DIY paper cards for Mother's Day

2024 Author: James Gerald | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 14:00

Mother's Day is a special holiday when you want to congratulate your closest person in a special way. And if there is no way to present an expensive gift, then you can always make it yourself, for example, beautiful paper postcards.

Greeting card with flowers for mom

A card with flowers is a beautiful craft that can be made out of plain paper and presented as a gift for Mother's Day. At the same time, the flowers are unusual - they open, and inside you can write congratulations and warm words for mom.

Materials:

• base for a postcard 20 by 15 cm;
• sheets for flowers 10 by 10 cm;
• scissors, glue;
• pen, markers.

Master Class:

• First, we will make a flower of colored paper measuring 10 by 10 cm.
• The flower will be in the form of a heart, so we fold the piece of paper diagonally in one direction and then in the other direction.
• After that we turn the leaf over and just bend it in half in the same way in one direction and the other.

We bend the side corners to the bottom, while holding the corners of the lower diagonal fold with our fingers and pulling it down

Turn the resulting figure so that its open side is at the top

• Draw a heart with a simple pencil, cut it along the contour.
• The result is a flower that can be opened and closed. We make two more such flowers from paper of other colors.

Now we take the basis for a postcard measuring 20 by 15 cm, this is half a sheet of A4 cardboard. We lay out the flowers-hearts, and at the bottom we draw a watering can, a vase or a flower pots

• Draw stems with leaves from the hearts into the watering can.
• We glue the flowers, circle and paint other elements, and write congratulations inside the hearts. The postcard is ready, you just have to sign it.

Flowers-hearts can be decorated with rhinestones, small beads, or just draw cute faces on them.

Magic card for mom

If you don't know how to make with your own hands not just beautiful paper postcards as a gift for Mother's Day, but magical ones, we offer a very interesting master class. The postcard will be "live".

Materials:

• cardboard of any color;
• a strip of paper 22 by 5.5 cm;
• a strip of paper 20 by 5 cm;
• a piece of paper for a heart;
• glue, scissors, markers.

Master Class:

• On a sheet of cardboard we draw four squares measuring 6 by 6 cm, three side by side and one below.
• We cut out the element, and bend each square inward under the ruler, iron the folds well.
• Now we bend the square on the right side to the center and its left side back in half.
• We also bend the square on the other side to the center and its right side in half back.

We lower the upper square down and outline the middle with a pencil, along it you will need to make a cut. Therefore, we mark the boundaries of the hole, carefully make punctures with thin scissors and cut a small strip between them

• Fold a bright piece of paper in half, mark the borders, draw half a heart and cut it out.
• Cut the resulting heart into two halves, glue each part to a postcard and cut each side in the shape of a heart.

• We fold the heart, stretch it into the hole and open it again, this will be the lock.
• Now you need to sign the postcard and make the middle. To do this, take a strip 22 by 5.5 cm, fold it along its length, and then each side - to the opposite, also in half.
• Lubricate the center of the postcard with glue and glue the outermost square of the formed strip.

• Then we take another strip, only light, we also fold it in half, and then each part in half in the opposite direction. Cut into separate squares.
• Round the corners on all squares, glue exactly in the center from above on each colored square. If you wish, you can make the same squares on the back.
• We circle each square with a gel pen, make a sketch of the word "Mom", and on the back side we write the inscription "I love you."

Now we outline all the inscriptions and color as desired

On the front of the card, namely on the heart, you can make a dotted stroke with a white marker, you can draw small white hearts around. Instead of writing on the squares, you can glue family photos.

Best Mother's Day card

It's easy to make the best and most beautiful paper card for Mother's Day. The proposed master class and step-by-step photos of the execution will help. The result is a bright and original gift that can be presented for any occasion.

Materials:

• paper of different colors;
• scissors;
• glue;
• compass;
• any decor;
• marker.

Master Class:

• For the base, we take thick dark pink paper, fold it in half.
• For the insert, we also take a sheet of paper only of light pink color, cut it off on all sides by 5 mm and fold it in half.
• On three strips of white paper measuring 15 by 3.5 cm we write an inscription, for example, "The best mommy."
• We fold each strip with congratulations in half. On the fold of the insert, we make marks where the congratulations will be located, and glue them as shown in the photo.
• Use small scissors to make cuts to the end of all the white stripes.
• We bend the strips with inscriptions in one direction and then in the other direction, we also bend thin pink stripes, but only in the opposite direction.
• We fold the insert, turn it over, on the very edges, but along the entire contour, apply glue.

• We put the postcards in the base, press and wait for the glue to set, and then glue the second side of the insert to the base.
• We cut out large and small hearts from pink paper, use them to decorate the inside of the postcard.

• Now let's decorate the front of the card, start with the flower. To do this, cut out 3 squares with sides of 6 cm and 7 cm and 2 squares with sides of 8 cm from white paper.
• We fold the largest square twice diagonally, draw a circle with a diameter of 3 cm and draw a leg to it, cut out and get one detail of the flower.
• Bend each petal with a brush. We make another blank from a large square and glue the two blanks together, apply glue exactly in the center.

From squares with sides of 7 cm, we also make a blank from a flower, only draw a circle with a diameter of 2, 6 cm, and from squares of 6 cm - a circle with a diameter of 2, 2 cm. And from all the details we collect a bud

• On the front of the card we glue a light pink sheet of paper, and on top - a blue one, only a little smaller, about 5 cm on each side.
• On the blue sheet, we apply glue a little from above, then we also coat the lower part with glue, and then rise to half of this side.

• We glue the blue sheet, and stretch its non-glued corner with a thick marker so that it is slightly bent.
• Apply glue to the very edge of the corner and glue it to the postcard so that you get the bend just like in the photo.

• We make two more flowers from dark and light pink paper, and also cut out the petals.
• Glue a white flower to the center of the corner, then leaves and two more beautiful flowers.

On separate paper we write the congratulation "Happy Mother's Day", cut out and glue it on the postcard

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To make the card even more beautiful, we take the beads on an adhesive basis, glue the curved part and glue it along the entire contour of the front side. The glued corner can be decorated with a large half-bead.

Postcard with cats in a box

You can make the most unusual cards for Mother's Day from plain paper with your own hands. We offer one of these fascinating master classes. And the most interesting thing about it is that the postcard will be with a box and cute kittens inside.

Materials:

• cardboard for the base;
• box paper;
• satin ribbon;
• glue, scissors;
• pen, markers.

Master Class:

1. For the base, we take a sheet of cardboard, cut it in half. We put one half aside, and fold the other in half, this will be the basis of the postcard.
2. Now we take a leaf for a box, you can take a paper bag. We make markings on it, as in the photo. This element should have 4 rectangles measuring 3 by 4 cm, on top - strips with a height of 1.5 cm, at the bottom - a pair of triangles and on the side - a strip of 1 cm.
3. We cut out the drawn element, make three cuts on top of the strip, these will be the sides of the box. The corners can be rounded.
4. We make folds along the lines, iron them well. We outline the sides of the box with dotted lines.
5. We bend the sides in the opposite direction and glue the box on both sides.
6. We cut out another 6 by 3 cm rectangle for the box, make markings on it, draw strips of 1 cm on both sides and also draw a line that will divide the rectangle in half lengthwise.
7. Bend the stripes on the sides and cut the element into two halves.
8. We grease the curved edges with glue and glue them into a box, these will be shelves for cats.
9. We grease the triangle with glue, place the box in the center on the fold of the card. Then we grease the second triangle with glue, close the card and glue it.
10. On an ordinary white sheet we draw cute kittens, the first will hold a heart, the second - a ball in the form of a heart, and the third is simply decorated with hearts.
11. Then we outline the sketches with a black gel pen and decorate as desired, cut out.
12. We glue the kittens inside the box, while we glue only the lower part behind the kitten with glue.
13. On the front side we glue the heart and the cat's foot. And to make the card even more festive, we tie it with a satin ribbon.

To make all the kittens in the box visible, glue them in a checkerboard pattern.

Beautiful card for mom with a heart

We offer another interesting master class with step-by-step photos, thanks to which you can learn how to make the most beautiful card with paper hearts. Such a gift can be presented not only on Mother's Day, but also on any other holiday.

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Materials:

• base paper;
• paper with decor;
• paper for hearts;
• satin ribbon;
• glue, scissors.

Master Class:

• We take a sheet of A4 paper, fold it in half and set the base for the postcard aside for now.
• Now you need to make an envelope. To do this, we take paper with any decor measuring 15 by 15 cm. Fold it in half, but do not iron the fold, just make a mark in the middle.

• We bend the left corner of the square, stepping 1 cm beyond the middle.
• We also bend the opposite corner to the center, stepping 1 cm.

We bend the bottom corner up, and bend the corner itself inward and fix everything with glue

• We tie the resulting envelope with a thin satin ribbon and glue it to the base of the postcard.
• Cut out hearts of different sizes from pink paper and glue them on the card as if they fly out of an envelope.
• We write any congratulations, circle the hearts with dashed lines, and the card is ready.

You can put some kind of gift in such an envelope - make another small postcard, attach a photo or a small chocolate bar.

Volumetric card for Mother's Day

With your own hands from paper, you can make a bright, cute and at the same time voluminous card for mom for Mother's Day, birthday and any other holiday. The proposed master class with step-by-step photos is not at all difficult, on the contrary, very interesting.

Materials:

• base paper 21 by 29, 7 cm;
• paper for hearts;
• glue, scissors, markers.

Master Class:

1. First of all, we will make voluminous hearts. To do this, take colored paper, fold it in half along the long side, then again, and then fold the right side to the left.
2. Now we hold the resulting part so that the bent side is on the right.
3. We draw a half of a heart, cut it out and as a result we get four hearts.
4. We fold each in half and glue them together, apply glue only on one half.
5. For the base, we take a sheet of paper, fold it in half along the long side, and then again in half.
6. We put the heart in the center, in the lower part we draw a basket of flowers, outline the drawing with a black marker and paint. We also draw many more small hearts, and on the front side there is a string with a knot and write "Express delivery".
7. We glue the heart, glue the sheet, if desired we glue the inscription, for example, "To the best mother in the world."

To prevent the marker from being printed on the front side and ruining the gift, just put a sheet of paper.

These are the postcards you can make for Mother's Day, and for any holiday to your beloved mom. Do not be afraid to fantasize - show your skills, and then everything will work out. But to make the postcard beautiful, you should use high-quality paper that does not tear, does not wrinkle and has brighter colors.