A beautiful card is an invariable attribute of any holiday. After all, with its help you can tell a person about your feelings for him and wholeheartedly congratulate him on his triumph. There is a huge variety of postcards in the world for every taste and any theme. But the best of them is considered to be created with your own hands. To make a presentable greeting craft, all you need is creative thinking and the right materials. Our article will tell you how to decorate a postcard correctly so that it has all the necessary parameters.
Spring drops
Speaking about postcards for such a bright holiday as March 8, we can say that they should all look sunny, as they symbolize the arrival of spring. Therefore, each product dedicated to this holiday must be filled with light, warmth and tenderness of colors. In such cards it is best to use a combination of light green, pink and yellow tones, because they inspire and saturate with the energy of solar warmth after a long cold winter. An example of what homemade postcards from March 8th can be are the photos below and a master class on making crafts. To do this, you will need the following materials: colorful cardboard with an ornament, pearl beads of different colors, double-sided colored paper, glue and scissors.
Progress:
- A sheet of colorful cardboard must be folded in half to form the desired size of the future postcard. If necessary, cut off the edges on it, making them slightly rounded.
- On a sheet of pink paper, draw an oval with openwork edges and use a special knife to cut out all the necessary details. The result should be a figure with a solid middle and lace edges. The oval should be glued in the center of the postcard in a horizontal position.
- From white and pink paper you need to cut out seven small flowers with carved edges (preferably of different shapes). In order for all the flowers to be beautiful, they must first be drawn and then cut out.
- You need to cut out a lot of leaves of different shapes and sizes from green and light green colored paper. The more lacy the edges of the finished leaves are, the more beautiful the card will look.
- Next you should start making parts for the large flower. It will consist of several parts. To do this, you need to draw 15 elongated petals on a sheet of white paper and cut them out. Then you need to bend each petal in half (vertically) and press the edges with your fingers. After this, you need to cut out 10 petals from pink paper, but of a different shape (as indicated in the photo). There is no need to bend the pink parts.
- When all the details for decorating the card are ready, you need to glue them. In the lower right corner of the card you need to glue white petals in the shape of a flower. The parts should be placed close to each other, with sharp folds down. Next, you need to start forming the center of the flower, gluing the pink petals so that they have a cup shape. In the center of the resulting flower you need to use glue to attach many small white beads.
- To the left and right of the large flower you need to glue pink flowers with pearl beads in the middle.
- In the upper left corner you need to fix 3 white flowers with pearl centers.
- Now all that remains is to decorate the craft with carved leaves, and it is almost ready for use.
Similar postcards “Happy March 8!” can be made in absolutely any color and have other shapes of flower petals. And in the center of the lace oval you can write a beautiful wish.
A simple DIY postcard for March 8th for mom made from napkins
From napkins you can make not only a postcard with an impromptu sprig of mimosa, but also crafts with other flowers. And most often, pink paper napkins are used for this purpose, since they produce flowers that look like buds of spring flowers. Making a postcard for March 8 with your own hands from napkins is quite simple, and a preschool child can easily handle making such a craft.
To make a card like in the photo, you need to take pink or red napkins for voluminous fluffy flowers, colored paper, cardboard, scissors and glue. The entire process of making a postcard will not take more than 15 minutes. And you can learn how to make such a postcard with three-dimensional application of flowers from the video master class.
An original handmade postcard for March 8th is a great gift for mom
Despite the fact that a homemade postcard for March 8th made from paper and cardboard is a gift that all children give to mothers and grandmothers at matinees in kindergarten and 1st grade, every mother is still very pleased to receive such a gift from her child.
And it doesn’t matter whether it’s voluminous postcards, or complex crafts made using the scrapbooking technique, or a simple “Mimosa” made from napkins - the main thing for mothers is that these postcards from March 8th are made by the hands of their children with sincere love.
And the templates, master classes and tips used in making crafts by children of kindergarten age and schoolchildren from grades 1 to 4 will certainly help children not only please, but also pleasantly surprise their mother with their skill and talent.
Friendly congratulations
Original cards for congratulating friends are especially popular. To make an unusual card for a teenager, you can take advantage of fashion trends. Namely, the image of outfits on paper products. Let's look at how to decorate a postcard with your own hands using design methods.
Initially, you should choose a base for the craft using a sheet of folded cardboard. Then you need to draw a girl with a sophisticated figure on it. Next, you need to cut it out of thin fabric and glue the clothes onto the girl. The skirt or dress should be made very fluffy so that the fabric blows out of the postcard. This craft can be decorated with sparkles or beads, as well as ribbons.
To my beloved mother!
For the closest person in the world, for your mother, you always want to make the best and most unique surprise. Therefore, let's look at how to decorate a card for mom that is suitable for any holiday. To make it you will need the following materials: double-sided purple cardboard, a sheet of white paper, satin ribbon (lilac).
You will also need: 2 sheets of white paper, rhinestones, a butterfly stamp, glue, scissors and any paints.
Work progress:
- Bend a sheet of cardboard in half.
- On a sheet of white paper, trim the edges using scissors.
- Next, make prints of butterflies of different colors on the same sheet.
- From the satin ribbon, cut a piece the size of the width of a white openwork sheet.
- Then you need to glue a sheet of white paper with curly edges in the middle of the cardboard. At the same time, you need to stick a piece of cut tape onto this sheet, bending its edges under the paper. The tape should be located at a height of 3-4 centimeters from the bottom of the white sheet.
- Make a bow with beautiful edges from another piece of ribbon and secure it to the glued ribbon.
- On another sheet of white paper, leave several butterfly prints in different colors. Then they need to be cut, folded in half and flattened. The resulting butterflies must be glued onto the postcard, applying glue to the sharp folds of the parts.
- The final stage in decorating the product is gluing rhinestones onto the openwork edge of white paper.
If you don’t have the necessary stamps to make such a craft, you can draw the butterflies yourself. They will look no worse than printed ones.
Citrus delight
In the process of creating a unique postcard, all means and materials are good. After all, you can also use organic things to decorate them, for example, slices of dried citrus fruits, coffee beans and dry herbs.
If you beautifully arrange these decorative particles on the surface of the postcard, they will give the item a completely different, more interesting look. To do this, you don’t need to know how to decorate a card with citrus fruits correctly. The main thing is to follow your feelings and create your own vision of a beautiful world. If desired, you can glue pieces of burlap and lace to the card. Also, by using cinnamon sticks and dried mint leaves, a person will create not just a paper product, but a whole aromatic complex that will refresh the room and please the eye.
To the delight of lovers
The bright holiday of Valentine's Day has millions of fans all over the Earth. Therefore, lovers try to give each other the most beautiful cards and valentines. Let's look at how to decorate a homemade card in the style of lovers below.
As you can see from the photo of the craft, it is not at all difficult to make. For this you will need: a sheet of cardboard folded in half, hearts made of paper of different colors, a bow made of satin ribbon, white thick threads, a sheet of gray cardboard. Do all the work in the following order:
- Glue a rectangle made of gray cardboard onto a sheet of cardboard folded in half.
- Glue hearts with threads in the form of balloons onto the rectangle.
- Glue a satin ribbon bow to the bottom of the threads gathered into a bundle.
The card is completely ready, but if you wish, you can stick a lot of multi-colored hearts of different sizes inside it.
Volumetric work techniques
A beautiful handmade card for your beloved dad on February 23 can be voluminous. Think about how you or your child would like to add volume to the card - it could be quilling, voluminous appliqué, or even a card that becomes voluminous when unfolded.
I sometimes help children make cards using the scrapbooking technique, but much more I like to watch what they come up with themselves - so if the child is not averse to imagining, be sure to listen to his wishes.
Quilling
This technique is the easiest way to make a three-dimensional card, especially since you don’t have to come up with any special plot, quilling in itself is very attractive, so it’s enough to simply depict the date of the holiday using this technique. However, if you want, you can schematically depict something .
To make greeting cards using the quilling technique, you will need to purchase or make a blank for the postcard, as well as strips of paper for quilling - you can buy them ready-made. You can choose colors to suit your taste - these can be classic khaki shades, symbolizing a military uniform, or any others that seem appropriate.
And the ribbon curls...
Using ribbons in making cards helps make the craft more sophisticated and delicate. That is why this material is so popular in this type of creativity. Let's look at an original idea on how to decorate a card with ribbon to make it look great.
This craft can be given to anyone for their birthday, but it is most suitable for men. To make this card, you need to cut out car parts from any suitable materials and glue them onto a sheet of cardboard folded in half. You also need to make boxes with gifts from corrugated paper and tie them with ribbons. The edges of such a postcard can be covered with a thin satin ribbon. To make the craft more colorful, it must be made on a sheet of light green or pink cardboard.
Beautiful and original postcard for March 8th with your own hands for mom from paper in 1st grade
First-graders, in addition to writing, reading and mathematics, learn many useful and interesting things at school. And every year, the educational program pays more and more attention to teaching children creativity and various useful practical skills.
Therefore, on the eve of International Women’s Day, the teacher will definitely tell and show how to make an original card for March 8th with her own hands from paper to her mother in the 1st grade, and will give each student the task of making such a craft in class or at home.
The child can come up with interesting new ideas for cards for his mother on his own, because a greeting card for March 8 can be decorated with any flowers, butterflies, images of cute animals and inscriptions with congratulations and wishes. There are also many simple postcard making techniques.
For example, a first-grader can implement the following ideas:
- Draw and sign the postcard yourself using a folded sheet of A4 paper, felt-tip pens and watercolor paints.
- Cut out images of flowers from magazines, colored newspapers or old postcards and paste them onto a sheet of cardboard in an artistic manner, and write a congratulatory inscription in the middle
- Make three-dimensional flowers or origami out of paper and glue them onto a homemade postcard.
Another great idea to please your mother on International Women’s Day would be to make a card with a large number 8 made up of small flowers. This card is very simple to make, but looks beautiful and unusual. Moreover, the child can use paper in his mother’s favorite colors so that his mother will like the greeting card even more.
How to make an unusual card for mom on March 8 from a first grader: master class
To make such a card, your child will need the following materials: a sheet of colored cardboard, a sheet of white A4 paper, pieces of waste cardboard, watercolor paints, a simple pencil, glue and glitter (or glue with glitter).
The video shows a detailed master class on making a postcard, so to make an original postcard for mom, a first-grader only needs to follow the instructions. Moreover, these instructions are very simple, and the child will definitely turn out a beautiful craft.
Photo for your loved one
Sometimes it happens that you want to make a postcard to your loved one for no reason. But there is not always enough creative thinking to create such things. Not knowing how to decorate a card so that it evokes bright feelings, and not vice versa, some risk finding themselves in an awkward position. Therefore, in this case, it is better to use ready-made ideas for making such crafts.
One of the interesting ideas is the use of photographs in the making of postcards. You need to take pictures of both lovers (faces) and beautifully glue them onto a cardboard base. It is advisable to use colored hearts, rhinestones and lace to decorate crafts. The result will be not just a postcard, but a frame that will stand in a prominent place.
DIY greeting card for March 8th from paper and cardboard
Three-dimensional cards for March 8 always turn out very beautiful and interesting, especially since it’s quite easy to make three-dimensional flowers and appliqués from colored paper. And a do-it-yourself double-sided postcard for March 8 made of paper and cardboard, the main decoration of which is a large voluminous applique of 7 flowers hidden inside the card, will be a wonderful gift for a mother or grandmother from a primary school student on International Women’s Day.
Master class for beginners: making a three-dimensional postcard for March 8th from cardboard and paper
To make a postcard from paper and cardboard, you do not need to buy special materials, since the child already has everything he needs in his creativity kit. Namely, to make the craft you will need sheets of colored paper, cardboard, scissors and glue. And since the applique will be glued inside the card, you can write a congratulatory inscription on its title side with colored felt-tip pens.
The cardboard will serve as the basis for the postcard, since it is quite thick, and the craft will definitely not be wrinkled. By the way, if there is no cardboard of suitable colors, you can take a sheet of any color and cover it with colored paper.
Three-dimensional applique is made from colored paper of two or more colors. The entire process of making a postcard from paper and cardboard is demonstrated step by step in the video below. But to make the card more original, the child can also add various decorative elements (sparkles, a painted frame, a beautiful congratulatory inscription).
Strong defenders
Men, by their nature, do not particularly like to accept various souvenirs. But the only time, besides their birthday, on which all men wait for them is Defender of the Fatherland Day. Therefore, it is extremely important to prepare appropriate crafts for husbands and sons. Knowing how to creatively decorate a postcard for Defender of the Fatherland Day, you can please your husbands with an unusual souvenir. You should not depict weapons and other attributes of military life on such crafts. It is best to depict peace and love throughout the land, which is protected by men.
This card requires a lot of time to make a large number of butterflies and glue them. But creating something beautiful is worth it. They can be pasted not only on the front, but throughout the card, as a symbol of freedom and joy. If the white background of the craft does not suit someone, then it can be replaced with any other one.
For the little ones
Children love when they are given colorful cards. To do this, they need to be made using a lot of decorative details. Not every mother knows how to beautifully decorate a card for her baby, so you need to use a good example or recommendations for making it.
Generally, little boys and girls like toys. You should take advantage of this and create a postcard with various game elements. For example, cut out a bunny from fabric and glue it to cardboard. The bunny should be dressed in clothes, preferably in colorful colors. You also need to use lace details and ribbon bows. The inside of the card should also look bright and colorful.
Hidden Splendor
Any postcard created with your own hands should look beautiful not only on the outside, but also on the inside. There are homemade crafts that, when opened, transform into interesting details. Let's figure out how to decorate the inside of a card in an unusual way.
As you can see in the photo, creating an interesting craft will not require a lot of time and materials, but despite this, the greeting card looks great. All that is required for this is just to cut out a few balloons and stick them on cardboard, connecting the threads in a bundle. This card has a congratulatory inscription in honor of the birthday, but you can write any wishes on the flags. You also need to take into account that to give the balls volume, they are glued onto small pieces of foam.
New Year cards for friends
You can make an original greeting card with a stylish Christmas tree yourself, without any special skills. For decoration you will need several green buttons and decorative stones with edges. Master class on creating a postcard for the New Year:
- Cut out a small piece from felt that has the contours of a lush Christmas tree.
- Glue the felt piece to the outside of the greeting card.
- Buttons and decorative stones are attached to the fabric base using glue, decorating the New Year's beauty.
Such a craft will be a pleasant gift for parents or close friends.
Breath of the sea
There are a large number of original ideas for creating postcards. Crafts using a marine theme look especially unique. To understand how to beautifully decorate a postcard for lovers of sea travel, you should use this product description.
So, first you need to prepare the necessary materials. These are sand, blue cardboard, shells, blue cardboard, glue and scissors.
- You should take a sheet of blue cardboard and bend it in half.
- Cut a rectangle out of blue cardboard, smaller in size than the card itself. Then you need to glue it in the center of the craft.
- Sand and shells should be glued onto the rectangle.
In principle, the card is ready, but if desired, it can be further decorated with sparkles and small pieces of glass.
How to Make a Postcard in PowerPoint
Creating a postcard will only take a few steps:
1 Open the PowerPoint presentation program
First option
- Start - All Programs - Microsoft Office - Microsoft PowerPoint 2010 (you may have a different version, but it doesn’t matter - all actions are universal)
Second option
- There is a search in the start menu. Start typing the name of the Microsoft PowerPoint program there and if it is installed on your computer, you will see it in the search results.
2 Select a layout
Since we are using a program to create presentations, the original slide will have markup. We don't need her. Let's remove it.
Home – Layout – Blank Slide
3 Set the background image
Let's take some beautiful drawing as the background for our postcard. Go to the Design tab - Background Styles - Background Format
In the settings window, on the Fill select Pattern or Texture
In the Insert from section: click the File and select the desired picture from the folder. Click the Insert and click the Close in the Background Format .
The selected image will be stretched to fit the slide. The background is ready.
Now we can do a little magic on our card to give it an even more original look. To do this, we will add several additional elements to the slide: Santa Claus, the text of his congratulations and the title of our postcard. Well, to make it clear that the congratulations are from Santa Claus, let’s make a callout for the text.
4 Add decorations and text
Let's get started. Insert a picture with Santa Claus.
Execute the command Insert – Picture and move it to the lower left corner. We reduce its size a little.
Making a callout Insert – Shapes . We change the figure to the desired size.
Now you can add congratulation text using the Insert – WordArt command. We select a sample text font and replace it with our congratulations. Adjust the size of the frame with the text to the size of the callout.
We do the title of the postcard in the same way.
Well, the postcard is ready. All that remains is to save it as a picture and you can send it by email.
5 Save the postcard
To save, select the command File – Save As... Give the card a name and, most importantly, change the file type to Drawing in JPEG format
Click Save and get a new window
Select Current slide only.
Now let's save the presentation so we can use it to create other cards.
Video instructions for creating a postcard
Now watch these steps in the video below. From it you will learn: how to insert a picture, change its size, how to add text with congratulations.
Dear friends! Create beautiful original cards and delight your loved ones and friends with them. I made a selection of blanks for New Year's cards. It contains: Backgrounds, Santa Clauses, Snowmen, Christmas trees, Decorations, Symbols of the year and text greetings. And here is a selection of preparations for February 23. Another small selection of preparations for March 8th. Download and practice creating e-cards
Another selection of New Year's images with transparent backgrounds for quickly creating original cards. Download archive 28 images
By the way, the Microsoft Office package includes a wonderful Publisher program, you can also make a beautiful congratulation in the form of a postcard, I already wrote on the blog about creating a booklet in it.
Drawing Joy
You can make a beautiful card not only using a lot of decorative details, but also by drawing it. Many people do not know how to decorate a card beautifully with pencils without having the talent of an artist. Using only pencils and colorful buttons, you can create an interesting greeting element as you work. For example, like in the photo below.
The use of buttons in this case is unexpected and unusual. Together with framing them with colored pencils, they began to play in a new way. The brighter and more colorful the buttons and pencils used to design the card, the more original it will look. You shouldn’t stop at this type of product, because you can add stems and leaves to the buttons. And also depict the sun and blue clouds in the sky.
DIY postcard with mimosa for March 8th as a gift for mom
The mimosa sprig is one of the unofficial symbols of International Women's Day. Delicate yellow flowers bloom in early spring, so men gave branches of this plant to women back in Soviet times, when it was not so easy to buy bouquets of all kinds of flowers. Therefore, a hand-made “Mimosa” postcard for March 8 will be a classic gift for a mother, grandmother or other woman.
How to make a postcard with mimosa: master class
There are several ways to make a Mimosa postcard for March 8 with your own hands. In more complex versions, small yellow flowers are made by twisting thin yellow ribbons into tight rolls or rolling yellow threads into small balls, and in easier ones, mimosa flowers are made from yellow napkins or beads of a suitable color are used as them. And the video below shows a master class that tells how to quickly and effortlessly make a beautiful “Mimosa” card.
For grandparents
Some people have a question about how to decorate a card for older people so that they like it. After all, they don’t like many modern ideas. But in this case, you can come up with an interesting solution by using applique to decorate the product.
This applique can be made from paper, as in quilling, or from magazine clippings. If all these elements are skillfully arranged on folded cardboard, you will get quite interesting models of greeting cards. Do not forget that in such a craft, not only flat objects will look great, but also those with three-dimensional shapes. For example, a house with open shutters and a flower bed. Surely this will please the elderly.
