Scrapbooking birthday cards

"Birthday is a festival of childhood ..." So he is in 5, and 15, and 30. That day everyone is waiting for surprises. Sometimes even a postcard can become such a surprise, especially if it is made by oneself with love and a share of imagination.

It would seem that scrapbooking is impossible without special tools, but today you will understand that nothing is impossible: we will make a postcard using homemade watercolor backgrounds.

Scrapbooking postcards happy birthday - a master class

Necessary materials and tools:

• colored paper;
• watercolor paper;
• colored cardboard;
• watercolors and a brush;
• colour pencils;
• double-sided adhesive tape, glue;
• ruler, clerical knife, a simple pencil;
• bubble film, file for documents;
• an inscription and a picture to taste (both can be found on the Internet and printed);
• buttons for decoration;
• thread and needle.

All prepared, and it's time to start creating (or get up;):

1. First of all, with the help of a ruler and a clerical knife, we will cut watercolor paper and cardboard into parts of the right size. The sizes look on a photo.
2. Next, we prepare our backgrounds (all actions are designed for wet paper, so do not wait for it to dry). Wet the sheet with a wet brush, and then (still wet paper) paint in the color you like. Do not forget that this is only the first layer, so it should not be too bright.
3. Next, take a file for documents and make it a divorce from the paint. This time we take the paint darker - the background was yellow, so for the next step I took orange.
4. Apply our rectangle to the file and press it lightly.
5. We will eventually get such an unusual background.
6. But that's not all, now we'll add a stamp. Stamps are often used in scrapbooking and for this purpose there are a lot of special ink and ink pads, but sometimes it's enough just to look around and there will be something interesting.
7. For punching, we need a bubble wrap. Color the bubbles of the film, it is desirable to take the paint a little darker than the two previous layers.
8. And apply the film to the background, lightly pressing.
9. Next, we print in different places.
10. We carry out similar actions with other preparations.

For now, let's postpone our backgrounds until drying and decorate.

11. We will give a shade of inscriptions and blanks for congratulations: holding a pencil at an angle, shading the surface, and then we spread it with a cloth or a piece of paper.
12. As decorative elements, I stopped on multi-colored circles of different sizes, so we draw and cut out a sufficient number.
13. We paste our parts on the substrate.
14. And draw an imitation of a sewing stitch using a pen or pencil.
15. Next, prepare the basis of our postcard - we'll make a creasing (we will mark the place of the fold), for which I used a ruler and an ordinary teaspoon.
16. By this time, our backgrounds are completely ready and you can make the inside of the postcard, gluing together the necessary elements.
17. It remains to arrange our postcard. To do this, we paste the picture, inscription and circles in the order you like.
18. And the last step: we sew buttons on circles - they will add volume.

Here is an unusual postcard in the technique of scrapbooking for the birthday we got - it will certainly raise the mood and will not go unnoticed.

The author of the work is Maria Nikishova.