Easter card with own hands, or How to present a holiday

Few days left until revered by allOrthodox holiday of Easter. Already bought products for Easter cakes and cottage cheese, eggs and paint are waiting in the wings. However, the issue of gifts to friends and relatives has not yet been resolved. In Russia, it is not customary to make expensive gifts for this holiday, but you still want to please your loved ones and once again make them smile. And help you in this Easter card!

Easter card. What are they like?

This kind of greeting card has cometo us from the West. And without a doubt, the habit of giving postcards quickly took root and flourished in a violent color. And the options for postcards are constantly updated. If about ten years ago, the country experienced a boom of cool paper cards, now it is an era of interactive analogs.

You can choose on specialized sitesVarious postcards on the theme of Easter and send to a friend. The Easter greeting card that came to your e-mail will raise your spirits and remind you of the upcoming holiday. In addition, it can be set as a background on the desktop, and it will please for a long time with the realization that someone remembers about you! Interactive cards come with a recorded voice greeting or just a beautiful picture. Or it can be a handmade Easter card.

Easter card. Manufacturing principle

So, you still decided to make a postcard yourself. We hope that our advice will help you navigate first. And then everything depends on you and the flight of fancy!

• Take a cardboard that suits us in density. Some people like it very tight, and someone like that, so that the card is slightly bent. Any suitable old postcard can be used as a template.
• Cut the required number of blanks. Bend them in half. If plain cardboard seems too boring to you, stick colored paper on top of it, and then fold it in half.
• Prepare the appliqué.If you are not distinguished by clearly expressed ability to painting, you can cut out the relevant pictures from a magazine or advertising brochure. And then circle them and cut pieces of colored paper. You can take a smooth or velor. You can also make applications from unnecessary pieces of cloth, which should be pre-washed and ironed.
• We glue them on the blank of the card, add a congratulatory or amusing inscription, decorate it with beads or ribbons if necessary.
• That's it, our Easter card is ready!

Postcard for Easter. Who can do it?

Options to make such a postcard weight!Of course, this process will be the most pleasant and fascinating if younger members of the family take part in it. Nothing gives children such a pleasure as messing with colored paper, scissors, glue and shreds with adults. After all, parents often simply do not have enough time to do needlework or handicrafts with their children. Therefore, if you manage to combine gift making and communication with the child, it will be just great! Do not worry if the cards made by children are not as perfect as your own. The main thing is that they were made with a soul! And relatives and friends will appreciate it.