Green Options

I loved this post on upcycling greeting cards and it got me thinking about my stash of notecards that are out of style.  In this economy, instead of buying new greeting cards I decided to make my own.  I need a beautiful thank you card to send to the hostess of a dinner party, but all I have is a stack of blah thank you cards.  They were purchased originally years ago to send as a follow up thank you after corporate interviews, therefore they are very corporate.  

I decided to spruce up a few of the cards giving them a handmade touch with a scrap of fabric, bias tape, stamps, and a sewing machine.  It took less than 10 minutes!  I will probably never buy a new card again.  If I ever run out of blank notecards to transform, I can make my own with recycled card stock.

Shoes are something that most people have around.  There are the pair that lurk in your closet for months and you never wear, and there are shoes that you wear every day and now have big gaping holes.  When your shoes reach the end of their lifespan, here is a creative way to reuse the soles of the shoes by making customized rubber stamps.