Here's a way to get use of used Christmas cards again. Talk about great recycling!
Save your cards that are mailed to you year to year. Find all the cute and beautiful cards and cut out the parts you like the best. You can cut anything you want out of the cards and use those as gift tags on your presents. After cutting out the images I like, I might use pinking sheers or scrapbooking scissors or just regular scissors. Then I sometimes punch a hole with hole punchers and run a ribbon from my decorative display on the package through the hole and tie it on. The flip side will be for the TO and FROM part.
Note in the photo how nice it looks. Sometimes I just tape them on. Endless possibilities and it saves you from having to buy package tags!
By Michele from Marysville, Ohio
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Don't throw away last year's Christmas cards. Use the pictures on old cards to cut gift tags for this year.
At the end of the holiday season, I pack away all the holiday cards received that year.
Not wanting to throw them away, for years I have recycled them as gift tags on my Christmas gifts.
Each year I save our Christmas cards and use them the next year to decorate the Christmas presents instead of buying bows and name tags.
Don't throw out your greetings cards once the holiday season is past.
Don't throw out your greetings cards once the holiday season is past.
