Scrapbooking for the New Year: gift ideas and Christmas toys

Scrapbooking as a hobby, hobby, and even a business has become widespread throughout the world. It allows you to create spectacular compositions that are one of a kind. There are quite a few techniques that allow you to create in scrapbooking. It is worth mastering this technique at least in order to please yourself and loved ones with the original design of the holidays, to give exquisite gifts. You can start scrapbooking at any age, with any or no initial skills. There are many master classes for creating jewelry using this technique. We invite you to explore a variety of ideas for your favorite holiday of the year - New Year.

Unusual for the Slavic ear, the word scrapbooking literally means "scrapbook". However, since then, the creative direction has taken a huge step forward, and now includes a lot of different execution techniques. Therefore, the modest name has long ceased to cover the entire capacity of the content.

There are several basic performance techniques that are rarely used one at a time. Most often, it is necessary to carefully combine techniques, then the final composition will be really beautiful, sophisticated and stylish.

• Embossing... Allows you to create volumetric images of a convex type. There is a hot and cold embossing method. In the first situation, the powder is applied to the ink, they are heated and melted with a special hair dryer.In the second, the drawing is created using a stencil and extrusion.
• Distressing... This technique makes it possible to visually age paper with torn edges, scratches, and scuffs. This can be achieved using craquelure or specialty inks.
• Stamping... With its help, compositions with small drawings are created. Here, rubber or silicone stamps are used, which are extremely easy to use.

Scrapbooking gets along well with other techniques: origami, pergamano, quilling.

Experts recommend that beginners follow the basic rules of scrapbooking:

• create a draft, which will allow you to put in order the idea, for this, first lay out the decor, trying different options;
• think over the composition from the very beginning, you must have a concept of lining up the elements, if you are just starting out, use sketches, templates;
• define the semantic center the entire ensemble, around which the secondary elements will be located;
• choose a style and decide on a color - everything should harmoniously fit each other;
• don't be afraid to experiment!

You can purchase tools and the necessary materials in different places: order on the Internet, buy in handicraft markets. Here are the recommended items for your scrapbooking practice:

• set of special paper with a suitable theme, in our case - New Year's, choose scrap paper of different prints, density and size;
• minimum set of office: ruler, eraser, pencil;
• hole puncher with the function of cutting out different shapes, it will allow you to create composition elements of different shapes from paper: Christmas trees, snowflakes, flowers, stars, just openwork figures;
• special scissors with a curly edge to create dramatic edges;
• metal cutter;
• decorative things: rhinestones, stones, beads, buttons, buckles, flowers, ribbons, ribbons, lace.

Scrapbook cards stand out not only for their exclusivity, but also for their beauty. You don't want to throw them away or hide them, they will serve as an interior decoration for a long time. There are many ideas for creating New Year's cards. We invite you to consider the most interesting and effective ones.

This is a very recognizable image associated with winter, and therefore incredibly popular. If you want to present a non-trivial postcard for the holiday, then this is a great choice. You can create a pattern by outlining the mittens, hands. You can also draw a mitten in any shape, of any size, using a ready-made template. When choosing a size, think about what elements will be included in the composition so that there is enough space for everyone. You don't need any special skills to create such a postcard. You can sew the mitten with stitches, for example, on a typewriter or by hand. Do not overload the mitten with decor, in any case it will be incredibly attractive. The mitten can be either double or ordinary, you can think of a suspension or the ability to put it on the table.

You can use the buttons that you have with your sewing accessories or purchase them at a seamstress store. Size, color and quantity are chosen based on the future composition. Use hot glue for gluing. Buttons look great in a half-bead ensemble sold on a backing with adhesive already applied... They are very simple to use. If something does not suit you, you can peel off and move the half-bead to another place by gluing it with a glue gun. The color scheme depends on your idea; beads can be used both matte, matching the buttons, and mother-of-pearl. Christmas trees made of buttons and beads look great. You can add ribbons to this decor.

You can create winter decor on a postcard using snowflakes cut out with a curly hole punch. Snowflakes can be located around a voluminous tree or directly on it. Use liquid pearls to complete an eye-catching composition, and place them on snowflakes, a background or a Christmas tree. Even the simplest ensemble will look much more impressive if you include expressive snowflakes in it.

This is perhaps the most common attribute of the New Year. It is absolutely not necessary to create the most complex curly Christmas trees, a triangle and a trunk are enough to form a Christmas tree image, which is already decorated at will and imagination.

For the New Year, in addition to postcards, you can make a variety of gifts and handicrafts made with your own hands using the scrapbooking technique. This can be a photo frame, a photo album, or a box for the gift itself. To create a unique presentation, you will need materials, a standard set of tools and inspiration.

This is a great way to elegantly decorate a sweet gift. A box of chocolates from a store is now no surprise, but a stylish and original chocolatier with sweets will work for everyone. In addition to sweets, these boxes can be used to present money or other small items. The appearance of the chocolate makers also depends on your taste and the chosen idea, there can be no restrictions here.

The advantage of such a gift is that the chocolate maker can be used in the interior. Of course, if the design is thought out for the stylistic direction of the housing of the gifted. New Year's ideas may not be too intrusive and pretentious, they can be used as additional elements, then the gift will be more universal. To create a drawing of a chocolate box, it is recommended to use ready-made templates - just transfer them to the selected sheet of paper and redraw.

One of the most common options is a beautiful scrapbooking design of an already purchased gift. The magic box using scrap technique is a truly exquisite and unique decor. Anything can be located inside - both a precious thing, money, and a non-trivial trifle. Here, you definitely need to focus on subsequent use in the interior, so it is better to use not only standard New Year's, but also just winter decor. To create you need a template of the right size, paper and decor items.

Such a gift will definitely please, because every person has photos. It is much more pleasant to consider an exquisite, luxurious album, which no one else in the world has anymore, than a standard one from the mass market. Such gifts are often ordered from professionals, but you can create them with your own hands. Album kits are sold in specialty stores. If you are not planning to turn scrapbooking into a hobby, this option is fine for you.

First of all, decide on the form, the method of opening, the number of pages, and only then proceed with the purchase of materials. The simplest album can be created on eyelet rings and place all pages on them. Be sure to think through every page. You can use cloth or paper as a cover.

Decorative toys-decorations for the Christmas tree can be made both for your home and as a gift.Most often, balls and houses are made, although the creation of both animals and trees is real. If you don't already have a scrapbooking skill, start with simple things.

• Scrap ball. Here, first, the required ball circumference is selected. The shape is usually made of corrugated board to create a durable decoration. However, many use ready-made ball-shaped blanks and decorate them according to the chosen composition. If you are making balls for yourself, choose them in the general style of the tree decoration, for example, in one color scheme.
• Christmas tree. To create this decoration, any paper of a suitable theme will come in handy. You can make a lot of scrap Christmas trees, from all the remaining paper, for example. Christmas trees are made in different ways: in a fan manner, they are collected from snowflakes and other figured decor. It all depends only on your imagination!

A delicate card in the shape of a Christmas tree toy with a bow, decorated with a snowflake, half-beads and braid - nothing superfluous, an ideal composition.

Buttons are a great way to create a Christmas ball image. Choose a harmonious backdrop for your decor.

A graceful winter composition created with cones, flowers, lace, braid and leaves.

Don't be afraid to combine different elements, techniques, and ideas. A card-mitten decorated with a snowflake is a very original design.

When creating a frame as a gift, remember that it must fit into the interior.

Don't be afraid to mix and match different elements and techniques. A snowman made of buttons, a Christmas tree made of beads can be placed on different postcards or combined in one ensemble. Christmas trees made of colored pencils of different sizes look incredibly original.

And this is an interesting scrapbooking album. Its creation will not take too long, but the result will be beyond praise.

For information on how to make a house for chocolates with your own hands, see the following video: