Let's create paper decorations with our own hands for any celebration

Simple and very beautiful decorations for the New Year

Our life, fortunately, also consists of holidays. Birthday, wedding, New Year. I want the holiday to be remembered by guests and participants. How can this be achieved? How to stay within the budget? Try making your own paper decorations. These crafts will add personality to the party (or matinee) and will undoubtedly be remembered by the guests. And if your family and friends help you, then the time spent working on crafts will also be enjoyable.

Holiday decor

Birthday, March 8, summer holiday - you can find any number of reasons for a party. Simple paper decor will help you create a holiday in your home every day.

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What you will need for work:

Children will enjoy making this kind of decor - they will be happy to decorate their room for their birthday. In the same way, you can decorate the candy bar area for a wedding or a summer country party at the dacha.

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Paper garlands

The simplest thing is to decorate the room with paper garlands. All you need is thread and colored paper. You can make as many garland options as you like:

• from hearts - for Valentine's Day or the birthday of a loved one;
• Easter – chickens, rabbits, flowers;
• snowflakes and Christmas trees, openwork mittens - New Year's decor;
• a garland of triangles, circles with photographs - for a child’s birthday. It can be made in the form of a train, houses, and other figures.

Making a garland will not take much time. Figures are cut out and attached to a strong thread using glue. You can attach the garland elements using a sewing machine, stitching them in the center and leaving free areas between the decorative elements.

If you make double flags or hearts (cut them out by folding the paper in half), you can secure them by passing a thread or cord inside and sealing the edges of the flags.

Decor design with paper crafts

Interior decoration with paper

Paper decor

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Tips for Beginners

You can, of course, order everything for your special occasion in the store. But keep in mind that all decorations will be in flat bags. It will take time to bring them into working order (up to 20 minutes per individual product). Everything will be similar to other parties, no individuality. And you will deprive yourself of the joy of creativity.

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At all stages of preparation for the celebration, you can use different types of crafts. Smooth and crinkled, white and colored. Of course, with large volumes of work, assistants will be needed. It is better to plan decoration work ahead of time and accurately distribute those responsible for a particular decoration or decoration area. You will succeed.

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Fans and flowers made of paper

In childhood, everyone made fans out of paper, folding it like an accordion. Large fans that can be placed on the wall and flowers are made using the same principle. For them, colored paper is folded like an accordion; for a flower, the sides are connected into a circle. It is important that the sheet of paper has the shape of a long ribbon. A paper flower is glued to the center.

If you take paper with a pattern—you can buy it in craft supply stores or scrapbooking stores—the fan will look more impressive. You can apply glitter, and then under artificial light they will sparkle beautifully.

Huge flowers and pompoms are made from corrugated paper or thin tissue paper. The principle of creation is the same as that of a fan - the paper needs to be folded like an accordion. The width of the fold is approximately 3 cm. If you want to get a dense pompom, you will need at least 10-12 sheets.

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Carefully tie the folded accordion in the middle with strong thread. The edges of the future flower need to be aligned; you can give them a rounded shape. Now carefully, layer by layer, straighten each petal of the future flower, giving it shape.

If you are making a flower to hang on a wall, straighten the petals in one direction; for a pompom, open half in one direction, half in the other. All that remains is to fasten the pompom to a thread, and for the flower, glue a small circle on the back side for mounting on the wall.

Decor design with paper crafts

Interior decoration with paper

Paper decor

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Double volumetric lantern

One small one can be placed inside a large lantern. To do this, it is better to use paper of different colors for contrast and brightness. For example, yellow will go well with blue or purple, and red with turquoise or green.

This simple and beautiful paper craft requires few supplies and is great for a family, classroom or group project. No prior preparation or any skills are required.

Since this lantern is made of paper, it is not recommended to use it as a real lampshade, decorate it with light bulbs, or place a candle inside.

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"Heart" decor

For Valentine's Day, you can make your own paper decor for your home using the main symbol - hearts.

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Garland of hearts

For a voluminous garland, you need to cut out a lot of hearts from colored paper (you can take bright scrapbook paper with a floral pattern). Fold them 2-3 together, sew them in the center with a strong thread, leaving 30-40 centimeters between the elements. Carefully bend the “petals”, giving the hearts volume. Having prepared several of these threads, attach them to the ceiling or doorway in the form of a curtain.

You can make the garland even more interesting if you take blanks of different sizes and fold them in this way: smallest - medium - large - medium - smallest. Further steps are the same: sew, bend, hang.

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Using the quilling technique you can make a bright and unusual garland. You will need scrapbook paper with a floral pattern, bright buttons and glue. To work with scrap paper, it is better to take “Moment” or “Titan”. They will not turn yellow over time. Glue two strips on each side to a small strip of paper (10*2 cm). Bend them one by one and glue the edges. You will get a heart, which can be additionally decorated with bright buttons. All that remains is to attach the hearts to the thread and hang the garland.

Decor design with paper crafts

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"Flower" heart

You will need regular paper napkins and cardboard.

From thick corrugated cardboard (unnecessary boxes), cut out two heart-shaped blanks. Connect them together using a strip of thick cardboard (its width should correspond to the desired thickness of the decorative element). It turns out to be a voluminous heart.

Fold napkins measuring 20*20 cm (without unfolding) in four to form a square with sides 5*5 cm. Staple the layers in the center and cut out a circle. Layer by layer, peel back the petals of the paper flower. The result is a delicate rose.

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Having made many of these flowers, attach them to a cardboard “heart” blank. A spectacular result will be obtained if you take napkins of a delicate pink color or two colors - white and pink. The result will not leave your “other half” indifferent - a tender heart will decorate the room.

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"Love tree"

It’s very simple to make – place several branches in a beautiful transparent vase. Cut out several hearts from red, pink, white paper (you can make them voluminous, like for a garland), hang them on the branches. You can add thin beads.

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Interior decoration with paper

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Invitation cards

Guests of an event will be much more pleased to receive beautiful invitation cards than an ordinary verbal invitation. If they are made by hand, then it is doubly pleasant. Many will keep them as souvenirs and show them to friends, remembering this day. So let's start with an invitation.

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We will put the postcards in envelopes. We will also make the envelopes ourselves. Variations are possible.

A very simple envelope

Looks cute despite its simplicity. It won't take much time to create.

You can put anything in such an envelope, from letters and postcards to CDs.

For production you need: double-sided tape as a fastening agent (you can use glue or a stapler); paper for the envelope; decorative tape. Stock up on everything you need.

Now we perform the work in the following sequence:

1. We decide on the size of the envelope.
2. Cut out paper circles with a diameter equal to the side of the envelope (for one envelope you need 4 circles).
3. Fold the circles in half.
4. We lay out an envelope from the circles so that the fold lines become the sides of the envelope. Glue the halves of the circles at the bottom of the product together with tape (or other means). The semicircles on top can be tied with a ribbon. You can attach the tie to two opposite circles.

Making an envelope with your own hands

Classic rectangular envelope

This is a different packaging option. You can do it very quickly. You will need: a paper strip with a width equal to the length of the future product (the length should be three times greater than the width of the envelope); glue (or something similar); decorations (if necessary).

This envelope can be decorated with watercolors

We begin production in this order:

1. We make a blank from paper. To do this, divide the length into 3 parts. Fold it up. We get a pocket with a lid.
2. Glue the sides of the pocket together.
3. We cut the lid from a rectangular one to a triangular one (like a real envelope).
4. Decorate according to the theme of the day.

How to make an envelope from a sheet

New Year's compositions

Everyone knows how to make openwork snowflakes from a paper napkin. Window decor can be made even more diverse. Elements of the composition are cut out of white paper using stencils - forest, houses, deer and Santa Claus's sleigh. You can come up with many stories.

These elements are placed on the window (you can glue them using paste made from flour or starch). If you want to create a completely magical atmosphere on New Year’s Eve, you can place small light sources nearby. They will shine through paper and glass, creating an unusual effect.

To make the interior beautiful, make the composition three-dimensional by cutting out another one of the same size and placing the lighting between the layers of paper. Add glitter to the interior arrangement.

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You can make voluminous Christmas tree cones from paper, decorating them to your liking, or Christmas wreaths. They will create a festive atmosphere in your home.

A wedding, birthday, New Year, and just a desire to do something unusual with your own hands are a good reason to pick up paper. With its help you can do the following things.

• Unusual curtains for the doorway - from long, triangular-shaped multi-colored ribbons, twisting them into a “tube”, starting from the wide side. The finished elements are strung on threads and attached to the opening. Such curtains can be made from colored pages of glossy magazines.
• Panel - laying out its elements from paper strips.
• Volumetric letters – having made a blank like a volumetric heart, you can cover them with scrap paper and decorate them with additional elements.

Show your imagination and come up with your own “paper” room. With such decorative items that keep the warmth of your hands, your home will become even more comfortable and filled with love.

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Ideas for Variations of Chinese Lanterns

You can cut wavy or winding stripes of lines instead of straight ones, or alternate wide and narrow stripes, cut out patterns on the stripes - triangles, squares, hearts or stars.

Instead of cut-out patterns, you can draw various lines or small designs with colored markers or paints.