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Today's creativity was  repurposing recent birthday cards into "new" blank Birthday note cards! I get Birthday cards and Anniversary cards in the mail, which happen to be the cards I most often need on hand. Sometimes I can dual purpose a standard size card into both an Birthday card and a blank any occasion card---such as the starry card pictured in the photo, here: the  top part worked for birthday and the bottom, for a blank, any occasion card. What you need for this project: Cards you want to reuse A box of 4 x 6 stock cards, colored or white, available from any craft store Rubber cement or favorite craft glue Scissors A template cut to the size you want to use on your card stock for tracing. (You can use the back of a greeting card for one) Pencil for tracing with a good eraser Directions: Then just take a card you want to repurpose, arrange the template over the image, trace a light outline with you pencil, cut out with scissors, apply...

I love Christmas cards and hate to throw away all that beautiful card art, so I'm always interested in ways to put them to good use! So here's a selection of some of the best & easiest ideas: #1)  You Can Donate Many of Your Old Christmas Cards to the St. Jude's Children's Ranch Card Recycling Program : Visit the link above for their mailing address & details. Please note they cannot accept Hallmark, Disney or American Greetings cards.  They also sell their their recycled cards, too! Samples of tags I've made #2)  Gift Tags: It's so easy to turn cards into package gift tags! You just need scissors, a paper punch & some pretty yarn or crochet string for a tie string. I just separate the back of card from the front that I want to use as my tag front, flip the back over so any writing is hidden, then I just start cutting out. Many cards have designs the a lend themselves to tags. They have are or words, sometimes already in a squa...