By Noreen Doll. A great way to store your craft bits and pieces is a paper arts storage album. You can find all kinds and sizes of photo albums, and their clear plastic pages are perfect for storing craft parts while keeping them from being bent or torn. The flower picture on the front of [...]
By Noreen Doll. Create a free cereal box magazine holder. When you’ve been crafting for a while you start to accumulate magazines, and eventually you need a place to keep them. Recycling your cereal boxes to make magazine files helps you be green as well as creative. And it’s a great way to store and [...]
By Noreen Doll. Sewing cards from greeting cards are easy to make and fun for kids to use. To make these, you can use your old Christmas or birthday cards, and shoe laces you can find at the Dollar Store. Look for pictures that will interest and delight children, such as animals, snowmen, or Santa, [...]
By Noreen Doll. Recycle your foam containers into these fun DIY foam flyers. These flyers are fun for kids of all ages, and what a great way to use your recyclables! You can use the top of a foam egg carton, the foam take-out containers, or the foam that fruits and veggies come packed on. [...]
By Noreen Doll. Many gifts this year will come packaged in plastic and most of it is either recycled or thrown in the trash. Here are some great ideas for recycling the plastic. Carefully cut away the curved parts and save all the flat plastic pieces. These edges are razor sharp, so handle very carefully. [...]
By Noreen Doll. Make folded tags from Christmas cards to recycle your saved stash of cards. Or buy boxes of deeply discounted cards just before or after Christmas. Usually when you see recycled Christmas card tags, they are flat and pinked around the edges, then layered with 2 or 3 other paper shapes. Here is [...]
Using Christmas craft ideas is a favorite pastime. I have always particularly loved the Christmas season. Spending time with extended family, crafting with my kids and grandkids, and having tree trimming parties with family and friends is all part of what makes the season special. For years I have found Christmas craft ideas all over [...]
As soon as Christmas is over we try to find new ways to recycle Christmas cards. Every year we send out dozens (or more) of Christmas cards and receive dozens in return. The cards are too beautiful, and often too costly, to just throw in the trash. So we look for ways to reuse them. [...]
Each of these links has several ideas for recycled Christmas cards. If you’ve been collecting greeting cards for several years, you are sure to find some clever ways to use them. Some of these ideas are similar to ones linked on other pages, but there may be new ones that you can find different ways [...]
Try these used Christmas card ideas for some unusual projects for kids and adults. You can make Christmas decorations, Christmas stationery and cards, new cards from old ones, tags, and many more fun things with your old holiday cards. Kids can help with used Christmas card ideas, too. They can do the cutting or [...]
Greeting Card Gift Boxes
