Pencil

1. Starting out

coasters-starting-out To begin, trace out the circumference of two CDs on to a slice of watercolor paper with the white pencil. Inside these circles is where we desire to paint our designs. Later, we'll cutting them out and attach them to our CDs.

two. A splash of color

coasters-splash-color Now it'south time to create our design. If you're an experienced watercolor painter, y'all're limited just by your imagination. Beginners can make cool paintings past sketching out a design in pencil first and then painting over information technology. Don't be agape to experiment! For this project, we chose to paint flowers, but any artwork yous retrieve might make a good coaster tin can be used.

3. Looking sharp

coasters-looking-sharp Next, it's time to cut the paintings out. We found it easiest to put a CD down on the painting and cutting around it using a arts and crafts knife, but scissors work well, too. Simply accept care to cut the circumvolve large enough to cover the elevation of the CD.

4. A mucilaginous spritz

coasters-sticky-spritz After cutting out the watercolor paintings, the next footstep is gluing them to the old CDs. The best CDs to use are unneeded CD-Rs, gratis Internet software that arrived in the post, scratched CDs, or CDs you only don't want anymore. Requite the watercolor newspaper a nice glaze of agglutinative spray and firmly affix them to the CDs.

v. Never felt and then adept

coasters-never-felt The next step is cutting out the felt that volition provide a soft, furniture-friendly underside to our coasters. Simply equally with cutting out our paintings, we constitute information technology easiest to lay the CD down flat on the felt and cutting around information technology using a arts and crafts knife. This ensures that we'll current of air upward with a perfect fit. If you're using scissors instead of a arts and crafts pocketknife, it's probably best to trace the CDs onto the felt using the white pencil before cutting them out.

vi. Spray felt sticky

coasters-spray-felt Next, spray down the felt circles with the adhesive and adhere them to the recycled CDs. This works best with a nice, fifty-fifty glaze of the stuff.

7. Making contact

coasters-make-contact Now it'southward fourth dimension to affix the contact paper to complete our coaster. The contact paper will proceed the paintings safe from clay and harm as well as making them waterproof, an important quality in a beverage coaster! Simply remove the paper bankroll from the articulate plastic sheeting and printing the acme of the coaster downward flat. Next, cutting effectually the CD using the arts and crafts knife or pair of scissors. This will ensure another perfect fit.

eight. Experimentation

Now that y'all've got the hang of it, try different designs out. With enough recycled CDs, y'all can making matching coaster gift sets for your friends! In add-on to watercolor paintings, try using photographs, magazine covers, print-outs from the Web, your kids' fine art, collages, and whatever other paper artwork.