Postcard box in shabby chic style

In the modern world of arts and crafts, a very popular and widespread technique for working and making various paper products is scrapbooking. A very interesting and creative technique due to its diversity and a very rich range of materials. This technique can use completely different decor both in color and materials. And more professional scrapbookers are already mastering a newer direction in this technique, the so-called shabby chic. What is his secret and what does it look like on the products? You can make not just postcards, envelopes, albums, notepads, photo frames, but you can further improve them and make them a little more complicated, so to speak. Basically, shabby lies in the fact that the paper contains traces of unevenness and abrasions, and the products can also be multi-layered, which adds volume. Now let’s look at one of the interesting and quite educational master classes, which will teach us how to make a beautiful three-dimensional postcard-box in which you can put a chocolate bar or money.

For the master class we take:
• Salad cardboard sheet A4 format;
• Paper with spring motifs in green and yellow colors, several different sheets;
• Postcard layout;
• Flower pictures and poems about spring;
• Cut out circles small and large;
• Paper hydrangea flowers are white and blue;
• “Happy Holidays” stamp and blue ink;
• Lemon-colored polymer frame;
• White ribbon with bobbles;
• Mint lace with elastic;
• White cotton lace;
• Lettuce sprigs;
• Peach gardenia flower, complex stamens and berries in sugar; Salad satin ribbon is not wide;
• Wooden flower buttons;
• Half pearl beads;
• Rep ribbon with print, 25 mm wide;
• Polymer flowers of small diameter;
• PVA glue, ruler, scissors, double-sided tape, pencil, glue gun.


The width of the sides of our postcard will be 9 * 9 and 8 cm, and the height will be 18 cm. The diagram clearly shows the distance between the sides and the tails to make a pocket for the box.


We transfer the entire dimensions of the postcard according to the diagram onto light green cardboard, which we immediately place in a horizontal position. We make all places of bends using the end side of scissors under the ruler. You can try on a chocolate bar in your pocket, it fits perfectly there.


Now we take several sheets of scrap paper and cut out rectangles of the same size as in the photo.


Now several rectangles need to be scratched along the edges with scissors. This is called adding antiquity to the shabby chic style.


Now we glue the smaller pieces to the larger ones using strips of double-sided tape. We sew them on with a machine.


Now we glue circles, pictures and a poem on top.


We also sew them on with a machine. Now we will decorate the front blank of the postcard. Cut off a wide grosgrain ribbon, mint lace and satin ribbon.


We glue a strip of tape to the cardboard base on the front and back, this will be the closure of the card. Now we glue all three blanks onto the base with strips of tape.


We sew each side separately with a machine. We glue the pocket with PVA glue, forming a box.


We take a stamp, put it on an acrylic block and stamp the inscription “Happy Holidays” on white paper. It needs to be tinted with the same ink.


We glue the inscription at the bottom of the postcard. Under the picture we lay out and glue first white lace, then mint lace and a ribbon with bobbles.


All that remains is to glue on the frame, bouquet and other decor. We glue everything as in the photo. The postcard-box is ready! Thank you for your attention!