DIY Santa Claus postcard templates. DIY New Year cards
Irina Mishchenko
The most wonderful, fun, mysterious and full of surprises holiday, which children always look forward to, is just around the corner. Our preparations for the New Year begin in mid-November. In our daily activities, we gradually begin to introduce children to the most important attributes of the holiday: we consider a toy Christmas tree, Christmas tree decorations, a snowman, etc. We also take into account one very important point for which we start so early preparatory work for this holiday, this is participation in the annual city event, organized by the Krokha trading company. The “Gifts from the Christmas Tree” campaign is carried out by the managers of the Krokha chain of children's goods stores for children from boarding schools with the goal that the kids being brought up there can receive the desired gifts from Santa Claus. On the huge Christmas tree installed and decorated in the department of the store, numerous cards with wishes are hung. Any buyer can fulfill these wishes and even personally, if he wants, give a gift to a specific baby. During the promotion, Father Frost and Snow Maiden deliver gifts to the address. And, of course, the children and I welcome welcome guests.
To make the holiday beautiful and bright, and for the children to enjoy the gifts, we draw cards and make appliqués.
First, I thought about the topic, taking into account the age and brush skills of children. Then I made the blanks. This is what happened.
Snowman with a letter
Christmas toys
Christmas tree
At the next stage of our work, we individually, as parents do with their children at home, drew. This is how we worked.
Snow falls on Snowman and snow path
Decorate the bell, cracker and ball
Decorating the Christmas tree
I originally planned to put a bag under the tree in which the child’s wish would be written, but since my great artist was interested in drawing, I just felt sorry for covering up part of the tree, so I decided to write my cherished wish under the tree.
They worked hard, made a wish and wrote a letter to Santa Claus.
Winter landscape was painted by Danil 2 years 5 months.
Toys were painted by Sasha, 3 years old
The Christmas tree was decorated with beads and balls by Kolya, 2 years old.
These are the masterpieces my kids created. The cards have already been sent and will soon appear on Christmas trees in the departments of the Krokha retail chain in Severodvinsk and Arkhangelsk. And we will wait have a wonderful holiday and continue to prepare for his meeting.
Summary: DIY New Year's cards. How to make original cards for the New Year with your child. New Year's crafts. Homemade New Year cards, postcard ideas. Volumetric cards for New Year's holidays. New Year's paper crafts with children. New Year's application.
1. DIY New Year cards (“Christmas tree”)
The New Year tree is an indispensable attribute of the holiday. Therefore, postcards with her image will be especially appropriate. Plus, these cards can be very easy to make.
The New Year's tree applique can be made from plain or multi-colored strips of paper. Even a small child can make this New Year's craft with his own hands.
Strips of paper can be replaced with colored tape or braid. They also make very beautiful New Year's cards.
A more complicated option - new year card"Christmas tree" made of paper tubes. This original three-dimensional New Year's card "Christmas tree" is made of paper tubes. The Christmas tree is decorated with multi-colored buttons. Its trunk is made from a twig. To make this New Year card, it is advisable to use special scrapbooking paper or corrugated cardboard.
It’s very easy to make a Christmas tree applique using store-bought stickers. Even a two-year-old can do this craft for the New Year with his own hands.
Simple and effective - homemade New Year's cards "Christmas tree" from ordinary buttons.
You can also embroider a Christmas tree with threads. Only in this case, the New Year's card should be made of high-density paper or cardboard. The holes must first be carefully made with an awl. For the simplest version of a Christmas tree, see the photo below.
For a more complex version of a New Year's card with a Christmas tree made of threads, see here >>>> To make this New Year's craft with your own hands, you will also need sequins or beads.
By the way, you can embroider not only a Christmas tree with threads, but also something else, New Year’s. For example, this cute deer.
You can make an original DIY New Year's card from a fern leaf or any other plant similar to it. For example, cypress branches. Just take the top of the leaf and glue it onto the card. This will be a Christmas tree. All you have to do is decorate it with sequins or confetti made using a hole punch from colored paper. Instead of confetti, you can glue multi-colored pieces of plasticine to the Christmas tree. Even a child can do this part of the work of making a homemade New Year’s card.
You can make a New Year's card either from a whole leaf of fern, or just from its upper part.
The technique for making volumetric Christmas trees is similar to the manufacturing method New Year's balls. See the link >>>> But you don’t have to glue them together completely, instead glue the Christmas trees onto the card.
Option 3.
Do-it-yourself voluminous New Year's card. To make such a voluminous card with a Christmas tree for the New Year, you will need three sheets of green paper square shape: large, medium and small. Also, in order to make a Christmas tree trunk, you will need a rectangular sheet of brown paper.
Fold each square piece of paper in half first (horizontally and vertically) to mark the center lines. Then fold them two more times diagonally. After this, fold each sheet into a pyramid (see photos 3 and 4). Glue a Christmas tree from the resulting pyramids by inserting them into each other. How to make a trunk for a Christmas tree is shown in photos (8, 9 and 10). Finally, glue the Christmas tree to your New Year's card.
Option 4.
Do-it-yourself voluminous postcard for the New Year. Making this voluminous paper card is much easier than it might seem at first glance. First you will need to cut out 5 halves of circles from green paper different sizes: big, smaller, even smaller, etc. Fold each half of the circle in half, then in half again, and in half again. Unfold each piece and form accordion folds (see photo).
Now insert one piece into another and glue them together along the three central folds.
For the trunk, cut out of paper brown rectangle and also fold it like an accordion.
Glue your paper Christmas tree onto the card base. The easiest way to make snowflakes is from white paper using a hole punch or drawing with a cotton swab.
Option 5.
A very beautiful DIY New Year's craft, accessible in complexity to a preschooler - a voluminous New Year's card "Christmas tree". The Christmas tree is made of rectangular strips of paper folded like an accordion. But there is one nuance here. If you look closely at the photo, you will see that the tiers of the Christmas tree are made of strips of paper of different widths: the ones at the bottom are the widest, the closer to the top the narrower. In addition, the depth of the fold of the accordion is also different. The bottom strips of paper are folded into an accordion with a large "step". The higher you go to the top, the shallower the bend depth.
Here are two more voluminous postcards with a New Year tree made from a triangular-shaped sheet of paper folded like an accordion. Simple and tasteful!
Option 6.
Another voluminous New Year's card. Again, this New Year's craft for children is attractive not only in appearance, but also in its ease of manufacture.
To make such a New Year's card with your own hands, print out the templates (template-1 and template-2) on two sheets of cardboard or thick paper and use the detailed instructions from the photographs below. It is better if the sheets of cardboard are of different colors.
Finally, decorate the Christmas tree to your liking. The voluminous New Year's card is ready! 
Option 7.
Origami Christmas tree. We invite you to make a three-dimensional New Year's card decorated with a Christmas tree made of paper made using the origami technique. To make the card look more elegant and festive, choose more beautiful paper for your New Year tree. Special paper for scrapbooking is well suited for this DIY New Year's craft. By the way, making such an origami Christmas tree is much easier than it seems at first glance. For one origami Christmas tree you will need 4-5 square sheets of paper of different sizes.
Option 8.
There is an easier way to make a Christmas tree using the origami technique. Detailed instructions in the photo below.
Option 9.
You can make a voluminous New Year's card with your own hands from corrugated paper.
Option 10.
The elements of the New Year's card in the photo below are made using the quilling technique.
3. DIY New Year cards (“New Year’s balls”)
Do-it-yourself New Year's cards with images of New Year's balls look good. New Year's applique" Christmas balls"can be made from bright paper and decorated with ribbons.
Beautiful New Year's balls are made from colored strips of paper. Cut the waste into thin strips glossy magazine(brochure), stick them on a white sheet of paper. After this, cut out circles of different sizes from the resulting striped paper. Decorate your New Year's card with them.
New Year's balls can be made not only from paper, but also from buttons.
Instead of buttons, you can use purchased decorative rhinestones.
The website www.hgtv.com offers to make original three-dimensional New Year cards with images of Christmas tree balls.
To make such a New Year's card with your own hands, print the following template. See link >>>> On each square using a compass or an object with round bottom suitable size draw a circle. Cut out all the circles, then use the following instructions to make Christmas balls. See link >>>> But you don't need to completely glue the balloon, stick it onto the card instead.
One more thing christmas decoration- a garland of flags will look impressive on a New Year's card. Flags can be made from paper or fabric and then glued or sewn onto the card.
Even very young children can make their own New Year's card with the image of a multi-colored garland of fingerprints.
And from a handprint you can make a New Year's card with Santa Claus or funny snowmen.
1. On any surface that does not absorb paint (for example, a regular sheet pan), make a rectangular frame (the size of your card) from tape or tape.
2. Apply paint to the surface in an even layer. Use a cotton swab to draw a picture on a New Year's theme.
3. Attach a piece of paper. Your DIY New Year's card is ready!
4. Volumetric postcard on New Year DIY "Snowman"
Separately, I would like to talk about this original, voluminous postcard for the New Year. Making such a paper snowman is very simple. Even a preschooler can cope with the task. You need to cut out three circles of different sizes from thick white paper. It is advisable to shade the edges of the circles so that they stand out better against each other. This can be done using crushed pencil lead or eye shadow. Also cut out a scarf, pens, carrot nose, eyes and buttons from colored paper. Glue all the parts of the snowman sequentially onto the blank of your New Year's card.
Here is the original card made by a scrapbooking artist.
And here are the versions of this voluminous New Year's card made by children.
5. DIY voluminous New Year cards
Another way to make voluminous New Year cards can be found on our website at the link >>>>
6. New Year's crafts for children. New Year's applique
Postcards decorated with New Year's appliqué made from grains of rice turn out to be very delicate.
7. DIY New Year cards. New Year cards with snowflakes
Another DIY New Year's card idea is a card decorated with a snowflake cut out of paper. For information on how to cut very beautiful, unusual snowflakes from paper, see our special section “DIY New Year’s snowflakes”.
If you have paper lace doilies at home, you can cut out snowflakes from them.
8. New Year's paper crafts. New Year cards made using the Iris folding technique
The Country of Masters website offers to make original New Year's cards using the Iris folding technique. The name of this technique - iris folding - can be translated as "rainbow folding". The design is filled with thin paper strips, which, overlapping each other at a certain angle, create an interesting twisting spiral effect. Detailed master class For making this New Year's paper craft, see the link >>>>
Here is another New Year's card made using this technique. Instructions at the link >>>>
9. Original do-it-yourself New Year cards. DIY New Year's Eve
We would like to introduce you to another interesting technology Making New Year's cards with your own hands. The Christmas tree and New Year's ball in the photo below are made using this technique.
To make a Christmas tree card, you will need:
Red cardboard sheet
- a sheet of colored origami paper (on one side - dark green,
on the other side - light green)
- scissors or a special knife for cutting paper
- glue
Print a stencil on a piece of green origami paper. Make cuts along the lines on it. Where the trunk of the Christmas tree is located, cut out a piece of paper completely. If you fold a sheet of paper in half before making cuts, you can cut it with scissors. In this case, even a preschooler will be able to make a postcard. If you want to avoid a fold in the center of the card, then it is better to make cuts with a special knife for cutting paper. Now all you have to do is fold the corners back and stick your workpiece onto the cardboard.
The "New Year's Ball" card is made in the same way. The stencil for making this original New Year's card can be downloaded from the link >>>>
The snowflakes from the section were made using the same technique. They can also decorate a New Year's card.
And another do-it-yourself New Year’s card “Christmas tree”, made using this technique.
To make this New Year's card, print the template onto a piece of cardstock. white. Glue a thin sheet of green paper on the back side. Using a paper cutter, cut out the corners and fold them over. Now cut out and fold your New Year's card in half. If you want to write inside New Year's greetings, then glue an additional sheet of green paper so that the letters do not show through the holes. Detailed New Year's master For a class on how to make this card, see .
Another idea for a New Year's card that you can make with your child yourself. For a detailed master class, see the photo below.
DIY New Year's card ideas. When making New Year's cards with your own hands, it is appropriate to use colored self-adhesive foil. It can be purchased at craft supply stores.
The last card with which we would like to complete our review of DIY New Year cards is the three-dimensional “Snow Globe” postcard. In the photo below it is shown on the left side. This Christmas card is made using a clear dairy lid. You will find a master class on how to make such original three-dimensional postcards on Veronica Podgornaya’s website.
These two postcards were made by the author of the blog Naftusina's hand-made art. A snowdrift and a cloud are cut out of felt. Christmas tree and bear - figured buttons. There are white beads sprinkled inside the card. The postcard looks incredible! You shake it and it snows! On this site you will find two more interesting DIY New Year cards. Santa Claus and the Snowman are hurrying through the snowy snowdrifts. The snowdrifts and cloud are cut out of felt, the characters are made from buttons and felt, the tree is a real twig, which is slightly pasted over with pieces of padding polyester, snowflakes are drawn with a helium pen.
Material prepared by: Anna Ponomarenko
How do you like the idea of creating a postcard for Santa Claus with your own hands for the New Year 2016? This fascinating creative process Children will really like it, and adults sometimes don’t mind diving into childhood and believing in magic. What if your wish comes true?
If you haven’t yet decided on gifts for all your household members, then a handmade postcard to Santa Claus will help you in this “difficult” task. After all, each of your family members will write about what they want most, and you will have the opportunity to feel like a real sorceress - a sort of Snow Maiden who gives miracles and makes wishes come true on New Year's Eve.
DIY postcard to Santa Claus - ready-made templates
You can invite the children to make an elegant card from scrap materials themselves, or you can print ready-made template so that your child can write his deepest desires into it. After all, on such an elegant card, wishes come brighter and more colorful, kinder and fulfilled!
DIY postcard to Santa Claus - through letters
Simple, and at the same time original postcard can be made by drawing large, wide letters of congratulations and cutting them all the way through. A child cannot do without his mother’s thin nail scissors, so help! The main thing here is to play on the contrast between the cover and the inside of the postcard. For example, the top is white and plain, but inside the card is red or colorful.
DIY postcard to Santa Claus - quilling
You can show an inexhaustible flight of imagination if you make a postcard using the quilling technique. Even a white snowflake on a light background looks very gentle and airy if it is made with soul and thoughts about fulfilling a child’s New Year’s dream.
DIY postcard to Santa Claus - embroidery
You can not only draw a card or cut it out of paper, but also cross-stitch it, decorate it with beads, sparkles and bows. Even a simple little embroidered Christmas tree inscribed in a postcard is pleasing to the eye and will definitely please the kind Grandfather Frost.
DIY postcard to Santa Claus - wishes and desires
DIY New Year's gift. Master class with step-by-step photos.
Postcard "Santa Claus".
Kozlova Natalya Andreevna, educational psychologist and teacher, MBDOU d/s No. 7 “Kolosok”, Petrovsk, Saratov region.
Description: The master class will describe how to make a New Year's card "Santa Claus". The work is intended for children from 5 years old, educators, teachers additional education and parents.
Purpose: handmade gift.
Target: teach students how to make crafts from colored paper and scrap materials.
Tasks:
Learn to use waste material(cotton pads, eyes) for making interesting crafts.
Develop fine motor skills hand and eye.
Cultivate artistic taste and accuracy.
Cultivate an interest in creativity.
Materials required for work:
1. Colored cardboard.
2. Colored paper, album sheet, corrugated paper.
3. Cotton pads.
4. Plastic eyes for toys.
5. Glue, pencil, brush, scissors, ruler.
WHO IS SANTA CLAUS? This is a kind Grandfather with a long beard and boots. He brings gifts to everyone in his magic bag. Our good Grandfather used to be called Grandfather Treskun. He was a small, stern old man with a long beard. The wife of Santa Claus was the evil old woman Winter. And he also had a beautiful granddaughter - Snegurochka. Father Frost lives in his own residence, which is located in Veliky Ustyug (Vologda region). If you write a letter and send it to the address: “Vologda region, Veliky Ustyug, residence of Santa Claus,” it will certainly reach the addressee. You can meet Santa Claus only in winter. But don’t think that he’s just resting all year. No, he works at home. What is the work? In the House of Father Frost there is a workshop where he creates his own New Year's gifts: carves wood, solders, blows, paints, varnishes, sands...
Santa Claus is a brilliant glass artist. On long winter nights, he paints pictures without paints or brushes, but with his own icy breath. And then he arranges exhibitions on the windows of our houses and cars. He loves Santa Claus and scientific experiments. He constantly comes up with new forms of snowflakes. Place your palm under the falling snow and bring it to your eyes. You will see that every snowflake created by Santa Claus is perfect and unique! Santa Claus is a great sorcerer. He has a magic mirror in which he looks every morning and therefore does not age. But grandfather is over 2000 years old! Father Frost celebrates his birthday on November 18 - this date was invented for him by the children themselves, since it is on November 18 on his estate - in Veliky Ustyug - that real winter comes into its own and frosts strike. And of course, one of the most important concerns of Santa Claus is to have time to read all the letters before the New Year. Every year up to five hundred thousand letters come to Santa Claus, a whole snow-white mountain! Santa Claus carefully reads each letter in order to bring the children the gifts they want.
Modern Santa Claus is a very cheerful and kind old man. You can recognize him by his long white beard, red hat, magic staff and large bag of gifts.
Stages of completing the craft:
1. Take a sheet of red cardboard and bend it in half, cutting off the upper corners in a semicircle.
2. Take corrugated white paper from under the box of chocolates and make a template for the edge of the hat - 2 pcs.
3. Take beige tinted paper and cut out a rectangle measuring 13.5 cm by 6 cm.
4. Take a landscape sheet, make templates: eyebrows, mustache, beard. Cut out a nose and mouth from red colored paper.
5. Make cuts at the same distance, not reaching the other side (imitation hairs).
6. Take green cardboard, divide it into 3 parts, make a Christmas tree template.
7. Use scissors to cut out all the details of the craft.
9. Glue on the rectangle, the edge of the hat, and the beard.
10. Glue on a mustache, mouth, nose, eyebrows, plastic eyes for toys, a cotton pad.
11. Open the card, draw out stripes for congratulations, and glue on the Christmas tree.
12. We offer children right side Use colored felt-tip pens to write Happy New Year greetings and draw snowflakes, and stick the symbol of the year on the left side.
13. New Year's greeting card is ready!
Thank you for your attention!
Good afternoon. Today we will make New Year's cards with our own hands. I will show you the most interesting ways and techniques. You will not only see photos, but also receive detailed instructions and schemes for creating each such postcard. I will give you the necessary master classes to illustrate complex techniques (quilling, origami) step by step.
I decided to divide the entire article into 5 parts - according to the topics of New Year's cards.
- First we will look at the most different Christmas trees on postcards.
- Then I will show you which Santa Clauses can decorate your card.
- Then we will make Snowmen using different techniques.
- Then we'll move on to Christmas wreaths.
- And of course, let’s look at appliqué snowflakes on postcards.
So let's get started...
Part one
TREE on New Year's cards.
Method number 1 - paper triangles.
If you still have old signed New Year's cards, you can no longer give them away for the second round. But you can use them to create NEW postcards. You can cut a triangle out of a New Year’s card, put it on a leg and you’ll get a Christmas tree. The New Year's motif on the card came out naturally - like the colors of a Christmas tree.
Or you can cut a Christmas tree out of a regular one cardboard box– rough corrugated packaging cardboard will harmonize with delicate lace or pearl beads. And you will receive an elegant New Year's card made by yourself.
You can cut out a triangular silhouette of a Christmas tree with wavy edges, and cover it with sequins that imitate Christmas decorations on the Christmas tree.
You can give the triangular silhouette of the Christmas tree a jagged edge (as in the photo of the cards below). You can also cut out several silhouettes at once and combine them on one New Year’s card.
On the blue New Year's card with the photo below we see how a three-dimensional bladed Christmas tree is glued together from three triangles.
Or one Christmas tree silhouette can be larger in size and with a different shade of color - we put it as a duplicate background under the top silhouette (as on the right New Year's card with the photo below).
Method No. 2 - paper ribbons on a New Year's card.
You can very quickly and easily form a Christmas tree applique from paper or textile tapes.
You can use regular strips of colored paper. Or buy embroidered braid in the sewing department of the store. Or, in the gift department of the store, buy a sheet of elegant wrapping paper and cut patterned strips from it for a Christmas tree applique on a New Year’s card.
In the photo below we see several options for creating such New Year's applique- Christmas trees.
Paper strips do not have to be glued in strict order and symmetry. You can cut strips of four lengths - 10 cm, 8 cm, 5 cm, 3 cm. And arrange them in a chaotic inclined order starting from the bottom 10 cm, in the middle we lay strips of 3 cm and 5 cm, and at the top 3 cm. Top it all off paper star and get a New Year's card with your own hands as in the left photo below.
You can also take a triangle cut out of thick cardboard and cover it with strips of paper or fabric, bending the edges of the strips to the underside of the cardboard triangle. And we will get a ready-made elegant Christmas tree that you can safely stick on your postcard (right photo below).
But with paper strips you can make not only planar applications. You can make Christmas trees in volumetric technology. Here I give detailed description how to make a looped Christmas tree with your own hands on a red New Year’s card from the left photo below.
Step 1 - cut strips narrow and long - their lengths will also be different: 2 strips of 15 cm, 2 strips of 12 cm, 2 strips of 9 cm, and one strip of 7 cm.
Step 2 - make slits in the front side of the card with a blade - 2 slots on both sides along an imaginary line(the width of each slot is such that our strip can easily fit into it).
Step 3 - push each one through strip at one end through 2 slits– turn it in a loop and return to the same slots again. The ends of the strip meeting at the side glue it into the same loop as on the opposite side.
We repeat a similar procedure with the remaining strips. Naturally, you need to arrange the strips from bottom to top in decreasing order (long at the bottom, short at the top).
Or you can cut 6 paper strips of equal length 12 cm. Bend each strip in half and intertwine the flaps of the halves with each other crosswise - in a checkerboard pattern. It just looks difficult. But it's actually simple. Here you can tear out a sheet of paper from your notebook and cut 6 strips of any length and practice on such rough material to see how simple and easy everything really is.
And here is another New Year's card, where the tree is also made from strips of paper. Only here crepe paper is used (with a crumpled, crinkled effect) - it is sold in stationery stores in rolls (like wallpaper).
Step 1 - We cut wide strips of different lengths - 12 cm, 10 cm, 8 cm, 6 cm, 4 cm.
Step 2 - On the postcard we outline lines-tiers (rounded), to these lines we will glue each tier of our paper Christmas tree. We attach a strip of double-sided tape to these drawn lines.
Step 3 - We take the longest strip (12 cm) and fold its entire upper edge into small folds - tucks - and place these tucks on the bottom line of the tape. Take the next largest strip (10 cm) and do the same. And so we move to the top tier of the tree. Then we decorate the Christmas tree on a New Year's card with any design at our discretion.
Method number 3 - paper circles.
Here's a way to make a Christmas tree on a New Year's card using circles cut out of paper. You can cut out circles of the same size (like the blue card in the photo below). Or you can cut the circles into 4 different sizes - 2 circles for each size. And then the Christmas tree will turn out to be triangular in shape (tapering towards the top) as on the red New Year’s card with the photo below.
Method No. 4 – quilling technique for New Year cards.
Here’s another technique that produces very beautiful handmade New Year’s cards. You can make beautiful twists from paper strips.
This is what the process of creating a Christmas tree using the quilling technique looks like. Cut the paper into even strips(it’s convenient to do this under a ruler with a paper cutting knife - on a wooden board so as not to cut the table. Or you can buy ready-made strips for quilling. Or have a machine for cutting quilling strips.
We lay each twist in the template circle(so that the twists are the same size). We allow the tight twist to open up a little and unwind – but within the framework of a round stencil. And then glue the tail-tip of the twist to the barrel of the twist itself. That is, we fix its size. This way you can remove it from the stencil frame and not be afraid that it will unwind and increase its size.
If you don't have a stencil, you can use round ones caps for creams or drinks. Place the twist on the bottom of the glass or cap and let it unwind to the diameter of the cap. Then carefully remove it with tweezers and fix the twist tail with glue.
Pinch the round twists on one side with your finger to give it a drop shape.
We put drops of different sizes in pairs and get a quick and simple Christmas tree.
Quilling technology allows you to create the most different models Christmas trees made of paper rolls.
Method number 5 - paper rolls.
Can you cut the paper into wide strips? different lengths– and roll each strip into a roll. It's easy to do if wrap it around a pencil– glue it, wait for the glue to set, and only then remove it from the pencil. These rolls of different lengths make a beautiful Christmas tree on a postcard. Quick and easy to do with your own hands. Paper can be used simple color. Or buy sheets gift wrapping paper(sold in the gift department).
Method No. 6 – mosaic Christmas tree on a postcard.
You can use any small details as material to create a Christmas tree. Sliced snowflakes or butterflies. Buttons or origami stars or nuts and bolts (if you are preparing a card for your husband and want to make it in a brutal style).
Method No. 7 – lace Christmas tree on a New Year’s card.
Can be used on a New Year's card beautiful lace. You can use ready-made lace paper napkins (sold at the hardware store, where the muffin tins are). Such napkins are often placed under cakes and other culinary products).
Or you can make your own paper lace– folding the paper as for cutting out a snowflake. And let it go along the folded edge interesting pattern with holes.
Or can you fold the cut-out snowflake into a Christmas tree shape and paste it on a New Year's card.
Method No. 8 – origami technique.
And here are New Year's cards, which are decorated with a Christmas tree folded from a napkin. Such folding origami in the shape of a Christmas tree are made quite quickly and from a simple square (no need to cut anything). The main thing is that each upper square is slightly smaller in size than the lower one. And then the tiers of our Christmas tree will be tapered to the top.
Below I have drawn a diagram that illustrates the process of creating paper blanks for a Christmas tree on a postcard.
But you yourself can come up with YOUR OWN interpretations of a modular Christmas tree made of paper. Come up with your own triangular folds and create your own individual New Year's card with a Christmas tree.
Method No. 9 – folding Christmas tree on a postcard.
And here is another folding Christmas tree. Everything here is quite simple and is made from a separate single sheet of cardboard. And if you wish, you can additionally decorate the Christmas tree with inserts of colored paper and decorations.
You can also quickly fold an origami Christmas tree out of paper using this semicircular pattern. You can copy the shape of the Christmas tree and fold lines directly from the monitor screen. To enlarge or reduce the image on the screen, you need to roll the mouse wheel forward or backward while holding down the Ctrl button.
Or you can make such a Christmas tree yourself without a drawing. And simply bending the semicircle back and forth several times, as shown in the figure below.
If such a semicircular pattern for a folding Christmas tree is not made with a straight edge, but the circumference of the pattern is notched into soft ruffles or teeth, then the edges of our tiers near the Christmas tree will turn out curly, as in the photo of New Year’s cards below.
Method No. 10 – paper carving.
The lapel carving technique is also suitable for Christmas cards. This technique is very simple to do. Part of the picture is cut with a razor blade and folded back. We see the most primitive example in the right photo below - half of the contours of the Christmas tree and snowflake are cut off and simply bent.
You can make a double contour - and then the bend will turn out to be a narrow silhouette strip, as was done on the left postcard in the photo below.
Or you can cut it and bend it downwards each tier silhouette of a Christmas tree on a postcard. And we will receive a Christmas card with the photo below.
You can first practice on any rough piece of paper to see how easy it is to actually implement this card carving technique and make your own unique New Year’s craft.
We've looked at New Year's cards with a Christmas tree theme, and now let's look at all the other New Year's themes that you can use to decorate our cards with your own hands.
Part two
SANTA CLAUS on postcards.
Large applications in the form of Santa Claus will decorate any Christmas card. No need to make a silhouette of Santa Claus in full height somewhere in the corner of the postcard in the form of a small booger. It is better to take the largest size of the hat, beard and occupy the entire part of the postcard with these main elements of Santa Claus - red nose, mustache, beard, hat.
You can fold Santa Claus for a postcard using the origami technique - as shown in the photo below.
Part three
SNOWMAN on New Year's cards.
And now you can move on to a new character of the Christmas holidays - the snowman. Usually we are used to seeing it on crafts in the form of three white rounds and a bucket on the head. But you can approach the task of depicting a snowman on a postcard creatively. For example, make it peek out from behind the New Year tree - like in the left photo below.
Or take a ready-made card with a snowman - cut it into strips of different lengths - and from these strips put together a Christmas tree pyramid. Fold in such a way that the cunning face of a snowman can be seen on some of the stripes (as on the left New Year’s card in the photo below).
Also, you don't have to make a snowman appliqué on a card made from classic white paper. You can get it on the Internet stave New Year's song - print it, and cut out round disks from such paper for the snowman applique.
Or take a printed text telling about New Year's traditions and from such text embed roundels for a snowman.
You can make a snowman on a card using a paper fan. When the fan is bent in half, its blades unfold in a circle.
You can make a snowman on a postcard using the quilling technique. Twist a strip of white paper into roll-up modules and make a quilling snowman.
You can depict a snowman in an interesting, unusual angle or setting. This could be a TOP VIEW of a snowman (like the left photo below)... or a snowman inside a snow globe (like the right photo).
You can make an applique of a snowman who makes a hole in a snowflake with his nose. Or a snowman lord in a top hat and a red bow around his neck.
It is not necessary to put a bucket on the snowman. The snowman looks good in a neat black hat with a brim, decorated with a sprig of holly.
A snowman on a postcard can be depicted very schematically. A semicircle, a stripe of a scarf, two beady eyes and an orange triangle of a nose.
You can make a simplified silhouette of a snowman as the side part of a two-layer postcard, as in the photo below.
Or you can use the entire white background of the postcard as the body of a snowman. The New Year cards with the photo below show exactly this principle.
The most difficult thing is to make a three-dimensional 3D card with the silhouette of a snowman.
Part four
DEER on Christmas cards.
Another New Year's character that looks festive on New Year's cards is a deer.
It can also be depicted in a non-standard way, and in interesting situation. For example, it could be a deer enthusiastically singing Christmas songs, playing the drum, or skating - everything is up to your imagination.
You can choose the simplest silhouette applique of ONLY DEER HEADS on postcards.
Or you can decorate a New Year's card with the silhouette of a whole deer - from antlers to hooves.
Part four
SNOWFLAKES on New Year's cards.
Can be cut from paper 2 ordinary stars and stack them on top of each other with an offset into one ray - and we will get an elegant snowflake on a Christmas card with our own hands.
Can be done beautiful snowflake in volumetric convex technique.
Or embroider a snowflake from threads. That is, apply a symmetrical pattern of punctures. And then, in a certain order, lace these puncture holes with threads to make an openwork snowflake.
You don't have to come up with very complex thread weaves. Even small patterns made from thread and needles will decorate your New Year's cards.
Using this thread technique, you can make not only snowflakes, but also any other New Year’s motifs.
And of course a snowflake using the quilling technique.
Here in the photo below we see the stages of creating a complex snowflake from ordinary quilling modules - you need to start each snowflake from the center - and grow petals towards the middle - circle by circle.
Your New Year's card with snowflakes can resemble a layer cake, in which a variety of details are mixed, layering and bumping into each other in an elegant chaos of beauty.
The snowflake on your card can be made from paper modules made using the origami technique.
Part five
Wreaths on New Year's cards.
And here is the theme of the festive Christmas wreaths. They can be depicted on a postcard using any technique. This can be a flat applique from any geometric shapes, decorated with ribbons, buttons and other tinsel.
You can make a New Year's card in the form of a door on which such a Christmas wreath hangs.
Quilling technique is also ideal for creating modules for a Christmas wreath.
New Year's cards can be decorated with birds. They can sing winter songs while sitting on musical birch branches.
Also, New Year's cards can depict a winter window, through which you can see either a snowy landscape or a festive room with a Christmas tree.
Here are some more ideas how to give money in a New Year's card . We are used to putting money inside a postcard. But you can put the money outside, making it part of the overall New Year's applique. I will now explain how to place money on the front side of the card and not ruin it with glue.
Here on the first postcard we see a bill that has been folded into a triangular cone - a ribbon was glued to the postcard (not money, we do not spoil it with glue) and the ribbon was glued so that it was glued to the glue in the middle, and its tails hung freely. We place the cone of the Christmas tree-money on the ribbon and tie it with the free ends of the ribbon.
In the second case We glue the snowman - but we don’t just glue it - we glue it onto thick pieces of styrofoam. That is, the snowman turns out to be towering on the postcard. This way, the snowman’s neck turns out to be moved away from the postcard canvas - and you can safely slip a striped bill under his neck.
And in the third case - We roll up candle tubes from paper. Glue them edgewise to the card. And into each tube we put a banknote rolled into a narrow roll.
Here they are original ideas for New Year's cards I found for you during these holidays.
Good luck to you New Year's crafts and Happy New Year.
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