Not a single gift will convey all the warmth and sincerity of wishes in the same way as postcards do it yourself. The master class will help to understand the intricacies and push for the creation of a unique masterpiece. Consider several techniques: scrapbooking, quilling and simple application for the youngest craftswomen. And the occasion for creativity will be a holiday - March 8.
Create quilling cards
If you see fancy patterns in the form of paper curls on postcards, notepads, panels - this is quilling. This technique is quite mature and came to us from the time of the Renaissance.
To create a DIY card on March 8 with paper patterns, you need the following:
- A special tool for winding paper (you can use a knitting needle, hook, toothpick).
- Tweezers.
- Colored paper or finished chopped quilling strips.
- Glue.
- Stencil.
Paper rolling is a simple type of needlework and does not require large expenditures. It is the best suited for creating cards with your own hands. We will start the master class with the basic forms of curlicues. The photo shows the figures. They are easy to make using the main element - the circle. Then with your fingers you need to give it the shape of a drop, a leaf, a bell, an eye, a rhombus.
Torsion technique
How to wrap the tape on a knitting needle, a toothpick or a special tool? To do this, you need:
- Fasten one edge of the tape between the teeth.
- Take a strip of paper in your left hand, and a quilling tool in your right hand.
- Hold and pull the tape with your thumb and forefinger so hard so as not to tear.
- Turn the tool knob at the same time.
- After everything is wound up, there is no need to rush to lower your fingers - let the workpiece slightly remember the shape.
- After about one minute, you can let go, then the curl will blossom a little - this is normal.
- You can remove the circle from the tool.
Now, other figures are made from this curl for the future postcard with their own hands on March 8. To make the craft neat, you first need to draw on it the contours of flowers, leaves and curls. Then paste over the blanks with a picture. As a result, you should get the original product.
Do-it-yourself greeting card workshop in scrapbooking style
Scrapbooking is a type of creativity associated with decorating albums. To create cards with your own hands in this technique, you need to stock up on decorative elements such as lace, beads, buttons, ribbons and more. Tools are also needed: scissors, curly hole punch, ruler, stamps, color and watercolor paper.
Why do we need all this arsenal? First things first. With sequins, lace and beads, everything is clear - this is for greater attractiveness. And what is a figured hole punch? It turns out that there are such hole punching machines that can make not only round slots. So, you can take colored paper, cut the element and its edges with this simple tool to turn into a kind of lace.
Stamps are ready-made inscriptions with a short congratulation. Sometimes it can be monograms, silhouettes of buildings, animals, facial contours.
You can buy stamps, print ready-made ones, or you can create them yourself in a graphical editor. Watercolor or special paper for scrapbooking is sold in any specialized store. From it cut the desired size of the card or fold the sheet in half. It all depends on the idea.
Scrapbooking gives you a great flight for imagination and creativity. But do not overload the composition - everything is good in moderation. If there are no problems with aesthetic taste, then you should not worry about the cards made by yourself. The master class below is intended for children from 5 to 8 years.
Colored paper applique
It is especially pleasant to grandmothers and mothers to receive the first gifts from children. Do-it-yourself postcards from colored paper are something even a preschooler can handle. A dad or one of the elder brothers and sisters can always help a child. Now in stores there are no problems with the assortment of colored paper. It is shiny and matte, glossy and velor, holographic and with patterns. As a result, you can get spectacular and beautiful cards with your own hands. We’ll start the workshop by sketching.
On a thick cardboard of the selected color, draw the contours of flowers or any selected object with a simple pencil. Then we cut out the elements of suitable size from paper and glue to the contours of the picture. It turns out a flat application, but you can make a three-dimensional postcard. For example, you can cut out hearts from colored paper and fold them in half. Glue one half to the cardboard, and leave the other curved up. From such elements, you can create flowers, as shown in the photo.