A wonderful gift that can be given for any occasion is DIY cards. Scrapbooking - one of the techniques for performing this craft - even a child can easily master. The technique consists in compiling collages from photographs, memorable little things, various interesting things and placing all this on the cover of a photo album, notebook or postcard.
Many people throw out all sorts of broken hairpins, unnecessary buttons, torn satin ribbons, ribbons and other items. And creative individuals find use for them. For example, parts of an old broken bracelet can be useful in the manufacture of a casket, and luggage tags will find their use in the design of a photo album telling about the journey.
When approaching the winter holiday, you can not puzzle over what to present to relatives, but to make Christmas cards. With their own hands made with care and love, they will undoubtedly bring great joy to everyone. Each product will be individually, unique. Children can be involved in their manufacture. Girls are likely to like this lesson, they will be happy to pick up beads, buttons and pieces of braid. Attracting their attention and cutting paper with the help of corner and edge holes.
Easy enough to make postcards with your own hands. Scrapbooking involves the use of special paper, but if it is not available, you can use thin cardboard, landscape paper, or any thick paper. Next, the sheet is cut to the desired size and folded in half.
First you need to choose the decor elements of the product or make them yourself. There are special
curly hole punchers with which you can cut a variety of patterns from paper. Using the scrapbooking technique, birthday cards are decorated with self-made
roses, finished ribbons, and figured-out strips. Finished materials for decoration can be purchased at the store. The assortment is quite diverse: these are plastic and wooden small figures: flowers, butterflies, hearts.
Products from polymer clay, accessories with which handles are made at the caskets.
If white paper is used for the manufacture of postcards, then for the decor of its front part you should choose a smaller contrasting color strip in width and treat its vertical edges with a special hole punch.
In this way, do-it-yourself postcards are created. Scrapbooking only as a specific technique helps to make it unique and beautiful. A strip of
contrasting color is glued to the workpiece, further decor depends on the manufacturer’s imagination - you can stick lace tape or paper daisies on it, with beads in the middle, inscribe it using a special stamp or print it in advance on a color printer. The inside of the postcard is made out using sheets on which wishes are written. Their edges are also decorated with curly notch.
The original gift presented to the wedding will be postcards with their own hands. Scrapbooking, the possibilities of which are unlimited, allows you to create a unique gift. And looking at it, everyone will celebrate your originality and creativity.