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high-tech crafts, low-tech effort by Diana Goodman | 1 2 3
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8. Cards: Get permanent markers, large envelopes (find or create your own), use as really interesting invitations, Valentine's, birthday cards.
Cost | $2 for Sharpie marker
Time | 5 minutes

9. Sun catchers/mobile: For this one, you can choose to glue two CDs back to back or leave the labels showing. You can drill holes or not drill holes. You can hang them one at a time; you can made a multi-CD mobile. Your call. One fun trick, though, is to scratch a pattern into the label side with a nail — this pattern will appear on the shiny side (and look much better than if you try scratching the tough shiny-side plastic). Possible patterns include snowflakes, stars, flowers, happy faces, whatever.
Cost | $0.
Time | 5 minutes.

10. Hardcore furniture décor: Glue CDs to a cheap piece of furniture, covering as much as possible. To cover and protect it evenly, use table top resin (sometimes found at bigger hardware and craft stores...better bets are plastic specialty shops or nautical supply stores). Table top/crafting resin is a thick, sticky goo that hardens into a tough shiny plastic. It can be a bit of a pain to work with (Thought your work surface was even? Guess again! And you don't get a second try!) though the results can be amazing. Mixing in glitter is a great effect, though CDs are so shiny already that they don't really need it.
Cost | $30 for enough resin to give table a thick enough coat.
Time| 2 hours gluing CDs and prepping work area (lots of masking tape to protect the rest of the table), up to 2 days drying time.

Diana Goodman's latest projects involve a Chinese soup can label, a cannibalized prom dress, an electric sander attachment, a Hello Kitty purse and a box of sheet metal screws.

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