Pintrest, eat your heart out!

Christmas card display 2012

The bow

I love sending and getting Christmas cards.  The past two years, I have been able to display my Christmas cards on the ledge that ran along the long wall of our apartment in Indianapolis.  The ledge was MADE for displaying Christmas cards.  I loved it!  This year, however, I was at a real loss for how to display the cards in our new house.  Wherever they went, they had to be at least four feet off of the ground, otherwise little fingers would rip them to shreds.  I looked online at purchasing a card display, but all the things I found were expensive and needed something to sit on.  I really wanted something wall or door mounted, so that it didn't take up a lot of space.  That's when I thought of Pintrest!  Surely this site of DIY crafts would have some ideas for how to hang my Christmas cards.  And it did not disappoint!  Inspired by several pictures on Pintrest, I came up with our Christmas card display!

It was really easy and very cheap.  All I did was use some Command mounting adhesive to tape Christmas ribbon on the wall.  Command products are not supposed to damage the wall, so here's hoping that holds true when I take this down!  I put a little bow in the center so it looks like the wall is a wrapped Christmas present, right?  Then I have just been putting the cards on the ribbon using paper clips.  Don't see your card up there?  Well that's because you haven't sent it to me yet!!