recycle the front of holiday cards received last year, to make new Christmas/Holiday post cards to send to friends and family This Year.
Just cut off top cover, write on back and send post card rate;-)

Or use them as gift tags.
Or cut out parts for tags or to recreate your own card on blank cardstock.
Or cut out part of the picture (santa, snowman etc) add glitter punch a hole and hang (like a victorian style) ornament. Use a bunch as a garland.
Or if the back is already written on, glue it to the top of a package, 'frame' it with glitter, ribbon, or cotton(snow effect)

Great ideas, you two!

Good ideas. I always just save my cards. I have stacks and stacks of cards from the years.

Me too, Triss
The very special I save...some people are gone,and I hold their cards dear. Yet, The certain few I recycle..do not get me wrong I value all cards I receive.:-)

i thought of copying my special cards on that iron on paper. and makin a christmas card quilt.,im still working on ideas,

Some of the really nice ones that I receive get matted and framed and set around the house as holiday accents.

Cindy posted one last year..
about using them as a tiny gift box...
Where is that post???
That was quite the clever idea~~

Me too! I save every single card I get....by the time I'm old I'll have a room full to the ceiling of cards if I don't do something with them...good ideas!

Tiny Gift Box

Awesome, Cindy!! Another project for Summer and I!

Since I am an avid reader, I cut special strips through the middle of the main picture, or cut of beautiful borders and they serve me as book markers. I have a box full! That way I use them and see them all year long.
I have used them also as gift tags, but I really like most of your ideas. So now I have a few more things I can do with them!! Thanks

Those are great idea's Shirley...
I love the book mark suggestions..
*then if they get lost or a wee~bit bent
~~~>which around my house is not hard to do,
then you can cut yourself a new one and not fret that you spent alot of money on it..

**My mom uses' her cards, for grocery shopping
lists.. she says she gets so many, and hates to
throw them away, and then use another piece of paper for her g~lists, so, she started doing that about 40 years ago..**
*Can you just imagine how many trees' she's saved doing that*

Just a ton of super ideas here
I must say Cindy,That gift box is very cleaver!Cool idea..You should have an informercial...just 3 easy payments of $9.99
Very creative, I am going to do that!and pass along to a few..good one!

cleaver...... I did mean clever!

Last year I used up all my old christmas cards.

Here's what I did ......pasted all my seeds swapping into them.....it was double protection all around....Cut the card down to fit the new envelope and that was it ....All gone.

I like to look at them for a while yet.. Someone sent me one from Santa..........I know not yet who......
It was in Pennsylvania and our county.. So it was either a friend or relative..

Still waiting for them to mess up.

dodge ......hee hee hee