Victory Day is a great holiday not only for the participants of the Great Patriotic War, but also for every citizen of the country. While those who have gone through all the horrors of the 1941-1945 war still live among us, they must be thanked and congratulated on this memorable historical date. A self-made postcard for May 9 will be an excellent way to express your respect to the veteran, and will also help the younger generation to feel gratitude for the great feat of the heroes of the Great Patriotic War.
You can make a greeting card for a veteran using various techniques: it can be drawing, applique, scrapbooking or quilling. Such generally recognized symbols as the St. George ribbon, pigeons, a military banner, a red five-pointed star, fireworks, carnations, tulips, the Eternal Flame, etc. can act as compositional components. It is best to use plain white, orange or red cardboard as the background of the postcard. Prints of military photos, documents and maps of military operations will look especially original in the background.
In addition to the unusual composition on the front of the postcard dedicated to May 9, there should be an inscription: "Victory Day", "Happy Victory Day", "May 9", etc.
Postcard for May 9 - option number 1
Manufacturing:
We fold a sheet of red cardboard in half - it will serve as the basis for a future postcard. Cut out a star from a newspaper with a frontal photograph (the size of the star must correspond to the height of the postcard). If you could not find a newspaper suitable for this craft, you can print a war photo via the Internet. We cut the resulting star in half and glue it to the cardboard blank.
Cut out three strips of the same width from green paper - they will imitate the stems of flowers, which will serve as the main decoration of the front of the greeting card.
Next, we make the St. George ribbon. To do this, glue three thin strips cut from black paper on a wide strip of orange paper. Place the resulting blank at the bottom of the postcard. The length of the St. George ribbon must match the width of the postcard.
Cut out a wide strip from ordinary napkins of bright color, which we then cut into noodles along the entire length. We turn the resulting workpiece into a roll.
Holding it with your fingers at the base, gently straighten the flower from the napkin and glue it to the card. We decorate the core of the carnation with a paper fringe of a different shade. Glue leaves made of green paper to the stems of the flowers.
Postcard for May 9 - option 2
Manufacturing:
On a sheet of white cardboard we glue a previously prepared map of combat battles, on black cardboard - a printout of a front-line record of a slightly smaller size. Cut out two squares from red corrugated cardboard: one 5x5 cm in size, the other 3x3 cm. Cut out two stars from the resulting squares, put them on top of each other, fasten them with glue and decorate with metal fittings.
On a base made of orange cardboard, glue a card with a slight slope to the left on double-sided tape. From above, under a different slope, we glue the cardboard with the front recording.
We decorate the resulting composition with a St. George ribbon and a homemade star. Using a figured hole punch, we make several miniature stars out of brightly colored paper and decorate the finished postcard with them.
Postcard for May 9 - option number 3
Manufacturing:
Cut out a circle from silver paper, an image of a sickle and a hammer, as well as blanks for making a five-pointed star according to the specified template.
We fold the blanks for creating a star with an accordion and sharpen the edges with scissors.
Cut out a saber, a rifle and the inscriptions "Happy Victory Day" and "1941-1945" from the pre-printed images. Cut out a star from red paper (its size should correspond to the size of a volumetric star). We cut the St. George ribbon into two equal parts.
Draw a red frame on a white cardboard sheet. We collect a star from blanks of silver color, glue half of the St. George ribbon at the top of the postcard, and the inscriptions at the bottom. On top of the star we glue the checker and the rifle in a crosswise position.
On the resulting star, add another star cut out of red paper. We glue a circle in the center of the star, and inside it - an image of a sickle and a hammer. We attach the rest of the St. George ribbon to the postcard.
Postcard for May 9 - option 4
Manufacturing:
All elements for this craft using the quilling technique are made from strips of colored paper 0.5 cm wide, which can be prepared in advance. Twist 10 rolls from red strips. To do this, we wind the paper on a toothpick, and then give the roll the shape of a semicircle, flattening it with our fingers. The end of each coil must be fixed with glue. Twist five rolls from pink strips, which must be flattened with your fingers on both sides so as to give the roll the shape of a cat's eye. From orange paper we make 5 dense round-shaped spools.
Now we start making flower stems. To do this, bend the green stripes in half, hiding the edges inward and securing them with glue. A total of five of these stems are needed. Five oval rolls will act as leaves.
We glue a rectangle of yellow paper onto white cardboard, after which we collect a flower arrangement from the prepared parts against its background. Glue two narrow orange stripes onto a wide black strip. Place the resulting St. George ribbon at the bottom of the postcard.
We make 70 dense round coils from orange paper, from which we spread the inscription "May 9" against the background of the St. George ribbon. On the sides of the postcard, we make a frame from narrow strips of orange paper.
