The is the third in a series of projects (see Christmas Card Door Hanger here) for recycling your old Christmas cards into artistic homemade Christmas decorations for around the home. Today we’re making a pyramidal Christmas Tree out of 3 old Christmas Cards.

First of all, take the smallest of the 3 Christmas Cards and use a ruler to make a template on the back of it. There are two elements to the template; a long, tree-shaped triangle, and a tab attached to one side of the triangle as shown here:

• Once you’ve created the template, place the card on a cutting mat and use an exacto knife to cut it out.
• Trace the template onto the remaining two cards and cut them out as well.
• Use a bone folder and ruler to put a clean crease in the tab on each of the cut-outs and fold the tab in.
• Glue one cut-out to the next as shown below (I used PH Neutral PVA Bookbinders Adhesive which remains flexible once dry).

• Glue the next tab to the next card cut-out.
• Finally, glue the last to the first and you have a pyramidal Christmas Tree!

You can easily and quickly make a few of these of varying sizes and then use them in clusters, as centerpieces or as part of a Christmas Village scene. Storing them is easy, as they will stack together; so make a bunch.

Don’t have a lot of Christmas Cards? Well, Ive found that to get them you have to send them. Here are some really cool pop-up Christmas cards I found from Robert Sabuda . . . of course you can always cheat and order a bunch of different Christmas Cards to use in projects like this. Often you can get them on clearance after Christmas.

Merry Christmas!