In the article, we offer the reader a variety of ideas for postcards on March 8. With your own hands you can create a real masterpiece that will be stored for a very long time, you just have to put imagination and be patient.
Postcard History
Initially, this was called a postal card in everyday life, in which you could write a message and send it by mail without an envelope.
Then, on one side of the postcard, a picture, illustration or author's design drawing began to be printed. Cards themselves began to be executed on cardboard. Most often these were beautiful greeting cards: on March 8, February 23, New Year's or birthday.
Then cards began to be issued in the form of a book cover, expanding. Now they could no longer be mailed without an envelope. But the name "postcard" was fixed. Now this word meant "congratulations in writing, having a design design."
Creative March 8 greeting card ideas.
With your own hands, you can create an exclusive postcard not only on cardboard in the traditional version. Congratulate each other and virtually. Indeed, today a postcard can be in electronic form, it can no longer be put in a chest of drawers for memory. And there are sound cards that are not even possible to view.
Needleworkers make beautiful cards on March 8 using knitting, embroidery, applique on fabric. Congratulations embroidered on murals can be hung on the wall instead of a rug. It will create coziness in the home and will delight the addressee for a long time.
Drawn cards
Still, the most common option remains traditional, when a piece of cardboard is beautifully framed. Most often, the ideas of postcards on March 8, made with their own hands, are based on such a manufacturing method as drawing.
What is best depicted as a congratulation on the women's holiday? Of course the flowers! For example, a rose will look quite elegant on a postcard. Just do not forget to make the corresponding inscription in the picture.
Master class: draw roses
A card will be very beautiful on March 8 for mom, if you try to draw a flower that is extremely similar to the real one.
- First, auxiliary lines are made on cardboard with a simple pencil. This will be a circle with a diameter coinciding with the volume of the lower part of the flower.
- A little above the circle draw a horizontally elongated oval, which will be the top of the rose.
- From a circle down draw an arbitrary line of the stem.
- Next to the first wavy line, make a second one so that the stem has volume.
- The lateral points of the oval are connected by concave segments with a circle, forming the silhouette of a flower.
- Leaves are marked on the stem.
- From the bottom of the circle, the extreme open petals of the flower are marked.
- Inside the oval, the petals of the bud should be drawn.
- Streaks are drawn on the leaves.
- Spikes are placed on the stem.
- Below the bud are sepals.
- The flower should be painted by applying shadows and making highlights from the light.
Postcard with applique
Anyone for whom drawing is extremely difficult may well use scissors and glue. In order for the card on March 8th to turn out to be beautiful and exclusive for the mother, the master will need old magazines, books, even children's coloring will come in handy. You can use unnecessary postcards.
Cutting out the details - flowers, animals, the sun - make up the composition of the future postcard. Then parts of the application are glued. Congratulatory inscription can be made with paints or also cut out of colored paper.
You can use a minimum of detail, for example, only a few silhouettes of flowers and lettering. The eight itself is simply cut out, then the number is slightly bent inward, and glued onto a bright sheet, after having smeared with glue only the top, bottom and middle of the figure. The background will shine through the slot, and the card itself will already be voluminous, and not traditionally flat. By the way, for this it is possible to stick the flowers not completely, but only in the middle, bending inward the lateral, non-glued parts.
Scrapbooking - a modern way of making postcards
This technique is familiar to many today. Thanks to scrapbooking, you can realize great ideas for postcards on March 8. With their own hands, the craftsmen make such charming little things that no one would even think of throwing out after the holiday. And then many years of the creation of human hands are stored.
They work in this technique in this way: pieces of lace, silk bows, beads, shells, photographs are glued onto cardboard, which serves as the basis of the product. Someone uses miniature knitted things for decorating postcards: booties, sliders, bonnets. This, of course, is a postcard for a young mom.
A mature woman, who already has pleasant memories behind her, should resurrect them and capture them in a congratulatory man-made masterpiece. Greeting cards on March 8 in scrapbooking style, which use cute memorabilia, will become invaluable. And as such, there may be transport tickets to some romantic place, a tag from a dress bought for the evening of the meeting of graduates, which was a turning point in fate, keys to the first apartment, etc.
Personalized scrapbook postcard with a window and a photograph
People keen on needlework get real pleasure from the process itself. For example, they can make the card on March 8 exclusive, having figured out how to put a photo in it.
This is easy to do if you cut a window on one of the halves. It should be placed in it a photograph of the person to whom the congratulation was prepared, or a photograph where a significant day or significant place is captured.
If you do not insert a whole image, but cut out the silhouette of a person, then from the inside you need to glue a piece of colored paper - this will be the background. The junction of the edges of the background must be masked using the applique. A bouquet of flowers, a smiling sun, a dwarf with a gift in his hands will perfectly fit into the design of the inside of the card.
The window can be cut both round and rectangular. If the card itself is made in the form of a house, then the hole does not have to be cut completely. Let it simulate a real window, so one side of the rectangle should be left uncut. Thanks to this, you can “open” the shutter shutter, admire the picture and close the window again.
Collective congratulations
If a large number of employees are women, then it is appropriate to send greeting cards on March 8 not to cabinets, but to make a creative stand. On it in the form of chamomile petals arrange individual greetings or wishes that recipients can easily take out and pick up or just read.
If you fantasize, then the stands themselves can be made in such a way that they will act as creative large-sized greeting cards on March 8. For example, you can use for this purpose interesting poems dedicated to the event.
Gentle, beautiful,
Hardworking
Strict, serious,
To the best of the mocking ones,
Very responsive
Good and powerful -
In general, all employees
Of our beautiful
We are all warmly
Congratulations now!
On their day of course
We wish them happiness!
The wall newspaper itself can also be bent in half and fixed only at the bend. Then it will just imitate a postcard, which must be opened before reading, like a book.
You can not only post such congratulations on the walls. It is appropriate to place large collective cards on March 8 on the tables. It is not difficult to make such souvenirs with your own hands, but they look quite presentable.