Quilling, otherwise paper rolling, cannot be called very in a simple way making postcards. If you create postcards-pictures according to all the rules of quilling, then you need to stock up on a fair amount of patience, perseverance and accuracy. We will take the easy route so that everyone can make their own greeting card, and we will learn how to make just a few quilling elements.

To work on postcards we need:

• strips of double-sided colored paper, which you can buy in the store ready-made (quilling paper) or cut yourself;
• toothpick (or awl, cocktail tubes, an empty refill from a ballpoint pen);
• scissors;
• PVA glue;
• thick paper or cardboard for the postcard itself.

Basics of quilling technique

Learning to make a spiral is the simplest, but the most important element of quilling.

The spiral is ready.

Now on this spiral you need to learn how to make different clamps, which are obtained using ordinary finger pressure. Press on one side and you will have a leaf. Press on both sides, get a boat. If you press on one side and bend the spiral inward on the other, you get a heart. These elements will be quite enough for making postcards. Those who wish to "go" further can learn how to make a triangle, a square, a crescent, an asterisk, and more.

We continue to study the art of quilling postcards; Let's try to make a flower.

Postcard-flower

Flower postcard is ready!

And now, using the experience gained, we will create a more complex postcard.

Birthday card!"

To make such a postcard, we need:

• sheets of brown, cream, white and peach paper;
• striped paper;
• red paper with print;
• cardboard;
• Double-sided tape;
• scissors;
• PVA glue;
• yellow and White paper for quilling;
• tweezers;
• ink pads;
• decorative decoration.

Let's get to work.

1. We make out the inside of the card:

The inside of the card is ready.

Postcard is ready!

Ideas for your quilling cards

Using the quilling technique, you can create a variety of postcard compositions, for example, these:

Try to make an easy postcard first, and then complicate the task. creative process sure to captivate, and imperceptibly you will begin to create real masterpieces from ordinary strips of colored paper.

Introduction to quilling techniques. Detailed master classes with photos.

Quilling is the creation of various beautiful paper compositions by twisting. It should be noted right away that quilling is not an activity for restless people. Such a hobby requires perseverance, accuracy, patience and boundless imagination.

Usually postcards are made using the quilling technique. If you have a desire to try yourself in something new, pay attention to quilling. With the help of this fascinating hobby, you can please your friends and family with chic postcards.

How to make a quilling postcard? Quilling postcard step by step

Important: Before you start making a postcard, try to make elementary shapes. Once you can easily learn how to do the basics, you can master any scheme.

Special kits are sold for quilling. Can choose by yourself necessary tools. To create a quilling postcard you will need:

1. Multi-colored strips of medium-weight paper
2. Scissors
3. Tweezers
4. safety pins
5. Quilling template (ruler with holes in the form of geometric shapes)
6. PVA glue
7. Cardboard for the base of the postcard
8. The main quilling tool is an awl with a forked needle.

You may also need:

1. Curly scissors
2. Comb for creating special shapes
3. Utility knife and paper cutting mat (if you are using a regular colored paper)

A strip of paper rolled into a roll is called roll. Their roll consists of a pattern. After twisting the roll, shape it with safety pins, fingers or a comb. Fix the end of the roll with glue. Some bends are also fixed with glue.

Step by step creation postcards:

• Prepare the basis for the postcard: make a frame, think about how your rolls will be placed
• Spin a lot of rolls different color and diameter. How to make a roll: grab the tape with a special awl, wind it around its axis to the required diameter, fix the end with glue. You can loosen the roll a little after twisting, it will not be very tight

Use a toothpick to gently stick the end of the tape.

• When the required number of rolls is ready, glue them on the base of the card in the form of a crown
• Form a pot out of fabric
• Add your own decor elements to the card. In this case, the card is complemented by a cute butterfly.

Video: Quilling for beginners

Ideas for quilling postcards

It is impossible not to fall in love with charming quilling postcards. Below are ideas for creating postcards.

Children's card in quilling style

For the holidays, children often make postcards with their own hands. Together with parents, you can master the quilling technique. Children's cards should be simple. Simple figures can be performed by the child himself with little help from adults. At the same time, the plots of postcards should be interesting for children, then the child will make a postcard with great inspiration. For example, it can be postcards with animals, cartoon characters.

As for the postcard intended for the child, there are also a lot of great ideas. Even if now the child cannot yet appreciate your efforts, at an older age he will certainly rejoice at your gift.

Quilling postcard for March 8

It is impossible to imagine March 8 without flowers. Postcards for the holiday of March 8 are usually decorated with flowers various shapes and colors. There are many ideas on this topic. Your mother, grandmother, girlfriend, sister will be very happy with such a postcard, many women appreciate and love manual work.

Postcard in quilling style for February 23

You can choose a gift for your husband, dad, brother, grandfather for every taste, color and wallet. But it is much more pleasant to receive gifts made by oneself. Give your men a quilling card for February 23rd. They will be very pleased with your attention and diligence.

Quilling card for Valentine's Day

The most romantic day of the year is Valentine's Day. On this day, thousands of declarations of love sound, hearts are filled with love. The symbol of Valentine's Day is a Valentine in the form of a heart. You can make a card in the shape of a heart.

But the idea for creating a postcard can be not only a heart. You can come up with another plot of love. In quilling, you can give freedom to your imagination.

Quilling birthday cards step by step

The card will be a great addition to a birthday present. You can make a simple, but very cute postcard.

We will need:

• Quilling paper
• Quilling tool
• Double-sided colored cardboard
• White paper
• Glue, scissors, ruler

Let's start making:

1. Fold a piece of cardboard in half
2. Prepare a white sheet of paper with the inscription “Happy Birthday” in advance, cut out the inscription beautifully, glue it to the base
3. Make colored or plain rolls, form flowers out of them, glue them to the postcard
4. Decorate your card with beads
5. Write inside the card beautiful wish

How to make a quilling wedding card?

A wedding card can serve not only as a congratulatory card, but also as an invitation to a wedding. You can glue the postcard in the form of an envelope, and you get a postcard for money.

For work you will need:

• white sheet thick paper
• Sheet of thin white paper
• Sheet of colored paper of the desired shade
• Decor elements: beads and a small ribbon
• Scissors, glue, ruler, pencil
• Quilling tool

Master Class:

1. From thin white paper, cut thin long strips about 0.5 cm wide. They will be needed for rolls
2. From thick paper, form a rectangle - the basis of the postcard
3. From colored paper, make a smaller rectangle, flowers will be placed on it, glue it to the base
4. Roll up the rolls. Make the number of flowers and petals as you wish
5. Press each roll with your fingers so that it takes the form of a petal.
6. Glue the petals on the card, decorate the middle of the flower with a bead
7. Make some loose rolls for the flower stems
8. Add small beads
9. Decorate the card with a satin bow
10. You can add an inscription

Simple postcards quilling step by step

Quilling cards can be a real art, but if you are just learning, try making simple cards first. Simple postcards consist of elementary rolls assembled into simple patterns, for example, simple flowers. Try to make a postcard according to a ready-made template.

To make simple postcards, you will need all the quilling materials listed above.

The postcard making technique is as follows:

• We prepare the basis
• Making rolls
• We form a pattern
• We decorate a postcard
• We write wishes

How to make a beautiful and unusual quilling postcard: tips and reviews

Pauline: “I mastered the quilling technique by accident. I surfed the internet and saw beautiful curls. Immediately the thought arose that it was not mine. But then I came across detailed master class, on it and mastered the technique. Now I already have a quilling kit, I am happy to make postcards. A very interesting and exciting activity."

Valeria: “My daughter at school makes such postcards. It turns out very beautifully, and I was especially struck by the work of their teacher. I myself have not tried to make such postcards, but I think that this is a very laborious process.

Irina: “I have already been familiar with quilling for 3 years. I want to say that everything is not as difficult as it might seem. I just saw beautiful flowers and wanted to do the same. Buying plain colored paper and cutting your own strips is cheaper than buying ready-made kits, but you need to get used to cutting the strips. Now I delight my loved ones with postcards and paintings.

If you like quilling postcards, and you have free time, if you are a creative person with a rich imagination, try to make the same. We will be glad if you share your creativity with us.

Video: Master class on creating a quilling postcard

Small gifts made with love are always more expensive and desirable than standard ones.

This master class on creating DIY quilling cards is suitable for beginners, as there are no complex elements. The finished craft can be used as a congratulation on March 8, Mother's Day, birthday, on any other holiday, or for no reason at all, to please someone. Arm yourself with everything you need and follow the step-by-step instructions with a photo.

Preparation of materials for creativity

To create a postcard, prepare the following materials and tools:

• double-sided blue cardboard A4 - 1 pc.;
• blue satin ribbon 2.5-3 cm wide, 30 cm long;
• milky lace 3 cm wide, 30 cm long;
• double-sided adhesive tape 1-2.5 cm wide;
• double-sided milky paper A4 - 1 pc.;
• double-sided paper of a light blue shade of A4 format - 1 pc.;
• paper strips for quilling of any width in brown, milky, light blue and blue;
• PVA glue;
• scissors;
• ruler;
• pencil;
• a match, a toothpick or a special winding tool.

If you are the first to try yourself in this needlework, check out the nuances in our other article.

Step-by-step instructions and nuances of needlework

Double-sided blue cardboard fold in half. Double sided tape on top and bottom front side stick on satin blue ribbon.

Glue the lace onto the ribbon with double-sided tape. It turned out a blank for a postcard using the quilling technique.

Now we need to make flowers. Wrap a brown strip of quilling paper tightly around a match, toothpick, or special tool. Fix the end with PVA glue. The middle of the flower is ready.

From milk paper across the sheet, cut three strips 1, 1.5, 2 cm wide and cut them with scissors as in the photo.

A milk-colored blank 1 cm wide on the side where there are no cuts, spread with PVA glue and wind it on the middle brown flower. It should turn out like in the photo.

Also spread a milky-colored strip 2 cm wide with PVA glue and wind it over the previous one.

Repeat the same operation with milk paper 2 cm wide.

Bend all cuts of dairy preparations to the outside. You should get a flower, as in the photo.

Follow this principle to make two more flowers.

Cut a strip of milky quilling paper into two pieces 6 cm long, two pieces - 8 cm, and one - 10 cm. Do the same with brown, only the size of the pieces should be 5.5, 7.5 and 9.5 cm, respectively. Next, glue the brown and milk blanks into loops, and the loops together into leaves.

Make another one like this.

Strips of paper for quilling milk and brown cut into segments of 12 cm. Each shade - two. Fold in half and glue them together at the fold. Twist the ends a little.

Light blue paper cut into three pieces of 10 cm, bend them in half and glue at the fold. The ends do not need to be twisted.

Wrap the blue strip tightly around a match, toothpick or quilling tool and use PVA glue to fix the end. Repeat this operation two more times.

Fold in half a light blue strip 30 cm long, and insert a blue 15 cm long in the middle. One end of all strips together (on the side where the light blue is bent) with a match, toothpick or quilling tool, wind almost to the end, leaving a cut 2 cm and release without fixing with glue. Do the same two more times. You should get three spirals.

Fold 30 cm long blue quilling paper in half, and between them - two strips of a light blue shade of the same size. Wind the end (on the side where the fold is) of all the strips together almost to the end, leaving 2 cm free and release without fixing with glue. Do the same again. There should be two such spirals.

From light blue paper across the sheet, cut two parts 1.5 cm wide and cut them with scissors, not cutting to the end by 0.5 cm. Twist each tightly and fix with glue. Move the notches to the sides. There should be two flowers.

Glue three quilling flowers onto the blank for the postcard with PVA glue.

Glue a milky brown branch.

Place a light blue branch on top, and blue circles on it.

Attach three spirals between the flowers, as in photo 16.

Glue the flower on both sides, pointing up, and two spirals, made as in photo 17.

Glue two light blue flowers on both sides of the arrangement.

We hope that you figured out how to make a postcard with your own hands from quilling, and now your loved ones will receive Original gifts made with soul. Read more about how and from what you can for every taste. Don't be afraid to add something of your own, experiment and combine different materials and technology.

Be sure to take a look at ours, which contains instructions for various types needlework.

A quilling postcard is a wonderful gift for any occasion. A little patience and imagination, and you can congratulate all your loved ones with their help.

This is how you can prepare a surprise in the form of a quilling postcard for any holiday, if you come up with a good idea for it in advance.

What, for example, could be better than to the International women's day make quilling postcards, turning boring paper strips into a real work of art with your own hands? For every girl, girl or woman, you can prepare such a wonderful gift on the eve of this holiday.

It's easy - just stick a green circle on a lilac cardboard sheet folded in half.

And cut many short narrow white strips.

Twist the ends of the strips in one direction with a stick.

Take a yellow long strip and turn it into a roll.

Make a few more yellow rolls smaller, giving them the shape of rings.

Glue a large roll into the center of the green circle and paste over with white stripes.

And distribute the small ones along the bottom of the sheet, also pasting them with white stripes of a shorter length. Place one green leaf next to it.

You will get a flower meadow that you can give!

Watch the video on how to make a postcard for mom or grandmother in the style of an old postcard:

And even for the most men's holiday- - you can make quilling postcards.

Decorate the main background in the form of khaki color.

Trim one edge of the "title" sheet in a semicircle.

Cover it with yellow quilling rings. Place the inscription "23" inside.

Decorate the numbers "23" with paper rolls too. Postcard in quilling technique for February 23 - ready!

We decorate the numbers "23"

Using the quilling technique, you can make a charming card with a Christmas tree.

We twist blue paper rolls. We press them on one side. We should get rolls "droplets".

Blue "drops"

We twist several small pink rolls. From blue paper we twist a blue roll. We make one of the sides of the blue roll straight.

We glue our blanks onto a double-folded cardboard base. Blue "droplets" become spruce branches, round pink rolls become Christmas decorations, the blue roll becomes a spruce trunk.

We decorate the card with blue ribbons. Postcard in quilling technique on New Year— ready!

And of course, quilling will be appropriate on the most romantic holiday - Valentine's Day.

In this technique, you can decorate a valentine heart by covering it with small buds of roses that have not yet opened. These buds are obtained from a paper sheet rolled into a roll, cut into many rings.

Each such ring will be a bud.

The only difficulty is to make sure that the rings do not open and lose their shape. Therefore, before cutting the roll, glue its outer edge well.

Quilling postcard for Easter

And even on Easter, you can surprise your loved ones by presenting them with a hand-made postcard. Decorate it like an Easter egg.

And decorate with a cute chicken, whose body and head are obtained by rolling a paper tape notched along one edge into a roll.

We fold the tape and straighten it.

We make “curls” and “waves” from green paper.

"Curls" and "waves" from green paper

Glue "curls" and "waves". We have a green meadow.

We make flowers from red rolls.

And in the sky, above the chicken's head, place a gentle blue cloud and a bright sun.

And your gift is ready!

Do-it-yourself quilling cards for jam day - a step-by-step master class

Who doesn't love a birthday party? Let's not hide the fact that each of us most of all appreciates a birthday for the fact that you can get the opportunity of attention and love from other people. Most often, it is expressed in a special attitude and, of course, gifts. And although good man always deserves special treatment, this holiday should stand out among others. Children should understand this from the earliest years, and adults should take this fact into account in the future. But, what gift can be considered one of the best? Of course, this is a gift that was made by hand. It is very easy to create such a present. It will require a small amount of work materials, as well as the ability to sit still. Quilling is a special area of ​​work where each of us can show our abilities and show what we are good for. Of course, if you are ready to show your child's new skills, or would like to practice new knowledge yourself, this lesson will be extremely useful. In the master class, you will be told about the method of working with a card for a gift for the day of jam. Beautiful greeting card will be made using ordinary cardboard, quilling paper and decor items. Of the main resources of work is the desire to learn something new and spend your own time. Materials for the postcard You will need certain materials to help the true master create and recreate a unique piece of art. We are sure that the giving person will like the work and, of course, you will be able to appreciate the modern capabilities and unique features new technology for quilling:

• Take ordinary cardboard on both sides in one color (color type)
• Also, prepare colored paper
• Let's take quilling paper 5 millimeters wide, paper length - 54 centimeters
• You will need a pencil, we will also take a ruler
• Prepare special scissors for work
• You will need PVA glue, you will also need a piece of wallpaper to work
• Take a paper toothpick

Basis for the picture
To begin with, we take cardboard in orange color and form a rectangle with a width of 18 centimeters, a length of 24 centimeters. It needs to be doubled. After, using a piece of wallpaper and curly scissors, we form a rectangle, the width and length of which we make by 17 and 23 centimeters, respectively. After, using glue, we place a piece on cardboard. To decorate the inside of the postcard, we need to take curly scissors and, using yellow paper, cut out a quadrangle, then glue the blank. After that, we form flowers. We form flowers We take quilling paper in blue, blue, orange and pink color. It is necessary to wind the paper on a toothpick. Then, you need to remove our disk and, using a ruler, on the stencil of the ruler, dissolve the roll disk up to 19 millimeters in diameter. Then, glue at the ends. We form 5 petals in this way. Then, you need to squeeze the ends and shape the eyes. Using PVA glue, assemble the flower.
To form the core, you need to cut a little fringe and twist, glue. Fringe will yellow color. Leaves are made using light green and dark green stripes. It is necessary to twist them on a striped toothpick and dissolve the rolls to a diameter of 19 millimeters. We form the shape of the eye and glue our elements. We form openwork curls. To do this, it is necessary to glue stripes of green, blue, yellow colors, apply glue to the ends of the strips. Using a toothpick, twist the strips. Then, hold the blank elements and push the strip shape along the top to get a big curl. Next, glue the ends of the strips, the figure will be ready.
Postcard design The design looks like this.
It is necessary to glue our yellow cores on the flowers. Then, add leaves and fishnet swirls. Using tight rolls, glue them on the upper corners. Using a color printer, we print out the inscription, then it needs to be cut out and glued to the postcard. That's all! Our work is complete!

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