Things To Make With Used Greeting Cards

Mailboxes across the USA were stuffed with on all sides of 7.4 billion greeting cards in 2009, breaking down to a sales of 235 cards per moment, according to the Function National Biz interlacing mark. After the thrill of getting, opening and reading the card, it may sit on the shawl for a while. You don't demand to toss gone the personal sentiment, however it starts collecting dust. Save and re-purpose those cards into other uses and grasp their situation with you year-round.

Create paper dolls from any theme greeting card, from holidays to congratulations to birthdays. Double up on your dolls by cutting through both the front and back at the same time. Most paper dolls are simple stick-figure like creations, very little skill or experience is required. Assembly is as quick as tracing the doll shapes and cutting them out.

Interchange a greeting card into a Harnessing with supplies from approximately the crash pad, such as a scissors, ruler or box cutter. Section cards to side as still of the draw from the front as doable or concoct something summary by simply slicing terminated the front. Provided the bottom of the Harnessing has remnants of the man's card greeting, distemper over it with correctional fluid or a coal marker.

Get in the Picture

Push from last year's holiday card to this year's tabletop decoration by re-purposing a greeting into a picture frame. Choose the largest greeting cards for this project. Place a photograph, sketch or drawing in the middle of the card front, with the card front picture side down. Trace around the photo. Pierce the middle of the photo and cut outward, cutting a square or rectangle shape slightly smaller than the photo itself. When the frame is cut, tape the photo to the backside of the card front and the front serves as a decorative border. Options include framing last year's family holiday picture inside received holiday cards or using a collection of birthday cards as decorations for this year's party.

Paper People

It's hard to play with a greeting card, so turn that greeting card into a paper doll.

Keeping the Place

A used greeting card is an paragon and asap design for a Harnessing (or a couple, depending on the amount of the card). Most greeting cards are mythical from thick, sturdy cardboard, absolute for slipping between the pages of a volume without breaking its backbone, on the other hand standing up to life tossed in a bag or piled into a suitcase. Add a little extra personality to the dolls with some markers for facial features and hair, then go "greet" your new card family.