Do you love getting Christmas cards as much as I do? I love opening all the cards and seeing beautiful pictures of all the people I love! I do wonder what to do with them after I open them though. I have some kitchen shelves that I sometimes put them on, but it can looked cluttered. I try to tape them to the wall, but then I spend every morning re-sticking the ones that fell.
I’m just not going to pay that for 2ft of pine. No way, no how!
So I used a 24″ piece of fence board that I had leftover from another project. I painted it white, but I didn’t use a ton of paint because I wanted it to look really rustic. The fence boards are super easy to make look antique and rustic. I just dabbed the paint from the bottle on the board and then smeared it around until it looked good.
After the paint dried, I used some black glitter adhesive vinyl and cut out the Merry Mail Vinyl. You can get a cut file I made with Merry Mail Here! I peeled the backing off of half of the vinyl and placed it down to make sure I had it on straight. Then I peeled the backing off the second half and stuck it down.
Next, I cut 4 strings to 3 feet long. I used my heavy-duty stapler to attach the strings at 3″, 9″, 15″, and 21″. This way they were equal distance apart. To hang the sign, I stapled the plaid ribbon to the back above the 2 outside strings (so at 3″ and 21″).
Then it was done! It was really fast, and easy!
I love doing projects for my friends, and this would make a really great Christmas gift for your card-loving friends!
Here is where you can buy my Merry Mail cut file!
