Now handmade things have become very popular, i.e. made by hand. It is especially nice to receive gifts in which you put a little soul. After all, they are unique, unique in their own way. We suggest you make a 3D postcard, from the inside of which a beautiful flower opens. There is nothing complicated here. A little patience - and the gift is ready.
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Materials for manufacturing
In order to make a 3D postcard, you will need:
- double-sided colored paper;
- compass and ruler;
- pencil;
- felt-tip pen;
- glitter pen;
- double-sided colored cardboard;
- scissors;
- glue stick.
Step 1. Making a blank
We take a sheet of double-sided colored paper of your choice of color. Using a compass, draw a circle with a radius of 9 cm.
Cut out the circle using scissors.
We fold it, combining the two halves, and run our hand along the fold.
Having opened our circle, we rotate the fold line by 90 degrees and fold it in half again, aligning the edges of the fold line.
Turn the outer side up and fold the circle so that the two nearby fold lines are aligned at the top and bottom horizontally.
We open the resulting workpiece with the back side up and, slightly pressing on the folds just obtained, fold the sector of the circle.
We run our hands over the places of the folds, fixing them. This is the setup we received.
Again, fold the workpiece in half, combining the edges of the folds.
Step 2. Cut out and decorate the flower.
We get a blank on which, using a pencil, draw the outline of the petal in the form of a semicircle.
Carefully cut out the flower along the drawn outline.
We unfold the flower and begin to decorate it. First, with a felt-tip pen, we draw straight lines at all places of the fold.
We outline the contours of the petals with a felt-tip pen. It is desirable to make the line thick enough to make the flower brighter.
With light strokes of a felt-tip pen from the center, paint the middle of the flower.
Using a glitter pen, draw small circles on the edges of the strokes, depicting stamens.
We collect the flower to the center along the fold lines.
Step 3. Give the flower volume
We outline the middle of the petals with a pencil and two points at a distance of about 1.5 cm from the center of the flower.
We bend the upper part of the flower along these points.
We fold the lower part of the flower along the same lines in the other direction.
We open the flower and, holding it with the back side up, we bend the newly obtained folds outward, and the places of the bends between them inward.
We open the flower.
We collect it along the lines.
Step 4. Putting together a postcard
We take a double-sided cardboard of the selected color, apply a folded flower to one of the corners and mark its edges with a pencil. We also mark it in a mirror image.
Based on these marks, we calculate the width and height of the cardboard base of the postcard. Cut out a rectangle of the desired size and bend it in half.
We draw three hearts of different sizes on pink paper. Cut out and glue them to the outside of the card.
We apply glue to one side of the folded flower and glue the flower so that its center falls on the fold line of the card.
Lubricate the second side of the folded flower with glue, close the card and press it well.
As a result, when we open the card, a flower grows from within.
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