Good afternoon. Today we will make New Year's cards with our own hands. I will show you the most interesting ways and techniques. You will not only see photos, but also receive detailed instructions and diagrams for creating each such postcard. I will give you the necessary workshops to illustrate complex techniques (quilling, origami) step by step.
I decided to divide the entire article into 5 parts - on the topics of New Year's cards.
- First, we will look at a variety of Christmas trees on postcards.
- Then I will show which Santas can decorate your postcard.
- Then we will make Snowmen in different techniques.
- Then we move on to Christmas wreaths.
- And of course, consider the applications of snowflakes on postcards.
So let's get started...
Part one
FIR-tree on New Year's cards.
Method number 1 - paper triangles.
If you still have old signed New Year's cards, you can no longer re-gift them in the second round. But you can use them to create a NEW postcard. From a New Year's card, you can cut a triangle, put it on a leg and get a Christmas tree. The New Year's motif on the postcard turned out by itself - like the colors of the Christmas tree.
Or you can carve a Christmas tree from an ordinary cardboard box - rough corrugated packaging will be in harmony with delicate lace or pearl beads. And you will receive an elegant New Year's card made by yourself.
You can cut out a triangular Christmas tree shape with wavy edges, and glue it with sequins that imitate Christmas decorations on the Christmas tree.
You can give the triangular silhouette of the herringbone a scalloped edge (as in the postcard photo below). And also you can cut out several silhouettes at once and arrange them on one New Year's card.
On the blue New Year's card from the photo below, we see how a three-dimensional lobed Christmas tree is glued together from three triangles.
Or one Christmas tree silhouette can be larger in size and with a different shade of color - we put it as a duplicate background under the top silhouette (as on the right New Year's card from the photo below).
Method number 2 - paper ribbons on a New Year's card.
From paper or textile ribbons, you can quickly and easily form a herringbone appliqué.
You can use regular strips of colored paper. Or buy a braid with embroidery in the sewing department of the store. Or, in the gift department of the store, buy a sheet of elegant wrapping paper and cut patterned stripes from it for a Christmas tree appliqué on a New Year's card.
Here in the photo below we see several options for creating such a Christmas tree application.
Paper strips do not have to be glued in a strict order and symmetry. You can cut strips of four lengths - 10 cm, 8 cm, 5 cm, 3 cm. And arrange them in a chaotic oblique order starting from the bottom of 10 cm, in the middle we lay strips of 3 cm and 5 cm, and at the top 3 cm. We crown it all paper star and get a New Year's card with your own hands as in the left photo below.
You can also take a triangle cut out of thick cardboard and glue it with strips of paper or fabric, bending the edges of the strips to the inside of the cardboard triangle. And we will get a ready-made elegant Christmas tree, which you can safely stick on your postcard (right photo below).
But with paper strips, you can do not only planar applications. You can make Christmas trees in three-dimensional technique. Here I give a detailed description of how to make a looped Christmas tree with your own hands on a red New Year's card from the left photo below.
Step 1 - cut strips narrow and long - their lengths will also be different: 2 strips of 15 cm, 2 strips of 12 cm, 2 strips of 9 cm, and one strip of 7 cm.
Step 2 - we make cuts in the front side of the card with a blade - 2 slots on both sides along an imaginary line(the width of each slot is such that our strip can easily fit into it).
Step 3 - push each strip at one end through 2 slots- turn the loop and again return to the same slots. The ends of the strip met at the side glue in the same loop as on the opposite side.
We repeat the same procedure with the rest of the strips. Naturally, it is necessary to arrange the strips from the bottom up in decreasing order (long at the bottom, short at the top).
Or you can cut 6 paper strips of the same length in 12 cm. Bend each strip in half and interlace the folds of the halves with each other cross to cross - in a checkerboard weave. It just looks difficult. But really simple. Here you can tear out a sheet from a notebook and cut 6 strips of any length and practice on such rough material - to see how simple and easy everything really is.
And here is another New Year's card, where Christmas tree is also made of strips of paper. Only here crepe paper is used (with a crumpled, wrinkled effect) - it is sold in stationery stores in rolls (like wallpaper).
Step 1 - We cut wide strips of different lengths - 12 cm, 10 cm, 8 cm, 6 cm, 4 cm.
Step 2 - On the postcard, we outline tier lines (rounded), to these lines we will glue each tier of our Christmas tree made of paper. We attach a strip of double-sided tape to these drawn lines.
Step 3 - We take the longest strip (12 cm) and fold its entire upper edge into small folds - tucks - and put these tucks on the bottom line of the adhesive tape. We take the next strip in size (10 cm) and do the same. And so we move to the top tier of the Christmas tree. Then we decorate the Christmas tree on the New Year's card for any design at our discretion.
Method number 3 - paper circles.
And here is a way to make a Christmas tree on a New Year's card using circles cut out of paper. You can cut out circles of the same size (as in the blue postcard from the photo below). Or you can cut the circles into 4 different sizes - 2 circles for each size. And then the Christmas tree will turn out to be triangular in shape (tapering up) as in the red New Year's card from the photo below.
Method number 4 - quilling technique for postcards for the New Year.
And here is another technique by which very beautiful DIY New Year cards are obtained. You can make beautiful twists from paper strips.
This is how the process of creating a Christmas tree using the quilling technique looks like. Cutting paper into even strips(It is convenient to do this under the ruler with a paper knife - on a wooden board so as not to cut the table. Or you can buy ready-made quilling strips. Or get a machine for cutting quilling strips.
We lay each twist in the circle of the template(so that the twists are the same size). We allow the tight twist to open up a little, unwind - but within the framework of a round stencil. And then glue the tail-tip of the twist to the barrel of the twist itself. That is, we fix its size. So it will be possible to remove it from the stencil frame and not be afraid that it will unwind and increase its size.
If you don't have a stencil, you can use round caps for creams or drinks. Lay the twist on the bottom of the glass or lid and let it unwind to the diameter of the lid. Then carefully remove with tweezers and fix the twist tail with glue.
We pinch round twists on one side with a finger to give it the shape of a drop.
We add drops of different sizes in pairs - and we get a quick and simple Christmas tree.
Quilling technique allows you to create a variety of Christmas tree models from paper twists.
Method number 5 - paper rolls.
Or you can cut the paper into wide strips of different lengths - and roll each strip into a roll. It's easy to do if wrap it around a pencil- glue, wait until the glue grabs - and only then remove it from the pencil. From such rolls of different lengths, a beautiful Christmas tree on a postcard is obtained. Quick and easy to do by hand. paper can be used simple color. Or buy sheets gift wrapping paper(sold in the gift section).
Method number 6 - a mosaic Christmas tree on a postcard.
You can use any small details as a material for creating a Christmas tree. Sliced snowflakes or butterflies. Buttons or origami stars or bolts and nuts (if you are preparing a card for your husband and want to make it brutal).
Method number 7 - a lace Christmas tree on a New Year's card.
You can make beautiful lace on a New Year's card. you can use ready-made lace paper napkins(sold in a hardware store, in the same place where cupcake molds are). Such napkins are often placed under cakes and other culinary products).
Or you can create your own paper lace- folding paper as for cutting out a snowflake. And along the folded edge, start up an interesting pattern with holes.
Can you fold the cut-out snowflake itself in the shape of a Christmas tree and stick it on a Christmas card.
Method number 8 - origami technique.
But New Year's cards, which are decorated with a Christmas tree folded from a napkin. Such folding origami in the form of a Christmas tree is made quite quickly and from a simple square (nothing needs to be cut out). The main thing is that each upper square should be slightly smaller in size than the lower one. And then the tiers of our Christmas tree will go to the narrower to the top.
Below I have drawn a diagram that illustrates the process of creating paper blanks for a Christmas tree for a postcard.
But you yourself can come up with YOUR interpretations of a modular paper Christmas tree. Come up with your own triangular bends and create your own individual New Year's card with a Christmas tree.
Method number 9 - a folding Christmas tree on a postcard.
And here is another folding Christmas tree. Everything here is quite simple and is made from a single piece of cardboard. And if you wish, you can additionally decorate the Christmas tree with colored paper and decorations.
And also you can quickly fold an origami paper Christmas tree in such a semicircular pattern. You can copy the shape of the Christmas tree and the fold lines directly from the monitor screen. To zoom in or out on the screen, roll the mouse wheel forward or backward while holding down the Ctrl key.
Or you can make such a Christmas tree yourself without a drawing. And just bending the semicircle back and forth several times, as shown in the figure below.
If such a semicircular pattern for a folding Christmas tree is made not with a smooth edge, but the circumference of the pattern is serrated into soft ruffles or teeth, then the edges of our tiers near the Christmas tree will turn out to be curly, as in the photo of New Year's cards below.
Method number 10 - paper carving.
Also for Christmas cards, the carving technique with lapels is suitable. This technique is very easy to do. Part of the picture is cut with a razor blade and folded back. We see the most primitive sample in the right photo below - half of the contours of the Christmas tree and the snowflake are cut off there and simply bent.
You can make a double contour - and then the bend will turn out in the form of a narrow silhouette strip, as is done on the left postcard from the photo below.
And you can cut and bend down each tier silhouette of a Christmas tree on a postcard. And we will get a Christmas card with the photo below.
You can first practice on any draft piece of paper - to make sure how easy it is to actually implement such a postcard carving technique, and make your own unique New Year's craft.
We have considered New Year's cards with a Christmas theme, and now let's look at all the other New Year's stories that you can decorate our postcards with your own hands.
Part two
Santa Claus on postcards.
Large applications in the form of Santa Claus will decorate any Christmas card. No need to make a full-length silhouette of Santa Claus somewhere in the corner of a postcard in the form of a small booger. It is better to take the largest size of the hat, beard and take the entire part of the card with these main elements of Santa Claus - a red nose, mustache, beard, hat.
You can fold Santa Claus using the origami technique for a postcard - as shown in the photo below.
Part three
SNOWMAN on New Year's cards.
And now you can move on to a new character of the Christmas holidays - a snowman. Usually we are used to seeing him on crafts in the form of three white rounds and a bucket on his head. But you can get creative with the task of depicting a snowman on a postcard. For example, make it peeking out from behind the Christmas tree - as in the left photo below.
Or take a ready-made postcard with a snowman - cut it into strips of different lengths - and fold a Christmas tree pyramid out of these strips. Fold in such a way that on some strips a sly snowman's face is visible (as on the left New Year's card from the photo below).
Also, you don't have to appliqué a snowman on a classic white paper card. You can take a musical staff of a New Year's song on the Internet - put it on print, and cut out round disks from such paper for a snowman appliqué.
Or take a printed text that tells about New Year's traditions and cut circles for a snowman from such text.
You can make a snowman on a postcard from a paper fan. When the fan is bent in half - and its blades unfold in a circle.
You can make a snowman on a postcard using the quilling technique. Twist from white paper strips the twist modules, and fold the quilling snowman.
You can depict a snowman in an interesting unusual angle or setting. It can be a snowman from the TOP VIEW (as in the left photo below) ... or a snowman inside a snow globe (as in the right photo).
You can make an applique of a snowman who pierces a snowflake with his nose. Or a snowman-lord in a top hat and with a red bow around his neck.
It is not necessary to put a bucket on a snowman. The snowman looks good in a neat black hat with a brim, decorated with a sprig of holly.
A snowman on a postcard can be depicted quite schematically. Semicircle, scarf stripe, two beady eyes and an orange triangle nose.
You can make a simplified silhouette of a snowman the side of a two-layer postcard as in the photo below.
Or you can use the entire white background of the card as the body of a snowman. On New Year's cards with a photo below just this principle is shown.
The most difficult thing is to make a three-dimensional 3D postcard with a silhouette of a snowman.
Part four
DEER on Christmas cards.
Another New Year's character that looks festive on New Year's cards is a deer.
It can also be portrayed outside the box, but in an interesting situation. For example, it can be a deer singing Christmas carols with inspiration, playing a drum, or skating - it's all up to your imagination.
You can choose the simplest silhouette application ONLY DEER HEADS on postcards.
And you can decorate a New Year's card with the silhouette of a whole deer - from horns to hooves.
Part four
SNOWFLAKES on New Year's cards.
You can cut out 2 ordinary stars from paper and fold them on top of each other with an offset of one ray - and we will get an elegant snowflake on a Christmas card with our own hands.
You can make a beautiful snowflake using a voluminous convex technique.
Or embroider a snowflake from threads. That is, apply a symmetrical pattern of punctures. And then, in a certain order, lace these puncture holes with threads to make an openwork snowflake.
You do not have to come up with very complex weaves of threads. Even small thread and needle patterns will decorate your New Year cards.
In this thread technique, you can make not only snowflakes, but also any other New Year's motifs.
And of course a quilling snowflake.
Here in the photo below we see the stages of creating a complex snowflake from ordinary quilling modules - you need to start each snowflake from the center - and increase the petals to the middle - circle by circle.
Your Christmas card with snowflakes can look like a layered cake with all sorts of details mixed in, layering and bumping into each other in an ornate chaos of beauty.
The snowflake on your postcard can be made from origami paper modules.
Part five
WREATHS on New Year's cards.
And here is the theme of festive Christmas wreaths. On a postcard, they can be depicted in any technique. It can be a planar applique of any geometric shape, decorated with ribbons, buttons and other tinsel.
You can make a New Year's card in the form of a door on which such a Christmas wreath hangs.
Quilling technique is also ideal for creating modules for a Christmas wreath.
New Year's cards can decorate birds. They can sing winter songs while sitting on birch musical branches.
Also, New Year's cards can depict a winter window through which you can see either a snowy landscape or a festive room with a Christmas tree.
And here are some more ideas how to give money in a New Year's card . We are accustomed to investing money inside postcards. But you can put money outside, making it part of the general New Year's application. I will now explain how to place the money on the front side of the postcard and not ruin it with glue.
Here on the first postcard we see a bill that was folded in a triangular cone - a ribbon was glued to the postcard (not money, we don’t spoil it with glue) and glued the ribbon so that it sticks to the glue in the middle, and its tails hang freely. We put a Christmas tree-money cone on the ribbon - and tie it, tie it with the free ends of the ribbon.
In the second case we glue the snowman - but we don’t just glue it - but on plump pieces of styrofoam. That is, the snowman turns out towering on the postcard. Thus, the neck of the snowman turns out to be moved away from the canvas of the postcard - and under his neck you can safely slip a banknote folded into a strip.
And in the third case - we roll candles out of paper. We glue them with ribs to the postcard. And in each tube we put a banknote folded into a narrow roll.
These are the original ideas for New Year's cards I found for you this holidays.
Good luck with your New Year's crafts and a happy New Year.
Olga Klishevskaya, especially for the site ""
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There are only a few days left before the new year, and many have not even begun to prepare for it. As a rule, basically all people are at work and begin to prepare everything almost on December 31st. Undoubtedly, busyness and constant fuss are a good reason, but you should not forget that every New Year and its meeting is something special, so you also need to be treated in a special way and with all seriousness. You can decorate the house, decorate the Christmas tree and prepare the New Year's table on the very last day, but you need to take care and stock up on gifts now. You can give anything under the Christmas tree, the most important thing is that it be sincere and with love. Even a small trifle in the form of a keychain, a piggy bank, a figurine will seem like a huge present from Grandfather Frost, and if you give something unusual, then the impressions will remain for a lifetime. Here, for example, any holiday is always accompanied by the gift of a greeting card with the words of unusual wishes. Exactly what they wish on New Year's Eve is sure to come true, so you definitely need to give a card with New Year's wishes. This master class will be very useful, which will help us make not just a greeting card, but a whole New Year's fairy tale, which we will do with our own hands using a well-known technique.
To make a folding postcard, we need:
A blank for a red postcard from a cadstock sized 15.5 * 15.5 cm folded;
Green pastel paper;
Scheme of a folding postcard;
Christmas scrapbook paper in bright colors;
Cut circles in red;
Color pictures and cards with New Year's heroes;
Stamped inscription "Happy New Year" in green;
Felled curls white and green, deer, candle;
New Year's brads;
Red Pompom Ribbon;
Lace jute white-red;
Metal pendant 2016;
White satin ribbon with Christmas patterns;
Herringbone of sequins;
Red rhinestone bow;
Printed New Year wishes;
Glue stick;
Stationery knife and scissors;
Simple pencil and ruler;
Glue gun;
Curb puncher.
The postcard will consist of two parts: the base is already ready, only we will decorate it later and the inside. Here is the inner part we are now going to produce.
According to the size of the scheme, cut out the inside of the postcard from pastel paper.
From the New Year's scrapbook we cut out such blanks.
The rest of the paper is punched and glued with a glue stick. We cut out two inscriptions with congratulations and glue them on large blanks. Now we glue all the parts with a glue stick on a pastel base.
We sew all the elements. Now cook on the top red base.
From two parts we collect two blanks 15 * 15 cm. We glue on one circle, pictures and a card, an inscription. Everything is machine sewn.
We cut two strips of 15 cm from the tape and glue it in the center on the top and bottom of the workpiece.
Postcards and folding books are a spectacular gift that children especially like. According to the step-by-step instructions described below, you can easily make a 2-in-1 gift for grandmothers, nieces, aunts or mothers, teachers and colleagues with your own hands: a luxurious three-dimensional flower inside a postcard. Here the work is illustrated in a schematic form, and you can freely replace the base of the postcard with cardboard, paper with different colors, decorate and supplement the postcard with details as you wish. In addition, based on this instruction, you can create other folding cards of this type.
Clamshell postcard
2. We take 9 sheets of colored paper of the same size - and no more than the full size of the base of the postcard. If you want the flower to take up the entire card inside, take sheets of the same size as the base of the card. If you need a smaller flower - and sheets, respectively, take a little or much less. We fold and cut these sheets one by one step by step, as shown in detail in the pictures below:
As a result, you should get exactly 9 eight-pointed snowflake flowers. Or you can use the simplified scheme described here in. Nevertheless, the option presented here guarantees obtaining absolutely identical and perfectly even snowflakes (even considering that you will cut them separately), and this is critical for this type of folding postcards, since the latter is based on the principle of complete symmetry.
3. We cut one of the finished snowflakes along the fold exactly in half.
4. We take the first flower and lay out the base for the postcard in front of us. You do not need to put dots on your flower, you need to glue the flower on the base of the postcard exactly for the places where these dots are marked on the picture on the flower. Take a good glue - one that does not leave spots on the paper after drying (and even more so does not appear on the paper over time) and does not make the paper get wet through. Do not pour a lot of glue either - put in a small drop, and that's enough!
5. The flower is glued, and new points are again marked on top of it - to which you will begin to glue the second flower on top of the first.
6. The second flower is glued on, and as you can see, new dots are again marked on it in the picture. The location of the dots, mind you, changes, thanks to which the postcard will later become a clamshell. On these points you glue the 3rd flower.
7. In the same way, we glue all the remaining whole flowers-snowflakes, not forgetting to clearly alternate the glued petals.
8. Now we take half of the snowfields, and we apply glue not only on the points shown in the picture below, but also on the line. We glue the half at the same time both to the right half of the lower snowflake and to the left, folding the card and pressing it well with our hands. We see the glue that has come out - immediately very carefully remove it with cotton swabs. And so do not open the card until the glue is completely dry! Ready!
You can say that in the last paragraph it is not necessary to insert a half of a snowflake, but you can simply glue the petals of the last whole snowflake. In fact, it is impossible, because then the grid scheme, which is formed when the volumetric flower is open, will be violated.
Volumetric ball-flower/snowflake in the form of a pendant
Such clamshells can be used as a Christmas tree toy or just a decoration-pendant for the house for any holiday - and their commercial similarity is often sold on New Year's Eve in stores.
The principle of creation is absolutely the same, only we cut 2.5-3 times more snowflake flowers of any suitable shape, but the half will again remain alone. At the same time, we must take a rigid base and, after gluing the flowers, cut out the base along the contour of these flowers, and at the edges in the middle we tie-glue the ropes to the base, for which you will tie the open volumetric suspension. You can also glue snowflake flowers as described above, or you can fold them in half and sideways. In this case, paper for snowflakes can be taken, for example, corrugated paper (it is harder than crepe paper).
In the example pictures below, note that it was not the petals that were glued together, but at regular intervals just the smooth edges of the parts in the form of circles, a bell.
Based on www.instructables.com/id/Amazing-flower-pop-up-card./
It is pleasant to receive an interesting surprise for any occasion and for any holiday, especially if it is the New Year. After all, New Year's gifts are interesting because they are given in a particularly festive atmosphere, we find them under the Christmas tree, which is already unusual in itself. Any gift is valuable, especially if it is given really with soul and love. It doesn’t matter what it will be, the most important thing is that there is such a surprise, so it’s important to prepare it in advance so that it would be nice to give it to you and accept it as a gift to the person you are preparing it for. The most memorable surprise is the one that is made with soul and love, namely with your own hands. Sincere wishes and warm words of congratulations can be left and written in a greeting card. New Year is a magical holiday, so the postcard should correspond to this holiday. Just right now we will make a bright New Year's card of an unusual shape using the technique. Why unusual? Because it will be made of two parts, one of which is a folding form, and the second will be like a box cover.
Sheet in a box for a pattern;
Cardboard sheets under the skin landscape format green and red;
Several sheets of New Year's paper for scrapbooking;
New Year's pictures;
A set of New Year stamps made of acrylic;
Ink, acrylic block;
Hydrangea flowers are green and red;
Red and green yarn;
Hole punch openwork;
Buttons of various shapes;
Openwork red cutting in the form of an ornament;
Red satin ribbon with golden lurex 5 mm wide;
Shiny stamens, berries in sugar, green petal, small stamens, semi-beads;
Double-sided tape, PVA glue, ruler, stationery knife, scissors, pencil;
Glue gun;
Sewing machine.
According to the diagram shown on the checkered sheet, we cut out the bases of both parts of the postcard from red and green cardboard. The diagram clearly shows the bending lines and the cut lines, which we draw with a clerical knife.
From scrap paper, first we prepare the scenery for the cover-box.
Cut out two figures 9 * 18 cm from one paper. Then, from the other two, we cut out a card and individual stripes, which we make figured using a hole punch. Cut two strips of 18 cm from the red tape, glue them to the green base.
We do New Year's stamping on watercolors.
We cut out the inscriptions and extinguish along the edges. We sew pictures and stripes on a typewriter, then we completely sew the scraped rectangle to the base.
We are preparing decorations for the postcard itself, we cut out the following blanks from different sheets. We also make stripes, glue pictures, stripes and inscriptions.
All glued cardboard elements are sewn separately. Do not forget to cut 4 more blanks of the following sizes: 3.8x3.8 cm, 2.8x3.8 cm and 1.8x3.8 cm.
We glue the scrap blanks to the base. We sew everything.
Recently, more and more people are turning their attention to handmade postcards. And this is not surprising: such a gift is available to many, and emotions from just one original handmade postcard so many.
Have you tried making your own postcards? If not, it's not a problem. Today I will show you how such an unusual folding card is made. Trust me, it's easier than you think. We will definitely analyze how to make a blank for a folding card, because knowing the basics, you can then make postcards with your own hands for any holidays.
So let's go! Collecting materials:
- A4 cardstock (a sheet of watercolor paper or thin colored cardboard);
- scrap paper;
- glue stick and universal transparent;
- pencil, ruler, creasing;
- stationery knife;
- mock-up rug or just a wooden board;
- silicone stamps;
- ink pad;
- double-sided bulk tape;
- curly scissors;
- small figured hole punch;
- decor elements: flowers, butterflies, ribbons, etc.
Here is a list that came out. In fact, needlewomen have much more in their stash, but this does not mean at all that in order to make this original postcard with your own hands, you urgently need to buy everything written. The main thing is scrap paper. And the rest will be found. In this work, I used Boho Chic (First Edition) paper.
Master Class:
Stage 1. Blank for a clamshell postcard
First of all, let's deal with a complex design and make the necessary blank for a folding card.
We mark up the cardstock sheet as shown in the following figure. Please note that you can vary the dimensions of the workpiece according to your needs. When assembled, this postcard turned out to be almost a standard size of 10x16 cm (usually there are 10x15).
Using a clerical knife, we cut two horizontal strips marked in red in the diagram.
Our blank for postcards is ready. Simply!
Stage 2. We select the background for the folding card
Now we need to pick up paper for the background of the folding card. For these purposes, I used 2 contrasting prints. I indicated the dimensions of each background detail in the photo below. 
Let's tint the red details around the edges. In addition, I made an impression on each small square using an ink pad and silicone stamps.
Stage 3. We create decor elements for our unusual do-it-yourself postcard
And let's start with the main inscription (this time again a birthday card). We cut out a rectangle with a length of about 10 cm from embossed paper, draw an oval on it and cut it out with curly scissors.
I got bored that everything is so simple, and I decided to decorate this blank with curly holes. Here come the stars.
The next thing I did was tinted this part of the clamshell postcard with stamping ink.
Next, cut out a slightly smaller oval and make an inscription on it. For these purposes, both a gel pen and acrylic paint are suitable. It remains to glue the red rectangle and these two parts. A congratulatory inscription for our original do-it-yourself postcard is also ready.
Another decorative element in our work is a delicate frame with a rose. It is done simply.
We cut out a rectangle with curly scissors from the same paper as the previous decor. Dimensions (approximately) 7 cm long and 4.5 cm wide.
From beige paper (this is the reverse side of scrap paper for me), cut out another rectangle of a slightly smaller size. I stamped it with a silicone stamp from the "Happy Birthday" set, so I already mentioned this set. I also recommend toning the edges.
And now we take a clerical knife and a plank or rug and cut out an oval frame.
Oh yes! Under the frame we will place our favorite red print with flowers, for which we cut out a rectangle of the appropriate size.
The turn has come to decorate our folding card with a flower. It will be a delicate rose, which I borrowed from the same set of scrap paper. Glue a piece of double-sided tape on the back of the bud. This will give our work an interesting effect.
After removing the protective layer, we attach the bud to the corner of the frame. See how playfully now the rose looks out of the window! And there was volume.
Now glue the frame itself to the base. Again, use double-sided foam tape. And here is the result. Here I also glued a dragonfly cut down with a figured hole punch and a couple of beads. And at the bottom there is a place for a flower, but we will attach it later.
So, the main decor for our folding card is ready.
Stage 4. We collect a folding card with our own hands
We glue the stamped squares and a congratulatory inscription, as well as two coffee (by the way, what is the correct name for this color?) Rectangles, as shown in the photo.
Before gluing the T-shaped blanks for a folding card, we first decorate them. I took a satin ribbon to match and a lace-wave cream contrasting color. We wrap the edges on the back of the postcard and securely fix it with universal glue.
Also, before gluing these parts, we need to think about how this original postcard will be closed with our own hands. I used the same tape for these purposes. We measure such a length that you can wrap the ribbon around the card and tie a bow.
We glue the tape itself on the front side (in the diagram, this part is on the left). And on top of it we paste our T-shaped parts. I decided to embellish them a little more by sticking a pseudo-chain of gold rings.
On the frame, as promised, we glue a textile flower. And since 2 flowers are not given on the DR, we glue the third one - a paper scarlet rose. She perfectly took root on the bottom element of the clamshell postcard.
Well, I think it’s better for you to consider everything yourself in more detail (click to enlarge):
Far side of the moon, i.e. fold-out postcards
As a rule, this moment is not paid attention. But the reverse side of a folding card is a great place to write your wishes. And you can put your logo here too. But you never know what fantasy will tell you! Therefore, the back of the postcard should also look presentable.
Of course, ideally both sides should be done in the same style. But what if there is no more such paper? But look how we get out in this situation. If you look closely, you can see that this bizarre pattern, this layering, was the result of gluing scrap paper scraps together. Scrappy patchwork straight! But in the end it turned out well, you see.
I left a place for wishes on the right, it will be covered just in the folded state, so that the birthday boy has an incentive to open this original postcard as soon as possible.
Here is such a master class. Now you know what is folding card and how to do it yourself. Hope everything works out for you! Or maybe you have already made such postcards? In any case, I will be very glad if you share your thoughts, ideas or photos of your work in the comments.
By the way, I think it's time to start creating a gallery of your, dear readers, works. Leave photos of your creations in the main album in our Vkontakte group. I have some ideas about this gallery 🙂 But for now, these are just thoughts (although they may materialize).
See you soon! Your brownie Elena