The New Year in the modern world remains one of those holidays for which it is customary to give each other postcards with congratulations and wishes. It is especially pleasant to receive postcards created by the hands of children as a gift. They are really dear to mothers and fathers, grandparents, and are often kept in the family for many years.
A great variety of step-by-step master classes on making just such cards are collected in this thematic section. All kinds of creative techniques are presented here, from easy-to-create hand-drawn postcards to true volumetric works of art. Choose, please, surprise!
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Hello friends and readers!
Today I will share five simple ideas for New Year cards, which you can do with your own children. I tried to choose such works so that the guys could fully participate, and not just the mother draws with the child's hand. And at the same time, so that the postcard looks spectacular!
All that I propose, we did with Mark and Gleb, so I can say for sure that the ideas are simple and accessible for children from 1.5-2 years old.
Gouache prints
- smooth surface: magnetic board, kitchen smooth board, clean tray
- Scotch
- gouache paint
- cotton swabs
How to do it?
- On a smooth surface we make a square / rectangle of their tape.
- We paint it inside with gouache - not a thick, but not a thin layer.
- Draw a simple outline with a cotton swab.
- We attach a blank postcard.
Perhaps you only need to prepare the surface. All other steps can be performed by a child of 2 years old. At the very beginning, I showed Gleb what layer of paint is needed so that too much or too little does not come out.
By the way, during work, ask the child how he thinks, why this happens and where does the drawing on the print come from? I'm sure the answers will surprise you =)
Buttons
For this job you will need:
- Ball blanks: we have wooden buttons (you can use cardboard circles)
- Acrylic paint or gouache
- white cardboard (postcard base)
How to do it?
Another idea within the power of a child is to paint colored circles and then glue them on a white / blue surface. I gave the children the buttons and they quickly made them colored. Then we glued them to the blank on the postcard and drew the strings.
Garland and Christmas tree
- Gouache or watercolor
- White cardboard (the base of the postcard) with a "blank"
How to do it?
Children just dip their fingers in paint and leave prints. Agree that you should not lead your finger, but poke! And of course, draw some more blanks!
Volumetric balls
For this job you will need
- Beautiful paper with ornaments
- White or colored cardboard
How to do it?
Cut 2 circles (Christmas tree decorations) or 2 Christmas trees. To make the objects volumetric, we glued in 2 elements, folded in half. In general, like this:
While cutting, try play such a game: fold the sheet in half and start cutting, and the child, while you have not yet unfolded the paper, should guess by half what it will be. For children under 2-3 years old, this is not an easy task, because in the head it is necessary to complete the symmetrical half of the object!
It is quite simple to create a New Year's mood, because everything is in the details. Try to make wonderful New Year's cards with your own hands, it's very fun and simple, such an original gift will be appreciated by friends and family. We invite you to familiarize yourself with several master classes on creating postcards, translate the proposed ideas into reality.
Master classes
Mini-album-postcard "Herringbone"
What is necessary:
- Pastel paper;
- Corrugated cardboard with a picture;
- Double-sided tape;
- Spray paint;
- Cutter;
- Rhinestones;
- Decorative lace (golden);
- The pillow is pigmented;
- Glue "Moment" and for attaching rhinestones (transparent);
- Ruler;
- Breadboard mat;
- Creasing tools;
- Pencil.
Origami Christmas tree for postcards
Today, scrapbooking postcards have become very popular, the finished product looks bright and very beautiful. We recommend that you familiarize yourself with the scrapbooking master class for beginners.Required materials: 5 squares of colored paper, 10 cm; 9 cm; 7.5 cm; 6.5 cm; 5.5 cm.
How to do:
- So, you need to take the largest square and fold it in such a way that you get a triangle.
- Unfold the square and make the exact same triangle, bending over opposite sides of the cardboard.
- Place the unfolded sheet of cardboard in front of you.
- Fold the sheet along the folds so that you get a volumetric triangle.
- Now one of the sides of the figure will need to be bent inward, as shown in the photo.
- In the same way, fold the cardboard on the second side - this is the first module of our Christmas tree.
- We add the rest of the modules in the same way, respectively, their size should be different - from larger to smaller.
- A small piece of tape must be glued to the top of the first module. We place the largest module inside the smaller one and do the same with the rest.
Herringbone made of decorative tape for a postcard
It is very entertaining to create wonderful postcards for the New Year 2019 with your own hands, so involve the kids in this process. Preparing for the holiday with children will be more fun.
For work, you will need a minimum of material - decorative tape, as well as strips of colored paper.
Manufacturing features:
- On a cardboard blank, stick a piece of scotch tape (preferably one-color) vertically, the top of the strip should be slightly narrower than the bottom - this is the trunk of the future Christmas tree.
- After that, you will need to cut the tape into strips of various sizes. The ends of the strips should be cut obliquely, imitating spruce branches.
- Stick the strips in the form of a pyramid (from largest to smallest).
Manufacturing instruction:
- Take colored green paper, cut out a circle, cut into two halves.
- Fold the edge of the paper as shown in the photo.
- Now make the next fold in the opposite direction, thus fold the edge again and arrange the herringbone. The paper craft looks original.
- Glue the "twigs" to the base with glue-pencil and you can start decorating New Year's cards with your own hands.
3D greeting card for New Year
Making voluminous New Year's cards with your own hands is not at all difficult, make sure of this using the example of the proposed master class.You need to prepare:
- Double-sided adhesive tape;
- Multi-colored cardboard;
- Glue;
- Scissors;
- Figured hole punch.
Postcard "Christmas balls"
You can make an unusual New Year's card with your own hands in just a few minutes, prepare an excellent gift for your loved ones for 2019.You need to prepare:
- Colored paper in two colors;
- Scissors;
- Stationery glue;
- Inscription pen.
- Before you start making a New Year's card with your own hands, as in the photo, you will need to prepare all the necessary materials and tools.
- Fold the blue paper in half for the base, so the background will contrast perfectly with the light blue "balls".
- Cut the circles out of light-colored paper.
- Fold each one in half.
- Now you need to attach these circles to each other, thus forming volumetric balls.
- Glue them on the outside of our postcard.
- Using a pen, draw the threads that "hold" the balls. Now the do-it-yourself New Year card is completely ready, you just need to sign it.
Quilling holiday card
You can even create beautiful baby cards from quilling, try it, you will like it.You will need to prepare:
- Colored cardboard;
- Colored strips;
- Glue;
- Toothpicks;
- Scissors;
- Corrugated light paper.
- Take a quilling (green stripes), make cuts at the same distance using nail scissors.
- Wind the prepared ribbons on a toothpick, so you get several skeins, as in the photo.
- Now you need to fix the bottom of the skein with glue and straighten the fringe, you get voluminous balls.
- Next, we proceed to the final stage of making a postcard for the New Year with our own hands. It is necessary to glue the balls on a sheet of cardboard in the form of a pyramid, you get a Christmas tree. Now you can "decorate" it as you wish.
Bright "Christmas tree"
Would need:- Paper of various colors and textures;
- Double-sided adhesive tape;
- PVA type glue;
- The hole punch is decorative;
- Rope.
- A piece of colored paper will need to be folded in half, glue a triangle of green paper and a small rectangle of brown, you get a tree.
- Cut out circles of various sizes, then use a hole punch to make snowflakes.
- Glue all the figures on the Christmas tree, decorate it with beads, then decorate the lower part with an openwork paper ribbon. You can also come up with your own postcard designs.
- Wrap the string around the postcard, then tie a bow. Below you can glue white paper for text.
Volumetric herringbone with beads
Required tools and materials:- Colored paper with ornaments for scrapbooking;
- White postcard without a picture;
- Scissors;
- Stationery glue;
- Double-sided adhesive tape;
- Ruler;
- Decorative pins with carnations.
- It is necessary to cut 12 rectangles out of paper, their length should be 10 cm. The width of the smallest one is 9 cm, all others are wider by 6 mm.
- Wrap each of the rectangles around a pencil, thus making tubes.
- Now you need to glue them, the longest will be at the base, and the short one should be at the top.
- Glue the tree to the card, decorate with carnations and pins. That's all you are done.
Children's card with fingers
Children get acquainted with this method of creating postcards in kindergarten, try to do this at home.
These photos show how you can keep the kids busy and prepare for the New Year, for this you need to prepare paints and paper or cardboard.
Postcards with "potato print"
If you don't know how fun it is to celebrate the 2019 year of the pig, then get creative with the kids. This master class demonstrates the original creation of a holiday card.You will need:
- Raw potatoes;
- Paints.
How to do:
- Cut the potatoes in half, dip them in paint, make a print on the cardboard.
- Now it remains to finish drawing the details of the drawing, you will get a cute penguin or snowman.
You can make the following design out of felt:
Ideas for inspiration
Quilling:
Video about creating a scrapbooking card:
Origami crafts for cards:
Summary: DIY Christmas cards. How to make original postcards for the new year with a child. New Year's crafts. Homemade New Year's cards, card ideas. Volume postcards for the New Year holidays. New Year's paper crafts with children. New Year's applique.
1. DIY Christmas cards ("Herringbone")
The New Year tree is an indispensable attribute of the holiday. Therefore, postcards with her image will be especially appropriate. In addition, such cards can be very simple to make.
The Christmas tree applique can be made from plain or multi-colored strips of paper. Making this New Year's craft with your own hands is within the power of even a small child.
The strips of paper can be replaced with colored tape or tape. It also turns out very beautiful New Year's cards.
A more complicated option is a New Year's card "Christmas tree" made of paper tubes. This original volumetric New Year's card "Herringbone" is made of paper tubes. The herringbone is decorated with multi-colored buttons. Its trunk is made of a twig. To make this postcard for the New Year, it is advisable to use special scrapbooking paper or corrugated cardboard.
It is very easy to make a Christmas tree applique using purchased stickers. Even a two-year-old can do this craft for the New Year with his own hands.
Simple and effective - homemade Christmas cards "Herringbone" from ordinary buttons.
You can also embroider the herringbone with threads. Only in this case, the New Year's card should be made of high-density paper or cardboard. Previously, the holes must be carefully made with an awl. For the simplest version of the Christmas tree, see the photo below.
For a more complex version of a New Year's card with a Christmas tree made of threads, see here >>>> To make this New Year's craft with your own hands, you will also need sequins or beads.
By the way, you can embroider not only a Christmas tree with threads, but also something else, New Year's. For example, here is such a cute deer.
An original New Year's card with your own hands can be made from a fern leaf or any other plant similar to it. For example, cypress twigs. Just take the top of the piece of paper and stick it onto the card. It will be a herringbone. You just have to decorate it with sequins or confetti made with a punch from colored paper. Instead of confetti, you can glue colored pieces of plasticine onto the Christmas tree. This part of the work of making a homemade New Year's card will be within the power of even a kid.
You can make a New Year's card either from a whole fern leaf, or just from its top.
The technique for making volumetric Christmas trees is similar to the method for making Christmas balls. See link >>>> Only you don't need to glue them together, instead stick the Christmas trees on the postcard.
Option 3.
Do-it-yourself volumetric New Year card. To make such a voluminous Christmas card for the New Year, you will need three sheets of green square paper: large, medium and small. Also, in order to make the tree trunk, you will need a brown rectangular sheet of paper.
Fold each square piece of paper in half first (horizontally and vertically) 2 times to outline the centerlines. Then fold them two more times diagonally. After that, fold each sheet in the form of a pyramid (see photos 3 and 4). From the resulting pyramids, glue the Christmas tree by inserting them into each other. How to make a trunk for a Christmas tree is shown in the photo (8, 9 and 10). Finally, glue the tree to your New Year's card.
Option 4.
Do-it-yourself volumetric postcard for the New Year. Making this volumetric postcard out of paper is much easier than it might seem at first glance. First, you will need to cut 5 halves of circles of different sizes from green paper: large, smaller, even smaller, etc. Bend each half of the circle in half, then in half again, and again in half. Expand each blank and form folds with an accordion (see photo).
Now put one blank into another and glue them together along the three central folds.
For the trunk, cut a rectangle out of brown paper and also fold it accordion.
Glue your paper tree to the card base. Snowflakes are easiest to make out of white paper using a hole punch or draw with a cotton swab.
Option 5.
A very beautiful New Year's craft with your own hands, accessible in complexity to a preschooler, is a voluminous New Year's card "Herringbone". The herringbone is made of rectangular strips of paper folded like an accordion. But there is one caveat here. If you carefully examine the photo, you will see that the tiers of the Christmas tree are made of strips of paper of different widths: the widest at the bottom, the closer to the top, the narrower. In addition, the fold depth of the accordion is also different. The bottom strips of paper are folded into an accordion with a large "step". The higher towards the top, the shallower the fold depth.
Here are two more voluminous cards with a Christmas tree made from a triangular-shaped sheet of paper folded like an accordion. Simple and tasteful!
Option 6.
Another voluminous New Year card. Again, this New Year's craft for children is attractive not only in appearance, but also in its ease of manufacture.
To make such a New Year's card with your own hands, print templates (template-1 and template-2) on two sheets of cardboard or thick paper and use the detailed instructions from the photos below. It is better if the sheets of cardboard are of different colors.
Finally, decorate the tree to your liking. A voluminous New Year card is ready! 
Option 7.
Origami Christmas tree. We suggest you make a voluminous New Year's card decorated with a Christmas tree made of paper made using the origami technique. To make the card look more elegant and festive, choose prettier paper for your Christmas tree. Special scrapbooking paper is well suited for this DIY New Year's craft. By the way, making such an origami Christmas tree is much easier than it seems at first glance. For one origami Christmas tree, you will need 4-5 square sheets of paper of different sizes.
Option 8.
There is an easier way to make a Christmas tree using the origami technique. Detailed instructions in the photo below.
Option 9.
A voluminous New Year's card can be made with your own hands from corrugated paper.
Option 10.
The elements of the New Year's card in the photo below are made using the quilling technique.
3. Postcards for the New Year with your own hands ("Christmas balls")
DIY Christmas cards with the image of Christmas balls look good. New Year's application "Christmas balls" can be made of bright paper and decorated with ribbons.
Beautiful Christmas balls are made from colored strips of paper. Cut an unnecessary glossy magazine (advertising brochure) into thin strips, stick them on a white sheet of paper. After that, cut out circles of different sizes from the resulting striped paper. Decorate your New Year card with them.
Christmas balls can be made not only from paper, but also from buttons.
Store-bought decorative rhinestones can be used instead of buttons.
Original volumetric New Year cards with the image of Christmas balls suggests to make the website www.hgtv.com
To make such a DIY Christmas card, print the following template. See link >>>> On each square, use a compass or an object with a round bottom of the appropriate size to draw a circle. Cut out all the mugs, and then use the following instructions for making Christmas balls. See link >>>> Only you don't need to glue the balloon down, instead stick it on the postcard.
Another Christmas decoration, a garland of flags, will look spectacular on a New Year's card. Flags can be made of paper or fabric and then glued or sewn onto a postcard.
Even very young children can make a Christmas card with their own hands with the image of a multi-colored garland of fingerprints.
And from a handprint you can make a New Year's card with Santa Claus or funny snowmen.
1. On any surface that does not absorb paint (for example, a regular pan), make a rectangular frame (to fit your postcard size) with duct tape or duct tape.
2. Apply paint evenly to the surface. Draw a drawing on the New Year theme with a cotton swab.
3. Attach a piece of paper. Do-it-yourself New Year card is ready!
4. Do-it-yourself volumetric card for the New Year "Snowman"
Separately, I would like to tell you about this original, voluminous postcard for the New Year. It is very simple to make such a snowman out of paper. Even a preschooler can cope with the task. It is necessary to cut three circles of different sizes from thick white paper. Along the edge of the circles, it is advisable to shade them so that they stand out better against each other. This can be done using a crushed pencil lead or eyeshadow. Also cut out a scarf, pens, a carrot nose, eyes and buttons from colored paper. Glue all parts of the snowman sequentially on the blank of your New Year's card.
Here is the original postcard, made by a scrapbooking master.
And here are the versions of this voluminous New Year's card, made by children.
5. Do-it-yourself voluminous New Year cards
Another way of making voluminous New Year's cards can be found on our website at the link >>>>
6. New Year's crafts for children. New Year's applique
Postcards decorated with New Year's applique made from rice grains turn out to be very delicate.
7. Postcards for the New Year with your own hands. Christmas cards with snowflakes
Another DIY Christmas card idea is a card decorated with a paper-cut snowflake. For information on how to cut very beautiful, unusual snowflakes out of paper, see our special section "DIY New Year's Snowflakes".
If you have paper lace napkins at home, you can cut snowflakes out of them.
8. New Year's paper crafts. New Year's cards made using the iris folding technique
Original New Year's cards using the iris folding technique are proposed to be made by the Country of Masters website. The name of this technique - iris folding - can be translated as "rainbow folding". The drawing is filled with thin paper strips, which, overlapping each other at a certain angle, create an interesting twisting spiral effect. For a detailed master class on making this New Year's paper craft, see the link >>>>
Here is another New Year's card made using this technique. Instructions on the link >>>>
9. Original postcards for the New Year with your own hands. DIY Christmas
We would like to acquaint you with another interesting technique for making New Year's cards with your own hands. The herringbone and New Year's ball in the photo below are made using this technique.
To make a Christmas tree postcard, you will need:
Red cardboard sheet
- a sheet of colored origami paper (dark green on one side,
on the other hand - light green)
- scissors or a special knife for cutting paper
- glue
Print the stencil on a piece of green origami paper. Make cuts along the lines. Where the trunk of the tree is, cut out the entire piece of paper. If you fold a piece of paper in half before making the cuts, you can cut it out with scissors. In this case, even a preschooler will be able to make a postcard. If you want to do without a fold in the center of the postcard, then it is better to make cuts with a special paper cutting knife. Now you just have to bend the corners back and glue your blank onto the cardboard.
The "New Year's ball" card is made in the same way. The stencil for making this original New Year's card can be downloaded from the link >>>>
The snowflakes from the section are made using the same technique. They can also decorate a postcard for the New Year.
And one more do-it-yourself New Year's card "Herringbone", made in this technique.
To make this card for the New Year, print the template on a piece of white cardboard. On the back, stick a thin sheet of green paper. Cut the corners with a paper cutting knife, bend them. Now cut and fold your New Year card in half. If you want to write New Year's greetings inside, then stick an additional sheet of green paper so that the letters do not shine through the holes. For a detailed New Year's master class on making this card, see.
Another idea for a New Year's card that you can do with your child with your own hands. For a detailed master class, see the photo below.
DIY Christmas card ideas. When making New Year's cards with your own hands, it is appropriate to use colored self-adhesive foil. It can be purchased at art stores.
The last postcard with which we would like to complete our review of DIY New Year postcards is a voluminous Snow Globe postcard. In the photo below, she is shown on the left side. This New Year's card is made using a transparent dairy lid. You will find a master class on how to make such original volumetric postcards on the website of Veronika Podgornaya.
These two postcards were made by the author of the blog Naftusina man-made. A snowdrift and a cloud are cut out of felt. Herringbone and bear - curly buttons. White beads are poured inside the postcard. The postcard looks great! Shake it and it snows! On this site you will find two more interesting DIY Christmas cards. Santa Claus and Snowman rush through the snow-covered drifts. The snowdrifts and the cloud are cut out of felt, the heroes are made of buttons and felt, the tree is a real twig, which was slightly pasted over with pieces of padding polyester, the snowflakes were painted with a helium pen.
Prepared by: Anna Ponomarenko
Good afternoon. Today we will make our own New Year cards. I will show you the most interesting ways and techniques. You will not only see photographs, but also receive detailed instructions and diagrams for creating each such postcard. I will give you the necessary master classes 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'll look at a wide variety of Christmas trees on postcards.
- Then I will show you what Santa Clauses can decorate your postcard.
- Then we will make Snowmen using 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 transfer them in a second round. But you can use them to create a NEW postcard. You can cut a triangle out of a New Year's card, put it on a leg and get a Christmas tree. The New Year's motive on the card turned out by itself - like the coloring of a Christmas tree.
Or you can cut a herringbone out of a regular cardboard box - rough corrugated packaging cardboard will blend in with delicate lace or pearl beads. And you will receive an elegant handmade New Year card.
You can cut a triangular silhouette of a Christmas tree with wavy edges and glue it with sequins that imitate Christmas decorations on the tree.
You can give the triangular silhouette of the herringbone a scalloped edge (like in the photo postcards 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 with the photo below, we see how a voluminous blade herringbone is glued from three triangles.
Or one silhouette of the Christmas tree can be larger in size and with a different shade of color - we put it as a duplicate background under the upper silhouette (as on the right Christmas card with the photo below).
Method number 2 - paper ribbons on a New Year's card.
From paper or textile ribbons, you can very quickly and easily form a herringbone applique.
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 applique on a New Year's card.
Here in the photo below we see several options for creating such a New Year's tree applique.
The 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 of 3 cm. paper star and we get a New Year's card with our own hands as in the left photo below.
You can also take a triangle cut out of thick cardboard and glue it over with strips of paper or fabric, bending the edges of the strips to the wrong side 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 make not only flat applications. You can make Christmas trees using 3D technique. Here is a detailed description of how to make a looped Christmas tree on a red New Year's card from the left photo below with your own hands.
Step 1 - cut into narrow and long strips - 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 - in the front side of the postcard we make cuts 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 - pushing each strip at one end through 2 slots- we turn it with a loop and again return to the same slots. The ends of the strip that meet on the side glue in the same loop as on the opposite side.
We repeat a similar procedure with the rest of the strips. Naturally, it is necessary to place the strips from bottom to top in decreasing order (long at the bottom, short at the top).
Or you can cut 6 paper strips of equal length 12 cm... Bend each strip in half and intertwine the folds of the halves with each other cross to cross - in a checkerboard weave. It just looks difficult. But in fact it is simple. Here you can tear out a sheet from a notebook and cut 6 strips of any length and practice on such a rough material - to see how simple and easy everything is.
And here is another New Year's card, where the tree is also made of strips of paper... Only here crepe paper is used (with a crumpled wrinkled effect) - it is sold in rolls in stationery stores (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 card we outline the line-tiers (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 - tweaks - and place these tucks on the lower line of the tape. Take the next largest strip (10 cm) and do the same. And so we move to the upper tier of the 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 mugs cut from paper. You can cut the circles to the same size (like the blue postcard in 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 a triangular shape (tapering upward), as on the red New Year's card with the photo below.
Method number 4 - quilling technique for postcards for the New Year.
And here is another technique by which very beautiful handmade New Year cards are obtained. Beautiful twists can be made from paper strips.
This is how the process of creating a Christmas tree using the quilling technique looks like. Cut the 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 strips for quilling. Or you can get a machine for cutting quilling strips.
We lay each twist in a circle template(so that the twists are the same size). Let the tight twist open 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 take it out of 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... Place the twist on the bottom of the glass or lid and allow it to unwind to the diameter of the lid. Then gently pull it out with tweezers and fix the twist tail with glue.
Pinch the round twists on one side with your 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.
The quilling technique allows you to create a variety of Christmas tree patterns 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 for the glue to set - and only then remove from the pencil. These rolls of different lengths make a beautiful Christmas tree on a postcard. Do it yourself quickly and easily. Paper can be used simple color... Or buy sheets gift wrapping paper(sold in the gift department).
Method number 6 - mosaic herringbone 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 postcard for your husband and want to make it in a brutal style).
Method number 7 - 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 at the household store, in the same place as the muffin tins). These napkins are often placed under cakes and other culinary items.)
Or you can create paper lace yourself- by folding the paper as for cutting out a snowflake. And put an interesting pattern with holes along the folded edge.
Can you fold the cut-out snowflake in the shape of a herringbone and stick on a New Year's card.
Method number 8 - origami technique.
And here are 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 are made quite quickly and from a simple square (you do not need to cut anything). The main thing is that each upper square is slightly smaller in size than the lower one. And then the tiers of our Christmas tree will narrow towards the top.
Here below I have depicted 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 OWN interpretations of a modular paper tree. Come up with your own triangular folds and create your own personalized Christmas card with a Christmas tree.
Method number 9 - folding herringbone on a postcard.
And here is another foldable herringbone. Everything here is quite simple and is made from a detached solid sheet of cardboard. And if you wish, you can additionally decorate the Christmas tree with inserts of colored paper and decorations.
And also you can quickly fold an origami Christmas tree out of paper in this semicircular pattern. You can copy the shape of the tree and fold lines directly from the monitor screen. To zoom in or out on the screen, scroll the mouse wheel forward or backward while holding down the Ctrl button.
Or you can make such a tree yourself without a drawing. And just bending the semicircle back and forth several times, as shown in the picture below.
If such a semicircular pattern for a folding Christmas tree is made not with an even edge, but by jagging the circle of the pattern into soft ruffles or teeth, then the edges of our tiers at the Christmas tree will turn out to be curly, as in the photo of New Year's cards below.
Method # 10 - paper carving.
Also, for Christmas cards, the cuff carving technique 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 example in the right photo below - half of the contours of the Christmas tree and snowflakes are cut off and simply bent.
You can make a double contour - and then the fold will turn out in the form of a narrow silhouette strip, as is done on the left postcard with the photo below.
Or 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 rough piece of paper - to see how easy it is to actually implement such a postcard carving technique and make your own unique New Year's craft.
This we examined New Year's cards with a Christmas tree theme, and now let's look at all the other New Year's themes with which you can decorate our cards with your own hands.
Part two
FATHER FROST on postcards.
Large applications in the shape of Santa Claus will decorate any Christmas card. There is no need to make a full-length silhouette of Santa Claus somewhere in the corner of the postcard in the form of a small booger. It is better to take the largest size of a hat, beard and take the whole part of the postcard with these main elements of Santa Claus - a red nose, mustache, beard, hat.
You can fold Santa Claus for a postcard using the origami technique - as shown in the photo below.
Part three
SNOWMAN on New Year's cards.
Now you can move on to the new character of the Christmas holidays - the snowman. Usually we are used to seeing it on crafts in the form of three white rounds and a bucket on the head. But you can get creative with the task of portraying a snowman on a postcard. For example, make it look out from behind the Christmas tree - as in the left photo below.
Or take a ready-made card with a snowman - cut it into strips of different lengths - and from these strips fold a herringbone pyramid. Fold in such a way that on some of the strips you can see the sly face of a snowman (as on the left Christmas card with the photo below).
Also, you are not required to make a snowman applique on a classic white paper postcard. You can take the music staff of a New Year's song on the Internet - put it on print, and cut out round discs from such paper for applying a snowman.
Or take a printed text that tells about New Year's traditions and cut rounds for a snowman from such a 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 twist modules from paper white strips, and fold a quilling snowman.
You can portray the snowman in an interesting, unusual angle or setting. It could be a snowman TOP VIEW (like in the left photo below) ... or a snowman inside a snow globe (like in the right photo).
You can make an applique for a snowman, which pierces a snowflake with his nose. Or a snowman-lord with a top hat and a red bow around his neck.
It is not necessary to put a bucket on the snowman. A snowman looks good in a neat black hat with a brim decorated with a sprig of holly.
The snowman on the postcard can be depicted in an extremely schematic way. A semicircle, a strip of a scarf, two beads of eyes and an orange triangle of the nose.
You can make a simplified silhouette of a snowman as the side of a two-layer postcard as in the photo below.
Or you can use the entire white background of the postcard as the body of a snowman. This principle is shown on the New Year's cards with the photo below.
The most difficult thing is to make a volumetric 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.
He can also be portrayed outside the box, but in an interesting situation. For example, it can be a reindeer singing Christmas songs with inspiration, playing a drum, or ice skating - everything is up to your imagination.
You can choose the simplest silhouette applique of ONLY DEER'S HEAD on postcards.
Or you can decorate a New Year's card with the silhouette of a whole deer - from antlers to hooves.
Part four
SNOWFLAKES on New Year's cards.
You can cut 2 ordinary stars out of 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 the volumetric convex technique.
Or embroider a snowflake from threads. That is, apply a symmetrical pattern of punctures. And then, in a certain order, lace up these puncture holes with threads to make an openwork snowflake.
You don't have to come up with very complex weaves. Even small patterns of thread and needles will decorate your New Year's cards.
In this thread technique, you can perform not only snowflakes, but also any other New Year's motives.
And of course a snowflake using the quilling technique.
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 grow petals to the middle - circle by circle.
Your Christmas card with snowflakes can resemble a layer cake, in which a variety of details are mixed, layering and bumping into each other in an elegant chaos of beauty.
The snowflake on your card can be made of paper modules made using origami technique.
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 flat appliqué of any geometric shapes, 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.
The quilling technique is also ideal for creating modules for a Christmas wreath.
New Year's cards can be decorated with birds. They can sing winter songs while sitting on birch musical branches.
Also, New Year's cards can represent 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 for how to give money in a New Year's card ... We are used to investing money inside a postcard. But you can put the money outside, making it part of the overall New Year's application. I will now explain how to place the money on the front side of the postcard and not spoil it with glue.
Here on the first postcard we see a bill folded in a triangular cone - a ribbon was glued to the card (not money, we don’t spoil it with glue) and glued the ribbon so that it was glued to the glue in the middle, and its tails hung loosely. We put a cone of a Christmas tree-money on the ribbon - and we tie it, we tie it with the free ends of the ribbon.
In the second case we glue the snowman - but not just glue it - but on plump pieces of styrofoam stumps. That is, the snowman turns out to be towering on the postcard. Thus, the snowman's neck turns out to be pushed away from the postcard canvas - and you can safely slip a bill rolled into a strip under his neck.
And in the third case - we roll up the candle tubes out of paper. We glue them with ribs to the postcard. And in each tube we put a banknote rolled into a narrow roll.
These are the original ideas for New Year's cards I found for you during these holidays.
Successful New Year's crafts and a Happy New Year.
Olga Klishevskaya, specially for the site ""
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