If you're like me, you received so many beautiful Christmas cards from friends and family. We all know ordering and sending Christmas cards, especially with photos included are not cheap. Either we've gone through the whole ordeal ourselves or we've evaluated the cost and decided to invest in some other aspect of the holiday madness. Still, we all know how much time and money went into these cards.
A few years ago while taking down my holiday decorations I was really saddened to throw all these gorgeous little mementos away, so I came up with an idea:
Every year when we take down the Christmas decorations, I gather up all of the Christmas cards from their spot on this hanging wire, and make a little prayer book. We turn over a new card, one each day. We then pray for that person or family who sent us that card during our family devotion. You also could use it to be your inspiration and turn over a new card on a weekly basis and mail that person/family a real snail mail letter or encouraging card. The possibilities are endless!
It's super simple to make and it's something we've really enjoyed making each year with the new cards we receive.
So, here's how to make yours:
Step one is to make two holes in your card along the folded edge using a hole punch.
Next, you'll lay your first card on top of all the others and mark your holes to punch in the next card using a marker. Follow up with punching the holes you've marked on the rest of your Christmas cards.
Next, using two loose leaf rings, you're going to feed one side of all the cards through the ring, hook the ring and then feed the other side of all the cards through the second ring.
You can find some rings for pretty cheap on Amazon.
That's it! You're done! You've made a sweet little book of all your Christmas cards!
What a great idea!!
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