Fun with Business Cards and Cleaning Out the Pantry

I've been wanting to figure out a way to make business cards more useful. Oh sure, they're great when you need to balance a wobbly table or throw away your chewing gum, but I wanted them to be even more useful than all that.

So I made them into little notebooks. Tah-dah! Aren't they cute? Perfect for those moments when you need to write something down.

Here's how I made them, just in case you want to make some of your very own handy dandy business card notebooks.

-First I cut 5 pieces of scrap paper into 2" x 7" strips, folded them in half, and stapled in the middle.

-Then I cut a cardstock scrap 2" x 4", folded on side over 1/2", and put double stick tape like the picture shows.

-Third, I stuck the folded stapled paper part to the cardstock, leaving the folded edge up.

-Lastly, I stuck a business card on tap and folded down that sticky edge. Done!

I made a gazillion of them, thinking they'd be sweet to tuck in packages.

The backs are cute too!

And while I was on a repurposed-business-card kick, I made a bunch more into little gift tags. I just cut the corners off one side, folded over and glued a bit of colored cardstock where I wanted the hole, and punched said hole. Easy peasy.

Feeling mighty productive, I decided to clean out the pantry.

We always have the last little bit of several cereal boxes, crusts of bread, old crackers, and stale stuff that I wait for a sunny day to gather up. Why? Because I like to give it to the seagulls, of course. Dylan and I have made it a tradition on sunny pantry-cleaning days. I snapped some pictures while I was at it. The wind was just right and the gulls hung over us beautifully.

I'm afraid I'm a bit behind on my real work now, but at least I have pretty stacks of altered business cards and seagull pictures to show for it.