Upcycling Christmas Cards
I love receiving Christmas cards. I love the ones with photos of friends throughout the years, of fun cards, personal notes penned inside the pages and those beautiful hand made works of art.
Three cards I wanted to highlight are below. One is a store bought card (deer) but so beautiful. The other two are handmade. I was recently at a new Dollar Tree store that just opened up and thought I’d take a peek at what they had. I found these $1 frames and thought that would be perfect to frame the three cards.
Check out below. Next year these beautiful cards will adorn a fireplace mantel or bathroom wall.
Some other ways you can recycle Christmas cards includes;
- Cut out pieces of the card to make Christmas tags
- Cut the cards into rectangles and then print names of guests. Use as name tents for your Christmas dinner
- Make a beautiful wreath as seen HERE
- Make lovely book marks by cutting them from Christmas cards. Seen HERE.
Warmest Creative Wishes,
6 Comments
Judi
❤️❤️❤️ your up cycling and keeping your special cards special!
artsychick
Love you Judi! Happy 2020!
Don Pelham
I like your idea, but what to do with all those frames?
My hand made cards all go into an old fashion scrapbook … the ones our parents use to ruin all those old photos.
I like to make boxes out of store bought cards. I then put a note or something in the box and return it to the sender, if they are local.
I really like what you do and your enthusiasm for crafting.
Don XOXO
artsychick
Hi Don,
The other thing I do is go get them binded. That’s a great way too to enjoy them. 🙂
Marianne B in AZ
Cheryl,
These are beautiful! I love picture frames and I look at them often. I have a few that I thought I had fun ideas for using. For some reason, I have bought them, I didn’t come home and do anything so creative with them. I seem to get into a creative rut. You sharing what you have made inspires me to get a frame out of my closet and see what I can do with it.
artsychick
Marianne,
What encouraging words. I can’t wait to see! xoxo