What do you do with old greeting cards?

I love paper products in general — books, notebooks, fancy paper, and of course, cards. I love shopping for pretty cards with cute sayings on them for every occasion — birthdays, Christmas, Mother’s Day, and every other holiday in between.

At Christmastime, I take all the cards we receive and I cut the fronts off of them and turn them into tags to use on next years’ gifts.

But I’m not sure what to do with the others. We have a lovely pile of cards congratulating us on the birth of the Wee One, and they are so pretty and cute and made of paper, that I find I just can’t chuck them into the garbage (or worse yet — shred them for recycling). But I don’t have the time or energy to put them into a scrap book for permanent record keeping, and we don’t have the space to keep them just as a pile, forever and ever.

Any ideas? Should I make a collage? Make tags for similar themed (i.e. baby) gifts? Use the paper for thank-you cards, or to write notes on?

Hm.