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Simple yet amazing! Handmade New Year’s card ideas that will delight

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Have you given up, thinking “I want to make New Year’s cards by hand, but it seems difficult…”?The truth is, you can create surprisingly beautiful New Year’s cards just by using familiar materials like washi tape, stamps, and origami!In this article, we introduce ideas for New Year’s cards that will make people exclaim, “Amazing!” when they see them.Each one can be finished with simple steps, so even first-timers can try making handmade New Year’s cards with ease.This coming year, why not send a heartfelt, handmade New Year’s greeting to someone special?

Simple yet impressive! Handmade New Year’s card ideas that people will love (41–50)

Warm and cute brush-lettered New Year’s card

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Here’s an idea for writing the characters “Shinshun Manpuku” (New Year’s blessings in abundance) in an impressive brush style.

Overall, use bold strokes with a conscious emphasis on rounded forms.

For the first stroke of the character 福 (fuku), draw it as an oval like a koban coin, and draw a cute face inside the 口 (mouth) component.

With just this, the design is complete! If you prefer a simple look, leave it as is; if you want something more festive, use stickers or stamps to decorate the blank spaces.

It’s also recommended to add color to the background before writing the characters.

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Simple yet impressive! Handmade New Year’s card ideas that everyone will love (51–60)

New Year’s postcards made with round stickers

If you want to design New Year’s cards easily, using round stickers is a great idea.

By cutting round stickers in half or combining different sizes, you can create flowers, daruma dolls, and snowmen.

Adding the flower centers or the daruma’s face with a pen enhances the design, so try adding a small creative touch.

It’s fun to design on a whim, but if you decide in advance where you’ll place the stickers, you’ll feel more at ease even when you have many cards to make.

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New Year’s card combining live-action photos and illustrations

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How about a stylish New Year’s card that mixes a photo with an illustration of the zodiac animal? The photo could be of yourself or a landscape—either works.

Use the photo as the base and combine it with the zodiac illustration in a well-balanced way.

There are many illustrations available online for free, so if you’re not confident in your drawing skills, it might be a good idea to look for those.

First, sketch out the concept of the design you want, then choose the photo and illustration to match that vision.

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Embroidered paper New Year’s card

Paper embroidery is done by stitching designs onto paper with a needle and thread.

This one is a shimenawa (New Year’s sacred rope) design that also incorporates felt to add warmth.

Let’s embroider in the order of felt flowers, shimenawa, and decorations.

You’ll stitch as if working on fabric, but making small holes in advance where the thread will pass through makes it easier for beginners.

Prepare your favorite embroidery thread and give it a try.

If you’re comfortable with embroidery, why not challenge yourself with lettering as well?

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New Year’s cards made with paper cutouts

[Handmade New Year’s Cards] How about making a one-of-a-kind New Year’s card with paper-cut art? [Osamu Kubo]

New Year’s cards made with paper cutouts

Prepare a black-and-white printout of the template you want to use for your paper-cut art, layer it over your colored paper, and staple them together.

If you’re cutting multiple layers at once, staple in several places to keep the papers from shifting.

Once you’re ready, start cutting along the template.

Leave the large outline for last, and begin by cutting out the small, detailed parts first.

Create various cutout pieces like letters and flowers, then arrange and paste them while checking the balance to design your New Year’s card.

Layering pieces can also add a three-dimensional effect.

Please work carefully to avoid injury.

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New Year’s card in watercolor

Postcard art that even beginners can easily draw 💕 Handwritten New Year’s card No.10 [Tsubaki/Camellia] – Flowers and watercolor “Camellia”

New Year's card in watercolor

A watercolor painting that evokes ephemerality and quietude.

This time, we’re introducing a camellia painting method that can also be used for New Year’s cards.

First, using a light color, paint a shape similar to the Landolt ring used in eye exams.

Then deepen the color along the inner edge of the ring to form the petals.

Add the stamens in the center, paint the surrounding leaves, and finish by drawing the leaf veins with a gold pen to complete the camellia.

Feel free to choose any colors you like for the petals and leaves.

If you plan to add text such as “Welcoming Spring,” incorporating parts of the strokes with camellia motifs will give it a stylish touch.

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[100-yen shop] New Year’s cards with gradient stamps

If you use a gradient, it pops easily: handmade New Year’s cards with DAISO stamps

[100-yen shop] New Year's cards with gradient stamps

There are surprisingly many stamps you can use for New Year’s cards.

When the season comes around, you can find all kinds of stamps even at 100-yen shops.

Let’s try designing New Year’s cards using those stamps.

The great thing about stamps is that you can easily create designs just by stamping them on, but with a small touch, you can take your design up a notch.

That small touch is adding a gradient! It’s easy to do if you use a gradient ink pad, so feel free to give it a try.

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In conclusion

With just a few simple touches, a handmade New Year’s card can become a striking piece.

Using everyday materials, let’s create a card that makes the recipient spontaneously say, “Wow!” Another charm of handmade cards is that even with the same technique, changing the colors or patterns can give a completely different look.

This New Year, why not send a special card made with heartfelt care?