Autumn is rich in bright colors. But we don’t always perceive them with joy, because, despite all this autumn beauty, sometimes it can be very cold, especially if the heating has not yet been turned on. And also slush and torrential rains... This is why in the fall the feeling of fatigue, bad mood and, as a result, depression are so exacerbated.
But my Aunt Alla found an excellent cure for the autumn blues. These are bright. The source of inspiration for her was autumn leaves, with the help of which she so deftly and skillfully creates unusual cards. Plus, this idea is just what you need for spending time with your kids on cold autumn evenings.
Try it, it’s not difficult at all, but it’s very exciting!
DIY autumn cards
Editorial "So simple!" I have prepared for you 28 amazing ideas for creating homemade postcards with autumn mood. Here's how to create festive mood to your loved ones even on the cloudiest day.
- A stylish solution, isn't it?
- To create this card you will need felt blanks in the form of leaves and wood. You can make them yourself or purchase special scrapbooking kits at one of the craft stores.
- Pumpkin is probably one of the most recognizable and common subjects for autumn illustrations. They are especially relevant before Halloween.
- Another one interesting idea with autumn leaves. You can make these from felt, fabric or colored cardboard.
- Simply adorable! I really want this one for myself.
- To make such cute pumpkins, you will need designer cardboard and half an hour of free time.
- Did you know that the art of making cards self made called cardmaking? In the West, cardmaking is a profitable business in which many small companies specialize.
Many of them sell their work via the Internet and online auctions. Other companies sell their products at handmade goods fairs and various holidays.
- Volumetric elements make the postcard more realistic and interesting. And all you need is some thick double-sided tape to secure all the details of the future gift.
- I really love watercolor illustrations for their lightness and airiness. To create such a card, you will need a sheet of watercolor paper and a set of paints.
- And this is one of those works that Aunt Alla did. Now this card is kept in my home, creating a cozy place on my desk.
- Why not get carried away with cardmaking and create a whole collection of postcards! For example, you can use the idea of seasons.
- And here is one of the stages of creating a handmade postcard. The idea is to attach an autumn leaf to white cardboard, and then carefully go over it with a pencil.
After you remove the leaf itself, an imprint of the leaf will remain on the cardboard, which will look interesting on an autumn card.
- What a sweet solution! I want to try to do something similar...
- But it’s tender and very simple card, decorated with multi-colored glitter leaves. You definitely can’t buy one like this in a store, so it will be especially expensive.
It often happens that you want to do something with your own hands, but you don’t know where to start. That's why I collected these interesting ideas so that you can make that one and only a unique card for a loved one or a distant person who will cheer him up.
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In this article you will find three manufacturing techniques greeting cards. Each of them can be used in children's creativity:
- Postcard " Autumn bouquet» using stamps and volumetric elements from corrugated paper.
— Postcard “Autumn Tree” using the cut-out applique technique, accessible even to the smallest children,
— Postcard “Autumn Tree” in unusual technique called "monotype".
DIY postcard “Autumn Bouquet” with children
The idea for making this postcard was shared by Vera Parfentyeva, a technology teacher and the head of a children’s club. preschool age, a regular reader of my website “Native Path” and a participant in our Internet Workshop of educational games “Through the game - to success!”
An autumn card with a bouquet is suitable for children of any age. This card is easy to make with kids.
To make a postcard you will need:
To work you will need landscape and crepe (corrugated) paper, PVA glue, stamp inks and stamps of different leaves.
The simplest version of an autumn card:
Step 1. Fold the album sheet in half lengthwise and lightly tint the edges of the postcard with stamp paint. You can do this with watercolor paint using watercolor paint and a brush. This is what you get (see photo).
Step 2. Cut out a blank for a vase of the desired shape (from colored paper, from old notebook covers or magazine pages).
Step 3. Glue the desired vase blank to the front of the card. Apply leaves with stamps on top of the card, choosing colors to match the color of autumn. Ready postcard we sign and give it together with the child.
A more complex version of an autumn card - a postcard with a voluminous bouquet
But you can make it a little more complicated: do voluminous autumn card with a bouquet. To do this, the leaves need to be stamped on the card not directly above the vase, but leave a small gap empty.
Next, you need to tear pieces of different colors from crepe (corrugated) paper and crumple them into lumps. Your baby will be happy to do this, and such an activity will also be useful for development. fine motor skills children. The task is accessible even to the smallest children, if an adult shows them how to correctly tear off a small piece of paper and crumple it between their palms or between their fingers into a ball.
Glue the prepared lumps onto the empty space between the stamped leaves.
The result will be a voluminous autumn card. The same as in the photo below.
This is what the voluminous flowers look like on this card:
Creative tasks for children (how you can vary the design of this postcard):
- Create your own vase shape.
- If there are no stamps, cut out the leaves from paper of different colors or use hole punches.
- Think about what technique you can use to make flowers in a bouquet?
- Design your card your own way.
DIY postcard “Autumn tree” with children
With the youngest children you can also make a very simple but effective autumn card using the cut-out appliqué technique. This is a card with an autumn tree on the cover.
What kind of technique is this and how to make a postcard “Autumn Tree” - you will find out in the video
Useful tips from the experience of making postcards with preschool children:
If you make this card with very young children- then keep in mind that they cannot concentrate on one thing for a long time, so the best option There will be joint creativity. It is better to organize it like this: You draw a tree trunk and roots in advance, examine the autumn tree with your child and find what is missing (leaves). Next, the child, by tearing off pieces of colored paper, “prepares” the leaves, which you glue onto the postcard yourself (the child’s presence during the entire gluing process is not necessary, since gluing small pieces onto a postcard is a very long and monotonous task).
If you are making this card with a child five years old or older. For older preschoolers, on the contrary, such an activity will be useful and will develop in children determination, perseverance and the ability to complete the work they have started.
Autumn card using monotype technique
The cover for a postcard can also be made using an unusual technique called “monotype”. This technique of drawing a postcard cover will be interesting for both kids, schoolchildren and adults.
The peculiarity of this technique of making a postcard cover is that first a colored shape is drawn on paper, then its imprint is made on the cover of the postcard. And then the image is supplemented - it is completed with lines until the picture is given a finished look.
The monotype technique is often used in pedagogy to develop children's imagination.
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Happy child 17.08.2017
Dear readers, how could we not know how much children love to receive gifts. But it is no less joyful for them to give these gifts to their closest and dearest people. Especially valuable are those that the child made with his own hands. Such things are kept in family archives and albums for many years.
Postcard with autumn theme This applies exactly to such gifts. It can be given either to a teacher on the first of September or to a birthday person whose birthday falls in the fall. How to make such a postcard in interesting technology monotype, artist Anna Pavlovskikh will tell us today. I give her the floor.
Greetings to all readers. Today I want to tell you in detail about how to make an unusual postcard for the autumn holiday with your own hands. We will do it together with the children.
The monotype technique in which we will work is very popular with children. This is a unique paint imprinting technique that even a preschool child can master. When doing work using this technique, you need to apply paint to a flat surface and print it on a sheet of paper. The result is a print with extraordinary patterns and textures.
Children are very excited about the process of printing on paper and looking at the resulting patterns. Painting using this technique develops imagination and spatial perception at the guys. Monotype also calms and arouses their interest, since the result does not take long to arrive. You just need to press a sheet of paper to the surface with paint, and in a few seconds the wonderful picture is ready.
Now let's take a closer look at how to make an autumn card using this technique. I have prepared for you detailed master class with step-by-step photographs.
What you need for a postcard
- Thick A3 paper;
- gouache paints in yellow, red, orange, burgundy, brown and ocher colors;
- a simple pencil;
- ruler;
- scissors;
- cutter;
- tassels;
- a jar of water;
- glue stick;
- glitter in tubes of red and gold colors;
- glue gun;
- yellow and red plastic half beads;
- fresh leaves.
How to make a postcard
Divide A3 paper in half to make two landscape-size sheets. Fold one of them in half - this will be the base of your postcard. Cut the second sheet in half to make two A5 sheets.
Take one of two A5 sheets. It will be the background of the postcard.
In order to create it, you will need another thick sheet of paper on which we will apply paint. For the background, use light shades: yellow, ocher, orange. Apply your chosen colors to the paper. A child can do this himself - give him freedom of creativity, accuracy is not important here, expression is much more important.
Now print this piece of paper with paint together with your child on a prepared sheet of thick paper. You can repeat these steps several times, adding paint. The result should be a beautiful decorative background for your card.
On the second thick sheet, invite the child to print paint from living leaves in the same way. To do this, you need to use more saturated colors - burgundy, red, brown. It is very difficult to tear children away from this process. It is quite possible that you will have to get more than one sheet of paper - this activity is so exciting.
While the children are busy stamping leaves and looking at the resulting textures and veins, you will start preparing the base for the card. In a sheet folded in half, cut out a frame on the first page, making an indent of 2 cm on the sides, 3 cm from the top edge and 5 cm from the bottom edge.
Using a glue stick, glue the textured background into the resulting frame.
Cut out the printed leaves along the outline of the child. Cover the leaves with red and gold glitter.
Ask your child to stamp his fingers with red paint along the outline of the frame with the background.
Glue a red half bead onto each print using a glue gun. Glue yellow half-beads in between them. You need to glue the resulting leaves onto the yellow background, forming a flower.
When gluing a flower, it is better to use a glue gun, since there is a sufficient amount of glue between the petals, which gives our card an additional 2D effect. Glue several half beads into the middle of the flower.
Anna Pavlovskikh
I thank Anna for such a bright autumn master class. I think the day before it started school year Many people will find this idea of making a postcard with their own hands useful, and children are always so happy about the opportunity to try something new and unusual.
You can find even more ideas and tips on how to have fun with your children, as well as find out recommendations on raising children in our “Happy Child” section. You can go to the category by clicking on the button below.
Let's look at a few more crafts that you can make from leaves with your own hands. The wonderful autumn season gives us a million opportunities to decorate our lives by using leaves in the interior for autumn decor. A lot of birthdays fall in the autumn, so why not give the birthday boy an unusual handmade card? Here are some great ideas for beautiful cards.
Master class: DIY card with a maple leaf
What you will need:
- Plain A4 paper
- Maple leaf (you can also)
- Aerosol paint
- Silver gel pen (for black card)
- Scissors
1. Fold a sheet of cardboard in the middle.
2. Cut out a square of paper with a side of 9 cm (we no longer need the square itself) and place the sheet with the hole on the postcard so that the square hole is located only in the upper part of the postcard.
3. Put in the hole Maple Leaf(or a cut out maple leaf stencil).
4. Spray the card with spray paint. By the way, the same can be done using an old toothbrush, a sieve and watercolor paints.
5. Immediately carefully remove the maple leaf from the card so that it does not stick.
6. Let the card dry and then sign it.
Please note that spray paints can only be used in a well-ventilated area!
And one more idea interesting postcard DIY with bright autumn leaves!
Master class: unusual do-it-yourself postcard with an autumn leaf
What you will need:
- Sheet beautiful shape
- Several books for the abs
- A5 cardboard (you can cut half an A4 sheet)
- Aerosol paint
- A little glue
- Beautiful ribbon (optional)
And this is how easy it is to do:
1. Place a beautifully shaped sheet of paper under a press for several days, pressing it on a flat surface under several books.
2. After drying, paint the sheet with spray paint.
3. Fold a sheet of cardboard in half.
4. Glue the leaf to the card.
5. If desired, tie the card with a beautiful ribbon.
Good luck! Delight yourself and your loved ones with beautiful things!
- Come up with your own vase shape.
- If there are no stamps, then use paper leaves of different colors and use a hole punch.
- Combine different techniques and design your own unique postcard.
- Autumn gives us gifts
- It was a hot hot summer.
- Finally the good time has come,
- Now the summer heat doesn't bother me.
- Autumn is the golden time and beauty of nature,
- It's time to take an interest in the latest fashion.
- I wish you successful days,
- And a full basket of garden harvests.
An autumn card can be given for any autumn holidays, birthdays, weekends (any working person should enjoy the weekend), vacations. The gift that is given with my own hands, does not require a reason. You can give a beautiful card on any day of autumn in order to once again please yourself and the recipient, and so often in the fall we lack care and warmth, our mood fades... a gift will shake us up, make us happy, any sweet thing given from the heart can outshine the autumn sadness.
The basis of a simple craft is to create a drawing of a vase and autumn composition stamps. Even a child can make a version of this autumn card.
You can take one of the ideas for yourself and come up with different autumn motifs based on it. You will need gouache and autumn leaves. PVA glue, brush and cardboard. Very unusual idea creation and at the same time everything is very simple. Prepare autumn leaves of different colors, it will be very beautiful. They must be dried and then crushed. It is the crushed autumn leaves that will be our material for creating a beautiful postcard.
1.Draw a tree with gouache.
2.Use a straw to make its outline more blurred.
3.Now you can apply glue to the places where the leaves will be.
4.Pour out the leaves and press them down.
It turns out to be a beautiful autumn tree.
How many beautiful ideas autumn gives. It’s not true, a sad time is coming. Autumn is golden, bright, colorful and this vision of nature can be embodied in the beauty of postcards. They can be performed without an inscription or come up with a warm wish. Keep it short.
One of autumn holidays- Teacher's Day. You can dedicate your craft to this day.
You can make an autumn card using the scrapbooking technique.
It can be made from thick paper, in the form of a slightly reddish, but already yellowing maple leaf. WITH inside You can also walk with a blunt heated knife, pressing, on an elastic cushion so that bulges appear, like the veins of a leaf. And write something from Yesenin from the inside. Give with cognac. After all, nothing conveys the atmosphere of autumn like a volume of Yesenin, a maple leaf and good cognac)
Very good and nice idea, give autumn birthday cards to those who were born in this wonderful time of autumn. It is especially interesting to make such cards with children; for this you need to collect a lot of beautiful leaves of different shapes.
Such a gift would be relevant for Teacher’s Day, especially if this is the profession of a grandmother or mother, then such a gift will be especially appreciated.
For very young children, there are such ideas with paints, pencils and glue.
But for older people, there is such an interesting idea for a card made from leaves.
To do this, you need to collect a lot of leaves, print a form like in the picture
We make a template from cardboard and cut out a maple leaf, or any other leaf that you like
we fold our leaves and glue them with glue, it is advisable to form a leaf next to each other from different colors
We begin gluing from the tail of the sheet, we will secure our shape with paper clips so that everything turns out neatly and accurately
glue it like the photo
Autumn cards can be given for any autumn occasion. holidays - Day Knowledge, Teacher's Day, Birthday. The style and materials can be very different, the main thing is to use your imagination, it can be colored cardboard for the background or watercolor paper, such cards can be drawn, made using quilling or isothread techniques. You can make appliques from leaves, or cut out paper or cardboard blanks in the form of leaves and make appliques from them. And some specific ideas autumn applications see here