It will be an ideal solution for any holiday. Next, a master class will be presented that will help everyone make a simple and very original postcard with their own hands.

To complete the work, you will need to prepare the list of materials presented below. Some materials can be replaced at your discretion, and in the same way you can take an idea from this work and make your own unique postcard, which will be an exclusive product.
List of materials for making a postcard:

  1. A sheet of dark purple pastel paper or cardboard A4;
  2. White cardboard or thick paper;
  3. Purple patterned designer paper;
  4. Double-sided foam tape;
  5. Quilling paper – yellow, pale purple, white;
  6. White and purple rhinestones of different sizes;
  7. Comb tool;
  8. Quilling tool, scissors, glue, tweezers.
We make the base from purple cardboard, bending the A4 sheet in half. The fold line should be drawn with a sharp object so that the cardboard bends easily and as evenly as possible.
We cut out a 12x17 cm piece from white cardboard and glue squares of foam tape on the back side.


We attach white cardboard to the base.


Take designer paper. It is desirable that it is also quite dense, since a voluminous flower will be attached to it.


The dimensions of the purple design paper are 10x15 cm. We also cover it on the back side with double-sided foam tape and attach it on top to a white rectangle on the base.



We take 20 cm yellow quilling paper and, using the comb tool, begin to form the part. We attach the end of a strip of paper to the comb.


Next we make loops, increasing the size of the element being performed each time.




At the point of contact between the paper loops, you should lubricate them with a little glue so that the element does not fall apart, but holds securely.
It turns out such a detail. You will need to make 16 of them.


We make the same eight elements from 20 cm white paper.


Using glue, we connect two yellow and one white parts together so that the white is in the middle.


Now we take a soft purple strip of paper 20 cm long and wrap it around these three parts.


We cut the edge and secure it with glue. The first petal is ready.


We make 8 petals like this for our flower.


Take yellow quilling paper and form a tight roll. The length of the strip should be about 100 cm depending on the thickness of the paper. The roll diameter should be about 2.5 mm.


Now carefully press the finished roll inside so that you get a voluminous part.


The inside of the part must be well lubricated with glue so that it retains its shape.


We attach the flower petals to each other using glue at the points of contact. We attach the middle of the flower in the center, which should dry completely.


The flower turns out voluminous.


We coat the finished flower with glue on the back side, and then fix it on the base of the card at the top right.


From purple and white quilling paper we make the following detail, making loops alternately: a small purple loop - a slightly larger white loop - an even larger purple loop. At the base, the ends of the part are fastened with glue.
We coat the part with glue and glue it to the base.


Next, take a strip of purple paper 20 cm long and fold it in half. We fix the edges of the strip with glue, then we begin to wind it with a tool. Lubricate the resulting part with a small layer of glue and fix it to the base.

Introduction to the quilling technique. Detailed master classes with photographs.

Quilling is the creation of various beautiful compositions from paper using the rolling method. It should be noted right away that quilling is not an activity for restless people. Such a hobby requires perseverance, accuracy, patience and limitless imagination.

Postcards are usually made using the quilling technique. If you want to try yourself at something new, pay attention to quilling. With this exciting hobby you can please your friends and family with gorgeous cards.

How to make a postcard using the quilling technique? Quilling postcard step by step

Important: Before you start making a card, try making basic shapes. Once you can make the basics with ease, you can master any pattern.

Special kits are sold for quilling. You can choose the necessary tools yourself. To create a quilling style postcard you will need:

  1. Multicolored strips of medium weight paper
  2. Scissors
  3. Tweezers
  4. Safety pins
  5. Quilling template (ruler with holes in the form of geometric shapes)
  6. PVA glue
  7. Cardboard for the postcard base
  8. The main quilling tool is an awl with a forked needle.
Quilling Tools

You may also need:

  1. Curly scissors
  2. Comb for creating special shapes
  3. A utility knife and a paper cutting mat (if you are using regular colored paper)

A strip of paper rolled into a roll is called roll. Their roll consists of a pattern. After rolling the roll, shape it using safety pins, fingers or a comb. Secure the tip of the roll with glue. Some bends are also fixed with glue.



The main element is the roll

Step-by-step creation of a postcard:

  • Prepare the basis for the card: make a frame, think about how your rolls will be positioned
  • Make a lot of rolls of different colors and diameters. How to make a roll: grab the tape with a special awl, wind it around its axis to the required diameter, fix the end with glue. You can loosen the roll a little after twisting, it will not be very tight

Use a toothpick to carefully stick the end of the tape.

  • When the required number of rolls is ready, glue them onto the base of the card in the form of a crown.
  • Form a pot out of fabric
  • Add your own decorative elements to the card. In this case, the card is complemented by a cute butterfly

Video: Quilling for beginners

Ideas for cards using quilling technique

It's impossible not to fall in love with the charming quilling style cards. Below are ideas for creating cards.



Birthday card idea

Floral motif

Silver wedding card

Postcard in quilling style

Birthday Card

Children's card in quilling style

For the holidays, children often make cards with their own hands. Together with your parents, you can master the quilling technique. Children's cards should be simple. Simple figures can be completed by the child himself with a little help from adults. At the same time, the themes of the postcards should be interesting to children, then the child will make a postcard with great inspiration. For example, these could be postcards with animals or cartoon characters.





Simple and cute patterns

As for the card intended for the child, there are also a lot of great ideas. Even if now the child cannot yet appreciate your efforts, at an older age he will certainly rejoice at your gift.



Card for a child

Card ideas for children

Postcard in quilling style for March 8

It is impossible to imagine March 8 without flowers. It is customary to decorate postcards for the holiday of March 8 with flowers of various shapes and colors. There are many ideas on this topic. Your mother, grandmother, friend, sister will be very happy with such a postcard; many women appreciate and love handmade work.



Flowers on a postcard for March 8

Postcard from March 8

Postcard in quilling style for February 23

You can choose a gift for your husband, dad, brother, grandfather to suit every taste, color and budget. But it is much more pleasant to receive gifts made with your own hands. Give your men a card in quilling style on February 23rd. They will be very pleased with your attention and effort.



Happy Defender of the Fatherland

Postcard for February 23

Ideas for unusual cards for February 23

Quilling style card for Valentine's Day

The most romantic day of the year is Valentine's Day. On this day, thousands of declarations of love are heard, hearts are filled with love. The symbol of Valentine's Day is a valentine in the shape of a heart. You can make a card in the shape of a heart.



Valentine's Day card

Valentine's card

But the idea for creating a postcard can be not only the heart. You can come up with another love story. In quilling you can give freedom to your imagination.



Ideas for Valentine's Day Cards

Birthday cards using quilling technique step by step

The card will be a great addition to a birthday gift. You can make a simple, but very cute card.

We will need:

  • Quilling paper
  • Quilling tool
  • Double-sided colored cardboard
  • White paper
  • Glue, scissors, ruler

Let's start making:

  1. Bend a sheet of cardboard in half
  2. Prepare in advance a white sheet of paper with the inscription “Happy Birthday”, cut out the inscription beautifully, glue it to the base
  3. Make colored or plain rolls, form them into flowers, and glue them to the card
  4. Decorate your card with beads
  5. Write a beautiful wish inside the card


Birthday Card

How to make a wedding card in quilling style?

A wedding card can serve not only as a greeting card, but also as a wedding invitation. You can glue a postcard in the form of an envelope, and you will get a postcard for money.

To work you will need:

  • Sheet of white construction paper
  • Sheet of thin white paper
  • A sheet of colored paper in the desired shade
  • Decorative elements: beads and small ribbon
  • Scissors, glue, ruler, pencil
  • Quilling tool

Master Class:

  1. Cut thin long strips about 0.5 cm wide from thin white paper. They will be needed for rolls
  2. Form a rectangle from thick paper - the base of the postcard.
  3. Make a smaller rectangle out of colored paper, flowers will be placed on it, glue it to the base
  4. Roll the rolls. Make the number of flowers and petals at your discretion
  5. Press each roll with your fingers until it takes on a petal shape.
  6. Glue the petals onto the card, decorate the middle of the flower with a bead
  7. Make several loose rolls for the flower stems
  8. Add small beads
  9. Decorate your card with a satin bow
  10. You can add a caption


Step-by-step creation of a wedding card

Simple quilling cards step by step

Quilling cards can be quite an art, but if you're just learning, try making simple cards first. Simple cards consist of elementary rolls assembled into simple patterns, such as simple flowers. Try making a postcard using a ready-made template.

To make simple cards you will need all the quilling materials listed above.

The technique for making a postcard is as follows:

  • Preparing the basis
  • Making rolls
  • Forming a pattern
  • Decorating a postcard
  • We write wishes


Simple cards in quilling style

How to make a beautiful and unusual card using the quilling technique: tips and reviews

Pauline: “I mastered the quilling technique by accident. I was browsing the Internet and saw beautiful curls. The thought immediately arose that this was not mine. But then I came across a detailed master class, and I learned the technique from it. Now I already have a quilling kit and am happy to make cards. A very interesting and exciting activity."

Valeria: “My daughter makes cards like this at school. It turns out very beautifully, and I was especially struck by the work of their teacher. I haven’t tried to make such cards myself, but I think it’s a very labor-intensive process.”

Irina: “I have already been familiar with quilling for 3 years. I want to say that everything is not as complicated as it might seem. I just saw beautiful flowers and wanted to make the same ones. Buying regular colored paper and cutting the strips yourself is cheaper than buying ready-made kits, but you need to get used to cutting out the strips. Now I delight my loved ones with postcards and paintings.”

If you liked quilling style cards and you have free time, if you are a creative person with a rich imagination, try making the same ones. We will be glad if you share your creativity with us.

Video: Master class on creating a postcard in the quilling style

A postcard made using the quilling technique is a wonderful gift for any occasion. A little patience and imagination, and you can use them to congratulate all your loved ones.

This is how you can prepare a surprise in the form of a quilling card for any holiday, if you come up with a good idea for it in advance.

For example, what could be better than making quilling cards for International Women’s Day, turning boring paper strips into a real work of art with your own hands? For every girl, girl or woman, you can prepare such a wonderful gift on the eve of this holiday.

It's easy - just glue the green circle onto a lilac piece of cardboard folded in half.

And cut lots of short, narrow white strips.

Twist the ends of the strips in one direction using a stick.

Take a long yellow strip and turn it into a roll.

Make a few more smaller yellow rolls, giving them the shape of rings.

Glue a large roll into the center of the green circle and cover it with white stripes.

And distribute the small ones over the bottom of the sheet, also pasting them with white stripes of shorter length. Place one green leaf nearby.

You will end up with a flower meadow that you can give as a gift!

Look at the video on how to make a postcard for your mother or grandmother in the style of an old postcard:

And even for the most masculine holiday - - you can make quilling cards.

Design the main background in khaki color.

Trim one edge of the “title” page in a semicircle.

Cover it with yellow quilling rings. Place the inscription “23” inside.

Also decorate the numbers “23” with paper rolls. Postcard using quilling technique for February 23rd - ready!

Decorating the numbers “23”

Using the quilling technique you can make a charming card with a Christmas tree.

We roll blue paper into rolls. We press them down on one side. We should get “droplet” rolls.

Blue "droplets"

Roll up several small pink rolls. We roll a blue roll from blue paper. Make one side of the blue roll straight.

We glue our blanks onto a folded cardboard base. Blue “droplets” become spruce branches, round pink rolls become Christmas tree decorations, and a blue roll becomes a spruce trunk.

Decorate the card with blue ribbons. A postcard using the quilling technique for the New Year is ready!

And of course, quilling will be appropriate on the most romantic holiday - Valentine's Day.

Using this technique, you can decorate a Valentine’s heart by covering it with small buds of still unopened roses. These buds are obtained from a rolled paper sheet, cut into many rings.

Each such ring will be a bud.

The only difficulty is to make sure that the rings do not open up and lose their shape. Therefore, before cutting the roll, glue its outer edge well.

Quilling card for Easter

And even on Easter, you can surprise your loved ones by presenting them with a postcard you made yourself. Decorate it in the form of an Easter egg.

And decorate with a cute chicken, the body and head of which are obtained if you roll up a paper strip cut along one edge.

Roll up the tape and straighten it.

We make “swirls” and “waves” from green paper.

“Curls” and “waves” made of green paper

Glue on the “curls” and “waves”. We get a green clearing.

We make flowers from red rolls.

And in the sky, above the chicken’s head, place a gentle blue cloud and a bright sun.

And your gift is ready!

It is often difficult to choose one or another card for a particular holiday. Either the design doesn’t fit, or the color of the postcard, or the shape is wrong, and even if they did choose it, the congratulations and wishes do not correspond to the moment. However, instead of wasting time choosing a card, it is much easier to make one yourself. And the recipient will be very pleased to receive an individual gift made with all his soul and love. In this article we will look at a master class on creating cards using the quilling technique for such holidays as New Year, Birthday, February 23 and weddings.

In this case, the quilling technique will prove to be an indispensable assistant, since with the help of patterns and elements of rolling paper you can create almost any designs and decor for a future postcard. And you will need very few materials, besides, paper and cardboard are available to everyone. Examples of postcards in the quilling style are shown in the photo:

What is necessary

In order to make cards using the quilling technique, The following materials and tools are required:

  • white and colored cardboard, you can use double-sided colored cardboard, shiny, matte, corrugated, etc.;
  • colored double-sided paper or ready-cut strips of paper for quilling;
  • glue;
  • scissors or stationery knife;
  • ruler and pencil;
  • quilling tools - rod or needle, tweezers.

Before you get started, you need to remember what elements can be made using rolled paper.

A strip of paper is simply twisted into a spiral, unraveled a little, and then using tools or fingers we give it the desired shape.

Jam Day

Such a card will be a wonderful birthday gift not only for relatives - mother, grandmother or sister, but also for friends, teacher or colleagues.

  1. Let's prepare the base of the postcard - bend a sheet of colored cardboard in half and glue textured material onto the front side. In the latter case, you can use a piece of wallpaper.

  1. We decorate the inside of the card with a cut out colored piece of cardboard.

  1. We begin to twist the quilling parts for the flowers.

  1. The diameter of the roll should be 19 mm, do not forget to fix the end of the strip with glue.

  1. Let's prepare 5 such parts.

  1. Now you need to give the details the shape of an eye.

  1. Glue the flower.

  1. We collect 5 of these flowers.

  1. We make the centers of the flowers from paper strips cut into fringes.

  1. We twist it, fix it with glue and straighten the fringe.

  1. Let's collect the cores according to the number of flowers.

  1. We form the leaves in the same way as flower petals.

  1. We will decorate the card with multilayer curls, for which we will connect several colored strips of paper together at one edge.

  1. We twist it into a spiral.

  1. Carefully straighten the resulting curl.

  1. We begin to design the card, apply and glue the flowers.

  1. Then we glue the cores.

  1. We lay out the leaves and the composition with a curl.

  1. The free corner of the card can be decorated with tight rolls.

  1. Let's prepare the inscription - Happy Birthday! – we draw it ourselves or print it on a printer.

  1. Glue the congratulations onto the card.

The gift card is ready, all that remains is to add the wish inside.

For the New Year

Coming up with New Year's cards and how to decorate them will not be difficult. After all, the theme of the New Year always remains the same - snowflakes, Christmas tree decorations, Santa Claus and, of course, the New Year tree. Next, we will learn how to make a postcard with a green beauty.

  1. Let's make several loose rolls in green and one in black or brown.

  1. We form twisted spirals into “droplets”.

  1. The base of the card will be white cardboard, bend it in half and on the front side on top of each other, starting from the bottom row, glue the green petals-needles.

  1. We glue each row of the Christmas tree, reducing the top one by one piece.

  1. At the bottom we glue the trunk of the Christmas tree.

  1. The Christmas tree should look like this.

  1. We are preparing tight multi-colored rolls - these will be New Year's balls.

  1. We decorate the Christmas tree with them.

  1. Next, decorate the card with painted snowflakes; you can use silver beads or sparkles.

New Year's card is ready! It is very simple to make, so even a child can handle making it.

On February 23

Postcards for men can be made less bright and colorful, but any man, especially a father or grandfather, will appreciate a gift made with his own hands, and even from his beloved children or grandchildren.

  1. To make such a postcard, we will prepare a base in the form of a folded sheet of cardboard, on which numbers are outlined and cut out, with number 2 being located on the first spread, and number 3 on the second.

  1. Let's prepare several parts from free rolls of any color. In this case we use green strips of paper.

  1. We collect the prepared elements into different shapes - drops, eyes, waves, etc., and glue them onto the drawn diagrams of numbers.

  1. Give them a neat shape.

  1. We decorate the card with red stars formed from loose twisted rolls.

  1. We make a congratulatory inscription and the card is ready.

For the wedding

A wedding is a special day for the future family. Usually the bride and groom receive many gifts and congratulations on this day. However, you can stand out among the guests and include a handmade card with your wedding gift. A wedding card always looks solemn and elegant

  1. Fold a sheet of cardboard in half and glue a square of bright cardboard or paper onto the front side.

  1. Using curly scissors, cut out strips and glue them along the edges of the square.

  1. Next, we attach and record congratulations for the newlyweds in advance.

  1. We form rolls for the petals and leaves - 6 green and 6 yellow in the shape of a drop, 12 pieces in the shape of a crescent.

  1. The card contains roses, they need to be folded a little differently. First we also start rolling it into a roll.

  1. Then we bend the free edge inward and continue twisting.

  1. And so on, twist and bend approximately every 1.5 cm.

  1. We collect 3 roses, not forgetting to glue the edges.

  1. We form leaves by gluing 2 crescents together.

  1. We begin to decorate the card with flowers - glue leaves and a rose on top.

  1. We add the remaining parts in any order.