Mix Tape Remix
Creating mix tapes was an essential part of growing up. Spending hours poring over music, getting the mix just right. Fast-forwarding and rewinding to ensure the perfect timing. Waiting patiently listening to the radio, to record that perfect song (a past time that today’s youth will never no the joys. But that’s a rant for anther time.) And all for that special someone.
And being on the receiving end of a treasured mix tape, you knew that your love would last forever. That is until he started to make a tape for that girl in second period math class.
Ah young, fickle love.
Taking cassettes to the next level, these crafters have taken old tapes and remade them, or remixed them, into some pretty nifty items:
- Over at Craftster, freepepper has created this wonderful wallet (pictured) out of a cassette tape. Instructables has a good tutorial on how to make one of your own.
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- Etsy sellers vortextradingcompany and customink have cassette tape magnets and belt buckles.
- You can also use an old tape for protecting your ipod as MAKE blog has pointed out.
And finally –
- Perhaps the most creative use of a mix tape is this necklace (pictured) from goblingblinggo.
All of the examples are great ways to transform those mix tapes into something either to treasure always or get the great satisfaction of primal destruction and revenge after a break up.
I just have to laugh at this because I used to spend hours making those mix tapes. Except it wasn’t for anyone special…I was just a broke middle-schooler who couldn’t afford to buy cds of all the songs I like!
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[...] I have a confession to make…I’m addicted to music. I guess it comes naturally, since that’s what I spend a lot of my time doing. So I always love it when I stumble across a craft project that uses music-related materials, like Kelly Rand’s recent article on things to do with old cassette tapes. [...]
hey, just wanted to say thanks for mentioning my belt buckles
i love make magazines ipod cover, amazing !
[...] could turn them into something new and different. I know we’ve been over what to do with the physical, plastic case, and there is a fiber made from the tape itself (it makes sound!). But what about [...]
[...] love a good mix tape remix around here. Heck, some of us even knit with used cassettes. Seamstresses, don’t you fret! [...]
[...] love a good mix tape remix around here. Heck, some of us even knit with used cassettes. Seamstresses, don’t you fret! [...]