Several years ago, I came up with a way to reuse the Christmas cards that I get from family and friends. I transform them into gift tags to be used the following year.
Materials needed:
Christmas cards
a large paper punch in a design of your choice (I got mine from Michael's using a 50% off coupon)
scissors
single hole punch
Procedure:
Go through your cards and select the ones that have a portion about the same size as your punch that would make a good graphic for a gift tag.
At the edges of the card, mark the approximate center of this graphic. Use these marks to line up with the center of the punch. I marked my center with two lines on the punch, one to the left and one below.
Punch out the graphic.
Use a single hole punch to punch a hole in the new gift tag. You can attach the gift tag with ribbon. Alternatively, you can simply tape the gift tag onto the gift.
Here are the gift tags I made with this year's cards. Not all of them came out exactly like I wanted, but I think they are cute nonetheless.
I love this! I keep the front of the card to put in picture frames for the next year. I'll have to save the old cards when I trade them out with the ones we got this year.
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