Cardmaking is a popular hobby that not only young people are interested in. This term stands for how to create postcards with your own hands. In this case, you can use materials for professionals or improvised means. Of course, if you decide to make a postcard to a work colleague or relative, then there is no point in buying expensive hole punches and curly scissors. With the help of improvised means, it will be possible to make an original greeting card.
Initially, decide on the idea of \u200b\u200ba postcard. Then choose in which color scheme the product will be. After that, head to the craft store and stock up on scrapbooking paper, cardstock, and craft supplies. There are several techniques for creating greeting cards:- iris folding;
It seems that quilling is the most difficult technique, but cutting out lace elements from paper is much more difficult than creating spiral patterns. Regarding quilling, this technique involves the creation of leaflets from thin strips twisted into a spiral. The result is a three-dimensional drawing.
How to sign a postcard? This can be done with felt-tip pens, gel pens and paints. But on sale there are special stamps with fancy letters. It is even better to make letters from beads or threads. Such a congratulation looks just gorgeous.
There are a lot of ideas on the Internet for creating greeting cards with your own hands. You can make a flyer from an existing template or design a card from scratch.
Not a single birthday passes without cards. Beautiful congratulations V original design people store long years. Consider how to make birthday cards to surprise the birthday person.
Types of postcard making techniques
Everything that is done unusually causes joy, delight, tenderness. Now needlewomen are trying to mix techniques, creating musical, voluminous postcards, “engineering” with a surprise. For the manufacture of postcards, all decorative trifles, fabric, paper, threads, satin ribbons, paints, blanks for postcards are suitable.
What beautiful birthday cards can you make?
- Paper. Simple and complex applications using different materials.
- Rampling. Creating postcards using a ready-made background and paper balls, ovals, bows.
- Embroidered. Embroidery with a cross, beads, ribbons, satin stitch creates unusual plots for greeting cards.
- Textile. Fabric applications make the postcard unusual. There is a special material from which figures are cut out, and then glued to any base with an iron.
- Modeling. A drawing is applied to the postcard, and then it is “drawn” with a plastic mass different elements(volumetric or flattened ball, oval, droplet, track).
More types of techniques
- Hanutel. The elements are made separately from wire and thread, and then attached to the base. These homemade cards will be a nugget for any hero of the day.
- Quilling. Various parts are made from paper, which are glued to the base.
- Beads. Beads, buttons, beads are glued onto the finished drawing to create volume.
- Threads. You can glue the template with pieces of thread (fold or cut into “fluff”). Or create a plot from pompoms different sizes and flowers. It can be made entirely of threads or partially, in combination with drawing. Needlewomen knit floral elements, create compositions for congratulations.
- Mixed techniques. If mixed different techniques(drawing with modeling, applique with a dumbbell, quilling with threads, knitting with beads), you will get exclusive products.
Before making birthday cards, pay attention to the weight of the material. Wire, modeling, embroidery, beads, buttons require a dense base. Perhaps purchased blanks will not work. Then prepare yourself a template from hard cardboard.
Quilling postcards
Quilling is the creation of thin paper certain elements, the composition of which creates original plots. To get started, prepare the following parts from narrow strips:
- curl;
- petal;
- square;
- flower.
To make a curl, you need to twist a strip of paper into a roll in different directions. You make a petal from a free roll, which you pinch on both sides with your fingers, forming a rhombus. You form a square from a free roll. You make a flower in two stages: first twist a tight roll, and then immediately wind a wide incised strip onto it. Straighten the cuts into flower petals.
Now take a ready-made blank for a postcard or make it yourself. With a pencil, lightly outline the location of the elements, glue them. In this case, diagonally from the upper left corner, stick pink flower, from which brown and pink curls alternate to yellow flower located in the lower right corner.
On the right side of the curls are three flowers (yellow-pink-yellow), on the left side are proportionally brown petals and a pink flower in between them. The corners of the other diagonal of the card are decorated with a flower, under which a pink square with three brown petals is glued.
How to make paper birthday cards?
Cut out a rectangle from soft cardboard. It will be inner side postcards. Bend in half so that the fold holds very well. Mark three centimeter strips different lengths: extreme for balloons, medium, longest - for a congratulatory inscription.
Make side cuts with a clerical knife, bend the strips so that they become voluminous. From colored paper, cut out a lot of balloons of different colors. Glue them with an overlap, creating visual unevenness (you can attach threads to them from the wrong side). Next, glue the finished application on the “leg” of the same color as the inner base of the postcard. It is to it that you attach the strings of balloons.
Further ready-made applications attach the balls to the bent extreme strips of the postcard, take White list and cut out beautiful ribbon, on which you write "Congratulations", "Happy Anniversary", "Happy Birthday". Glue the inscription to the middle of the bent strip and to the balls so that all the details are connected to each other. Now you connect the inner base with the outer one (you can use ready-made blanks), you get beautiful birthday cards.
Postcard with balloons: an option for children
Children can also make voluminous postcards. First, prepare the base. Here you can immediately use the cardboard. If it is colored, then for congratulations inside, glue a white sheet, lined, with beautiful frame. Now proceed to the design of the outside.
- Draw a "bouquet" of balloons with paints. Threads are better to collect in a bow. Write a congratulatory note here.
- Next, on the drawn balls, make the same cardboard blanks (the color and shape must match).
- Prepare pieces of thread for balls (it is better to let them be longer, cut off the trimmings) and a satin ribbon.
- Using small squares of double-sided tape (4 mm thick), glue the balls and threads to the card.
- Collect the threads in a bundle, tie satin ribbon, glue to the picture where the bow is located.
Do-it-yourself postcards can be issued with an envelope. According to this plan, the child can complete any plot. If the drawing is difficult, then use different templates to print, paste and decorate.
Embroidered postcards
Any embroidery is of interest, and embroidered postcards used to decorate the apartment. The stage of creating such products is the same:
- determine the size of the embroidery;
- choose a scheme;
- embroider;
- connect the embroidery with the base.
This short review how to make birthday cards from a fabric base. Now let's look at some of the features. For embroidery with a cross and beads, a fine canvas is suitable. Put on the material outside postcards, circle the window frame with a washable marker. Count how many cells you have. Next, look for a diagram according to a given parameter (you can draw it yourself even in a simple Paint program) and embroider. Now glue the embroidery to the postcard using double-sided tape or glue.
Usually a three-sided template is used. A window is cut out in the middle, embroidery is glued. Left-hand side closes the embroidered wrong side. On right side congratulations are attached. The middle can be decorated with beautiful braid or paper.
The option for children is a painted painted background, and the foreground is pasted over with beads. Children from 6-7 years old will completely master isothreading (dotted thread embroidery). Also receive unusual congratulations.
Homemade birthday cards from satin ribbons
But the greeting cards from satin ribbons. They just want to be touched. To do this, you will need fabric, paints, satin ribbons, scissors, needles. On the fabric with a pencil, mark the borders of the inner frame of the postcard. Draw a plot, for example, chrysanthemums. Color them in. Now embroider with ribbons. The plot can be embroidered in its entirety, if the embroidery details are small, or some elements.
For such purposes, you can use a canvas with a drawn pattern, print your favorite picture on fabric on a color printer or in a photo studio. For beginners, it is better to start with a branch of mimosa or lilac, where the leaves can be painted, and the flowers can be done with a French knot. Further, the design will be according to the same plan as with cross stitch.
How to do homemade postcard from satin ribbons yet? Use the kanzashi technique. This is when, with the help of threads or fire, elements are created from satin ribbons, and then, according to the scheme, leaves and petals are assembled into a single plot with glue.
An example of a kanzashi postcard
Kanzashi allows you to create all the images quickly. Even the chrysanthemums described above are easy to assemble. Just narrow tape cut into strips, one edge of which you make triangular. Singe the segments on both sides, stick several rows along the edges of the core. Stamens and pistils can be made from one ribbon 2 centimeters wide, strung on a thread. Next, gather the fabric, twist it into a circle, fasten it with a thread, glue it to the core of the flower. More colors can be added dark shades stamens.
Kanzashi allows you to make butterflies, bees, dragonflies, flowers, leaves. To do this, it is enough to master several ways to create round and pointed petals. Even if you draw a heart on a postcard, glue it with elements, it will look unusual. You can simply cut out the flower petals, scorch them with fire and glue them to the base, the middle can be made from beads or threads. Use your imagination and the result will be amazing!
Handmade gifts and postcards are much more expensive than standard purchased ones. And this is not surprising. After all, all products hand made- unique and created in a single copy. Moreover, greeting card With warm regards, made by hand, will pleasantly surprise the birthday man and complement the birthday gift.
Many people think that creating beautiful postcard at home without expensive materials and tools is impossible, but this is far from the case. Knowing the basic principles of cardmaking and scrapbooking, you can make original postcards happy birthday with your own hands from improvised materials that are in almost every home.
What do you need to create a happy birthday card?
- First of all, you need to prepare the basis of the postcard. It is best if it is cardboard or whatman paper. Base color - any, preferably plain.
- Scissors will need two types - one large to cut the base of the postcard, others - small manicure. The latter is convenient to cut out miniature applications or pictures.
- A ruler and a pencil are needed to correctly mark the length and width of the postcard on cardboard.
- Colored pens, especially helium pens with sparkles, can be made beautiful inscriptions and drawings on postcards.
- Glue stick will help to make beautiful without smudges and stains. paper applications on postcards. For fastening fabric, lace, felt, it is better to use PVA glue, and for more “serious” decorations, such as buttons, rhinestones, sequins, etc., using the Moment universal glue or a glue gun will help to avoid the troubles associated with falling off the details of the postcard in the most inopportune moment.
- Anything can become a decoration for postcards: colored paper, felt, pictures from old magazines and newspapers, beads, rhinestones, sequins, beads, coffee, pasta, cereals, old twine, thread and much, much more. In general, anything that is in every home.
The process of making a simple happy birthday card
Making any postcard, even simple, even complex, begins with the preparation of the base. Postcards can be single and double, different formats, configurations and sizes.
The most simple postcard- of course, single, when a square or rectangle of the desired size is cut with scissors. If you need a double postcard, the cardboard is folded in half, it is planned right size postcards and the detail is cut out along the contours.
The base can be of any size. However, if you are going to send the postcard by mail, it is best to make it under the envelope.
Envelope sizes:
The same applies to the configuration of the postcard - it can also be varied: in the form of any shape - round, square, rectangular, oval with smooth or fancy-cut edges.
When the base is prepared, proceed to the preparation of decorations for the postcard. The simplest is, of course, the application, when the details are glued to the base. For example, here is a postcard on which is glued balloon, is done very simply and quickly, the whole secret is in the selected materials:
You can even not use glue, but sew the necessary elements with a sewing machine:
For universal postcards happy birthday, which are suitable for any person, flowers are best suited. Details can be cut according to templates or come up with something of your own.
The edges of the card can be decorated with ribbons, lace, beads, etc. 
And the finishing touch - the inscription. You can sign with a colored pen, a felt-tip pen, or you can use beautiful inscriptions for postcards “Happy Birthday!” and “Congratulations!” Made in the scrapbooking technique, print on a printer:
Creative ideas: how to make original DIY Happy Birthday cards
- Usage various kinds unusual foundations. For example - watercolor paper for the background. Or drawing a pattern by stamping on tracing paper, and use a bright background as a substrate for it. decorative paper.
- The color scheme, correctly selected, will make the simplest composition original. Three colors are enough - two contrasting and one neutral.
- Usage various options folding postcards that break symmetry.
- For inscriptions and signatures of postcards, use calligraphic outlines of letters and apply them with paint with silver or gilding.
- In the technique of scrapbooking. The base of the postcard is made of colored cardboard. Are selected decorative elements and backgrounds for them, combined in texture and color. Each background with decorative elements is glued in layers (using helium-based glue).
- In the technique of quilling. This three-dimensional drawings from folded strips of double-sided colored paper. Figures are made (spirals, leaves, flower petals are folded) and glued to the base.
- Decoupage technique. Choose a napkin with the appropriate pattern, remove upper layer and carefully stick with PVA glue diluted with water on the base of the postcard, avoiding the appearance of wrinkled folds.
As you can see, quickly make a simple and creative postcard not so difficult. If you spend a little more time on making, you can make more original postcards with your own hands.
Original handmade watercolor paper birthday card
It doesn't take long to make a birthday card using watercolor or ink on watercolor paper.
Materials:
- watercolor, ink, ink;
- watercolor paper;
- waterbrush;
- colored cardboard for the base;
- thematic sets of stamps for drawing.
Manufacturing
- If you make a square postcard, then the length of the cardboard should be twice the width. To fold the workpiece in half, you need to combine the upper left corner with the upper right. Do the same with the lower corners, then make an even kink in the middle and cover with a load for a few minutes.
- Watercolor paper should be in the shape of a square, the side of which is commensurate with the width of the cardboard base.
- A pattern is applied to the paper using stamps with the image of flowers. Stamping is done in a circle, with a change in angle. The image is obtained in the form of a wreath of flowers, leaves, directed both inside the circle and out. Then the drawing is painted with watercolor or ink using a waterbrush. On a separate sheet, it is recommended to practice choosing colors for a wreath.
- When the drawing dries, it needs to be trimmed (the sides of the square of the watercolor sheet should become slightly smaller than the sides of the base). Glue must be applied in dots in several places, or use double-sided tape. The picture is placed in the center. If desired, you can make ink the inscription "Happy Birthday!".
More difficult to manufacture, but very beautiful - the next craft.
Volumetric birthday card
The original version can be voluminous postcard, made by hand on the principle of children's books. When the postcard is opened, three-dimensional compositions are formed with elements on different planes.
You will need:
- thick decorative paper;
- white cardboard;
- curly and ordinary scissors;
- PVA glue or pencil;
- colored paper;
- colored pens.
Manufacturing
- Need some decorative paper rectangular shape, fold in half. This will be the cover for the future postcard.
- For the "stuffing" you should cut out the appropriate size cardboard, and also fold it in half.
- In the center, an outline drawing of the image is made (a stencil or patterns are used). It is enough to draw one large flower or, as an idea, use the following templates for voluminous postcards - from simple to complex:
- On the flower, you can make an application from bright colored paper or leave it white, and raise the details of the image with a colored pen.
- Curly scissors cut the cardboard along the edge.
- Glue cardboard with a flower on the cover and put it under the load.
- Write your congratulations and wishes near the flower.
- On the outside of the card, you can stick palettes, a ribbon, make the inscription "Happy Birthday!"
A beautiful handmade greeting card will delight loved ones for a long time.
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Scrapbooking
The most fashion technology work with paper today (scrapbooking) was invented and began its circulation around the world as one of the ways to design photo albums. But why not use it to create beautiful postcards.
It has already become common that demand, sticking out its tongue, is trying its best to keep up with the offer, and therefore the store has everything so that you and I can safely do our favorite hobby - making DIY birthday cards using the scrapbooking technique.
You will need:
- white paper for watercolor - A4 sheet;
- colored paper (lilac, purple);
- lacy wide ribbon- 12 cm;
- beautiful ribbons or braid - 30 cm;
- three whites artificial flower, which can be cut off from hair ties;
- three small interesting buttons to match the paper;
- scissors, ruler;
- glue "Moment";
- felt-tip pen or gel pen purple.
How to make a scrapbooking card
- At the beginning of work, you can make paper blanks. Our greeting card "Happy Birthday!" when folded, it will have a size of 10x16 cm. Therefore, we fold a white sheet of paper measuring 20x16 cm in half. Then we cut out four blanks of colored paper with our own hands (two purple and two lilac), as shown in the photo.
- Carefully glue the lilac blanks onto the purple blanks so that equal fields of the same width remain on each side. Write the words of congratulations "Happy Birthday!" and circle the frame with a pen or felt-tip pen.
- Now you can stick all the rectangles on the workpiece, stepping back from the edge by 10-5 mm. Glue the lace and 12 cm of ribbon on it, tucking and securing the edges of the textile on the back of the scrapbooking card.
- Paste color postcard on a piece of paper folded in half. Now you can make a bow out of the remaining tape, and glue it, voluminous flowers and beautiful buttons with Moment glue.
- The final touch in the design of a birthday card in the style of scrapbooking with your own hands will be drawing a picture. With a felt-tip pen or pen, draw a monogram and dots along the edge of the frame. Unfold the card and write congratulatory words.
Volumetric cards for mom on her birthday
They do not require any additional material investments, any schoolchild can do it with his own hands, at the same time, these beautiful simple voluminous works made of colored paper are very interesting and original.
You will need:
- colored paper;
- scissors, compasses;
- Double-sided tape;
- PVA glue;
- wooden stick;
- beads;
- beautiful ribbon.
The order of implementation of the idea
- Draw circles of different diameters on colored paper with a compass and cut them out. Directing the scissors from the edge to the center, make a spiral from each circle. If you use curly scissors, the edges of flowers in 3D can be made terry or carved.
- Roll with wooden stick from the edge to the center of each spiral, fixing the resulting flower with a drop of glue on the center of the circle-spiral. Try not to make very dense buds so that the bouquet is lush.
- Fold the pretty cardboard rectangle for the base of your birthday gift in half and try it on for the first time.
- Cut out a flower pot from brown paper and glue it to it. wrong side double sided tape.
- Paste on a postcard background green paper 1-2 cm smaller in size. Now you can make a composition of a pot and flowers for your birthday.
- Tie a bow and attach it to the pot. Glue the inscription "Happy Birthday!" and you can give a handmade card to your loved one.
Postcard folding bed "chicken"
- To implement this idea, you will need two sheets of cardboard or thick paper. Bend one sheet measuring 12x12 cm, retreating 3 cm from the edge.
- The second sheet of cardboard measuring 15x18 cm must be folded in half. This will be the base of the postcard. Therefore, you can decorate it by pasting beautiful paper from two sides.
- Cut 6 lines on the fold of the first workpiece. Step back from each edge by 3 cm. The side 4 lines should be 3 cm long and symmetrical to the fold. The middle strip is cut 1.5 cm high from the fold axis, 2.5 cm down. The width of the resulting strips should be 1 cm. Bend them into reverse side to get three steps of the same height, but different lengths. They will serve as stands for paper figures.
- Cut out two pieces of colored paper. brown eggs, decorate them with appliqués and stick them on the outer steps.
- Draw a chick in egg pattern on paper. It must first be cut from yellow paper a newborn chick with paws and a comb, and then a white paper shell. Glue them together, draw a beak, eyes and glue to the middle step. Drape background beautiful applique and chicken feathers.
Postcard in quilling technique
elegant, volumetric decorations on a postcard they don’t look like paper at all, but they are made very simply. You just need to cut narrow strips of colored paper and fold them into spirals in a certain way.
The quilling technique is well described in many sources. You can learn the simplest tricks quickly. For such a picture, you need to make 4 “closed spirals” of green paper, 4 “non-central spirals” yellow color and 8 pink, as well as 14 green leaves in the shape of an "eye".
Start designing with big flower. Its center is also made from a strip of paper folded into a spiral, previously cut to the middle of the width into a fringe. Then glue the petals and leaves.
Attach the butterfly details in the upper left corner. Without gluing, lay out the details of the picture with congratulations and ladybug on a postcard, respecting the proportions. It remains only to add "twigs" and fix the still life.
Gift Ideas
In order to make the voluminous postcard even more voluminous, you can make not a flat pot, but a bag with a bow. Fold an accordion fan out of pink paper or, as in the photo, a bag. Fix the edges of the fan on paper and glue the bottom of it with a corner. To prevent the fan from opening, limit its volume with a white ribbon with a bow.
To the inscription "Happy Birthday!" looked original on the postcard, it can be made with silicone. Next, you need to paint the background with a brush with dry paint, and then carefully remove the silicone film from the paper. There will be a white inscription on a colorful background.
There is no simpler and more original idea than an “endless” postcard. Write congratulatory texts, torn and connected in the process of folding, prepare applications, drawings. Decorate this postcard made by yourself according to the master class shown in the video.
Use natural material: leaves, dried flowers, flattened straws, ears of corn. This will enliven the gifts and give them natural living warmth.