How to Make a Book Out of Greeting Cards
- 1). Wait until the season has passed to make your greeting card book. The celebrations always end too quickly anyway, so there is no reason to rush. Enjoy the greeting cards in their intended fashion throughout the season.
- 2). Sort your greeting cards. If there are any that have extra special sentimental value, you might like to set them aside rather than incorporate them into the greeting card book you plan to make. You also should remove any cards that are designed in a postcard style, made from a photo, or otherwise oddly shaped and designed. The greeting cards you will use for your book should be fairly uniform in style and size.
- 3). Lay an open greeting card on the table. Open all of the other greeting cards and lay them on top of the first card, one at a time. You will have a stack of open cards.
- 4). Grasp the stack between your hands and evenly align the bottoms of the greeting cards by tapping the stack against the table as you would straighten a stack of paper.
- 5). Use a pair of scissors or a paper cutter to trim the tops of the cards to make all the cards in the stack the same size.
- 6). Trim a stack of white paper to the same size as the greeting cards with which you are going to make your book.
- 7). Apply scrapbooker's glue to attach white paper to both sides of each greeting card in the stack. Let each card dry and then re-crease each card so that the greeting card assumes its folded shape.
- 8). Stack the paper-covered greeting cards together again, one on top of another.
- 9). Fold the entire stack in half. Use a strong, wide rubber band to hold the cards in place. The rubber band should rest in the center of the cards, right along the crease.
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