Friday, December 5, 2014

Homespun Holiday

dEb here with a quick card AND a way to be green all at the same time.... I absolutely love the holidays.. Christmas patterned papers, holiday rubber stamps, my new Tim Holtz poinsettia die . I love holiday lights, classic Christmas movies ( Elf and A Christmas Carol with Alastair Sim )  & quirky Christmas movies ( The Nightmare Before Christmas and The Family Stone ). I am also a hoarder of Christmas cards that I receive from my friends.. There, I admitted it !! I have cards from friends near and far; and I cherish each and every one of them.. I keep them year to year but eventually do send most to the recycle bin.. Some, however, I have kept for years. This year as I was heading to recycle with last year's cards, in anticipation of receiving new ones this year, I had a thought... Why not make cards out of them ???  I know I am not the first person to do this but I think my efforts might be a bit unique. 

I started with a kraft card, got out my 1" circle punch and went to town. I used a fun sentiment from Unity Stamp Company's "Stay Cozy" and finished with a doily half and half of a 2.5" circle. The dotted paper is from We R Memory Keeper's "Winter Frost" collection. Thanks to Brian, Bonnie, Lisa, Jacky, Donna and Meredith for helping me make memories - AND cards !!



17 comments:

  1. Great way to recycle the cards and the memories. Hugz

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    1. Thanks... I do this all the time with Macys great advertisements, so why not with my Christmas cards !! And it brought back great memories of each of the people whose cards I used...

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  2. It always goes back to the great Unity sentiments! I just <3

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  3. Great idea. I have been recycling my cards for years now.

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  4. Great card. I love your patterned circles. TFS

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  5. Great card Debra! I love the idea of recycling old cards to create new cards!

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  6. What a fabulous card,love this.xxx

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  7. What a great way to re-purpose Christmas cards. I usually hold on to them for several months and then feel guilty when they go in the trash. Maybe we should all save ours to repurpose next year and then share our creations...

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  8. Great way to recycle. Fun design as well.

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  9. The doily makes this fit so well with the sentiment, I think.

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  10. Very pretty with the doily and I like the recycling.

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  11. Great card! I read about this somewhere else...recycling Christmas cards (fabulous idea)!

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  12. I love the little circles!! What a great card!

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  13. This is a really cute idea to re-use cards. I will admit I hoard my cards too. Especially the hand made art form the heart cards that I get.

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