Potatoes - 1 pc.
Hard cheese - 150 g
Yogurt - 150 g thick
Dill - 2 tablespoons
Egg yolk - 1 pc.
Sesame seeds - 1 tsp
Black pepper - to taste
Preparation:
1. Boil a large potato or two medium ones in salted water until tender, cool, remove the peel.
- Grate potatoes on a coarse grater. Also grate hard cheese.
- In a separate bowl, combine thick Greek yogurt with chopped herbs. Instead of yogurt, you can take sour cream.
- Spread a sheet of pita bread, grease half of the sheet with the prepared sauce, pepper to taste.
- Distribute grated boiled potatoes over the sauce, and grated cheese on top.
- Roll up the pita bread tightly bending the edges on all sides, so that when baking it does not fall apart and the filling does not flow out onto the baking sheet. Using a cooking brush, brush the rolled pita bread with whipped yolk and sprinkle with sesame seeds.
- Transfer the prepared pita bread to a baking sheet covered with parchment paper and send it to an oven preheated to 200 degrees for 12-15 minutes.
- Cut the pita bread into portions and serve. It is very crispy after baking, so use the sharpest knife possible.
- Note: you can add chopped baked or boiled chicken fillet, fried or boiled mushrooms, ham, etc. to the filling. - experiment and you will have new variations of this simple but delicious dish.
What else is good to do in advance? Of course, postcards, because in order for your family and friends to receive them on time, letters must be sent in advance. We offer you 15 ideas for New Year's cards that you can easily make with your own hands. Last year, as part of the New Year's little train campaign, we visited with you, where the thematic articles of the past years were awaiting us.
How to make DIY Christmas cards
New Year card "Snowman"
Cut a wide strip with a curly edge out of white paper. It will be a snowy hill. Glue it to the bottom of the postcard. Attach white acrylic letters to the center of the pre-made snowmen.
Christmas Holly Postcard
Decorate a folded sheet of heavy beige paper with buttons, cut leaves from green paper, and a sewing stitch along the edge. Sign the postcard by hand. To make the leaves shine, cover the green paper with glue, let it dry and then cut out the leaves.
Postcard "Multicolored Christmas tree"
Use scrapbooking paper to create this cute New Year's composition on your card. Fold a 24 cm by 14 cm sheet of white paper in half. Cut a 6 cm wide wavy strip of blue or turquoise scrapbooking paper. Glue it to the top of the postcard. Cut 4-6 triangles out of green and blue paper (see photo).
Attach the triangles to the card in three rows. Leave some free space on the right in the second row for a large tree. Hot glue a small knot into the free space. This will be the trunk of the tree. Cut a large triangle out of the patterned paper. Use a foam pad to glue it to the card. This will create a three-dimensional tree.
Decorate the tree with rhinestones. Attach a shiny star to the top.
Greetings from Santa Claus postcard
This postcard will be based on patterned paper. Cut out the elements of Santa Claus's face from paper of different colors. Glue them together. Use pink chalk to paint Santa's cheeks. Glue your face to a thick paper card. Stick the postcard on folded paper with a larger design, so that the design looks like a border on the right and bottom of the postcard. Write a congratulation.
Retro Christmas tree postcard
Use a sewing machine to sew the edges of a Christmas tree made of heavyweight paper. Decorate the tree with snowflakes. For a simpler version of the postcard, glue the tree with an additional layer of thick paper to get a three-dimensional image.
Christmas card "Bird"
These adorable holiday birds are sure to bring you good luck in the coming year 2015. Cut out the outline of the bird from thick red and green paper. Use a hole punch to make pom poms out of white paper and eyes out of black paper. Cut out caps from red and green paper, a strip of "fur" from white paper, and wings from patterned paper. Fold a piece of heavy white paper in half.
Using a pencil, draw paws on the front of each postcard. Circle the legs with a black handle. Cut the beak out of black paper. Secure the beak with the wide end to the back of the bird's body. Glue the bird to the card. Glue the fur and pompom to the hat. Set the hat aside temporarily. Stitch the wing to the bird's body. Sew the bird onto the postcard and add a hat.
Please your friends and family with this bright and cheerful postcard. Fold the patterned paper in half along the long side. Using a stencil machine, cut out the shapes you want. Stick them on the postcard. Decorate the card with 3D stickers or make a short greeting out of cut letters.
How to make a card with a Christmas ball
Simple yet stylish postcard. Fold a piece of pink (or any other) colored paper in half. Using a ruler, draw a black line on the top half of the postcard (see photo). Cut a Christmas ball out of bright paper with a pattern. Glue it to the bottom right corner of the postcard. Cut a small trapezoid out of white cardboard - the ball attachment - and glue it to the top of the ball.
Decorate the "string" of the ball with rhinestones. Place the card in a fun-filled envelope.
Postcard "New Year tree"
Create a 3D Christmas tree from patterned corrugated paper. Fold a piece of heavy brown paper in half. Stitch a slightly smaller, cream-colored rectangle to the front of the card. The result is a blank postcard. Place five differently patterned strips of paper on top of each other.
Make a decorative edge along the long side of each strip. Fold the strips into an accordion so that the same distance is obtained between the folds. Stick the strips under each other in the shape of a tree. Cut out a star and attach it to the top of the tree. Decorate with sparkles.
New Year's card "Santa Claus"
Your loved ones will be happy to receive a surprise card for the New Year. Fold the piece of red paper over to form a pocket. Attach strips of white paper with a curly edge to the card (see photo). To make a belt, glue a strip of black paper to the bottom of the card and cut a square out of shiny paper. Secure the square to the black strip.
Place the surprise inside the card. Wrap a coarse thread twice around the top flap, securing it with a drop of glue on the back of the flap. Pass the thread through the Santa Claus tag and tie the thread with a bow.
This card is very easy to make. In addition, it is easy to manufacture in large numbers. Use a stencil to cut out different shapes of snowflakes. Sign the postcard, decorate with a ribbon. At the bottom of the card, glue a strip of paper with a curly edge and a strip of paper with a pattern. Snowflakes of different shapes and paper with different patterns will help you create a unique design for each card.
Decorate a simple postcard in minutes. Cut half of the Christmas tree out of patterned paper. "Hang" toys-buttons of a suitable color on the tree, placing them on a drop of glue. Attach a star-shaped sticker to the top of the tree.
Bright mittens in a row are the main decoration of this New Year's card. At the bottom of the card, attach a strip of patterned paper and a ribbon. Write your warmest Christmas wishes. Punch holes in the two outer mittens, thread them along the lace and tie them with bows. Glue the rest of the mittens to the card with glue.
Tip: To keep the bows securely, they need to be fixed with a drop of glue, applying it in the middle of the lace.
This funny felt Santa Claus is a great way to wish your loved ones a Happy New Year. Cut out the beard and hat from strips of red, green, dark gray, and white felt. Cut a 13 cm circle out of cream-colored paper and glue to a similar-sized circle cut from white paper. On the back of the white circle, you will write congratulations.
Starting with the beard, glue the felt blanks to the white circle. Stick on the mustache, mouth, cheeks and eyes. Cut 13 cm strips out of red, green, and pink felt. Weave the strips into pigtails and attach to Santa Claus's hat. Attach a sprig of Christmas holly cut from felt to the top of the hat.
This simple and elegant card features the popular Christmas character, Rudolph the Reindeer. Cut it out using a dark green paper stencil. Fold a 24 x 14 cm sheet of light green paper in half. Apply glue to the middle of three round openwork napkins and glue them to the card. Cut a circle out of "book" paper and glue it to the center of the top napkin.
Attach the Rudolph figurine to the card, make him a red nose - a circle of red paper. Give your postcard envelope a vintage look: Insert a liner of antique scrapbooking paper inside the envelope.
Tip: To give your white napkins an antique look, rub them with damp tea bags.
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We hope that these ideas inspired you to be creative, and in the near future you will be able to make Christmas cards with your own hands, the process of creating which will captivate both you and your children, and the final result will delight those who receive the New Year cards you have made.
Translation of the article Homemade Christmas Cards from English was prepared by Elena Sukhaya
Good afternoon. Today we will make our own New Year cards. I will show you the most interesting ways and techniques. You will not only see photographs, but also receive detailed instructions and diagrams for creating each such postcard. I will give you the necessary master classes to illustrate complex techniques (quilling, origami) step by step.
I decided to divide the entire article into 5 parts - on the topics of New Year's cards.
- First, we'll look at a wide variety of Christmas trees on postcards.
- Then I will show you what Santa Clauses can decorate your postcard.
- Then we will make Snowmen using different techniques.
- Then we move on to Christmas wreaths.
- And of course, consider the applications of snowflakes on postcards.
So let's get started ...
Part one
FIR-tree on New Year's cards.
Method number 1 - paper triangles.
If you still have old signed New Year's cards, you can no longer transfer them in a second round. But you can use them to create a NEW postcard. You can cut a triangle out of a New Year's card, put it on a leg and get a Christmas tree. The New Year's motive on the card turned out by itself - like the coloring of a Christmas tree.
Or you can cut a herringbone out of a regular cardboard box - rough corrugated packaging cardboard will blend in with delicate lace or pearl beads. And you will receive an elegant handmade New Year card.
You can cut a triangular silhouette of a Christmas tree with wavy edges and glue it with sequins that imitate Christmas decorations on the tree.
You can give the triangular silhouette of the herringbone a scalloped edge (like in the photo postcards below). And also you can cut out several silhouettes at once and arrange them on one New Year's card.
On the blue New Year's card with the photo below, we see how a voluminous blade herringbone is glued from three triangles.
Or one silhouette of the Christmas tree can be larger in size and with a different shade of color - we put it as a duplicate background under the upper silhouette (as on the right Christmas card with the photo below).
Method number 2 - paper ribbons on a New Year's card.
From paper or textile ribbons, you can very quickly and easily form a herringbone applique.
You can use regular strips of colored paper. Or buy a braid with embroidery in the sewing department of the store. Or in the gift department of the store, buy a sheet of elegant wrapping paper and cut patterned stripes from it for a Christmas tree applique on a New Year's card.
Here in the photo below we see several options for creating such a New Year's tree applique.
The paper strips do not have to be glued in a strict order and symmetry. You can cut strips of four lengths - 10 cm, 8 cm, 5 cm, 3 cm.And arrange them in a chaotic oblique order starting from the bottom of 10 cm, in the middle we lay strips of 3 cm and 5 cm, and at the top of 3 cm. paper star and we get a New Year's card with our own hands as in the left photo below.
You can also take a triangle cut out of thick cardboard and glue it over with strips of paper or fabric, bending the edges of the strips to the wrong side of the cardboard triangle. And we will get a ready-made elegant Christmas tree, which you can safely stick on your postcard (right photo below).
But with paper strips, you can make not only flat applications. You can make Christmas trees using 3D technique. Here is a detailed description of how to make a looped Christmas tree on a red New Year's card from the left photo below with your own hands.
Step 1 - cut into narrow and long strips - their lengths will also be different: 2 strips of 15 cm, 2 strips of 12 cm, 2 strips of 9 cm, and one strip of 7 cm.
Step 2 - in the front side of the postcard we make cuts with a blade - 2 slots on both sides along an imaginary line(the width of each slot is such that our strip can easily fit into it).
Step 3 - pushing each strip at one end through 2 slots- we turn it with a loop and again return to the same slots. The ends of the strip that meet on the side glue in the same loop as on the opposite side.
We repeat a similar procedure with the rest of the strips. Naturally, it is necessary to place the strips from bottom to top in decreasing order (long at the bottom, short at the top).
Or you can cut 6 paper strips of equal length 12 cm... Bend each strip in half and intertwine the folds of the halves with each other cross to cross - in a checkerboard weave. It just looks difficult. But in fact it is simple. Here you can tear out a sheet from a notebook and cut 6 strips of any length and practice on such a rough material - to see how simple and easy everything is.
And here is another New Year's card, where the tree is also made of strips of paper... Only here crepe paper is used (with a crumpled wrinkled effect) - it is sold in rolls in stationery stores (like wallpaper).
Step 1 - We cut wide strips of different lengths - 12 cm, 10 cm, 8 cm, 6 cm, 4 cm.
Step 2 - On the card we outline the line-tiers (rounded), to these lines we will glue each tier of our Christmas tree made of paper. We attach a strip of double-sided tape to these drawn lines.
Step 3 - We take the longest strip (12 cm) and fold its entire upper edge into small folds - tweaks - and place these tucks on the lower line of the tape. Take the next largest strip (10 cm) and do the same. And so we move to the upper tier of the tree. Then we decorate the Christmas tree on the New Year's card for any design at our discretion.
Method number 3 - paper circles.
And here is a way to make a Christmas tree on a New Year's card using mugs cut from paper. You can cut the circles to the same size (like the blue postcard in the photo below). Or you can cut the circles into 4 different sizes - 2 circles for each size. And then the Christmas tree will turn out to be a triangular shape (tapering upward), as on the red New Year's card with the photo below.
Method number 4 - quilling technique for postcards for the New Year.
And here is another technique by which very beautiful handmade New Year cards are obtained. Beautiful twists can be made from paper strips.
This is how the process of creating a Christmas tree using the quilling technique looks like. Cut the paper into even strips(It is convenient to do this under the ruler with a paper knife - on a wooden board so as not to cut the table. Or you can buy ready-made strips for quilling. Or you can get a machine for cutting quilling strips.
We lay each twist in a circle template(so that the twists are the same size). Let the tight twist open a little, unwind - but within the framework of a round stencil. And then glue the tail-tip of the twist to the barrel of the twist itself... That is, we fix its size. So it will be possible to take it out of the stencil frame and not be afraid that it will unwind and increase its size.
If you don't have a stencil, you can use round caps for creams or drinks... Place the twist on the bottom of the glass or lid and allow it to unwind to the diameter of the lid. Then gently pull it out with tweezers and fix the twist tail with glue.
Pinch the round twists on one side with your finger to give it the shape of a drop.
We add drops of different sizes in pairs - and we get a quick and simple Christmas tree.
The quilling technique allows you to create a variety of Christmas tree patterns from paper twists.
Method number 5 - paper rolls.
Or you can cut the paper into wide strips of different lengths - and roll each strip into a roll. It's easy to do if wrap it around a pencil- glue, wait for the glue to set - and only then remove from the pencil. These rolls of different lengths make a beautiful Christmas tree on a postcard. Do it yourself quickly and easily. Paper can be used simple color... Or buy sheets gift wrapping paper(sold in the gift department).
Method number 6 - mosaic herringbone on a postcard.
You can use any small details as a material for creating a Christmas tree. Sliced snowflakes or butterflies. Buttons or origami stars or bolts and nuts (if you are preparing a postcard for your husband and want to make it in a brutal style).
Method number 7 - lace Christmas tree on a New Year's card.
You can make beautiful lace on a New Year's card. you can use ready made lace paper napkins(sold at the household store, in the same place as the muffin tins). These napkins are often placed under cakes and other culinary items.)
Or you can create paper lace yourself- by folding the paper as for cutting out a snowflake. And put an interesting pattern with holes along the folded edge.
Can you fold the cut-out snowflake in the shape of a herringbone and stick on a New Year's card.
Method number 8 - origami technique.
And here are New Year's cards, which are decorated with a Christmas tree folded from a napkin. Such folding origami in the form of a Christmas tree are made quite quickly and from a simple square (you do not need to cut anything). The main thing is that each upper square is slightly smaller in size than the lower one. And then the tiers of our Christmas tree will narrow towards the top.
Here below I have depicted a diagram that illustrates the process of creating paper blanks for a Christmas tree for a postcard.
But you yourself can come up with YOUR OWN interpretations of a modular paper tree. Come up with your own triangular folds and create your own personalized Christmas card with a Christmas tree.
Method number 9 - folding herringbone on a postcard.
And here is another foldable herringbone. Everything here is quite simple and is made from a detached solid sheet of cardboard. And if you wish, you can additionally decorate the Christmas tree with inserts of colored paper and decorations.
And also you can quickly fold an origami Christmas tree out of paper in this semicircular pattern. You can copy the shape of the tree and fold lines directly from the monitor screen. To zoom in or out on the screen, scroll the mouse wheel forward or backward while holding down the Ctrl button.
Or you can make such a tree yourself without a drawing. And just bending the semicircle back and forth several times, as shown in the picture below.
If such a semicircular pattern for a folding Christmas tree is made not with an even edge, but by jagging the circle of the pattern into soft ruffles or teeth, then the edges of our tiers at the Christmas tree will turn out to be curly, as in the photo of New Year's cards below.
Method # 10 - paper carving.
Also, for Christmas cards, the cuff carving technique is suitable. This technique is very easy to do. Part of the picture is cut with a razor blade and folded back. We see the most primitive example in the right photo below - half of the contours of the Christmas tree and snowflakes are cut off and simply bent.
You can make a double contour - and then the fold will turn out in the form of a narrow silhouette strip, as is done on the left postcard with the photo below.
Or you can cut and bend down each tier silhouette of a Christmas tree on a postcard. And we will get a Christmas card with the photo below.
You can first practice on any rough piece of paper - to see how easy it is to actually implement such a postcard carving technique and make your own unique New Year's craft.
This we examined New Year's cards with a Christmas tree theme, and now let's look at all the other New Year's themes with which you can decorate our cards with your own hands.
Part two
FATHER FROST on postcards.
Large applications in the shape of Santa Claus will decorate any Christmas card. There is no need to make a full-length silhouette of Santa Claus somewhere in the corner of the postcard in the form of a small booger. It is better to take the largest size of a hat, beard and take the whole part of the postcard with these main elements of Santa Claus - a red nose, mustache, beard, hat.
You can fold Santa Claus for a postcard using the origami technique - as shown in the photo below.
Part three
SNOWMAN on New Year's cards.
Now you can move on to the new character of the Christmas holidays - the snowman. Usually we are used to seeing it on crafts in the form of three white rounds and a bucket on the head. But you can get creative with the task of portraying a snowman on a postcard. For example, make it look out from behind the Christmas tree - as in the left photo below.
Or take a ready-made card with a snowman - cut it into strips of different lengths - and from these strips fold a herringbone pyramid. Fold in such a way that on some of the strips you can see the sly face of a snowman (as on the left Christmas card with the photo below).
Also, you are not required to make a snowman applique on a classic white paper postcard. You can take the music staff of a New Year's song on the Internet - put it on print, and cut out round discs from such paper for applying a snowman.
Or take a printed text that tells about New Year's traditions and cut rounds for a snowman from such a text.
You can make a snowman on a postcard from a paper fan. When the fan is bent in half - and its blades unfold in a circle.
You can make a snowman on a postcard using the quilling technique. Twist twist modules from paper white strips, and fold a quilling snowman.
You can portray the snowman in an interesting, unusual angle or setting. It could be a snowman TOP VIEW (like in the left photo below) ... or a snowman inside a snow globe (like in the right photo).
You can make an applique for a snowman, which pierces a snowflake with his nose. Or a snowman-lord with a top hat and a red bow around his neck.
It is not necessary to put a bucket on the snowman. A snowman looks good in a neat black hat with a brim decorated with a sprig of holly.
The snowman on the postcard can be depicted in an extremely schematic way. A semicircle, a strip of a scarf, two beads of eyes and an orange triangle of the nose.
You can make a simplified silhouette of a snowman as the side of a two-layer postcard as in the photo below.
Or you can use the entire white background of the postcard as the body of a snowman. This principle is shown on the New Year's cards with the photo below.
The most difficult thing is to make a volumetric 3D postcard with a silhouette of a snowman.
Part four
DEER on Christmas cards.
Another New Year's character that looks festive on New Year's cards is a deer.
He can also be portrayed outside the box, but in an interesting situation. For example, it can be a reindeer singing Christmas songs with inspiration, playing a drum, or ice skating - everything is up to your imagination.
You can choose the simplest silhouette applique of ONLY DEER'S HEAD on postcards.
Or you can decorate a New Year's card with the silhouette of a whole deer - from antlers to hooves.
Part four
SNOWFLAKES on New Year's cards.
You can cut 2 ordinary stars out of paper and fold them on top of each other with an offset of one ray - and we will get an elegant snowflake on a Christmas card with our own hands.
You can make a beautiful snowflake using the volumetric convex technique.
Or embroider a snowflake from threads. That is, apply a symmetrical pattern of punctures. And then, in a certain order, lace up these puncture holes with threads to make an openwork snowflake.
You don't have to come up with very complex weaves. Even small patterns of thread and needles will decorate your New Year's cards.
In this thread technique, you can perform not only snowflakes, but also any other New Year's motives.
And of course a snowflake using the quilling technique.
Here in the photo below we see the stages of creating a complex snowflake from ordinary quilling modules - you need to start each snowflake from the center - and grow petals to the middle - circle by circle.
Your New Year's card with snowflakes can resemble a layer cake, in which a variety of details are mixed, layering and bumping into each other in an elegant chaos of beauty.
The snowflake on your card can be made of paper modules made using origami technique.
Part five
Wreaths on New Year's cards.
And here is the theme of festive Christmas wreaths. On a postcard, they can be depicted in any technique. It can be a flat appliqué of any geometric shapes, decorated with ribbons, buttons and other tinsel.
You can make a New Year's card in the form of a door on which such a Christmas wreath hangs.
The quilling technique is also ideal for creating modules for a Christmas wreath.
New Year's cards can be decorated with birds. They can sing winter songs while sitting on birch musical branches.
Also, New Year's cards can represent a winter window through which you can see either a snowy landscape or a festive room with a Christmas tree.
And here are some more ideas for how to give money in a New Year's card ... We are used to investing money inside a postcard. But you can put the money outside, making it part of the overall New Year's application. I will now explain how to place the money on the front side of the postcard and not spoil it with glue.
Here on the first postcard we see a bill folded in a triangular cone - a ribbon was glued to the card (not money, we don’t spoil it with glue) and glued the ribbon so that it was glued to the glue in the middle, and its tails hung loosely. We put a cone of a Christmas tree-money on the ribbon - and we tie it, we tie it with the free ends of the ribbon.
In the second case we glue the snowman - but not just glue it - but on plump pieces of styrofoam stumps. That is, the snowman turns out to be towering on the postcard. Thus, the snowman's neck turns out to be pushed away from the postcard canvas - and you can safely slip a bill rolled into a strip under his neck.
And in the third case - we roll up the candle tubes out of paper. We glue them with ribs to the postcard. And in each tube we put a banknote rolled into a narrow roll.
These are the original ideas for New Year's cards I found for you during these holidays.
Successful New Year's crafts and a Happy New Year.
Olga Klishevskaya, specially for the site ""
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