Soon the New Year and everyone is already striving to look after gifts to their loved ones. Also very often buy and cards as escort to the gift. But it's not necessary to spend money on postcards, it's enough of your imagination and you can do it yourself.
Necessary materials
To create a masterpiece you will need:
- Ready-made blanks for postcards
- Colored paper and cardboard
- Glue PVA, silicate and thermo-gun
- Scissors
- Figured punchers
- Textile decoration: ribbons, laces, etc.
- Trimmings for decor: buttons, beads, beads, etc.
- Cones, pine needles
- Tiny Christmas toys made of plastic
Ideas of postcards
Postcards for the New Year can be diverse. We will bring to your attention some interesting ideas. It is worth noting that in handicraft shops often sell ready-made templates of postcards, which you only need to decorate to your liking. But if you want complete exclusivity, then you need to make a template in advance. For this, take the design cardboard of the desired color and bend it in half. Prepare a cardboard pattern in the form of various geometric shapes, fir-tree, ball. The template is applied from the wrong side, we draw with a pencil and carefully cut out a window with a stationery knife. Outside, the window is decorated, and on the other, the whole half of the postcard, congratulations are written, so that it can be clearly seen through the window. In order to hide some unnecessary details (for example, the ends of a fabric or braid) that are clearly visible when the card is opened, a cardboard half the size of the card is glued to the half with the window on the inside.
Postcard-collage
We fold the cardboard into a postcard and proceed to decorating. We take tiny fur-tree toys, cones, tinsel, glitter and glue them to the cardboard with silicate glue, beautifully arranged.
If you have a big postcard, then you can go for a walk. Take and draw on thin color cardboard contours of deer, Santa Claus (2-3 pieces for each character) and sled (leave allowances for gluing). We glue the sleigh, but so that we get a small pocket, in which we add a couple of pieces of cotton wool so that the sleighs are convex. Figures can be glued on one copy. But if between the same patterns to lay a piece of thin foam and glue, then the characters will be voluminous. With the help of cotton we make snow, of paper snowflakes. Now we fill the sleigh. To do this, you can use ready-made Christmas toys - "gifts", they are very light. Or do it yourself, wrapped in shiny paper or foil, pre-cut pieces of polystyrene.
Greeting card
From the cardboard we cut out the triangle, we grease it with glue and wind it with a tightly colored ribbon or thin yarn. Arrange the turns as you want. On the basis of making a frame of tapes to your liking and put in it our Christmas tree. It remains to paste beautiful beads on the tree.
Delicate card
For such a postcard will need a variety of stencils of stars and snowflakes. Through them on the white paper, apply gentle drawings, such as you want. You can do this by spraying the paint. But if you think about health, then you can use the old Soviet way. Take the graphite of the color pencil and shave it so that it gets fine dust or shavings. On a white paper we put a stencil, on it we pour a little bit of colored shavings and we rub it with cotton. When you remove the debris and remove the stencil, you will get a snowflake on a white background. In this way, decorate the entire postcard, attach ribbons, beads and everything, you can give.
Edible postcard
To do this, you need to bake a thin cake in the form of a postcard. Postcards should fit on itself and decorations, and congratulations. Dough, take it so that the postcard does not stale for a long time and does not break when it is used. From the cardboard we make an inscription - congratulations, just cutting out the words in it. We apply the prepared template and apply to it a protein or other glaze (the protein stiffens and does not smear). Next, decorate to your liking in the New Year theme.
We showed only a few options for postcards for the New Year. Believe me, the card you made with your hands will be the most pleasant gift.