New Year cards scrapbooking - a way of self-expression of creative talents

Before disclose the theme "New Year's cards scrapbooking", you need to clarify the meaning of the word "scrapbooking". The very word translated from English means manual design of albums, literally "clipping + album". Each sheet of the album must express a complete thought. And these sheets can have the form of an accordion, an accordion, a box or small houses.

And as a separate direction, we should already distinguish the production of postcards, which is called "card-making". However, the word "scrapbooking" with its broader meaning - needlework, connected with paper - has settled down in the Russian language.

Today, handicraft art is spreading everywhere in all spheres of our life, and increasingly people resort not to the banal acquisition of congratulatory messages, but to the exclusive execution of their own man-made works of paper art. As one of the options of this direction are the New Year cards scrapbooking.

To make New Year cards with your own hand scrapbooking, it is only necessary to choose an interesting, exclusive, colorful material and come up with a congratulatory storyline. For example , a scrapbooking male card may have on the front side of the first sheet a window with opening flaps. For this, it is necessary to draw a window on the sheet and make cuts in such a way that the folding flaps are formed. Opening the sashes, you can see in the window a photo of the donor himself (as he holds out a bouquet of flowers towards the recipient or presses his hands to the heart with a confession of love), or a photograph of the beloved woman to whom the message is intended, or a photo where both lovers cling to each other , Happily look out the window.

Since the photo is pasted from the wrong side of the main page, you should think over the "camouflage" of the place of gluing. If you make New Year cards scrapbooking, then you need to glue a Christmas tree or Santa Claus to the place you need to disguise.

Stavenki front can also be beautifully decorated with ornaments, placing them in the wall of a cozy house. On the roof of the hut "pile the snow" of cotton wool, and next to the house "plant" a Christmas tree. Especially talented masters of hand-made art can create it from beads by stretching the trunk along the cardboard. Thus, one half of the tree can be voluminous, and the green branches will spread freely, stretching in different directions.

Around the Christmas tree will look fine funny miniature animals, which can be bought at children's goods stores. But you can make them with your own hands from pieces of fur!

Another very interesting option is scrapbooking by the scheme of children's books with retractable pictures. For example, on the page there is an application of an animal, which symbolizes the year that goes away (the dragon). He approaches the hat of a magician lying on a rock. The hat rises, and the symbol of the year of the coming (snake) opens to all.

In fact, a cardboard strip is glued to the hat, with the help of which the movement will be carried out, that is, the lifting of the hat, under which lies the appliqué with the image of a snake. A slot is made into which this cardboard is inserted, and so that you can not see the cardboard strip when raising the hat, this place is masked by small carnival glasses - a mask. These glasses are glued only at the tips, representing in fact a tunnel for the movement of the strip - a tool to raise the cap.

But it is also important that the New Year's cards scrapbooking had an original design and in its internal part. Therefore, you can, for example, paste a decorated Christmas tree in such a way that it forms at the moment when the postcard closes and becomes convex after its opening.

To do this, you need to cut out the Christmas tree from the velvet paper, bend it in half along the length and attach it to the surface of the opened postcard to the position when it protrudes above the plane. Places of folds of Christmas trees and postcards should be on the same straight line, but have opposite directions: the postcard folds to the left as a book, and the Christmas tree bends to the right.

And how great are the decorations on our Christmas tree, if we make them too mobile! For example, flat balls, fish, mushrooms can easily be attached to it with threads, so that they hang and rock, like real ones. And the addressee will certainly appreciate your creativity on merit!