The easiest way to decorate a house or room in a kindergarten, school, at work with paper products. An unusual but simple solution would be to make vytynanka for the New Year 2020, which templates can be printed out completely free of charge on our website (scroll down below). The products are suitable for decorating windows, walls, ceilings. By the same principle, you can decorate gingerbread cookies, postcards or holiday masks.
Vytynanka: what is it, the story of origin
Carved paper designs are known in many countries. The first information about such clippings is found in ancient China, then the art spread to Japan and Korea. Ornaments are called vytynanka in the Ukrainian manner, since such crafts were created mainly in Ukraine and Belarus. The most common material for making scrapbooks is paper, although in ancient times the technique was also used on leather household items, tree leaves, and fabric.
Vytynanki are suitable for decorating walls, windows, shelves, chimneys, stoves. With the help of this art, it is possible to make large decorations that can replace a curtain. The technique is used for the manufacture of various crafts, as well as in cooking.
Classification of paper clippings:
- openwork;
- silhouette;
- single - from 1 sheet;
- complex - in the form of an applique, usually multi-colored.
According to the technique of execution, protrudings are distinguished - figurines, sockets, trees, ribbons, wallpaper, curtains, toys, exhibition clippings.
How to use ready-made stencils?
Those who have been engaged in clipping for a long time are able to create masterpieces from a blank sheet of paper. For the rest, it will be difficult to make a beautiful pattern without first drawing a picture. The easiest way to make a vytynanka is to print the template on a printer, and then carefully walk along the lines with scissors or a sharp stationery knife.
Sequencing:
- Find a suitable stencil.
- By clicking on the right button of the computer mouse, select "Save Image As" from the menu.
- In the window that appears, select the desired folder or specify the Desktop, the file itself can be renamed.
- Open the picture, select the "Print" command from the menu.
- Print templates for cutting.
- Elements that need to be removed can be lightly shaded with a simple pencil to simplify the task.
- Carefully cut along the contours with scissors or a utility knife.
A stencil on windows for the New Year 2020 can be used not only for paper, but also for thin sheets of foam or plywood. It is enough to transfer the drawing to the selected material and carefully cut it with a sharp stationery knife or hacksaw.
Recessed windows
The easiest way to create a New Year's mood is to decorate the glass with snow-white New Year's pots and hang an LED garland. To meet the upcoming 2020, you can use the following ideas:
- mouse or rat;
- snowflakes;
- tree;
- Santa Claus;
- Snow Maiden;
- snowman;
- deer;
- bullfinches;
- bell;
- Christmas sock;
- Christmas balls;
- sleigh of Santa Claus;
- New Year's houses;
- plots from Russian or foreign fairy tales.
When cutting, it is advisable to put a dense base under the paper - a cutting board, a piece of plywood, a stack of newspapers or magazines. This will protect the table surface from being damaged by a sharp tool.
Symbol of 2020
The coming year will be marked by the White Metal Rat. In fact, the Chinese calendar will change the totem animal only on January 25, but many prefer to use the symbol already when the past calendar year leaves - January 1. You don't have to make a realistic rat or mouse.To create a New Year's vytynanka for 2020, it is permissible to depict an animal schematically or choose a cartoon or movie hero:
- Jerry from Tom and Jerry;
- mice from "Cat Leopold";
- Stuart Little;
- Remy from Ratatouille;
- Mouserik;
- rat Lariska from "Cheburashka and Gena the Crocodile".
In addition to the symbol of the year, you can cut out the numbers themselves - 2020 from paper. There are many carved and curly varieties of such New Year stencils for windows.
Large protrusions
It is possible to make a massive cut from any image. It is enough to go to a graphics editor and change the size of the image. Problems may arise with printing, because not every home has an A1 industrial printer. For this reason, the image can be divided into several parts and printed on plain A4 sheets. Then carefully glue it into one large drawing. Another way is to assemble a composition from several separate protrusions.
Christmas balls
Such clippings on the windows look beautiful, especially together with the image of a Christmas tree paw, snowflakes, toys.
Interesting templates for cutting Christmas balls:
Snowflakes
Even without knowing anything about the vytynanka, many made them in childhood, cutting out snow-white carved snowflakes on the windows from paper. The decoration is the most popular and simplest one to create a festive atmosphere before the New Year. You can fold the paper several times in the old fashioned way and cut out the pattern you like. We suggest creating a smoother, more symmetrical decoration using one of the stencils below:
Santa Claus sleigh
It is not necessary to make complex vytynanka, it is permissible to depict the sled schematically.
Templates with the image of Santa Claus sleigh:
New Year's houses
Snow-covered hills and carved snow-white huts look especially beautiful on New Year's windows. The house can be made one large or cut out several small silhouettes that are part of the overall composition. It is advisable to place white clippings on the glass surface so that they are clearly visible from afar.
Stencils of New Year's houses can be downloaded below:
New Year and Christmas socks
These decorations are more suitable for European countries and America, but are becoming popular and.
Christmas and New Year's sock templates can be downloaded below:
Fairy tale characters
The most common New Year's heroes are Santa Claus, Snow Maiden, snowman, deer. The list can be supplemented with Santa Claus, forest animals, birds. The size of the protrusions can be made to any size by reducing or enlarging the image on the computer before printing the stencil. This decor is ideal for windows, walls, a Christmas tree.
Christmas stencils for gingerbread
Templates may be needed in two cases - when you need to cut small figures from a large layer of gingerbread cake, or you need to decorate finished products with a pattern of mastic. The latter option is much more common, since there is no shortage of baking tins.
Ingredients for making mastic:
- 100 g marshmallows;
- 2 tbsp. l. lemon juice;
- 1 tbsp. l. butter or cooking oil;
- powdered sugar.
How to cook:
- Melt a mixture of marshmallows, juice and butter in the microwave.
- Stir thoroughly until smooth.
- Sift the icing sugar, pour into the resulting mass in such an amount that the mastic is soft, pliable, does not stick to your hands.
- Food coloring can be added with the powder.
- Cover the gingerbread with a base of thinly rolled mastic, attaching it with a mixture of honey and vodka, prepared in a 1: 2 ratio.
- Using printed stencils, cut out a colorful pattern, glue the base on top.
New Year masks
The protruding technique is great for carnival masks. It is recommended to use cardboard as a basis, although the stencil itself can be printed on plain paper.The finished product needs to be painted, covered with glitter, decorated with decorative elements.
Paper clippings as a form of applied art are known in many countries around the world. Vytynanki can be made of paper or other materials, the main thing is to work with sharp tools. You can come up with a drawing yourself or use ready-made stencils. Scrapbook templates can be downloaded for free on our website.
