One More Seasonal Tradition: Scrapbooking Holiday Cards
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One of my last holiday traditions each year as I am cleaning up & putting away is to get out my square punch and attack our holiday cards.
My goal is simple: create a collage of faces and designs from the various cards we receive throughout December. I grab my punch and go for it. Over the years I have used different sized square punches depending on the number of cards. This year I used the Extra Giga from Marvy Uchida.
I did a little searching in my archives and found this post talking about the process back in 2005. Here's an excerpt:
One thing I noticed this year is that people had their photos on all different kinds of papers: metallic, shiny, canvas, etc. This was definitely more of a trend than in years past.
And as much as I love doing each layout individually it is almost more fun to see all these layouts here together. Here's a look at the past card layouts from when I first started this process:
2004:
2005:
2006:
2007:
2008:
I found 2008's layout in need of a little assistance. When I found it in the 2008 album last night it was two pages with only the top two rows of photos on the second page. I decided to trim that off and attach it to the top of the full page (and use the Fiskars Apron Lace punch along the bottom).
2009:
What do you do with your holiday cards? Keep them? Toss them? Make something with them? Donate them? If you do donate them I would love to hear more about it.
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I usually keep them for a while, then feel bad about getting rid of them. I am going to try this idea this year! These are terrific!
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I too, love this idea, but will be using it to punch special pieces from all of the sympathy cards and mass cards I received last month when my dad passed away. It will be a great way to remember the love, support and kinds words that help SO much. I wasn't sure what to do with the stack of cards, and now I know. I may even make one for my mom. Thanks very much.
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This is a great idea Ali! I've received a lot of Christmas cards that I don't know what to do with. I'll scraplift your idea - thanks bunches!
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I never keep my Christmas Cards... but we never seem to get many fantastic ones either... mostly christmas tags! But I just made a scrapbook of engagement cards, which was just a modified idea of someone who made a mini scrapbook out of their Christmas cards! I'll post the link in the website box!
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This solves the problem of what to do with all those photo cards that I don't know what to do with at the end of the holidays.
My mother kept them( 30 years worth) in the drawers of her end tables in her living room. I don't have drawers in my end tables, I don't have end tables, I don't even have a living room. This is a good solution!
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Wow, great idea! I can do this.
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