Christmas has already passed and I’m sure that everyone has received a lot of gifts and cards. They are beautiful but if you don’t want to store them all year round but now ready to throw them away, you need to recycle them. Old Christmas cards can be easily turned into various Christmas-inspired things, let’s have a look what to do.
Ornaments
The first thing that comes to mind when we think of recycling cards is making ornaments of them. They can be dimensional or not and of various shapes and sizes, and everything depends on what you like and what cards you have at hand. Angels, baubles, houses, snowflakes and all the shapes that come to your mind – just try different ideas!
Cards were used to make Christmas ornaments.
Dimensional bauble ornament of Christmas cards.
Old Christmas cards turned into nice cardboard ornaments.
Tinsel and old Christmas card ornaments.
Christmas card glitter house can be used as an ornament or just decor.
Angel ornaments made of old Christmas cards.
Gift Toppers And Cards
You can make some pieces to give them again to your friends and family: gift toppers or new cards. The idea is easy: cut out some trees of cards and place them on the gifts, or you can give your gift toppers any other shape. You can also make new Christmas cards of old ones – take some cardboard as a base and decorate the cards with various parts and cutouts of other cards. Add sparkles, rhinestones and other details to make your cards super special.
Dress up plain wrapping paper with colorful trees of Christmas cards.
Don't buy gift tags, just make them of cards and attach strings.
Gift tags can be made of old Christmas cards.
Make new cards using parts of old ones.
Other Ideas
There are many more ideas to try: tabletop trees, coasters, snow globes, wreaths, banners and garlands – turn on your imagination and create something really special!
A garland made of yarn rope and old cards.
Christmas card banner with red banner.
Christmas card shadow box.
Christmas tree of cones made of Christmas cards.
Coasters made of old Christmas cards.
Recyclable banners and garlands for Christmas.
Snow globe made of a plastic cup and an old card.
Tabletop Christmas tree made of cards.
Upcycled Christmas card wreath with red ribbon.