Greeting Card Collection

I have inherited a sort of "Pack Rat" mentality from numerous members of my family.  Houses filled with memorabilia and knick knacks run through our blood.  Every birthday, Christmas and numerous other holidays my family and friends flood me with cards, and I consistently find myself unable to throw them away after the holiday has passed.  It is a silly habit and one I am fully aware I need to get over, but yet again I'm cleaning my closet and found dozens of cards just sitting in piles, untouched.

So obviously when I was poking around Pinterest and found something about repurposing old cards, I knew I'd found something I would be using in the future.  With all my recent time off, I have been cleaning things around the house and found all these cards of mine and Kevin's.  I decided to use this post finally and make them at least a little more compact.  I had been wanting to do it recently anyway.  Along with the cards, I used a calendar my aunt had made our family members that used pictures of my nephew for each month.  I decided to take the pictures and make two little books instead of just one.

 

Let's try and ignore my cat obsession that's obvious with the cards my friends buy and focus on the holes I made, haha.  So I had a 3-hole punch and used it to punch 2 holes in each card.

What You Need:

Cards/Photos/Post Cards

3-Hole Punch

Ribbon/Rope/Twine, etc.

I tied them together using some gold ribbon and ta-da!  A card book.  Now you can keep it handy and look through them whenever you need a pick me up, which I like to do from time to time.  The original blog I got this from had other ideas, too, for old cards and things, so be sure to look at it if you're interested in other options.  You can find it here.  

Here are my books.  The one with the cards is uneven as I didn't measure out the holes on the second card.  Whoops, that's what happens when you rush!  

Have fun with it!