We must admit: Standard postcards have already passed into the past. Most often we give gifts without accompanying cards. If what postcards are popular, then these are either needleworking creations (in the technique of scrapbooking, for example), or postcards for international exchange (postcrossing). Nevertheless, you can revive the tradition and make a postcard with your own hands! It will not be simple, and bulk: inside the postcard you "set up" an interesting toy. How do you like this idea? See what can be toys.
For the manufacture of one such postcard you need: Cardboard base, plastic cover (for example, from yogurt), beads, beads, tubes from juice, illustrations from magazines, cardboard with pattern.
How to make a postcard toy? Work description.
It all starts with creating the basis of postcards. Cut from the cardboard a rectangle of the desired size, fold it in half. For bending it is better to use additional tools: a ruler and scissors. Toy scissors Spend a line for a ruler, and then bend the cardboard on this strip. Ideally, such a strip must be carried out on the outside of the postcard, so that the cardboard does not crack during flexion. Next, after forming the basis of the postcards, take the transparent lid and cut the most outer layer with scissors.
Put the basis of the postcard and decide which sash will be top. Circle directly on it and cut the circle along the contours, using the blade first or the stationery knife, and then scissors. Sample whether the cover switches to the resulting hole. If not - additionally expand the hole with scissors.
Insert the transparent cover into the appropriate window and secure the glue. Make markers and on the inside of the second postcard sash to know where the cover will be located when the postcard closes.
Now is the time to make the toy inside the postcard. In the marked circle inside the postcard, position the pieces of the tube so that they create a labyrinth. With that tubes, you need to put on the glue, so that they hold firmly.
Instead of tubes, you can use corrugated paper. Or rather, its strips twisted into the labyrinth. Come up with different strangers so that the labyrinth is more interesting.
Now you can put in the labyrinth of its main "character" - a bead, which will look for the right road. A bead must be of this size so that you can pass into any part of the labyrinth. For a more interesting view, you can put two or even three colors in the labyrinth. If the bead is already in place, you can glue both postcard flaps to finally close the labyrinth.
Here is such a toy in the postcard.
Such a gift can divert and cheer your new owner for a long time!
This is, of course, a simpler toy postcard. But you can additionally decorate your product, and it turns out original!
So, for example. Here the author did not a labyrinth, but the game in which beads can jump from one stick to another. He also successfully picked up postcard background: Corrugated beige color paper resembles folded sticks together.
There is another postcard option. So you can make not only a greeting card, but also a card memoirs about summer holidays. In the window under the cover, hide the photo of the sea with the ship, and there are blue bispers between the photo and the lid. So you can quite revive the sea!
And this is a postcard for handmade professionals. Here under the cover are hidden a real hourglass! Actually, pour sand under the lid is quite easy. But put exactly as many grasses so that they fall exactly a minute, difficult! To do this, it is necessary to practice the Sand Pin, and only then, measuring the required number of grasses, "sharpen" them into a postcard.
Sand or semolina can also be used for the game "Cland Search".
Turning a postcard, you can find real treasures under the sand!
So postcards-toys - a very entertaining thing! You can inspire these ideas or come up with something interesting yourself!
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