Big postcard Happy New Year with your own hands. Do-it-yourself voluminous postcards for the new year

The tradition of giving cards on the occasion of significant events and holidays dates back more than two centuries. Despite the fact that modern information technologies have entered our lives: mobile communications and the Internet, we are still happy to receive a colorful New Year's card as a gift from a loved one with our own hands.

However, modern postcards look very different than those that we received twenty years ago. We no longer want to congratulate each other with faceless products of the printing industry, which stamped them in unlimited editions.

Boring standard cardboard boxes were replaced by postcards, skillfully made on their own, in which the person who made them put a piece of soul, warmth and care. One of our favorite holidays has always been the New Year: it is with it that we connect our dreams and hopes for a better future, we exchange gifts with people close to us.

A handmade card can be a nice addition to a gift. It is not difficult to make it at all, since the materials for its manufacture (colored paper, cardboard, satin ribbons, bright shreds, beads, sequins, braid) can be found in every home. The task will become even easier if you purchase a special scrapbooking kit in the store (this is the name of the art of making postcards).

In addition to materials, we may need a figured hole punch, openwork scissors or zigzag scissors, a set of decorative stamps.

An original postcard for a man can be a pocket, which contains a New Year's greeting. In recent years, a fashionable trend has emerged to necessarily link the congratulatory text with the patron saint of the coming year - one of the twelve animals of the Chinese horoscope.

Having found a suitable poem on the Internet, we add from ourselves everything that we want to wish to a person dear to us and print the text on a home printer. Of course, for this we need a sheet of thick cardboard, the edges of which can be tinted with acrylic paints and decorated with an ornament using suitable stamps.

How to make a postcard-pocket?

For this we need:

A sheet of thick gift paper with a "male" pattern.
Small details (you can use some knightly paraphernalia taken from a children's game).
Several fibers of sisal.
Small snowflakes.
Cloves (spice, a few things).
String of artificial pearls.
Artificial berries and imitation of a spruce branch.
Silver ribbon bow.
Silver braid.

From gift paper we model and glue the original pocket envelope.
We carefully glue the edges of the pocket with a narrow silver braid.
In the lower left corner of the pocket we create a beautiful composition of sisal fibers, beads, berries, snowflakes and spruce branches. It is advisable to place fragrant carnations among artificial needles: they will imitate spruce cones, while flavoring the postcard.
In the foreground of the composition we fix small details (imitation of a weapon, a shield or a fragment of knightly armor).
At the top of the sheet of congratulations, we fix a small but spectacular bow made of silver braid, decorated with a snowflake and a bunch of artificial berries.
We put a beautifully designed congratulation in the finished pocket.

A holiday postcard for the New Year, made by hand and intended as a gift for a woman, can be a three-dimensional imitation of a cozy winter window. Below you can find out how to make it.

We will need:

A sheet of dark blue cardboard.
Striped gift paper.
Trimmings of guipure, tulle or lace.
Silver braid.
Tape narrow lace.
A picture depicting a beautiful winter landscape.
Scraps of ceiling tiles or thick felt.

Execution sequence:

We bend a sheet of blue cardboard in half.
We paste over the inside of the card with coated white paper with beautifully designed corners and a pre-printed congratulation.
We decorate the front side with striped gift paper: it will imitate wallpaper on the wall surrounding the window.
We paste a beautiful winter landscape (it will be visible from the window).
We make an imitation of a window frame from strips of ceiling tiles or thick felt and glue it over the winter landscape.
We make a lambrequin from a piece of ribbon lace and fix it on the top of the frame.
We make curtains from scraps of tulle or guipure, glue them on the sides of the window, intercept with a narrow braid and tie it with a bow.
Under the window we place a strip with a beautifully executed congratulatory inscription. It can be printed on a printer or cut out of an old postcard with curly scissors.

Even the simplest postcard with an application made by a child's hands will be a very expensive gift for his mother.

Give your baby a piece of cardboard folded in half and a leaf of a fern (or any dried plant whose leaves are shaped like a Christmas tree).

We stick a leaf on the front side of the postcard: this will be the basis of the Christmas tree.
We decorate the Christmas tree with ready-made sparkles or circles of confetti, which the child can independently make from colored foil or the pages of a glossy magazine.
Taking a thin brush and white gouache, you can depict snowflakes swirling around the Christmas tree.
We make an imitation of snowdrifts from pieces of cotton wool and stick them under the Christmas tree.
A congratulatory inscription (if the child can already write) can be made by hand.
The same applies to the text of the congratulations: made with touching children's scribbles, it will warm any mother to the core.

A very small child can please his mother with a postcard decorated with purchased stickers. These stickers are sold in sets and come in the form of stars and various geometric shapes. Offer them to the baby and help him make a simple application in the form of a Christmas tree.

A card with a Christmas tree made by the hands of a child will be no less dear to his dad. It will look quite original with a Christmas tree made of paper tubes. What will be required for this?

Colored thick cardboard.
Scrap paper.
PVA glue.
Beads, sequins, beads.

Execution sequence:

Fold the cardboard in half.
We mark the future postcard, determine the size of the Christmas tree.
We cut the scrap paper into rectangles, roll up and glue the tubes out of them. The length of the tubes should be different, corresponding to our preliminary markings.
Having made a sufficient number of tubes, we begin to stick the Christmas tree on cardboard. We put the longest blanks down. With each new tier, their length should decrease. We glue the tubes together.
We decorate the finished Christmas tree with ready-made sequins, beads and beads.
Together with the child, we write congratulations to our beloved dad.

A beautiful postcard made in an unusual technique will be a pleasant surprise for your beloved friend. On the front side, you can cut a round window and arrange it in the form of a beautiful Christmas tree decoration.

We will need:

A sheet of thick cardboard.
Gift paper.
Large silver snowflake.
A piece of brightly colored felt.
Narrow silver ribbon.
Round paper napkin with carved edges.
Paper spruce branches.

Execution sequence:

We make the base of the card: fold a sheet of cardboard in half. We cover the front side with beautiful gift paper.
Using a compass or any rounded object, draw a circle for the future window. The diameter of our circle should correspond to the diameter of the snowflake we have (you can buy it in the department that sells Christmas tree decorations).
We close the window with a piece of silver metallized cardboard.
We make out the edge of the cut window using a paper napkin with lace edges (we cut out the middle of the napkin along the same diameter).
We make the volumetric edging of the window from thick felt: having made the necessary markings, cut out the ring and paste it over the paper lace, like a frame.
The edges of the felt frame can be decorated with silver glitter gel.
Place a snowflake in the center of the window and glue it to the silver cardboard.
In the upper part of the resulting Christmas tree ball, we glue an imitation of a metal mount, made all of the same silver cardboard.
On both sides of the "mount" we strengthen paper spruce branches (ready-made or cut out on our own).
We decorate the center of the “fastening” with a bow made of a silver ribbon.
Paste the finished card from the inside with beautiful paper and write the warmest wishes on it.

You can please a friend with a cheerful card with a picture of a smiling snowman.

Necessary materials:

Thick green cardboard.
A picture of a cheerful snowman.
Double sided sticky tape.
Simple double sided tape.
Ready volume stickers.
Halves of mother-of-pearl beads.
A piece of ribbed ribbon.
Stamp.
Glue "Titan".

Stages of work:

We fold the card, mark it out and cut out the window on its front side.
In accordance with the size of the window, we select a suitable picture and cut it out, making an additional allowance of 0.5 cm on each side (it is necessary to attach the picture to the volumetric adhesive tape). All markings are done with a simple pencil. Having cut out the picture, we erase the auxiliary lines.
We attach small squares of double-sided tape along the edges of the front side of the picture and glue the image of a snowman to the back of the future postcard. This should give the impression that the snowman is looking out the window.
At the bottom of the postcard we attach a piece of rep tape (using double-sided tape).
We hide the edges of the tape under the voluminous snowmen-stickers.
After applying a few drops of glue, we attach sequins in the form of snowflakes to the ribbon.
With the same sequins we make out the upper corner of the postcard.
We decorate the upper right corner of the window with a bright fabric bow.
In the left corner we place and glue the halves of mother-of-pearl beads.
We will make an insert for the inside from scrap paper, cutting out a square of the desired size and processing its edges with a border hole punch.
Glue the liner on a double-sided ordinary tape.
Using an acrylic stamp, we will print a congratulatory inscription.

A New Year's card with an applique made of buttons will be a pleasant surprise for your beloved grandmother. Bright, unusual and very easy to manufacture, it will become the center of admiring attention at the time of the solemn presentation of gifts.

Necessary materials:

Thick white cardboard.
A large number of large and small buttons of different colors.
Beads, beads, sequins.
Felt scraps.
Balls of multi-colored wool yarn.
Glue "Titan" (for ceiling tiles).

Having bent the cardboard in half, we prepare the basis for the postcard.
Using a simple pencil, we make a light sketch of the Christmas tree.
We lay out the image of the Christmas tree from the buttons, densely filling the drawn outline with them. We glue the buttons, alternating them in color and size, leaving no gaps or gaps.
We decorate the Christmas tree with small beads and sequins.
At the crown, we strengthen the star cut out of bright felt.
From pieces of felt we cut out a large number of squares and rectangles that will imitate a mountain of gifts at the base of the Christmas tree. We tie each “gift” with an elegant bow made of woolen yarn (some threads can be passed through a small button before tying a bow).
Beautifully group the "gifts" under the Christmas tree and glue them.
We write a touching congratulation inside the postcard.

Another option for a gift for a grandmother can be a postcard made of threads. Taking a fluffy green yarn, lay out the silhouette of a Christmas tree with a thread and stick it on thick cardboard with a figured border. Glue three large buttons in the center. The original postcard is ready!

Dear grandfather, you can make a postcard that is somewhat reminiscent of a traditional one, but only of the old times and with an indispensable modern “zest”.

What will we need?

A piece of dark cardboard.
A picture of Santa Claus (cut out of a magazine or old postcard).
A few strips of scrap paper or pages from a glossy magazine.
Golden braid.
Decorative bell.
Artificial twigs and berries.

Sequencing:

In the center of the cardboard folded in half, we paste a picture with the image of Santa Claus. You can pre-attach a narrow rectangle of plain colored paper to it, placing it closer to the top corner of the postcard.
We attach several tubes of glossy paper with letters tied with bows of golden braid to the bottom edge of the picture: this is an imitation of congratulatory scrolls. They can be additionally decorated with paper spruce branches.
We decorate the side of the picture (just above the “scrolls”) with a three-dimensional image of a gift tied with a golden thread with a tiny bell.
You can additionally decorate it by cutting a pair of snowflakes from an openwork paper napkin.
We make a congratulatory inscription by hand, using a gel with sparkles (or cut it out from an old postcard).

A mother-needlewoman can please her beloved daughter with a postcard depicting the beautiful Snow Maiden.

Necessary materials:

A sheet of thick cardboard.
Cardboard with silver letters.
Picture with the image of the Snow Maiden.
Glitter gel.
Wool yarn.
Finished silver snowflakes.
Satin braid, floral mesh strip, beads, sequins.

Execution sequence:

Fold the cardboard in half. Using a sewing machine, we attach a leaf of beautiful thick cardboard with silver letters to the front side. Thanks to this application, the postcard will be both stronger and more solid.
Using a simple pencil, we mark up a round window (the edges of the circle can be made curly). Cut out the window with a utility knife.
In order for the postcard to acquire an original look, you can highlight the window with a beautiful frame. To make it, we take a beautiful cardboard and make a free-form edging. Glue it with titanium glue.
The outer and inner edges of the frame are circled with a gel with silver sequins.
Let's decorate the frame from one edge with snowflakes, an elegant bow made of braid, woolen yarn and a floristic mesh.
We paste over the inside with light paper and write a New Year's greeting.

For your beloved son, you can make a postcard using the now popular quilling technique. Skillfully made mittens will clearly demonstrate how great a mother's desire to please her child is.

Necessary materials:

Blue cardboard.
Narrow strips of red and white paper.
Beads and sequins.
Satin ribbon.
A congratulatory inscription printed on a color printer and cut out with curly scissors.

Execution sequence:

We make the base of the postcard from blue cardboard.
We cut out images of a pair of warm mittens from thick white cardboard and tightly fill them with red paper ribbons twisted into spirals. We make the edge of the mittens from white stripes, and decorate their middle with sequins.
We place the finished mittens in the very center of the front side, connecting them with a satin ribbon and tying it with a bow.
We decorate the upper corners with elegant white flowers imitating frosty patterns. Glue glitter in the center of the flowers.
In the lower corners we make “frosty” curls, decorated with transparent beads.
We attach a congratulatory inscription under the mittens.

A three-dimensional postcard for the New Year of the Goat (sheep) is a great reason to please your beloved girl by giving her a card-amulet depicting a cute sheep - the patron saint of the coming year. To make it will take no more than half an hour and a modest set of materials. So, we need:

A sheet of white and thick textured paper.
A piece of black half-cardboard.
Ready-made eyes for toys.
Scissors: simple and curly.

Manufacturing sequence:

We fold white textured paper in half and draw a circle on it with a compass or any other round object.
Cut out the circle with curly scissors, leaving a small piece of the fold intact so that the card can open.
From scraps of white paper we make an oval hat and a small round ponytail.
On a sheet of black semi-cardboard, we outline a muzzle, a pair of ears and four legs. Cut out all the details with ordinary scissors.
Before assembling the postcard, we lay out all the details, achieving the greatest expressiveness of the image. Our postcard will stand, so you need to arrange the legs so that they match.
Carefully glue all the details, promptly removing excess glue with a soft cloth.
Our card-amulet is ready. You just need to write the warmest words inside and give it to your beloved girl along with a New Year's gift.

Even a small child can make a postcard for a brother. Of course, if an adult family member will help in the work. Let's find out how to make it in a fashionable technique called cardmaking.

Our postcard will be a bright picture with a frame made of cardboard base. For its implementation we need:

A sheet of very thick cardboard (21/15 cm in size).
Set of colored velvet paper.
Double sided sticky tape.
Star sequins.
Metal chain (22-25 cm long).
Several acrylic or metal pendants and rings for attaching them.
Sintepon or cotton wool.
Glue "Titan" or glue stick. In extreme cases, ordinary stationery glue is also suitable.
Regular scissors and zigzag scissors.
Special press luversator and three eyelets.

Execution steps:

Cut out a 18/11 cm rectangle from blue velvet paper with zigzag scissors and glue it to a sheet of white cardboard: this is the background of our postcard.
With the same scissors, we cut out a triangular (with sides 6/9/9 cm) Christmas tree from green velvet paper. Decorate with star sequins.
We attach strips of voluminous adhesive tape to the back of the Christmas tree and place it on the postcard.
We make two New Year's boots for gifts from red velvet paper and fix them with the same adhesive tape.
In the same way, cut and paste the house.
In three places we make holes with a press-luversator. Using detachable rings, we attach a chain to the postcard and decorate it with funny pendants.
To simulate a snowball, we use cotton balls, attaching them to the roof of the house, boots and at the base of the Christmas tree.

A very tender and original postcard made of beads can please your beloved sister. It will take no more than a quarter of an hour to make it, but the result will be a very nice addition to the gift.

Required materials:

Thick blue cardboard.
Three pieces of New Year's paper with a pattern of similar colors.
Mother-of-pearl white beads of different diameters (preferably three sizes).
Flat double sided tape.
Narrow nylon ribbon.
Hot glue.

Work sequence:

We fold a square-shaped card from cardboard.
We decorate the front side with squares and rectangles of New Year's paper, arbitrarily placing them on cardboard and gluing them with double-sided tape. The most important thing is that the composition is original and harmonious.
With a simple pencil, we make a light sketch of the silhouette of the Christmas tree and start gluing the beads of the bottom row using hot glue. In the process of gluing, we alternate the beads in size, trying to place the smallest of them in the upper tiers of the Christmas tree.
Having pasted the Christmas tree, at the bottom of the card we make an elegant bow from a translucent nylon ribbon. To do this, with a sharp clerical knife, we make a small incision on the fold, thread a ribbon into it and tie a bow.

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Pre-New Year's mood is quite simple to create, because everything lies in the little things. Try to make wonderful cards for the New Year with your own hands, it's very fun and easy, such an original gift will be appreciated by friends and relatives. We invite you to familiarize yourself with several master classes on creating postcards, turn the proposed ideas into reality.

Master classes

Mini-album-postcard "Herringbone"

What is necessary:

Pastel paper;
Corrugated cardboard with an image;
Double-sided tape;
Spray paint;
Cutter;
Rhinestones;
Lace decorative (golden);
Pigment pillow;
Glue "Moment" and for attaching rhinestones (transparent);
Ruler;
Rug mock-up;
Creasing tools;
Pencil.

Manufacturing technique:

Origami Christmas tree for postcard

Today, scrapbooking postcards have become very popular, the finished product looks bright and very beautiful. We recommend that you familiarize yourself with the scrapbooking master class for beginners.

Necessary materials: 5 squares of colored paper measuring 10 cm; 9 cm; 7.5 cm; 6.5 cm; 5.5 cm.

How to do:

So, you need to take the largest square and add it in such a way that you get a triangle.
Unfold the square and make exactly the same triangle, bending opposite sides of the cardboard.
Place an unfolded sheet of cardboard in front of you.
Fold the sheet along the folds so that you get a three-dimensional triangle.
Now one of the sides of the figure will need to be bent inward, as shown in the photo.
In the same way, bend the cardboard on the second side - this is the first module of our Christmas tree.
In the same way, we add the remaining modules, respectively, their size should be different - from larger to smaller.
A small piece of tape must be glued to the top of the first module. We place the largest module inside the smaller one and do the same with the rest.

Origami now has such a look, it will be possible to decorate New Year's cards 2019 with original Christmas trees.

Christmas tree from decorative tape for a postcard

Creating wonderful cards for the New Year 2019 with your own hands is very entertaining, so involve the kids in this process. With children, preparation for the holiday will be more fun.

To work, you will need a minimum of material - decorative tape, as well as strips of colored paper.

Manufacturing features:

Glue a piece of adhesive tape vertically onto a cardboard blank (preferably one-color), the top of the strip should be slightly narrower than the bottom - this is the trunk of the future Christmas tree.
After that, you will need to cut the tape into strips of various sizes. The ends of the strips should be cut obliquely, imitating spruce branches.
Stick the strips like a pyramid (from largest to smallest).

We offer another way to make a Christmas tree for bright postcards for the new year with your own hands.

Manufacturing instructions:

Take green colored paper, cut out a circle, cut into two halves.
Bend the edge of the paper as shown in the photo.
Now make the next fold in the opposite direction, so bend the edge again and decorate the Christmas tree. Paper craft looks original.
Glue the "twigs" to the base with a glue stick and you can start decorating New Year's cards with your own hands.

3D postcard for the New Year

Making voluminous New Year's cards with your own hands is not at all difficult, see this on the example of the proposed master class.

It is necessary to prepare:

Double-sided adhesive tape;
Multi-colored cardboard;
Glue;
Scissors;
Figured hole punch.

Technique:

Postcard "Christmas balls"

You can make an unusual New Year's card with your own hands in just a few minutes, prepare an excellent gift for your loved ones for 2019.

You need to prepare:

Colored paper in two colors;
Scissors;
Stationery glue;
Pen for writing.

How to do:

Before you start making a postcard for the New Year with your own hands, as in the photo, you will need to prepare all the necessary materials and tools.
Fold the blue paper in half for the base, the background made in this way will contrast perfectly with the light blue "balls".
Cut out circles from light-colored paper.
Bend each of them in half.
Now you need to attach these circles to each other, thus forming three-dimensional balls.
Glue them on the outside of our postcard.
Using a pen, draw the threads that "hold" the balls. Now the New Year's card with your own hands is completely ready, you just need to sign it.

Festive quilling card

You can even create beautiful children's cards from quilling, try it, you will like it.

You will need to prepare:

Colored cardboard;
Colored stripes;
Glue;
Toothpicks;
Scissors;
Corrugated light paper.

Technique:

Take quilling (green stripes), make cuts at the same distance using nail scissors.
Wrap the prepared ribbons on a toothpick, so you get several hanks, as in the photo.
Now you need to fix the bottom of the skein with glue and straighten the fringe, you will get voluminous balls.
Next, we proceed to the final stage of making a postcard for the New Year with our own hands. You should glue the balls on a sheet of cardboard in the form of a pyramid, you get a Christmas tree. Now you can "decorate" it as you wish.

As you can see, quilling may be needed not only for crafts.

Bright "Christmas tree"

Required:

Paper of various colors and textures;
Double-sided adhesive tape;
PVA glue;
Hole puncher decorative;
Rope.

Step by step:

A sheet of colored paper will need to be folded in half, stick a triangle of green paper and a small brown rectangle, you get a Christmas tree.
Cut out circles of various sizes, then use a hole puncher to make snowflakes.
Glue all the figures on the Christmas tree, decorate it with beads, then decorate the lower part with an openwork paper ribbon. You can also come up with your own postcard design.
Wrap the string around the card, then tie a bow. At the bottom you can stick white paper for text.

Volumetric Christmas tree with beads

Necessary tools and materials:

Paper colored with ornaments for scrapbooking;
Postcard white without drawing;
Scissors;
Glue stationery;
Double-sided adhesive tape;
Ruler;
Decorative pins with carnations.

Step by step creation instructions:

It is necessary to cut out 12 rectangles from paper, their length should be 10 cm. The width of the smallest is 9 cm, all the rest are 6 mm wider.
Wrap each of the rectangles on a pencil, so you get tubes.
Now you need to glue them, the longest one will be at the base, and the short one should be located at the top.
Glue the Christmas tree to the postcard, decorate with carnations and pins. That's all and ready.

Children's card with fingers

Children get acquainted with this way of creating postcards in kindergarten, try to do this at home.

These photos show how you can keep the kids busy and prepare for the New Year, for this you need to prepare paints and paper or cardboard.

Postcards with "potato print"

If you don't know how fun it is to celebrate 2019 year of the pig, then get creative with the kids. This master class demonstrates the original creation of a holiday card.

You will need:

Raw potatoes;
Paints.

How to do:

Cut the potato in half, dip it in the paint, make an imprint on the cardboard.
Now it remains to finish the details of the picture, you get a cute penguin or a snowman.

Thanks to our New Year ideas, you can prepare for the New Year, create with the kids, it's a lot of fun.

From felt, you can make the following design:

Ideas for inspiration

Quilling:

Video about creating a scrapbooking postcard:

Origami crafts for postcards:

It is not at all necessary to buy expensive gifts for the Christmas holidays, a sign of attention can also be provided with an inexpensive DIY craft. Lovely New Year cards will delight loved ones and just acquaintances. In addition, this is a great idea for joint family creativity with children. Today, in the editorial review of the site, we will show the basic techniques for making postcards, in just 1-2 evenings you can create excellent presents for friends and colleagues.

New Year cards can be made in different techniques. They will perfectly complement any gift and will keep the warmth of your hands and pleasant memories for a long time. To make such a present, you will need cardboard, colored paper, a figured hole punch and decor. And then it all depends on the imagination of the craftswoman, you can come up with a simple, but at the same time beautiful postcard, or apply more complex techniques for making it.

Unusual New Year and Christmas cards using scrapbooking technique

New Year's cards made using the scrapbooking technique are distinguished by their special warmth, for their manufacture it is not enough to use ready-made templates, it is important to display imagination, which makes each craft unique.

Today we will show how to make a New Year's double postcard with our own hands, for this we need:

base paper 18.4 × 24.8 cm. It must be folded in half;
scrap paper 18 × 12 cm - 2 pcs.;
carvings and New Year's pictures;
border hole punch;
glue "Moment" and PVA.

Let's get to work.

Illustration	Action Description
	Make a layout of pictures on a sheet of scrap paper.
	Move the sketch to the side and glue all the blanks onto the base one by one.
	The front side is ready.
	Make a layout of the decor on the second piece of scrap paper and glue all the details.
	Glue the finished crafts to the base, it should protrude 2 mm from each edge. Fold in half.

To decorate postcards using the scrapbooking technique, lace, satin ribbons, as well as glitter, beads and artificial flowers are used. Often, a machine stitch is used to secure two sheets of paper, which gives the crafts originality and individuality.

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Postcards for the New Year in origami technique

Translated from the Japanese technique, origami means folded paper. Such crafts look very beautiful. Today we will make a miracle card with a Christmas tree, in which you can put a note or a congratulation. For work, it is necessary to prepare green A4 paper, on the reverse side of which there should be a pattern.

Step-by-step instruction.

Illustration	Action Description
	Lay the paper horizontally with the plain side up. Raise the bottom left corner up. Bend the resulting triangle in half.
	Bend the long side of the triangle back, the width of its parts should be equal.
	Open the pocket, bend up the lower part, smooth all the edges well.
	Turn the bottom corner back and fold the sides of the triangle together.
	Make cuts along the side of the triangle, the first - on the left side at a distance of 2 cm from the edge. The rest decrease in proportion to the inner line.
	Open the Christmas tree and bend the cuts on both sides down.
	Bend all the corners back along the marked lines.
	Expand the workpiece and bend the lower triangle up. Lubricate with glue and stick to the opposite side.
	Turn the workpiece over, bend the free corner to the opposite side, fix the edges with glue.
	Decorate the card with colored circles.

In more detail, the entire progress of work can be viewed on the video:

We offer to see a few more original ideas with additional decoration.

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: ideas, step-by-step examples of crafts with a New Year theme, options for different manufacturing techniques, figurines of New Year symbols and animals - in our publication.

Magic quilling lace

If you were invited to visit quite suddenly and there is nothing as a gift, you can make an amazing quilling postcard in just half an hour. For work, we need a special ruler with holes of different diameters, as well as cut strips of green, light green and brown colors.

Master class on making New Year's crafts using the quilling technique.

Illustration	Action Description
	Screw the strip onto the awl, then put it to form in a hole of small diameter, then take it out, form a drop and glue the edge.
	Similarly, make another roll and glue both parts on paper.
	From strips of a larger size, form the second branches in the same way. For openwork twigs, the strip is simply wound on an awl and straightened. One edge remains wavy.
	Form the entire Christmas tree in the same way.
	For the trunk, fold a triangle from a brown strip in several layers, glue the edges and glue it onto the workpiece. Roll up 2 rolls and glue inside the trunk.
	Decorate the Christmas tree with miniature buttons and glue burgundy stripes around the perimeter of the card.

You can watch the video in more detail about the whole process:

You should not dwell on only one technique, crafts made using different techniques are much more elegant.

Handprints, fingers and legs - the cutest decoration for New Year's cards

New Year cards can be made with children, for example, colorful prints of palms, fingers and legs. The carved and unusually decorated blanks look interesting.

For inspiration, we suggest looking at wonderful ideas for decorating postcards using prints of children's hands, fingers and legs. They can be additionally decorated with paints, appliqué, New Year's decor.

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Beautiful cards for the New Year from unusual materials

New Year's cards look very beautiful, for the decoration of which completely unexpected materials are used.

Opening grandmother's chest: decorations from buttons, ribbons and threads

Buttons, satin ribbons and threads are a versatile material for decorating New Year's crafts. To work, you only need a sheet of cardboard, glue and scissors.

From buttons

From tapes

From threads

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Fluffy crepe paper beauty

Even a schoolboy can make crafts from corrugated paper; it will become an addition to a New Year's gift or an independent surprise for loved ones.

For work you will need:

thick colored cardboard;
corrugated paper;
scissors and glue;
additional decorations.

Let's get to work.

Fold the cardboard in half.
Draw or mark the outlines of the branches with white paper.
Cut out several strips of different sizes from corrugated paper.
Glue the strips to the cardboard according to the markings, after collecting a little with an accordion.

Space of fantasy with colored tape

It will be interesting for little children to make a New Year's craft from colored adhesive tape with their own hands; today, the distribution network offers a huge variety of plain or patterned material. Additionally, you can use colorful magazine clippings, stickers and other suitable decor.

For inspiration, we suggest looking at unusual ideas for decorating postcards with colored tape.

DIY magic: card "Christmas ball" with sequins and sparkles

Postcards decorated with sequins, sequins and rhinestones look magical. We offer to make a unique craft with us, and the master class will help in this process.

For work we need:

colored paper for scrapbooking A5;
thick white paper;
thick plastic bag;
double sided tape and glue.

Illustration	Action Description
	Fold the paper in half, cut off a rectangle 5 mm smaller than the folded colored paper from the white paper. Mark the center in it, draw a circle with a compass and cut it out.
	Take a plastic bag the size of a postcard and fill it with different decor. Seal the edge of the bag with an iron, after wrapping it with a strip of paper.
	Glue decorative stickers onto scrap paper.
	Glue the bag to the inside of the white paper with double-sided tape.
	Glue the blank to scrap paper on double-sided tape, decorate with ribbons and decor. The inside of the spread can also be decorated with stars and sequins.

Felt applications

Soft felt is associated with homely warmth and cosiness, which correspond to the Christmas theme. To work with it, it is not even necessary to get a sewing machine - all the details can be perfectly glued or sewn by hand.

Any material is used: ideas for free New Year cards

You can make postcards completely free of charge from any improvised materials that are in every home. For example, it can be knitted crafts from the remnants of thread, decorative beads, paint, glitter, and even a simple newspaper will become an unusual gift decoration.

An entertaining hobby for preschoolers: do-it-yourself New Year's cards

We all remember our childhood, how our mothers and grandmothers helped us to make beautiful cards for the New Year as a gift to educators. Now it's our time to create a magical miracle with the child.

"Snowman"

For a simple postcard with a snowman, we need:

thin cardboard in white and blue;
multi-colored paper;
curly and ordinary scissors;
glue, a simple pencil and felt-tip pens;
pad with stamp paint;
figured hole punch.

Let's get to work.

"Christmas ball"

Younger children will also find an idea in pre-holiday creativity, they can paint a New Year's ball on a postcard. To do this, you need a thick white cardboard folded in half, and plain paper, in which an adult must first cut a round hole of a suitable diameter. The template is superimposed on the front side of the cardboard and painted with felt-tip pens. That's it - the card is ready.

"Christmas balls"

For a postcard with Christmas balls, but in a more complex technique, you need to prepare:

blue cardboard;
blue paper with snowflakes;
adhesive scissors;
a pen for a congratulatory inscription.

Operating procedure.

Cut out circles from blue paper.
Bend each circle in half and glue the halves to each other. The more glued elements, the more magnificent the ball will turn out.
Glue the blanks onto cardboard, draw the strings up with a pen, and parents can write warm words.

"Mitten"

Children 6-7 years old like to work with scissors, so we suggest making the next craft not in the classic rectangular shape, but in the form of one or two mittens. They can be cut out of New Year's paper and pasted onto cardboard. The place of the rubber band is often decorated with a piece of fur or a knitted element.

We offer you to look at some interesting design ideas.

DIY Christmas card ideas for schoolchildren

Older children can be offered more complex work that will require the help of parents.

Postcard "Fluffy Christmas tree in a snowdrift"

At first glance, schoolchildren will not be able to make such a craft, but, having figured out the process, everything will turn out to be quite simple. For work, we need:

colored cardboard;
chopped strips of two shades of green;
glue;
toothpick or awl;
white corrugated paper;
bead and flagellum.

Operating procedure.

Cut the fringe into strips along the entire length.
Wrap the strips on a toothpick, glue the edge and fluff the incised side.
Glue blanks on paper in the shape of a Christmas tree, decorate with beads.
Glue a toothpick-trunk of a Christmas tree, instead of an asterisk, glue a bow, collect corrugated paper and glue it in the form of a snowdrift.

Volumetric card with gifts

Volumetric postcards always look unusual, you can come up with a plot for any holiday. Today we will do our own crafts with New Year's gifts.

For work we need:

pink paper 18×13 cm;
white cardboard;
colored paper;
decorative ribbon, beads;
ruler, simple pencil, scissors and glue;

Illustration	Action Description
	Fold the paper in half, measure 1 cm, 4 cm, 3.5 cm and 2.5 cm from the bottom at the fold. Draw lines from the dots to the center of the paper. You should get 3 squares with a side of 4, 3.5, 2.5 cm, respectively. From the fold line, make cuts along the markup. Open the card and fold the shapes in the opposite direction.
	Cut out strips of colored paper according to the size of the squares, decorate them with decorative tape and stick them on the blanks.
	Fold a sheet of cardboard in half, glue a blank with a decor into it, decorate the edges with a decorative ribbon with beads, glue a bow over the boxes and decorate them with beads and rhinestones.
	Glue a pink stripe on the front side, ribbons with beads on it and next to it.

In more detail, the master class can be viewed on the video:

"Christmas tree from tubes"

To make an unusual New Year's card, you will need multi-colored scrapbooking paper, double-sided tape, glue and a carnation bead.

Step-by-step instruction.

Cut out 12 rectangles of colored paper 10 cm long. The width of the smallest is 9 cm, each subsequent one is 6 mm wider than the previous one.
Wind the rectangles on a pencil in the form of a tube.
Glue pieces together
Glue the Christmas tree on a sheet of thick paper.
Attach a bead to the top.

Let's make Christmas tree cards and on the eve of the holiday we will give them to our mothers, fathers, sisters, brothers, teachers, classmates or just good friends. How delighted they will be with such an original surprise!

You will need: a sheet of cardboard (blue), two sheets of colored paper (green and red), PVA glue, a ruler, a pencil and scissors.

1. Fold the blue piece of cardboard in half. This is the basis of the future postcard.

2. Draw a green sheet lengthwise into strips of 3.5 cm, 5 cm, 6 cm and 6.5 cm.

3. Now fold the sheet in half as shown.

4. And one more time.

5. And more.

6. And more.

7. Expand the sheet.

8. The lines that were formed from the folding of the sheet will help you roll it up like an accordion. Shall we try?

9. Using scissors, cut the accordion-folded sheet along the marked lines.

These green accordions will show off on your tables.

10. Glue the accordion branches right at the fold of the base at a distance of 5-7 mm from each other. To make the blanks stick better, place scissors or a small book on top.

11. Expand the top of the Christmas tree (the first accordion) and glue its second end on the other side of the postcard, immediately at the fold.

12. Glue other harmonica branches in the same way.

13. It's time to decorate our New Year's beauty.

Cut out a five-pointed star from red paper and glue it on top in the middle of the card. You can also cut out quadrilateral gifts from colored paper, decorating them with painted ribbons and bows, and glue them under the Christmas tree. Don't forget about snowflakes, what's a Christmas card without snowdrifts?

Glue a paper-cut snowflake to the outside of the card.

Well done boys! Magic Christmas tree card is ready!