A postcard is always a pleasant addition to a gift, an opportunity to write down your wishes on paper and thereby save them for years to come. The more interesting, if you make original Christmas cards with your own hands. Your friends and relatives will be pleasantly surprised to receive a gift of your soul, invested in the creation of a New Year's card.
Ideas for New Year's cards
The most important symbol of celebrating the New Year is, of course, a Christmas tree. A card with a herringbone can be made from colored paper, such an application can even be made by a small child. Take a white paper, cut out a sheet of the required format and bend it in half. This is a blank for a future postcard. Further actions can be completely different. Originally it looks like a Christmas tree made of paper, decorated with rhinestones of different colors and sizes. Under the Christmas tree, you can paste squares-gifts. An amusing tree will turn out if you cut strips of green paper of different lengths, and then glue them horizontally one after another, beginning with a small rectangle, each time increasing the length of the strip.
Another unusual solution is to fold the triangle of green paper with an accordion, then unbend it and glue it, but gently, in order to preserve the volume of the resulting Christmas tree.
Children's New Year cards can be quite simple in execution, but not less elegant. Purchase several sheets of colored wrapping paper, for example, with a New Year theme. Cut out circles of different sizes and squares or rectangles. The child will be able to make an applique, where the circles will become elegant Christmas balls, and the rectangles and squares will turn into a mountain of gifts. You will only need to finish the spruce branch, on which the balls hang and help decorate the gifts with bows and ribbons.
Drawing attention to the symbol of the coming New Year, you can make New Year cards with the year of the snake. The symbol of the year can be drawn, cut from paper and pasted, embroidered, gossiped from beads. In 2013 Snake will be Black and Water, so do not be afraid to give it a "wet" effect. The snake can be made an applique made of black rhinestones or sequins, use velvet black paper or beads with a tint. When making postcards with your own hands, all means are good, do not be afraid to experiment with materials and textures, bright colors and unusual combinations.
The smallest congratulators can also take part in the work. Draw a "wire", and then make a finger of the baby along it bright prints in different colors. Such a New Year's garland is sure to impress grandmothers.
How to make a voluminous Christmas card?
Volumetric postcards require a little more skill and time, but in general, they do not represent a special complexity. The bottom line is to glue the application not on the front side of the future postcard, but inside it. For example, a few rectangular strips of green paper, folded accordion, you need to glue to the different inside sides of the card with short sides, then when you open, you get an unusual Christmas tree.
There is also an origami technique, such paper craftworks can be glued both inside the postcard and outside. For fans of very unusual handicrafts, a sophisticated "ayris folding" technique comes into fashion, the name of which can be translated as "rainbow folding". The essence of the technique is to overlay the strips of paper in a certain sequence, and as a result, an unusual effect of the volume spiral is obtained.
New Year's cards made by oneself will necessarily become an original and expensive gift, because in each of them will be enclosed a part of your soul.