Remember when only a few short years ago everyday there was a new credit card offer in your mail box? Remember when it took a pile of CD’s and hours to install software on your computer?
I started a list of ways to reuse these bits of plastic from scraping the ice off the car window to using them as dividers in my bead drawers. As an artist, I also always see the possibility that I might use those cards or CD’s in an art project. They are just too colorful and shiny to toss away. And I know I’m not the only one. I’ve seen CD’s used as coasters and strung up as a twinkling mobile to chase away the birds. And wasn’t it Martha Stewart that covered the bottom of a swimming pool with credit cards as an ad for one of credit card companies?
Mostly I’m a fiber artist stitching and quilting fabrics and handmade papers so why not a plastic quilt? Here’s my version of Quilting in a Plastic World – credit cards stitched down with colorful pins and embellished with mosaic-style CD’s.
So what do you do with your old credit cards and CD’s?
