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Easy DIY Holiday Card Holder

Happy Thanksgiving week!  I hope you have a great celebration planned!  My in-laws are flying in from South Carolina, so I will be busy cleaning and cooking much of the week.  And of course I will be out shopping on Friday – one of my favorite days of the year!  (Yes, I am one of those people.)

I will also be eagerly awaiting the arrival of the first Christmas cards of the year!  They always begin rolling in right after Thanksgiving, and this year I’m prepared with a cute way to display them!  (They usually go into a basket where I can’t really see all of them.)  Easy DIY Holiday Card Holder

I mean really, how festive is this wreath card holder?

Supplies

  • 18″ chipboard wreath form
  • Clothespins (I used 25)
  • Wired ribbon
  • Wood glue
  • Hot glue (and glue gun)
  • Gold glitter paint
  • Green acrylic paint
  • Felt (I used two shades of green and 1 red)

Instructions

First I painted my chipboard wreath form and clothespins green using regular acrylic paint.  card - paint form and clips
Once the paint dried, I tied a ribbon into a loop at the top of the wreath so that I could hang my card holder. I then made a bow out of the same ribbon and hot glued that to the front of the loop. Then I started gluing my clothespins around the wreath form with wood glue, alternating the opening ends on the inside and outside of the wreath form.  card - glue clothespins
Once all of the clothespins were secured, I cut some holly leaves and berries out of felt and glued those to some of the clothespins with hot glue. I added a little gold glitter paint to some of them for some sparkle.  Card - left side

Then my card holder wreath was finished!  Card - wreath horizontal
I’m super impressed that I was able to find some random Christmas cards in my basement to stick on there for these photos. Sometimes being a pack rat pays off.  card - vertical
Now that I’ve got a way to display the cards other people send me, I should probably figure out what I’m going to do about my own Christmas cards.  But that can wait until Thanksgiving’s over!

How do you usually display your Christmas cards?

– Bre
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    • Hi, Danielle – thank you!! Yes, I already linked up this week and love your party! Have a great week!

    • Hello, Crystelle! Yes – this project is SO easy! Ridiculously easy! I’m so glad I have some Christmas cards floating in now to fill it up, too! Thanks for stopping by today! 🙂

    • Hi, Lindsay! Thank you! Yes, definitely a great craft to have the kids involved in! Have a great night!

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