What to do with all those Christmas cards? Make an ornament!
This year we got a lot of great Christmas cards, so when the season passed, we didn't quite know what to do with them. Keep them? Throw them away? Neither quite works, so we instead cut out parts of each card and made an ornament for next year.
I had seen these ornaments online and in person a few times, so I found a site that detailed how to do them. The instructions are here, so I won't go through them step by step. I do, however, have a few suggestions:
- I used a shot glass to trace the circles. It was a perfect size.
- It's important to get as perfect of a triangle as possible, so that your ornament fits together correctly. The best way to make a perfect triangle is to cut out a circle, fold it in half, then in half again (so that you have a quarter circle). Unfold, and mark a strip of paper the length of the radius of the circle (see picture). Then use this to make 6 marks around the perimeter of the circle. Connect 3 of them and you've made a perfect triangle. Cut out this template triangle to use when tracing onto the other circles.
- Make sure that pictures and circles you glue in are facing right-side-up
- Glue a piece of ribbon through the hole in the top piece before you glue everything together
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