Homemade cards - a great gift for the holiday

Choosing a gift for the next holiday, oftenYou're racking your head to give something that will be remembered for a long time. Yes, and a postcard should be bought to write a couple of pleasant words. Here comes the thought: why not present homemade cards to your friends? After all, fantasy is almost limitless, and it is possible to create such masterpieces that they will be much more valuable than any gift.

Necessary materials

In order to make a postcard, you needfirst pick up materials for its manufacture. So, you will inevitably need scissors ordinary and figured, cardboard base-postcard, glue (both clerical and PVA), punchers, figured staplers, colored paper, as well as ribbons, braids, beads, sequins and any other decor. In short, homemade cards can be created from any material, even from a test, it would be just a wish.

Progress

First you need to prepare the foundation. You can use ready-made, which is worth buying in the store of artistic needlework. Such bases are sold in a set of several pieces with envelopes and can be either simple or with cut out windows. If you do not have such templates, you can buy a design cardboard of the desired color, cut out postcards from it of a certain size, taking into account that. that they will be folded in half, and if necessary cut out the window - a heart, an oval, etc.

It is worth noting that the design cardboard producenot only of a certain color, but also multi-colored, with a pattern applied, as well as with the ornament etched on it. The edges of the postcard can be processed with figured scissors or a special device that makes a mesh pattern along the edge or allows a pattern and a blunt thin object to squeeze out a picture on the cardboard.

Now it is necessary to call for help imagination andstart decorating homemade cards. It is desirable that the drawing is thought out in advance, but it is not necessary, because the best are the postcards that arise in the process of creating them, when the master improvises. In this case, you can get the most unusual results. Lay out the composition can be made from ready-made flowers, threads, ribbons, paper figures, etc. Many needlewomen create homemade cards using their creations. So, glued to the base embroidered picture, knitted items, lace, you can get unusual pictures. To complete the card, you can paste a frame of ribbons and a variety of asterisks, beads. All parts are attached to the substrate with glue. You can also use a pistol loaded with silicone glue sticks.

Such cards can be given for any reason. So, homemade greeting cards "Happy Birthday!", "Happy Wedding Day!" or intended for any other holiday are both an original addition to the main presentation, and an excellent independent gift. It is worth noting that when you design a postcard, you need to consider not only the excuse, but also the one to whom it will be presented. So, for newly married couples, it is advisable to paste the hearts and rings on the card, you can experiment and paste the mini-keyboard for the computer technician, and for the child just right to attach small figures to the postcard or cut out fragments from the braid.