Need Ideas for Displaying Christmas Cards.

Maybe someone has already suggested this, but one year I took a long red cord and draped it like a clothesline. Got pretty little clothespins and displayed all of my cards.

Merry Christmas!

J. M
John 19:30

I saw a neat idea in Pottery Barn Kids mag, similar to April J's suggestion with a rope and clothespins, except it had hanging from the rope/string felt candy canes, with the clothespins attached to the candy cane, then clip the cards on. Just a little extra decoration that I thought was cute.

We pin about an 8 foot piece of ribbon on the wall side to side above the couch and just hang the cards over it as they come in. There is no damage to the cards, and you can take them down to read them. If we need more space we just put up another ribbon. You can cover the pins using bows and things if you wish. It's cheap and pretty!

The Better Homes and Gardens magazine for this month had a cute idea that doesn't take up much space. You get some small tree branches (about 1.5 feet) and put them in a vase like a flower arrangement with stones or pebbles or whatever in the base. Then you take little colorful clips and you clips the cards to different parts of the tree branch. You can also decorate the vase or tree branch with ribbons, small ornaments, etc.

I looked for a picture but couldn't find one, sorry!

I hang a wreath on large blank wall in our entry and when the cards come in I tape them around it. The wreath is the decor till the cards come and then it is the centerpiece and the cards surround it.

I ran out of room in my apartment last year so we taped them to the back of our front door. My two year old loved having them there. He loved to look at them and seeing all the picture cards of family that's far away helped him learn faces and names.

It also helped brighten up that big bare space that the door creates.

Great question! I haven't received any cards yet, so I haven't thought about how to display them. I will probably clip them to garland that I'll wrap on my bannister. I liked whoever had that idea! Oh! Here are some awesome clips you can use to clip your cards to the tree, or a card to a gift, etc. Check 'em out! I use 'em and they're great!
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Are you familiar wit Southern Living at Home? They have a new product that's beautiful. It's called the "Decorative Card and Photo Display." Many customers have ordered one for the holiday season. You can go to www.southernlivingathome.com, click on catalog, and see it on page 57. It can be hung on the wall or over a door.

I love it!!!

If you're interested, please let me know. I'll be glad to help you out.

We are going to try my sister's trick this year - a big fat ribbon hung down the door - staple them on as you receive them - we actually use colored staples to make it even more festive! J.

This year in my foyer I hung those easy to remove 3-m hooks and tied a pretty ribbon (to match my Christmas decor) to them. It looks like a garland. I will hang the cards on the ribbon with clothespins I covered with christmasy wrapping paper-but they could be hung with paper clips or just stapled right on.
Can't wait to hear other peoples ideas.

Take a long christmas colored ribbon and hang vertically with a bow tied on top. You can staple, hot glue, or paper clip cards to the ribbons. I tried tape once, but they kept falling off the fabric ribbon. You might put ribbons on both sides of a door way for a neater affect.

Get colored ribbon and attach to the top of your drapes or window treatments. Make them different lengths and pin or staple the top of the card starting at the top and coming down with a little space between them. Do it across the drape or top of window so that you see several ribbons with cards at a time. This is very vestive and pretty.
V. B.

I get so many photo cards every year, I had to come up with some way to display them all, so I purchased some wide Christmas ribbon and secured it with a thumb tack to the top of a closet door in my entry. I use double sided tape to secure the photos to the ribbon. The ribbon hangs all the way down to the floor, almost, and will hold about 10-12 cards depending on how they are arranged. I put a second ribbon on a coat closet near my living room. I love the fact that I can look at my cards anytime and it is very easy and inexpensive to put together.

My mom always taped them to the back of the front door and I've continued to do the same. Makes the door pretty and you get to enjoy them every time you go in and out.
C.

We take ours and put them around our bar with tape....we make it where friends and family can open them up and read them. Good Luck, God Bless and Merry Christmas.

HI S. -
You have a lot of gret ideas, but mine is a little different so I thought I would share. A couple of years ago I had my husband drill some holes in a couple of pieces of wood and I bought some wire at Home Depot. I cut the wire into several pieces and curled the end up several times so that the cards would fit into the curls, and I stuck the other end into the holes in the wood. I made them several different heights so that I could fit a lot of cards, and I have them displayed on my mantle, covered in garland because the wood isn't so pretty.

I'd be happy to send you a picture if you would like, when I finally get all the decorations out... I dread the set up and take down!!
L.:)

I made a memo board last year. I am NOT crafty at all but it was a fun project and good distraction. E-mail me and I'll e-mail you a picture and explain how I did it:
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Glad to hear you are a stay at home mom. a person misses out so much, they grow so fast. Now to the display. I've saw them strung like garlands across the ceiling, from one corner to another. Propped up on a buffet, or piano, and of course in a long narrow basket, and you could alternate what was on the front row.

I like taking a semi thick rope and close pins and string 3 ropes above the mantle and clothes pin the cards to the rope... string them across the middle of the wall or brick about your fireplace the shortest on top to the widest on bottom...you can paint the clothes pins red or green or both and maybe even hot glue a large xmas bulb onto the clothes pin...

HTH
A. J
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S.,
You have been given some good ideas. I have what they call a half wall...it is load bearing but does not have the sheet rock on it. It seperates my 2 living areas...well with that said I put up some ric-rac along the top of the wall with thumb tac's and then put a bow over the thumb tac, thumb tac's are about every 4 inches. When I get a card I use a hole punch and then take the wire ornament hanger and hang off the ric rac. If I could send a picture you might have a better idea of what it looks like.
Hope you have a Merry Christmas,
L.

I actually make Christmas cards and do a lot of craft fairs and have a pretty creative way of displaying my cards. I just take a hole punch and punch a hole in the upper corner of the card. Then take the tree trimming bows, you can get them at Walmart generally 16 for $2, and run the bow into the hole. Then I hang all of the bows from a small Christmas tree in my front entry. I have decorate the tree with a some trim and lights, but very basically so not to take away from the cards. Hope it helps

Take a look at my Christmas cards
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I put them in our Christmas tree.
Merry Christmas!

I plan to do what my mother in law does - I think it looks really neat! She hangs a string from her mantle above the fireplace (from one end to the other, hanging over the edge as far as you like). Then she uses clothespins (these can be decorated easily) to clip the cards to the string so they hang in a bow. It's really pretty. I'm sure you could do the same thing somewhere in your living area if you don't have a fireplace/mantle. Maybe a window or two? Hope this idea inspires someone as it did me!

leave your christmas tree vacant and as the christmas cards begin to arrive, punch holes in a corner of the card. thread a red or white or whatever color ribbon through the hole and tie the card to the tree.

or go to www.marthastewart.com for possible ideas

enjoy your day.

Home Depot had a velcro set that was really neat. You put the velco strip up on the wall (or wherever). And then you attach the other side of the velcro to the back of the card and stick the card to the strip. That way they can be removed to read and then you can put them back

Instead of putting it on the wall, I put mine on the side of the staircase to the second floor. There is wood trim/baseboard type trim under each stair. Since it's painted a high gloss, the velcro sticks nicely, and removes later without removing the tape.

When I was in my apartment, I had a bar/high counter separating the kitchen from my living room. I hung them on the edge of that, since I didn't have stairs there.

Hole punch and ribbon or yarn..... Makes an inyeresting garland

My in-laws tape them to their kitchen cabinet doors. They do the same with birthday cards, get well cards, mother's/father's day cards. It's fun to peek at a few when you're helping fix a meal!

When I was overseas for a year, my roommate and I taped the cards to the wall in a Christmas tree pattern and put our gifts under the "tree"!!!!

Fun question!

A.

I saw on Good morning Texas a way to display Christmas cards. You get one of those metal picture holders with lots of arms. I can't remember what they are called though. You can put a bunch of cards in where the pics normally go. I thought it was a awesome way. Good luck.

Spray paint clothes pins. Attach your cards to garland with the painted clothes pins. Hang the garland on staircase, around a door or doorway. I have a great card weath that I got at the Container Store years ago. It holds about 30-40 cards. I have also gotten card holders in catalogs in the past. A friend of mine does the garland idea.

Good luck!

Check retailers like Oriental Trading and Lillian Vernon, I have purchased items throougout the years that hang on the wall that hold cards. I have also done something very simple. If you have windows that would accomodate it, tie a ribbon to one end of your curtain rod, run it to the othe rod, no whole punching required, just hang the cards on the ribbon. You can see them, they are out of the way of little hands.

here's the link and this is to cute:

http://www.marthastewart.com/article/displaying-christmas...

Punch a hole in each card and string them with ribbon--hang around the top of the room all the way around like streamers or garland.

I tape them along the ledge above the fireplace. (we don't use the fireplace so no worries about a spark hitting the cards)

If you have a two story home: I hang them from green evergreen garland down the banister.

We put ours in our tree. We decorate our tree like normal, and as each card is received and read, we find a place in our tree and stand it there. It looks great!

VickiS

W. hang ours on the mini blinds. Tape the ones that don't fold. It looks really pretty!

Tack ribbon on the wall and open the cards over the ribbon.