Christmas Card Brag Board

Add to your Christmas wall decor and display your favorite cards with one easy-to-make Christmas craft. Create a Christmas Card Brag Board using Christmas fabric or wrapping paper, ribbon and other decorative holiday embellishments.


 

Materials:

• Clothespins
• Gold or Silver spray paint
• Christmas Fabric or wrapping paper
• 16" X 20" inch canvas
• 1/4” red ribbon or craft trim
• 3 Christmas picks / decorative items of your choice
• Staple gun or hammer and nails
• Scissors
• Hot glue gun
• Optional: Mod Podge

Instructions:

1. Spray paint each clothespin with gold or silver paint. Allow to dry completely.
    
2. Cover canvas with fabric. Staple fabric to the back of the frame.
    
3. Or: Cover canvas completely with mod podge. Adhere the fabric orpaper to the canvas. If using paper, mod podge over the paper. Allow to dry completely.
    
4. Dismantle Christmas pick. Using your hot glue gun, decorate along the top of the canvas with your Christmas pick elements.
    
5. String the red ribbon across the canvas and attach at each end behind the canvas with a staple gun or hammer and nails.
    
6. Repeat every 5 inches down the canvas.
    
7. Clip Christmas cards to the ribbon.

How to Make a Christmas Card Brag Board:

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