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Beautiful Christmas tree toy using scrapbooking technique with a pig. DIY Christmas balls: fireworks of brilliant ideas! Christmas decorations scrapbooking

For those who like to create with their own hands, decorate the Christmas tree original jewelry- no problem. I will show you step by step how to do christmas ball ik from paper.

I got the idea from London designer Vicky. But in the process of work, she encountered questions that were not disclosed in her master class. Therefore, I not only translate it, but also supplement it.

The ball is based on paper circles. In the master class, it was indicated that the circles were cut with a hole punch with a diameter of 1.5 inches, i.e. about 4 cm. What size the finished ball turns out was unknown. I decided to make the circles a little larger, and they turned out to be 6 cm in diameter with a little. As a result, the ball turned out to be 12 cm in diameter.

Step 1. Having chosen the desired diameter, you need to cut out 20 identical circles from thick scrapbooking paper and 1 more of the same circle from rough paper. I used 4 types of paper, but you can make each circle from paper of a different design.

Step 2 Now you need to cut an equilateral triangle from the draft circle. For those who have forgotten geometry, I offer a recipe. First you need to draw a hexagon whose side is equal to the radius of the circle. You can start from any point on the circle, postponing the length of the radius until the figure closes. Then you need to connect every other vertex with lines.

Step 3 Using the template, mark on each of the 20 circles three points along the vertices of the triangle.

Step 4 On each circle, make a creasing, then make three half-folds.

Step 5 Using liquid glue, connect 5 elements together so that they form a hat. And 5 more elements to connect in the same way. There should be two hats.

Step 6 From the remaining 10 elements, glue the ring.

Perhaps the most common shape of a Christmas tree toy is a ball. Traditionally, the Christmas tree is decorated with balls. different sizes but one colors or, conversely, they take balls of the same size, but different, matching colors. But every year it becomes more and more popular to make New Year's toys with your own hands. That is why we will learn how to make Christmas decorations in the shape of a ball in the most different techniques needlework!

Balls of beads, buttons and threads

To one of the most simple ways decor Christmas balls with your own hands, you can attribute them to gluing with threads or decorative cords. To make the ball look more festive, take a string of beads with the cord and glue them, alternating with each other.

Balls of buttons and pasta

Even children can stick multi-colored buttons on the balls, and you just have to admire the result and help them a little if necessary)

And instead of buttons, you can stick pasta or coins, and you will get the most unusual Christmas balls with your own hands!

Pre-wrap a foam or any other ball with golden foil to mask the gaps. Alternatively, after gluing small parts, the entire ball can be painted with golden spray paint.

Balls of thread

Making balls of thread is also not at all difficult. It is taken as a basis regular ball(you can use an old Christmas tree toy, with which, for example, the paint has peeled off in places) and is wrapped with knitting threads. Show a little ingenuity and it will turn into a ball ball! Knitting needles are made from toothpicks and a pair of wooden beads.

Another method is based on the use of a balloon in the work, which is wrapped with threads lubricated in PVA glue. You can wind the threads in any order, and at the end it doesn’t hurt to smear the entire surface with glue again.

After the glue dries, pierce balloon and carefully remove it, and decorate the finished ball of thread with a festive bow.

paper balls

To make this cute paper ball, all you need is beautiful paper and glue.

Felting balls - another one interesting way creating a unique Christmas decoration with your own hands!

There are two ways to felt wool balls: one is called dry felting, and the other is wet) The result is equally good if everything is done correctly.

Balloon painting

And finally, another simple way to decorate Christmas balls- painting. It is made using a gel with sparkles of various colors.

take suitable color and draw whatever comes to your mind) By the way, involve children in this activity, they will be delighted!

We hope that from the variety of options offered, you will choose one or several suitable ones for yourself, and your Christmas tree will be decorated with exclusive handmade Christmas balls!

Happiness and creative success in the New Year!!!

Tools and materials

Paper for scrapbooking with a New Year's ornament burgundy - 1 sheet
Scrapbooking paper with Christmas ornament dark green - 1 sheet
Scrapbooking paper with a Christmas ornament and a white-green bird - 1 sheet
Scrapbooking paper with a Christmas ornament and a cone light green - 1 sheet
Paper for scrapbooking with a New Year's ornament beige - 1 sheet
Paper A4 white - 2 sheets
Paper A4 red - 1 sheet
Scissors large and manicure
Colored pencil set
Ruler
PVA glue
Round object for drawing a template or compasses
Glue brush
Hot gun with silicone glue (or Moment glue)
Christmas printout
Christmas tree cone made of paper
Thin paper Brown for making flowers
Thin satin ribbon burgundy - 20 cm
Thin brown satin ribbon - 20 cm
White beads of medium size - 11 pcs.
Large burgundy beads - 3 pcs.
Twig with artificial berries white color- 1 PC.
A4 cardboard - 2 sheets.
Stick (wooden skewer) for working with foamiran.
Foamiran red - 10 x 10 cm

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Step-by-step instruction

Circle a round object with a diameter of 10 cm on a sheet of white paper.

Draw a small figure above the circle - the holder of the Christmas ball.

Trace the balloon template on a sheet of cardboard.

Fold the cardboard in half and cut out the blank for work so that the bend is not cut. Trace and cut out another similar cardboard shape for the second Christmas decoration.

On a sheet of red paper, circle the cardboard part with a curly border.

Glue a red patterned sheet onto a white sheet of the same dimensions, applying glue only to the corners of the sheets. Along the contour, cut 2 blanks at the same time, red and white.

Trace the cardboard piece onto the green ornamental paper.

Cut out the green piece.

Glue the green cutout onto the cardboard base.

On the other side, glue the red blank with curly edges so that they look evenly on the front side of the product.

On paper with a pattern of cones, circle paper template Christmas toys.

Cut out a piece for the first inside of the toy.

Carefully glue the part with the pattern on the left side of the spread.

On white paper, circle the top of the Christmas tree toy paper template, as shown in the photo. Draw a curved line.

Cut out the template. Circle it on burgundy paper and carefully cut out the part.

Glue the burgundy element to the top left of the inside spread.

Place a large drawing on scraps of glued red and white paper. Draw one curly edge from center to center of the pattern, fold the paper in half. Cut out 2 background details for the picture at the same time - red and white.

Glue the white background piece to the right side of the inside spread.

Glue a large picture on a white background.

Make 10 snowflakes out of green paper with a curly hole punch.

Glue snowflakes to the left and right of the picture.

Cut out small red circles and glue them to the top of the toy on each side.

Cut out small red circles and glue on the 4 corners of the picture.

Glue a burgundy rectangle on the right side of the front cover of the Christmas tree toy, and a picture on top of it.

Draw a Christmas leaf pattern.

Cut out the template. Trace on light green paper. Cut out 2 identical parts, tint the edges with a green pencil.

Glue the leaves to the left of the picture.

Glue a sprig of Christmas berries between the paper leaves.

Tie a thin brown ribbon into a bow and glue just above the lower left corner of the picture.

On foamiran, squeeze out the shape of a leaf for a Christmas flower.

Cut out 5 identical sheets of foamiran and push the embossed veins with a stick.

Glue the Christmas flower on top of the bow.

Glue 3 large red beads in the center.

Glue white beads in the corners of the picture and around the central red beads on the flower.

To make the second Christmas toy, circle the cardboard piece on beige paper with a pattern. Cut out.

Gently glue a white blank with curly edges to the cardboard.

Glue the beige piece with the ornament on the second side.

On paper with a bird pattern, circle the paper template of a Christmas tree toy.

Cut out a piece with a bird for the first inside of the toy. Also trace the template for the top of this side on light green paper and cut out the second piece.

Carefully glue the patterned part on the left side of the white spread.

Glue the light green element to the top left of the inner spread.

Glue the curly red background blank on the right side of the inner spread in the center.

Cut out 2 pictures from ready-made color templates.

Glue a large drawing on a red background.

Make 10 burgundy snowflakes with a figured hole punch and glue on both sides of the pattern. Cut out small white circles and glue on the 4 corners of the picture.

Sew on sewing machine the edges of each workpiece in a circle on both sides.

Cut out a rectangle from burgundy paper with an ornament 6 mm higher and wider than the small picture.

Cut out a stem and oblong leaves for a branch from green paper.

Glue the green branch on the left side of the front side of the toy.

Glue a burgundy rectangle on the right, and a small picture on top.

Cut off a thin strip of thin brown paper.

Cut the strip into 2 pieces. Roll into a rose shape. Glue a paper cone in the lower left corner of the picture, and roses on the sides.

Tie a bow with burgundy ribbon and glue it under the bump. Cut out small white circles and glue them to the top of the toy on each side. Glue white beads in the corners of the picture.

To hang the toy on the Christmas tree, all that remains is to make punctures in the upper cardboard ledge and stretch the thread. Beautifully designed toy with Christmas motifs, you can sign inside or stick a printout with a New Year's wish on the back of the product. In order for the crafts to be even and look aesthetically pleasing, put them under the press for the night so as not to press the volumetric elements (foamiran flower and cone).

You can surprise your loved ones with postcards and crafts of incredible beauty using the modern scrapbooking technique. For work, you will need decorative materials, special paper and tips in this article.

Any holiday is certainly accompanied by congratulations and gifts, which, in turn, can be large or small. IN New Year we strive to wish happy life to all your near and dear ones. Often for this, people buy postcards, write letters and choose surprises.

But, what if we move away from the usual canons and try to independently “figure out” something beautiful with our own hands, capable of congratulating a person on holidays and giving him pleasant emotions? This will help in this case interesting technique, How scrapbooking.

IMPORTANT: Scrapbooking is a needlework that involves working with special scrap paper(paper with drawings and patterns) and other materials for creativity: beads, ribbons, lace, beads, rhinestones, buttons, braid, brushwood, canvas, threads, felt, cardboard, candied fruits, dry leaves and much more.

An example of New Year's scrapbooking

This technique helps create crafts of incredible beauty: postcards, Christmas and wall decorations, albums, chocolate boxes, pictures. Each work can be used as a separate gift or part of a festive package.

All materials for creativity, as a rule, can be purchased at the store or prepared independently(if it's about natural materials: twigs, leaves, acorns, dry berries and fruits).

Before work it is important:

Stock up on the necessary amount of materials for creativity.
Have a dense base from which your product will be made: cardboard, paper, felt, plywood, and so on.
Having hot glue, rubber glue or instant dry glue is the only way to attach each piece to the base.
You should start work only when you have imagined the future product in your head. Use a draft, sketch, fantasize and experiment on paper in order to get the most effective handmade work.
Be careful while working, because the final result depends on it.

New Year's scrapbooking ideas:

The most popular scrapbooking product is, of course, New Year card. It can be made not only in any size, but even in shape: rectangle, square, circle, herringbone, heart, and so on. As a general rule, you should choose paper with characteristic winter patterns and patterns in green, red, blue and white.

New Year's card in scrapbooking technique

Another beautiful and very useful thing, made in the technique of scrapbooking, is chocolate girl! Not everyone knows and understands such a postcard, but it represents something between a gift and a simple postcard. Visually, it resembles packaging to be opened. When you open it, you find a chocolate bar and congratulatory inscriptions.

IMPORTANT: Chocolate is a useful postcard. Such a surprise can not only be congratulated, but also please. A delicious treat (congratulations) can be prepared for parents, relatives, teachers, doctors, colleagues, friends, neighbors, guests.

Ideas for creating a New Year's chocolate bar:

New Year chocolate girl

Scrapbooking chocolate girl

Beautiful Christmas chocolate

Postcard and chocolate

Another equally popular product is scrapbooking christmas decoration. Here you can show your imagination and create a toy of any shape and complexity: Christmas trees, balls, stars, houses, hearts, snowmen and much more. In fact, ideas for such creativity - great amount and all of them depend only on how many materials you have and what they are.

Scrapbooking Christmas toys:

Asterisk on a Christmas tree using scrapbooking technique

Christmas decorations in scrapbooking technique

Christmas tree mitten in scrapbooking technique

Christmas tree decoration using scrapbooking technique

Scrapbooking jewelry box- Another "dear heart" and useful thing in the house. The basis for such a plywood box can be bought at a craft store or created independently using, for example, weaving from newspaper tubes. Absolutely everything can be stored in the resulting product: photographs, jewelry, cosmetics, sewing and much more.

Scrapbooking Christmas box

Scrapbooking album- a beautiful thing that can serve as an "archive" for storing your photos and personal records. new year album often contains photos of the meeting of the holiday year after year, descriptions of pleasant moments, postcards from loved ones. So you can create a real family heirloom with your own hands with values and memories.

New Year's album in scrapbooking technique

Scrapbooking wall decoration- this is a very effective New Year's decor with which you can decorate the walls on the eve of the holidays. There are a lot of ideas for creating such decorations: advent calendars, paintings, photo frames, panels, collages, Christmas wreaths and so on.

Wall decor ideas:

Scrapbooking Christmas wreath

New Year's panel in scrapbooking technique

Picture in a frame for the New Year using the Scrapbooking technique

New Year's calendar in scrapbooking technique

New Year cards - DIY scrapbooking: master class

It is not a shame to congratulate both a child and an adult with a postcard made with his own hands using the scrapbooking technique. Needlework is very captivating, and the voluminous and stylish decor literally fascinates with its beauty.

Ideas for creating cards for the New Year using scrapbooking technique:

For example, try to do a very unusual postcard for the New Year with buttons. For the base, you need very thick cardboard. It can be a postcard in the form of a book or a simple one-sided postcard. Measure one centimeter from each edge and draw a barely noticeable thin line with a simple pencil - this the line along which the thread should be stitched.

For "sewing on paper" use a thin canvas thread, if you do not have one, replace it with plain white or brown thread. After flashing, visually highlight the center of the postcard. Here you should draw a schematic Christmas tree in a stand with a pencil. Use a ruler to keep your lines straight. Final result needed circle with a thin felt-tip pen.

For decor, you should stock up a small number of small buttons of different diameters. How exactly to distribute the buttons and what color they should be is up to you. You can hide the sketch completely, or leave the outline of the tree visible. The painted Christmas tree stand can also be hidden with buttons or other material: fabric, colored paper, sickness.

Each button should glue gently. This must be done in such a way that there is no excess daub of dried glue - this will spoil the impression of your work. After the Christmas tree is completely completed, with a felt-tip pen or ink display a beautiful congratulatory inscription.

IMPORTANT: If your handwriting is not very beautiful and you cannot leave a calligraphic inscription, you can cut out a congratulation from paper and also stick it on the surface of the postcard.

Postcards with Christmas trees and buttons

SECRET: If you want to make the effect of a sewn-on button on a postcard, then the stitches should be sewn before you glue the button to the surface.

Christmas card "Christmas ball" with buttons

New Year's card "snowman" with buttons of different diameters

Miniature Christmas tree card with buttons

Christmas card with Christmas balls:

Each modern woman there must be such a hygiene product as cotton pads. They can also be used to create a New Year's scrapbooking. Prepare the base for the postcard - thick cardboard and kraft paper. By combining colors, patterns and different types paper, try to choose the most spectacular and beautiful background.

For decoration you will also need:

Ribbons (thin)
cotton pads
Rhinestones and beads
Decorative snowflakes

A cotton pad can be smooth, or it can have patterns (such a disk looks much more spectacular). It can also be decorated with pearl beads and rhinestones if desired.

On top of the attached scrap paper background, you should glue three ribbons hanging down (the toys will “hang” on them). A cotton pad is glued to the edge of the ribbon and the junction of the disc with the ribbon is decorated with a bow. The remaining space on the card can also be decorated with bows, snowflakes and rhinestones.

Beautiful New Year's card in scrapbooking technique with Christmas balls from cotton pads

Christmas card "Christmas ball" made using the scrapbooking technique

Ideas of others New Year's cards in the scrapbooking technique:

Beautiful New Year cards

New Year card with red satin bow

New Year card with candied orange and cinnamon sticks

New Year card with lace

New Year's card with a beautiful three-dimensional decor

Christmas backgrounds for scrapbooking: templates

Christmas backgrounds- this is an important material that is definitely needed when working with the scrapbooking technique. You can buy such paper in the store for creativity and needlework. However, small towns often do not have such shops. In order not to waste time searching and save money for ordering materials via the Internet, you can print Christmas backgrounds on the printer.

The main condition in the printout is have bright colors printer, which could convey the shades as accurately as possible and high quality paper. In addition, in a stationery store you can buy colored cardboard and also use it in your work.

Christmas backgrounds for printing and using in the scrapbooking technique:

Christmas background: colored snowflakes

Christmas background: colored Christmas trees

Christmas background: Christmas toys

Christmas background: gifts under the tree

Christmas background: balls

Christmas background: mittens

Christmas background: white snowflakes

Christmas background: Christmas tree decorations

Christmas background: festive winter

Christmas background: holiday trees

Christmas background: tinsel

New Year's lettering for scrapbooking: templates

Scrapbooking is a technique that has variety of decorative elements and patterns for work. Some of them you can do yourself, in other cases you can use templates.
Scrapbook Lettering Ideas

Original New Year's scrapbooking: ideas for creativity, templates for cutting
Texts for New Year's cards: ideas for creativity

Of course, you can write your heartfelt wishes to your family and friends by hand. But, at the same time, they also look very original and beautiful. written texts on scrap paper. These can be quotes and poems, wishes in prose.

You can print the texts on the printer, cut them out and paste them in your preferred place. Try to follow a certain color policy of the text, carefully cut and paste the texts to the base.

Texts with congratulations for New Year's scrapbooking and postcards: new year text for scrapbooking New Year's scrapbooking, original ideas
Video: “Scrapbooking: master class. New Year card"

In the photo - a beautiful scrapbooking Christmas toy for the year of the pig, which you can do with your own hands, following the master class.

Having picked up other templates for crafts, get a lot of different decorations for the Christmas tree or postcards. It is also a wonderful gift for friends and colleagues. Bright little things can be put into bags of sweets or bags with more solid presents. Everything that is created with love is valued more than money. Please loved ones and enjoy needlework and creativity!

Materials for Christmas tree decor

We want to note right away that we have a lot of crafts for the Year of the Pig. From simple we recommend and.

To make a New Year's toy with a pig, you will need the following set:

white, red, green paper;
scissors (stationery and manicure);
a simple pencil and eraser;
thin red textile tape- 6 cm;
PVA glue;
hot glue gun;
thin twine;
a piece of white guipure (or a wide ribbon);
gold beads - 3 pcs.;
gold sequins - 3 pcs.;
a piece corrugated cardboard(or foam);
white pompom - 1 pc.

Buy materials with a margin to make another lesson on our Women's Hobbies website.

Below is the color printable elements and backgrounds for scrapbooking. Print the picture on the printer.

Step by step instructions with photo

Trace a round lid or glass on white paper. Or draw a circle with a compass.

Bend the sheet in half and cut out a double template for the Christmas decoration.

Outline one side of the template with a simple pencil, creating a wavy edge. Fold the sheet in half.

Cut out the wavy piece. Erase the pencil marks with the eraser.

Trace the white template onto the green and red paper. Make two pieces.

Glue the parts so that the wavy one is between the colored ones. Fold in half.

Trace the edge of the template onto the patterned paper. Glue two pieces at the top and bottom of the ball with PVA glue. Cut out a piece of guipure and place in the center of the toy on the Christmas tree.

Cut out elements New Year's decor: two pigs, a candy stick, three rectangles for gifts, the inscription: "Happy New Year!" and a rectangular background for it.

Add a striped candy and a congratulatory message with a background.

Wrap with thin twine rectangular boxes(present). Glue the rope on the back.

Add a white pom-pom to the piglet's hat. Glue a few pieces of corrugated board together. They will form the basis for volumetric effect. You can replace the cardboard with a foam cube. Glue the muzzle onto the cardboard leg.

Glue the gifts and the pig.

Cut out the background rectangle for second mumps. Glue the background, the pig and the inscription 2019 inside the postcard. You can round off the edges if you like.

Cut out a heart from paper with a red ornament. Fix the textile eyelet with hot glue. Above is a heart. For a postcard in the form of a New Year's ball, one loop is enough. If you want to hang a toy on a Christmas tree, make another loop by analogy on the opposite side.