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How To: Make Album Cover Wall Organizers

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Funky album covers find new life in this creative and incredibly simple how-to from Paper and Stitch. Since album covers are already constructed as sleeves, the only materials necessary to turn them into a totally flat but generously sized landing strip pocket are a pair of scissors and foam mounting squares.

 
 
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We really appreciate this idea, because it can feel sacrilegious to recycle old album covers, or pass up a great one at the thrift store because framing would be too done.

Check out the how-to on Paper and Stitch.

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It could also be sacrilegious to cut them up!

posted by Ana on September 9th 2008 at 1:35pm
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They're not even! This is the worst idea since fringing a bear.

posted by K T G on September 9th 2008 at 1:56pm
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YIKES. Any that look good enough to display should not be cut, IMO

Besides, vinyl is making a huge comeback. Amazon even has a vinyl store.

posted by ohjodi on September 9th 2008 at 2:47pm
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Great idea. Time to get rid of those old album sleeves.

posted by hp01 on September 9th 2008 at 3:05pm
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Vinyl still sounds like *ss. Nice to see the sleeves being put to good use - big album art was the only good thing we lost in the transition to the CD.

posted by sunspot42 on September 9th 2008 at 6:15pm
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"This is the worst idea since fringing a bear."

Hilarious. But I secretly like it (the album covers, not the fringed pelt)...I think.

posted by madsarah on September 9th 2008 at 6:40pm
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wait what? cd's sound better than vinyl?!

Not on this planet

posted by Ana on September 9th 2008 at 9:23pm
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i love this. i buy and love listening to vinyl, but buying some crappy old kitschy albums from the goodwill store up the street and turning them into storage is AWESOME. mormon tabernacle choir for 25 cents, here i come!

posted by brookejoy on September 9th 2008 at 9:25pm
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Wow, I think that's the first time I've heard someone praise CDs over vinyl.

posted by jamiealyse on September 9th 2008 at 9:48pm
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Oh the horror!

posted by suzy8track on September 10th 2008 at 7:05am
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how very, very sad, sunspot42.

posted by loislane on September 10th 2008 at 10:12am
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