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We were in need of business cards to give out and the Office Depot business card packet wasn’t worthy, so we did TV screen business cards.  Check out the video above to see the  upcycled/reclaimed process and listen to some funky beats.

If you want to reproduce this process you first need to find a TV screen out of a projection TV.  We found ours at the local recycling center in the e-waste pile.

The biggest problem we had was finding a stencil material that was durable and wouldn’t wrinkle or warp after repeated use.  Don’t use frisket film from Michael’s that was a big mistake unless you plan on only using it a couple times.  We couldn’t find the easy cut plastic for stenciling so we just used a garage sale sign from Lowe’s.  The paint was reclaimed and pulled from the recycling center paint pile.  A hobby shop will tell you not to use latex paint with an airbrush gun, but we did a 50/50 mix of water and paint and it only clogged up once and was easy to clean out.

TV screen material produces a holographic affect when you paint on two different sides.

From these two pictures you can tell how it changes from looking at it straight on or from an angle.

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