My stash of home-made cards was getting pretty low, but I have been waiting to make more. The librarian at our local library told me that she clears out the circulating magazines at the end of the year and they are offered first come, first served to the general public. She even offered to reserve a few for me!
And they did not disappoint! I cut out any photo or illustration that appealed to me. I had purchased a package of 25 blank note cards with envelopes from the local craft store. They were on sale for $5 USD. Based on the size of the note cards, I created a cardboard template from a empty cereal box. I used the template to crop and frame the pictures I liked in a way that appealed to me.
Any two dimensional image can be used. For past cards I have used antique photos, old calendars, used greeting cards, magazines, interesting tags that came on purchased clothing, parts of a playbill, a politically incorrect children’s book that the library was giving away.
I have a file folder where I collect interesting images for this purpose. When I have enough, I buy the blank note cards and get busy!
Your cards look fabulous! I especially like the cave painting, the whale, and the tundra landscape. Oh! You could even bundle a few and give as a Christmas gift!
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Shhh. I have had that idea……
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i love this! i use magazine pages as stationary 🙂
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Post a few on your website?
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no, I don’t have any on my website but i will think about it, it is not very impressive – nothing like your cards, which are so pretty!
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Love it. Very creative. So many lovely images and they end up in the rubbish bin otherwise.
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Oh my, these are wonderful! I’m going to make some of these for gifts for next Christmas.
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I’m thinking I will do the same!
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Do you use Elmer’s Glue to adhere the pictures or something else?
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No, Elmer’s glue will wrinkle the paper. Use rubber cement.
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I may try this idea with my old hanging calendar from 2019. It has a verse on it and a nice background. As long as the paper is not too thin, I may have success.
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I have had success even with thin paper, as long as the image I am using is not too light. If it is, whatever is on the back shows through.
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Love this idea!!!
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I have done this before but forgotten about this. I tend to keep old cards (Christmas, birthdays, etc) but when I want to thin them out, I can reuse the images as a new card or postcard. Ditto for the magazine images like you have here. Thank you for the reminder!
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Yeah, it is definitely not my idea—it’s been around since….paper, but the template helps me see images in a new way and makes the process more fun!
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Neat ideas and lovely cards
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