Choosing a gift for the next holiday, you often puzzle yourself to give something that will be remembered for a long time. Yes, and a card should be bought to write a couple of nice words. This is where the thought comes to mind: why not present home-made cards to your loved ones? After all, the imagination is almost limitless, and you can create such masterpieces that they will be much more valuable than any gift.
Necessary materials
In order to make a card, you must first select the materials for its manufacture. So, without fail you will need ordinary and curly scissors, a cardboard base-postcard, glue (both clerical and PVA), hole punchers, curly staplers, colored paper, as well as ribbons, braid, beads, sequins and any other decor. In a word, home-made cards can be created from any material, even from dough, it would be only a desire.
Working process
First you need to prepare the foundation. You can use the finished one, which is worth buying at the art needlework store. Such basics are sold in a set of several with envelopes and can be either simple or with cut out windows. If there are no such templates, you can buy designer cardboard of the desired color, cut homemade cards of a certain size from it, taking into account that. that they will be folded in half, and if necessary, cut out a window - a heart, an oval, etc.
It is worth noting that designer cardboard is produced not only in a certain color, but also multi-colored, with a applied pattern, as well as an ornament extruded on it. The edges of the postcard can be processed with curly scissors or with a special appliance that makes a net drawing around the edge or allows using a template and a blunt thin object to squeeze a drawing onto a cardboard.
Now you need to call for help imagination and start decorating homemade cards. It is desirable that the drawing be thought out in advance, but this is not necessary, since the cards obtained in the process of their creation when the artist improvises are the best. In this case, you can get the most unusual results. You can lay out a composition from ready-made flowers, threads, ribbons, figures from paper, etc. Many needlewomen create home-made cards using their creations. So, by gluing an embroidered picture, knitted elements, lace to the base, you can get unusual pictures. To complete the postcard, you can glue a frame of ribbons and a variety of stars, beads. All parts are attached to the base with glue. You can also use a gun loaded with sticks of silicone glue.
Such cards can be given for any occasion. So, home-made cards "Happy Birthday!", "Happy Wedding Day !" or intended for any other holiday are both an original addition to the main present, and an excellent independent gift. It is worth noting that, thinking up the design of the card, you need to consider not only the occasion, but also who it will be presented to. So, for newly-made spouses it is advisable to glue hearts and rings on a card, for a computer technician you can experiment and glue a mini-keyboard, and for a child just attach small figures on a card or cut out fragments from a braid.