DIY New Year cards 2021

2024 Author: James Gerald | [email protected]. Last modified: 2024-01-12 17:37

A New Year's gift is always accompanied by a greeting card. You can buy it in any store, but there is nothing better than making your own handmade cards for the New Year 2021.

Christmas card without glue

In just 5 minutes and without the use of glue, you can make a very stylish postcard for the New Year 2021 with your own hands. Such a present will be a beautiful and pleasant gift for adults and children.

Master Class:

We take a sheet of black cardboard, but you can choose any shade with an arc. Fold in half, cut off one piece and remove. We also fold the rest in half and get the basis for the postcard

On the front side, as in the photo, draw a heart with a pencil, which needs to be cut out. To do this, we take thin manicure scissors, pierce it carefully along the contour and cut it out

We attach the cut out heart to the file and trace along the contour, only in size it is 0.5 cm larger. Cut out and get two transparent hearts at once

We open the postcard, put a transparent heart on the window and glue it with thin tape along the entire contour

Pour sequins or glitter sequins onto a transparent heart

Cover with a second transparent heart and also glue it with thin tape

Draw a spruce branch with a white pen or silver marker and turn the heart into a Christmas tree toy. Above we write "Happy New Year!" or "Happy New Year!"

Cut off a small square of scotch tape and fasten both sides of the postcard on the side

If you want to write a congratulation inside a postcard, then just decorate the left part with a heart with paper of the same color.

Christmas cards - 3 interesting ideas

If you do not know how to make beautiful postcards for the New Year 2021 with your own hands, then we offer 3 simple but interesting master classes with step-by-step photos at once.

Postcard with penguins

We take a sheet of A4 white cardboard, find the middle, apply a ruler, and press the line with a knitting needle. We bend the sheet in half

We take half a sheet of A4 paper of light blue color and process the edges with curly scissors. If there are no such scissors, then simply cut off the edges by 0.5 cm around the entire perimeter of the sheet

Using glue, glue the blue paper onto the cardboard

We print the inscription "Happy New Year!" On a white sheet, and from blue paper we cut out a strip in size slightly larger than the inscription itself. We glue the inscription to the strip, and then to the postcard

Using patterns from colored paper, we cut out parts for penguins, and then glue them together. Draw the pupils with a black marker

We glue the penguins to the postcard using double-sided tape

Now we make the "snow". To do this, take a piece of styrofoam, disassemble it into small balls and use tweezers and glue to decorate the card with a snowball

The styrofoam can be replaced with small cotton balls or white beads.

Postcard with a deer

We take white cardboard, and if possible, we use paper with convex patterns. Fold in half. Set aside the base of the postcard for now

From another part of the cardboard, cut out a rectangle with dimensions of 14x20 cm

We apply a deer template to the cardboard, circle it with a pencil, and then carefully cut it out with nail scissors

As a decoration, glue the golden braid and put it aside for now

Now we take any beautiful paper, you can even use a napkin, glue it to the base of the postcard, and on top - cardboard with a deer

We glue the nose of the deer (for this we use a pink half-bead), and at the bottom of the postcard there is the inscription “Happy New Year!”

You can make a postcard with any other character, the main thing is that it is easy to cut it without damaging the main part of the cardboard.

Postcard with herringbone

We take beautiful paper, cut off a rectangle measuring 12x14 cm

We glue the rectangle onto a white cardboard blank

We transfer the Christmas tree template to green cardboard, cut it out and glue it on the card

Now we decorate the Christmas tree. It all depends on the imagination, for example, you can use small bows, snowflakes, beads

We glue the inscription. Another New Year's card is ready

For postcards, you can use not just ordinary cardboard, but scrap paper, which will allow you to embody the most unusual ideas. It can be smooth, embossed, matte or embossed, with shine or glitter, with different patterns.

Christmas card - Christmas tree with gifts

Today, thanks to a wide variety of ideas and the choice of material for decor, you can make incredibly interesting and unusual New Year cards with your own hands. For example, a 3D Christmas card in which you can hide your wishes.

Master Class:

We fold a sheet of colored green paper in half, but do not bend it, but simply press it from above and below to highlight the center

From the middle in the lower part, we put marks of 10 cm to the left and right sides

Using a ruler from the top from the center to the marked marks, we make a fold

With a pencil, draw a center line and, as in the photo, make a fold to the center on the left and right sides

Draw an arc from one corner to another and cut it off. As a result, we get a structure that can be opened and closed

Now we form the Christmas tree. Using a ruler, mark 4 cm from above, then plus 3 cm and plus 2 more times by 3 cm

Along the marks on both sides along the edges, we outline dashes and make cuts along them

From the cuts, smoothly cut the corners in the shape of a herringbone. We take a regular white sheet, put the Christmas tree closer to the edge and outline only the back side. As a result, we get a cone

We bend the sheet in half, cut out two blanks at once. We glue one cone to the center of the postcard, and bend the second in half, cut it and glue each half to the side corners

For a gift, we cut out 4 multi-colored rectangles with dimensions of 4, 5x7 cm and 4 white ones - 4x3 cm

We put the white rectangles on the edge of the colored ones, fix them with glue and fold the colored halves in half

Grease one side of the gifts with glue and glue it at the bottom of the postcard

Use colored markers to draw ribbons with bows on gifts

We will "hang" various decorations in the side corners - just draw Christmas tree decorations (snowflakes, balls, hearts). In the center we write the inscription "Happy New Year!", And in the gifts we write wishes

It remains to decorate the Christmas tree with toys from the front side - the decorations can be cut out of paper or simply drawn

For postcards, it is better to use good quality cardboard, it has brighter and more saturated colors.

Original postcard for the New Year 2021

Very original postcards can be made from paper and cardboard, which you cannot buy in any store. And if you like to craft everything with your own hands, then be sure to take the proposed idea into account.

Master Class:

We take a beautiful sheet of cardboard, for example, gold. We find the middle, apply a ruler, push through the paper with a knitting needle or a non-writing pen. We bend it in half

We print a stencil of a Christmas tree and cut out a rectangle with dimensions of 13x19 cm, but so that the tree is in the middle

Using a clerical knife, cut out all the triangles and quadrangles on the tree

We glue the geometric herringbone to the gold base using double-sided tape

At the bottom of the postcard, on a gold strip, glue the printed or handwritten inscription "Happy New Year!"

Since the card is geometric, it can be additionally decorated with triangular stars, decorative shiny ribbon and stickers.

Interesting options for New Year cards

If you like making New Year's gifts with your own hands, we offer some simple but interesting options on how to make beautiful New Year cards.

Postcard with a gift

We make a base for a postcard from white cardboard. Now we take scrap paper with imitation of wood or with any other pattern, using double-sided tape we glue it onto a cardboard base

We make a gift. To do this, cut out a square from ordinary cardboard, glue it with gift paper

We decorate the box with a ribbon and a bow, which are usually used for gift wrapping

We glue a gift to a postcard

You can decorate the gift box with satin braid, make a bow out of it.

Card with snowflakes

For this postcard, we make a base from cream cardboard

Take a piece of red cardboard and lightly spray it with white paint to make it snow. The easiest way to do this is with an old toothbrush

On a red cardboard in the middle we draw a circle of the size we want to get a wreath

We glue the red cardboard to the base using volumetric double-sided tape

Glue small snowflakes along the contour of the circle. As soon as the first row is ready, glue the second a little further from the center than the first

We make a bow out of a multi-colored string and glue it on the wreath

Snowflakes can be cut with a curly hole punch, and if it is not there, then we can use any other decor.

Postcard with herringbone

Using double-sided tape, glue the scrap paper onto a cardboard base

Now we glue a cardboard Christmas tree with sequins with tape, and an asterisk to it

We glue the inscription on the volumetric tape and decorate it with sequins

The Christmas tree can be cut out of glitter foamiran or from ordinary cardboard, then decorate with silver sparkles using PVA glue.

Bright, stylish and cute cards for the New Year 2021 can be made even from plain paper. Be sure to take time to be creative and see how interesting and exciting it is to do something beautiful with your own hands.