Recycled Calendar Stationery is today’s blog post topic with a frugal slant to our letter writing all while being green by re-using page-a-day calendar pages to create note cards and envelopes.
Over the past week I have been enjoying recycling pages from last year’s page-a-day format calendar and even taking pages from this month that have already come and gone. Some of you reading today’s blog post who are email blog subscribers here may have received one of these from me in the snail mail already this week!
Recycled Calendar Stationery
At one of the local dollar stores I was delighted to find blank stationery cards and envelopes with eight to a package for the famous dollar store price of a dollar which has worked well with the calendar size for this year’s page-a-day format. One does not even have to spring for the dollar and could do all of this from scratch. What I was doing was affixing the art work from the page to the front of the card and trimming the calendar page down to fit onto the blank card and from my scrapbook supplies using adhesive, one could use scotch tape or glue on hand too. Using the hole puncher I also put in two holes at the top and then ran pretty ribbon through it and tied a bow on the top of it!
While I was at it I wanted to have on hand for in the future some paper for envelope liners and was inspired to recycle a beautiful very large shopping bag from Talbots and cut it into large blocks of paper that I’m going to use with making some envelopes and also for LINING some existing envelopes, the paisley pattern was gorgeous. So right now if one were to look in one of the stationery drawers of my Secretary desk they are going to wonder why there are parts of a shopping bag – but maybe not!
As far as envelopes, earlier in the month in my blog post “Making our own envelopes” it included referencing a short video by Holly Young demonstrating how to make an envelope to fit most of the envelope sizes you may need, it is very user friendly. Whereas I’m using the calendar page to be part of the stationery note itself we can use it to also create the actual envelopes too.
In looking around it confirms I am not the first to think of this idea. It has been fun to see this article from last year at eHow.com on How to Recycle Your Old Calendar into Vibrant Stationery. Finding this and seeing other search results that others have done this approach for creating their own stationery reminds me of this quote:
“What has been will be again, what has been done will be done again; there is nothing new under the sun.”
– Ecclesiastes 1:9 NIV
One of the things I’m going to explore is putting together my own short video showing my steps and posting that here in the future, so stay tuned! For today I have included three photos.
Last year I had a 6″ x 7″ format page-a-day with the actual art work 6″ x 6″ and was very happy to find online 6″ x 6″ blank cards and envelopes for very little money and so awaiting those to arrive in the mail which I want to include in the above future video referenced too.
Here’s to having fun with being kind to our wallet and all the while being green too. Back to my earlier comment about having sent to some of my email blog subscribers this week one of these Recycled Calendar Stationery note cards. One of the things I am doing in 2016 is to randomly send a snail mail each month to someone who is on the AnchoredScraps.com email blog subscriber list – it means I’m updating the plug-in here shortly so we can have you add the mailing address to the contact info if you wish to be included, that is if I don’t already have it!
It has been a fast week! Join me tomorrow for my Friday blog post here at AnchoredScraps.com.
Anchors Aweigh,
Helen
Attribution & Thank you to the following who are referenced today —
ehow.com How to Recycle Your Old Calendar into Vibrant Stationery April 07, 2015 by Susie Delaney eHow Contributor
AnchoredScraps.com blog post “Making our own envelopes” January 04, 2016 written by Helen Rittersporn
All three images above of Recycled Calendar Stationery note card proecss taken by Helen Rittersporn
