Bulk postcards with own hands: how to do, postcard templates

Volumetric card with your hands: scheme

First, let's define the necessary materials and tools. We need:

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  color frame for postcard 11 × 14 cm


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  cardstock


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  decorative paper for scrapbooking or stickers


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  elastic


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  bead 6 × 8 mm


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  scissors or a knife


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  pencil, ruler, eraser


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  glue stick


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  pin


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  pattern for the inside

We choose the design of the future postcard. We used patriotic themes, so the main color is red, and the decorative paper is adorned with scarlet and blue stars. To congratulate on February 23, the green or blue background is also suitable.

3D postcards for your father

We begin work on a volumetric card by our own hands:

1. 
   first of all, create a foundation, pay attention to the following scheme;


2. 
   take two rectangles of 11 × 14 cm and add themin half in length. Cut from the white cardstock another rectangle, 3 × 9 cm. Apply the cardboard to the bend of one of the long parts and outline, pay attention to the photo: you should get the same.
   

   
   Do the same with the second part. If the pencil lines are left, erase them;

   
   


3. 
   expand our workpieces. On one of them, make two notches above and below the inner side of the fold. On the second it is necessary to make the same incisions, only with the outer;


4. 
   now it remains to connect our voluminous postcard. Gently bend the part with external incisions and connect it to the part, on which the inner notches. The paper must "stand in the grooves". A sign that you have done everything right will be a uniform workpiece on the surface;


5. 
   so that the article does not look monotonous, you canglue some faces with colored paper. Spread it with glue and attach to cardboard, cut off the remains with scissors. If the assistants are a kid, then he will like to decorate a postcard for the pope with funny colorful stickers;


6. 
   cut out a white cardstock rectangle 5 × 8 cm. We decorate it on both sides. On one can be written congratulation, on the other drawing is executed. A beautiful template, for example, with a picture of a red star, is easy to print from the Internet and paste. Here you can give complete freedom to your own imagination;


7. 
   it remains only to hang our jewelry. To do this, we cut off 25 cm of thread or gum, we make a hole in the central part of the cardboard rectangle and thread a thread into it. Above we tie a knot. We connect the long ends together and pass them into the decorative bead, again we tie it. Now we extend the thread to the top of the postcard, it will be hidden between the front and back sides. At the top create an inconspicuous bundle and cut off the tips.

A voluminous postcard to my father is ready.

It looks unusual and funny. Based on the suggested templates and schemes, you can develop your own unique design.