Scrapbooking for New Year's with his own hands: from postcards to toys

On the eve of the holidays, winter evenings, like a little dream and plunge into childhood. It was then that it was a real sense of expectation of miracles. And remember, as a child you liked to do everything on their ownAnd each new (albeit small) victory was cause for pride? And still remember how you prepared New Year's cards your loved ones how much love and effort you put into them! Together, let us return to this in the New Year days. The theme of this material from HouseShief.ru - crafts in the style of scrapbooking for the New Year with their own hands.

Scrapbooking: technology basics

Scrapbooking - it's skill in design framework, Albums and greeting cards.

The main mistake beginners - the lack of a sense of proportion. Excessive decoration in the design of work overload and turns it into a tasteless pile of spare parts.

Guarantee - the observance of uniform style and a skilful combination of different directions. There are a few general rules that will help you move in the right direction:

• Photo with an abundance of details and small images should be selected neutral background of muted shades;
• background colors should overlap with the colors in the photo;
• bright substrate should not detract from the content of photos;
• It can not be too close to each other photo zoom, better position them away and beat background.

This is the basics of creating tracks. And what is necessary for their production?

What will it take to work

It is not necessary to acquire professional tools for the first experience. Everything you need is at your fingertips:

• good Edged scissors - large and small, of manicure;
• stationery knife that sits comfortably in the hand;
• a pair of metal lines - short and authentic;
• pens - simple and colored pens and colored markers;
• hole punch, start by the most simple, stationery;
• stapler with some staples;
• glue - glue stick or PVA;
• double sided tape to create a volumetric compositions and fixing photos;
• mat or board, preferably with centimeter markings.

Materials for scrapbooking

For decoration you can use a variety of stuff. Useful to you colorful beads, sequins and shiny pebbles. Stock up on rhinestones, you can collect them from some old sweaters. Useful buttons, ribbons, elastics and different pieces of lace.

scrapbooking techniques

This kind of needlework there are several techniques that help create unique compositions.

Note! Scrapbooking - not a strict art. You can easily combine it with origami pergamano or quilling.

For some lines, you can use the original techniques, for example, write them by hand or use an unusual font. Originally looks spiral text or oblique lines that go directly to the photo. An interesting technique - large letters of felt or cardboard. If required by the idea, even appropriate blots.

Christmas scrapbooking ideas

This can needlework embody all that is associated with the winter magic. Variety snowflakes, Christmas trees, Snow houses - all of this is easy to beat with the help of decor.

How to make your own hands postcards scrapbooking techniques for the New Year

Before you start to cut and paste, make a kind of rough draft of their work. It can draw or just spread out the details so as to visualize the result. Add and remove components until you get the perfect composition. Pay attention to the color combinations and patterns. If not confident in their abilities - do not be afraid to use templates. No one is forcing you to strictly follow this pattern.

Do not hesitate to study the works of the masters, the network has a lot of useful examples. Keep an eye tricks and feel free to use them in his work.

Always think about the quality of work. Scrapbooking does not tolerate negligence, smudges of glue or fingerprints. Always ensure that the composition is formed around the main decoration or content. In the design of the photo is, of course, photography itself, as in a postcard - the central element of which will be bigger and brighter than the rest.

Here are some examples of work that could serve as an inspiration to you.

Postcards mittens are very suitable for Christmas greetings:

Use the buttons for registration of congratulations. Of these, you can collect a snowflake or Christmas tree:

Halves perfect beads are attached to the paper and look very attractive, that such ideas:

Sales have sequins in the shape of snowflakes of different colors. Use them to registration cards.

New toy in the art scrapbooking

The technique of scrapbooking can be done and the New Year toy. Here is a detailed master-class on the creation of such an asterisk:

Illustration	Description of the action
	To work you will need a piece of cloth, preferably linen, thread, stuffing padding polyester, tulle, cardboard, paint with mother of pearl, carving, lace and sequins for decoration, ribbons.
	Prepare a template star made of paper, draw around it on the cloth, folded in two layers.
	Secure layers pins sew stitches and large sprocket rays.
	The same pattern cut asterisk of tulle, but make it a little less basic.
	Cut a star out of the fabric. On the reverse side Make a small cross-shaped incision and fill the interior of synthetic padding toys.
	Apply the mask to the workpiece with a lace motif and put it through the slit Pearl Paint.
	Choose decorations that you like. You can use beads, buttons, snowflakes, paper, beads, lace. Use ready-made pictures for scrapbooking in the New Year. Fix everything on the glue.
	Add a little white paint around the edges, do the drops and careless strokes.
	On the back side of the toy, which remained after the synthetic padding hole filling paste tulle workpiece.
	Tulle on top of a cardboard pocket for secure cards. Use a pocket stamp design.
	Such a toy-card you can give to friends. Do not forget to sew the elastics so that they can hang the toy on the Christmas tree.

Examples of the Christmas-tree toy in the style of scrapbooking for 2019 New Year

Master class: scrapbooking-Chocolate New Year

Even the most humble gift - chocolate - can be arranged so that it will turn into a real masterpiece. And make it very simple:

Illustration	Description of the action
	Dimensions Chocolate machines must comply with the present. To do this, just prepare the chocolate. For boxes you need paper, kraft or paperboard.
	Make a box the size of sweetness. The fold lines are marked in red.
	Okleyte paper box with a pattern not only externally but also internally.
	Using double sided tape, stick decor. Thick tape will give a volume of clearance. You can buy ready-made kits for the New Year for scrapbooking or design your own pick.

By the same principle, you can do not only for packaging of sweets, but also for other Gifts for the New Year. Scrapbooking in this case may look like this:

Video: Master-class on making New Year's album

At the end of the theme, we offer you a look at a very useful workshop for the production of Christmas albums. This wonderful gift will love your family:

Create your Christmas mood with his hands! This will help you prepare exclusive gifts for friends and relatives, as well as to feel the approach of winter wonderland. If you too are doing something for the holiday in the technique of scrapbooking, share your experience in the comments