Do-it-yourself voluminous New Year's cards from threads. Postcards for the New Year with your own hands: simple and original crafts for kindergarten and school. Beautiful New Year cards

At first glance, it may seem that a postcard is the most banal way to wish a person a Happy New Year. Most often, a postcard is an addition to the main gift. But with all our desire, it is not always possible to buy full-fledged gifts for absolutely all our relatives and friends. And here a postcard will always come to the rescue! But so that the recipient does not feel deprived of your attention, let's learn how to do New Year cards with your own hands. Consider such options that all novice cardmakers can do.

And first, let's get acquainted with the basic rules for creating postcards.

Basic rules for creating postcards with your own hands

• Any, including New Year's cards self made should be initially thought out in terms of composition.
• First, make a draft version of the postcard, and then transfer it to the “clean copy”. Prepare everything necessary elements, arrange them in the order that you like and only then can you glue them.
• When choosing a design for a postcard, pay attention to the interests of the addressee: what colors he likes best, what exactly he prefers.
• There should be no handwriting on the front of the postcard unless you can boast of perfectly beautiful handwriting. Inscriptions are best done using special stamps or cut out finished letters or words from decorative paper.
• Wishes and congratulations are best written inside the postcard, so be sure to leave space for this.
• When creating a handmade postcard, first of all, be careful! Even a drop of spilled glue can ruin an entire appearance, so if the error can not be corrected in any way, it is better to redo everything again.
• Quality materials and tools are the key to your success. Make a list of everything you need, this will save you from unnecessary expenses and will not allow you to forget anything.
• In creating a postcard, any little thing can come in handy, even one that at first glance is not needed at all. For example, all kinds of ribbons and tags, buttons and bows, ropes and scraps of fabric, pieces of paper, beads and more.
• Show your imagination, experiment! And if at first it’s difficult for you to come up with something of your own, use ready-made templates.

And since we are talking about the materials and templates used, we classify postcards according to this principle.

Unusually and in an original way, you can congratulate relatives, colleagues and friends on the upcoming New Year holiday not only with purchased, but also with homemade gifts. For example, you can make DIY New Year cards using improvised materials and inexpensive sets of paper and decor. As a basis, it is recommended to use ordinary cardboard. But lace, multi-colored paper, and even beads are perfect for decorating homemade postcards.

After carefully studying our master classes, you will find many options for crafts and great ideas for creating bright and fun postcards. However, most of the instructions are suitable for joint production of crafts with children and adolescents. Pupils of kindergartens and schools will certainly enjoy working on New Year's cards using all kinds of materials.

Benefits of making DIY cards

Making New Year's cards does not take much time, while you can create a truly unusual and very stylish product that the recipient will never find on store shelves. In addition to the uniqueness of such crafts, one can also highlight the possibility joint work over original postcards with children and teenagers. Among the master classes listed below, it will not be difficult to find simple and interesting instructions that even kids will like. When making a New Year's card with your own hands, you can use a variety of materials, which eliminates the need to separately purchase any elements to decorate the craft. A stylish and very beautiful postcard for the New Year can be made even from improvised and affordable natural materials.

Original postcard "snowflakes in a frame"

The simple card making tutorial below is perfect for parents and children to work together on crafts. That is why we recommend using this instruction to create, together with preschoolers and schoolchildren, light and stylish New Year's crafts and gifts. Direct production of such a postcard is carried out as follows:

1. A rectangle is cut out of blue or blue cardboard (the base of the postcard). A rectangle of the same size is cut out of white cardboard.
2. On a white rectangle, you need to make a small indent inward on each side of 1-2 cm. The resulting small rectangle needs to be cut out. Thus, a kind of frame will be made.
3. From white paper, cut out many snowflakes of different sizes. Glue these snowflakes onto blue / blue cardboard. Glue the previously made frame on top of the snowflakes.

Layered postcards

The easiest option for making a multi-layered postcard is to use a scrapbooking kit and double-sided tape. The work is carried out as follows:

1. A small circle is cut out on white cardboard. At the bottom, a golden or bronze stand is glued to it. This element will act as a snow globe.
2. From colored cardboard and a transparent durable film, circles are cut out with a radius larger by 1 cm than a circle in white cardboard. The film circle is glued on the back side to the white cardboard.
3. A decor from a scrapbooking kit, sequins is glued onto a circle of colored cardboard.
4. Pieces of double-sided tape are glued around the perimeter of the film circle.
5. The circle with the decor is glued to the postcard on a previously prepared double-sided tape.

Another simple multi-layered postcard can be made according to the following master class:

1. On three equally sized "pages" of the postcard, different motifs are drawn on the theme of a snow-covered forest.
2. From the prepared pages, "extra" details are cut out.
3. The fourth page (similar size) is painted with blue and blue paint, complemented by shiny sequins (stickers) in the form of stars.
4. And white paper is cut into two parts with a width of 12 cm and a height equal to the height of the previously prepared pages.
5. Every 1.5 cm, a vertical line is drawn on the prepared paper elements and a bend is made (forward and backward, alternating). Thus, accordions-sidewalls are made.
6. The prepared central sheets of the postcard are glued between the accordions, creating the effect of a multi-layered postcard.

Silhouette applications

To create a beautiful silhouette postcard, it is recommended to use New Year's vytynanki. By simply printing out such templates, you can easily prepare a large number of patterns to create a variety of crafts. But you can also make a silhouette New Year's card with your own hands and "from scratch":

1. Draw on a white sheet of paper the outline of a New Year's character or object ( Christmas toys, Santa Claus, bullfinch, snowman).
2. Cut out the drawn silhouette and glue it onto a sheet of light blue, blue or gray cardboard. Supplement the picture with other elements (snowflakes, Christmas trees). They are cut in the same way.
3. If desired, you can make such a postcard a thin frame of white paper. This frame can be located both along the perimeter of the sheet (or half of the sheet) of cardboard, and placed right around the silhouette picture.

Commemorative postcard from a child

It is easy and simple to make a cool commemorative postcard for the New Year with your child. Below we have looked at simple master classes with drawing prints that will help you make very beautiful and funny crafts. As a basis, we recommend using white cardboard (a whole sheet or folded in half).

• "Penguin".

The central part of the child's leg is painted over with white paint, the outline is black. An imprint is made, the beak, eyes and fins of the penguin are added to it.

• "Father Frost".

Fingers (from index to little finger) and tubercles under these fingers on the palm are painted with white paint. The thumb and part of the palm under the wrist are stained with red paint. An imprint is made, complemented by a face, fur and a pompom on a hat.

• "Herringbone".

The leg is painted with green paint, an imprint is made. When the paint dries, toys and decorations are added to the Christmas tree.

Stained glass postcard from ready-made lasagna sheets

You can make a cool and original New Year's card not only from cardboard, paper and various decor, but also from food. For example, on lasagna sheets, you can draw a very beautiful stained glass image with the children. For work, you will need the sheet itself, felt-tip pens, a ruler. The manufacture of crafts is carried out according to the following scheme:

1. On a sheet of lasagna, thematic images are drawn with a black felt-tip pen (tree, house, snowman, bullfinch, pig).
2. Chaotic lines are drawn under the ruler on top of the main drawing (as on stained glass). It is recommended not to make a large number of auxiliary lines so that the main drawing is clearly visible.
3. With the help of colored felt-tip pens with similar tones, the background is painted (for example, light yellow, orange, beige). The character himself is painted in the appropriate colors according to a similar scheme. For a pig, you can choose pink and red felt-tip pens, for a Christmas tree - green, salad, emerald.
4. It will take about 1 day for the felt-tip pens to dry on a sheet of lasagna.

Postcard using colored stripes

From multi-colored paper using the applique technique, you can make a very beautiful Christmas tree. For work, it is recommended to use 3-4 sheets of designer paper (with patterns, dots) or 5-6 sheets of plain colored paper. For the manufacture of crafts, you will additionally need PVA glue, white cardboard. The work is carried out as follows:

1. Strips are cut from colored paper with a thickness of 0.5-1.5 cm and a length of 10 to 1 cm (as the Christmas tree narrows).
2. First, the longest strips are glued onto a sheet of cardboard, gradually moving up, you need to select strips with a shorter length. You can place them on top of each other, with a slight indent.
3. You can complement the application with a Christmas tree trunk cut out of brown cardboard. In the upper part (as the top) you can glue a rhinestone, a half-bead, a button.

A stylish card with a striped herringbone can also be made from strips from colorful magazines, cuts from musical notes or foreign newspapers.

Snowy postcards with sparkles

It will not be difficult for either a teenager or a child to make a snow card for presentation as a gift. But for working with glitter, you need to consider the need to use a transparent universal glue with a thick texture. As a basis for crafts, you can use an old postcard or draw a thematic drawing. It is also recommended to use both silver and white glitter for work, as well as larger hex sequins and shiny snowflake sequins. It is easy to make an original craft from such materials using the following master class:

1. Apply glue around the perimeter of the card and sprinkle it with white, silver sparkles.
2. In the lower part and lower corners of the postcard, apply glue in a larger amount (creating a snowy effect) and sprinkle with sparkles in the same way, as well as with shiny hexagons.
3. Separately glue on top, bottom (next to the shiny frame) star sequins.
4. Let the glue dry for 1 day.

Volumetric postcards

Unusual voluminous postcards great for greeting relatives and friends. Your child can give this craft as a gift to his friend, class teacher or kindergarten teacher. There are many ways to create volumetric crafts. They can be made from cardboard and paper, cotton balls, pompoms and other available materials and elements. At the same time, volumetric details can be located not only on the front of the postcard, but also be in the middle of the congratulatory "book". Therefore, before starting work, it is recommended to study all the available options, their level of complexity and the required materials. Some of the workshops below are only suitable for adults or teenagers, but most of them even kids can repeat with their parents.

Postcards in the technique of origami

You can make a simple and original postcard for the New Year using the origami technique using our next master class. For work, we recommend using design paper with Christmas patterns. The work itself is carried out in stages according to the following instructions:

1. 3 squares are cut out of paper with side sizes of 10, 15 and 20 cm.
2. The smallest square is folded into a triangle one at a time, and then a second diagonal (the colored side remains visible).
3. The unfolded triangle with visible folds is turned down by one of the sides. Between the upper and lower parts of the diagonals on the left, the paper is folded down. Similar work is being done for right side. The square returns to its original position (is leveled).
4. The square is folded in such a way that the folds of the diagonals protrude to the left and right, and the horizontal folds between them are “drowned”. Get an isosceles triangle.
5. Grasping the right diagonal (one!), You need to turn it to the center line of an equilateral triangle and iron it. Repeat for the left diagonal.
6. Fold the rest of the squares in the same way. Glue them to a sheet of cardboard, from smallest to largest, forming a Christmas tree and carefully inserting the lower modules into the upper ones.

You can decorate a New Year's card with any thematic characters. To create original crafts with children, we recommend choosing Santa Claus. All kids love this character. To make a postcard, you will need a sheet of cardboard, colored paper, cotton wool, PVA glue, scissors, and a pencil. The work is done like this:

1. From red, white, pink paper, details are cut out for gluing the application (suit, face, shoes). The application is pasted on cardboard.
2. Cotton balls are made for pasting "fluffy" elements: beards, fur on a hat and suit.
3. Using PVA glue, cotton balls are glued to the prepared base.

Additionally, you can glue not paper, but glue toy eyes. They will give the figure more realism.

Volumetric Christmas trees

Do step by step cool postcard with a voluminous Christmas tree - as easy as shelling pears. To work, you will need cardboard (2 sheets), a pencil, PVA glue, scissors, 2-3 types of green paper. You can easily and simply make such a craft according to the following master class:

1. Draw a symmetrical Christmas tree on one sheet of cardboard.
2. Cut out a Christmas tree from cardboard and transfer it to green paper of different colors (use the blank as a stencil). It is advisable to make 4-5 such Christmas trees.
3. Cut out paper trees. Fold each of them vertically in half (the colored part of the paper should be inside).
4. Glue the Christmas trees folded in half together, alternating paper different types. That is, glue half of one folded Christmas tree on the other and repeat the same work for the remaining blanks. As a result, only halves of the side Christmas trees should remain free.
5. After the blank has dried, glue the side halves of the Christmas trees with glue and glue the finished figure to the postcard. If desired, you can decorate it with rhinestones.

Volumetric figures

From ordinary paper, you can make not only voluminous Christmas trees, but also other themed New Year's figures. For example, using blue, yellow and black cardboard, white paper, you can make such a postcard with a voluminous snowman with your own hands:

1. Cut out a large circle from white paper. Fold it 5-6 times.
2. Cut the edges of the folded circle curly (you can, by analogy with cutting curly edges for paper snowflakes). Lay out the workpiece and iron the resulting harmonica ribs well to form a beautiful three-dimensional circle.
3. Glue the circle to the blue cardboard. From black cardboard cut out a small cylinder and eyes, glue the snowman.
4. From yellow cardboard, make a strip for a cylinder and a carrot-nose. Glue them to the figurine.

By analogy with the master class for making voluminous Christmas trees, you can also make voluminous balls:

1. Cut out 9 identical circles from multi-colored paper, fold each of them in half.
2. Glue the halves of the folded balls together (make 3 separate balls from 9 blanks).
3. After the bulk blanks have dried, glue them to the cardboard, make a congratulatory inscription on the postcard. If desired, you can make not 3 identical, but three different balls or one large volumetric ball.

3D effect inside the postcard

Using colored thick and plain white paper, you can make a cool three-dimensional postcard for the New Year in no time. With the below simple master classes you will learn how to collect such crafts with a Christmas tree and gifts.

1. On a white sheet, mark the vertical middle. On the back side, it must be carefully drawn with scissors.
2. Regarding the marked line on the front side of the sheet, draw a Christmas tree (or a stack of gifts) with the same left and right sides.
3. Make cuts in the figure along the prominent horizontal lines. For a Christmas tree, this will be the transition between tiers (+ the bottom of the Christmas tree itself), for gifts - the lines between 1 and 2, 2 and 3 gifts (+ the bottom of the last gift).
4. Bend the Christmas tree (gifts) towards you, along the vertical line previously marked with scissors. The sheet of paper itself will fold with a protruding pattern inward.
5. dense colored paper fold in half vertically.
6. Glue white paper to colored paper, observing the coincidence of their central vertical lines. Thus, when opening a postcard, a Christmas tree or gifts protruding forward will unfold and become voluminous.

Felt postcards

An unusual and very “cozy” postcard in honor of the New Year holiday can be made using felt. For work, it is recommended to purchase a hard fabric with a thickness of about 2 mm. Felt parts should be glued on transparent universal glue (thick). Ordinary PVA will quickly soak into the fabric and the parts simply will not stick. You will also need a washable or disappearing fabric marker to work. The work itself is carried out as follows:

1. On felt of different colors, draw the details of the house: roof, walls, door, window. Additionally, draw small snowdrifts on white felt (they will be located to the left and right of the house).
2. Glue the walls to the cardboard base first, then the roof and the rest of the elements of the figure.
3. Glue snowdrifts on the left and right. Additionally, the felt appliqué can be decorated with small Christmas tree-shaped felt cutouts.

Figured postcards

Using ordinary cardboard and paper, you can easily and easily make cool curly postcards. For the manufacture of any type of crafts (in the form Christmas ball, Santa Claus or Santa, a snowman) you need to carry out the following preparation of the base (cardboard or thick paper):

1. Fold the sheet in half.
2. With a pencil, draw a half of the selected character or New Year's element. This must be done in such a way that the middle of the pattern is located exactly on the vertical fold.
3. Cut cardboard or paper along the outline of the created pattern.
4. Lay out the curly postcard and draw the “missing” half from the back of it.

To create another type of figured postcards (not with halves, but with the front and front), you also need to fold the base in half, but place the fold on top. To draw an object, the character should be as close to the fold as possible and cut out in such a way that the front and back of the craft remain connected. Next, you need to draw back postcards, and in the upper part of the front part, glue some decor that will partially close the fold: for a snowman - a small cylinder, for Santa Claus - a hat with a pompom, for a Christmas ball - a shiny "hat" for hanging on a Christmas tree.

Postcards using improvised means

Even from such simple and affordable materials as ribbons, lace and beads, you can make very beautiful and cool New Year cards. For selection best idea you can use the following hint:

• lace: glue on cardboard in the form of a Christmas tree, sew a Christmas tree from lace and then glue it to the card, use it to frame the perimeter of the card or create an openwork frame;
• beads: stick on thick transparent glue in the form of a New Year's character or a thematic element;
• ribbons: glue in the shape of a Christmas tree, use as "strings" to complement the balls depicted on the card;
• buttons: by analogy with beads, they can be used for pasting a contour image (Christmas tree, snowman, Christmas ball);
• small cones: they will become a beautiful addition to the postcard, they can be glued both in the central part of the craft and in one of the corners;

Making a postcard using quilling technique

Working with quilling for making postcards requires perseverance and attention. That is why such material is suitable for children of school age. It will still be quite difficult for a child attending kindergarten to make many separate elements from quilling. For work, it is better to make the simplest figures: twisted spiral circles and droplets. From circles you can easily and simply make figurines of Santa Claus, Snow Maiden, Snowman, Original Christmas balls. From the elements of the droplets, the following figures are assembled without much difficulty:

• herringbone;
• New Year's flowers;
• Christmas toys in the form of cones;
• ordinary bumps;
• snowflakes;
• christmas wreaths.

Also, quilling strips can be used to make contour frames or subtle patterns in a contour drawing. With their help, you can complement the silhouette of a Christmas tree or a Christmas ball with very beautiful patterns.

Ideas for decorating postcards with paints and pencils

To quickly and easily make a children's card for class teacher, educator or grandparents, you can use the most affordable materials - pencils and paints. The easiest solution is to draw the main objects with your fingers. For example, you can make a cool snowman for white spots placed with your fingers under each other. To do this, you just need to draw his face, buttons, pens. By this principle, you can draw funny elves, bullfinches, penguins, a Christmas tree. The main rule is to complement the prints with a contour or other important elements. But with the help of ordinary pencils, using the following master class, you can also make stylish and unusual postcards:

1. On a paper sheet, draw the outline of a New Year's character or a thematic element.
2. Cut out the drawn picture.
3. Attach the stencil remaining after cutting to a sheet of cardboard and paint over with a pencil of the appropriate color.
4. Supplement the picture with the missing details (for example, stripes can be added to Santa Claus's sleigh, the face of the Snow Maiden - a hairstyle and nose, mouth, eyes) using a black pencil or felt-tip pen.

The use of threads in the design

With the help of cardboard and multi-colored threads, you can make a stylish and interesting postcard for the New Year holiday in just 1 hour. True, such work more suitable adolescents and adults rather than children. Step by step to make original crafts The following short tutorials will help you:

• "Embroidered Christmas tree".

A silhouette of a Christmas tree is drawn on cardboard (the simplest one). Holes are made around the perimeter. The Christmas tree is stitched with green threads. Finished postcard glued on an additional sheet of cardboard (to hide the back of the embroidery).

• "Volumetric Christmas tree made of threads."

A pyramid is cut out of cardboard. At the bottom, the edge of the green knitting thread is glued. The entire pyramid is wrapped with this thread (periodically the thread is fixed with glue so that the figure does not unwind). The finished decor is decorated with rhinestones, glued to a greeting card.

• "The most fluffy Christmas tree made of threads."

Green knitting threads are cut into small pieces. A Christmas tree outline is drawn on a sheet of cardboard. The entire space inside the contour is smeared with glue. Immediately (until it dries), the trimmings are poured over the glue. For better fixation, they can be slightly pressed down.

Conclusion

Presenting a handmade New Year's card is a pleasant experience. In addition, using simple materials, you can easily make both a stylish and cool craft. to make original postcards allowed not only from paper and cardboard. These can be ordinary applications or modern vytynankas, voluminous crafts not inferior to purchased postcards. You can also add various improvised materials to the cardboard: threads, lace, beads, pieces of fabric. From such "ingredients" the most unusual and at the same time the most festive crafts are obtained. You can make simple postcards for the New Year for both adults and teenagers or children. Simple Instructions help even the little ones elementary school or kindergarten create bright products with their own hands that they can give to their grandparents or hand them to their favorite teachers and educators.

Long ago in new year's eve people exchanged greeting cards or mailed them to their families. Unfortunately, with the development of digital technologies, people have almost ceased to give each other postcards, in extreme cases, they send its digital version by e-mail. But it's so great to get a real postcard, hold it in your hands and fill your heart with the warmth of attention. It is especially pleasant if children give a New Year's card, almost independently creating it with their own hands. A hand-made postcard is able to create a New Year's mood and bring joy to the author and addressee.

There are many options for creating New Year's cards, let's look at a few step by step descriptions making a variety of postcards.

For the smallest children, we suggest creating a postcard with a bright (can be multi-colored) garland of clear fingerprints. Or, using the print of a small palm, create a funny Santa Claus.

Step 1. On any flat object that does not absorb paint, make a rectangular frame of insulating tape or adhesive tape to fit the size of the future postcard. For these purposes, you can use a baking sheet.

Step 2. Evenly apply paint to the palm of your hand and cotton swab create Santa Claus or any New Year drawing.

Step 3. Reprint the drawing on a postcard by attaching the postcard to the paint.

See video: Do-it-yourself New Year's card Christmas tree using a child's footprint or hand.

New Year's card with a snowman in 3D format

Take white thick cardboard and cut out three different circles. Shade the edges of the circles with a pencil lead, so the snowman will take on a favorable shape. Glue the circles one on one, with the smaller one on top and the largest one on the bottom, then glue them onto the card. From colored cardboard, cut out a triangle-nose, pens, circles - eyes and buttons, a rectangle - a scarf.

New Year card with snowdrifts

The creation of this postcard will turn into an amazing fairy tale ritual for your child. Any kid will be happy to help you and will be able to show his talents as much as possible.

Necessary materials:

• Thin double-sided cardboard, various shades of green;
• Thick cardboard for postcards;
• Sequins, beads, sequins and other decorations;
• Scissors;
• Plain white sheet;
• Glue.

Step 1. Cut out different Christmas trees from colored green cardboard.

Step 2. Fold thick cardboard in half.

Step 3. Cut the white sheet to the depth of the created postcard. Fold it into an accordion shape.

Step 4. Glue the ends of the white accordion to the bottom, inside of the card, and glue the Christmas trees on the snowdrifts.

Step 5. Decorate the card.

Christmas card with balls

As a gift, you can make a card not only with the image of a Christmas tree, but also with bright multi-colored balls. To create balls, you can use bright colored paper or even glossy sheets of old magazines. Cut such sheets into thin strips of different widths and glue them onto a white sheet. From the resulting striped sheet, cut out different balls and glue on a postcard.

Decorate Christmas balls on a postcard tied in a bow with bright ribbons.

You can also use flat buttons to create balls.

New Year's card with volumetric balls

Necessary materials:

• Multi-colored cardboard for balls;
• One sheet of cardboard for a postcard;
• Pencil;
• Scissors;
• Glue;
• Stapler (thin wire).

Step 1. Cut out identical circles from multi-colored cardboard so that they come out the same, use a compass or any flat round object that you circle with a pencil along the contour.

Step 2. Fasten the cut out circles with a stapler (wire) together in the center.

Step 3. Glue the resulting flat ball to the base of the postcard and bend the circles in half.

Step 4. Decorate the balloon with a bow and sign the card.

A greeting card can also be decorated with multi-colored fabric or paper flags and attached or sewn to the card.

Postcard with application

Such a postcard is easy to make and will bring joy to any addressee. Take rice grains as a material. Use long grains to lay out a Christmas tree, snowflakes or a star. Round grains are great for simulating snow.

Take a dark cardboard and glue the cut out white snowflakes to it. You can place one large snowflake in the center of the card, or you can use several snowflakes of different sizes. This picture looks very elegant and festive.

A Christmas tree is an invariable attribute of the New Year celebration, and a card with a Christmas tree is a great gift. Creating such a postcard is very simple, so feel free to start creating with your children.

A Scandinavian-style card will feature a Christmas tree made from strips of paper.

Necessary materials:

• A4 cardboard or thick paper;
• Glue;
• Colored paper (preferably bright), you can also use ribbon or scrapbooking paper, and colored tape is also suitable;
• Scissors.

Step 1. Take paper or cardboard, fold it in half and place the Christmas tree on the "front" part of the card, and you can write a wish inside. You can not fold the sheet, then the postcard will be single (for this version, you can also take A5 cardboard).

Step 2. Cut thin strips of colored paper with scissors, from short to longest, in ascending order. You also need to cut a rectangle for the future trunk.

Step 3. Glue the strips onto the Christmas tree cardboard.

Step 4. If desired, decorate your Christmas tree, for this you can cut out balls and an asterisk on top.

See video: Scrapbooking. New Year card in Scandinavian style.

One more thing:

Required materials for manufacturing:

• Cardboard (thick paper);
• Pen or pencil;
• Scrapbooking paper;
• Glue;
• Decorative details (beads, buttons).

Step 1. We cut scrapbooking paper into different rectangles, and the width of the rectangles should be the same for all, and the length of each next one is slightly longer than the previous one (about 1 cm).

Step 2 Twist the tubes of the cut out rectangles tightly, winding them around a pencil or pen. Fix the tubes with glue.

Step 3. Glue the formed tubes together in the form of a Christmas tree, from the longer to the short tube. Glue the resulting Christmas tree to paper (preferably embossed) or prepared cardboard.

Step 4. Decorate the Christmas tree with bright beads or buttons.

Create a Christmas tree from bright purchased stickers can even Small child as decoration, you can use multi-colored bright flat buttons.

Older children can embroider a Christmas tree on thick cardboard, it is better to pierce holes with an awl in advance.

It is very easy to create such a postcard if you embroider a triangle with a star on the crown and a small rectangle - the trunk.

The option is more complicated if you make holes opposite each other along the perimeter of the triangle, and then sew them with threads, use sequins to decorate.

You can embroider anything you want with threads - a modest Christmas tree, a small deer and a sock with gifts.

Younger children can also create an appliqué out of a common cypress or fern leaf and decorate it with beads, beads or sequins. The main thing is that an easy-to-make postcard will bring great joy to the baby and grandfather or grandmother.

Creating a three-dimensional New Year's card

Volumetric postcards look very nice and solid. It is always a pleasure to receive and give such a card. A voluminous postcard can also be presented to your favorite teacher or educator.

Postcard 1

For manufacturing you will need:

• Thick paper or a sheet of cardboard;
• Glue;
• Christmas tree blanks (can be printed);
• Stapler (you can take a thin wire).

Step 1. Download, print and cut out the blanks of the future Christmas tree. (You can also cut out triangles yourself from colored thick paper).

Step 2 Connect the parts together with a stapler (or wire).

Step 3. Glue the resulting Christmas tree onto cardboard or paper. Bend in half all the triangles of the Christmas tree, except for the bottom one. Sign, if you wish, you can add decorations, for example, in the form of sequins or beads.

Postcard 2

A very easy card to make, even a first grader can do it.

Necessary materials:

• Scissors;
• Glue;
• Thick paper (cardboard);
• Colored paper.

Step 1. Take colored, preferably green, paper and cut out rectangular stripes. We cut out the rectangles in descending order, and the longest strip should be wider than the rest, and the short one should be narrower.

Step 2. Fold the cut strips with an accordion. We fold the smallest strip more often and the larger the strip, the more we fold.

Step 3. Glue the Christmas tree onto a sheet of cardboard folded in half. We glue the Christmas tree inside the postcard, on the formed fold.

More easy option creating a postcard when you can fold a cut-out green triangle like an accordion. Glue on cardboard and make a trunk and a star on top.

Postcard 3

This one is very easy to make, bright and beautiful card all children will love it.

For manufacturing you will need:

• Two sheets of thick paper (cardboard);
• Scissors;
• Various small decorations;
• Pencil.

Step 1. Take one sheet of cardboard, bend it in half, then straighten it and draw a regular Christmas tree on the fold line.

Step 2. Bend the cardboard with the painted Christmas tree so that the pattern is on top and carefully cut out the painted tiers of the Christmas tree.

Step 3. We bend the resulting Christmas tree in the opposite direction.

Step 4. Take the second cardboard and glue the cardboard with the Christmas tree along the contour to it. Decorate the resulting Christmas tree and sign the postcard.

Postcard 4

An original postcard for lovers of origami technique, very simple to make.

For manufacturing you will need: cardboard, scrapbooking paper, scissors, compasses and glue.

Draw a circle on paper, draw a diameter and cut out both semicircles. Fold the Christmas tree as in the photo and glue. Decorate and sign the postcard.

Postcard created using rainbow folding technique

The style of iris folding or rainbow folding can reflect your original ideas creating a Christmas present. The result is a very beautiful postcard with the effect of a twisting spiral.

Necessary materials:

• Cardboard (thick paper);
• Colored paper, you will need three colors;
• Glue;
• Iris template (you can download and print it or build it yourself).

To create this postcard, you will need to build an iris template, it will be built on the basis of an isosceles triangle with a base 14 cm long and a height drawn to the base equal to 16 cm. Take a rotation step of 1 cm. Dimensions can be changed as you wish.

Step 1. Cut strips from colored paper. We make the width of the strip twice as large as the step and add an allowance of up to 4 mm. Thus, for this postcard, we cut out strips with a width of 22-24 mm. Make the first strips a little wider, as they will have to cover the contours of the Christmas tree. There will be a lot of prepared strips, so cut them as you create the postcard.

Step 2. Fold the cut strips in half.

Step 3. Take the paper Brown and cut out 5 strips (preferably different shade brown) measuring 35 by 20 mm. We also fold these strips in half.

Step 4. We draw a silhouette of a Christmas tree on thick cardboard and cut it out very carefully (you can use a stationery knife). We make an iris template or print out the finished one.

Step 5. We attach the prepared template with wrong side cardboard with staples. It's okay if the silhouette of the Christmas tree is more than a template. Next we will work from the wrong side.

Step 6. Filling the barrel. We begin to glue the prepared brown stripes. To do this, glue the strip on the right side of the slot with glue and glue it so that the fold of the cut strip falls on the template line. Next, grease the cardboard top and bottom as well as the first strip and glue the second strip.

Step 8. Glue the largest strip of the first color at the beginning of the template, try to match the fold with the line on the template.

Step 9. Glue the second large strip of the second color on the opposite side of the template.

Step 10. Glue the next large strip of the third color along the bottom edge of the template.

Step 11 Very carefully glue the next strip of the first color near the first strip of the same color. Glue use very carefully, only putting small dots.

Step 12 Glue a strip of the second color along the template line, carefully aligning it so that the fold coincides with the line.

Step 14. Turn the card over and, if desired, decorate the resulting Christmas tree. Sign and you can give an excellent new year gift handcrafted.

For more clarity, also watch the video, although it is in English, the essence can be understood without words: iris folding tutorial papermart.

New Year not far off, many of us buy gifts for relatives and friends, decorate the house and bake birthday cakes.

As a rule, we remember one thing in last moment- send a New Year's card. As a result, at the last minute we rack our brains to come up with such a thing, and where to get a creative idea.

To save you time and energy, we've come up with 50 great New Year's card design concepts to inspire you to create an original greeting.

So let's see.

01. Don't be predictable

This holiday card is somewhat unconventional. She doesn't stick to the standard Christmas red and green color palette, but instead uses blue and pink colors. There is not even a festive theme here, instead - only faint hints. Fresh and unexpected.

02. Play with illustrations

Elegant handwritten font along with cute children illustration. Children always decorate and enhance the holiday wish.

03. Keep it simple

Cards like these are a good example of breaking up the standard New Year's greetings template. Illustrations and handwritten inscriptions are made in the same color palette, making up a series of congratulations. And at the same time, each of your surroundings can receive a unique postcard. A great way to let people know they have a special place in your life.

04. Graphic style

Simple yet unique graphics of this greeting card offers an interesting retro style. The layering of red and blue paint creates contrast and helps break up the repeatability of the pattern.

05. Using a paper sleeve

Here the postcard is equipped with an interactive element - the use of a paper sleeve with a round hole. When you pick up a card, you see a festive themed drawing. And as soon as you pull it out of the envelope, the congratulation itself appears in front of you. A fun and unique way to convey a personal greeting.

06. Feel free to style

It would seem a banal holiday card with a deer. But the intricate textured pattern and subtle white dots reminiscent of snow help to balance the illustration and color background. Background gradient adds dimension

07. Using photos

This card is truly unique. All the figures on it are photographs, but since they are paired, the composition is illustrative. All the characters are the same two people, which adds a special personal flavor to the postcard.

08. Elegant to the touch

This design is extremely elegant. A thin pattern is used not only on a postcard, but also on an envelope. The contrast between the black postcard and the white envelope looks great. This congratulation is really sensual and exudes extra class.

09. Create simple illustrations

To surprise someone, you do not need to create artsy illustrations at all. With fast and simple graphics, you can achieve a cool effect. Take a look: the simple graphic Santa Claus hat stands out against the background, while the strong shadow gives the drawing a three-dimensional look. The simplicity of the pattern is paired with slightly more frilly lettering to help strike a balance.

10. Add some sparkle

Who doesn't love glitter in new year holidays? On this postcard there are cones made of beautiful golden foil. The muted background further enhances the simple yet vibrant illustration.

11. Use metaphors

The holiday card features Santa Claus with his proverbial red bag full of gifts. The inscription on the bag - "holiday mood" - conveys the main idea of ​​the design.

12. Use literal imagery

Warm holiday wishes paired with detailed illustrations of cozy knitted pieces are the basis of this postcard. The use of some unusual illustrations along with winter greetings makes us associate with warm scarves and sweaters.

13. Festive images

This postcard shows George - but not quite your typical Yeti. He is huge, has horns, and for some reason loves Christmas.

14. Breaking tradition

At first glance, this card does not look like a Christmas card. The color scheme is not red-green, symbols and images are also not festive. But that's what makes it unique. Simply adding the message "Merry Christmas" makes the design instantly themed.

15. Use Symbols

The graphic circles on this postcard symbolize Christmas decoration balls. Visually, these elements are not so obvious, but paired with a banner of seasonal greetings, you immediately feel the festive spirit.

16. Retro style

An example of a vintage Christmas classic. Beige color with red trim, subtle textures and font evoke a retro feel. Nostalgia makes congratulations truly deep and sensual, but at the same time light and cheerful.

17. Use interactivity

Very funny, quirky and unexpected postcard. The colors are not festive at all. New Year theme also no. But, it is worth pulling the tongue - “Happy Holidays” appears, and the card immediately becomes festive. This greeting is perfect for creative people or teams

18. Use illustrations as backgrounds

The design of this greeting would be great even if it used a simple black background. Adding winter themed illustrations to the background enhances the mood. The texture of branches and snow adds space to the postcard.

19. Use of negative space

Here white and blue are used together to create interesting effects with negative space. White snow seeps into the cold blue of the mountains, and at the same time looks like tinsel around the snow-covered trees.

20. Get industrial

This postcard uses industrial motifs in a very clever way. The design contains a whole phrase, and spins it, turning it into a joke at the end. The drawing has the general shape of a Christmas tree, which is crowned by a printer with a star. Very simple, but incredibly funny and effective.

21. Using Silhouettes

The soft and vibrant colors used in this design bring your attention to the middle of the composition. White soft blurry silhouettes turn into feathers and snowflakes. They work together with beautiful color blocks to create a deep shape. As a result, the ornament looks three-dimensional.

22. Let others fill in the gaps

Similar to the previous example, here the colors also create a nice background in the center of the composition. However, in this card, the background color forms the inscription "2016", while destroying the "2" and "6", making these numbers illegible. This allows the recipient to think of the message on their own.

23. Create something from something

Festive themed icons come together to form the iconic Christmas image, the Reindeer. You can clearly see each icon separately. To balance out the rather heavy, design-wise image, it is surrounded by round snowballs.

24. Symbiosis of typography and illustration

On this card, decorative embellishments are falling from greeting messages. Ornaments, despite the simple form, create a bright, festive spirit. The inclusion of triangular shapes and snowflakes gives the decorations extra charm.

25. Texture mapping

This design uses texture to make the card look less flat. Very subtle, but very effective technique.

26. Put together all the holiday paraphernalia

Do your friends celebrate Hanukkah? Then the idea to collect a bunch of cute little things in one illustration - the attributes of this holiday is just for you. And for those who do not celebrate this Jewish holiday, it will still be interesting to receive such a postcard as an informational and educational greeting.

27. Add a sense of humor

A kitten that is tangled up in a festive garland will make anyone smile. The image itself is funny, but paired with the ironic phrase: “I can explain everything” next to the kitten, it simply sparkles with humor.

28. Use flat icons

Flat christmas themed icons decorate the background of this holiday greetings. Everything is here: from a Santa Claus hat to a birthday cake. These postcards will show your designer friend where to go creatively next year.

29. Some more glitter

Here the congratulatory text is filled with silver. It is reflected in the light and symbolizes the hope that all plans will come true. contrast with yellowish golden color paper compensates for the silver letters.

30. Write your own greeting

A handwritten message adorns the back of this postcard. The unique personal touch makes it individual.

31. Postcards made by hand

Unique hand-drawn technique. Everything, from the font to the images, is handmade and truly personalized. Of course, it would be much cooler to make many unique postcards for all friends and relatives with your own hands. But it’s more efficient to make one and multiply. Still, it will retain the handmade feeling, and you will not be up at night, drawing postcards to countless people you know.

32. Break the stereotypes

The outward inconsistency in the design of this postcard gives it a mathematical, scientific look. However, the letters, which at first glance seem like formulas, add up to a cheerful holiday greeting.

33. Manipulate photo images

Here, photos of two clinking beer mugs transform beer foam into something festive. Thanks to image manipulation, the image of a Christmas tree appeared on the card, and the message inside the card adds to the mood.

34. Adding Volume to Text

A bright and cheerful snowman stands out against a patterned background. If the white text did not have red accents, then it would “melt” against the background and would not be so obvious. The red color helps to highlight and draw attention to the lettering.

35. Make a joke

This holiday card will be appreciated by many designers. To non-designers, it looks like a simple graphic Christmas tree. For those who are in the subject, it is clear - in fact, this is a pen tool, designed in the form of a Christmas tree. Great way to send best wishes colleague and entertain him at the same time.

36. Push people to get creative

An insert inside such a postcard allows people to create their own design with deer and trees. The card is not only fun, but will also serve as a kind of element New Year's decor in the house.

37. Refuse the postcard

In today's technological world, paper postcards can generally be seen as an anachronism. Instead of sending a physically existing postcard, create a custom email greeting. This will not only allow you to send it to many people at the same time and without postage costs, but also save paper.

38. Traditions Illustrated

The design of the postcard illustrates the American tradition of Christmas pickles - a cucumber hung on a Christmas tree. The one who finds pickles hanging on the Christmas tree will have good luck in the coming year. A somewhat unusual and humorous choice of illustration for a greeting card.

39. Combining different fonts

The combination of a thin, italic typeface with a dense, sans-serif typeface provides good contrast. If only one font was used in this design, then it would dominate the composition. The combination we see in this design always works well, including on greeting cards.

40. Congratulations for everyone

Christmas and New Year is a holiday celebrated all over the world. Here is a design that includes traditional greetings in various languages. All of them are collected in the form of an ordinary strip, very conveniently interrupted by the image of a deer. Using fonts various types creates a kind of texture.

41. Create your own font for congratulations

Font consisting of solid stripes and striped parts. By adding something personal to a regular font, we make the recipient feel special.

42. Use of geometric shapes

The geometric shapes used in this design form a Christmas tree. Incredibly simple, but truly original. Green stripes also imitate needles - a great solution.

43. Add functionality

But this design gives a new meaning to warm wishes. The card itself is made from a thin sheet of wood, and you are encouraged to actually burn it to keep warm.

44. Get creative with food

This special holiday card uses real cookies and powdered sugar. A fun twist, from boring graphics to a themed greeting. Especially if you want to congratulate partners who are somehow connected with the products.

45. Handwritten congratulations

Handwritten wishes give the cards an organic and joyful look. The inscriptions are made to fill the entire space, as a result of which they feel like a full-fledged illustration.

46. ​​Let the message speak for itself

Here, the phrase stands out against the bluish-green background and speaks for itself, while the texture of the bottom of the background grounds and adds volume to the whole design.

47. An ordinary look in an unusual way

Here Santa Claus looks very fun and interesting. Instead of showing off the red color of the suit, it blends into the background so that we see only isolated fragments. Even if you can’t see where everything ends and begins, your eyes still accurately recognize the image.

48. Have fun with a postcard

When sending a New Year's card, you don't have to be serious at all. This design can cheer up the recipient. A white sheep is paired with a wish that is written in a way that makes you imitate sheep bleating.

49. Kaleidoscope

There are no inscriptions at all. Yes, they are not needed in this design. The nature of the painted Christmas decorations is quite complex and detailed. And subtle silver foil accents add a winter holiday vibe.

50. Blurring the boundaries

Before us is a wonderful interweaving of letters and illustrations. The words "joy", "love" and "peace" are intertwined to form a Christmas tree. The dot in 'J' is the star, and the subtle dotted accents work as a garland. All this gives the card something special.

Hello dear readers of my blog! So that today the New Year's mood reigned in your house, we will make New Year's greetings ourselves. And how to make a New Year's card with our own hands, we will now figure it out. Handmade postcards are of particular value to the recipient.

Stylish DIY New Year cards

Do-it-yourself postcards can be made by adults for adults

Templates for postcards - here

And here is a video that shows how to make a beautiful cardboard with a napkin and a pretty envelope

How to make a Christmas tree out of paper - take note

The main thing on New Year's greetings is a fluffy Christmas tree. When creating postcards for 2017, I suggest moving from a simple option to a complex one.

Making a simple craft:

• Take paper with different colors on both sides,
• Fold in half
• Cut out a semicircle
• We make a fan out of paper,
• Glue on colored cardboard
• We decorate the top with a bead.

Or here is such a variant of a voluminous Christmas tree made of paper

Corrugated paper

Let's try to make voluminous postcards.

For manufacturing you will need:

• A dense colored sheet of A4 format or cardboard;
• corrugated paper Green colour;
• Scissors, pencil, glue or double-sided tape;
• For decoration (rhinestones, sequins, beads).

Step 1. Take the cardboard, bend it in half. Inside, write warm words of congratulations in advance. On the outside, draw the outline of the Christmas tree with thin lines.
Step 2 Cut the bottom strip from the corrugation, 1.5 centimeters high. Then cut them into different heights and lengths to match the silhouette of the Christmas tree.
Step 3. Glue the strips into place, starting from the bottom, slightly gathering them.
Step 4 Decorate the beauty with whatever you find. Make a garland from beads, and lights from rhinestones. Do this craft with your children, it will bring them great joy!

Button Beauty

Original crafts can be made from multi-colored buttons. Look how many options!

It is better to cook such simple congratulations with children, small buttons develop well fine motor skills, which means memory, creative thinking of children.

original version

Forest guest in scrapbooking style. What is scrapbooking? This is a type of needlework for creating postcards, photo albums, photo frames and other products, which are then decorated with various decorations. The craze began in England in the late 16th century.

For making postcards for 2017 you need to take paper for scrapbooking:

• Cut it into small rectangles of various widths.
• Using a pencil, roll them into a cylinder, smearing with glue inside.
• After winding the tubes, glue them to each other.
• Then assemble the structure in the form of a Christmas tree.
• Fold the cardboard in half, write your wishes inside. And glue the dried Christmas tree from the tubes with outside crafts.
• Then decorate it with beads, rhinestones, tinsel.

Especially valuable will be children's products, as a gift to your loved ones.

Where is Santa Claus?

Postcards to Santa Claus should be created together with the children, because they will write their wishes to him.

Try to cut out glasses, a beard, a mustache, then glue them onto colored cardboard. Only half an hour and cheerful Santa Claus flies with New Year's greetings!

Idea for children's crafts. Even a child can make such Santa Claus.

• We take burgundy cardboard
• Fold in half, cut corners
• From the corrugated sheet, which is put into boxes of chocolates, we cut out the edge of the cap
• Glue on the side cotton pad
• We glue the tinted sheet where the eyebrows and eyes will be located
• From the album sheet we cut out mustaches, eyebrows
• We cut out a beard from a semicircle, making cuts in the form of a fringe
• Cut out the mouth and nose from red paper.
• We glue the eyes (sold specifically for crafts) or cut them out ourselves from blue paper.
• Cut out the Christmas tree, glue it inside the card.

And here is another example of a postcard with Santa Claus made from ice cream sticks.

How to make a postcard with a dog so that his ears rise

And here is another example of a funny homemade greeting card for the Year of the Dog. A moving and LIVE postcard with a DOG for the New Year 2018 made of paper! A postcard is made of colored cardboard, and if you pull the tongue, the dog's ears rise and its eyes open. I think you will like this card and give it to your loved ones this year!

Here is such an interesting postcard with a puppy. Pull the tongue - the puppy will raise his ears from his eyes and say hello.

For manufacturing, we will need: colored sheets of paper, glue, ruler, scissors, knife.

1. We take white paper. Fold in half (size about 14 x 22 cm). This is the postcard itself. Now let's start decorating it.
2. You will need a postcard template. You can download it here. It needs to be printed.
3. Cut out ears and tongue. We glue as in the photo.
4. Glue a yellow semicircle to the blue substrate. We insert the glued tongue and ears into the cut.
5. Glue the cut out yellow part to the blue one. There is a fold at the top.
6. Cut out eyes from black and white paper and glue them on.
7. On the reverse side, glue the body of the postcard.
8. We write congratulations inside.

Balls - an indispensable attribute of the New Year

In the Year of the Rooster, the balloons on the cards should be as colorful as the plumage of the owner of the year.

1. Cut sheets of a glossy magazine into thin strips, stick on a sheet, cut out circles of different sizes, decorate a congratulation.

2. Christmas balls from buttons.

Instead of buttons, you can take multi-colored rhinestones.

Crafts with the palm of your hand

Your children will like to come up with such fantasy cards, because getting their hands dirty with paint is their favorite entertainment! And then, add the missing details, and you get a cute Santa Claus or Snowman.

What is New Year without a snowman?

The scrapbooking master offers such an option for congratulations.

1. From thick white paper, you need to cut 3 circles of different sizes.
2. They need to be slightly shaded along the edges so that they do not merge. You can shade with gray shadows.
3. Then, from colored sheets, you need to cut out pens, a scarf, a nose, eyes and buttons.
4. It remains to glue all the parts of the Snowman on the basis of congratulations.

Crafts from improvised materials

Another idea for New Year's greetings. A very cute card will turn out, decorated with appliqué, framed with grains of rice. In the Year of the Rooster, this is especially true:

• Stick on thick cardboard sheet of blue color
• Glue the Christmas tree cut out according to the template
• Glue rice grains along the contour
• Glue rice snowflakes in the corners. Original, beautiful, simple!

Another snowman idea

This postcard can be made from buttons and felt. You just need to cut out the clouds, the snowdrift, then glue them on the base, then cut out the details that are shown in the photo.

Do-it-yourself magical 4D New Year card

Dear friends! There is no limit to human imagination, as you could see for yourself! Get your kids involved and start making beautiful, unique crafts!