Making a postcard-chocolate with our own hands
Gifts are always nice. As for the simultaneously beautiful and tasty presentation, it is doubly pleasant. Well, if it is also made by hand, neat and original, then the joy of receiving it will be simply indescribable. A postcard chocolate maker is just such an option. This is not a banal chocolate bar, which is usually given to doctors, teachers, and educators for the holidays, and not just a postcard with wishes. Such a present will show that the person to whom it is intended is important for the donor, that he took the time and made efforts to please the recipient.
How to make a simple postcard?
There are many workshops on creating a wide variety of postcards with Nestle or Alpen Gold embedded in them. Let's dwell on the simplest option that even a beginner can handle. To make such a postcard, you will need the following:
- double-sided A4 cardboard (2 sheets), you can choose any color you like, cardboard can be replaced with drawing paper;
- white watercolor paper (or any light), you can even replace office paper with ready-made printed text (1 sheet);
- 30 cm of satin or lace ribbon or cord;
- decorative elements (any material will do - flowers, stickers, pieces of napkins or beautiful wrapping paper, etc.);
- working tools - a ruler, a simple pencil, scissors, stationery glue;
- chocolate bar.
To determine where the fold line will pass on the cardboard base, you need to find out how thick the chocolate is. If, for example, the length of a sheet of cardboard is 30 cm, and the chocolate is 2 cm thick, then you need to subtract 2 from 30.The resulting residue (28 cm) must be halved and measured with a 14 cm ruler on each side of the sheet. Next, you should outline the places where the cardboard will bend, you can do this with a pen that no longer writes, so as not to leave marks on the cardboard. The base for the postcard is ready.
Next, let's make a pocket for the chocolate. It should be such that it is completely covered by the flaps of the postcard. To create a pocket, the second sheet of cardboard should be folded in half, cuts should be made in the right places so that the chocolate fits without problems. Before you glue the postcard and the pocket, you need to glue the ribbons to the latter for decoration and tying. The pocket can be decorated, but it is desirable that the style does not differ from the postcard.
The left inner side of the postcard is the place where the congratulation or wish will be located. There you need to stick a sheet of white or light paper and write the text. Decorate the outside of the postcard as you wish.
A common mistake newbies make is to use thinner paper for the pocket. You do not need to do this, as the chocolate has some weight and can damage office or other similar paper. As for thick cardboard, it holds its shape well.
Craft with a pocket for tea
You can make a more complex version of the chocolate maker - with tea bags. In this case, inside the postcard, on one side there is a pocket for chocolate, and on the other - for tea. You can make 2 or 3 tea bag pockets underneath each other.
If the postcard is not in a book format, but in landscape format, then the tea pockets are placed next to each other on the upper inner side, and the chocolate is hidden from the bottom.
On the pockets, you can make funny inscriptions, for example, "Eat me" or "Drink me". It will look good if the card itself also contains a wish or congratulation in a humorous style.
You need to decorate the top of the postcard in accordance with the reason for which it is presented. It can be a New Year's design - with attributes such as Santa Claus, Snow Maiden, Christmas deer, gifts and other things, maybe decor for March 8 - tulips, mimosas, snowdrops, etc.
Sometimes chocolate girls are given not for a well-known holiday, but for a specific date of a person (or just to say "thank you"), then the design should reflect the reason for which the present is given.
Manufacturing from corrugated paper
Corrugated paper is as beautiful as it is loose. Therefore, it is wrong to talk about making a postcard only from it. From the "corrugation" you get only a bag, a pocket, in which you can put a bar of chocolate.
Step-by-step production of a card from corrugated paper includes the following steps.
- Blank. You need to take a piece of "corrugation" that is large enough to wrap a bar of chocolate.
- Package. Pack the chocolate in paper so that a minimum of joints and corners are visible.
- Decor. It is at this stage that fantasy can roam as it pleases. There are many ways to decorate chocolate - with a bunch of dried flowers, a flower or a bunch of corrugated paper, a label or mini card with a wish, etc.
If a present is being prepared for the New Year, then instead of flowers, you can take a small sprig of spruce or fir, add a circle of dried orange, craft lace or a beautiful braid and tie the resulting composition.
All decor elements should be proportionate to the chocolate maker herself. Do not choose too large jewelry - a huge flower or a giant bow. Since this is still a postcard (and the size of a bar of chocolate), it should look like a postcard.
Another interesting option is to design the top of the package in the form of a book cover. Then on the corrugated paper you need to glue a blank made of cardboard for drawing with pastels. You can decorate the "cover" both before and after gluing.
For information on how to make a chocolate postcard, see the next video.
