Credit card crafts

Don't toss those used gift cards! Learn 5 innovative ways to repurpose them, from crafty projects to practical uses. Get inspired and reduce waste.

Plastic gift, credit, and rewards cards can't be recycled, so what do you do with them when they're expired? Check out these repurposing ideas.

It just so happens that I have a large collection of gift cards I’m unwilling to part with because they’re so pretty. (I’ve been roughly planning a purse for…three years now…

Recycled Gift Card Rings: In this instructable, I'm going to be showing you how to glue your fingers together, possibly cut yourself, breath noxious fumes, and get covered head to toe in plastic powder. At the end, you should have a neat little ring made out of a coupl…

If you are looking for a good way to recycle credit cards, try repurposing them for use in decorative craft projects. See all of the unique ideas!

Making Credit Card Ornaments: credit, debit and gift cards can be turned into colorful ornaments for free - and gift cards are colorful and available in a wide variety of colors and styles at nearly every store around.

Over at the blog Tattered Edge there is this cute mini journal made from gift cards and security envelopes. Pop on over to this post to see the pretty inside. [tags]mini journal from gift card[/tag…

If you have a debt problem you are using credit cards as a crutch. It is time to get rid of the crutch and cut your credit cards into tiny little pieces. Then turn them into these DIY credit card keychains to be reminded of your debt free goal every time you pull out your keys.

The Pickmaster Plectrum Punch ($39) is the perfect accessory for guitar players, and we’re not talking about the colored button-pressing variety. It’s essentially a rock-inspired hole puncher designed to turn old gift cards, ids, and credit cards into personalized strummers.