Pegboard Christmas Tree Card Holder Craft
So, I haven’t gotten any Christmas cards yet, and we’re pretty late for the game! But to be fair, I can still see the cards I need to send in the box, which are untouched from where I’m sitting!
Sometimes things get too busy for cards, but when you get them, boy, oh, boy, is it lovely!
Pegboard Christmas Tree Card Holder
To showcase the cards my parents are receiving in the mail, I stitched a tree out of pegboard and hung the two they received during their time off! Ultimately, we thought it was a lovely, out-of-the-way display that was modern and great for the season. Plus, it will slide behind the china cabinet and hang out until next year’s crop of holiday cards turns up!
Supplies Needed for Pegboard Christmas Tree Card Holder
- Free cross-stitch pattern
- 2×4 sheet of peg board (already cut and available at Home Depot)
- Yarn
- Tapestry needle
- Marker
How to Make a Pegboard Christmas Tree Card Holder
So here is your template for the design. It’s nothing fancy because I just whipped it up. I decided I wanted tall and spindly as opposed to super full. And with as crazy as the days have been, I’m glad… if this sucker were made up of hundreds of stitches, it wouldn’t be done yet!
To start, mark the beginning of your X shapes on the board. Now, I started with a Sharpie marker that matched my yarn pretty dang well, and that worked out great until I lost the marker. Hmm.
That’s when I realized that I could use an erasable marker. Kaboom! This is a fab solution if you struggle to keep up with charts. I get easily sidetracked, so I’m better at marking a few rows of Xs on my board and stitching right to them.
As I went, I would mark off each row of x shapes and transfer them to my board.
I was able to easily clean away the X shapes whenever they got out of hand 🙂
And my tree grew, and grew, and grew!
And there it is! I used Vanna yarn and doubled it over rather than buying something thicker and more expensive.
Since my parents had no wire ornament hangers, I used paper clips to attach the cards to the tree.
I underestimated the size of the cards about the tree so that each card could cover up a lot.
We might hang some ornaments on the tree, and my mom can stack her cards on the mantle as usual. Either way, she’s happy with her new holiday piece!
A crafter since her earliest years, Allison spends a little time every day making something. She crafts, sews, paints, glues things onto other things, and is a firm believer that a life spent creating is a life worth living. Visit Allison’s blog, Dream {a Little} BIGGER.