How to make a postcard with your own hands - a selection of interesting photo ideas and master classes
No holiday is complete without a cute, colorful greeting card that can express tenderness, care, love, trepidation, positive emotions and smiles. With a greeting card you can express all the feelings that are difficult to say in person.
You can present this attribute on any holiday: birthday, March 8, New Year, Valentine's Day, Teacher's Day, on their wedding anniversary. And also you can give a gift just to lift your spirits, as a sign of attention and gratitude.
Get a postcard is not a problem, every supermarket and florist store has a wide range of cards for all occasions. But it is much better to make a postcard yourself, with your own hands. Such work is more appreciated, looks much more effective, original and brighter than the purchased ones. If it is difficult to come up with your own postcard design, there are plenty of options, ideas, photos, schemes for creating postcards with your own hands, at home, in the vastness of the Internet.
Scrapbooking greeting cards
Postcards in this style are decorated with special cardboard or medium weight paper, you can buy blanks or make them yourself. Working in the scrapbooking technique requires a lot of patience, time and concentration, and you will also need the following materials, tools:
- A cutting mat or a children's mat for creativity;
- special paper or cardboard for scrapbooking technique;
- A box cutter and scissors simple and shaped;
- ruler;
- PVA glue;
- double-sided tape and decorative tape;
- hole punch simple and shaped;
- colored helium pens, felt-tip pens, markers;
- For decorations: different sizes and colors of buttons, sequins, braid, lace, floral netting, pompoms, artificial flowers and other decorations.
A simple variant of creating an envelope card in the scrapbooking technique - a master class
- Make a template of an envelope from a white A4 sheet.
- From the scrap paper, cut two strips that are the same size as the upper parts of the envelope. It is better that the strips are a couple of millimeters smaller, so they are easier to glue and the edges will not stick out.
- From paper of another color cut two more strips of the same width, but a little smaller in length - blanks for the middle of the card envelope.
- On the sides of the smaller pieces glue a thin lace made of fabric or paper. And glue these parts to the large colored parts.
- Glue all the prepared pieces to the envelope template. Just before you glue the piece to the back of the envelope, you need to put a thin ribbon between them.
- Tie a neat bow on the front, glue a small rectangle of white paper with the desired inscription on the outside over the ribbon.
- Decorate the card to your liking, using different materials.
Quilling is a popular technique for creating postcards
The technique consists of simply twisting thin strips of paper, this way you can create not only exclusive postcards, but also real paintings. A postcard in this style will be appreciated and leave an unforgettable impression.
To create such a greeting card with your own hands, you need to have a lot of special paper or buy ready-made paper in specialized stores.
A simple heart-shaped Valentine's Day card
To create it you will need:
- colored cardboard;
- double-sided colored paper;
- scissors;
- glue;
- ruler;
- A toothpick or thin awl;
- Colored pens or felt-tip pens;
- a simple pencil.
To begin, make a card template out of cardboard. From red paper, cut out a heart of the right size and glue it to the cardboard. Tightly roll up a red piece of paper, carefully cut into small rings, so they do not unravel.
Each ring is well glued to the heart, filling it tightly. You can decorate such a delicate postcard with delicate fine lace and decorative pebbles.
Three-dimensional postcards made of colored paper
A very interesting variant of greeting cards in 3D. Such a craft is interesting to make for an adult and a child. Engaging imagination and a sense of taste, you can create a true masterpiece. These postcards are stylish, festive, and showy.
To make such a card you do not need any special skills and materials. For example, to create a holiday card with a snowman for New Year in this style, you need to prepare:
- colored cardboard;
- white, yellow, brown, red colored paper;
- scissors;
- a pencil and a black felt-tip pen;
- glue.
It is necessary to print out a template of a snowman from the Internet or to make it yourself. To do this, you need to draw a snowman of two circles, the smaller top circle cut off the top exactly. Draw or print a cylinder for the snowman.
Using a template to cut out 5 snowmen from white paper and 5 cylinders from red paper. Fold each snowman piece in half. Apply glue to one side of the folded workpiece and gently glue the other workpiece. By this method, glue all 5 templates, carefully trimming the edges, so that the snowman was beautiful.
Similarly, glue the cylinder. To make a broom, it is necessary to fold a thin tube of brown paper. Cut a small strip of yellow paper, make small cuts along the wide edge in the form of fringes, carefully wrap it around the brown workpiece.
Take a sheet of cardboard, fold in half, glue a snowman with a broom in the center of the fold line. Use a felt-tip pen to draw eyes, mouth, buttons. Optionally, decorate the card with snowflakes, sequins, add a Christmas tree or write a greeting.
A wide range of creating greeting cards with your own hands can be found on the Internet, in specialized books and magazines. You can go to master classes, watch online tutorials, because there are a lot of different techniques for creating these beautiful crafts. For the basis of a postcard, you can use a lot of improvised items: buttons, pompoms, knitting yarn, braid, cotton disks and more.
The main thing to use your imagination, time, patience and prepare the necessary materials to create a masterpiece. Handmade greeting cards contain a bit of soul, care, love and are sure to bring joy to their owner!