A wonderful gift that can be handed to any holiday, - postcards with your own hands. Scrapbooking - one of the techniques of doing this craft - can easily master even a child. The technique consists in composing collages from photos, memorable trivia, various interesting tricks and placing all this on the cover of a photo album, a notebook or a postcard.
Many people throw out all sorts of broken barrettes, unnecessary buttons, torn satin ribbons, ribbons and other objects. And creative individuals find their use. For example, parts of the old broken bracelet can be useful in the manufacture of the box, and tags from the luggage will find its use in the design of the photo album that tells the story of the journey.
At the approach of the winter holiday, you can not puzzle over what to give to relatives, and make Christmas cards. With their hands made with care and love, they will undoubtedly bring great joy to everyone. Each product will be individually, unrepeatably. You can attract children to make them. Girls, most likely, will like this exercise, they will be happy to pick up beads, buttons and pieces of braid. Attract their attention and cut the paper with the help of a corner and edge punch.
Easy enough to make a card yourself. Scrapbooking involves the use of special paper, but if it is not available, you can use a thin cardboard, album sheet or any thick paper. Next, the sheet is cut to the desired size and folded in half. First you need to select the decor elements of the product or make them yourself. There are special figure punchers, with which you can cut a variety of patterns from paper. Using the technique of scrapbooking, birthday cards are decorated independently made of fabric roses, ready-made ribbons, figuratively carved strips. Finished materials for decoration can also be purchased at the store. The assortment is quite diverse: it is plastic and wooden small figures: flowers, butterflies, hearts. Products made of polymer clay, accessories, with the help of which handles are made by the caskets.
If white paper is used to make a postcard, then to decorate its front part, you should choose a contrasting strip of a smaller size in width, and process its vertical edges with a special punch. In this way, postcards are created by yourself. Scrapbooking only as a certain technique helps make it unique and beautiful. A strip of contrasting color is glued to the workpiece, further decor depends on the manufacturer's imagination - it can be pasted with a lace ribbon or paper chamomiles, with beads in the middle, with a special stamp or printed on a color printer in advance. The interior of the postcard is made with the help of leaflets, on which wishes are written. Their edges are also decorated with a figured notch.
The original gift, presented at the wedding, will be cards with their own hands. Scrapbooking, whose possibilities are unlimited, allows you to create a unique present. And looking at it, everyone will celebrate your originality and creativity.