New Year scrapbooking: gift ideas and Christmas toys

Scrapbooking as a hobby, hobby, and even business, has become widespread throughout the world. It allows you to create spectacular compositions, one of a kind. There are a lot of techniques that allow you to create in scrapbooking. To master this technique is at least to please yourself and loved ones with the original design of the holidays, to give exquisite gifts. You can start scrapbooking at any age, having any initial skills or not having them at all. There are many workshops on creating jewelry in this technique. We invite you to explore a variety of ideas for your favorite holiday of the year - the New Year.

Unusual for the Slavic ear, the word scrapbooking in translation literally means “scrapbook”. However, since then, the creative direction has taken a huge step forward, and now includes a lot of different execution techniques. Therefore, the modest name has not covered the entire content capacity for a long time.

There are several basic performance techniques that are rarely used one at a time. Most often, it is necessary to carefully combine the techniques, then the final composition will be really beautiful, refined and stylish.

• Embossing. Allows you to create volumetric images of a convex type. There is a method of hot and cold embossing. In the first situation, the powder is applied to the ink, they are heated and melted with a special hairdryer.The second pattern is created using stencil and extrusion.
• Distressing. This technique makes it possible to visually age the paper with torn edges, scratches, scuffs. This can be achieved using craquelure or special inks.
• Stamping. With its help, compositions are created with small pictures. Rubber or silicone dies are used here, which are extremely easy to use.

Scrapbooking gets along well with other techniques: origami, parchment, quilling.

Experts recommend that beginners follow the basic rules of scrapbooking:

• create a draft, which will allow to put in order the plan, for this, first lay out the decor, trying different options;
• think over the composition from the very beginning, you must have a concept of building elements, if you are just starting out, use sketches, templates;
• define a semantic center the whole ensemble, around which minor elements will be located;
• choose a style and choose a color - everything should harmoniously fit together;
• don't be afraid of experiments!

You can purchase tools and necessary materials in different places: order on the Internet, buy in the markets for needlework. Here's what is recommended to purchase for scrapbooking:

• set of special paper with a suitable theme, in our case, New Year's, choose scrapbook paper of different prints, density and size;
• minimum office supply: ruler, eraser, pencil;
• hole puncher with the function of cutting out different shapes, it will allow you to create composition elements of different shapes from paper: Christmas trees, snowflakes, flowers, stars, just openwork figures;
• special scissors with a curly edge, to create spectacular edges;
• metal cutter;
• decorative things: rhinestones, stones, beads, buttons, buckles, flowers, ribbons, ribbons, lace.

Scrap postcards stand out not only for exclusivity, but also for their beauty. They do not want to throw away or hide, they will serve as a decoration of the interior for a long time. There are many ideas for creating New Year's cards. We suggest you consider the most interesting and spectacular.

This is a very recognizable image associated with winter, and therefore incredibly popular. If you want to present a non-trivial postcard to the holiday, then this is an excellent choice. You can create a template by outlining mittens, hands. You can also draw a mittens in any shape, of any size, using a ready-made template. When choosing a size, think over which elements will be included in the composition so that everyone has enough space. To create such a card will not require special skills. You can sew the mittens with stitches, for example, on a typewriter or with your hands. Do not overload the mittens with decor, in any case it will be incredibly attractive. The mittens can be either double or ordinary, you can think of a pendant or the ability to put on the table.

You can use the buttons that lie with your sewing accessories or purchase them in a sewing shop. Size, color and quantity are selected based on the future composition. Use hot glue to stick. Buttons look great in an ensemble with half beads, which are sold on a substrate, with an already applied adhesive. Using them is very simple. If something did not suit you, you can peel off and move the half bead to another place by gluing it with a glue gun. The color scheme depends on your design, the beads can be used as matte, in tone with buttons, and mother-of-pearl. Fir-trees from buttons and beads look great. You can add ribbons to this decor.

You can create winter decor on a postcard with the help of snowflakes cut out by a figured hole punch. Snowflakes can be located around a volumetric Christmas tree or directly on it. Use liquid type pearls to complete a spectacular composition, place them on snowflakes, background or Christmas tree. Even the simplest ensemble will look much more spectacular if you include expressive snowflakes in it.

This is perhaps the most common attribute of the New Year. It is completely optional to create the most complicated figured Christmas trees, a triangle and a trunk are enough to form a Christmas tree image, which is already decorated at will and imagination.

For the New Year, in addition to postcards, you can make a variety of gifts and crafts made by yourself using the scrapbooking technique. It can be a photo frame, a photo album or a box for the gift itself. To create a unique presentation you will need materials, a standard set of tools and inspiration.

This is a great way to elegantly decorate a sweet gift. With a box of chocolates from the store, now no one will be surprised, but everyone will get a stylish and original chocolate bar with sweets. In addition to sweets, in such boxes you can present money or other small items. The appearance of the chocolate boxes also depends on your taste and the chosen idea, there can be no restrictions here.

The advantage of this gift is that chocolate can be used in the interior. Of course, if the design is thought out for the style direction of the giftable housing. New Year's ideas may not be too intrusive and fanciful, they can be used as additional elements, then the gift will be more universal. To create a drawing of a chocolate box, it is recommended to use ready-made templates - just transfer them to the selected sheet of paper and draw them.

One of the most common options is a beautiful scrapbooking design for a gift you already bought. This scrapbook magic box is a truly sophisticated and unique decor. Anything can be located inside - like a precious thing, money, or a non-trivial trifle. Here you must definitely focus on subsequent use in the interior, so it’s better to use not only the standard New Year's, but just winter decor. To create, you need a template of the right size, paper and decor items.

Such a gift will definitely please, because every person has photos. It is much more pleasant to consider an exquisite, luxurious album, which no one else has in the world than a standard one from the mass market. Such gifts are often ordered from professionals, but they can be created with your own hands. In special stores kits for forming albums are sold. If you do not plan to turn scrapbooking into a hobby, this option is quite suitable for you.

First of all, decide on the form, method of opening, the number of pages, and only then proceed with the purchase of materials. The simplest album can be created on eyelets and place all pages on them. Be sure to think through each page. You can use fabric or paper as a cover.

Decorative Christmas tree decorations can be made both for your home or as a gift.Most often they make balls, houses, although the creation of both animals and Christmas trees is real. If you don’t have scrapbooking skills yet, start with simple things.

• Scrap ball. Here, the necessary ball circumference is first selected. The shape is usually made of corrugated cardboard to create a durable decoration. However, many use ready-made blanks-balls and decorate them according to the chosen composition. If you make balls for yourself, pick them up in the general style of decorating the Christmas tree, for example, in one color scheme.
• Christmas tree. To create this decoration, any paper of suitable subjects is useful. You can make a lot of scrap-trees from all the remaining paper, for example. Christmas trees are made in different ways: in a fan-like manner; they are collected from snowflakes and other figured decor. It all depends on your imagination!

A delicate card in the shape of a Christmas tree toy with a bow, decorated with a snowflake, half beads and braid - nothing more, perfect composition.

Buttons are a great way to create a Christmas ball image. Choose a harmonious background for your decor.

An elegant winter composition created using cones, flowers, lace, braid and leaves.

Do not be afraid to combine different elements, techniques and ideas. Greeting card mittens decorated with a snowflake - a very original design.

When creating a frame as a gift, remember that it should fit into the interior

Do not be afraid to combine a variety of elements and techniques. A snowman with buttons, a Christmas tree of beads can be placed on different postcards or connected in one ensemble. Christmas trees made of colored pencils of different sizes look incredibly original.

This is an interesting scrapbooking album. Its creation will not take too much time, but the result will be beyond praise.

See how to make a candy house with your own hands in the following video: