Creative Ways to Display Christmas Cards

Creative Ways to Display Christmas Cards
by Linda Kevich

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 d�cor 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.

About The Author

Linda Kevich is a leader in lifestyle arts. An internationally recognized wedding expert for the last 15 years, Kevich is often cited in the national and international media and is well known for showing couples how to have the weddings of their dreams through her popular web site SuperWeddings.com (http://www.superweddings.com). Now, through CreativeHomeStyle.com (http://www.creativehomestyle.com), Kevich, with her killer sense of style and academic background in design, takes her followers to the next step - beyond the wedding - inspiring them with ways to inject creativity and style into life at home.

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