One More Seasonal Tradition: Scrapbooking Holiday Cards

Wow, this is a great idea!! I love keeping sentimental things, but am all about eliminating clutter this year, so this is perfect!!!! Thanks heaps for the fantastic ideas :o)

I love this idea...my husband & I always disagree on what to do with the cards...christmas, birthday, etc...he is a saver and I am a tosser. This is a great compromise. I have always wanted to do "real scrapbooking" but have blocked the urge...I did not need another hobby or $$ drain but all that restraint is going out the window and my crafting is expanding. Thank you for the inspiration.

cards aren't big thing between my friends and family. We have all agreed that it is just to much clutter. However I love your collages - I do that will all our Christmas Day photos. I am working on my 3 year in a row now.
I love how you have embellished them - Simple but STUNNING. I also love the addition you made to the 2008 layout.

Every year my mom takes her old Christmas cards and crochets around the edge with the cotton thread and gives each one of us one. I have been collecting them and now put them under the glass on my coffee table during the holidays. This past year she began making birthday cards the same way. They are really nice and very "earth friendly"

What a fabulous idea - I think I'll try that!! :)

I keep all of my photo cards. I create a flip book type thing. I pull them out with my decorations every year. They are always a conversation starter and looked at by every visitor. Recently, I blogged about them. You can see a picture here...
http://persnicketypeacock.blogspot.com/2009/12/holiday-cards.html

I too make a christmas card photo spread in 12x12. I save all the card fronts to use in Ali's yearly 25 days of Christmas binder. I put all the backs of the cards together on a key ring and let my 2 year old have it as a takealong coloring pad for the truck.

awww ali!!! when i commented to you on FB i think i was on my phone and didnt look closely at your layout... love that mister harley made it onto the layout this year ;) he is quite handsome!!!
:)

I love this idea!!!! I always save the pictures I receive but put them in a photo album. I like this idea better because I can also incorporate bits n pieces of the other cards received!!!! thanks for the idea!!!!! I think I'll try this.

I love these ideas! Thank you for sharing Ali and for all the others comments too. I just told my husband that I LOVE THE INTERNET! I have kept most of our Christmas cards over the years, but it's always been my dark secret because no one in my family would ever understand. Now I don't feel alone anymore. THANK YOU! Also based on an idea I saw on Kelly Purkeys blog last year I now make acyrilic books holding the cards and even some of the envelopes. I find them charming.

This is a great idea! I never know what to with them. We didn't get many picture cards, unfortunately, but at least I can punch the pretty fronts and maybe make some Christmas embellies to put in my December Daily Album. :)

My church collects used cards of every sort and donates them to a local nursing home where the residents use them to make cards of their own. They LOVE their craft time!

Look at my baby boys on there!!! Makes me smile every time!! You may even get me motivated to scrap a little!!! Hope all is going well with you and your family< Happy New Year!

I love this idea - thank you! In the past two years, I have been recycling my cards on my December Daily album - using bits as embellishments, or the front of the card as patterned paper. I usually make a note of who sent the card and when right on the album page. It makes me really happy to see those cards as part of my album.

How did you know? It's like you knew that this was the year I decided to be BRAVE and take out the 6 (yes, 6) years of Christmas cards I'd saved in Ziplock bags unsure of what to do with them??? THIS IS IT! Thank you Ali! A collage is an awesome idea and I can DO this! I think this will be my February project! Thanks for sharing!

i love this idea...you are amazing!

Love, love, love this idea! Thanks for sharing.

I cut out the "good part" and put them in a little photo album. I have one complete and half of another. I just did this last night!
When I saw this post I immediately thought OH I HAVE TO DO THIS.
But I stopped myself.
I said SELF. IT IS ALREADY DONE. MOVE ON.
yeah me!

Several of us at work (I work at a preschool/MDO) donate them to the craft/decoration box for next year.
In class I've used them in many ways. I cut them into simple puzzles, Christmas decorations. I put pictures of the kids on the plain side for the parents. Matching games...santa to santa, angel to angel, snow man to snowman.
Check around, a teacher you know may be able to use them next year.

This is a FABULOUS idea! I can't wait to try this. I just bought the extra giga square punch in the fall for Y&T and I'm loving it. Thanks for sharing this idea!