Preserving Memories Tips
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Make Your Own Greeting Card Box
Making your own greeting card storage box can be a simple, fun project that can include your whole family. This project is so simple you can even allow your kids to create their own greeting card storage boxes for their yearly Valentine's Day cards and more!
Supplies You'll Need:
- A Shoe Box
- Glue
- Scissors
- Old Greeting Cards
Next, begin to glue your pre-cut greeting cards onto your shoe box until you have covered it completely. You'll want to cover the shoe box lid with greeting cards, as well. Cut strips out of one greeting card to go around the sides of the shoe box lid so that it matches all the way around.
When you've finished covering your shoe box and the lid completely, let them dry overnight. Once the box has finished drying you'll have a beautiful greeting card storage box to place all your greeting cards in!
Greeting Card Planner & Organizer
The greeting card planner & organizer is a great space saving way to store your greeting cards. This organizer comes with 40 pre-printed labels that include the months of the year, major holidays, birthdays and blank labels for you to make your own.
This organizer is made of durable, clear plastic with a sturdy handle making it easier to carry. The greeting card planner and organizer is compact and takes up little space so you can store it nearly anywhere.
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Greeting Card Collage
Do you have several themed greeting cards that you want to keep, but are unsure how to preserve them? Do you have space for a frame on your wall? If you answered yes to both of these questions, then look no further!
You can create a beautiful collage out of your greeting cards! Purchase a frame that is sized to suit your needs. Take off the backing of the picture frame and there should be a piece of cardboard inside. Use this piece of cardboard to arrange your greeting cards at different angles and be sure that the cards overlap. Cover the entire piece of cardboard, but ensure that none of the edges are hanging off.
Put the picture frame back together and hang on the wall for a beautiful collage. Not only are you storing your greeting cards, but adding a nice decorative touch to your home, as well.
Greeting Card Albums
Many of the different retail stores and craft supply outlets are offering a new, fashionable way to store greeting cards. It's called a greeting card album.
These albums can contain clear, plastic pages that you slide your cards down into for storing and preserving them. There are also easy-to-use, elastic binders that allow you to create a book out of your greeting cards, while preserving them at the same time. Some of these albums feature a 5 x 7 opening in the cover to place your favorite card.
Photo Insert Greeting Cards
Photo insert greeting cards are a less expensive version of portrait greeting cards. You can make photo insert greeting cards with card stock or purchase the insert cards from a photography or stationary supply store.
To make a photo insert greeting card at home, get a piece of card stock and fold it in half. Hold the card stock the way you want the card to appear and cut out the appropriate size hole from the center of the front flap.
After you've completed this, you take the picture you would like to insert into your card and lay it flat against the hole you've just cut. Make sure you haven't cut the hole too big, because you don't want the image to full through. Next, take another piece of card stock that is roughly one inch longer and wider than your photograph and glue it in place behind your card. Now, you can decorate the card and add your sentiment on the inside!
You can also purchase computer programs that can help you create photo greeting cards with your digital photographs.
Portrait Greeting Cards
Portrait greeting cards are a great way to stay in touch with loved ones and give them a treasured keepsake at the same time.
A professional photographer takes the picture of your family and using computer technology, places that image onto a greeting card. It's then printed out on photo paper with a place where you can write a message to your recipients.
The best places to have this type of greeting card made are professional portrait studios like Sears, J.C. Penny or even Wal-Mart. Some individual professional photographers provide this service as well, but you will end up paying more by going to an individual than to a studio.
