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Follow the instructions to create an alternative to conventional greeting cards that both you and the environment can appreciate.

Make Beautiful Recycled Paper and cards from Paper Shreds

Step 1:   Cut junk mail into small shreds, soak it in warm water for about 2 hours, and blend it in a blender.

Step 2:   Add small quantities of flowers, grass, and leaves for fun, color, and texture.

Step3:   Spread it out on a flat, fine-holed, wire-mesh screen—use a rolling pin to flatten it.

Step 4:   Smear a tablespoon of cornstarch over the paper to increase its strength.

Step 5:   Add whole leaves or flattened dried flowers. For additional effect when dried, glue dried flowers on top of the paper.

Step 6:   When it dries, you can use this paper as stationary, Christmas cards or to decorate presents and used boxes. This technique isn't restricted to just Christmas - use to make holiday, Valentine's Day & other celebration cards.

Other alternatives to making your own paper: 

* Send 100 percent recycled paper or tree-free cards made by environmental organizations like Defenders of Wildlife.
* Glue pictures from old cards onto homemade or store-bought recycled paper to create new cards.
* Glue pretty paper on the inside of old cards to cover previous writing--and send them again.

* Make a greeting card or gift tag from scrap paper, fabric or wallpaper.

* For short messages use a large leaf or flat stone.

* Make cards or gift tags from pieces of a food box.

* Send an Ecard.

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