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Recycled Christmas Card Ornament

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By Noreen Doll.

Create a recycled Christmas card ornament from your old Christmas cards.

Recycled Christmas Card Ornament by Crafty Journal

This is a nice way to save some of your favorite cards and use them on your tree. Or hang them from a mantel.

Recycled Christmas Card Ornament by Crafty Journal

You will need a fairly large card with a horizontal picture to make this ornament.

Supplies.

Christmas Card

Scissors

Ruler

Ice Pick or Sharp Pointed Tool

2 Brads

How to Make a Recycled Christmas Card Ornament.

The card I used is 6 3/4 inches wide by 4 1/2 inches high. You will need your card to be 6 or 7 inches wide and at least 4 inches to 5 inches high.

1. The strips need to be 1/2 inches wide, so cut off the sides of the card to make it even.

Recycled Christmas Card Ornament by Crafty Journal
You won’t want more than 12 to 14 strips, so if your card yields more, you will need to remove some of the card from one or both sides.

2. Cut off the back of the card. Cut the front of the card into half inch strips, cutting from top to bottom of the picture.

Recycled Christmas Card Ornament by Crafty Journal
3. Keep the strips in order as you cut them, and number them on the back so you can assemble them to recreate the picture.

4. Use the ice pick or sharp tool to poke holes in both ends of each strip, about 1/4 inch from the end. Center the holes from side to side.

Recycled Christmas Card Ornament by Crafty Journal

You can punch the holes in the first strip and then lay it on top of each of the other strips to punch those holes.

Recycled Christmas Card Ornament by Crafty Journal
Make sure the holes are large enough to allow the brad to turn.

5. Push the brad through the holes on the top end of each strip, starting with number one and attaching them in order.

Recycled Christmas Card Ornament by Crafty Journal
When all the strips are on the first brad, open the prongs.

6. Repeat with the second brad, pushing it through all the holes on the bottom end of each strip. Open the prongs.

Recycled Christmas Card Ornament by Crafty Journal
7. Gently push the top strip to one side, then the second strip, and so on until the strips are all open and in a  ball shape.

Recycled Christmas Card Ornament by Crafty Journal
After you’ve done a few of the top strips, you can start moving the bottom strips in the opposite direction.

Recycled Christmas Card Ornament by Crafty Journal
Remember to move the strips in the direction that will make the picture on the card reappear.

Recycled Christmas Card Ornament by Crafty Journal

More ideas for recycling Christmas cards are these Hundreds of Ways to Use Old Christmas Cards.

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Turn Old Christmas Cards into New Treasures

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