In our computer age, there are few people who would not have at least one CD or DVD. Just as few people are found who do not have at least one unnecessary disk. Well, most of us, needlewomen, collect a lot of seemingly unnecessary things, including disks.

I offer one of the options for using unnecessary disks and turning them into something you need. Let's decorate the box with our own hands with a mosaic of disks!
To implement this ingenious plan, we will need:
casket;
unnecessary disks (I needed 4 pieces);
sharp scissors;
mosaic pattern;
disk marker;
alcohol solution (wash the marker);
glue (I used PVA);
grout;
paper for gluing the box from the inside.
Brief explanations regarding tools and materials
Instead of such a box (from a thin layer of wood in the shape of a heart), you can even take a cardboard box for the base of the mosaic. The only condition: the cardboard must be quite strong, not go back and forth when opening and closing, otherwise the mosaic glued with your own hands will fly off very quickly.
It is not necessary to cover the box with a mosaic from disks. It will be interesting to look, for example, a frame around a mirror (in the hallway or even in the bathroom).
The frame will increase its area, the mirror will appear larger, but due to the use of reflective discs, it will appear that the frame is also made of mirror pieces.
Discs are better to take not anyhow, any. It is easiest to work with factory-recorded discs. These can be music discs, data discs (for example, those discs that come with various office equipment).


As a rule, such discs have one side with applied pictures and logos, and the other side is just mirror-silver, without any shades. They give a reflection of all the colors of the rainbow.
The discs that we burn ourselves at home (“blanks”) are much less suitable for making mosaics, because they delaminate when cut. Transparent plastic separately, reflective foil is also separate. One without the other is hardly useful for our mosaic, and gluing them together is problematic (but if you really want to, you can, of course, cover the ends with transparent glue or melt over the flame, in the latter case the smell will be on the whole apartment).
Choose your discs well. A different shade or a different reflectivity of some fragments will make it unfavorable to distinguish them from others (unless, of course, this is your idea).
The difficulty of working with all discs is that when cutting they do not listen to our needs and plans at all and crack in the most unpredictable directions (often right across the cut part).


Use strong sharp scissors for cutting. Some advise taking scissors without plastic rings (they will break), but I do not insist on this. I myself cut out the parts from the discs using large IKEA scissors with plastic rings. My scissors were practically unused before, so they are sharp. The scissors still function, only they have become dull pretty much.
To facilitate the work of cutting discs, some advise heating them. It might actually help, but I haven't tested it. It seemed to me that heating disks and then cutting them hot is even more problematic than working with cold ones. But if you are really bad at cutting your disks, you can try to heat them up.
If the work that you intend to cover with your own hands with a mosaic of disks is large enough, stock up on adhesive plaster even before you start cutting fragments from disks. It's the least you can do for your hands. Once you know where your fingers are touching the scissors, seal those areas before blisters form and peel off.
And the last. About the shape of the mosaic fragments. Many cut out all the fragments of the same shape: in the form of squares or small rectangles. Of course, such a mosaic also has the right to exist, but I suggest you go the other way and cut out a mosaic of different sizes and shapes.


Progress
First of all, you need to circle your box on a piece of paper, outline which drawing you want to put on it, draw a drawing more schematically, divide it into simple fragments for cutting out of disks. The simpler the piece is in shape, the easier it will be for you to cut it. It is difficult to cut very long and thin parts (break), rounded concave (crack).
I drew just such a rose with a bud and a leaf for my heart-shaped box:
Many details have been changed. When I couldn't cut some of the fragments even from the fifth time, I made them simply composite.
The cut lines are best circled several times or simply drawn with a rather thick dark felt-tip pen or marker. Then the details can be more easily transferred to the disk, simply by placing the diagram on the window first, and the disk on top.
You need to draw with a marker on the shiny side of the disc.
If nothing is visible through the disk, you will have to come up with other ways to transfer the image to disk. Starting with the use of carbon paper and ending with cutting out each element, applying it to the disk and then tracing it over the disks with a marker.
When the parts are cut out, you can immediately put them on a box (or other surface you decorate with your own hands), away from moving objects (so as not to be turned upside down!).
Gradually, the whole box is laid out with their own hands.
We still trim some details (so that there is a gap for grouting). Now the mosaic needs to be glued. I just took a piece and glued the PVA. You can try sticking tape on the surface of the mosaic, carefully turn the mosaic over, grease all the pieces with glue, put the upside down box on top, press it down, and then turn it over and remove the tape. If the whole picture does not fall apart, it will turn out faster than with my gluing method.


When the mosaic is glued, you need to wipe the entire marker on the discs with which we marked the details with any alcohol solution. Be careful, cotton wool often catches on the corners of the mosaic!
Of course, I covered not only the upper surface of the box with mosaics, but everything was simpler and more prosaic with the side parts. Here I used pieces of the same height, but randomly cut width. In places where the box was curved, I glued narrower parts. In relatively straight places - wider.
Don't feel sorry for the glue. A few of the parts came off of me later, and one was even lost, so I had to cut out a new one.
If you have a glue other than PVA, see if it is suitable for sticking discs (some glues are so strong that they can dissolve the plastic of discs, so they are not suitable for such work).
From the sides, we also wipe the marker with an alcohol solution with our own hands and start grouting. Dilute a little grout and smear it into the box. I did it directly by hand, you can use a rubber spatula or cardboard (so as not to scratch the discs).
When the grout dries, wipe off the excess with a damp sponge or cloth.
Do not be too zealous, make careful movements (a sponge or cloth can still catch on the mosaic).
It remains to decorate only the inner surfaces of the box (except for those that touch each other when closing, so that the box continues to open and close freely) and its lower plane.
For this, I used gift wrapping paper with the image of roses and the same PVA glue.
When the glue dries, the box is ready!
That's all I can tell you about the mosaic technique from unnecessary disks with my own hands. I hope this idea will give a boost to your creative energy, and you will figure out how to implement it! I wish you creative success!

Do you have old, unnecessary CDs lying around at home and you want to throw them away? Take your time with this, you can make a jewelry box out of them, which will serve you for many years.
To make the box, we need:
- 4 CDs.
- Cardboard.
- Pencil.
- Ruler.
- Glue.
- Scissors.
- Textile.
- Needle.
- Threads in the color of the fabric.
- Household sponge made of foam rubber (dishwashing sponge).

Take the fabric, put it face down on the table, put a disk on top and cut out a circle, taking into account allowances of 1.5-2 centimeters. On the allowance, we will make incisions.

Apply glue to the allowance and bend it so that the material sticks to the disk. We do this with all disks. It doesn't matter which side you put the disc on the cloth, it will still not be visible later.

Two disks are put together so that the material is out. Discs can be glued together, or sewn together. I used the second way.

This will be the lid of the box. Let's put it aside for now. Now we need cardboard. Cut off a strip of the desired height from it. This will be the wall of the box. What will be the height depends on you. I made a height of 8 centimeters plus 1.5 centimeters added to connect with the bottom.

Yes, since I didn’t have enough cardboard length, I had to add it. Along the line of the allowance, slightly pressing on the cardboard, we draw with scissors and cut the allowance so that we get triangles. Let's burn them down.

Take the fabric and cut off a strip from it. The width of the strip should be twice as large as the width of the cardboard blank (I have a blank height of 8 centimeters, which means the width of the strip from the fabric came out 16 centimeters), only we do not take into account the allowance, and the length is exactly on the blank.

Now we spread glue on the fabric and glue it on the cardboard. As a result, you should have the fabric glued on both sides of the cardboard blank, except for the allowance.

Now we glue the edges of the workpiece, grease the allowance with glue and glue it to one disk. For reliability, all joints can be stitched with a needle and thread. Now the walls turned out to be uneven, but this can be solved. To do this, I put a bottle of water inside the box and left it there until the glue was completely dry.

We insert the second disk inside the box so that the fabric on it is out, so we close the allowance from the cardboard blank.

Now it's time to decorate the lid. To do this, take a colored foam rubber sponge and cut out 7 petals for a flower from it. The edges of the petals can be slightly cut with scissors, so the flower will look more beautiful.

Glue the petals to the lid.

Now take a sponge of a different color, I took red. Cut off a small rectangle from it and cut a fringe out of it without cutting it to the edge. Roll it into a tube and glue it to the center of the flower, fringe up.

Remember the days when our shelves were crammed with CDs of music, movies, software and backups of your most important files from your computer? If you still haven't thrown away stacks of these CDs, as well as unwanted or used DVDs, the following list of ideas will definitely come in handy!

From unique Christmas ornaments to glamorous bowls and mirrors, this list will show you better ways reusing piles of your old drives.

IMPORTANT: remember that if you try to break the disks with your hands, fragments will splatter from them in all directions (this is personally verified). If you cut with scissors as is, you will be able to separate the discs into pieces, but the shiny coating may crack or peel off the pieces. To get perfectly even pieces, it is advised: electric jigsaw; repeated reuse of the incisor until it passes deep into the layers of the disk, and then gently breaks off along the incision line; slightly heating the disc (under hot water or at the minimum temperature in the oven) before cutting with scissors. You will probably find many more ways on the network - just try them one by one and choose your own.

CAREFULLY: pasting any thing with pieces of disks, remember that it is very easy to cut off about them. Therefore, you should not, for example, attach pieces to a decorative bowl for jewelry or to a guitar without then putting a good layer of one or another transparent coating on top, which will save you from the described problem.

1. Real master artists make magnificent small sculptures from pieces of disks. The base can be, for example, an air-drying plastic or a similar material that does not need to be subjected to high temperatures for hardening. And the fragments from the disks themselves are already attached to the base by indentation and at the same time putting them on glue.

2. "Tiles" cut from discs can lay out a birdbath for suburban area. And again - do not forget about the coating so that the birds do not hurt their paws. It turns out an amazing vintage mosaic, especially if the bath itself is copper or blackened metal.

3. No worse than fragments-pieces with additional decorative elements you get a guitar in the style of a hippie. Here, a light effect of fire was applied to some of the pieces (not for long and at a distance - experiment), as well as a special staining technique.

On an electric guitar, this decoration technique looks no worse:

4. The frame of the mirror, laid out like fragments of shells, fragments of CDs.

And her "cousin" - a photo frame:

5. Artists Alice Morin and Clemens Elyard made a huge installation from solid discs called "Wastelandscape" - "waves of music", which, at the suggestion of the authors, became the embodiment of an oil slick. Inside the Centquatre gallery, Paris as part of the green movement.

Related: George Reidbaugh builds entire sculptures out of discs...

… or how do you like this sea of ​​CDs from Bruce Munro?

Christmas tree outside...

…her colleague…

... or a lizard laid out on the pavement on a single basis and then suspended from the house by cables and ropes.

Ball installation for school/institute library…

... or a pavilion-arch.

6. If you lay out at least a simple pattern of pieces of CDs, as here, and not just stick them randomly, you will get an original and very pretty jewelry box.

7. And this is how you can decorate the most ordinary flower pot with pieces of discs. Black sealant or mastic is placed between the glued "fragments".

8. A coffee table lined with mosaics looks great. In this case, it is better to remove the mosaic under one-piece impact-resistant glass.

And one more table, which, thanks to its small size and white mastic between the CD pieces, despite the brightness, looks more delicate and appropriate in an apartment with a calm decor.

9. Christmas decorations from transparent balls and pieces of CD ...

... from whole discs and fabric, beads and wire ...

Toys and a candlestick in combination with various accessories.

New Year themed triptych on the wall:

10. Decorating with pieces from disks of a cardboard box with a dispenser for paper napkins.

11. Disk holders at the bathroom curtain.

12. The transparent part of the kitchen door or the door to the living room is lined with pieces of discs.

13. Scrapbooking paper is glued onto the discs, which makes brightly colored coasters. Hot pads will not work out of disks, because they will begin to melt even under a knitted layer.

There is a chance with a hot one, if only such an option has:

Or like this: coffee beans are glued onto the disk, which makes it a fragrant plate stand.

14. creative idea- paste over leather, suede or nubuck shoes with fragments of discs. The main thing is to take a good waterproof glue, put the first layer on the shoes and let it dry, and then glue the pieces on top. And the second key point is not to glue the pieces where the leather folds or stretches when you put on and wear shoes. Also, do not glue the pieces on thin straps, because there is a great chance of scratching your legs later.

See the continuation in the second part of the article “How to creatively use unwanted CDs: over 80 ideas. Part 2. ": the creative component of the following ideas increases exponentially with each step!

Sources including:
www.boredpanda.com/recycled-cd-diy
pinterest.com

Hello dear readers! Agree, handmade products literally warm the soul, they cannot be compared with stamped factory gizmos that are created by machines and do not store the warmth of the master’s hands, real handicrafts conceal a particle of the artisan’s soul, which is why handmade is still valued much more than the factory one. Today we want to continue the theme of decorating with corrugated flowers, in the last article we told you, but today we will tell you how to make a box of discs with corrugated roses.

What needs to be prepared:

1. CDs 2 pcs.;
2. black cloth;
3. Scissors;
4. Corrugated paper (preferably black);
5. Polymer glue;
6. Cardboard;
7. Threads;
8. Chalk and pencil;
9. A cap from an old lipstick or something similar;
10. Decorative rivet or small rhinestone 1 pc;
11. Bronze and black paint in cans.

How to make crepe paper roses.

We cut the corrugation. paper into narrow strips, for example, 10 cm long, 3-4 cm wide. We bend the upper edge of the strip inward holding it with a finger, immediately after it we grab a small piece of paper and twist it down, then without removing the finger from the previous winding, grab the next piece of paper and also twist it down. After all these manipulations, we simply fold the strip, forming a rosebud, and so that it does not bloom, we tie it with reverse side thread. Below this information is presented in a video recording and in a photo collage, you can study it.

Here's what we got:

Having prepared a lot of such flowers, we temporarily remove them to the side.

How to make a box of discs.

We measure the circumference of the disk, with a margin it turns out 39 cm. We think over the depth of the future box, we have 6 cm. We measure the resulting data on cardboard - length 39 cm, width 6 cm, and cut out a strip (we did not find such a long cardboard, we had to cut out two strips and glue them together).

We proceed to strengthen the bottom of the future box, cut strips of cardboard 5 cm long, 1 cm wide, bend them to the floor and glue from the inside to the bottom and walls of the product. We leave to dry.

We apply the second disk to the black cloth, create marks with a pencil or chalk, cut out the resulting circle. From another layer of black fabric we cut off a strip 8 cm wide, 39-40 cm long (with a margin, it is better to cut off the excess later). We glue a strip with a smell to the bottom from the inside and overlap on the outer part of the box (this overlap will not be visible behind the flowers). Then we glue the cut out black fabric circle on the inner bottom of the product.

Glue a cap from an old lipstick onto the disk (you can also use a cap from nail polish, a bottle cap, etc.). The lid with a handle for the future box began to change a little, but this is not enough, so let's start gluing the flowers. We apply an abundant layer of polymer glue on the stem of the flower and glue the flower to the outer part of the disk, the next one to it, and so on, until the cover is completely covered with roses. The resulting gaps are filled with smaller flowers. Let the lid dry.

We proceed to the decor of the lower part of the box of disks. We begin to glue the flowers from the bottom and in a circle, by analogy with the lid, when the product is completely covered with roses, we fill in the gaps with small flowers. Leave the product overnight until completely dry.

Let's start painting. We cover the box with a lid and completely cover it with a layer of black paint. By the way, initially it is better to use black corrugated paper, otherwise a lot of paint leaves until the pink tone is painted over, as in our case. When the first layer dries, cover the box with the next layer, and so on until the product is completely painted over. After the paint dries, remove the lid and paint over the remaining areas, as well as the lid itself from the inside. Turn the box upside down and paint the bottom black. After drying the applied layers of paint, we cover the box with a lid, and spray bronze paint from a distance, thanks to the bronzate, our box no longer seems fragile paper, but is perceived as forged metal.

Finally, we glue a strassein or a decorative rivet on the cap of the lid, that's it, the box of discs is ready!

As you can see, the decoration of the box with paper roses is not complicated at all, and the result is a delight. At first glance, you can’t tell that the product is made of paper flowers. So, knowing the technique of correct painting, you can from the usual paper product, to create a spectacular bronze creation with a hint of forging metal.

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In our time of computers and digital technologies, each person has a certain number of CDs that are not needed, but still stored. Many find their original use, these are all kinds of coasters, decoration for cars and many other interesting things. By themselves, such discs are interesting for their sparkling appearance. Today we'll show you how to casket, using unnecessary discs as material for the mosaic.

For work we need:
- casket,
- discs (the number depends on the size of the box 4-6 pieces),
- sharp scissors
- a template on which a mosaic pattern is applied,
- a marker that writes on discs,
- alcohol solution
- PVA glue, grout,
- decorative paper.

As a box, we took a wooden box in the shape of a heart, but any other one, even cardboard, can fit, the main thing is that the cardboard is strong and does not bend, the box should open and close easily, otherwise the mosaic will quickly peel off.

You can also decorate other objects in the house with such a mosaic, for example, a mirror in this design looks very original - shiny mosaic visually increases its size and it seems that the frame itself is mirrored.

It is more convenient to work with factory disks, which are often included with mobile phones or office equipment. Such discs have one side with a logo or pictures with advertising, while the other side is clean, with a mirror-silver tint, in the light it gives reflections of all the colors of the rainbow. Simple ingots are unsuitable for such work, since they delaminate when cut. Yes, and these should be cut very carefully with very sharp scissors, as they can burst in unnecessary places, and then you will have to use more discs. It is also worth looking at the discs for shades so that individual fragments of the mosaic do not stand out from the overall picture.

The work of cutting out individual pieces of the mosaic is quite difficult, so it’s worth pre-gluing the places where the fingers come into contact with the scissors with adhesive tape, otherwise blisters cannot be avoided, choose strong scissors, preferably without plastic rings.

To select a mosaic pattern, we circle the box on a piece of paper and draw a picture on this sheet which we want to post. Then we divide the whole picture into segments, which are small in size and preferably in the form of regular geometric shapes, this is necessary for the convenience of cutting disks. At oval shapes or with bends, they often burst and deteriorate. We got a rose with a bud. Large parts should be divided into several small ones, then it will be easier to cut and look finished product more interesting.

To transfer the pattern to the disc, you can use glass and a disc marker, do not be afraid to draw thick lines on the disks themselves, they will then be well removed with an alcohol solution or nail polish remover. Finished parts can be immediately laid out on the box, just put it on a hard base, so as not to accidentally break the mosaic. Gradually, the whole mosaic is laid out, it is worth watching the seams, they must be uniform, then we will remember them with grout.

When all the pieces are ready, just take glue and glue each piece in its place. PVA will be the easiest, as we said at the beginning, but you can use any glue other than silicate, you just need to try it on a piece first, as some glues can dissolve the thin plastic of the disc. We also paste over the sides of the box, here you can use rectangular strips of different widths.

Carefully wipe the inscriptions with a marker that are left.

It remains to wipe the joints, take a little grout, dilute it and rub the seams.

When it dries, gently sponge wipe the residue off the discs.

Left decorate the inside of the box. To do this, simply paste it inside with gift wrapping paper.