Creating Your Own Card History

In our apartment, we always manage to find greeting cards with wishes from the closest and dearest people. However, because over time we accumulate a large number of such cards, we no longer have the opportunity to enjoy them every day. Also, free space in our apartments is limited. Therefore, placing them throughout the apartment is not only impossible but also inappropriate.

Thus, the cards we received as gifts gather dust in our table drawers or among family photo albums. We only look at them when we do a deep clean at home, organizing the contents of wardrobes, dressers, and side tables.

Agree that this is not only unfair to those people who sincerely congratulated us on any holidays, but also robs us of positive and warm emotions throughout the day.

However, these drawbacks can easily be eliminated using household items and your own creativity.

Try creating your own card history and decorate the wall in the bedroom, hallway, or living room. You will not only create additional coziness in the room but also fill it with positive energy.

Photo 1 — New Life for Old Cards

Creating such a card history is not difficult. For this, you need to take all the greeting cards you have and choose those that are most precious to your heart.

You can select cards both horizontally and vertically.

However, to avoid disrupting the composition of the cards, we recommend choosing horizontal or vertical variants in pairs. This will help you properly arrange the cards and create a unique and irreplaceable history of them.

Once you have finished selecting the cards, proceed to creating the structure on which they will be placed.

To make this structure, you need a thin wooden strip or plywood, later painted in any bright or pastel color or coated with a thin layer of lacquer. You can make the frame in any geometric shape (rhombus, circle, triangle, square, trapezoid) or in the form of a sun.

These wooden structures are attached using a nail or a special hook hammered into the wall. The whole structure is lightweight, so it doesn't create a feeling of heaviness or bulk and fits perfectly into the already created interior.

Once the structure is ready, you can confidently attach the cards with glue and other mounting materials in the desired orientation. It is preferable to arrange them by size, shape, and drawings on them. The structure itself can be decorated with ribbons, ribbons, small souvenirs, beads, and other homemade or purchased replicas.