Creative Ways to Display Christmas Cards

| by Linda Kevich | December 06, 2006

The holiday season has a way of making most of us feel amazingly popular, as a flurry of Christmas cards fill our mailboxes. Then we have to figure out what to do with them all. When folks are thoughtful enough to remember you at Christmas time, it’s only fitting that you should put their card on display in your home. But all those cards can take up a lot of space and might even be thought of by some as , dare I say, “clutter”. That no longer needs to be a problem this holiday season - take a look at some precious card-displaying options that might actually enhance your holiday season décor this time around.

- Vertically hang one, two, or three bands of 3” wide ribbon from the top of a door in your living room, dining room, kitchen, main hall or foyer, and then pin the cards you receive to the ribbon. This is a terrific, not to mention really attractive, solution when you don’t have a lot of surface area to display cards on.

- Stand the cards up on the outer edges of your staircase (outside of the railing).

- String festive red pom-pom ball trim across a large window in your living room, kitchen, or dining room. Then attach the top of each card to the string of pom-pom ball trim with a clothes pin. Utterly charming! The trim is available by the yard (or meter) in craft shops and fabric stores.

- Use a hole punch to make a hole at the top of each Christmas card, then string narrow satin ribbon through the holes and tie the cards to the backs of your dining room chairs.

- Use a round men’s belt rack to display your cards in a circle. Make a hole at the top of each card with a hole punch, then string a narrow ribbon through the hole and hang from the circular wire rack. Place the rack in a prominent location in your living room, dining room, foyer, or kitchen.

- Use double sided tape to stick them to your windows in a scattered pattern.

- After Christmas, rather than throwing away the cards you received, think “recycle and re-use”: Cut off the front face of the card, as long as there is no handwriting on the backside of it, then use a hole punch to make a hole at the center-top of it. String a narrow ribbon through the hole, and use the following holiday season as a gift tag.

For even more card-displaying ideas, or other terrific ideas for decorating your home during the holiday season and year-round visit http://www.CreativeHomeStyle.com OR for creative holiday season wedding ideas head to http://www.SuperWeddings.com.

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About the Author

Linda Kevich is the editor and creator of SuperWeddings.com, one of the net's leading sites about weddings, online since 1999. Her wedding expertise and advice is enjoyed by thousands of readers at SuperWeddings.com each day. A professional wedding consultant for 14 years, she has helped couples around the world plan the weddings of their dreams, without breaking the bank to do it. Today she is also the Director of The International Institute of Weddings, a professional organization within the wedding industry. She is the developer of one of only a handful of training programs for professional wedding consultants in the world, and has personally trained and coached hundreds of wedding consultants internationally in establishing successful wedding businesses of their own. Visit her at SuperWeddings.com, one of the internet's leading online wedding guides. » Read more articles by Linda Kevich
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