Scrapbooking: New Year cards with own hands

Engineering and Materials for the "New Year" scrapbooking is not enoughdiffer from traditional ones. Only the subjects and motifs are changed. You can make New Year cards with your own hands on the traditional, familiar to us from childhood stories (Santa Claus, Snow Maiden, Christmas tree), and you can bring a few Western Christmas motifs (stockings on the fireplace, bells).

Where to get motives for New Year's cards? There are several options. If you are able and like to draw, you can draw the story of your postcard yourself. If you are afraid that you will not succeed, we can offer other options:

• translate your favorite drawing through a carbon paper and paint it


• cut out a drawing from a children's coloring book


• download ready-made digital scrapbooking kit online


• use drawings from ready-made cards (for example, you can make a postcard in retro style from an old Soviet postcard)

In addition to the drawing, which usually makes up the center of the composition, for decorating New Year's cards with your own hands, you can use:

• flowers and plants (poinsettia, holly); leaves can be made from paper, berries - from beads, beads or draw with a volumetric marker


• snowflakes (ready-made or hand-made with stamps, punching or embossing)


• stars (ready or made by hand)


• Wreaths and Christmas tree branches (made with a punch or from green ribbons)


• Christmas trees from different materials


• Christmas balls (made by hand or using stamps)


• ribbons, bows of them


• buttons


• rhinestones

The most common colors for the New Year's scrapbooking is blue andblue, a combination of red and green, gold and silver. In order to give a holiday card, you can use a variety of glitters and multicolored glitters.

An essential attribute of the New Year is the brilliant fluffy snow. We offer you several ways creating snow on New Year's cards in the technique of scrapbooking:

• pieces of white or blue felt


• rice or mulberry paper (it should not be cut, but torn to shreds)


• wadding


• fleecy fabrics - fur, velvet, fleece, flock and the like; so that the snow poured, you can take a cloth with lurex


• mix flower soft for creating floral effects of white color


• white ready pom-poms (for example, to create snowmen)


• chopped foam


• rhinestones and half-beads


• special substances: hot embossing, liquid application, puffy gel


• glitter and transparent microbiisor


• foil


• translucent materials: parchment paper, vellum, tracing paper


• Adhesive, becoming transparent when dry (can be mixed with glitter)


• starched knitted snowflakes


• paper filigree snowflakes (quilling technique)


• ready accessories in the form of snowflakes (pendants, sequins, buttons, eyelets)

As you can see, it is not difficult to make New Year cards in scrapbooking technique if you show your imagination and have patience. Just in case, we will remind you the main advice to beginner scrapbooker:

1. Use only high-quality materials and tools - this directly affects the beauty of the postcard.


2. Seven times measure cut once. First carefully think over the composition of the New Year's postcard, lay out all the elements and only then paste. Scrapbooking involves the presence of a large number of elements, but the postcard should not be overloaded.


3. Thinking about the design of the postcard, consider the interests of the addressee.


4. Do not forget to leave on the postcard a place for New Year's greetings.

Scrapbooking requires considerable time and money, but the result is worth it. Give joy to your family and friends New Year postcards, which you made with your own hands in the technique of scrapbooking!