What do you do with holiday cards after the season is over?

Question

I make a bookmarks.

Answer 1

I make candles fairly often, and I'll take empty big candle jars, coat the card in wax, and press it against the side. Then I'll do a candle as usual with it. (I just have to be careful to remember who sent what the next year, so I don't give someone their own card on a Christmas candle..)

Answer 2

Planet Ark has a campaign running each year called "Cards for Planet Ark". Hand in all your old cards to be recycled into "Safe" brand toilet paper. The campaign runs from Boxing Day till 31st January. You can hand in the cards at the special boxes at Coles Supermarkets or get Postage paid envelopes at Australia Post Offices.This way you can give a little bit back even after the Christmas Holidays are over.

WHY?
Using 'waste' cards to make packaging leaves trees in the ground where they are a vital part of the environment. Trees can provide habitat for wildlife and they reduce greenhouse gases. They also prevent soil erosion and are the 'lungs' of the Earth, producing oxygen for us to breathe.

Greeting cards and other paper materials are not 'waste' but are 'secondary raw materials' that industries can use to make new products. The cards are recycled and come back as paper packaging. When greeting cards are recycled, a valuable resource that would otherwise end up in landfill, is recovered and made useful again.

Answer 3

I didn't do it this year, but I usually make ornaments out of the really pretty ones. They look really cool. But bookmarks are a good idea!

Answer 4

I have met a lady in the hospital, who was accompanying her husband that was sick while on vacation in Aruba.

The lady's name is Linda Tomey. She taught my daughter and me how to make little gift-boxes from holiday cards.

Just cut the card at the folding and cut both halves in a square.
The bottom half of the box is made out of the plain backside of the card and the upper half is made out of the face of the card.

Thank you Nanny Sue for what you have taught us!

Answer 5

that's a good idea! I've taken some and whre they have a really cute little design and made holiday tags for the next year or incorperated them into my scrapbooking as embelishments or part of the title

Answer 6

I know an older lady that saved one from every year. This past year she gave them as ornaments, my dad's was from 1951! It's kind of a long term goal, but it's pretty cool!

Answer 7

I cut the nice ones up and use them as tags on next years gifts and recycle the rest.

Answer 8

I also use my cards as tags. I spice them up with some glitters. My kids create their own cards with it. They cut the nice once and glue them on coloured paper.

Answer 9

Here is a really cool and simple craft http://www.wikihow.com/Make-a-Christmas-Card-Star

It is a "Christmas Star" and you fold your cherished cards in a really cool way to make it. And then maybe display in years down the road.

Answer 10

Usually toss em out, unless they are really really pretty then I save them, and glue them on stuff like a collage, to decorate hand made banks, etc w/my kids... I did it for my son w/wrestler memorabilia..he loved it..