Double Duty

sandy2_2

I have a friend who uses old cds to make birthday 'cards'

mary43

Someone on the ''Special Occassions' forum suggested that as a card for a teenage boy (always difficult to make cards for). I make my own cards and hadn't thought of that and we get enough freebies with the sunday papers.........I'll start hanging onto them now. Decorated with a piccy of latest pop group could change the look altogether.

bellaquidsin

Just about anything can become something else with a little ingenuity. The trick is to think what it is going to be straight away as if it has to be saved whilst you think it merely joins the mountain of other 'might come in usefuls' and eventually you can't get your own house.

So, this thread could prove very useful in giving us lots of tips to save us from being buried under an avalanche of potentially useful items.

Bella.

sandy2_2

mary43 wrote: »

Someone on the ''Special Occassions' forum suggested that as a card for a teenage boy (always difficult to make cards for). I make my own cards and hadn't thought of that and we get enough freebies with the sunday papers.........I'll start hanging onto them now. Decorated with a piccy of latest pop group could change the look altogether.

My friend used those sticky tabs to make the cut out card pictures stand away a bit from the cd, also small springs to make things wobble. I think she based her cd cards on a sort of ´decoupage´effect

stilernin

sandy2 wrote: »

My friend used those sticky tabs to make the cut out card pictures stand away a bit from the cd, also small springs to make things wobble. I think she based her cd cards on a sort of ´decoupage´effect

Slightly 'off subject' but take care if you post a card like this.

It will need a 'large' stamp if the card is too fat to go through the slot that is used to price the post. I got caught for £1.06 when someone sent me a fancy Christmas card.

To add insult to injury it was posted in the second week of Dec and I got the postcard through the door over a week into Jan!!

Aril

This was posted on another forum I belong to so can't take credit for it but looks to have some good stuff on it from the quick peek I've taken at it
www.recyclethis.co.uk
I am very keen on recycling things into new items/purposes and there's been a lot of this going on with the decluttering I've done recently. Today OH has made a contraption from a seedtray [held down with a brick] that he's mounted on an spare watering can with bricks either side to steady it. It's to collect clean rainwater for using in the iron as we've just paid £3.49 for distilled water and the value water we experimented with blocked it. We do have a water butt but I want the water to be fresh for this. It's rather Heath Robinson in appearance but has cost nowt and will be out of sight.
Aril

Seakay

This website has some tried and tested ideas for different objects, and room to add your own if you want to:
http://www.junkk.com/
Check out "ideas".

buxtonrabbitgreen

My Oh stands an old house brick on a samll calor gas ring to warm his workshop up. It stays warm for a long time after the heater is switched off. I use large BBQ tongs to grad things out of the cupboards that I can't reach.

rosieben

sandy2 wrote: »

I have a friend who uses old cds to make birthday 'cards'

old cds make good scrapbook albums or hanging pictures, 3 can be linked so they hang beneath each other (design and print a scrapbook picture to stick on each disc and drill holes in each disc)

plastic CD cases make good HM calendar holders or photo frames (if you open them right out they stand up); you make calendars or design to fit of course, templates are available on the net.

Pink.

Hi Ebenezer,

There's an older thread on alternative uses for everyday objects so I've added your thread to it to keep all the suggestions together.

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