Christmas is coming and we want to give our friends and family something special. But what could be better than a gift that is made with your own hands. Making a Christmas card with your own hands is not at all difficult, but how much joy and warmth it will bring to the one to whom it is presented.
DIY Christmas card: features and materials
To make your own Christmas card you may need:
- the material from which the postcard will be made. It could be beautiful paper, cardboard, fabric or decorative woven fabrics made of threads and sequins;
- decoration elements, such as rhinestones, buttons, bells, sparkles, and so on;
- scissors, glue, ruler, pencil or colored markers, double-sided tape.
Options and methods for making a DIY Christmas card
There are many postcard options. They can be large and small, simple and complex, colored and plain. You need to decide for yourself and imagine in your mind what kind of postcard you would like to see at the end. Once you have decided on a solution, you can begin collecting existing materials and purchasing the missing ones.
Volumetric Christmas tree “Minute”
This card is made very quickly, literally in 15 minutes. You will need: colored cardboard for the card base, colored Christmas-themed ribbon, green corrugated paper for the Christmas tree, and decorations in the form of beads, rhinestones in the form of a star or, if you have one, a small star figurine. You will also need double-sided tape and scissors.
Fold the colored cardstock in half. Apply colored Christmas ribbon to the top and bottom edges of the card using double-sided tape on the front of the card. Now outline where the tree will be located. Cut the tape into thin stripes and paste it horizontally onto the front of the card in a slightly semicircular shape in five to six rows. The quantity is at your discretion.
Apply strips of tape so that the length of each subsequent strip increases from top to bottom. So at the very top of the intended tree there is the smallest piece of tape, and the very bottom is the longest.
Now cut corrugated paper into strips approximately 3-5 cm thick. The finished strips are glued to the cardboard, starting from the lowest line of tape. During the gluing process, try to make as many folds of paper as possible, the volume of the tree depends on this. When you reach the end of the tape, cut off the crepe paper. Next, move up a step and repeat the same steps. And so on to the top. Apply the corrugated tape in a trapezoid so that the bottom is wider than the top.
Now you can decorate the Christmas tree as you wish. Write inside the card beautiful wishes family for Christmas.
Postcard with a three-dimensional Christmas tree made of paper
You will need cardboard for the base (can be patterned, can be plain colored), paper with Christmas-style designs (preferably several options and colors), a pen or pencil, glue and decorations (rhinestones, ribbons).
Fold the cardboard in half with the right sides facing out. Next, cut colored paper or paper with drawings into rectangles, the width of which will remain constant (from 4 to 7 cm), and the length will constantly increase by one centimeter with each subsequent rectangle. The top two will be narrow 2 and 3 cm, so its width will be longer than length. It sounds paradoxical, however, it is not without reason. This is what the finished cut pieces of paper look like.
Screw each rectangle onto a pencil and secure the end with glue so that the workpiece does not unwind after removing it from the pencil. Do this with all the remaining rectangles. Now fasten the finished tubes together with glue, you should get something like this.
Glue the resulting Christmas tree onto the card in the center with glue. The Christmas tree is ready, now you can decorate it. Do not skimp on rhinestones and ribbons, place them evenly throughout the entire tree, and attach the largest and most beautiful rhinestone or star figurine to the very top of the head. Don't forget to write beautiful wishes for the person to whom this gift is intended.
Postcard using kirigami technique
You will need the following materials: Two types of paper of different colors, a sharp stationery knife, colored or patterned paper, scissors, glue.
First you need to cut out an angel or any other figure you wish. It could be a candle, a mountain of gifts, a Christmas tree or a snowman. Fold the piece of paper in half with the front side on the inside of the card. Along the fold line, draw a picture that you want to cut out so that the edges of the picture are in contact with the side of the fold. Cut out the design along the outline using a paper knife without unfolding the card. You will cut through two layers of sheet at the same time. This way you will get a mirror image of your drawing.
Do not cut through the drawing all the way along the contour, leave untouched areas, otherwise the figure will not hold. Now open the card and turn the drawing inside the card.
Now fold the second prepared sheet of paper right side out and glue it on top of the first. This will be the cover of the postcard. You can decorate it with ribbons, rhinestones or make it volumetric Christmas tree.
The cut out figure also needs to be decorated. Glue colored films and pieces of paper, bows and rhinestones onto it. This is the example of cut-out images of gift boxes.
Don't forget to write nice words congratulations and sign the card.
The postcard cover is decorated with small details
For this card you will need a base - colored cardboard, paper of a contrasting shade, rhinestones and buttons. Fold the base card in half, right sides facing out. Cut out the shape of a fir tree from colored paper and cover it with buttons and rhinestones. Glue the resulting spruce to the card. Buttons can be sewn to paper, if desired.
Another version of a DIY Christmas card made from small parts.
This card is decorated with small figures cut out of colored felt. The figures are glued to the base, which can also be made of felt or cardboard. The flight of fancy is not limited. Add everyday elements. IN in this case These are real clothespins.
Prepare as many decorations for the card as possible. Don't stop at two colors of paper and three rhinestones, create a masterpiece.
Show your imagination, try to group several options for creating a Christmas card in one. For example, one element of the pattern was borrowed from one type of postcard, and another element from another type. Thus, you will get your own craft, unique to anyone.
In order not to make a mistake when you start writing congratulations in a postcard, do the following. Print the finished congratulation text on your computer and cut it out so that the piece of paper fits in the card. So there will be no marks and you won’t have to write out the letters; the printer will do it for you.
Grandparents will be pleased to receive a card made by their grandson or granddaughter. Help the little creator, show him what Christmas cards there are that are easy to make with your own hands. In this case, you can use the most unexpected material - buttons, sweet icing, and use your own palms as a stencil.
For babies
This version of Christmas greetings can be made by the little ones. If they do not yet know how to handle glue, let them show their creative capabilities only at the first stage of work, and adults or older children will help them in the rest.
Take light cardboard Brown, turn it over reverse side. Ask your beloved child to place his palm on the sheet and trace it. If the child knows how to work with scissors, let him cut out the resulting part along the contour himself; if he cannot do this yet, help the child.
Make other DIY Christmas cards in the same way, but using a palm stencil. After you cut out the required number of blanks, you need to decorate them. To do this you will need tinsel on wire in green, red, brown, satin ribbon, and sequins.
Don't forget that with small objects Children under three years old cannot work. If your child is older, then you can trust him to glue 3 sequins into the center of the paper blank, but be vigilant about making sure that these small details are used for their intended purpose - for Christmas cards. With your own hands or with the help of a young assistant, bend pieces of flexible tinsel into heart shapes and glue them into the center of some cards.
We create with pleasure - the exciting process continues
Tinsel on a wire of a different color will quickly turn into the antlers of a Christmas reindeer. Glue plastic toy eyes into place or replace them with sequins or confetti.
If the child can make words out of letters, have him write on the back of the card a little congratulations to the addressee. After this, the gift can be given. If all the recipients live in the same apartment, make a hole in the top of each card using a hole punch, stretch a satin ribbon through it and hang these Christmas cards in a visible place.
You can make other colorful messages with your own hands, such as the one in the picture below.
If you don’t have any material on hand that matches the New Year’s theme, use something else, such as buttons. Usually they are in every home.
But start with the card itself. It’s easy to do - fold a landscape or regular white A4 sheet in half, cut off the excess, giving the postcard the shape of a rectangle or square.
Using a compass, draw a circle in the center of the front of the card. If you don’t have a drawing tool, outline the bottom of a glass or mug.
Take the buttons, apply glue to one side of them and apply to the circle. Cut a ribbon from red or other fabric, tie it in the shape of a bow, and glue it to the top button. Analogue New Year's ball ready.
Shows how to make these and other Christmas cards with your own hands, photos.
Another idea suggested by buttons
Start making this original card by preparing satin ribbons; narrow ones will do. You will need one brown and several dark green ones. Cut both edges of the first one evenly, glue the finished trunk vertically to a white sheet of paper already folded in half.
By the way, you can make a Christmas card with your own hands not only from paper, cardboard white, but also from blue, red. But now we are using a white sheet, since the Christmas tree will look clearer on it.
Now you need to cut 6 ribbons. To do this as needed, first draw a triangle - the base of the future Christmas tree, then apply a piece of satin to it, cut it along the contour and leave it in place for now. Place the next piece below, cut it along the edges at an angle. Thus, at the top of the triangle there will be a small piece, and each subsequent one located below will be longer than the previous one.
Now glue the blanks horizontally onto the postcard itself - onto the tree trunk. All that remains is to cut out a star from paper, glue it to the top of the tree, and attach buttons to its ribbon branches.
DIY English Christmas cards - the beginning of the process
Such creative work can be given to anyone - a boss, a relative, a loved one. It looks great and will please anyone. However, its manufacture will require precision and accuracy.
Fold a white piece of construction paper in half. If you will be sending your work to the recipient by mail, make sure that the postcard is no larger than the envelope. If so, just trim it to the right size, and only after that proceed to the main work. But make this white card smaller size envelope by 1.5 cm on all sides.
Let it be a children's Christmas card. You can make it yourself or entrust it to your child. If he is already a schoolchild, it will not be difficult for him to create under the strict guidance of adults.
How to cut a three-tier cake
Place the card so that the fold is on the left. Very soon the cake will appear on the card; start cutting it out from the top tier. Without unbending the card, cut a horizontal strip 2 cm long at the top. Step back 2.5 cm from it and use scissors to make another cut parallel to the first, but this one is 3 cm long.
The next one, the third one, will be lower than the second one. Step back down 2.5 cm again. Make a horizontal cut, the length of which is already 4 cm. The last, fourth cut is identical to the third, and the distance between them will be 5 cm.
You have 3 blanks for a three-tier cake, fold them into right side, mark the fold well by running your palm along it several times.
This photo clearly demonstrates how to make such Christmas cards with your own hands. It shows that you will also need a red sheet. Fold it in half and cut it so that it is 1 cm larger than the white card on all sides.
We complete the exciting creative process
Now coat the white card with glue, but do not apply it to the cake whose base you recently cut out. Glue the white card to the red card, aligning their folds.
Very soon, a children's Christmas card will shine with a fairytale light. With your own hands, let the child cut out small stars from gold paper and glue them on the birthday cake and next to it, attach a gold bow on top of it, after which you can send or personally help out a colorful masterpiece to the recipient. Of course, you need to fill out the inside of the card, writing warm words of congratulations there.
Another Christmas card can easily be made on red paper. A snowman will be drawn on it with gouache by the children’s hands. When the paint dries, stick to it necessary accessories. If you are making sweets and have some white icing left, replace the paint with it and hand the sweet item to the recipient along with your child who has learned how to make such beautiful Christmas cards.
Hi all! The other day my imagination visited me, and I came up with several original Christmas cards made from paper and other materials that you can quickly and easily make with your own hands for a competition or just for kindergarten and schools.
Very soon New Year, followed by the Nativity of Christ and the Baptism of the Lord. You need to have time to prepare cards for all the holidays, so I decided to give you a few ideas now. You can buy these crafts for Christmas, but it’s best to make them yourself.
Today, postcards will be made exclusively from colored paper, cardboard and improvised materials.
To make a Christmas card with your own hands, you will need:
- White cardboard.
- A small piece of narrow tape.
- Green corrugated cardboard.
- Glue with scissors.
- Pencil or compass.
If you are missing any materials, they can be replaced, no need to worry. Eg, corrugated cardboard change it to a regular one or print a sheet of white paper with a green design. If there is no ribbon, that’s also not a problem; attach a few beads or buttons in its place.
DIY Christmas card made from paper
- We take white cardboard, fold it in the middle, run your hand along the fold, this way you will smooth out all the folds, the card will turn out beautiful and even.
- Draw a circle in the center of the card. It can be done using a compass or a regular pencil. I outlined a regular mug with a pencil.
- Cut squares from white sheet and green cardboard. I didn’t measure them out, I cut them as I pleased.
- Now we grease the circle on the card with glue, you can use PVA, you can use hot glue.
- We attach the squares in a circle. Look carefully, you need to do this with an overlap.
- We place an angel in the center. After the glue has dried, outline the angel with a pencil.
- From a green piece of narrow satin ribbon forge a bow, attach it with glue.
A decorative Christmas card made of paper with an angel is ready, it’s not at all difficult to make it with your own hands, the end result is three-dimensional, of course, not 3D, but still very beautiful. And here is the template for this angel. I suggest printing it out and cutting it out. If you do not have this opportunity, place a regular sheet of paper on the monitor and, barely touching it, trace the outline of the drawing.
Friends, your homemade Merry Christmas card for children is ready.
DIY Merry Christmas card with angel
DIY Christmas card for school competition
I continue the same Christmas theme and suggest you check out the new voluminous card. I propose to make it for a competition for school, it is beautiful, decorative and wishes everyone a Merry Christmas.
For a children's Merry Christmas card, you will need the following materials:
- White cardboard.
- A small piece of old wallpaper.
- Drawing of an angel.
- Pencil, scissors and glue.
- Beads are yellow, green and white.
This Christmas card looks very beautiful, original, and besides, it is voluminous. Friends, if you don’t have beads, but really like the idea, I suggest replacing them with threads. You just need to chop them very finely and repeat my step by step description, which I will now provide to you.
How to make a Christmas card with your own hands
- We proceed with white cardboard in the same way as in the previous version. Don't forget to iron it with your hand, remove all folds at the fold.
- Draw a circle in the center of the card and cut it out using small scissors.
- Cut out a rectangle from wallpaper or other multi-colored paper, cut off its edges and stick it on the front side of a children's card.
- Wait until completely dry, cut out the circle. You should have a through hole. Look at my photos all the time, they will help you avoid mistakes.
- Glue an angel into the center of the circle. I provide you with a template to help you.
- Now we take glue, lubricate the angel’s clothes with it, and place small white beads on top. If your hands are sticky, use a needle or other object to position the beads correctly.
- Using the same pattern, we make angel hair and greenery.
The voluminous Christmas card is ready, all that remains is to sign it beautiful poems and wishes. In my opinion, this decorative card is ready for a competition for school and is competing for a prize for originality; besides, there is nothing like it on the Internet, I came up with it myself.
Friends, I hope you liked my fantasy, and you will use it, make Christmas cards with your own hands, perhaps for a competition or just like that, because they are so beautiful and original works should please the recipient. Merry Christmas to you, friends.
Nina Kuzmenko was with you.
Approaching Holy holiday year, for which all the most beautiful and solemn things are prepared. It is better to complement mountains of gifts in multi-colored wrappers with pleasant, touching, with gentle words. You can present words of congratulations to your loved ones by creating Christmas cards with your own hands. This is not a useless trinket, but a significant reason for creativity, an original approach to decorative things. It’s nice to give such a thing, receive it, and then cherish it for the rest of your life.
How to make a DIY Christmas card
People buy crafts for Christmas in stores. But if you diversify the gift, then why not? It will take 30 minutes to create a craft, and the emotions of the master and the recipient of the gift cannot be compared with anything. Homemade cards for the Christmas holidays is already a hit with handicrafts. Christian, solemn or humorous motifs predominate in pictures, poems, and prosaic congratulations. Each drawing and detail of the card is fragrant with its grandeur and kindness. How to prepare cards for Christmas?
Volumetric
"Herringbone"
Tender postcard with a voluminous effect inside it is suitable as a holiday greeting. For creativity you will need:
- paper strips green (their width and number depend on the size of the Christmas tree);
- glue;
- brush;
- the basis.
- Cut it out required amount stripes.
- Fold the paper ribbons like an accordion.
- Glue ribbons in the shape of a Christmas tree.
- Decorate the top of the tree with a star-top.
- Glue snowflakes, stars, and sparkles next to the Christmas tree.
- If you want the “evergreen” to be shrouded in snow, then grease the accordion on top with glue, then sprinkle generously with semolina.
- Signed and done!
Original
To create a postcard, take:
- brilliant thin paper;
- glue;
- sequins;
- beads;
- rhinestones;
- crushed New Year's toys;
- white double-sided cardboard.
- greeting card with your own hands consists of a base - white cardboard folded in half.
- We cut the edges of the layer externally and decorate the inside with a cut-out pattern.
- Decorate the place where the pattern is cut out with an ornament using sequins, beads, and rhinestones.
- Then we cut the shiny paper into strips.
- We cut one side into small “noodles” and glue it to the base.
- We draw the contours of the Christmas tree with a brush of glue, sprinkle with crushed glitter toys.
- We decorate the Christmas tree at our own discretion.
With an angel
A DIY Christmas greeting card with angels as a Christmas present is the personification of warmth, tenderness, and purity. Creativity is multifaceted, so you can use unpredictable materials for DIY Christmas crafts. Take 3 coffee filters or round napkins, a white cardboard triangle 9 centimeters high, circles (2.5 cm in diameter), a toothpick, a thin gold ribbon, white thread, glue.
- Glue a toothpick to the back of the triangle so that the fourth part of the match can be seen from above.
- Place 1 coffee filter on top of the triangle.
- We attach two circles to the top of the toothpick using glue so that the toothpick is inside them. These glued balls are the head of an angel.
- We put another coffee filter on top.
- We tie it with thread and then with a gold ribbon in place of the angel’s neck.
- We fold the third filter in half and tie it in the middle. We got wings. Let's attach them to the back.
- Decorate the angel's head with a piece of gold ribbon, like a headband. If desired, draw the face of a cute angel.
Scrapbooking technique
Unusual DIY cards in a matter of minutes! Fashionable trends in art can awaken the desire to create new crafts for beginners and professionals. Scrapbooking is for the creative and brave. Delicate Christmas tree decorating original postcards- Shall we try? Prepare multi-colored scrap paper, colored thick paper, glue, a simple pencil, and decorations of your choice.
- We cut out the base from scrap paper: according to size, shape, layers.
- Depending on the planned size of the colored paper tree, we cut rectangles in size from the large base to the top. We cut out each rectangle smaller than the previous one.
- Using a pencil, we roll the paper rectangles along the entire length into tubes and glue the edge to the paper so that it does not unwind and holds its shape.
- All the tubes, maintaining the proportions, are fastened together with glue and attached to the front part. We decorate as you like: with cut-out jewelry, beads, sparkles, ribbons and sign.
Using quilling technique
Notes of German and English traditions are embedded in the melody of this technique. Quilling is an empathetic art form, because each element needs to be felt for correct selection applications. It is fashionable to decorate children's cards with quilling. This suitable option applications to make greeting cards for a bright Christmas with your own hands. Prepare to create: multi-colored paper ribbons 3 mm wide (yellow, pink, green, red), an awl or hook, PVA glue, a blank for a card (pre-cut out a cardboard one).
We do:
- We immediately make small green paper spirals for the postcard. The diameter of each is 12 mm. The more curls, the large sizes our evergreen beauty will turn out. In our case there are 10 spirals. (photo 10=10)
- To create a trunk, we make one curl of brown or black color.
- Glue the trunk to the postcard, then glue teardrop-shaped spirals along the rows.
- We twist the balls for the Christmas tree from multi-colored strips, securing them tightly. We “cling” it to the Christmas tree using PVA glue.
- We sign it and have your own Christmas present in your pocket.
Merry Christmas
Choose a poem or parable in Russian or English language– it doesn’t matter, the main thing is that the words on the Christmas card are sincere and from the heart. Heartfelt lines will warm your loved ones, friends, relatives in the coldest cold and blizzard. The reason for the card is significant, Merry Christmas means the words are significant. The ancient New Year and Christmas tradition of surprising and bringing joy has been cherished for many years. Worthy and universal congratulatory wishes have been prepared for your applique works.
“This card was created for you! Let happiness, having settled with you, never want to leave your home. Warmth, peace and happy moments to your family!”
“Although Christmas is celebrated in winter time, I wish it to be the warmest day of the year. Have a cozy Christmas!”
“Happy moments rush to visit you through cold snowstorms and snowdrifts. Let them in quickly! Light and have fun days!»
“The birth of Christ is the greatest miracle. Believe in miracles, they will certainly come true!”
“My card is for you, because you are the person closest to me! Let everyone who surrounds you at Christmas think the same!”
Video master classes
Every child and adult knows that The best way tell about your good attitude and love is wonderful cards on favorite Christmas with your own hands. Handicrafts that a person is able to bring to life himself will decorate any home. Drawn, glued, in different techniques– the postcard is the very embodiment of exclusivity. Emphasize your individuality by watching educational master classes on video and create a masterpiece!
Merry Christmas card
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Master class with step by step photos"Christmas Card"
Author: Reuka Elena Vladimirovna, teacher primary classes MBOU "Podporozhskaya secondary school No. 3", Leningrad region.Description of work.
The proposed work will be useful for teachers, parents, creative children and teenagers. The pop-up technique was used, which combines elements of cutting and kirigami techniques, which allows you to create beautiful three-dimensional designs that fold into a flat figure. In this way, wonderful pop-up cards are made, which are especially popular. After all, so touching and original gift will not leave anyone indifferent. Using this technique, you can make postcards on any theme, for any holiday, using the intended images. This card is intended to congratulate you on the holiday of Christmas.
Target: making a Christmas card using the pop-up technique.
Tasks:
- introduce the pop-up technique;
- teach how to make postcards using this technique;
- promote the use of pop-up techniques using imagination and creativity;
- develop fine motor skills fingers;
- improve the ability to use tools such as a stationery knife in work, observing safety precautions;
- cultivate artistic taste, creative attitude to work.
Equipment and materials:
1. A4 paper: blue, light blue, white (thick).
2. Glue.
3. Simple pencil.
4. Eraser.
5. Scissors.
6. Stationery knife.
7. Ruler.
8. Templates in the application
Progress.
We take a white sheet of A4 format. First we need to imagine what we want to depict on the postcard. The postcard will be folded in half, the cut-out images will look three-dimensional. Therefore, you need to mark the middle of the sheet (fold line ready-made postcard), using a ruler. We apply the selected drawings to paper. The window will be the background in the card, it will not overlap the fold line, and is located in the upper half of the sheet. The base of the drawn Christmas tree protrudes down 2 cm from the fold line of the postcard. We depict the base of the drawing of a Girl with a Dog below 3.5 cm from the fold line. The bear cubs will be in the foreground of the postcard, so their image does not extend beyond the fold line and is located at the bottom of the sheet.
Some of the drawings were inserted in Word, the window was drawn using shapes in the same program, the girl with the dog was depicted using a template.
Since the images of the Christmas tree and the Girl with a dog are on the fold line and the lower part of the drawings protrudes by 2 cm and 3.5 cm, respectively, it is necessary to draw holder strips in the upper part of these drawings, which will create the opportunity to open the postcard and see the three-dimensional image. The length of these strips corresponds to the length of the protrusion of the drawings beyond the fold line of the postcard, that is, 2 cm and 3.5 cm.
We begin to cut through the window. We use a stationery knife. We work on a backing board. The window will open; we do not make slits only along the two outer side lines.
Next, cut out the rest of the drawings, as shown in the photo below. Lines along which we do not cut are marked in red. There will be folds in these places. In addition, the fold will be in the middle of the entire sheet.
The side with the images will be the reverse side, so the front side will look like this:
We print the text on paper.
Then we translate it at the bottom on the back of the postcard. Moreover, it must be in a mirror arrangement so that when cutting out the letters on the front side are positioned correctly. Now we cut out the letters with a knife. Those lines that are marked in red in the photo are not cut through.
After all the planned figures and images are cut out, we turn the sheet over to the front side and work out the folds. Fold lines are located in places marked in red in the photographs. In addition, the fold is worked out in the middle of the sheet, without affecting the image of the Christmas tree and the girl with the dog.
Then we take cardboard of blue color and glue the white sheet to the blue background, spreading glue on the places that are not involved in adding volume to the postcard, namely, everything except the cut-out images.
Cover the back of the cardboard with a blue sheet of paper, making slits in the corners of the sheet and inserting the card into them. By the way, before inserting our postcard into the blue frame, you can reduce its format a little so that the blue frame around the edges stands out. The frame also bends in the middle of the sheet.
Add stars on a blue background in the window.
It turned out like this three-dimensional postcard.
Application
Templates for use in making cards
On a cold evening, putting things aside,
Forgetting about the troubles of everyday life,
Having driven away the shadow of resentment or evil,
We wait for Christmas naively, like children.
It will definitely come to us,
It will pour warmth into open hearts,
The star will illuminate the entire vault of heaven
And everyone will smile with hope... (Olga Teplyakova)
