Wednesday, December 23, 2009

Christmas Card Tree & Exchange

I really wanted something cute to do with my cards this year. I saw a few really cute tutorials on line, but only had like 7 cards...until tonight. You see, our church ward does a Christmas card exchange where you can drop off cards for anyone in your ward in a box at church and one of the Young Women volunteers (as a Personal Progress Good Works project) to sort and deliver them for every one. I think this program is amazing and am so thankful for the money saved on stamps. Frankly, I probably would not send them to my ward members if it were not for this. Sorry kids, stamps add up fast and delivering all of them would just plain take too long. ;)

So now, I had a stack of received cards and really wanted to show off the love before Christmas is over. So, I decided to arrange them as a Christmas card tree on the back of my front door. I love how it turned out though I did have to leave a few out because I forgot about the doorknob and deadbolt. Plus, all you need is tape. No fancy dancy supplies!

Thank you for all the beautiful and fun cards!

Merry Christmas to you and yours!

I hope you have a wonderful holiday with lots of food, family and fun and remember the greatest Christmas gift of all was never placed beneath a tree, but was placed in a manger bed for all the world to see. (quote from a tile my parents gave me)

I'll be taking the rest of the week off
to focus on what Christmas is really supposed to be about. The little one and I started it off tonight. We played spy/paparazzi (him trying on my old sunglasses while I tried to catch pics of him),


had a pizza party, danced, and watched Elf in our PJs. Daddy comes home tomorrow from his surprise Christmas mancation to the BYU bowl game (Go Cougars!) so we will be getting the real party started!


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10 Comments:

Paige said...

Cute, cute idea! Thanks for sharing. Merry CHRISTmas!

Colleen @ MuralMaker&More said...

cute idea. Don't think we got enough cards this year to do this, but my mom did. Your little guy is darling, btw!
Have a blessed Christmas!

Shan B. said...

That is an awesome idea. I think I'll work on it later today. Merry Christmas to you too & thank you for your awesome blog!! I know I appreciate it :)

Amanda K said...

Yeah! I see you got our card. I always tape my cards to the door in my front room but I never thought of designing a tree! I will have to remember that for next year! What a fun idea!

Becky said...

Yay! I see our card! Cute idea and love the sunglasses!

Steph said...

Love your card tree! What a great idea!

Grandma said...

I just want to wish you a Merry Christmas and Happy New Year! Thank you for sharing all your ideas!

Corrie Howe said...

I loved the Monocard...It was beautiful and oddly disturbing at the same time. I love the little guy in Wordless Wednesday and with the sunglasses and bomber jacket.

Kim -today's creative blog said...

great idea!

Luke and Mariah said...

I'm totally doing this! Thanks for the brilliant idea!