Homemade cards - a great gift for the holiday

Choosing a gift for the next holiday, you often puzzle yourself what to give such that it will be remembered for a long time. Yes, and a postcard should be bought to write a couple of pleasant words. Here comes the idea: why not show your friends homemade cards? 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 must first choose materials for its production. So, without fail you need scissors ordinary and figured, cardboard base-postcard, glue (both office and PVA), punchers, figured staplers, colored paper, as well as ribbons, braid, beads, sequins and any other decor. In short, homemade cards can be created from any material, even from a test, there would be only a desire.

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 there are no 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 is produced not 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 drawing 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 and start 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. You can spread the composition from ready-made flowers, threads, ribbons, paper figures, etc. Many needlewomen create homemade postcards 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 occasion. 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 hearts and rings on the card, you can experiment and paste the mini-keyboard for the computer player, and for the child just right to attach small figures on the postcard or cut out fragments from the braid.