FYI – The pictures in this post aren’t so great; I switched the lens on the camera and had gotten used to the other one! I’m working on my skills, though, so hopefully the pics will be less blurry/crappy next time!

I LOVE getting Christmas cards. I literally open them on my porch so I can see them all right away. During the Christmas season, I’m seriously disappointed if there’s not at least one card in the mailbox each day! I like to look at the cards all month, and I also love to go to other people’s houses and look at their cards. Is that weird?!

For years {like since college!}, I’ve displayed my Christmas cards in this gold star basket that I picked up Pier 1.

And I was perfectly ok with that basket until I started seeing all kinds of fun ways to display cards on the internet. Earlier this week, I saw on Pinterest {imagine that!} that someone, somewhere had covered pieces of foam board with fabric and then pinned their cards to the boards.

Genius. Customizable. Affordable.

Lo and behold, I was on the phone with Beverly on Monday while I was on the way to her house {what? you don’t talk to the person whose house you’re going to?!} and told her about the idea I stole/found. She had a piece of foam board I could have, so I stopped at Hobby Lobby to get some fabric and voila! Today, I hung my new Christmas card holder.

I think it would be *really* cool if you had the wall space to hang several of these together so you could see all of the cards. I’d have a hard time taking them down after the holiday!

The total cost? Foam board, glue sticks, ribbon and hot glue gun burn on my index finger = $0. Fabric = $6. I don’t know how much fabric I used because I had the lady at HL roll out some of the fabric and I tried to remember how big the foam board {even though it was IN my car!} and said, “yeah, about that much please.” And it only took me 10 minutes to put it all together.

Tell us – How do you display your cards?