DIY house postcards

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There is just a little time left until the New Year, but there are still a lot of things to do. After all, decorating the house, the Christmas tree and the New Year's table is only part of the task for this holiday. Don’t forget that you don’t need to miss anyone and be sure to prepare something for the New Year. Any little thing under the tree seems like a huge gift. But be sure, no matter what the surprise and congratulations are, we must not forget about the most important point, the obligatory presence of a postcard with wishes, which you can also make with your own hands. Moreover, now there are so many different decorations. With which you can make beautiful and unusual cards with your own hands.
To make such interesting houses we will need to take:
• Watercolor paper A3 format;
• New Year's paper for scrapbooking, six sheets of 15*15 cm and one sheet with New Year's borders;
• House postcard template;
• New Year's pictures;
• New Year's cards;
• Laser cut snowflakes, 3 pieces;
• Organza ribbon bright red and bright green 25 mm wide;
• New Year brads with a diameter of 10 mm;
• Stamp “Happy New Year”;
• Black and green ink;
• Cut-out frames of light green and gold color, green curls from the cut-out;
• Green and silver rhinestones;
• Liquid sparkles of gold and silver color;
• Curb punchers;
• Pencil;
• Ruler and scissors;
• Double-sided tape;
• Glue gun;
• Glue stick.

The most interesting thing about these cards is their shape, so first of all we need to use a template to cut out the bases for such cards. So, we take a template and cut out the connected houses.

You can cut it with a window, or without it. We will make cards without a window. Cut out three watercolor bases.

Fold them in half. Now we cut the template in half to make a single house and using this template we cut out two houses for each card from New Year's scrapbook paper.

We look at the color scheme and select paper to harmonize with each other. It is advisable to take bright colors - red, green, blue, brown, colors that are typical for the New Year holiday.

We cut out lace strips from a sheet with borders; we will glue them to the bottom of each scrap paper blank.

We stamp and cut out three New Year's inscriptions, cut out three New Year's cards and three pictures. It is better to tint pictures with inscriptions around the edges.

We take one house at a time and glue it with tape on a card, a picture and an inscription. We sew all the elements separately on a machine.

Now we tie bows from organza and attach them to the top of each house using brads.

Now we glue the scrap parts of the postcard to the base with double-sided tape. We sew each side of the houses with a machine. Now all that remains is to glue the decorations.

We glue frames and curls with a glue stick, and glue snowflakes and rhinestones with a glue gun. Now we will use liquid glitter to put dots in different places of the houses.After drying, the cards will shine beautifully and brightly.