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Do-it-yourself clamshell cards for birthday. An interesting and original do-it-yourself clamshell card. The other side of the moon, i.e. clamshell cards

- an amazing technique that allows us to make incredible masterpieces for absolutely any occasion. Here you are going, for example, to a colleague or friend for a birthday and decided to give money. As they say money in money, spent and forgotten, and from the very atmosphere of the holiday nothing will remain. And already to give money in a beautiful, gentle, but at the same time bright postcard, which will then remain for all long memory, and even write some sincere or unforgettable poems or congratulations in it, believe me, this will already be a pleasant and unexpected memory for all life. Why did we say unexpected? Because it will not be a simple postcard, but handmade, which is done from the heart and with pure and sincere love. And its peculiarity will be that it will be made in an unusual folding form. We will consider a master class on making such a masterpiece right now.

To make a postcard, we take:

  • Watercolor paper 22 cm by 40.5 cm;
  • Lilac scrap paper, two sheets of 30 * 30 cm from the Happy Day collection;
  • Pictures with different flower arrangements, butterflies, the Eiffel Tower;
  • A congratulation poem printed on a lilac background, as well as a personalized inscription "Happy Birthday, Lyudmila!";
  • Cut out elements: Butterflies, flowers, leaves, napkin, hearts, all in lilac-purple color;
  • Border hole punch;
  • 3-D hole punch butterfly;
  • Half-beads pearl beige and lilac;
  • Lace lilac;
  • Satin purple ribbons 3 mm and 5 mm wide;
  • Stamens in bouquets are lilac;
  • Flower lilac fabric cornflower;
  • The middle with lilac rhinestones;
  • Lilac satin ribbon 25 mm wide;
  • Paper white and lilac rose;
  • Lilac paper hydrangea;
  • Glue stick;
  • Ink pink pad;
  • Thermal gun;
  • Double-sided tape;
  • Simple pencil;
  • Ruler and scissors.


Lay out the watercolor paper and divide it by the appropriate sizes. We leave 22 cm in height, and divide the top and bottom in width into parts 15 cm, 15 cm and 10.5 cm.On the right side, we divide the 11 cm side in half.



Now we connect the upper left corner and connect it under the ruler with the right side in the center. We draw a solid line.



We also connect the top and bottom points under the ruler and draw bend lines. Cut off the upper wedge.



Fold in half from right to left, and now again from left to right.



Thus, we have got such a complex folding base. Cut off two strips of tape 25 mm wide.



We glue the back of the base with pieces of double-sided tape. So she will then be tied with a bow. Now we extinguish the entire base on all edges with a pillow.



Now we take scrap paper and cut off two such quadrangles for each side of the postcard.



With a curb hole punch, we make strips from the remains of paper. We glue these strips to the top of each quadrangle. Now we take pictures, felling, poems and an inscription and put them into five quadrangles. The sixth one we simply glue with double-sided tape on the back on the base of the postcard.



We sew all our clippings on a typewriter. Now we glue all the scraped squares onto the base with double-sided tape.

You can't surprise anyone with an ordinary postcard. So I got the idea to make a 3 D card with flowers. It is not difficult to make it, but it looks unusual and interesting. Such a postcard will be remembered for a long time.

To make a postcard, we need:
- a sheet of double-sided colored cardboard (the base of the postcard) of any color;
- double-sided colored paper (for flowers) of any color;
- pencil glue;
- scissors;
- pencil;
- markers.
Step 1. Cut out 7 squares 10x10 cm from double-sided colored paper.


Step 2. Fold the square 3 times to make a triangle.


Step 3. Draw a petal.


Step 4. Cut out and open.



Step 5. In this way we make all 7 flowers.


Step 7. With a blue and blue felt-tip pen, draw small strokes from the middle, also along the edges of the flower. We leave two petals unpainted!


Step 8. Also color in the rest of all 7 flowers.


Step 9. Cut out one of the unpainted petals. We do the same with the rest of the colors.


Step 10. Coat the remaining unpainted petal with glue and connect it to the adjacent petal. It should be voluminous. We do all other flowers as well.





Step 11. Take 3 flowers. We bend each flower in half. Mark crosses on one of the flowers. We coat those places marked with a cross with glue and there we glue the other 2 flowers bent in half.



Step 12. We coat the places marked with a cross with glue and glue another flower bent in half.


Step 13. Put crosses again, glue these places with glue and glue 2 more flowers bent in half.


Step 14. Put crosses again, coat with glue and glue one flower bent in half.

I would like to bring to your attention one type of paper handling - creating pop up postcards. What it is? After all, the term may seem unfamiliar. But this only seems to be - after all, for sure in your childhood there were clamshell books that surprised with volumetric images ... In our family, for example, there was such a book about three pigs ... Yes, and in the lessons in children's art studios, you could also be introduced to this method of turning flat a sheet of paper - into a three-dimensional, three-dimensional. It seems like magic, but nothing complicated, in fact, is not.


Having mastered this template, you can not only use ready-made templates, but also come up with your own, which is much more interesting 🙂

Start simple - cut a piece of paper in half. One half will be working, and the other will serve as the background for the finished postcard. It can be temporarily postponed.

Fold the resulting sheet in half and cut through the parallel lines (4 pairs).

IMPORTANT! Cut lines should not exceed half of the sheet, or they will protrude beyond the edges of the card when you fold it.

Fold the card, curving the resulting rectangles as shown in the photo.

Now cut out a few pieces to glue to the postcard. In this example, we used pictures with balloons and a wish for good luck. Glue them to the postcard.

Now you can glue the resulting postcard to the previously set aside.

Now you can add any other small elements to the card - grass, balls - whatever you want ...

In the same way, you can write - "happy birthday", make a meadow of flowers or a forest. Although this is not the only way. For labels, I usually use a different volume creation option that I'll show you shortly.

Let's try to move away from boring standard rectangular postcards and make a large postcard with an unusual shape. It will look great when you or your loved ones stand on the shelf.

To create an unusual large postcard, you will need the following materials and tools:

-watercolor paper for the base of the postcard (size 15 cm by 30 cm)
-paper for scrapbooking (size 15 cm by 30 cm)
-stamp pad of a suitable color
-capron tape (length 30 cm, width 3 cm)
-adornments (butterflies, flowers, rhinestones, pearls)
-stationery knife
- ordinary and curly scissors
-ruler
- paper glue
-Double-sided tape
- double-sided glue squares or scotch tape

Let's take a watercolor paper for a card template. Let's draw lines on it as shown in picture # 1. Lines that should be cut with a clerical knife are highlighted in red. Then we bend the workpiece along vertical lines.

Then take a scrap paper rectangle. We will cut out pieces from it, which we will glue to our workpiece. We need 2 rectangles measuring 14.8 cm by 4.8 cm, 1 rectangle measuring 6.8 cm by 9.8 cm, 4 rectangles measuring 3.8 cm by 4.8 cm, 2 rectangles measuring 6.8 cm by 4 , 8 cm, 2 rectangles measuring 9.8 cm by 3.8 cm.

Now we take a stamp pad and tint it first with a watercolor blank for a postcard, and then all the pieces of scrap paper that we cut.

Next, we will glue scrap paper on our future postcard. I advise you to start gluing everything on the right side. When all the paper except the first front side is glued, we take the nylon tape, attach it to the rest of it and glue the last scrap paper on it.
(photo # 7,8,9) - if possible, turn photo # 7 180 degrees clockwise

Now we just decorate the postcard as you wish. You can make a window where there will be congratulations. To do this, cut out a square with curly scissors, glue it on scrap paper and cut it out again with curly scissors. Glue the square to the card.

There are times when you want to complement your gift with some kind of festive accessory, but a classic postcard is not suitable for the occasion. For such cases, there is a great variety of postcards with a non-standard design and one of them is a clamshell postcard. I offer you a master class in which I will show you how to make a clamshell postcard using the technique with your own hands.

How to make a clamshell postcard?

Required tools and materials:

  • colored cardboard, scrap paper;
  • pictures and inscriptions;
  • jewelry to taste (beads, pendants, brads, rhinestones, etc.);
  • scissors, stationery knife, ruler;
  • glue, double-sided tape;
  • sewing machine (optional).

You can create such a card for any holiday and even decorate with photos, but I decided to make just a very bright card for a schoolgirl girl.

Progress:

  1. The size of any postcard can vary according to your wishes, but in this MK we will take a standard size as a basis. And the first step is to make cuts and scoring - where a solid line is drawn, an incision is made. On the dotted line, it is necessary to make a crease (push through the fold) - I made it with a ruler and a teaspoon handle.
  2. Now let's prepare the paper - cut it into pieces of the required size. I took the remnants of bright paper from one set - this allowed me to create a very cheerful and positive image.

  3. We glue the details on one side of the postcard. If you also chose paper of bright colors, then do not forget that, despite the apparent mess, the details must match.

  4. We carefully sew all the details and do not forget to make sure that when turning (and, given the shape of the postcard, there will be a lot of them), the corners and the base itself are not crumpled. It is better to immediately calculate the direction of the line.

  5. We will also immediately sew paper parts for the reverse side.

  6. Let's choose pictures for the postcard - they should not completely cover the paper.

  7. Now we will glue the selected pictures to the background. In my version, the primary colors are green and orange, so I chose a substrate of two colors.

  8. We will glue and sew half of the pictures to the base - try to arrange them so that the decorations do not merge with the paper.

  9. Sew the other half to the paper for the back of the postcard.

  10. Before gluing the other half of the paper, you can add brads, and then combine all the parts.

The intricate shape of the postcard can not only attract attention, but also allow you to settle in a box with unusual souvenirs, because almost every family has one for storing cute and interesting things that are pleasant to review at their leisure.