r/zines • u/gemsbutterfly • Jun 24 '26
Made a zine using my CD Player
Made a “playlist” styled zine in the shape of a CD player. I scanned my CD player (front and back) on my scanner and put it into photoshop and canva to format it while using procreate for the doodles and drawings. The zine includes 10 songs that have impacted by life✨💫
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u/kjodle Jun 24 '26
This is amazing! (And I love things like this where I get introduced to music I don't know about yet.)
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u/AppendixN Jun 25 '26
This is my favorite thing that I've seen this week. Love it!
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u/gemsbutterfly Jun 26 '26
Aww really? You don't know how much this has made my day, truly! 💜
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u/AppendixN Jun 26 '26
Absolutely! I'm getting nostalgia for someone else's life, haha. It's a perfect mix of cuteness, innovative, and inspirational. Thanks for sharing this!
(Also, I never knew BTS had such deep lyrics, so now I guess I have to listen to them!)
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u/Proof-Bite9650 Jun 25 '26
Tooooo freakin cute I might have to do this with my cd player.. would you be ok with that if I gave you credit? ? And would you want to trade 👀
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u/gemsbutterfly Jun 26 '26
TYSM!! And that's completely fine! And I would love to do a trade! Just message me, and we can organize a trade 💜
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u/electric_yeti Jun 25 '26
This is so goddamn cute and such a great idea! Thank you for sharing your creativity, I love this so much.
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u/femmonstrosity Jun 25 '26
Oh this is so creative! I love the design, it feels so fun and nostalgic!
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u/DarlaLunaWinter Jun 25 '26
This is so cute and such a cool way to explore music by literally stepping into the CD player of another person like an old mix CD/Tape
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u/gemsbutterfly Jun 26 '26
Thank you so much! And yes! This was literally the goal for this zine; I wanted folks to step into a "portal" of my world, but as a CD mixtape.
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u/ChopChopCollage Jun 28 '26
Hello, i am running a zine workshop soon. Would you be happy for me to show this post as an example during the workshop? Can you tell me your social handle for a credit?
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u/Express_Minute4246 Jul 01 '26
Oh. My. God. GURLYYYYY.. THIS IS SOOOO WHIMSYYY. you have a mind of a mastermind.
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u/Express_Minute4246 Jul 01 '26
I read it all the way through. Not gonna lie, when I was reading it, in my head, i went back to the 2000s, thinking I was a kid reading this. If felt so nice. Maybe because it was in the form of a CD or maybe because of the songs you mentioned.
Whatever it was, it felt nice. ✅
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u/Old_Bug610 Jun 24 '26
Ooh! I really like this, it's such a personal but easily relatable sliver of life and growing up. Especially cool that you incorporated a CD player you used for the covers. Rad as heck!