Uses for old christmas cards. I have lots of beautiful ones.

scrap book,collage,frame

I found this on the net for you:

http://www.goodhousekeeping.com/home/craft-ideas/how-to/gmp1022/greeting-card-crafts/

I use a 3" round punch to cut pretty discs out of my favorite cards. I then use them to make other cards, gift tags, ornaments, and also to give my grandkids fun craft projects to do.

Some kids love to make ornaments with them. You can use canning lid rims, the little rings you use for small cross stitch projects, popsicle stick frames of different shapes, just to name a few. You can keep a few for your tree and some for their tree, and they can also give them for home made gifts. I still have the one my oldest made in kindergarten and he is thirty-four years old. Make sure they put their name and year made on them.

I love the gift tag idea! Trace a shape, cut it out of the card, punch a hole and run string, yarn, ribbon or raffia through it. Genius!

Check on amazon.com or michaels.

You should be able to get it at Michaels, Joanns Fabrics or Hobby Lobby. Have fun!

Tags for xmas presents

Make small boxes out of your Christmas Cards. My MIL showed me how to do this a long time ago. Check this out: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YQtee_BoQH0

I choose the ones with the prettiest front picture or the prettiest inside writing and then I frame them and set them all over the house. They make very pretty Christmas decorations.

I remember making gift tags and gift boxes...brings back memories. My Mother's friend used to discard the greeting and would keep the cover, and turn the back into postcards. You could decoupage a tray with them.

p.s. I just remembered another use...When I was in elementary school, we made Christmas placemats. I think we glued the cards onto cardboard like a collage, and then the teacher laminated them. I suppose you could put Mod Podge on top, or clear adhesive Con-Tact paper.

I cut them up and make them into gift tags if there is no writing on the back.

Christmas cards are a treasure of a resource for elementary school teachers.

For anyone out there who has cards, do not throw them away.

Donate to local schools, especially those located in less advantaged neighbourhoods. More often than a person would think, teachers are having to pay for arts and crafts materials out of their own pockets just because there is no budget in schools for these resources.