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Post by workingclassdog on Dec 13, 2021 15:21:38 GMT
I have an old Flexible Flyer sled that has been refurbished. I take ribbon or some sort of string and hang them from the string all over the sled. It looks pretty. I don't drag the sled out anymore as we only get a couple of cards. When I did the card exchange here, I got it out and it looked great.
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Post by caangel on Dec 13, 2021 16:23:35 GMT
We receive about 60+ cards, so that antler idea would never work with us. Same! Not sure if this link will work but we have a 4ft metal Christmas tree for the wall that a ton of places to hold cards. We over load it every year. We send out over 100 cards each year. images.app.goo.gl/bCwJyfHE5AXfjwrP7
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Post by ~summer~ on Dec 13, 2021 16:36:30 GMT
I keep mine in a wooden bowl on the kitchen counter. It is too much clutter to display them though in the past I did things like hang them from a garland on our mantel or over a doorway.
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Post by scrappyrabbit on Dec 13, 2021 17:17:39 GMT
So many ideas in this thread!! Right now, I have them on my fireplace mantle but I am already out of room, and there are still 2 weeks until Christmas. We get a lot of cards around here (huge extended families).
I am struggling because I don't have any shelves in this house, so no where to display things. I used to hang them on a small bookshelf, but I don't have that anymore. I like the taping on a wall in a christmas tree shape, I will give it a try!
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Post by julieinsweden on Dec 13, 2021 17:30:33 GMT
I hang ribbons over the curtain rail of a window. Then pin through the back side of the cards into the ribbon. That way I can still open them to read them.
My MIL keeps them in a bowl in the kitchen. I feel like not bothering to make her a card because it just gets looked at once then stuffed into the bowl.
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Post by fredfreddy44 on Dec 13, 2021 18:26:25 GMT
Use curling ribbon. Cut off a long piece and tape 6 or 7 cards down it. Curl the end and hang it up somewhere, repeat.
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Post by twinsmomfla99 on Dec 13, 2021 22:32:14 GMT
We get very few physical cards to display, so they end up sitting in a small stack on the end table beside our couch LOL. I used to have a gold wire wreath that had "loops" that acted sort of like paper clips to hold cards. I would hang it on the wall in our family room each year, and as we received cards, they went on the wreath. It was similar to this, but it was a little more ornate and had more loops.
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Post by Tamhugh on Dec 13, 2021 23:01:00 GMT
I tape any photo cards to the back of the coat closet door or powder room door. For the rest, I took an old framed picture that I didn’t like anymore and took out the picture and glass. I spray painted the frame green and stapled chicken wire to the back. I hang it in my dining room and tie the cards to it with raffia.
I send out about 90 cards and get back about 70. I am happy this year to see how many young families are sending cards because I was afraid that it was a dying tradition.
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Post by myboysnme on Dec 13, 2021 23:59:03 GMT
I keep mine in a basket on the coffee table. Guests love to look through them. What I do is basically this but I put mine in a gold colored sleigh candle stick thing my mom had on our dining room table growing up. Before this I taped them to the back of a door. Many cards I get these days are flat photo cards so I can't just set them up. When I was little my mom put our cards in a felt snowman with a pocket that hung on the wall. I still have that in the bottom of my Christmas box. Maybe next year I will resurrect it for one more year.
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Post by myboysnme on Dec 13, 2021 23:59:59 GMT
I have an old Flexible Flyer sled that has been refurbished. I take ribbon or some sort of string and hang them from the string all over the sled. It looks pretty. Oh I would love to see this! I have a small collection of old sleds and would love an idea for them.
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Post by AussieMeg on Dec 14, 2021 1:26:28 GMT
This is how I displayed my Pea cards the previous two years that I did the card exchange: 1. I bought a string of battery operated star lights, attached them to my lounge room wall, tied curling ribbons to the string of lights between each star, then pegged the cards to the ribbons using little wooden craft pegs: 2. I strung up three rows of curling ribbon (using 3M plastic adhesive hooks) from my door frame to the window frame in my entrance, and pegged the cards to the ribbon. I also pegged a Christmas bauble between each card. This year, depending on how many cards I get, I'm thinking that I might use the frame we made for DD's 21st birthday photo display. It's a timber frame, with strings of fairy lights attached to the back and hanging down vertically. Then we strung several rows of twine horizontally across the frame, attached to the back. Then we pegged photos to the twine. You can't tell from the photo, but it looked really nice with the fairy lights on. I also used this frame to display Christmas photos last year (but I can't find a photo of it to share).
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Post by scrappyrabbit on Dec 14, 2021 23:30:38 GMT
So I tried taping them to a wall (actually the door of my boiler/the thing that makes noise when the heater goes on) using blue painters tape and they keep falling Any solutions? AussieMeg how did you attach the lights/string to the wall with out it falling?
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Post by peabay on Dec 14, 2021 23:48:24 GMT
I keep mine in a basket on the coffee table. Guests love to look through them. Similar: we have a little Santa tin container that we put them in.
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Post by AussieMeg on Dec 14, 2021 23:51:14 GMT
AussieMeg how did you attach the lights/string to the wall with out it falling? I used 3M clear plastic hooks similar to these: clear hooks attached to the door frame and the window frame. Because they're clear, they're unobtrusive, and I have actually left them on the door and window frames so I can re-use them each year. Edited to add a photo - I either hook the lights over or tie the ribbon to the hooks:
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Post by scrappyrabbit on Dec 15, 2021 0:43:50 GMT
AussieMeg how did you attach the lights/string to the wall with out it falling? I used 3M clear plastic hooks similar to these: clear hooks attached to the door frame and the window frame. Because they're clear, they're unobtrusive, and I have actually left them on the door and window frames so I can re-use them each year. Edited to add a photo - I either hook the lights over or tie the ribbon to the hooks: Thanks, I just ordered some on amazon!!
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Post by mom2ja2 on Dec 15, 2021 3:22:12 GMT
Okay, I love Christmas cards.
I tape the current year's cards on the pillars that lead into our family room. I have turned our favorite cards from over the years into ornaments. Just a quick punch in the card & pretty ribbon. And then I use those cards to decorate a tree in our basement. People get a kick out of finding their family card on the tree.
I have saved every Christmas card we've received since we got married - 25 years ago! During quarantine I realized I had to come up with something to do with them. So I've started making little books for the cards. I'm using chipboard for covers to the books, and use some of my old scrapbooking skills to decorate the covers. Then 3 hole punch the cards & place them in a book with binder rings. I've grouped them by families, & have the books out in a box on display. They are really fun to look through, because the cards start out as young newlyweds, then babies, and now kids off in college & getting married. I still have several cards to get into books, hopefully it won't take another quarantine for me to get them done!
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Post by Scrapper100 on Dec 15, 2021 3:36:02 GMT
Being in a couple card swaps meant I have a lot this year. I have ribbon going over my china cabinet and then am using mini clothespins to attach I ran out of space so also am doing this on our grandfather clock. It’s cheap and easy. I just had to buy the clothespins which I need to buy another package. It will be easy to just roll the ribbon back up and reuse next year to .
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Post by candleangie on Dec 15, 2021 7:42:27 GMT
We stand them up in our tree as they arrive. (We get Nobles every year, so there’s lots of levels to play in)
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Post by scrappyrabbit on Dec 15, 2021 17:29:14 GMT
Okay, I love Christmas cards. I tape the current year's cards on the pillars that lead into our family room. I have turned our favorite cards from over the years into ornaments. Just a quick punch in the card & pretty ribbon. And then I use those cards to decorate a tree in our basement. People get a kick out of finding their family card on the tree. I have saved every Christmas card we've received since we got married - 25 years ago! During quarantine I realized I had to come up with something to do with them. So I've started making little books for the cards. I'm using chipboard for covers to the books, and use some of my old scrapbooking skills to decorate the covers. Then 3 hole punch the cards & place them in a book with binder rings. I've grouped them by families, & have the books out in a box on display. They are really fun to look through, because the cards start out as young newlyweds, then babies, and now kids off in college & getting married. I still have several cards to get into books, hopefully it won't take another quarantine for me to get them done! I love that!! In the past, I have made some of the cards into gift tags to be used on presents or I have layered them up with sentiments and made cards. Last year, I put all the photo cards I received into my album, since we hadn't seen anybody in person all year. But that is a super cute idea to make books out of them.
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Post by melanell on Dec 17, 2021 0:54:23 GMT
My MIL keeps them in a bowl in the kitchen. I feel like not bothering to make her a card because it just gets looked at once then stuffed into the bowl. If it makes you feel any better. my mom keeps hers in a basket, and I check them out every year, and I know she sets them out as a centerpiece when they have guests, and friends/family will look through them and ooh and ahh over them as well.
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Post by melanell on Dec 17, 2021 0:56:29 GMT
Okay, I love Christmas cards. I tape the current year's cards on the pillars that lead into our family room. I have turned our favorite cards from over the years into ornaments. Just a quick punch in the card & pretty ribbon. And then I use those cards to decorate a tree in our basement. People get a kick out of finding their family card on the tree. I have saved every Christmas card we've received since we got married - 25 years ago! During quarantine I realized I had to come up with something to do with them. So I've started making little books for the cards. I'm using chipboard for covers to the books, and use some of my old scrapbooking skills to decorate the covers. Then 3 hole punch the cards & place them in a book with binder rings. I've grouped them by families, & have the books out in a box on display. They are really fun to look through, because the cards start out as young newlyweds, then babies, and now kids off in college & getting married. I still have several cards to get into books, hopefully it won't take another quarantine for me to get them done! I have saved some of our cards some years and all of them other years. Different years I do different things with them. Some went into scrapbooks, others were used in crafts, etc. Yours sound so fun to look through!!
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Post by melanell on Dec 17, 2021 0:59:43 GMT
So I tried taping them to a wall (actually the door of my boiler/the thing that makes noise when the heater goes on) using blue painters tape and they keep falling Any solutions? Use more tape? I tape mine up pretty good! They do tend to eventually start falling, but I typically get at least a month out of them. But DH does always joke that I must have stock in tape companies because I tend to be heavy handed with tape in pretty much all situations.
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Post by scrappyrabbit on Dec 17, 2021 17:11:35 GMT
So I tried taping them to a wall (actually the door of my boiler/the thing that makes noise when the heater goes on) using blue painters tape and they keep falling Any solutions? Use more tape? I tape mine up pretty good! They do tend to eventually start falling, but I typically get at least a month out of them. But DH does always joke that I must have stock in tape companies because I tend to be heavy handed with tape in pretty much all situations. LOL even with heavy duty painters tape they took turns falling. One day, it would be one specific card that decided to fall every 30 min. Then another day, another card. I have a new set up now, I need to post a pic.
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Post by deekaye on Dec 17, 2021 21:45:38 GMT
I have a cute, red basket shaped like a sleigh that I keep the cards in. Everyone that comes over likes to go through them.
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Post by QueenoftheSloths on Dec 17, 2021 21:54:55 GMT
We stand them up in our tree as they arrive. (We get Nobles every year, so there’s lots of levels to play in) This sounds really pretty. I would love to see a picture!
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