Comments on: Ask DSM Readers: How Do You Display Christmas Cards?

By: Jenna

Jenna — Fri, 10 Dec 2010 23:24:49 +0000

I am looking for new ideas...love this post. I also use them for tags or scrapbooking and the pictures one I always save and stick in a scrapbook. :)

By: Jenna

Jenna — Fri, 10 Dec 2010 23:19:25 +0000

yes photo please!!!!!

By: Sandra U.

Sandra U. — Fri, 10 Dec 2010 19:28:17 +0000

I tape a loop of yarn on the card and we hang them on our Christmas Tree.

By: Lauren

Lauren — Fri, 10 Dec 2010 19:17:15 +0000

We have an artificial tree in the family room and hang the cards on the tree like ornaments. We keep some of our favorite ones throughout the years and rehang them every year and add the new ones.

By: Moriah

Moriah — Fri, 10 Dec 2010 14:18:15 +0000

I have a large antique mirror hanging in my entryway. Cards get stuck in the frame of the mirror year round. At the end of the season, I take all my Chrismas cards and cut out the pretty parts of them (like sparkly trees and snowmen). Then we punch a hole in the top and attach them with ribbon or twine to gifts to use as name tags!

By: Paula

Paula — Thu, 09 Dec 2010 22:16:36 +0000

I have a wall of three windows across my den. I hang my Christmas cards on the window blinds by slipping them over the slats so you can see the front of the card. Been doing it for years and now my daughter is doing the same thing in her house.

By: Doreen L

Doreen L — Thu, 09 Dec 2010 21:59:13 +0000

We luv to display cards too-but didnt want to mess up the wall from tape or holes from tacks. Each yr-I buy 2 rolls of door covering paper & totally cover 1 wall-we use masking tape to put the cards up-usu try to put them up in a xmas tree shape-and put other decorations on the paper as well. I usu like to run garland w lights around the entire frame & (esp at nite) the lights reflecting off the shiny paper add an awesome effect!

By: Lisa

Lisa — Thu, 09 Dec 2010 21:10:04 +0000

We love to display Christmas cards. The kids tape them to the wall in the entry hall in wreath and tree shapes. Then we use them for scrapbooking or making tags for next year!

By: Melissa

Melissa — Thu, 09 Dec 2010 20:17:21 +0000

Alyssa--We do something similiar only we use a large piece of ribbon with little clothes pins attached to it. Each card is attached with the decorative clothes pins (painted in red and green).

By: Deb

Deb — Thu, 09 Dec 2010 19:53:43 +0000

Sometimes I just can't bare to part with the really cute snowman cards!

By: Deb

Deb — Thu, 09 Dec 2010 19:48:17 +0000

I use my tried and true idea of clear fishing line-strung along the ceiling in the livingrm, dining and kitchen areas.
And to make it look a little fuller, if you will, I keep the fav cards from year to year and add those too!
Adds to the whole decorating thing.

By: Maria

Maria — Thu, 09 Dec 2010 19:19:58 +0000

I just can't afford them any longer and it seems a shame to send out something that's thrown away in just a few weeks. The money I would have spent on cards goes to food or presents or donations...

By: Amy

Amy — Thu, 09 Dec 2010 19:12:48 +0000

I wrap our banister in garland, so I use ornament hooks to hang each card like an ornament along the garland.

By: Tara Kuczykowski

Tara Kuczykowski — Thu, 09 Dec 2010 19:10:23 +0000

What a cute idea! I'd love to see a photo if you get a chance.

By: kristy

kristy — Thu, 09 Dec 2010 19:05:16 +0000

We take spools of ribbon and drape them over a door, the staple cards to the ribbon.

By: Catherine

Catherine — Thu, 09 Dec 2010 19:04:13 +0000

I bought some wire letters from Pottery Barn Kids in the letters J, O, and Y. They came white so I spray painted them red and hung them on the wall to spell JOY. This is the first year I've done this so I'm excited to see all of our cards on it. :-)

By: Christine @ Our Homeschool Reviews

Christine @ Our Homeschool Reviews — Thu, 09 Dec 2010 18:43:08 +0000

We have a Christmas rope that we hang from the switch to our tall floor lamp. We clothes pin them down the rope. :o)

By: Kim

Kim — Thu, 09 Dec 2010 18:38:30 +0000

BTW- Love the idea of reusing the cards as gift tags the next year! Definitely going to do that this year!

By: Kim

Kim — Thu, 09 Dec 2010 18:37:25 +0000

We have a large rod-iron sculpture on the wall in our kitchen. It's square in shape, so we tape the cards allong the perimeter. By the time Christmas gets here, it is framed nicely with lots of beautiful cards!

By: Elizabeth

Elizabeth — Thu, 09 Dec 2010 18:33:37 +0000

We put it up on each doorframe in our family room.