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Save Your Season's Greetings

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The holiday season is upon us yet again, and soon your mailbox will be flooded with well wishes from your family, friends, neighbors and anyone else you know who shows their holiday spirit in the form of greeting cards. So, what do I mean, save your seasons greetings? Collect them, display them, honor them and then recycle them.

Ideas For This Season

• Use decorative ribbon and a dab of glue to connect your cards in a series of streams down a wall, or to dress up the refrigerator.
• Dress up your Christmas Tree by tacking loops of gold thread at the tops and hanging the cards on your tree.
• Place the cards on sheets of colorful or embellished posterboard using double faced tape and display them on a wall, creating a sort of "greeting card quilt".
• Set the cards around on tables or fan them coffee table style like magazines for others to browse through, or you to look over in quiet warm indoor moments while it's cold outside.

Ideas for Recycling

• Bundle up cards with a rubber band after the season, and place them in a shoebox labeled with the year and holiday for easy finding when you have an idea for a craft paper project that needs seasonal images.
• Use the images to embellish greeting cards for the following years holiday season, however be sure that you don't send the same image on handmade card that you received from someone the previous year.
• Make a greeting card for a crafty friend who also uses past year images on their own greeting cards. Make the card out of one they sent, and see just how many years the two of you can use the same image in new and creative ways back and forth.
• Let your children make Christmas ornaments using the images and phrases cut from greeting cards and pasting them onto cardboard for a stronger background, and using ribbon, yarn or thread to make hangers to place them on the tree.
• Use the images to make a seasonal collage which you can laminate and place on your door outside instead of a wreath.
• Use various paper punches to make confetti from the greeting cards.
• Shred up colorful sections of the greeting cards and use them in making hand made papers with added texture and color.
• Make a Christmas Tree ornament using a greeting card you received from someone, adding your own embellishments and mail it back to them after Thanksgiving with a note thanking them again for their thoughts of you and yours the previous season.

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