I love getting Christmas cards and they’ve already started to trickle in from my much-better-organized-than-me friends. Every year I have big intentions of displaying our holiday cards but somehow they always end up thrown in a pile instead. Not this year! Before starting into any other holiday decorating, I decided to figure out a simple DIY for displaying the Christmas cards that we get from family and friends. My foyer is now sporting a new DIY Christmas Card Tree!
You can also see a little sneak peek of my living room decked out for Christmas – you can see my entire Christmas house tour {here}!
We’ve only gotten a few cards in the mail so far so my little Christmas card tree is looking a bit bare but I’m excited with how it turned out and looking forward to filling it up!
My top priorities in figuring out a Christmas card display were that it had to be simple and something that won’t mess up my walls. I recently prepped my foyer walls so that they’re all ready to be painted after the holidays so I didn’t want to add any nail holes or put anything on my walls that will peel off their finicky plaster skim coat.
To make my Christmas card display, I used the following supplies (post includes affiliate links – see my full disclosure statement {here}): FrogTape 1″, multi-surface (it’s a great shade of green!) , clear Command clips, 3/4″ red and white chevron ribbon, mini clothes pins, red and white twine, and a glue gun.
Once I had my supplies, constructing my Christmas card tree took under an hour. I first cut six strips of FrogTape in progressively smaller sizes and taped them to the wall, using a level to make sure they were relatively straight and a ruler to keep them evenly spaced. Then, to add a little more decoration, I attached the red and white chevron ribbon (cut slightly shorter than the green tape lines) to my painters tape using a glue gun on the low heat setting. Using some kind of adhesive would work too or you can skip the ribbon and just leave your tree green! Then I attached a clear Command clip on both ends of each line (and one in the middle too for the longer lines). Finally, I strung the red and white striped Baker’s twine between the two clear clips.
I then used mini clothespins to clip my holiday cards to the twine:
The base of my tree was made out of scrapbook paper and a piece of ribbon and my tree topper was a 3-D star that I made out of scrapbook paper using my Silhouette cutting tool. Both the base of my tree and the star were attached to the wall with FrogTape:
I’ll add another picture or two when my Christmas card tree has gotten a little more full but at least I’ve gotten a good start (and kept my cards from piling up on our kitchen counter…).
Do you like to find ways to display your Christmas cards too or are you more of a read-it-and-then-chuck-it kinda person?
cassie says
December 3, 2014 at 7:14 amthat is adorable! i haven’t even thought about where i will put my cards this year!
Kris @ Driven by Decor says
December 3, 2014 at 9:25 pmI haven’t even taken our family picture for our cards yet – would probably have made sense to do that first instead of my Christmas card tree!
Denise says
December 3, 2014 at 8:38 amSo cute and simple! I was just thinking about where to put the cards yesterday! Glad I saw this today 🙂
Kris @ Driven by Decor says
December 3, 2014 at 9:28 pmThanks Denise – I’m so impressed with everyone who is on the ball enough to have already gotten their cards, aren’t you?!
Pam @ Simple Details says
December 3, 2014 at 9:36 amYou are seriously so darn clever!! I’m one of your less organized friends! 🙂
Kris @ Driven by Decor says
December 3, 2014 at 9:29 pmI love my less organized friends – I feel right at home with them 🙂
Vel says
December 3, 2014 at 10:48 amThis is genius Kris!!! I want one too!!!! Wish I had the wall for it, but definitely keeping this in mind. 🙂 Thank you!
Kris @ Driven by Decor says
December 3, 2014 at 9:29 pmI’m impressed that you don’t have any empty wall space – just shows how great you are about decorating your whole house!
Stacey says
December 3, 2014 at 11:01 amCute idea! Yikes, I haven’t even ordered my cards yet.
Kris @ Driven by Decor says
December 3, 2014 at 9:30 pmMe neither Stacey – haven’t even taken our family picture yet…
Kimberley says
December 3, 2014 at 2:05 pmI’m going to mail you our card so we can get on the tree!!! Precious precious
Kris @ Driven by Decor says
December 3, 2014 at 9:31 pmI would love that! Right now I mostly have cards from exciting people like our old realtor and veterinarian 🙂
Raquel says
December 3, 2014 at 5:38 pmWe just received our first card yesterday and I was looking for ideas to display. Very cute tree idea!
Kris @ Driven by Decor says
December 3, 2014 at 9:31 pmThanks Raquel – mine are slowly trickling in too but I bet we’ll start getting loads of them starting next week!
Krystine www.KrystineEdwards.com/blog says
December 4, 2014 at 3:40 pmLOVE it Kris! I’m working on my mind this weekend and I have something similar to this and something else in mind! I’m overthinking it of course and so glad I saw this, It’s darling!
Kris @ Driven by Decor says
December 6, 2014 at 8:14 amCan’t wait to see it! I might bling up mine with a few ornaments this weekend!
Taylor Greenwalt says
December 4, 2014 at 10:20 pmWhat a great idea….I bet the kids love it!
Kris @ Driven by Decor says
December 6, 2014 at 8:14 amThanks Taylor – it will be fun to have once the photo cards start rolling in. Hope you have a great weekend!
Becky | This Is Happiness says
December 5, 2014 at 8:36 amSo cute! Love getting Christmas cards and this display is perfect!
Kris @ Driven by Decor says
December 6, 2014 at 8:15 amThanks Becky – it’s looking a little bare at the moment but I think it will be cute once I’ve got some more cards to add to it. 🙂
Holly says
December 5, 2014 at 8:41 amWhat a great idea!!! Last year I used washi tape to just slap them on the wall. I love the tree shape. Thank you!
Kris @ Driven by Decor says
December 6, 2014 at 8:15 amThat a fun idea Holly! Have a great weekend!
Brandi says
December 6, 2014 at 12:15 amI love this idea, Kris! So unique and clever. I wish I had an empty wall to do it too.
Kris @ Driven by Decor says
December 6, 2014 at 8:16 amThanks Brandi! I’m impressed that you don’t have an empty wall. I have way, way too many around here – I have a terrible time committing to art 🙂
amy says
December 6, 2014 at 7:29 amWhat is a silhouette cutting tool? Do you have other suggestions for topper for those without special tools?
Kris @ Driven by Decor says
December 6, 2014 at 8:18 amHi Amy! A Silhouette is a printer-like machine that cuts out paper in letters, shapes, and all sorts of things. Fun to have but definitely nothing you’d want to pay for for something as simple as this. You could just cut out a star from a fun patterned scrapbook paper or even choose a lightweight glittery ornament to put there!
Christine Boxcer says
December 7, 2014 at 6:46 amI live in the U.K. Could you please explain what ” command clips are ” as I’ve never heard of them here? Card displayer looks amazing! Thank you! Chris
Kris @ Driven by Decor says
December 7, 2014 at 11:24 pmSure Christine – they are small transparent clips that have a special adhesive that allows them to stick to the wall really securely but when you want to remove them, they come off without leaving any marks on your wall. If you click on the highlighted link where it says “Command clips”, you can see more details about this product if you’d like. Thanks so much for stopping by the blog!
Louise Adkins says
December 17, 2014 at 8:52 amLove your tree shapped card tree!
Jennifer says
November 30, 2015 at 10:04 pmI LOVE this idea!!! Can you please tell me the measurements of each strip of tape?