What do you do with Christmas cards after Christmas?
Do you have any creative ideas for what to do with all those Christmas cards and letters after the holidays? I guess it seems like such a waste to just trash them away. Anyways you can use the pictures and some of the phrases for your scrap booking pages. Sometimes the cards make prettier backdrops than just plane paper or stickers. Christmas cards can be made into postcards if there's no writing on the back of the main picture, or place cards for the table and gift tags. Cards can also be made into ornaments or a basket to hold cards.
You can also made Christmas decoration by getting a piece of poster board, cut out the pretty scenes, lay them out so that they look nice, and decoupage them onto a backing and frame it. Then, when Christmas comes around next year, you could take a framed print off the wall and hang up the one you made that shows the holiday.
Another ways is to cut off the fronts and run them through a paper shredder, the kind that makes long strips. When you have lots of strips, mix them up and glue them to a piece of cardstock in a brick wall like pattern until you have formed an entirely new design. Use a glitter glue pen for mortar. Then you can use paper punches or scissors to cut some simple shapes like triangles “Christmas trees” or circles “tree ornaments”, hearts, gingerbreadmen, and star to decorate the fronts of cards or gift tags for next year. As for the letters and photos, just label them and put them in a small album for you or your children may be glad for the reference source someday.
Another nice thing to do with Christmas cards is recycle them by cutting off the fronts or just part of the image and mounting on folded cardstock or even on construction paper cards with glue, then they could be taken to the local nursing home for the residents to send out, or for the staff to pass out to those who never get any. Homeless shelters might also like to have them that way, or just for cheerful decoration or hanging from an Christmas tree... they could even be attached to a door or something in the shape of a tree or wreath.
It's nice to be creative but the important people who sent you cards may not always be around and the cards can generate good memories.
Do you have any creative ideas for what to do with all those Christmas cards and letters after the holidays? I guess it seems like such a waste to just trash them away. Anyways you can use the pictures and some of the phrases for your scrap booking pages. Sometimes the cards make prettier backdrops than just plane paper or stickers. Christmas cards can be made into postcards if there's no writing on the back of the main picture, or place cards for the table and gift tags. Cards can also be made into ornaments or a basket to hold cards.
You can also made Christmas decoration by getting a piece of poster board, cut out the pretty scenes, lay them out so that they look nice, and decoupage them onto a backing and frame it. Then, when Christmas comes around next year, you could take a framed print off the wall and hang up the one you made that shows the holiday.
Another ways is to cut off the fronts and run them through a paper shredder, the kind that makes long strips. When you have lots of strips, mix them up and glue them to a piece of cardstock in a brick wall like pattern until you have formed an entirely new design. Use a glitter glue pen for mortar. Then you can use paper punches or scissors to cut some simple shapes like triangles “Christmas trees” or circles “tree ornaments”, hearts, gingerbreadmen, and star to decorate the fronts of cards or gift tags for next year. As for the letters and photos, just label them and put them in a small album for you or your children may be glad for the reference source someday.
Another nice thing to do with Christmas cards is recycle them by cutting off the fronts or just part of the image and mounting on folded cardstock or even on construction paper cards with glue, then they could be taken to the local nursing home for the residents to send out, or for the staff to pass out to those who never get any. Homeless shelters might also like to have them that way, or just for cheerful decoration or hanging from an Christmas tree... they could even be attached to a door or something in the shape of a tree or wreath.
It's nice to be creative but the important people who sent you cards may not always be around and the cards can generate good memories.
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