Wow has it been a while since my last post! I definitely have a backlog of great ideas to share with you guys, so let's get started. I have the urge to keep everything - including greeting cards. But let's be honest, you pile them into a shoebox and never look at them, and the next time you move you toss them all out anyway! Here's a couple of ways to hang on to them without putting yourself at risk of becoming a hoarder. Bind cards into a book This is what I did with all of the beautiful cards we got for our wedding, and I included my bridal shower cards. I used this fantastic tutorial from tortagialla.com to bind the cards together, with the only alteration being that instead of putting several sheets of paper together to form a "signature", one card is one signature. As long as everything is centered, it'll still look book-like even though your pages will all be different sizes. For cards that are oddly shaped, you can still bind it by taping it onto a folded piece of cardstock that is big enough to bind. This is what the finished product looks like: This would be great for other once-in-a-lifetime occasions: baby showers, graduations, etc. Ornaments What to do with all those gorgeous holiday cards you get every winter? Turn them into ornaments! This tutorial from Martha Stewart takes some time to do, but the end result is totally worth it: I like to strategically place the circles to capture not only the prettiest parts of the front of the card, but also some of the handwritten note on the inside. Use ribbon scraps that coordinate with the colors on the card, too. What about you guys - what do you do with your old greeting cards?? I'd love to hear from you! Finally, we close today with a glamourshot of Casper, courtesy my buddy DMo!
A step-by-step tutorial for saving & displaying your special greeting cards.
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A step-by-step tutorial for saving & displaying your special greeting cards.
We received some many lovely cards for our wedding that I wanted to do something special with them. I don't remember where I first saw the idea to make them into a book but this was one blog I looked at when I decided to do it. I gathered together the cards and picked out the shortest one. The really big cards I put to one side and made a second, thinner book with. I used the smallest one as a template for making the holes to bind the book. I made 5 holes, equally spaced along the fold. I found it easier to put the fold of the card over a rubber and poke my 'pokey tool' (that's really what it was sold as) through the card and into the rubber. I did this for all of the cards, making sure the template card was in the middle of each card, which I was able to eyeball most of the time. Next it was time to sew the cards together. A popular method is coptic stitch but I found this video, which is a slight variation on that stitch, which worked for me. Once I'd stitched two or three cards together I started to get the hang of it, which meant I could put Netflix on to help pass the time. For the book cover I cut the front, back and spine out of mount board and glued them to a piece of fabric, which conveniently matches the colour scheme of our living room. I also sewed a piece of ribbon to the fabric over the spine of the cover which wraps around and can be tied to keep the book shut. I glued the back of the last card to the inside of the back cover, and I'd stitched in a blank piece of paper at the start of the cards to stick to the inside of the front cover. I am so pleased with how this book turned out. I like how it's a streamline solution for keeping the cards and doesn't take up too much space, unlike keeping them in a box or sticking them in a scrapbook. For the book larger book I made with the leftover cards, I added some blank pages at the front and back which I used to stick in mementos from the day, like one of our wedding invitations and our place cards. I've also thought about sticking photos of our guests to the blank sides of the cards, so there's a lot you could do with this book idea.
If you are like me, you get greeting cards for all sorts of occasions. You might have received them for your wedding, baby shower, birthday....the list goes on and on. You may not want to just throw them away, but what do you do with them? Toss them into a box and let them sit there?
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Do you hate throwing your Christmas cards away every year as much as I do? This year I decided to try to come up with some way to preserve our Christmas cards.
A step-by-step tutorial for saving & displaying your special greeting cards.
