On the great feast of the Resurrection of Christ, colored eggs and Easter cakes are usually presented. DIY Easter cards will be a good addition to a basket of Easter cakes and colorful eggs. In the process of making gif.webpts, children will also take part with pleasure, who are always happy to take on any creativity. How to make a postcard for Easter?
Easter card ideas
Postcards are most often decorated with images of Easter symbols.
First you need to decide what the main motive should be on a homemade postcard. Usually, such drawings are chosen:
- Images of temples;
- Spring flowers, grass, sun, willow twigs;
- Cute animals and birds: chickens with hen, rabbits, birds;
- Easter treats: Easter cakes, colored eggs, cottage cheese Easter.
Ideas can be very different, it is not necessary to adhere to narrow frames in choosing a picture. Imagine and create to make your Easter gif.webpt truly soulful and unusual.
Easter is a religious holiday, therefore, postcards should be made in the appropriate theme. For example, three-dimensional volumetric postcards for Easter will look very impressive. But it is not at all necessary to depict temples, bells, faces of saints. After all, Great Sunday is also a holiday when people rejoice at the arrival of spring, the warm rays of the sun, and the singing of birds. While making children's crafts, be sure to tell the kids what Easter means, the story of the life and resurrection of Jesus Christ, what are the symbols of Great Sunday. Children will learn a lot of new information and get down to creativity with even greater enthusiasm.
Easter Egg Cards
This can be a simple option that even a child can handle. Or you can try to get a voluminous DIY greeting card for Easter.
How to make a postcard using decorative paper:
- Fold thick cardboard in half to make the base for the postcard.
- Cut the egg template out of thick paper.
- Attach the template to the base, cut out cardboard along the contours of the Easter egg.
- From the inside, glue a piece of decorative multi-colored paper so that it covers the cut out hole.
- Finally, glue the entire inner side with decorative paper.
- It remains to write congratulations on Easter.
DIY paper cards for Easter can be made like this:
- Use scissors to cut three eggs out of thick white cardboard.
- Create a pattern on cardboard eggs using colorful paper, decorative tape, scrapbooking paper. Glue the colored pieces in random order to create an interesting pattern.
- Take colored decorative cardboard and make a base for a future gif.webpt out of it. Glue a square of plain thick paper in the middle.
- Glue colorful Easter eggs onto the base.
Quilling technique
This Easter gif.webpt looks really luxurious. What you need to create a DIY Easter card using the quilling technique:
- Take a plain decorative cardboard and cut out the base in the shape of an Easter egg.
- Cut off pieces of colored ribbons and glue 5-6 pieces to the base.
- Next, we start making a decoration - a flower using the quilling technique. In specialty stores for creativity, you will find quilling paper and a tool with which to curl paper strips.
- After the flower has turned out from paper strips, glue it on the side, decorate the middle with a bead or small button.
Scrapbooking technique
Very beautiful DIY Easter cards are obtained using the scrapbooking technique.
All the necessary materials for work can be found in the creative store. Prepare the following:
- Decorative cardboard;
- Scrap paper;
- Ribbons, lace;
- Artificial flowers, beads, beads.
Cut out the base in the shape of an Easter egg from colored cardboard. Cut out the same template from scrap paper by attaching a cardboard blank to the paper. Glue the paper template to the cardboard one, decorate with ribbons, lace, paper flowers, beads, beads.
Cut a small rectangle out of cardboard and write your Easter greetings on it. Use a hole punch to punch holes in the rectangle and on the card. Attach your congratulations with a satin ribbon.
If you have never encountered the scrapbooking technique before, watch the video master class: DIY Easter card.
Easter card with embroidery
A decorative paper gif.webpt can be decorated with embroidery. On a dense blank of white cardboard, glue a slightly smaller rectangle made of decorative cardboard with a pattern, and inside - an even smaller rectangle of pastel colors. You will get an unusual frame, inside which, using wide stitches, embroider an image of an Easter egg, a rabbit's face or any other pattern.
Important! Do not embroider on a thin paper blank - it may break during the embroidery process.
Images of chickens and chickens
Make DIY Easter cards with your children - this will be a useful pastime for children. Most of all they enjoy working with appliqués. On the basis for the future Easter gif.webpt, you need to glue the parts previously cut out of colored paper to get an image of chickens and hens. Very young children who do not yet know how to cut out of paper can be offered to glue ready-made parts. Children will love the appliques with toy eyes for chickens and hens. Also invite them to decorate the birds with bows, butterflies, flowers. And do not forget to write congratulations on the bright holiday of Easter together.
You can simplify the task and print ready-made drawings, and then cut out the figures. All that remains is to stick them on thick cardboard and add small details.
Postcard with material applique
Come up with a plot of a future Easter gif.webpt, for example, a rabbit holding a basket of colored eggs in its paws. Cut out patterns of a rabbit, eggs, baskets from multi-colored patches of fabric of different textures. You can diversify the drawing with the sun, clouds, flowers. Glue the prepared templates onto the base for the postcard, thus collecting the plot picture.
The card can be decorated with applique flowers in a vase, chickens on the lawn, Easter eggs in a basket with a bow, Easter cake, etc. Use beads, beads, ribbons, lace as decoration.
DIY pussy willow
A picture with a willow twig will look unusual. To make it you will need:
- Wire;
- Brown and blue paper;
- Decorative cardboard;
- Shiny braid;
- Glue gun;
- Scissors, glue;
- Cotton wool.
Makes an Easter picture:
- Fold the cardboard in half, glue a slightly smaller sheet of blue paper to the front side to make a small frame around the edges.
- Carefully wrap the pieces of wire with strips of brown paper to imitate willow twigs.
- Make willow buds from small cotton balls, glue them to the branches.
- Glue a shiny bow to the branches at the bottom.
Original postcards for Easter
There are many options for original postcards. An Easter gif.webpt can be made from anything, such as star-shaped pasta. First, they need to be painted in different colors, and then with the help of a glue gun, stick them on the base of the Easter picture, which can be cut out in the shape of an egg.The stars are used to create a beautiful pattern on the Easter egg. Instead of stars, you can use colored pasta of various shapes.
Pictures in the form of Easter eggs made of paper x lace napkins will look unusual. On a cardboard base, glue a template cut from an openwork napkin, and then paint the egg in different colors.
Make a touching Easter pattern with baby fingerprints. Cut the grass out of green paper, stick it on a cardboard base. Let the kids dip their toes in yellow paint and leave prints on the grass that will represent chickens. It remains only to draw the paws, eyes, combs, wings and eyes for the chickens.
Easter cards will be a great addition to a gif.webpt. Of course, you can buy a ready-made drawing, or you can do it yourself, fantasizing, coming up with a plot and technique of execution. Of course, the second option is much more interesting and pleasant for the person to whom the gif.webpt will be intended.
