Do you want to do it for the new year? nice gift your relatives, friends, acquaintances? A beautiful postcard is always needed.

To pleasantly surprise the person you are preparing a card for, you can make a card with your own hands, decorate it as you like and give it as a gift.

There are many ways to make a beautiful postcard with your own hands, and there are some simple, but very beautiful and original ones here.

Choose what you like best. You can try to make one of the suggested options or borrow an idea to make something of your own.

In any case, any person will be pleased to receive such a gift.

New Year's cards handmade. Corrugated paper tree.

You will need:

- corrugated paper

- scissors

- decorations, optional

1. Fold a sheet of thick paper in half.

2. Mark the place where you will glue the corrugated paper, or just draw with a simple pencil tree outline.

3. Cut out a few rectangles from crepe paper. different sizes.

4. Glue each rectangle as shown in the image.

* If you wish, you can decorate the card with an asterisk (finished or cut out of paper), stickers, sparkles, etc.

How to make a voluminous postcard

Very beautiful New Year's craft do-it-yourself, accessible in terms of complexity to a preschooler, is a voluminous New Year's card "Herringbone". The Christmas tree is made of strips of rectangular paper folded like an accordion. But there is one nuance here. If you carefully examine the photo, you will see that the tiers near the Christmas tree are made of strips of paper of different widths: the widest at the bottom, the closer to the top, the narrower. In addition, the depth of the fold of the accordion is also different. The lower strips of paper are folded into an accordion with a large "step". The higher to the top, the smaller the bend depth.

Another voluminous New Year's card. Again, this New Year's craft for children is attractive not only in appearance, but also in ease of manufacture.

To make such a New Year's card with your own hands, print templates (template-1 and template-2) on two sheets of cardboard or thick paper and use the detailed instructions from the photos below. It is better if the sheets of cardboard are different color.

At the end, decorate the Christmas tree to your liking. Volumetric New Year's card is ready!

How to make DIY Christmas cards

New Year's card "Snowman"

From white paper, cut a wide strip with a curly edge. It will be a snow hill. Glue it to the bottom of the card. Attach white acrylic letters to the center of the pre-made snowmen.

Postcard "Congratulations to Santa Claus"

The basis for this postcard will be paper with a pattern. Cut out the elements of the face of Santa Claus from paper different colors. Glue them. Tint Santa's cheeks with pink chalk. Glue the face to the heavy paper card. Stick the card on folded paper with a pattern bigger size, so that the picture looks like a border on the right and bottom of the postcard. Write a congratulation.

Postcard "Christmas tree in retro style"

Sew the edges of the heavy paper Christmas tree onto sewing machine. Decorate the tree with snowflakes. For a simpler version of the card, glue the Christmas tree with an additional layer of thick paper to get a three-dimensional image.

Scrapbooking. New Year cards.

You will need:

- dense colored paper or colored cardboard

- scrap paper

- PVA glue

- pen, felt-tip pen (or other similar object)

- decorations

1. First you need to know exactly what size the tree will be, and, starting from this, cut several rectangles of different widths from scrap paper.

2. Using a pen or other cylindrical object, roll each rectangle into a tube (widthwise). Secure each tube with glue so that it does not unwind.

3. Glue the tubes together.

4. Prepare the base for the card and glue your pre-prepared Christmas tree to it.

5. Decorate to taste.

Children's New Year cards

You will need:

- colored cardboard (green and red)

- sequins or rhinestones

- wrapping

- black pen or marker

- scissors

- stapler

- decorations

1. We make a Christmas tree. Prepare green paper and cut it in half (crosswise).

2. Make a blank by folding dense sheet paper (any color) in half - this will be the basis of the postcard.
3. From one half of green paper, make an accordion that will play the role of a Christmas tree. Fasten one end of the accordion and glue the Christmas tree to the base of the card.

4. Prepare wrapping paper and cut out a small rectangle from it, it will act as a stump.

5. Decorate to taste.

Beautiful New Year cards

You will need:

- thick colored paper or colored cardboard

- a clerical knife or a shaped hole punch (for cutting out an asterisk)

- needle

- a pencil and a ruler (to mark the places where the thread is threaded)

- sequins

Making New Year's cards. Origami Christmas trees.

You will need:

- colored paper (can be thick paper)

- colored cardboard (for the base of the postcard)

- button, ribbon and other decorations to taste.

Creative New Year cards. Christmas tree from ribbons.

You will need:

- colored cardboard

- scissors

- stickers (in this case in the form of stars)

- decorative ribbons, scrap paper or clippings from colorful magazines

1. Fold a piece of colored cardstock in half to make the card base.

2. From paper Brown color cut out the tree trunk.

3. Glue the stem to the base (in the middle).

4. Start cutting colorful paper ribbons into several pieces. different lengths.

5. Glue all the pieces onto the trunk (top), starting from the bottom, with the longest piece.

6. Decorate the Christmas tree as you wish.

New Year's cards in quilling technique

You will need:

- colored cardboard

- paper strips for quilling (preferably several shades of green)

- scissors

- white crepe paper or napkin

- toothpicks (for winding paper strips)

So, let's start making a postcard:

How to make a New Year's card from round napkins

You will need:

- colored cardboard

- scissors

- round napkins (or double-sided colored paper)

- Double-sided tape

- decorations to taste

1. To make a Christmas tree, you need half a circle. To do this, fold the round napkin in half and cut it.

2. Fold a semicircle as shown in the image.

3. Using double-sided tape, glue the layers of the Christmas tree.

4. Glue the Christmas tree to the base of the card

5. Decorate the tree to your liking.

New Year's voluminous cards

You will need:

- colored cardboard

- scissors

- pencil and ruler

- decorations

1. Cut out triangles from colored cardboard - these will be your Christmas trees.

2. Prepare two sheets of thick paper. Fold both in half - one will serve as the base of the card, and the other as its inner part.

3. The diagram shows how to cut out “steps” from the sheet for the inside of the postcard, on which you will then need to stick the Christmas trees.

4. After you have glued the Christmas trees, decorate them and the rest of the card to your liking.

New Year's greetings. Postcard from circles.

You will need:

- colored paper

- stationery knife

- colored cardboard

1. Take a sheet of A4 paper (plain or color). Draw a large circle on it with a compass.

2. Cut out the circle.

3. Fold the circle in half and make cuts in a checkerboard pattern (see picture). Cuts should be made in a circle - start at the fold line and move to a point a little further than the middle.

4. Expand the circle and glue the thread to the crown.

5. Glue the circle to colored cardboard folded in half (postcard base).

* You can glue small red circles to the thread so that they hang down from the top of the tree.

6. Decorate your postcard as you like.

Now you can not only give this postcard, but also decorate the New Year tree with it.

New Year's cards (master class)

You will need:

- colored cardboard

- buttons

- Red ribbon

- pencil or pen

1. Prepare the base for the postcard by folding colored cardboard in half.

2. Draw a circle on the base using a compass or pencil and any small round object.

3. Prepare the buttons and start gluing them carefully along the drawn circle.

4. Cut off a piece of red tape and stick it where you like.

Ready! Everything is very simple, but at the same time beautiful and neat.

Design of New Year's cards. Bright lanterns.

You will need:

- scrap paper (or plain thick paper)

- scissors

- paints (you can use watercolors)

- brush

- a set of markers

- simple pencil

1. Prepare the base for the postcard. Fold a thick piece of paper in half.

2. With a simple pencil, draw a wavy line on one side of the card. Curls can be added.

3. Now draw the lanterns on the line.

4. Color the lanterns with paints or multi-colored markers.

5. Add an inscription, for example, "Happy New Year!".

Christmas cards with snowflakes

Another idea for a DIY New Year's card is a card decorated with a snowflake cut out of paper.

If you have paper lace napkins at home, then you can cut snowflakes out of them.

Postcard with New Year's embroidery.

Such a postcard will not leave indifferent even the most fastidious recipients. After all, here you invest your strength and soul not only to assemble finished parts and give them holiday look, but also create these very details with your own hands. For embroidery, you can choose any pattern that matches the theme of the new year. It could be Santa Claus funny snowman, holiday tree, Christmas balls, symbol of 2017 - Fire Rooster and other.

To create such a New Year's craft, you will need: glue, scissors, embroidery, satin ribbons, etc. decorative elements, optional.

As in the first option, we first prepare the base of the postcard and give it the desired shape. Then we paste the embroidery and decorate the edges of the picture. This can be done in the following ways: use satin ribbon, half beads, rhinestones and sparkles. Such a postcard in itself is already finished product and does not require a special addition in the form of sparkles and sequins, but if it seems to you that they will only complement the overall look, then add. If the card is intended for a friend, sister or mother, you can use a bow from satin ribbon, such decor will give the product great prettiness.

Postcard from colored threads

The forest beauty is the main symbol of the New Year. And in such an unusual incarnation, both adults and children will like it! To create a craft you will need:

• three sheets of cardboard or thick paper
• scissors
• PVA glue
• Double-sided tape
• dense threads of different colors
• colored pens
• ruler
• decorative beads
• paper snowflakes
• ribbon

Fold a sheet of colored cardboard or thick paper in half. It will serve as the basis for the postcard. Cut a rectangle out of paper of a different color, stick it closer to the top of the card. Cut out a triangle from the third sheet of cardboard. Wrap it with multi-colored threads, fixing them on the back of the tenderloin. Decorate the Christmas tree with shiny balls of multi-colored beads and glue the tree to the postcard. Decorate the craft with an elegant ribbon and do not forget to print and stick a congratulatory inscription.

Good afternoon. Today we will make New Year's cards with our own hands. I will show you the most interesting ways and technology. You will not only see photos, but also receive detailed instructions and diagrams for creating each such postcard. I will give you the necessary workshops to illustrate complex techniques (quilling, origami) step by step.

I decided to divide the entire article into 5 parts - on the topics of New Year's cards.

1. First, we will look at a variety of Christmas trees on postcards.
2. Then I will show which Santas can decorate your postcard.
3. Then we will make snowmen in different techniques.
4. Then we move on to Christmas wreaths.
5. And of course, consider the applications of snowflakes on postcards.

So let's get started...

Part one

FIR-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 re-gift them in the second round. But you can use them to create NEW postcards. From a New Year's card, you can cut a triangle, put it on a leg and get a Christmas tree. The New Year's motive on the postcard turned out by itself - like the colors of the Christmas tree.

Or you can cut a Christmas tree from a regular one. cardboard box- rough corrugated packaging cardboard will be in harmony 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 Christmas tree silhouette with wavy edges and glue it with sequins that imitate Christmas decorations on the tree.

You can give the triangular silhouette of the herringbone a scalloped edge (as in the postcard photo below). And also you can cut out several silhouettes at once and arrange them on one New Year's card.

On the blue New Year's card from the photo below, we see how a three-dimensional lobed 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 from the photo below).

Method number 2 - paper ribbons on a New Year's card.

From paper or textile ribbons, you can quickly and easily form a herringbone appliqué.

You can use regular strips of colored paper. Or buy a braid with embroidery 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 stripes from it for a Christmas tree appliqué on a New Year's card.

Here in the photo below we see several options for creating such a Christmas tree application.

Paper strips do not have to be glued in a 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 oblique order starting from the bottom of 10 cm, in the middle we lay strips of 3 cm and 5 cm, and at the top 3 cm. We crown it all 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 glue it with strips of paper or fabric, bending the edges of the strips to the inside of the cardboard triangle. And we will get a ready-made elegant Christmas tree, which you can safely stick on your postcard (right photo below).

Nose paper strips you can do not only planar applications. You can make Christmas trees volumetric technique. 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 - we make cuts 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 strip at one end through 2 slots- turn the loop and again return to the same slots. The ends of the strip met at the side glue in the same loop as on the opposite side.

We repeat the same procedure with the rest of the strips. Naturally, it is necessary to arrange the strips from the bottom up in decreasing order (long at the bottom, short at the top).

Or you can cut 6 paper strips of the same length in 12 cm. Bend each strip in half and twist the sashes of the halves with each other cross to cross - in a checkerboard weave. It just looks difficult. But really simple. Here you can tear out a sheet from a 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 Christmas tree is also made of strips of paper. Only here crepe paper is used (with a crumpled wrinkled 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 tier lines (rounded), to these lines we will glue each tier of our Christmas tree made of paper. 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 put these tucks on the bottom line of the adhesive tape. We take the next strip in size (10 cm) and do the same. And so we move to the top tier of the Christmas tree. Then we decorate the Christmas tree on the New Year's card for any design at our discretion.

Method number 3 - paper circles.

And here is 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 (as in the blue postcard from 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 triangular shape(tapering up) as on the red New Year's card from the photo below.

Method number 4 - quilling technique for postcards for the New Year.

And here is another technique by which very beautiful DIY New Year cards are obtained. You can make beautiful twists from paper strips.

This is how the process of creating a Christmas tree using the quilling technique looks like. Cutting paper into even strips(It is convenient to do this under the ruler with a paper knife - on a wooden board so as not to cut the table. Or you can buy ready-made quilling strips. Or get a machine for cutting quilling strips.

We lay each twist in the circle of the template(so that the twists are the same size). We allow the tight twist to open up a little, 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. So it can be removed 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 caps for creams or drinks. Lay the twist on the bottom of the glass or lid and let it unwind to the diameter of the lid. Then carefully remove with tweezers and fix the twist tail with glue.

We pinch round twists on one side with a finger to give it the shape of a drop.

We add drops of different sizes in pairs - and we get a quick and simple Christmas tree.

Quilling technique allows you to create the most different models Christmas trees from paper twists.

Method number 5 - paper rolls.

Or you can cut the paper into wide strips of different lengths - and roll each strip into a roll. It's easy to do if wrap it around a pencil- glue, wait until the glue grabs - and only then remove it from the pencil. From such rolls of different lengths, a beautiful Christmas tree on a postcard is obtained. Quick and easy to do by hand. paper can be used simple color. Or buy sheets gift wrapping paper(sold in the gift section).

Method number 6 - a mosaic Christmas tree on a postcard.

Can be used as material to create Christmas tree use any small details. Sliced ​​snowflakes or butterflies. Buttons or origami stars or bolts and nuts (if you are preparing a card for your husband and want to make it brutal).

Method number 7 - a lace Christmas tree on a New Year's card.

You can make beautiful lace on a New Year's card. you can use ready-made lace paper napkins (sold in a hardware store, in the same place where cupcake molds are). Such napkins are often placed under cakes and other culinary products).

Or you can create your own paper lace- folding paper as for cutting out a snowflake. And let it go along the folded edge interesting pattern with holes.

Can you fold the cut-out snowflake itself in the shape of a Christmas tree and stick it on a Christmas card.

Method number 8 - origami technique.

But New Year's cards, which are decorated with a Christmas tree folded from a napkin. Such folding origami in the form of a Christmas tree is made quite quickly and from a simple square (nothing needs to be cut out). The main thing is that each upper square should be slightly smaller in size than the lower one. And then the tiers of our Christmas tree will go to the narrower to the top.

Below I have drawn a diagram that illustrates the process of creating paper blanks for a Christmas tree for a postcard.

But you yourself can come up with YOUR interpretations of a modular paper Christmas tree. Come up with your own triangular bends and create your own individual New Year's card with a Christmas tree.

Method number 9 - a folding Christmas tree on a postcard.

And here is another folding Christmas tree. Everything here is quite simple and is made from a single piece of cardboard. And if you wish, you can additionally decorate the Christmas tree with colored paper and decorations.

And also you can quickly fold an origami paper Christmas tree in such a semicircular pattern. You can copy the shape of the Christmas tree and the fold lines directly from the monitor screen. To zoom in or out on the screen, roll the mouse wheel forward or backward while holding down the Ctrl key.

Or you can make such a Christmas tree yourself without a drawing. And just 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 made not with a smooth edge, but the circumference of the pattern is serrated into soft ruffles or teeth, then the edges of our tiers near the Christmas tree will turn out to be curly, as in the photo of New Year's cards below.

Method number 10 - paper carving.

Also for Christmas cards, the carving technique with lapels is suitable. This technique is very easy to do. Part of the picture is cut with a razor blade and folded back. We see the most primitive sample in the right photo below - half of the contours of the Christmas tree and the snowflake are cut off there and simply bent.

You can make a double contour - and then the bend will turn out in the form of a narrow silhouette strip, as is done on the left postcard from the photo below.

And you can cut and bend down each tier silhouette of a Christmas tree on a postcard. And we will get a Christmas card with the photo below.

You can first practice on any draft piece of paper - to make sure how easy it is to actually implement such a postcard carving technique, and make your own unique New Year's craft.

We examined New Year's cards with a Christmas theme, and now let's look at all the other New Year's stories that you can decorate our postcards 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 a postcard in the form of a small booger. It is better to take the largest size of the hat, beard and take the entire part of the card with these main elements of Santa Claus - a red nose, mustache, beard, hat.

You can fold Santa Claus using the origami technique for a postcard - 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 - a snowman. Usually we are used to seeing him on crafts in the form of three white rounds and a bucket on his head. But you can get creative with the task of depicting a snowman on a postcard. For example, make it peeking out from behind the Christmas tree - as in the left photo below.

Or take a ready-made postcard with a snowman - cut it into strips of different lengths - and fold a Christmas tree pyramid out of these strips. Fold in such a way that on some strips a sly snowman's face is visible (as on the left New Year's card from the photo below).

Also, you don't have to appliqué a snowman on a classic white paper card. You can get a musical staff from the Internet new year's song- put it on print, and cut out round disks from such paper for the application of a snowman.

Or take a printed text talking about new year traditions and from such a text cut rounds for a snowman.

You can make a snowman on a postcard from a paper fan. When the fan is bent in half - and its blades unfold in a circle.

You can make a snowman on a postcard using the quilling technique. Twist from white paper strips the twist modules, and fold the quilling snowman.

You can depict a snowman in an interesting unusual angle or setting. It can be a snowman from the TOP VIEW (as in the left photo below) ... or a snowman inside a snow globe (as in the right photo).

You can make an applique of a snowman who pierces a snowflake with his nose. Or a snowman-lord in a top hat and with a red bow around his neck.

It is not necessary to put a bucket on a 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 quite schematically. Semicircle, scarf stripe, two beady eyes and an orange triangle nose.

You can make a simplified silhouette of a snowman the side of a two-layer postcard as in the photo below.

And maybe the whole White background postcards to use as the snowman's body. On New Year's cards with a photo below just this principle is shown.

The most difficult thing is to make a three-dimensional 3D postcard with a silhouette of a snowman.

Part Four

DEER on Christmas cards.

Another new year character, which looks festive on New Year's cards is a deer.

It can also be portrayed outside the box, but in an interesting situation. For example, it can be a deer singing Christmas carols with inspiration, playing a drum, or skating - it's all up to your imagination.

You can choose the simplest silhouette application ONLY DEER HEADS on postcards.

And you can decorate a New Year's card with the silhouette of a whole deer - from horns to hooves.

Part Four

SNOWFLAKES on New Year's cards.

You can cut out 2 ordinary stars from paper and put them on top of each other with an offset of one ray - and we will get an elegant snowflake on a Christmas card with our own hands.

Can do beautiful snowflake in volumetric convex technique.

Or embroider a snowflake out of thread. 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 do not have to come up with very complex weaves of threads. Even small thread and needle patterns will decorate your New Year cards.

In this thread technique, you can make not only snowflakes, but also any other New Year's motifs.

And of course a quilling snowflake.

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 increase the petals to the middle - circle by circle.

Your Christmas card with snowflakes can look like a layered cake with all sorts of details mixed in, layering and bumping into each other in an ornate chaos of beauty.

The snowflake on your postcard can be made from paper modules made in the technique of origami.

Part five

WREATHS on New Year's cards.

And here is the theme of festive Christmas wreaths. On a postcard, they can be depicted in any technique. It can be a planar application 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 decorate birds. They can sing winter songs while sitting on birch musical 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.

And here are some more ideas how to give money in a New Year's card . We are accustomed to investing money inside postcards. But you can put money outside, making it part of the general New Year's application. I will now explain how to place the money on the front side of the postcard and not ruin it with glue.

Here on the first postcard we see a bill that was folded into a triangular cone - a ribbon was glued to the card (not money, we don’t spoil it with glue) and glued the ribbon so that it sticks to the glue in the middle, and its tails hang freely. We put a Christmas tree-money cone on the ribbon - and tie it, tie it with the free ends of the ribbon.

In the second case we glue the snowman - but we don’t just glue it - but on plump pieces of styrofoam. That is, the snowman turns out towering on the postcard. Thus, the neck of the snowman turns out to be moved away from the canvas of the postcard - and under his neck you can safely slip a banknote folded into a strip.

And in the third case - we roll candles out of paper. We glue them with ribs to the postcard. And in each tube we put a banknote folded into a narrow roll.

Like these ones original ideas for New Year's cards, I found for you these holidays.

Good luck with your New Year's crafts and a happy New Year.

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1. DIY Christmas cards ("Herringbone")

The Christmas tree is an indispensable attribute of the holiday. Therefore, postcards with her image will be especially appropriate. In addition, such postcards can be very easy to make.

Christmas 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 tape. It also turns out very beautiful New Year's cards.

A more complicated option is the New Year's card "Christmas Tree" made of paper tubes. This original three-dimensional postcard for the New Year "Herringbone" is made of paper tubes. The Christmas tree is decorated with multi-colored buttons. Its trunk is made of twigs. To make this postcard for the New Year, it is advisable to use special scrapbooking paper or corrugated cardboard.

It is very easy to make a Christmas tree application using purchased stickers. Even a two-year-old can do this craft for the New Year with their own hands.

Simple and effective - homemade New Year's cards "Herringbone" 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. Pre-holes must be carefully done with an awl. The simplest version of the Christmas tree, see the photo below.

More difficult option see postcards for the New Year with a Christmas tree made of threads 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 with threads not only a Christmas tree, but also something else, New Year's. For example, here is such a cute deer.

An original DIY New Year's card can be made from a fern leaf or any other plant similar to it. For example, branches of cypress. Just take the top part of the leaflet and stick it on the postcard. This will be a Christmas tree. You just have to decorate it with sequins or confetti made with a colored paper hole punch. Instead of confetti, you can stick multi-colored pieces of plasticine on the Christmas tree. This part of the work on making a homemade New Year's card will be possible even for a baby.

You can make a New Year's card either from a whole leaf of a fern, or only from its upper part.

Manufacturing technique voluminous Christmas trees similar to the manufacturing method Christmas balls. See link >>>> Only you don't need to glue them all the way together, glue the Christmas trees on the card instead.

Option 3.

Do-it-yourself volumetric 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 sheet of brown rectangular paper.

Fold each square piece of paper in half first 2 times (horizontally and vertically) to mark the center lines. Then fold them two more times diagonally. After that, fold each sheet in the form of a pyramid (see photos 3 and 4). From the resulting pyramids, glue the Christmas tree by inserting them into each other. How to make a trunk for a Christmas tree is shown in the photo (8, 9 and 10). At the end, glue the Christmas tree to your New Year's card.

Option 4.

Do-it-yourself volumetric postcard for the New Year. Making this voluminous postcard out of paper is much easier than it might seem at first glance. First you will need to cut out 5 halves of circles of different sizes from green paper: large, smaller, even smaller, etc. Fold each half of the circle in half, then in half again, and in half again. Expand each blank and form accordion folds (see photo).

Now put one blank into another and glue them together along the three central folds.

For the trunk, cut a rectangle out of brown paper and fold it like an accordion.

Glue your paper Christmas tree onto the card base. Snowflakes are easiest to make from white paper using a hole punch or draw cotton swab.

Option 5.

A very beautiful DIY Christmas craft, accessible in terms of complexity to a preschooler, is a voluminous New Year's card "Herringbone". The Christmas tree is made of strips of rectangular paper folded like an accordion. But there is one nuance here. If you carefully examine the photo, you will see that the tiers near the Christmas tree are made of strips of paper of different widths: the widest at the bottom, the closer to the top - the narrower. In addition, the depth of the fold of the accordion is also different. The lower strips of paper are folded into an accordion with a large "step". The higher to the top, the smaller the bend depth.

Here are two more voluminous postcards with a Christmas tree made from a sheet of triangular-shaped 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 ease of manufacture.

To make such a New Year's card with your own hands, print templates (template-1 and template-2) on two sheets of cardboard or thick paper and use the detailed instructions from the photos below. It is better if the sheets of cardboard are of different colors.

Option 7.

Christmas tree origami. We suggest you make a voluminous New Year's card decorated with a paper Christmas tree made using the origami technique. To make the card look more elegant and festive, choose prettier paper for your Christmas tree. Well suited for this New Year's crafts with your own hands, special paper for scrapbooking. 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 sheet papers of different sizes.

Option 8.

There is an easier way to make an origami Christmas tree. Detailed instructions in the photo below.

Option 9.

A voluminous New Year's card can be made 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. Postcards for the New Year with your own hands ("Christmas balls")

Do-it-yourself Christmas cards with the image of Christmas balls look good. Christmas application "Christmas balls" can be made of bright paper and decorated with ribbons.

Beautiful Christmas balls are obtained from colored strips of paper. Cut an unnecessary glossy magazine (flyer) into thin strips, stick them on a white sheet of paper. After that, cut out circles of different sizes from the resulting striped paper. Decorate your Christmas card with them.

Christmas balls can be made not only from paper, but also from buttons.

Instead of buttons, you can use purchased decorative rhinestones.

Original volumetric New Year's cards with the image Christmas balls proposes to make a website www.hgtv.com

To make such a New Year's card with your own hands, print out the following template. See link >>>> On each square, use a compass or an appropriately sized round-bottomed object to draw a circle. Cut out all the circles, then use the following instructions for making Christmas balls. See link >>>> Only you don't need to glue the balloon completely, stick it on the postcard instead.

Another Christmas decoration- a garland of flags will look spectacular on a New Year's card. Flags can be made from paper or fabric, and then glued or sewn onto a postcard.

Even very young children can make a New Year's card with their own hands 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 baking sheet), make a rectangular frame (the size of your postcard) from adhesive tape or electrical tape.

2. Apply the paint evenly to the surface. Draw some picture on the New Year theme with a cotton swab.

3. Attach a piece of paper. Do-it-yourself postcard for the New Year 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 snowman out of paper is very simple. Even a preschooler will cope with the task. It is necessary to cut out three circles of different sizes from thick white paper. It is desirable to shade the circles along the edge so that they stand out better from each other. This can be done using a crushed lead from a pencil or shadows. Also cut out a scarf, pens, a carrot nose, eyes and buttons from colored paper. Glue successively all the parts of the snowman onto the blank of your New Year's card.

Here is the original postcard made by the scrapbooking master.

And here are the variants of this voluminous New Year's card made by children.

5. Do-it-yourself voluminous New Year's cards

Another way to make voluminous New Year's cards can be found on our website at the link >>>>

6. New Year's crafts for children. New Year's application

Very gentle cards are obtained, decorated New Year's application from grains of rice.

7. Postcards for the New Year with your own hands. Christmas cards with snowflakes

Another idea for a DIY New Year's card is a card decorated with a snowflake cut out of paper. About how to cut out very beautiful paper, unusual snowflakes, see our special section "DIY Christmas snowflakes".

If you have paper lace napkins at home, then you can cut snowflakes out of them.

8. New Year paper crafts. New Year cards made in the technique of iris folding

Original New Year's cards using the iris folding technique are offered by the Land of Masters website. The name of this technique - iris folding - can be translated as "rainbow folding". The drawing is filled with thin paper strips, which, superimposed on each other at a certain angle, create an interesting effect of a twisting spiral. Detailed master class for the manufacture of this New Year's paper craft, see the link >>>>

Here is another New Year's card made in this technique. Link instructions >>>>

9. original postcards for the New Year with their own hands. New Year's do-it-yourself

We would like to introduce you to another interesting technique Making New Year's cards with your own hands. The Christmas tree and Christmas 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 paper for origami (on the one hand - dark green,
on the other side - light green)
- scissors or a special knife for cutting paper
- glue

Print a stencil on a sheet 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, then you can cut it out with scissors. In this case, even a preschooler will be able to make a postcard. If you want to do without a crease in the center of the postcard, then it is better to make cuts with a special knife for cutting paper. Now you just have to bend the corners back and stick your blank on the cardboard.

The card "New Year's ball" is made in the same way. A stencil for making this original New Year's card can be downloaded from the link >>>>

The same technique is used to make snowflakes from the section. They can also decorate a postcard for the New Year.

And one more New Year's card with your own hands "Herringbone", made in this technique.

To make this postcard for the New Year, print the template on a piece of cardboard white color. Glue a thin sheet of green paper on the back. Cut out the corners with a paper cutter and fold them over. Now cut and fold your Christmas card in half. If you want to write inside New Year's greetings, then stick an additional sheet of green paper so that the letters do not show through the holes. Detailed New Year's master see the class for making this postcard.

Another idea for a New Year's card, which you can do with your child with your own hands. For a detailed master class, see the photo below.

Ideas for New Year's cards with your own hands. When making New Year's cards with your own hands, it is appropriate to use colored self-adhesive foil. It can be purchased at art supply stores.

The last postcard with which we would like to complete our review of postcards for the New Year with our own hands is the voluminous postcard "Snowball". The photo below shows it on the left side. This New Year's card is made using a transparent dairy lid. You will find a master class on how to make such original voluminous postcards on the website of Veronica Podgornaya.

These two postcards were made by the author of Naftusina's hand-made blog. A snowdrift and a cloud are cut out of felt. Herringbone and bear - curly buttons. White beads are poured inside the card. The postcard looks amazing! Shake it and it snows! On this site you will find two more interesting DIY New Year cards. Santa Claus and the Snowman hurry through the snow-covered snowdrifts. Snowdrifts and a cloud are cut out of felt, the characters are made of 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.

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In stores today you can find New Year's cards for every taste. But the editorial website believes that homemade ones are much warmer. After all, when we make a thing for someone with our own hands, we put our love into it.

Below we have collected ideas for beautiful, original and, most importantly, “quick” New Year cards, which do not require any rare materials to create - beautiful paper, cardboard, and colorful ribbons and buttons lying around in the house.

Volumetric Christmas trees

Volumetric Christmas trees made of white and colored paper are so simple to make that you can make them at the last moment. Read more on the Bog&ide blog.

Make 3D Christmas trees even faster. All you need is a ruler, sharp scissors and cardboard. This blog shows how to cut them.

Penguin

We really liked this penguin, well thought out. You will need black and white cardboard (or White paper), a triangle of orange paper and 2 miniature snowflakes that we all know how to cut out. The eyes are, of course, the highlight of the postcard, and you will have to look into the hobby store for them (or tear them off an unnecessary children's toy, with the consent of the children, of course).

gifts

For this cute and simple postcard, you need 2 sheets of cardboard, a ruler, scissors and glue. Also pieces wrapping paper, which you have left from gift wrapping, ribbons and ribbons. The manufacturing principle is very simple, but for those who want more details, we advise you to look at this blog.

Santa Claus

A friendly Santa Claus (or Santa Claus) can be made in just half an hour. The red hat and pink face are strips of paper pasted on a postcard or gift bag. Fur hats and beards are obtained as follows: you need to take drawing paper and simply tear off the strips of the desired shape to get jagged edges. Stick on a postcard over the red and pink stripes. And then draw two squiggles - a mouth and a nose - and two dots - eyes.

simple drawings

Irresistible in its elegance, the idea is to draw Christmas balls with patterns with a black gel pen. The main thing here is to draw the correct circles and mark the lines for the patterns. Everything else will not be difficult - the stripes and squiggles that you draw when you are bored.

The same principle that underlies the postcard with black and white balloons. simple silhouettes, painted with simple patterns, this time in color - this is best done with felt-tip pens. Warm and very nice.

Lots and lots of different trees

Here you can use paper or cardboard with a pattern left over from children's crafts, or wrapping paper for gifts. Christmas trees are sewn in the center - this is not necessary at all, you can glue them. But if you really want to, then you must first make holes with a thick needle along the ruler, and then sew with a thread in 2 rows - up and down, so that there are no gaps. Draw a snowball with white gouache.

Laconic and stylish idea- a grove of Christmas trees, one of which is glued to a foamed double-sided tape (and therefore rises above the rest) and decorated with a star.

For this card, you need 4 or 3 layers of cardboard (you can do without red). As a color layer, you can use not cardboard, but paper. In the upper, white one, cut out a Christmas tree (a clerical knife will do well) and glue it on double-sided tape for volume.

A round dance of Christmas trees from various remnants of cardboard, scrapbooking paper, wrapping paper is tied with a simple ribbon and decorated with a button. Try playing with colors and textures - there are an incredible number of options here, using different colors of ribbons, paper and even fabric.

Wonderful watercolor so in the spirit of the New Year and Christmas! A simple watercolor sketch is within the power of everyone, even those who last time painted with paint school years. First you need to outline the patterns with a pencil, color them in, and when it dries, gently wipe the pencil sketches and supplement the patterns with a felt-tip pen.

Winter landscape

For this postcard, it is better to use structured cardboard, or you can get by with plain, smooth cardboard - it will still turn out spectacularly. Cut out the snow landscape and moon with sharp scissors and paste onto a black or navy blue background.

Another white and green variant of the winter landscape that will take a little more time. If you find velvety cardboard (remember, crafts were made from this at school), it will be great, if not, you can just paint the Christmas trees with a felt-tip pen. Snow - Styrofoam disassembled into peas. You can also make circles out of cardboard with a hole punch and glue them to the postcard.

hugging snowman

Snowmen, inquisitively peering into the starry sky, will look more advantageous if they can find a bright ribbon for a scarf.

For the postcard on the left you need unpainted cardboard, white drawing paper and foam tape with which you will stick the snowman. Snowdrifts are made simply: you need to tear off the drawing paper so that you get a ragged wavy edge. Fill it in with a blue pencil and blend it with anything, even with a finger or a piece of paper. Also tint the edges of the snowman for volume. For the second you will need buttons, a piece of fabric, eyes, glue and colored markers.

You will want to keep such a postcard for a long time. And all you need is circles of cardboard, a nose and twigs of colored paper. All this must be collected using double-sided bulk tape. Draw eyes and buttons with black paint, and a snowball with white gouache or watercolor.

Balloons

Balls are one of the main symbols of the New Year and Christmas. These are made from velvety colored paper and ribbons. But the balls are so a win-win what you can afford to fantasize here: make balls from paper with a pattern, wrapping paper, fabric, lace, cut out from a newspaper or a glossy magazine. And the strings can simply be drawn.

Another option is to stick paper with a pattern on the inside of the card, and cut out circles on the outside with a sharp stationery knife.

Volume balls

For each of these balls, you will need 3-4 identical circles of different colors. Fold each in half and glue the halves to each other, and the two extreme halves to the paper. Another option is colored stars or Christmas trees.

colorful balls

Wonderful translucent balls are obtained using a regular pencil eraser. It is worth to begin with to outline the outlines of the ball with a pencil. Then dip the eraser into the paint and leave marks on the paper. Fun and beautiful.

Postcards with buttons

Bright buttons will add volume to postcards, as well as evoke subtle associations with childhood.

The main thing is to find buttons of interesting colors, but otherwise it’s up to you to “hang” them on a Christmas tree, on a branch with cute owls or on newspaper clouds.

A children's New Year's card is a pleasant, cute, memorable gift for each of the relatives (grandparents, aunts, etc.). Don't waste time. Create holiday souvenirs with your kids. Any creative process, which the baby is busy with in kindergarten or at home, brings positive results in development. A self-made gift gives the baby self-confidence and pride in the work done.

Card Ideas for Kids

Children's New Year's can be made in the form of objects of different shapes. The options are:

• Traditional geometric (square, rectangle, circle).
• Christmas tree or triangle stylized as it.
• Christmas tree toy.
• Snowman.
• Father Frost.
• Snowflake.

These are the most commonly used types. All complex objects, of course, are simplified.

Techniques

Do-it-yourself children's New Year's card can be made using different techniques. The most popular and interesting are:

• Application from paper, cardboard, fabric and other materials.
• Quilling.
• Origami.

When creating their congratulatory souvenirs, some copy the template they like, and many like to create their own exclusive options based on what they see.

Craft "New Year's card in kindergarten"

Corrugated paper is very interesting and easy to process. It is sold in a wide range. There is even a metallic one with decorative effects. Use it to make a New Year's card. The central element will be a tree.

The execution sequence is as follows:

1. Take a sheet of thick paper or cardboard (white, colored, one-sided or two-sided). Fold the blank in half so that the decorative side is the front for the postcard.
2. Draw a Christmas tree on the cover in the form of a triangle or simply mark the boundaries of the future object.
3. Cut green crepe paper into rectangles. For one postcard, you can take 2-3 parts. Of these, the tiers of the Christmas tree will be performed. The height of the workpiece should correspond to the tier, and the length should be longer, since the rectangle will fold like an accordion.
4. Fold each rectangle, making neat creases that are equal or different in width. corrugated paper allows you to form the volume of the element, slightly arching the material.
5. Glue the blanks to predetermined places. You can only apply glue to the top of the elements so that the tiers of the Christmas tree look more voluminous.

So, you have learned how to make a children's Christmas card with a Christmas tree. If time permits, you can invite the guys to decorate the resulting Christmas trees.

You can do it like this:

1. Kids can glue the finished circles on the base.
2. It will not be difficult for older children to cut out decor from colored paper on their own.
3. As an option, offer to twist
4. The big guys will be able to glue beads, stars and other small elements.

New Year's cards in kindergarten (senior group)

The craft will be made in the form of a paper Christmas tree, folded from a colored sheet and decorated with small details. You will need the following to complete:

• Green colored paper (preferably two-sided).
• Christmas tree stencil.
• Pencil.
• Scissors.
• Colored decorations.
• Glue.

The work will go like this:

1. Take a sheet of paper and place a stencil on it.
2. Trace around with a pencil.
3. Cut out the piece with scissors.
4. If the paper or cardboard was prepared one-sided, place the Christmas tree in front of you so that the green part becomes the front for the postcard, and the white part is inside.
5. Draw guides along the ruler for future fold lines.
6. If the cardboard is thick, it is better to first draw along these lines with the edge of the back of the pencil, the corner of the ruler or the pointed tip of the scissors. This will help to neatly and evenly complete the fold line.
7. Bend the workpiece along the prepared lines.
8. Start decorating the surface of the Christmas tree. For convenience, lay out the template again on a plane. At the same time, the fold lines will be clearly visible, the child will no longer stick decorations on them.
9. Decor can be offered to cut out of colored paper yourself, if you have the appropriate tools. For this, scissors with curly edges and curly hole punchers in the form of snowflakes are perfect. The main thing is to use thin paper so that the child does not have to put in a lot of effort to get decorations. Be sure to explain where the sheet is inserted. Even a 2-year-old kid will be happy to stamp stars and snowflakes.
10. If you do not have curly hole punchers, use the usual one. You will get colored circles, from which it is easy to collect beads or stick them like Christmas balls on your Christmas tree postcard.
11. When the decor is ready, start gluing. If circles, stars and snowflakes are not made of self-adhesive paper, apply PVA glue to the base and attach decorative details.

When the glue dries, the card will be ready.

We take the child at home

A children's New Year's card made with their parents will, of course, be different from what a child can do in kindergarten. It offers options with which the baby will be able to cope completely independently, with minimal help from the educator, to do some actions according to the instructions.

At home, you can make more elaborate Happy New Year cards as you work with the kids. Under the individual supervision of an adult and a younger child, they will be able to use small details in their work (beads, beads, sequins) to decorate the product.

If mothers do needlework themselves, they not only know the methods and technologies of work, but also have a lot of remnants of beautiful craft materials (decorative paper, cardboard, fabric, satin ribbons, etc.).

In a word, the homemade "Happy New Year" will be more interesting, educational and educational than a similar activity in the garden. Here you can devote more time and attention to your baby.

Origami Christmas tree (very easy way)

When working with this method, the child will very quickly get a beautiful New Year's card. The master class will teach you how to do the job step by step.

Prepare the following:

• Cardboard or decorative paper for the base.
• Green thick paper for the Christmas tree.
• Glue.
• Decor.

Make a postcard like this:

1. Cut out the base blank in the form of a square or rectangle.
2. Fold the piece if needed.
3. Take a rectangle of green paper for the Christmas tree. Make an accordion out of it. To make it even, you can first draw the fold lines.
4. Glue the resulting part on one side so that the shape resembles a triangle (fan).
5. Glue the Christmas tree fan to the base of the card.
6. Decorate the Christmas tree and the surface of the postcard with prepared decorations using the appliqué technique.

Postcard with a three-dimensional Christmas tree inside

In this way, a folding New Year's card is made. The master class from the previous section taught how to make a Christmas tree in the form of an accordion element. Here, it will be used as the initial part.

Work like this:

1. Take a rectangular base sheet and fold it in half.
2. From green paper, prepare several rectangles according to the number of tiers of the Christmas tree. Size should be from largest to smallest.
3. Fold each blank in the form of an accordion in the same way as in the previous method.
4. On the basis, mark up where the tiers will be glued.
5. Glue the accordion blanks between the sides of the base.
6. Decorate the surface of the card inside and out in any way and material, for example, glue small circles made from white paper with a hole punch in the form of falling snow. This option will look spectacular on a dark blue background.

Thus, when you open a souvenir made by this method, it will turn into a voluminous decorative Christmas tree.

snowman card

Very often it is required to make New Year's cards for a kindergarten for a craft contest or to decorate a group. Such a souvenir is made at home under the guidance of parents or the child independently. beautiful postcard easy to make in the form of a snowman or using it as the main element of the application.

To work, you will need the following:

• White paper.
• Compasses or stencils (circles).
• Scissors.
• Glue.
• Base (preferably colored, for example, blue or light blue).
• Paints and brushes, felt-tip pens or other materials).
• Decorations for the background and snowman (snowflakes, stars, artificial snow).

How to make a snowman card

Work like this:

1. Fold the base sheet in half.
2. On white paper, draw circles or invite your child to make them on their own using stencils of a suitable size.
3. Cut out the blanks.
4. Glue the resulting parts on front side postcards from largest to smallest.
5. Cut out colored paper or glue ready-made plastic eyes.
6. Draw or applique a carrot nose and a hat (bucket).
7. Glue on a lace, satin ribbon, or crochet scarf.
8. Decorate the bottom of the card with artificial snow, cotton wool or balls of
9. The background can be decorated with snowflakes cut out of white paper or made using a figured hole punch.

The souvenir is ready.

As you can see, a children's New Year's card is being made different ways. To work in kindergarten simpler options using ready-made templates and application elements are suitable. At home, parents can do part of the work together with the child, so the result of family creativity will turn out to be more spectacular, elegant and professional.