Re-Use Old Gift Cards #2

Some may remember my other post from earlier this month about re-using gift cards. If you didn't catch it go here. 

In that post I told you I had specifically making things with Starbucks cards due to a good friend collecting them. Before I found the notebook idea while brainstorming with my sister the idea came around to frame the cards somehow. 

You should already know by now that I always forget the before pictures but I took the stack of starbucks gift cards I had been collecting for months and decided I could mat a 8x10 frame. I got the frame and then made a pattern as best I could with the cards I had. 

As you can see I had some of the same card and similar colors so I tried to make it fun. And do you love that I take pictures of everyone using my duvet as the background to try and cancel out the lighting and weird brown in the rest of my room? 

No? I do. :) 

If you can't already see the flaws with this project let me point them out to you. I had to cut some of the cards to make it fit inside the frame. I can't cut straight to save my life so there's that. Then I put the wrong green card on the end so I had to trim it as it was already stuck. Then my spacing on the left is weird. Just so you know spray glue is really sticky, you cannot make mistakes using it. 

The ends I trimmed. 

See that green card in the corner, that was supposed to be on the other end. Oops! 

But once it was in the frame you totally couldn't tell! 

Well you can if you get close but even that it's not glaringly obvious. And I will admit I took this last picture right before the frame went in the box to get shipped. The other pictures I had definitely showed the weird browns and lighting in my room a bit much. 

I kinda want one of there for myself now. Maybe on a smaller scale just to add some interest in my room. I'll just have to start grabbing even more Starbucks cards!!! 

This really is a simple easy gift to make with any type of card. I think Starbucks cards are the most versatile since people already use coffee themes! Now you have another thing to try next year for Christmas! Yay! 

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Fun Gift out of Gift Cards

I have a friend that loves coffee, especially Starbucks coffee. I don't know if you've noticed but Starbucks has really cute gift cards and my same friend collects them. I think it's a brilliant thing to collect. They are cute, have a theme, are small and portable, and change all the time. I'm always grabbing the gift cards for her. Sometimes putting money on them sometimes not. But I've also been looking for ways to use these cards in some fun way. 

I was determined to make her a Christmas gift out of Starbucks gift cards and after much searching I got my inspiration here. I decided to make little notebooks out of the cards. I had 22 cards but you know me I always forget the before pictures! I bought a pack of printer paper at Target for $3 and called Office Max to see if they could bind it and how much it would be. I had to have Office Max cut my paper down to size which cost more than the books! The books being bound by themselves was roughly $2. Not bad right?! 

Here is how they turned out. I'm just showing one of each card I had. 

My favorite I think. 

Opens up flat and has 50 pages inside. 

In the tutorial I found she used cardboard on the back, I just used 2 cards. Since they aren't used cards.

I have 6 people getting one of these for Christmas. Some of them read my blog so they will get a sneak peek but I couldn't wait to share them with you! 

Hello! I chose one for myself and so I could write in it! 

And there you have it. Keep your gift cards and re-use them! Or if you want to make cutesy gifts or favors for a small party you can use this idea as well. Now I didn't do this to be green (sorry) but you can also do it for that reason. Whatever reason you use everyone will definitely think it's the neatest idea! 

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