Creative DIY Christmas Card Holders

how to make your own Christmas card holder. To make a creative Christmas card holder You can probably find everything you need in your house or by a quick run to your nearest store. In the end you have a custom creative way to display your holiday cards! I choose ribbon as my backdrop. I like to use thick and wide ribbon. Preferable 2 inches thick. Christmas sections of the store have a huge host of ribbons. Red, Green, Velvet, cloth, crinkly, anything you can think to look for. Even if your holiday colors run to blue or even a different color, you can find ribbon to match. I use this ribbon because you can put a card on each side. A thinner ribbon doesn't work so well. I cut my ribbon in 1.5- 2 feet lengths. This ensures i have room for a few cards to clip.

Here is where you start the creative process. You can decorate the ribbon however you choose to. I like to use hot glue and put rickrack, or smaller ribbon strips along the 2 inch ribbon to decorate. Sometimes i hand sew bells or snowflakes on for a festive sounding decoration. Anything you can think of can be used. One year we bought mini candy canes and use a small stitch with thread to sew them onto the ribbons. It just goes to show that anything you find can be hot glued or stitched on. You don't need to know how to sew in order to put a tack in with a needle. If you are really afraid, you can try a staple gun in some cases but it wont work for something hard like a bell, a candy cane, or buttons.

Next part is another very creative part. You will need plain old clothespins. I prefer to use old wooden ones. They cost around 2 dollars at a store. Sometimes a bit more if you plan on buying alot, but for most cases, 20 is probably enough. Unless you have a huge family and lots of friends, then buy however many you need. You can decorate these any way you want. Some people enjoy making reindeer or Santas out of clips. You can paint them solid, you can paint patterns or hot glue things onto them. I like to use buttons, pom poms, bells, ribbons and glitter glue pens. I find the glitter glue pens at a craft store. Regular markers work great as well.

When you have finished decorating Simply pin your Christmas cards to the ribbon using the clothes pins. This is a great family project. Children can help pick out every bit of the project as well as decorate the clothes pins. Of course supervision should be used when using scissors and hot glue for young children, but this is a fantastic project for everyone in the family. You can make as many as you need or want and it can even make a great early Christmas gift!

For this craft, you can probably find alot of materials laying around your house, but here is a list of materials that i like to use.

Wide Ribbon, preferably 2 inches or wider.

Wooden Clothespins

Thin ribbon, 1/4-1/2 inch wide

RickRack

PomPoms

Sequins

Miniature Candy Canes

Bells

Glitter glue pens

Markers

Colored paper

And supplies include

Hot Glue Gun

Glue stick

Scissors

Needle and colorful tread ( i use embroidery floss separated into 2 or 3 strands for each thread)

A hook or nail to hang your card holder

I hope you have fun making these card holders!