Putting up eeboo wall cards?

[mudder17]

I have 26 eeboo wall art cards (Animal Parade, A-Z) that I want to put up in Mika's room. They're fairly sturdy, but still flexible, so I want to frame them or something before putting them up. So my questions:

1) Does anyone know of a source where I could get 26 8x10 frames inexpensively?

2) Maybe there's an alternative I haven't thought of? I'm not opposed to putting up a chair rail type thing (but higher) and putting the cards on top of that, but not sure how it would in execution.

3) Other suggestions?

Thanks!

Eileen

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[vonfirmath]

we have the tools versions of these. Tried putting them up with teacher-sticky tack, and they started falling down the first day. So that was not so good.

However, it seems to me that 26 wall frames would take up a LOT of space. I was thinking of putting up 2 or 3 at a time and then switching them out occasionally.

[mudder17]

Hmm...that's a good point. I just measured and her room is 13-14' on two sides, so I can easily do 13 on each side near the ceiling. But I'll have to think about it some more. Thanks!

Eileen

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[niccig]

Eileen,
I have 36 cards - alphabet and 10 numbers. It's not the same as yours, it's May Gibbs (an Australian author). My mother and I mounted the cards with double sided tape on heavy cardstock, and then we used velcro dots to put them up around the room. We have a strip of trim around the top of the room, and the cards fit nicely between that and the ceiling. In 3 years, not one has come down.

I also saw a Martha Stewart idea - you use 2 lengths of trim and tuck the frieze between it. http://www.marthastewart.com/good-things/alphabet-wall-frieze?lnc=817fcafb74ece010VgnVCM1000003d370a0aRCR D&rsc=navigation_home_painting

I like this idea better, but when DS was born we were in a rental, and then we moved and I never had the time other than using velcro dots.

Hope that helps.
Nicci

[mudder17]

Oh, what a great idea! That sounds like something I could do! When we repaint Mika's room, we'll look into the idea of getting some trim. We are tentatively thinking of a blue room with yellow trim.


Eileen

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[daisymommy]

I have a friend who did it the way shown on the Martha Stewart website. It looked really nice! As long as you use a leveling tool to hang the trim straight, it should be easy.

[teddy]

I actually used some kind of tacky wall putty by either Scotch or 3M with too much success.

I mounted them on the eaves in the kids' room (they have a slanty wall, actually it's the roof of the house - I think that's the eave?).

The tacky wall putty is very very sticky. The cards rarely fell down despite holding the cards up on an angle towards the floor.

I say too much success because when it was time to take them down to repaint, I had a very hard time! The cards came down easily but the putty left a residue, much like chewing gum, on the eave. When I did get that off, there was an oily spot left.

HTH. I like the frieze idea but would have been too lazy to do that!

[tiapam]

You could also do string and hang with clothespins or another type of clip.

-Pam

DD - 3 YO

[Clarity]

We used the Martha Stewart idea to create an Eeboo wall border around our dd's room and it really came out well. I went to Home Depot and bought thin strips of molding which I then painted and tacked onto our wall. Then, we just slid in the cards and it looks adorable and it was really very easy. I don't know how to post pics or I'd show you her room. It's also much cheaper than picture frames.

[CiderLogan]

We hung alphabet cards on three walls of our playroom. We put a small screw at each end of each wall and put a piece of twine between them. We used tiny clothespins from the Container Store to hang each card & divided them up so the spacing was the same around the room. It was easy, cheap, and only required 6 holes!

-J (Mama to two amazing girls, ages 1 and 4)