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DIY New Year Cards 2019

DIY Christmas cards

It is unusual and original to congratulate relatives, colleagues and friends on the upcoming New Year holiday not only with purchased, but also with homemade gifts. For example, you can make New Year cards with your own hands, using improvised materials and inexpensive sets of paper and decor. As a basis, it is recommended to use ordinary cardboard. But for decorating home-made cards, lace, multi-colored paper, and even beads are perfect.

Having carefully studied our master classes, you will find many options for crafts and great ideas for creating bright and funny postcards. However, most of the instructions are suitable for the joint manufacture of crafts together with children and adolescents. Pupils of kindergartens and schools will certainly enjoy working on New Year's cards using all kinds of materials.

The Benefits of Creating DIY Postcards

Making Christmas cards does not take much time, while you can create a truly unusual and very stylish product that the donor will never find on store shelves. In addition to the uniqueness of such crafts, it is possible to highlight the possibility of working together on original postcards with children and adolescents. Among the workshops listed below, it will not be difficult to find simple and interesting instructions that even kids will like. In the manufacture of DIY Christmas cards, you can use a variety of materials, which eliminates the need for a separate purchase of any elements to decorate crafts. Stylish and very beautiful postcard for the New Year can be made even from improvised and affordable natural materials.

New Year cards

Original card “snowflakes in a frame”

The master class on making a simple postcard discussed below is ideal for working together on crafts from parents and children. That is why we recommend using this instruction to create easy and stylish New Year crafts and gifts with preschoolers and schoolchildren. The direct manufacture of such a card is as follows:

  1. A rectangle is cut out of the blue or blue cardboard (base of the postcard).A rectangle of the same size is cut out of white cardboard.
  2. On a white rectangle, you need to make a small indent inward on each side for 1-2 cm. The resulting small rectangle needs to be cut out. Thus, a kind of frame will be made.
  3. From white paper to cut many different-sized snowflakes. Glue these snowflakes on a blue / blue cardboard. Glue the previously made frame over the snowflakes.

Frame snowflakes postcard

Layered postcards

The easiest option for making a multi-layer postcard will be to use a kit for scrapbooking and double-sided tape. The work is carried out as follows:

  1. A small circle is cut out on white cardboard. At the bottom, a golden or bronze stand is glued to it. This element will act as a snow globe.
  2. From color cardboard and a transparent strong film, circles with a radius greater than 1 cm are cut out than a circle in white cardboard. The film circle is glued from the back to white cardboard.
  3. The decor from the set for scrapbooking and sequins is glued to the circle of colored cardboard.
  4. Pieces of double-sided tape are glued around the perimeter of the film circle.
  5. A circle with decor is glued to a postcard on previously prepared double-sided tape.

Another simple multi-layer postcard can be made in the following master class:

  1. On three identical "pages" of postcard, different motifs are drawn on the theme of a snowy forest.
  2. "Extra" details are cut from prepared pages.
  3. The fourth page (of the same size) is painted with blue and blue paint, complemented by shiny sequins (stickers) in the form of stars.
  4. And white paper is cut into two parts with a width of 12 cm and a height equal to the height of the previously prepared pages.
  5. Every 1.5 cm, a vertical line is drawn on the prepared paper elements and a bend is made (forward and backward, alternating). Thus, side accordions are made.
  6. Prepared central sheets of postcards are glued between harmonica, creating the effect of multilayer postcards.

Choose a template Cut out Glue on the base Decorate with rhinestones TintedMultilayer Christmas cards

Silhouette appliqués

To create a beautiful silhouette card, it is recommended to use New Year's pucks. Just by printing such patterns, you can easily make a large number of patterns to create a variety of crafts. But you can also make a silhouette Christmas card with your own hands and from scratch:

  1. Draw on a white sheet of paper the outline of a New Year's character or object (Christmas tree decorations, Santa Claus, bullfinch, snowman).
  2. Cut the drawn silhouette and stick it on a sheet of blue, blue or gray cardboard. Supplement the picture with other elements (snowflakes, Christmas trees). They are cut in a similar pattern.
  3. If desired, you can make such a card a thin frame of white paper. This frame can be located both around the perimeter of the sheet (or half the sheet) of the cardboard, and can be placed right around the silhouette picture.

New year silhouette applique

Commemorative postcard from a child

Making a funny memorable postcard for the New Year with your child is both easy and simple. Below we examined simple workshops with fingerprints that will help you make very beautiful and funny crafts. As a basis, we recommend using white cardboard (a whole sheet or folded in half).

  • "Penguin".

The central part of the child’s legs is painted with white paint, the outline is black. An imprint is made, the beak, eyes and fins of the penguin are added to it.

  • "Santa Claus".

Fingers (from the index to the little finger) and the tubercles under these fingers on the palm are painted with white paint. The thumb and part of the palm under the wrist are painted red. An imprint is made, complemented by a face, fur and a pompom on a hat.

  • "Herringbone".

The leg is stained with green paint, an imprint is made. When the paint dries, toys and decorations are added to the Christmas tree.

New Year card from prints

Ready-made lasagna stained glass postcard

You can make a cool and original New Year's card not only from cardboard, paper and various decor, but also from food products. For example, on the sheets of lasagna, you can draw a very beautiful stained glass image together with the children. To work, you need the sheet itself, felt-tip pens, a ruler. Making crafts is carried out according to this scheme:

  1. On the lasagna sheet with black felt-tip pen, thematic images are drawn (Christmas tree, house, snowman, bullfinch, pig).
  2. Chaotic lines (as on stained glass) are drawn under the ruler over the main drawing. It is recommended not to make a large number of auxiliary lines, so that the main drawing is clearly visible.
  3. Using colored markers with similar tones, the background is painted (for example, light yellow, orange, beige). The character himself in a similar pattern is painted in the appropriate colors. For the pig, you can choose pink and red felt-tip pens, for the Christmas tree - green, lettuce, emerald.
  4. It takes about 1 day to dry the felt-tip pens on a lasagna sheet.

New Year's card from lasagna sheets

Color Stripes Postcard

You can make a very beautiful Christmas tree from multi-colored paper using the applique technique. For work, it is recommended to use 3-4 sheets of designer paper (with patterns, dots) or 5-6 sheets of plain colored paper. For the manufacture of crafts, you will additionally need PVA glue, white cardboard. The work is carried out as follows:

  1. Stripes with a thickness of 0.5-1.5 cm and a length of 10 to 1 cm are cut from colored paper (as the Christmas tree narrows).
  2. The longest strips are first glued onto a sheet of cardboard, gradually moving up, you need to select strips with a shorter length. They can be placed on top of each other, with a slight indentation.
  3. You can supplement the application with a Christmas tree trunk cut out of brown cardboard.In the upper part (as the top), you can glue a rhinestone, half bead, button.

A stylish card with a striped Christmas tree can also be made from stripes from colorful magazines, cuts from musical notes or foreign newspapers.

New Year card from colored stripes

Snow Covered Glitter Cards

Making a snow card for delivery as a gift will not be difficult for either a teenager or a child. But to work with sparkles, you need to consider the need to use a transparent universal glue with a dense texture. As a basis for crafts, you can use an old postcard or draw a thematic drawing. It is also recommended to use silver and white glitter for work, as well as larger hexagonal spangles and shiny sequins in the form of snowflakes. The following master class will help you easily make original crafts from such materials:

  1. Apply glue around the perimeter of the card and sprinkle it with white, silver sparkles.
  2. In the lower part and lower corners of the postcard, apply glue in a larger amount (creating a snowy effect) and sprinkle with sparkles and shiny hexagons in the same way.
  3. Separately glue on top, bottom (next to the shiny frame) sequins-stars.
  4. Allow the glue to dry for 1 day.

New Year card from sparkles

Volume cards

Unusual voluminous postcards are great for congratulating relatives and friends. Your child can give such a craft as a gift to his friend, class teacher or kindergarten teacher. There are many ways to create voluminous crafts. They can be made of cardboard and paper, cotton balls, pompons and other available materials and elements. At the same time, voluminous details can be located not only on the front of the card, but also in the middle of the congratulatory “book”. Therefore, before starting work, it is recommended to study all available options, their level of complexity and the required materials.Some of the following workshops are only suitable for adults or adolescents, but most of them, even toddlers, can repeat with their parents.

Volumetric New Year card

Origami Cards

You can make a simple and original postcard for the New Year in the origami technique using our next master class. For work, we recommend using designer paper with New Year's patterns. The work itself is carried out in stages according to the following instructions:

  1. 3 squares with side sizes of 10, 15 and 20 cm are cut out of paper.
  2. The smallest square is folded into a triangle one at a time, and then along the second diagonal (the color side remains visible).
  3. An unfolded triangle with visible folds turns one side down. Between the upper and lower parts of the diagonals on the left, the paper is folded down. Similar work is done for the right side. The square returns to its original position (leveled).
  4. The square is folded so that the folds of the diagonals protrude on the left and right, and the horizontal folds between them are “recessed”. It will result in an isosceles triangle.
  5. Grasping the right diagonal (one!), You need to turn it to the center line of an equilateral triangle and iron it. Repeat for the left diagonal.
  6. According to a similar scheme, add the remaining squares. Glue them to a sheet of cardboard, from smaller to larger, forming a herringbone and carefully entering the lower modules into the upper ones.

Bend on both sides On the bottom edge we make the bend wider Bend the top edge with a triangle Turn over the blank Pull the corner to the centerOn the other hand, we also do Bend the top corner Cooking a white strip Bend along the edges Insert the strip in the centerBend the square Bend the sides to the center Bend the corner Take the blue square and bend the corners Bend the stripsIt turned out a hat Cut squares for gloves Bend diagonally Bend the corners to the center Then bend the corners againGet a mitten Finished Parts On a silver cardboard we glue a fur coat Then head and braid Glue mittensOrigami New Year Card

Volume application of Santa Claus

You can decorate the New Year card with any themed characters. To create an original craft together with the children, we recommend choosing Santa Claus. This character is loved by all kids. For the manufacture of postcards you will need a sheet of cardboard, colored paper, cotton wool, PVA glue, scissors, a pencil. The work is carried out as follows:

  1. From red, white, pink paper, details are cut out for gluing the appliqué (suit, face, shoes). The application is glued on cardboard.
  2. Balls are made of cotton for gluing “fluffy” elements: beards, fur on a hat and a suit.
  3. Using PVA glue, cotton balls are glued to the prepared base.

cut out the parts and glue

In addition, glued toy eyes can be glued. They will give the figure more realism.

Volume application of Santa Claus

Volumetric Christmas trees

Making a step-by-step cool postcard with a three-dimensional Christmas tree is as easy as shelling pears. For work you need cardboard (2 sheets), a pencil, PVA glue, scissors, 2-3 types of green paper. It’s easy and simple to make such a craft in the following master class:

  1. Draw a symmetrical Christmas tree on one sheet of cardboard.
  2. Cut the Christmas tree out of cardboard and transfer it to green paper of different colors (use the blank as a stencil). It is advisable to make 4-5 of such Christmas trees.
  3. Cut paper Christmas trees. Fold each of them vertically in half (the colored part of the paper should be inside).
  4. Glue the Christmas trees folded in half between each other, alternating paper of different types. That is, glue half of one folded Christmas tree on the other and repeat the same work for the remaining blanks. As a result, only half of the side fir trees should remain free.
  5. After the workpiece dries, glue the side halves of the Christmas trees with glue and stick the finished figure to the card. If desired, you can decorate it with rhinestones.

Glue, scissors and paper Cut circles Bend in half and form a Christmas tree Glue the trunk and snowdrifts Decorate with snowflakesVolumetric Christmas tree

Volumetric figures

From ordinary paper, you can make not only voluminous Christmas trees, but also other themed Christmas figures. For example, using blue, yellow and black cardboard, white paper, you can make this card with a volume snowman yourself:

  1. From white paper cut a large circle. Fold it 5-6 times.
  2. The edges of a folded circle are cut off figuratively (you can by analogy with cutting curly edges for paper snowflakes). Unfold the workpiece and iron the resulting accordion ribs well to form a beautiful volume circle.
  3. Glue the circle to the blue cardboard.From a black cardboard cut a small cylinder and eyes, stick a snowman.
  4. From yellow cardboard, make a strip on the cylinder and carrot-nose. Glue them to a figure.

Cut circles Bend Glue halves Leave to dry Glue the circleWe receive preparations Glue thread Draw a face Cut out a hat Glue on the headVoluminous snowman

By analogy with the master class on manufacturing volumetric Christmas trees, you can also make volumetric balls:

  1. From multi-colored paper, cut 9 identical circles, fold each of them in half.
  2. Glue together the halves of the folded balls (from 9 blanks make 3 separate balls).
  3. After drying the bulk blanks, stick them to the cardboard, make a congratulatory inscription on the card. If desired, you can make not 3 identical, but three different balls or one large volume ball.

We bend sheets three times Circle the circle Cut out Bend circles Apply glueOr fasten the tape Glue the blanks Fasten the extreme circles and form a ball Cooking thin wire Hot glueVolume ball

3D effect inside the card

Using colored thick and plain white paper, you can make a cool three-dimensional postcard for the New Year in two counts. With the following simple workshops, you will learn how to collect such crafts with a Christmas tree and gifts.

  1. On a white sheet, mark the vertical middle. From the back, it must be carefully drawn with scissors.
  2. Regarding the marked line on the front side of the sheet, draw a Christmas tree (or a stack of gifts) with the same left and right sides.
  3. Make cuts in the figure along the distinguished horizontal lines. For the Christmas tree, this will be the transition between tiers (+ the bottom of the tree itself), for gifts - the line between 1 and 2, 2 and 3 gifts (+ the bottom of the last gift).
  4. Bend the Christmas tree (gifts) to yourself, according to the vertical line previously marked with scissors. The sheet of paper itself will fold in a protruding pattern inward.
  5. Fold thick colored paper in half vertically.
  6. Glue white paper to color, observing the coincidence of their central vertical lines. Thus, when opening cards, the Christmas tree or gifts protruding forward will be displayed and become voluminous.

New Year 3D greeting card

Postcards from felt

An unusual and very "cozy" postcard in honor of the New Year holiday can be made using felt.For work, it is recommended to purchase a hard cloth with a thickness of about 2 mm. Bonding parts from felt should be on a transparent universal glue (thick). Conventional PVA will quickly absorb into the fabric and the parts simply will not stick. It also requires a washable or disappearing fabric marker. The work itself is carried out as follows:

  1. On felt of different colors, draw the details of the house: roof, walls, door, window. Additionally, draw small snowdrifts on white felt (they will be located to the left and right of the house).
  2. Glue the walls to the cardboard base first, then the roof and other elements of the figure.
  3. Glue snowdrifts on the left and right. Additionally, a felt applique can be decorated with small cuts of felt in the form of Christmas trees.

New Year's card from felt

Curly cards

Using ordinary cardboard and paper, you can easily and easily make funny curly cards. For the manufacture of any type of crafts (in the form of a Christmas ball, Santa Claus or Santa, a snowman), you need to carry out the following preparation of the base (cardboard or thick paper):

  1. Fold the sheet in half.
  2. With a pencil, draw a half of the selected character or New Year's element. This must be done in such a way that the middle of the figure is located exactly on the vertical fold.
  3. Cut cardboard or paper along the contour of the created picture.
  4. Fold out the figured postcard and draw the “missing” half from its back.

To create another type of figured postcards (not with halves, but with the front and front), you also need to fold the base in half, but place the fold on top. Draw an object, the character should be as close as possible to the fold and cut so that the front and back of the craft remain connected. Next, you need to draw the back of the card, and glue some decor on the top of the front part that partially covers the fold: for the snowman, a small cylinder, Santa Claus - a hat with a pompom, Christmas ball - a shiny "hat" for hanging on a Christmas tree.

Christmas figured cards

Postcards using improvised means

Even such simple and affordable materials as ribbons, lace and beads can make very beautiful and funny New Year's cards. To pick the best idea, you can use the following hint:

  • lace: glue on a cardboard in the shape of a Christmas tree, sew a Christmas tree from lace and then glue it to the card, use to frame the perimeter of the card or create an openwork frame;
  • beads: stick on a thick transparent glue in the form of a New Year's character or a thematic element;
  • tapes: glue in the form of a herringbone, use as “strings” to supplement the balls depicted on the card;
  • buttons: by analogy with beads, they can be used for pasting a contour image (Christmas tree, snowman, Christmas ball);
  • small cones: will become a beautiful addition to the postcard, can be glued both in the central part of the craft, and in one of the corners;
  • dried orange circles with zest: suitable for creating a frame or used as decoration.

New Year's card from lace

Quilling postcard design

Working with quilling for the manufacture of postcards requires perseverance and attention. That is why such material is suitable for schoolchildren. It will still be quite difficult for a child attending kindergarten to make many separate elements from quilling. For work it is better to make the simplest shapes: swirling spiral circles and droplets. From circles it is easy and simple to make figures of Santa Claus, Snow Maiden, Snowman, Original Christmas balls. Of the droplet elements, these figures are easily assembled:

  • herringbone;
  • New Year's flowers;
  • Christmas toys in the form of cones;
  • ordinary bumps;
  • snowflakes;
  • Christmas wreaths.

Also, outlines of quilling can be used to make border frames or subtle patterns in the outline drawing. With their help, you can complement the silhouette of the Christmas tree or Christmas ball with very beautiful patterns.

Quilling New Year card

Ideas for designing cards with paints and pencils

To quickly and easily make a children's card for the class teacher, teacher or grandparents, you can use the most affordable materials - pencils and paints. The easiest solution is to draw basic objects with your fingers. For example, to the white spots placed by fingers under each other, you can make a cool snowman. To do this, you just need to finish on his face, buttons, pens. By this principle, you can draw funny elves, bullfinches, penguins, Christmas tree. The main rule is to supplement the prints with a contour or other important elements. But using ordinary pencils, using the following master class, you can also make stylish and unusual postcards:

  1. On a paper sheet, draw a contour of a New Year's character or a thematic element.
  2. Cut the drawn picture.
  3. Attach the stencil remaining after cutting to a sheet of cardboard and paint over with a pencil of the appropriate color.
  4. Supplement the picture with the missing details (for example, Santa Claus sled can draw strips, the face of the Snow Maiden - hair and nose, mouth, eyes) using a black pencil or felt-tip pen.

New Year card with paints

Use of threads during design

With the help of cardboard and multi-colored threads, you can make a stylish and interesting postcard for the New Year holiday in just 1 hour. True, such work is more suitable for adolescents and adults than for babies. The following brief master classes will help you to make original crafts in stages:

  • "Embroidered Christmas tree."

The silhouette of the Christmas tree (the simplest) is drawn on cardboard. Holes are made around the perimeter. Herringbone is stitched with green threads. The finished card is glued to an additional sheet of cardboard (to hide the back of the embroidery).

  • "Volumetric Christmas tree made of threads."

A pyramid is cut out of cardboard. The edge of the green knitting thread is glued to the bottom. The entire pyramid is wrapped with this thread (periodically, the thread is fixed with glue so that the figure does not unwind).Ready decor is decorated with rhinestones, glued to a greeting card.

  • "The most fluffy Christmas tree made of threads."

Green knitting threads are cut into small pieces. A contour of the Christmas tree is drawn on a sheet of cardboard. All space inside the contour is smeared with glue. Immediately (until it has dried), scraps are poured over the glue. For better fixation, they can be slightly crushed.

New Year's card from threads

Conclusion

Presenting a DIY New Year card is a pleasant experience. In addition, using simple materials, you can easily make both stylish and cool crafts. Original postcards can be made not only from paper and cardboard. It can be ordinary applications or modern pimples, voluminous crafts that are not inferior to purchased postcards. You can add to the cardboard various improvised materials: threads, lace, beads, pieces of fabric. From these "ingredients" the most unusual and at the same time the most festive crafts are obtained. You can make simple cards for the New Year for both adults and adolescents or children. Simple instructions will help even kids from elementary school or kindergarten to create colorful products with their own hands that they can give to their grandparents or hand them to their favorite teachers and educators.



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