Greeting card for relationship or wedding anniversary
If you are already celebrating holidays with your loved one, such as a wedding anniversary or a relationship, you probably have a lot of photographs that capture the most beautiful moments that evoke a storm of positive emotions. All these photo cards can be used to create an incredibly romantic postcard.
The first thing you need is double-sided cardboard. You must determine its color, but it will be better to choose something bright or light. It should be folded in half to form a booklet shape.
The next step is to decorate with photographs suitable for a relationship anniversary or wedding. In order not to spoil the finished photo cards, it is better to print new ones. An important condition is that your images must be small so that they can be placed on cardboard. It is not necessary to try to cut out your images without a background, because without it they may not look harmonious.
Before pasting a photo over the cover, you need to write in the middle something like the sentence “Happy day, my love!”, and then place the photo around the inscription. Next, we write some congratulatory text on the first page. On the second page we attach a photo with your image cut out in the shape of a heart.
If you feel like there are too many gaps left, you can fill them in with hearts of different colors made from construction paper. And now, the gift for your wedding anniversary or relationship is ready!
Postcard using the vytynanka technique
You can make a birthday card for your grandfather with your own hands using a very unusual technique called vytynanka. This fairly common technique was known in ancient times, but is now rarely used. You can make a very beautiful gift in the form of a cut out boat on a postcard. A grandfather will be very pleased to receive such a gift from his grandson.
Necessary materials:
blue cardboard - 2 sheets;- pencil;
- stationery knife;
- scissors;
- modeling board;
- a sheet of white paper;
- glue;
- brush;
- gel pen;
- stickers in nautical style.
Having prepared all the materials, let's get to work:
- Let's draw a model of the ship on a sheet of cardboard. If possible, you can print it on a printer.
- Place the cardboard on a modeling board and carefully cut out the ship using a knife. Please note that you need to cut out all the small parts very carefully.
- Take the second cardboard sheet and bend it in half.
- Let's draw an anchor on the front side of the postcard and running waves on top. Let's take a knife and carefully cut through all the parts again.
- We unfold the card and paste a white sheet of paper inside it; you can write on it in advance all your wishes for your grandfather or maybe uncle - depending on who you are giving the gift to.
- We bend it and iron it.
- From above, using glue, we attach the ship to the postcard.
Universal three-dimensional postcard for a guy
Such a voluminous card can be given to a guy for his birthday or any other occasion.
Take A4 size cardboard and fold it in half. It is advisable to choose a color that is not dark or red.
The cover can depict you and your loved one using various details. Clothes are made from colorful pieces of fabric, arms, hair and legs can be created from woolen threads, and other parts of the body are easily made from paper. A suitable background is a huge heart. Don’t forget to write something like the phrase “Happy Birthday, dear!” above.
From red paper you need to cut out a heart that will fit inside the card, draw a face on it and glue handles to it. The palms need to be glued to the inside. The three-dimensional postcard is ready!
Other occasions and recipients
Rest assured, handmade cards for a birthday or New Year will delight the recipients - after all, this is not just a DIY postcard made in a master class, it is a real man-made miracle that keeps a piece of the soul.
You can make cards for mom and dad with your own hands, or you can delight your friends before each holiday with an original greeting - all you need is free time, good master classes and a little patience.
3D postcards look especially impressive. How to make a three-dimensional postcard? Come up with (or look at experienced authors) an idea on how you can shape it so that you get voluminous postcards. You may want to use more decorative elements, or you may decide to make a simple DIY birthday card with 3D elements.
By the way, if you are wondering how to make a postcard for your mother or friend with voluminous paper elements, take a closer look at children's books. Surely you still have several copies, when opened, carriages and castles, trees and horses appeared between the pages.
Take a close look at how these elements are made and glued together - you may be able to reproduce this in your sketch.
Or try to do something in the style of shabby chic and scrapbooking with your own hands - it’s not as difficult as it seems, the entire main effect of volume is created by layering elements. By the way, flat cards are also good.
