DIY Recycled Gift Tags

Here's a quick and easy creative recycling project that will save you a bit of money and reduce some of your paper waste. My family and I have been doing this for a couple of years now and we always like the results.

It's very simple--use the greeting cards you received last year to make this year's gift tags.

What you need:

• used greeting cards (or old leftover cards from previous years that you don't think you will send out yourself)

• scissors or paper cutter (the paper cutter does make it easier, but it's not a necessity)

• if young children are helping out with this project, safety scissors

Now all you need to do is look for areas on the front of the cards that you can crop to make a nice, tag-sized, mini-image. Trim judiciously and take a moment to consider each image and plan out your tags. You can often make several tags from one card with a little planning. Remember that images on tags don't have to be perfectly centered, and that you can leave writing space on the front OR on the back of the tag.

Here's just a tiny sampling of some of this year's tags. Making them has become a little tradition that we really look forward to!

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