Create a Greeting Card Garland

In 1843, the Christmas card was invented by a man named John Calcott Horsley, who lived in Italy.

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Showcase beautiful holiday cards to create a colourful theme that carries throughout the home. Here are a few simple ideas to display your greeting cards and decorate the home this Christmas.

Create a Greeting card garland

1. Select your favourites from the Christmas cards you've received this year.

2. Punch holes in each card in varying positions and thread ribbon through the holes.

Bunch groups of cards together for added fullness. Use simple Christmas ornaments or shiny beads strung onto the ribbon for additional interest. Hang the garland around your tree, across your fireplace mantel, across a window, through your banister, add to a chair back or over a doorway - the options are endless.

More Greeting Card Display Ideas

This year, find a creative way to display your Christmas cards by using them to create a decorative element throughout your home.

1. Use inexpensive wood or metal frames and frame the most beautiful holiday cards you receive. Group them together to create a mini-display in your entryway or on your fireplace mantle.

2. Create a holiday card display board. Use a sturdy foam core board and cover with Christmas wrapping paper. Crisscross ribbons across the board in a harlequin pattern. Slip holiday cards beneath the ribbons for a charming and easily viewable display.

3. Cut lengths of wide ribbon or green tinsel. Attach cards to ribbon using paper clips or clothes pegs and hang on wall.

4. Make a card tree. Artificial Christmas trees allow for the branches to be bent and arranged making them ideal for holding cards at various heights.

5. Display cards in small gilded frames as place cards for the dining room table.

6. Branches create an airy arrangement for displaying multiple greeting cards. Try assembling a group of birch poles and lean them against the wall. Lash together with festive ribbons and hang holiday cards and special ornaments.

7. Display cards on a mantle or shelf tucked amongst greenery and twinkling lights.

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