Displaying Cards with a DIY Christmas Card Tree

The notes below stay with placement, materials, and the sequence that avoided a redo of the redo. A strong choice is getting Christmas cards and they've already started to trickle in from my much-better-organized-than-me friends. Every year I have big intentions of displaying our holiday cards but somehow they always end up thrown in a pile instead. Not this year! Before starting into any other holiday decorating, I decided to figure out a simple DIY for displaying the Christmas cards that we get from family and friends. My foyer is now sporting a new DIY Christmas Card Tree!

You can also see a little sneak peek of my living room decked out for Christmas!

The household has only gotten a few cards in the mail so far so my little Christmas card tree is looking a bit bare but It is worth laying out with how it turned out and looking forward to filling it up!

My top priorities in figuring out a Christmas card display were that it had to be simple and something that won't mess up my walls. I recently prepped my foyer walls so that they're all ready to be painted after the holidays so I didn't want to add any nail holes or put anything on my walls that will peel off their finicky plaster skim coat.

To make my Christmas card display, I used the following supplies (post includes affiliate links – see my full disclosure statement {here}): FrogTape 1″, multi-surface (it's a great shade of green!), clear Command clips, ¾″ red and white chevron ribbon, mini clothes pins, red and white twine, and a glue gun.

Once I had my supplies, constructing my Christmas card tree took under an hour. I first cut six strips of FrogTape in progressively smaller sizes and taped them to the wall, using a level to make sure they were relatively straight and a ruler to keep them evenly spaced. Then, to add a little more decoration, I attached the red and white chevron ribbon (cut slightly shorter than the green tape lines) to my painters tape using a glue gun on the low heat setting. Using some kind of adhesive would work too or you can skip the ribbon and just leave your tree green! Then I attached a clear Command clip on both ends of each line (and one in the middle too for the longer lines). Finally, I strung the red and white striped Baker's twine between the two clear clips.

I then used mini clothespins to clip my holiday cards to the twine:

The base of my tree was made out of scrapbook paper and a piece of ribbon and my tree topper was a 3-D star that I made out of scrapbook paper using my Silhouette cutting tool. Both the base of my tree and the star were attached to the wall with FrogTape:

I'll add another picture or two when my Christmas card tree has gotten a little more full but at least The household has gotten a good start (and kept my cards from piling up on our kitchen counter…).

Do you like to find ways to display your Christmas cards too or are you more of a read-it-and-then-chuck-it kinda person?