The school year is not only lessons, homework, but also pleasant holiday moments. If your teachers have a professional holiday soon, it's time to find out how to do a DIY postcard for Teacher's Day. Now it’s fashionable to give hand-made souvenirs. Be in the trend too. Design your own design. Let your gift be remembered for its uniqueness.
How to make a DIY Teacher's Day greeting card
Since this holiday is professional, autumn, and school teachers, with rare exceptions, mainly women, the plots of postcards are appropriate: colorful autumn leaves, bouquets of flowers and attributes of professional activity (pencils, pens, checkered leaves).
Do-it-yourself postcard for Teacher's Day can be made in different ways:
- In the application technique.
- With quilling elements.
- Scrapbooking
- Silhouette carving;
- Anyone who owns graphic editors on a computer can custom-design a printed card.
In a word, there are many ways. Any gift created by your own hands will look more advantageous against the background of purchased analogues, since a piece of the soul is enclosed in the author's souvenir, and he is already unique in this.
The process of making a postcard will take some time, so it’s better to distribute the number of souvenirs you need among all the class guys. The boys are invited to make computer options. Girls can easily cope with any kind of needlework, especially since a hobby such as scrapbooking is now popular and, probably, many houses will find decor suitable for postcards.
What is required
To make a beautiful DIY card for Teacher’s Day, you need to prepare the following:
- Cardboard and paper (design, for scrapbooking, color, mother of pearl, embossed, metallized, with a pattern, self-adhesive, velvet).
- Pencil and eraser.
- Ruler.
- Scissors and office knife.
- Glue (even better thermal gun).
- Stencils of leaves, flower petals.
- Ready-made congratulatory inscriptions (if you have an ugly handwriting).
- Curly scissors and hole punching for the edges of parts, embossing tools (if available).
- Decorative elements (satin ribbons, lace, beads, sequins, volumetric stickers).
Scrapbooking
In this technique, you can make very effective postcards for Teacher's Day with your own hands. The sequence of work will be as follows:
- Take a sheet to make the base. Fold it in half.
- Cut stencils of colored leaflets.
- Make a beautiful composition of leaves, for example, arranging them in the form of a bouquet or in a circle. Glue on the card.
- Make the petals and glue the voluminous flower out of them. Glue it in the center of the bouquet of leaves.
- Complete the card with narrow satin ribbons.
- Make or paste the finished greeting lettering.
Silhouette carving
In this way, you can make both flat and voluminous postcards for Teacher's Day with your own hands. The photos show examples of patterns for silhouette carving.
A postcard in this technique is easy to do like this:
- Take a rectangle of colored paper and fold it in half.
- Apply a cutout pattern to the front.
- Cut the pattern with a knife, laying out a postcard on a board or other substrate.
- Make a rectangle with half a postcard and glue it on the back so that the cut out pattern is on a colored background.
- Complete the card with a congratulatory inscription, cut out of colored paper leaves or flowers.
3D do-it-yourself postcard for Teacher's Day
An exclusive postcard can not only have a relief decor of flowers, leaves and other objects, but also be of an unusual shape. Make a three-dimensional souvenir that can be placed as a decoration on the table, or combine a card with a functional thing - make a card-box for chocolate.
An unusual configuration product is easy to make in the form of a handbag, a bell, an open book, a bouquet of flowers. You can decorate your purse , bell or box with chocolate using quilling techniques, three-dimensional colors from paper, fabric or satin ribbons.
By the way, not only decor on the front side can make a three-dimensional postcard, but also elements located inside that are not visible when closed, and when the product is opened, they form a three-dimensional figure.
It is easy to decorate the inside of the souvenir with flowers made of paper, which can be either made separately and glued inside the product, or cut out in the form of silhouettes and warp. In the second case, it is better to glue the card from two layers, so that the holes in the pattern are not through, and the delicate carved details appear against the contrasting background of the decorative sheet.
Computer design
If you even know how to work with a photo editor on a computer, make an exclusive postcard for the teacher with his photo and images of objects related to the school subject he teaches. A postcard can be printed on double-sided paper, so the design of the inside, where the text will be, is also good to develop independently. By the way, if it’s difficult for you to create a postcard from scratch, download the appropriate version of the template and refine it.
As you can see, a do-it-yourself postcard for Teacher's Day can be made in many ways. Choose your favorite idea and embody it as a pleasant holiday souvenir.