Let's put your craft skills to the test this festive season and allow you to make a stunning doorway card garland. Turn all your favorite holiday and Christmas greeting cards into a cheery garland for your mantel. Swag yarn or ribbon between the corners of your fireplace and attach cards with decorative clothespins. Or even better, for an extra special touch, cut out ornament shapes and have your kids decorate them and add them into the mix.
Things you will need:
- Fresh or faux evergreen garland
- Large clear, heavy-duty tape
- Scissors
- Festive stickers
- Mini clothespins
- Festive baker's twine
- Festive cards
Guidelines:
Step 1: Finding Your Anchor
Find a doorway in your home with a little bit of a ledge. Starting from the top middle, place the end of your garland on top and find a branch that can be used as your first anchor and can easily be hidden by needles.
Step 2: Securing the Garland
Hold your anchor branch against the ledge. Measure out about 12 centimeters of heavy-duty tape to tack it down. Continue doing this all along the doorway until you reach the ground.
Step 3: Tying Stray Pieces
Use about 30-centimeter pieces of baker's twine to hold stray pieces of the garland together. Tie the pieces into a cute bow to double as decor accents.
Step 4: Preparing for Cards
Pay attention to those branches. Cut one long piece of baker's twine to weave around the entire garland. String it through the branches so it is exposed from end to end for pinning up your photos and cards.
Step 5: Decorating Clothespins
Bring out those holiday stickers and add them to the mini clothespins for added decor detail before you begin hanging your photos.
Step 6: Hanging Your Cards
You can now start hanging those cards around the garland. When arranging your photos, make sure you break up the orientation and color blocks. For example, don't hang two cards with dark backgrounds and vertical orientation right next to each other. Have fun doing this and add some contrast by mixing up the type of cards that you hang near each other.
You can set your Christmas card garland up in a place where it's easy for guests to approach and check out all the family holiday cards from the season.