How to make of paper and cardboard?

Paper and cardboard give a huge scope for creativity. Of these, you can make interesting souvenirs as a gift to relatives. Let's see how to make paper and cardboard a design basis for postcards.

Basis for postcards

To do this you will need:

• napkin for decoupage / decoupage cards;
• cardboard;
• food film;
• ironing board;
• iron.

Process of making the base

1. Put cardboard on the board. Cut the food film to the size of the sheet and cover it with a piece of film. Cover the top with a napkin for decoupage. Preheated iron beforehand, start driving on cardboard. A food film will glue a napkin and cardboard. Especially carefully iron in the corners - for better bonding.
2. Make ready-made cardboard beautiful postcards. The base is almost ready - cut out a cardboard box measuring 20 to 20 cm, or smaller, at your discretion. You can take figured scissors.
3. For decoration, paper is suitable. From it, cut out any figures depending on the subject of the postcard or holiday. By birthday it can be flowers or butterflies, for the autumn holiday - maple leaves. By the New Year, use a special paper for quilling - from it you get original figure snowflakes.
4. The postcard is also decorated with ribbons, beads, buttons; complement simple or voluminous inscription-congratulation.

We make a house made of cardboard and paper

How to make a mini-house for decorating the interior for the New Year holidays? Very easy.

You will need the following materials:

• PVA glue;
• cardboard;
• paper - better newspaper;
• scissors;
• paints;
• lace, ribbons, beads.

Manufacturing process:

You can find a template for a house on the Internet. For example, you can choose one. It's pretty simple.

1. Cut out all the details, glue it with adhesive tape - do not glue the roof yet. Then the blanks must be pasted with newsprint from all sides, inside and out.
2. Next comes the drying. This can be done on a battery or in an open oven. Then cover the blanks with white paint from the inside, glue the roof. The latter is fastened with newsprint and PVA glue. Dye the house.
3. After drying, sand and coat with blue paint. Decorate the roof with snow - cotton wool or sintepon. Decorate the door with beads and the windows, add a ribbon from the ribbon under the roof.

Here's how to simply decorate the interior ormake gifts using cardboard and paper. This is a very interesting and fascinating process, and also a way to develop your imagination. About other diverse materials, from which you can make unusual crafts yourself, you can read in our rubric Materials for crafts.