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If you have boxes of greeting cards which you have accumulated over the years, you can now recycle them into cool crafts such as a greeting card mural for your bedroom wall. It's a great keepsake, but for the mural you will have to keep with the theme, for example, using only Valentine's Day cards, Birthday cards or only Christmas cards.
You can also make boxes from greeting cards to store other keepsakes such as letters and other greeting cards. You can even make a Christmas ornament from a recycled Christmas card and a jar lid.
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Select 7 of your greeting cards that are all of one type...such as all birthday, or Christmas, or New Year’s cards. Thread a needle with a piece ofstrong thread. Now hold these two cards with the non-illustration sides together, and sew the sides that meet together going in about 1/4 inch into the center of the card ... as a design feature of the house. Look at the diagram above. Now do this with 3 cards in a row...pictured in the diagram above as card D, B, and E. They are all the same height. and width. Now get 2 cards that are long enough to have the same height as the other cards but with additional room to cut a triangle top to it. So in other words you will need a card that has room to make it higher than the other cards....the top triangle part, we are not adding in to the height int he illustration above. Now sew these 2 cards to both sides of card B, with the triangle part pointed outwards. (These 2 cards are A & C). Now for cards F and G, which will be sewing below card E, the height is different. These 2 cards will be the roof of the house. The way to figure out their height is to measure the height of card A or C WITH THE ROOF. So if you take the ruler out and the height is 12" than F and G TOGETHER would have to measure 12"...so card F ALONE would be 6" and so would card G. Now sew them all together and you have a beautiful house to remember your holidays with.
This is a very entertaining and fun crafts for little kids to do. You will need to attach a roll of shelf paper to the wall, at the child's eye level. Place greeting cards in front of the child and have them cut out figures and shapes from the greeting cards...such as birds, trees, flowers, children, animals, and other things like this. Then the children can paste these items all over the mural to make a beautiful picture. This is a great activity for sleepovers and slumber parties.
You will need a top from cottage cheese carton or large jelly glass; lead and colored pencils; scissors; post card or greeting card pictures; 14" of narrow rickrack braid; glue; curtain ring; and 2" strip narrow adhesive tape. Trace carton top over desired picture. Cut picture to fit inside carton top Glue narrow rick-rack braid around inside edge of top and hold in place to help start drying. Fasten a curtain ring with adhesive tape as shown in sketches d and e. Hang picture on wall.
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