With the holidays coming up, you’ll likely start receiving greeting cards from your family and friends. These are wonderful reminders of the people that you have in your life and it’s nice to know that they thought of you and wanted to send you something to commemorate the year. But after a while, these cards might start piling up — especially around Dec. 9, which is Christmas Card Day. What should you do with them once you receive them? Instead of throwing them away after you’ve looked at them or stacking them on the corner of a counter in your kitchen, you can incorporate them into your décor and display them for everyone to see! Here are some Christmas card display ideas for your apartment.
1. Hang them with ribbons
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Hang ribbons on a wall or in front of a window and use safety pins or clothespins to secure cards to the ribbon. This is versatile and allows you to hang Christmas cards from almost anything and anywhere.
2. Attach to a garland
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Hang a garland wherever you want to display your cards, whether it be a stair banister or fireplace mantle. Use floral wire, ribbon or clothespins to attach cards on the garland as you receive them throughout the season.
3. Suspend them from Christmas lights
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Dust off those Christmas lights in your storage. Since they’re perfectly appropriate for this time of year, hang a strand of Christmas lights and use it to hang cards from.
4. Stick them to a magnet board
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Use a metal board of some sort (it can be anything magnetic, really — a flat piece of sheet metal, a pizza tray from the dollar store, a cookie sheet, etc.), hang or lean it up against a wall and use magnets to hold your holiday cards up.
To further customize it, you can make your own magnets by using hot glue to attach beads, painted stones or other small items.
5. Utilize an old shutter
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Recycle an old shutter for your cards! Grab a shutter, paint it the color of your choice and display cards between the slats.
6. Make a card wreath
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Choose a wreath (any wreath will work) and use hot glue to add clothespins around the wreath. Then use the clothespins to hold up the cards.
As an alternative, you can make your own wreath of just clothespins by using a metal wreath frame and hot-gluing clothespins all around it. You can even paint the clothespins fun Christmas colors to match the rest of your holiday decor!
7. Connect them to chicken wire
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Grab an old picture frame and use a staple gun to secure chicken wire inside of it. Then you can use clothespins to hold cards in the chicken wire in any pattern you want.
8. Frame them in an old window
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If you have an old framed window lying around, you an easily use it to display your Christmas cards. Simply stick the cards in the edges of the frame to hold them in place.
9. Put them in a book
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Books are good for more than reading! Grab an old book and fold the pages inward — this will create a sort of fan effect. Then slot cards between the folded pages to stand them up!
10. Create a card tree
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If you’ve run out of ornaments or want to have a separate tree specifically for cards, use some trusty clothespins to secure cards to tree branches. It doesn’t matter if your Christmas tree is real or artificial — this will work either way!
11. Place them in a basket
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Place a festive basket in a prominent area, such as an entryway bench or side table, and pile your cards in.
12. Put up a mural
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Make a mural out of your cards on a wall or door. Use some mounting putty on the back of each card and stick it up in whatever pattern you like.You can make it random and hang up cards as you receive them or try your hand at creating a design, such as a Christmas tree or a wreath shape.
13. Make a wooden card sign
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Use whatever extra wood you have lying around or find some at a hardware store. Paint it with a favorite holiday word, phrase or picture. Then, add clips to it to hold your cards.
14. Put them on a ring
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Punch a hole in the corner of each card and add it to a binder ring. This makes it easy to flip through cards and not lose any. As a fun bonus, you can do this each year and bring out past binder rings full of cards to see how everyone has grown from year to year.
15. Construct a card mobile
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Use two to three wire hangers and combine them using wire or string. Then, hang a few ribbons or pieces of string from them and attach cards to create a mobile. You can hang your card mobile from a wall, a command hook on the ceiling or an existing light fixture.
16. Put them in wire photo holders
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Create a display using various sizes of wire photo holders. Place them across a mantle or on a side table and spread them throughout your apartment in any way you want!
Display the joy
Now that you have a few ideas for your Christmas card display, spread that little bit of extra joy and cheer this season by showing them off! They’re an easy piece of DIY Christmas décor. Plus, cards will make your apartment feel like a warm and welcoming holiday haven and show that you’re grateful for the wonderful people in your life.
