How to make beautiful handmade birthday cards

The best gift is one that is made by hand, especially if it is a real work of art. Ideas for such crafts are just in the air. The main thing is to catch the idea in time, what kind of card to make with your own hands for your birthday!

After all, a man-made exclusive is expensive not only in the spiritual sense, over the years it becomes expensive in the most real material terms. One of the easiest gifts to make is a homemade greeting card.

What birthday cards can you make yourself

Homemade postcards, causing not only tenderness, but also genuine joy, can be made using a variety of decorative little things that come to hand - paper, thread, textile scraps, paints. If they are available, postcard "semi-finished products" - blanks can be used.

Handmade birthday cards can be divided into several large types:

• musical;
• volumetric ("3D");
• with surprise;
• complex design ("engineering").

It is considered good form to combine several types of manufacturing in one postcard - of course, without fanaticism.

According to the technique and materials of manufacture, greeting cards are divided into:

• paper - based on applications of varying degrees of complexity and texture of the material;
• fabric - also applications, but from a special fabric;
• embroidery - any available embroidery technique is used (cross stitch, satin stitch, using ribbons and / or beads);

• rampling and quilling - relatively new techniques in which postcards are created by gluing small all kinds of balls, bows, ovals on a finished background;
• stucco - a special plastic mass is applied to the finished drawing, on the surface of which the necessary elements are manually drawn.

These do-it-yourself birthday card making technologies are the most popular due to their simplicity and affordability, as well as the minimum time and financial costs in manufacturing.. At the same time, despite the simplicity, with the proper skill, they allow you to make beautiful birthday cards with your own hands with “little blood”.

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Advanced Techniques

There are more rare techniques for creating do-it-yourself birthday cards. They require a relatively large amount of consumables and painstaking work.

Hanutel

This technique is a distant relative of filigree technology. With a dumbbell, the elements of the composition are made from pieces of wire or thread and glued to a postcard base.

quilling

Elements of crafts are made from paper blanks, subsequently glued to the base of the postcard.

Beaded pattern

In order to make a beautiful birthday card with a beaded pattern with your own hands, beads, as well as beads and buttons, are glued onto the base with a pre-applied schematic pattern of the finished composition.

Postcards from threads

The composition of the postcard in this case is created from threads glued to the template, folded in the right places and cut into pompoms or “fluff”. Thread elements can be both the main part of the craft, and just an addition to the picturesque drawing.

The same technique also includes the use of knitted elements when creating a composition.

Combined

All of these techniques are good enough on their own, but incomparably better results are obtained when they are combined. The only condition is that the density and strength of the base of the postcard must correspond to the chosen manufacturing methods.

This is especially true for modeling, bead mosaics and wire and wire compositions.

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Rules for making do-it-yourself birthday cards

“When making beautiful birthday cards with your own hands, a lot also depends on the choice of colors”

To give a homemade postcard an original and memorable appearance, there are quite a few techniques. The easiest way is to use an unusual, unconventional base for manufacturing. A non-standard move, for example, would be to use watercolor paper as a background; a pattern stamped on tracing paper with a backing of bright, “acidic” colors of decorative paper will look original.

When making beautiful birthday cards with your own hands, a lot depends on the choice of colors. With the right approach, the simplest composition may well become a highly artistic product!

The main rule in this case is not to overdo it: it is quite enough to use three colors in one postcard, two bright, contrasting to each other, and one neutral. An unusual, asymmetrical way of folding it will add originality to the craft.

It is preferable to make the inscriptions on the postcard in a font that is beautiful to the point of calligraphy, but always easy to read. In the case of using computer fonts, do not forget that the letters "l" and "p" in many of them are extremely similar and that this can lead to unexpected incidents. The best, festive looking letter color is silver or gold.

In order to make a birthday card with your own hands, you can use the scrapbooking technique. In this technique, several background layers are glued layer by layer on a base made of colored cardboard, each of which contains the necessary decorative elements. Well, very great opportunities, despite its seeming simplicity, are given by the decoupage paper technique, in which the top layer of ordinary, for example, napkins, is used as an image (drawing). This layer is carefully removed from the "source" and carefully glued onto the postcard base with PVA glue diluted with water.

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Stylish do-it-yourself birthday card for aunt

A birthday greeting card for aunt, made with your own hands and presented from the bottom of your heart, will not only be remembered for a long time, but may well become the brightest moment of the holiday. It is quite simple to make it, and neither large material investments nor great physical efforts are required.The result will be interesting, original in its own way and, of course, memorable.

Simple paper card

To make a paper card for your aunt's birthday with your own hands, you will need the following tools and materials:

• colored paper with a beautiful, “festive” texture;
• scissors and a stationery knife, as well as a simple school compass;
• PVA glue and some simple double-sided tape;
• small beads;
• artistically attractive ribbon;
• small wooden stick.

First of all, several circles of different diameters are marked and cut out on colored paper with a compass. Then, with scissors, moving them from the edge of the paper circle to its center, a spiral is cut out - the basis of future flowers. For more beauty, you can use scissors with curly blades.

Using a wooden stick, which is an ordinary pencil, the spirals made are twisted from the edge to the central part - a kind of flower is obtained. So that it does not unwind, the center of the twisted spiral is fixed with a small drop of glue. In this case, it should be borne in mind that the splendor of the finished “bud” depends on the density of the twist.

The basis of the postcard will be a rectangle made of cardboard (of course, not packaging!). It needs to be folded in half, and after that you can proceed to the first "trying on" crafts. Then a “pot” for ready-made flowers is cut out of dark-colored paper, a small piece of double-sided tape is attached to its inside.

The color background of such a homemade postcard will be a rectangle of green colored paper - its dimensions are made slightly (1-2 cm) smaller than the size of the cardboard base. The background is glued to the base, then a composition of paper flowers and a vase-pot for them is finally assembled on it. The final touches - a bow tied from a decorative ribbon is glued to the pot, after which another piece of ribbon with a congratulatory inscription applied to it is attached to the postcard made by one's own hands for the aunt's birthday.

Postcard with ribbon

It will take a little more time to make the next version of the postcard, but the result will be impressive. The main thing is the correct selection of colors, bright acid colors are unacceptable for this craft. Paints should be gentle, well combined with each other shades.

To make these beautiful birthday cards with your own hands, you will need the following accessories:

• a piece of cardboard of a suitable color;
• a small amount of decorative paper, always a light tone;
• beautiful beads, if possible, rhinestones should also be used;
• a piece of not very wide festive-looking satin ribbon;
• artificial medium-sized flowers;
• a few centimeters of double-sided tape.

The basis of the craft will be a square sheet of cardboard, bent in half. Another square is made from decorative paper, the side of which is the same size as the width of the cardboard base of the future postcard. On the wrong side, a piece of adhesive tape is attached to it.

Prepared paper with the second side of the adhesive tape is fixed at the bottom of the postcard. The border between the color of paper and cardboard is masked by a piece of satin ribbon, for which, as close as possible to the fold of the halves of the postcard, a small cut is first made in the cardboard base. The end of the ribbon is neatly tucked into it.

With the help of another piece of tape, several artificial flowers are attached under the satin ribbon installed in place. On them, the ribbon is tied with a beautiful bow and fixed with a couple of drops of glue.For a congratulatory inscription, a rectangle of a suitable size made of light paper is pasted inside a homemade holiday card. A handmade birthday card for aunt is decorated with a few beads mixed with rhinestones.

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DIY birthday card for godfather

Very simple and beautiful postcard.

This simple version of making a birthday card for your godfather will not take much time - with certain skills, it is quite possible to manage in a quarter of an hour. From the materials you only need beautiful wrapping paper and some cardboard, from the tools - scissors and a pen. Oh, and some glue.

Several strips are cut from wrapping paper, which are twisted into cylinders with a pencil or pen - these will be “candles”; very beautiful they are obtained from striped paper. To prevent the finished candles from unwinding, the edges of the strips are fixed with a small amount of glue. Then, small “lights” for candles are cut out from a similar paper of a suitable “fiery” color.

All prepared elements are collected together and attached with glue to the postcard. A piece of beautiful cardboard folded in half can be used as a base. A congratulatory inscription is applied in any way possible.

Postcard - "medal"

“Hand-made medal cards are great for presenting to a godfather on his birthday, while they take only a couple of tens of minutes to make”

To make another craft, in addition to the standard set of materials, you will need threads. Handmade medal cards are great for presenting to a godfather on his birthday, while it takes only a couple of tens of minutes to make them.

The work begins with the preparation of materials. The background of the finished postcard is chosen according to the intended composition and your tastes. Not bad, for example, two multi-colored base blanks are combined, one of which is slightly smaller than the other in size. Another option is to attach patterned paper to a plain background sheet. A large blank is glued directly to the cardboard base, a small one is glued onto it.

The voluminous medal is made from a paper strip folded like an accordion. The technology is widely known - the accordion is tied in the middle, then folded into a ribbed circle, the opposite edges of the paper are glued together. The ends of the medal ribbon are also made from scraps of suitable colored paper.

The last step in making a birthday card for your godfather with your own hands is to assemble all the finished elements into a single whole. As additional decorating elements for such a postcard, small rhinestones or beads of matching color can be used, as in the previous case.

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Unusual postcards

You can make an original and beautiful birthday card with your own hands from patterned paper. To do this, several squares of the same size are cut out of it, which are glued onto the base of the postcard. A ribbon or a piece of beautiful lace is attached to each such square; small bright bows will also look nice.

The creation of such crafts is completed by applying a congratulatory inscription.

The “chicken” postcard, made from a couple of pieces of cardboard or high-density paper, will be no less original. The first piece with dimensions of 120x120 mm is bent 3 cm from its edge, the second has dimensions of 150x180 mm and folds in half - it will be the base.

Six slots are made on the fold of the first sheet, and the side slots should be placed symmetrically to the fold.As a result, you should get several strips a centimeter wide - they are bent in such a way that “steps” come out of them. In the future, these steps will play the role of stands for figurines made of paper - a newborn chicken and eggs. The chick is cut out of yellow paper, eggs - from brown, the shell, of course - from white.

The background of such an original postcard can be decorated not only with applique, but also with real chicken feathers.

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Conclusion

The value of self-made birthday cards is much higher than purchased ones - after all, a piece of the creator's soul is invested in each of them. In addition, almost all such crafts are made and exist in a single copy. And the pleasant surprise of a loved one from such a cute addition to a real gift is simply priceless!

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