What a fun project for recycling greeting cards of all types. Even those of us who are not good with needle and thread can make these. They make wonderful containers for gifts and the recipient can use the basket for many things.
It's also a noble way to use up those cards that are always left at the bottom of a large box of cards. You know which ones I mean - the ones that look so nice but the verse inside is just not what you want at the moment.
So, let's add this up. The project gives you a sort of "gift bag," because you can put another gift inside it (candies, office supplies, hobby supplies, etc.). Second, it is also a greeting card but it is more than one card - it has 14 different cards to look at. Third, it can be used later for whatever purpose the recipient chooses. That's a three-way gift, in my eyes.
The one thing that makes these look special instead of just looking "homemade" is the choice made in the graphics used for each basket. You are choosing 14 per basket, so you want 14 related, or complementary, or somehow-themed cards. Ideas might be all snow scenes, all Santa's, all Christmas trees, all animals - you get the picture. And choosing the right pictures make the difference between something that could be junky looking and something someone will want to display year after year.
For other projects in my series, just look along the right sidebar for the label "Christmas Gift Projects." I hope to post only tips that do not require knitting, crocheting, machine sewing, tatting, embroidery, or any other skilled technique.
2 comments:
I remember these..now it is making me think of the angels made out of books??? any patterns for that?
Their site has a tree, I think, made out of a paperback. Maybe you could adapt that with a wee head and wings...? I'll check around, though...
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