After major holidays and lifetime milestones, you clear your mantle of thoughtful cards from your family and friends and hesitate on the way to the recycling bin. After all, such artsy stationary could be put to some better use, right? You bet! Here’s a list of creative projects to reinvent your stack of old greeting cards.

Learn how to give old greeting cards new life as a small gift box.
Cut the front side of the card into strips and use them to hold your place in your latest reads. Never again will you have to fold over the edge of a page in absence of a bookmark.

Use these instructions to create handmade ornaments from old greeting cards.

All you need to transform the front side of a greeting card into a postcard is an address and some stamps. Pretty resourceful, huh?

When your grandmother, the Food Network or a colleague passes on a new recipe, jot it down on the back of a greeting cards beautiful imagery for a visually appealing cookbook.

Using the front side of a variety of greeting cards, follow these steps to make a uniquely colorful journal.

Set the cover of an elaborate greeting card on a cutting board and use an exacto knife to slice it into pieces of different shapes and sizes. Wondering what you could possibly do with these? Give them to the little ones as a homemade puzzle.

Make your own luminary from old greeting cards.

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