New Year's cards using scrapbooking technique

New Year's cards using the scrapbooking technique are becoming more and more popular every year, as they make it possible to arrange congratulations in any style with your own hands, without having any special skills. Simple step-by-step instructions for beginners are available to almost everyone. Giving and receiving a gift, unusual and exclusive, for the New Year or Christmas is much more pleasant than postcards from the mass market. We offer you master classes and ideas for inspiration that will make all your fantasies come true.

First of all, let's deal with the concept of scrapbooking, which actually translates as a scrapbook. Of course, during its development, the skill has reached a completely different level, includes many techniques, methods, allows you to use a variety of decor. Despite the seeming complexity, scrapbooking can be mastered by almost anyone who has the time for this and has prepared the necessary materials and tools.

There are three main types of techniques:

• stamping - the easiest way to create an ensemble of small pictures, drawings, this is done using rubber or silicone dies;
• distressing - allows you to artificially age paper materials using craquelure coating and other special liquids;
• embossing - with its help, you can form compositions with voluminous details, bulges can be achieved with special powder or stencils.

The masters have combined a lot of information on the design of postcards into a few general rules that a beginner must study. This will save him from mistakes and make the process much more pleasant and comfortable.

• Making a draft. Whenever you start to create, think over your idea and transfer it to paper. What appears to be beautiful in the imagination may require major changes to be tested. To avoid having to start all over again in the middle of work, organize your ideas.
• Thinking over the composition. Without this, it is simply not worth starting work - after the idea appears in your head, think it over well. When the general concept is formed, you can proceed to the selection of materials.
• Use ready-made templates. If you're taking your first steps in scrapbooking, don't be afraid to use sketches.
• Determine the center. Any composition should have a central figure around which all other, additional and accent elements are located. All of them should look organic in color, style, theme.
• Get inspired. It is impossible to create "out of hand", or when you do not know what you want at all. Therefore, feel free to look for ideas for inspiration in books, magazines, works of other masters, nature.
• Don't forget about quality... The postcard will then be really effective and original when it is thought out, the elements are harmonious, everything is selected and aesthetically decorated.
• Feel free to experiment. Creativity is impossible without some courage and ability to look for non-standard solutions.

So that not only the result will please you with an amazing postcard, but the process itself will bring pleasure, you need to take care of the availability of the necessary materials and tools.

The so-called starter kit should include:

• a set of special paper scrap material of different sizes, structures, prints in the chosen theme, that is, for the winter and new year;
• a stationery set, which includes: pencils, rulers, erasers, scissors;
• a hole punch with the ability to create figures - it is he who will make you as many snowflakes, stars, trees, flowers, balls, and other patterned elements;
• scissors with curly blades to form spectacular cuts;
• metal cutter;
• varied decor, there are no limits for imagination: details from felt, stones and rhinestones, half beads, beads, flowers, ribbons and braid, lace and fabric, glitter, feathers.

In order for the postcard to be truly unique, beautiful and original, you need to choose a design style. It can be vintage, abstraction, classical compositions - the main thing is that all the elements in it are harmonious. There are a number of New Year's attributes with which we associate the winter holidays. This, of course, is an elegant Christmas tree, reindeer and sleighs, Santa Claus and Snow Maiden, bells, Christmas balls, snowflakes.

In addition, items that are associated with winter fit perfectly into the ensemble: mittens, sleds, snowmen, a Christmas wreath. The symbol of the New Year on the Eastern calendar is another idea for inspiration. Any of these items can be the centerpiece of your postcard. In addition to the standard set of decorative elements, feel free to use unusual details: pencils, buttons.

If you want to really be original, create a postcard with a cinnamon scent that will highlight the holiday mood... To do this, take scrap paper, hold it in cinnamon coffee and dry it.

We offer you the most original master classes on creating New Year's cards.

An original scrap-mitten is a fairly simple way to present a truly unusual present for the holidays. First of all, form a template: it can be a real hand-drawn mitten, or a ready-made template that is not a problem to find on the Internet. The size of the future postcard is determined by you yourself, just match it with the decor you will be using.

After creating a template, you need to transfer it to the selected material, circle and cut. Next, you should fold it, if the postcard is double, and do the decor. These can be stitches with woolen thread, buttons, pendants.

A beautiful design can be created using ordinary buttons, using those that are at home, or purchased from the sewing department of the store. The buttons are matched to the color of the overall composition, they must match the background. Buttons can be arranged randomly, in the form of letters, trees, snowflakes.

Feel free to combine them with half beads and other rounded decor. Buttons are fixed with glue, half-beads may already have an adhesive backing. The color of the composition, as well as the texture you choose, the material can be matte, glossy, with shine / mother-of-pearl.

A winter composition with snowflakes is one of the most win-win solutions. They can be cut with a special hole punch or by hand from ready-made templates. The decor looks spectacular, where the center is a spruce surrounded by fluttering snowflakes.

Moreover, they can be voluminous or smooth, at your request. If you have created too simple decor and want to revive it, add snowflakes - they are always appropriate in a New Year's ensemble. Don't be afraid to combine different details and techniques. A card mitten with snowflakes looks very nice.

It is not surprising that the forest beauty is a frequent guest in the New Year's decor. If you want to make a beautiful card with a spectacular Christmas tree, try this step-by-step algorithm.

You will need:

• cardboard;
• special paper with the selected print;
• office;
• threads;
• printed greetings;
• decor;
• hole punch with curly capabilities.

Sequence of execution:

• form a cardboard blank, outline a fold and iron it;
• glue scrap paper in all directions, sew by hand or on a typewriter, forming stitches along the edges;
• cut out a cardboard triangle shape according to the size of the planned tree;
• Wrap multi-colored threads of different textures around the triangle, acting randomly, chaotically;
• make sure that the cardboard does not show through;
• fix the tree in the center of the card with glue;
• decorate it at will with beads, half-beads, stones, rhinestones, sequins, put a star on the top of the head;
• at the bottom, glue a ribbon, ribbon or lace, on which place an inscription with congratulations;
• Finish the composition with snowflakes circling the fir tree.

How to make a DIY scrapbooking New Year's card, see the next video.