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A Box Out of Greeting Cards - - There is an old saying that "the best things come in small packages." The "best things" might be diamond rings, expensive earrings, a gold charm or a semi-precious stone talisman. All those "small things" certainly are small--and expensive. However, the packages themselves do not have to cost much. In fact, they are often free, especially if we recycle old greeting cards to make them.

A Greeting Card! - - This link will show you how to make a box (about the right size for a gift card or jewelry) out of a birthday/Christmas or any type of greeting card.

Accordion Balls - - These ornaments can be made in any size, and are great for decorating doorways and banisters. Six card circles are great for showing off the designs from the greeting cards, but you can use more for an even fuller-looking ornament.

Block Print Cards - - This page features and demonstrates how to create your own handmade block print greeting card.

Boxes from Greeting Cards - - Take any greeting from last year or leftover cards from this year and transform it into a miniature box.

Christmas Card gift Box - - Reuse those old cards and make them into gift boxes. You'll have less paper waste to throw out and will already have a head start on next year's Christmas wrapping.

Christmas Card gift Box - - It is a shame to throw away those lovely cards we receive for Christmas. Many of them have such beautiful designs but after many years we tend to have too many collected cards and wonder what to do with them all. This recycling craft is one way to reuse them. With just a couple of simple folding lines and a couple of cuts, you can transform your Christmas cards into practical gift boxes that can be used to give small gift s for Christmas.

Classic Memorabilia - - With a little bit of creativity and just a few simple steps, you can easily convert any card with a special meaning to you in to an unforgettable card making craft and keepsake for you or your loved ones. Here is how you do it.

Colorful Coasters - - A great gift idea that makes use of recycled materials found around the home.

Crocheted Greeting Card Bowl - - This guide will teach you how to turn a handful of greeting cards into a beautiful bowl or basket.

Dancer Tag - - The pale yellow color of the tag enhances the soft and pastel ballerina of the vintage label used to decorate this project.

Festive Wreath - - These all-recycled wreaths are great for hanging on the door to greet your visitors.

Fold Origami Boxes - - What do you do with all the beautiful greeting cards you receive at this time of the year? Many people display them, but when the season is over, most of the holiday greetings are thrown in the trash. You can give the cards new life and help save landfill space by reusing them to make origami-style boxes.

Fridge Magnet Clip - - Use your old cards to create stylish magnets for your refrigerator. By adding a paper clip, you can use these magnets to easily hold and display bills, telephone messages, or shopping lists.

Friends Greeting Card - - If you would like to cheer up a friend, this card would be the perfect choice. One can only feel better after receiving a card like this one with its fresh spring colors and motifs. This card makes a great birthday card or all occasion card as well and is quick and easily crafted.

- - This just might be the coolest method for converting an old greeting card into a spanking little gift box!

- - Recycle greeting cards to make free gift boxes suitable for small items such as jewelry or trinkets. Because the artwork on the front of the greeting card becomes the top of the box, no gift wrapping is required.

- - Your child can turn favorite cards she's received into boxes to hold small gift s or treasured trinkets.

- - Don't know what to do with all of your old Cards. Well this is a good way to recycle your old Cards, and make them into gift tags!

Greeting Banners - - Create your own decorative greeting cards from used cards! Draw or stencil large letters on the front of some greeting cards (one letter per card). Use them to make banners in festive phrases.

Greeting Card Beads - - It is a shame to throw away all those greeting cards with their attractive artwork. Now you can use them to make beads that you can add to a children's craft box, use in scrapbooking projects or make jewelry with.

Greeting Card Bookmark - - Create unique bookmarks with pictures cut from old greeting cards. Recycle the greeting cards you have received! Make this great bookmark from old cards.

Greeting Card Box - - Ten year old Joshua VanDelDen from Alberta has a terrific idea. He gives new life to old greeting cards by turning them into functional boxes for treasures, gift s, candies or jewelry. Follow his directions below to create your very own recycled card box.

Greeting Card gift Box - - Don't throw out those old greeting cards! Here is a craft idea for recycling the many lovely, funny, or imaginative holidays, birthday, and other greeting cards that friends, family, and businesses send to one another. These mini-boxes are so easy to construct that even young children can make them with a bit of assistance.

Greeting Card gift Boxes - - gift -giving is one of the greatest pleasures in life, and gift wrapping is just as much fun as giving the gift itself. Handmade wrappings made from fabric, handmade paper and other materials are a great way to personalize a gift for a friend or loved one. gift bags and boxes are great for many reasons. Just pop your gift inside, add a little tissue paper and you're off, and they are reusable in most cases. But did you know that you can actually make your own handmade gift boxes from greeting cards? Read on to find out how!

Greeting Card Lacing Toy - - Recycle the greeting cards you have received! Make this neat lacing card for younger kids.

Greeting Card Ornaments - - Recycle the greeting cards you have received! Make fun Christmas tree ornaments and trim your holiday tree with these simple ornaments..

Greeting Card Placemat - - These decorations can be made from a handful of old greeting cards. Recycle the greeting cards you have received! Make a unique placemat.

Greeting Card Puzzles - - These simple-to-make puzzles will delight your little ones.

Greeting Card Sachet - - You will learn how to make a sweet smelling sachet by recycling an old greeting card and other items in your home. You can give the sachet as a gift , or use it to sweeten your clothing drawers, your closet, or even your car! This can be a good paper project for children.

Greeting Card Storage Box - - Recycle the greeting cards you have received! Use decoupage techniques to create this fun and fancy storage box using greeting cards and a shoe box.

Greeting Card Trinket Box - - This is just a fun little box that you can use to give a small gift like jewelry, or just keep some of your little items in one place. These are also a fun project to do with kids. They don't cost anything because you can use old greeting cards. They also make a cute keepsake if you want to keep a special card, but don't want to just file it away.

Handcrafted Recycled Greeting Cards - - Recycled Love Cards are a fantastic way to put your old greeting cards to good use. We all keep the 20 or so holiday cards you received or maybe last years birthday cards but, do we really ever read them again? Well, maybe you do just before you toss them to make room for this year’s card.

Handmade Collage Greeting Cards - - Create personalized collaged greeting cards like this house and leaf card.

Handmade gift Tags - - Use simple card stock or store-bought tags and basic craft supplies to make your own unique gift tags and cards.

Handmade Greeting Cards - - Cyndi Coon of Tempe, Ariz., demonstrates three whimsical animal designs to try on your handmade cards.

Handmade Holiday Cards - - Make handmade cards this year to hold your warm holiday greetings.

Handmade Placemats - - Create you own custom table settings.

Happy Easter Bunny - - Pink is such a refreshing color for the spring and looks very nice when used in combination with white. This card is crafted within minutes and looks very interesting with the various textures of the different papers.

Heavenly Cards and Invitations! - - Recycle old Valentine's Day cards into new ones.

Hexagon Lidded Card Box - - This is a great way to recycle holiday or any type of greeting cards you get. Consider making one for someone's birthday out of old birthday cards! Or if you get Easter Cards, make one without a lid to hold Easter Eggs. You can also use card stock you print on your computer or rubber stamps on. The idea though is to recycle greeting cards with this project.

Holiday Card Star - - This project works great in January when it's time to take down all the holiday decorations, or anytime if you've saved your cards from years past. Here is something you can make out of all the cards you received. It's a holiday card star! Start with a wall full of cards.

Holiday Fold-Out Greeting Card - - Paige Hill embellishes a holiday fold-out card with a silk poinsettia, a gold heart charm and more.

Luminaries - - I'm always saving my old Christmas cards in hopes of a good craft project. Well, for some reason I got the idea of making them into luminaries today. And as you can see, it worked!

My Heart - - Express your love to your partner with a personal handmade card for Valentine’s Day or any other day! This card is created in a collage effect using different types of papers and elements. It is a great yet effective way to use up rest pieces of materials.

Note Card Bonanza - - Learn how to add an embossed frame to your cards. These note/greeting cards were easy to make but a bit difficult to write specific directions for because it’s a matter of seeing what you might have that you can cut up and put together with what else.

Old Greeting Cards - - It is a shame when you have a pile of old greeting cards that you no longer store. Instead of tossing out your old greeting cards, how about recycling them into new handmade greeting cards? Recycling paper crafts is nothing new and with a little creativity you will be able to make a beautiful new card for a lucky recipient.

Paint Chip Greeting Cards - - This idea for using paint chips to make some adorable greeting cards has definitely made its way into becoming a fun spring craft projects. These cards are perfect to use for a housewarming present, but can also be used for just about any occasion!

Paper Ball Ornament - - A 2-D card becomes a beautiful 3-D ornament! Fold flat to mail or for easy storage.

Placemats from Greeting Cards - - There are various methods of making placemats for your table, but this one is perfect for right after the holidays because you can recycle your greeting cards! These holiday-themed placemats will make a fitting seasonal decoration for next year.

Poetry Tag - - This project uses three different cut outs from a greeting card. You can use a ruler to create square or rectangle tags. For round tags, you can use different sized measuring cups as stencils.

Punch out gift Tags from Greeting Cards - - Spending Thanksgiving weekend with my grandpa I came across my late Mama’s 50+ year stash of greeting cards received. Given permission to cut up any cards I turned some old cards from the exes into a huuuuge stash of awesome little gift tags for all occasions.

Recycle Greeting Cards - Recycle the greeting cards you have received! Make new greeting cards out of the old ones.

Recycle Old Greeting Cards - - It is a shame when you have a pile of old greeting cards that you can no longer store. Instead of tossing out your old greeting cards, how about recycling them into new handmade greeting cards? Recycling paper crafts is nothing new and with a little creativity you will be able to make a beautiful new card for a lucky recipient.

Recycled 3-D Valentine Craft - - Be sweet to your loved ones and the Earth this Valentine’s Day. Turn everyday items around your house into something heartfelt. Show how much you care about the environment by creating recycled cards for your family and friends.

Recycled gift Tags - - Be prepared with fancy, home-made gift tags. Recycle the greeting cards you have received! Make personalized gift tags.

Recycled Greeting Cards - - Transform old greeting cards into new ones! Recycle the greeting cards you have received! Make new greeting cards out of the old ones.

Recycled Lid Ornament - - Making beautiful things with existing materials to make a keepsake ornament.

Recycled Puzzle Piece Earth - - Get ready for Earth Day and don't be puzzled about how to do your part to keep our planet healthy. We have created this recycled puzzle craft to remind you to Reuse, Reduce and Recycle.

Red Roses Bookmarker - - A bookmark perfect for your favorite romance novel. Because of the simplicity of the materials and short time needed to create these, you may want to craft a few more to give as gift s that can be enclosed in birthday cards.

Small gift Box - - Make additional use out of all those holiday and special occasion greeting cards by making small gift boxes out of them. This is a creative way to recycle old greeting cards instead of just tossing them away. This is also a way to wrap something without using additional wrapping paper to put around the box. The greeting card is both the wrapping paper and the box. These small handmade boxes are charming and add an individual touch to gift giving.

Spring Garland - - This easy technique is great for making holiday streamers. For long streamers, use large circles cut from greeting cards. Smaller circles are great for making tree-like ornaments. Cards with raised print are best, but you can use any colorful greeting cards to make these fun spiraling decorations.

Tiny gift Boxes - - These are cute and easy and are the perfect size for a tiny tree ornament or a chocolate truffle.

Twenty Sided Ball Card - - Every once in a while you just have to have a rainy-day project that recycles greeting cards. This finished ball is just over 5 inches (13.5 centimeters) in diameter.

Watering Can Greeting Card - - Your child can sow seeds of love with this Mother's Day or National Teacher Day (May 5th) greeting card. Packed with flower or vegetable seeds, it's a garden in the making (water not included).

What About the Card Backs? - - There's no need to toss the greeting part of your cards into the recycling bin!

What About the Scraps? - - Don't throw away the leftover bits of card after you've cut out circles for placemats and ornaments. You can cut out shapes by hand, or with specialty hole punches. Use them to decorate a wreath or try some of these ideas...

White and Blue Friendship Tag - - Tags are fun to make! Not only can they be used as decorations for all sorts of items such as scrapbook pages and cards, but exchanging tags has also become a hobby amongst crafters. Why not create one for one of your dear friends? There are no rules to making them. Just be creative. Use leftover card and scrapbooking supplies to craft them.

Wonderfully Unique gift Bags - - Have you ever thought of taking two items from Christmas that ordinarily are thrown out after the holidays are over to create a unique and eye catching embellished gift wrap? By simply recycling both a greeting card and gift bag to make a useable and interesting one of a kind embellished gift bag, you'll be doing your part towards recycling and have a custom design of your own.

Wonderfully Unique gift Tags - - You can now recycle those beautiful hard to throw away greeting cards in a variety of ways. For this project we show you how to create a unique and eye catching gift tag that would normally cost a few dollars if purchased in most stores. By simply recycling a greeting card, you'll be doing your part towards recycling and have a custom designed gift tag of your own.

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