Paper - the material is quite versatile. With the help of various techniques and with the help of skillful hands, you can create truly magnificent things. But we will not start with the most difficult, for example, with postcards Kirigami.
Kirigami technique
The technique of kirigami is the art of cutting out three-dimensional figures from paper and creating postcards-clamshells. Such products are created simply, but they look pretty impressive: you open a postcard, and before you the three-dimensional beauty opens.
To create postcards with their own hands, the Kirigami technique usually uses an A4 leaflet or a sheet of colored paper. You can create a drawing yourself, but it's much easier to work with postcards in Kirigami technique with diagrams. In the diagram, the dotted line designates the fold, the solid line is the notch, the black lines are also notches, the red lines are folded inwards, the green lines are folded outward. Make cuts conveniently with a stationery knife and scissors.
Postcard Kirigami - how to do?
To the beginning master in the technique of kirigami, we propose to make with our own hands an effective butterfly postcard. To create it you will need:
- ordinary sheet of paper;
- sheet of cardboard purple;
- PVA glue;
- scissors;
- stationery knife;
- pencil.
When all the necessary materials are at your disposal, you can start working:
- On a white paper with a pencil, draw or print a pattern-stencil of butterfly wings and openwork corners. In general, the size of the figure is 14 by 19 cm.
- When the whole drawing is done, carefully cut the scissors where the solid lines are indicated. Large elements are conveniently cut with scissors, small ones - with a knife.
- Bend where there is a dotted line in the figure.
- After that cardboard purple size of 15 to 20 cm folds in half as a postcard. Then paste the paper pattern on the inside of the postcard so that it is surrounded by a uniform purple frame.
- It remains to insert the wings in the slot, get the butterfly.
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That's all! The outer side of the postcard can be decorated according to your desire, for example, in the quilling technique.