Are you a card keeper?

What do you do with your Christmas cards?

You could use them from which to cut next year's tags.

You could frame your favorites.

Or you could create a sweet "album" for the cards.

My dear friend Stacy designed both of these books.

The hold the cards for the year. 

And anything else that happened that holiday season.

The inside cover is a wonderful place to adhere the labels and addresses

from "new friends"

or friends.. (each album is different)

One ends with family labels (I didn't keep a lot of them that year)

I also bind in a card that we sent out that year, this is one I made.

It's great to add pockets for photos...

or pockets for newsy letters...

I like adding stamps to the dividers, too. On the left you can see how a photo was adhered to a strip of cardstock so that when it's bound the picture isn't disfigured.

I even save a section for our anniversary cards (it's at the end of the month).

So where do you put your cards? 

In a box?

In the trash?

Do you recycle and make something fun from them?