Making postcards or flowers for May 9

By May 9, everyone is trying to make pleasant surprises for war veterans or children. Despite the fact that the stores now sell postcards and cute souvenirs for the participants in the war, everyone wants to give something not bought, but made from the heart. Exactly how their spouses, children and parents created their letters to the front-line soldiers with love and warmth. That is why simple postcards for May 9 from napkins will delight them more than all official phrases.

For the holiday of the Great Victory, you can create different gifts with your own hands. They will not only be pleasant to veterans, but also give them warmth. Besides, such gifts are just a pleasure to make.

Lovely gifts can be made of improvised material: napkins, corrugated paper, fabric.

What you need to make applications for May 9

To make a colorful, voluminous and delicate postcard for May 9 with carnations from a napkin, you need very few materials at hand:

• Thick paper of different colors.
• Velvet.
• Pink or red napkins.
• St. George Ribbon.
• Scissors.
• Glue.
• Stapler.

In addition to compositions and applications for this holiday, you can make voluminous flowers from different materials. Such flowers will make up gorgeous bouquets for veterans or cute boutonnieres. They will be stored for a long time, do not require additional care and will delight older people with their appearance for a long time. Additional materials will be needed for flowers:

• Wire.
• Corrugated paper in red, green and pink colors.
• Floristic basis for a bouquet.

How to make applications on May 9 with your own hands

To make a truly mesmerizing and impressive postcard for May 9 with napkin carnations, it is important first of all to think over its concept. To do this, it is important to first think over in what technique it will be performed: just an applique or 3D volumetric applique, perhaps it will be a bouquet. Additionally, the composition can be decorated with:

• Poems.
• Hand painted.
• Rhinestones.
• Sprinkle with perfume or essential oils.

Preparation of all materials

After the concept of congratulations has been thought out, it is important to create a preliminary layout. To do this, you need to prepare a base on which to schematically draw the location of the parts.

Step-by-step instructions for creating a base:

1. Cut a rectangle out of thick cardboard.
2. If the base is supposed to bend: mark the fold and draw along it with the blunt end of the scissors along the ruler. This will avoid creases.
3. Decorate the background with paints.
4. Write congratulatory words.

After preparing the base, you can start making the applique itself or flowers. This requires:

1. Print the required templates.
2. Based on, create a sketch with markup of parts.
3. Cut out blanks of flowers and orders according to sketches.
4. Lay out the material and check how they look on the postcard.
5. Cut the St.George ribbon to size and treat with glue or a lighter.

Process of creation

First you need to cut out the patterns of the parts according to the sketches. Then process them:

1. Painted with paints. In this case, it is important to work out the veins and tips of the petals.
2. Prepare the stems and leaves of flowers: cut them out of dense material or create them from wire.
3. Prepare blanks from corrugated paper or napkins. To do this, the napkins are folded in half, assembled into an accordion from one edge and fixed.

Postcards for May 9 with carnations from napkins look the most picturesque and fluffy. Napkins add volume and softness to flowers. After the patterns and blanks are prepared, you can begin the process of collecting a postcard or bouquet.

Star

The Order of the Great Patriotic War is the main attribute of the holiday. For a postcard, it can be made in three-dimensional form.

Step-by-step instructions for creating a Victory star:

1. Cut a circle out of yellow corrugated paper, fold it five times and trim the ends slightly. After that, straighten the workpiece.
2. Cut a star and a slightly smaller circle out of red velvet. The circle will become the center of the order. In the center of the rays of the star, draw the blunt end of the scissors from the back side. This will add volume to the star. In the center of the red circle, paint a sickle and a hammer.
3. Cut out a circle slightly larger than the red part from white dense material and write the words "Great Patriotic War" around the perimeter.
4. Draw a saber and an assault rifle in a criss-cross pattern on thick cardboard. The middle of the picture can be skipped too much. Cut out the drawing.
5. Collect all layers of the order: yellow, corrugated circle, saber and machine gun, red star, circles. Glue the layers together.

Carnations

Artificial carnations can be used everywhere: as a brooch for a St. George ribbon, as an applique for a postcard, as separate bouquets. Carnations can be created from crepe paper, fabric, or napkins.

The process of creating carnations from napkins step by step:

1. Make blanks for the petals. To do this, cut a semicircle from corrugated paper or napkins folded in half.
2. Collect a semicircle with an accordion and straighten.
3. Collapsed in a semicircle in a spiral. So create some cones. Napkin cones can be trimmed with scissors on top, creating a fringe.
4. Collect the cones into a fluffy flower.

Another option is to assemble a napkin or rectangle from another material with an accordion, bandage in the middle. Then cut the accordion along the folds not completely and straighten it on both sides. Get a fluffy ball.

The petals can be curled slightly with scissors.

Wrap the central part of the flower with green material. Cut a strip of corrugated paper, fold it like an accordion, cut out long wedges of leaves from one edge. Expand the strip: you get a garland. She needs to wrap the bowl of the flower.

The carnation blank is ready. After that, it can be glued to a cardboard base or used to decorate the St.George ribbon. You can collect three flowers, so you get a boutonniere.

To create a bouquet, you must first wrap the wire with green material. This will be the stem of the flower. After creating a flower, it must be fixed on the stem, and the junction must be masked with green paper leaves. All parts are connected to each other using glue.

Green leaves of a carnation are cut out of dense material using a stencil.

Another option for creating a carnation is using the quilling technique. Step by step technology:

1. Cut strips from red and green paper.
2. Curls are twisted from the strips.
3. The curls form the petals and leaves of flowers.
4. Parts are positioned on the base according to the sketch and glued.

Postcards

Postcards will be a classic congratulation for veterans. Moreover, their shape can be not only traditionally rectangular, but also unusual:

• In the form of a triangular letter.
• In the form of a clamshell accordion.
• In the form of a silhouette of a tank or aircraft.

On such a blank are glued:

1. Order.
2. George Ribbon.
3. Carnations.
4. Dove of peace.
5. Apple tree flowers.

The creation of such compositions will be a truly exciting experience for the whole family.

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