Where can I donate fronts of used greeting cards?
Why not save trees & recycle them yourself? A friend & her daughter turns some cards into bookmarks by gluing the cards closed (these would be the smaller size) & sometimes trims the larger cards down – cropping the best areas. Also, if the card has the inserted pages, you can reuse them. Just carefully take out the page & reprint a new one, keeping in mind the message on the front of the card (gender, occasion, etc) & size of the card. Almost any word processing application or art program will allow you to type a new message & appropriately space it on the new page(s). You can even buy most of the standard card size envelopes to sent it off to a new recipient. One friend & I have sent the same card back & forth for several years, in our effort to recycle. We know we’re thinking of the other in spite of the miles & years.
Cut the picture so that the message is gone (Happy Christmas or whatever). Glue them into scrap books and donate them to the children’s ward at the local hospital. Kids love looking at them when they are sometimes too sick to do much else. My mum and I used to do this and we made hundreds of them over the years. We also glued 2 cards of the same size together with a paddle pop stick sticking out the bottom. It made a small fan. Sold well in craft stalls with a little glitter on them!
