A DIY barn wood card holder

At the Woodward house, things change often. Even Christmas decorations change within the month we decorate.

And sometimes, it’s because we break things. It happened with a FULL TREE one year. (Franco the pug was to blame.)

So, within a few days of creating the DIY wrapping paper art, I knocked the whole thing off the wall, causing the frame to break into several pieces. I could have put it back together, but I decided to scratch it and start again.

Because I still needed a good solution to display holiday cards. Here’s what I came up with:

We used two pieces of old barn wood that we cut to be 48 inches long. Then I painted them red and added a clothespin every 3 inches to the top and bottom of each.
I wanted to include a quote about the true spirit of the holidays – including the importance of those friends and family members who send cards each year. When I read this quote from The Grinch, I knew it was perfect. I pulled the quote from the Silhouette Design Store and just changed it up a bit to fit horizontally on the 4ft boards.

So that’s our little update to the holiday home tour I posted earlier this week.

I really liked the wrapping paper art, but the boards are actually probably more functional for the space. And I was even able to salvage the wrapping paper for gifts.

And that barn wood has survived 100+ years, so I don’t think I can possibly break it.