How do you display Christmas cards?

[irish_trip_mom]

I tape them up to the inside of the front door, but only the picture cards. We have many friends with twins and triplets, and friends & family get such a kick out of seeing those pictures, so it's fun to show them off! I love it, because so many of those cards are so creative.

Oh, my husband's cousins actually have a contest where they rate the best Christmas card! So that puts the pressure on us to do a good one each year! They always tell us we come in the top three....but that may be their line to everyone! But they are HARSH! They'll vote for most original AND most UNoriginal!! So no plopping the kids in front of the tree for them! And professional shots are eliminated from competition.

 

[clownchk]

we have a wooden embroidery hoop with wooden clothes pins hot glued onto it. Then we used sticky foam in Christmas shapes to decorate and a ribbon to hang the whole thing up.

Cost us under $5 to make and we love it.

 

[bnorm27]

I made a card holder from a turkey carcass............... But really folks, we have this old Santa thing that hangs on the wall. Hi sarms are stretched out, and there are five ribbons that hang down to attach the cards too. I think it was an old Christmas Around the World item.

 

[tinkerbellmagic]

We tape them to the molding around our built in buffet and doorway. I recycle the cards when Christmas is over, but I also cut out pictures on the front of some of the cards to use as To From gift labels.

 

[MinMouse]

We have a big Mickey Holder I got online a few years ago. I do keep a small photo album that we put the photo cards in. I have several now and I look through them every year. I love looking through the kids pictures through the years. I just hated throwing those photos away . . . now I enjoy them!

 

[brenalexacamp]

we usually tape to the doorways- Christmas cards and my ds' birthday is the 15th- he is 19 this year and he hung up a card from his Papa by himself!
like-that's where it goes-give me the tape-I swear they lose their minds in the teen years
But- when he was born it was 10 days before christmas- we didn't pull our ornaments out- we hung up all our christmas cards and welcome baby cards.

 

[GaSleepingBeautyFan]

I have a gold card holder wreath that holds around 60 cards. I take down one of our pictures on the wall in the living room and put that up in it's spot so I don't have any extra holes.

One year I took green yarn and put it around the garland on my staircase and draped the cards over the green yarn. It worked great and looked cool but with a kitten in the house this year I figured yarn wasn't such a good idea.

 

[mrsheppo]

I have a Mickey head Christmas card holder I bought from Disneyshopping several years ago. It hangs in my dining room.

 

[CindoMindo]

I have a wooden santa sleigh basket thing and I put them in there. Though this year the sleigh is pretty sad looking, since I have only reeived 5 cards so far this year.

 

[TheRatPack]

I came across some old shutters and distressed them a bit more, painted the hinges 'rust' and attached some clothespins that I decorated with handpainted wooden shapes. We don't get nearly the amount of cards you do...but it works for us (maybe 20-30 cards, more than 1 per clothespin). I have another set of shutters that I want to work on....just haven't had the time to do another set. I'll get a picture up in a minute
I would think that you could do this on a much much larger scale, like a set of shutters large enough to make a dressing screen type thing?

 

[tlh0726]

Our front door is full length glass with full length glass sidelights on each side.
We tape the cards to the inside of the door and sides. As you come to our door, the wreath is on the outside and all the christmas cards that we received are displayed through the glass for all our visitors to enjoy.

 

[Banana magic]

I have a card tree I got at Factory Card outlet several years ago. It has 5 different rods/rows that make a tree shape and you clip several cards on each row. It works out perfect, you can see all the cards and take them down if you want to look at them.

 

[Nolcrest]

We have wood planking halfway up our walls (country home). The cards are hung along the wood planking around the dining room and down the hallway and around the kitchen doorway.

I save all cards for the year and the following year I cut off the front of the cards and use them to write my thank you notes to the kids in my class and I also use them as name tags on gifts to my family.

I certainly get lots of use out of the cards received.

 

[tinkerbellmagic]

What an incredibly cute idea! How did you attach the clothespins to the shutters? Glue gun? Pretty display, thanks for sharing your photo!

I came across some old shutters and distressed them a bit more, painted the hinges 'rust' and attached some clothespins that I decorated with handpainted wooden shapes. We don't get nearly the amount of cards you do...but it works for us (maybe 20-30 cards, more than 1 per clothespin). I have another set of shutters that I want to work on....just haven't had the time to do another set. I'll get a picture up in a minute
I would think that you could do this on a much much larger scale, like a set of shutters large enough to make a dressing screen type thing?

 

[TheRatPack]

What an incredibly cute idea! How did you attach the clothespins to the shutters? Glue gun? Pretty display, thanks for sharing your photo!

Thanks and yes, I used a glue gun You can buy the preshaped wooden pieces at Michaels and then all you have to do is paint them The shutters were window sized (inside kitchen window) and the owner removed them and asked if I wanted them. I really didn't have a use for them in a window but hated to waste them.....so I linked them all together with hinges purchased at Lowes that I painted with rust colored paint (I think they actually sell rust spray paint now?). I still have 4 more....need to get started on those LOL

Oh and you can't see it, but there are hinges on the back side of the middle shutters linking those together as well. So it folds accordian style and sits up on our side table in the dining room. That way I don't have to hang them anywhere and it folds pretty flat when I store it after Christmas. It won't fold accordian style when you store it, due to the clothespins and decorations, but it will fold backwards with 2 shutters laying on the other 2....so it fits nicely in the storage containers I have for Christmas decorations.

 

[piglet50]

one of my friends punched a hole in each card and just hung it with a regular metal ornament holder. she called it her tree of love because she felt so much love from the cards her friends had sent her. it was very pretty. i may do that next year.