Green DIY Holiday Crafts: Pop-Up Junk Mail Cards

Making your own holiday cards – let alone pop-up holiday cards – may seem like something best left to the Martha Stewart wannabe craftmasters, but it’s actually much easier than it sounds and it’s a great way to use up scrap paper like all those junk mail catalogs desperate retailers are sending out right now. The blog Junk Mail Gems created this awesome pop-up reindeer card from 100% recycled junk mail using Robert Sabuda’s easy pop-up card tutorials.

From Junk Mail Gems:

I added the red nose by simply using a hole punch on a piece of red junk mail and gluing the resulting dot on one side of the folded nose, and then painted on the eyes. The piece on the left side that I wrote on is the inside of a security envelope. I used a menswear catalog for the main card and the reindeer…the front and back covers, since they are a thicker stock.

Check out the selection of tutorials over at RobertSabuda.com and make a few craft masterpieces of your own! Though not holiday-related, my favorites are the Star Wars ones. Hey, just make them green and red and add a few little paper ornaments and they’ll work!

Link [Junk Mail Gems] + [Robert Sabuda]

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