Birthday is one of the most anticipated holidays, preparing to congratulate someone, we browse an incredible number of sites, search all the shops in the area in search of the perfect gift. It should be original, unusual, atypical, memorable. Why not draw a birthday present? How about replacing a simple gift card with a congratulatory poster or poster?

Let's think together how to draw a birthday poster, how to decorate it beautifully and what kind of birthday greetings to place on it, especially since birthday posters are gaining more and more popularity.

Cool posters, a funny cartoon, a wall newspaper, a poster made by yourself - a nice birthday present, an original congratulation - the key to a great birthday mood. A birthday poster can contain funny greetings, poems, drawings, photos.

What you need for a congratulatory poster

To make a birthday poster, we need quite a bit, first of all, this:

  1. Whatman.
  2. Pencils, paints, markers, pens.
  3. Scissors.
  4. Glue.

It is possible that photographs of the future birthday man, old magazines, printouts will also come in handy, depending on the idea of ​​\u200b\u200bthe future wall newspaper with birthday wishes.

Speaking of the idea, before you draw a birthday present in the form of such a large, peculiar postcard, take a small draft where you can sketch a future congratulation. Thus, we will simplify the design of the poster, having thought over its idea in advance.

Components of such a gift

  1. Lettering and design.
    The most important phrase, of course, should be striking, be bright, radiate a good mood. How to issue them? These letters can be diversified by doodling by drawing large letters, adding flowers or other small details to them, drawing a kind of graffiti for a birthday or making an appliqué. Letters can be printed, cut out of colored paper or from magazines. Unusual and interesting!
  2. Background.
    The background should be no less bright, but not merge with the main letters, wishes and images. Watercolor will come to the rescue. A light layer of watercolor will dilute the white background of the paper, and already on it you can place a wide variety of ideas.
  3. Congratulations.
    On a draft with a sketch, sketch out a couple of words for a birthday celebration, cool, in poetic form, short phrases or long prose. If you doubt your ability to write good congratulations, look for them on the Internet in advance, print or rewrite for yourself.

First of all, a birthday poster simply has to be bright, which means that the use of dull, dark, cold colors should be minimized.

The poster does not require much effort, artistic skills, and interesting congratulations can be easily found on the sites, where you will find more than one good idea of ​​what to draw for your birthday.

The first thing that comes to mind when thinking about creating a poster is a huge inscription Happy Birthday, placed on top or in the center, in large beautiful letters, voluminous bright. So, first of all, let's place the phrase in a convenient place, for starters, do it with a simple pencil. Armed with an eraser and a pencil, we can correct accidental blots and blemishes.

Birthday Drawing Ideas

If you are out of ideas or lacking inspiration, then here are some tips on what to draw for your birthday. Here you will find help on how to design a birthday poster, but don't forget to add your own unique twist to the gift.







For artists

The first and simplest thing that can serve as an image on a poster is drawings, simple thematic drawings, these can be balloons, gift boxes, an image of a birthday person or simple drawings, such as flowers, among which congratulations will be placed.

Congratulations can be printed and glued to the poster, or handwritten. If your posters show balloons, then why not put congratulations on the balloons. And if flowers, petals are a great idea to arrange any wish.

You can diversify such a poster in volume, for example, glue another drawn ball on top, lifting which you can find a couple of kind words from you. The same can be done with flower petals, and with gifts. If you have a few small envelopes, or if you can fold them yourself out of paper, then gluing the finished envelopes with a couple of nice lines in them is a great idea.

Collage

Doubting your artistic skills? No problem. With a color printer, find beautiful images on the internet! Print, cut out, and stick on a future poster. Between them you can place the same printed greetings.

Photos for the collage will be no less useful. Take your shared photos from your happiest moments or past holidays. Or photographs from childhood, they can be placed on the poster in the order of the birthday person growing up. Funny and casual photos can be used too, of course, if the birthday boy doesn't get offended and you want some cool posters.

Among the congratulations with such photos, you can put a couple of phrases, the author of which is celebrating a birthday, which have become winged in your family / company.

Work on such a poster will not take much time, but it will be bright, attractive and original.

A sweet poster has become very popular now. Supermarkets are full of a variety of sweets, and those have the most unusual and original names that can be used with congratulations on the poster. It will be funny to hear such phrases as “You and I are inseparable as Twix” or “Communication with you is a heavenly pleasure” with a Baunty chocolate bar attached next to it. Buy a couple of sweets, making a rough plan of congratulations. Glue, sew, attach small sweets to whatman paper, adding the missing words to chocolates, sweets and lollipops with bright felt-tip pens.

For a birthday greeting, you do not need to have the talent of a poet at all, and drawing does not have to be your forte. Happy birthday posters are a timely way to express your congratulations.

A poster with wishes for a birthday is an interesting, unusual and original gift that does not take long to make, does not require much effort. However, it is very pleasant to receive such a congratulation, because it is made with your own hands, which indicates attention to the birthday man and his gift.

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Often, when choosing a gift for a dear person, we are faced with a crisis of originality. Thoughts simply do not reach further than a bouquet of flowers, a box of chocolates or colorful balloons. But being original is easy - just show a little ingenuity.

An excellent addition to the main gift that you choose will be a birthday poster for a friend. Trite? Not at all. Just? But not very. Fun, pleasant and cool? Yes, definitely. A colorful poster with beautiful drawings, photographs and - this is something from childhood, something that gives rise to only the most pleasant emotions and causes real nostalgia. Every person at a young age drew congratulatory posters. It's time to do it again. Here are just a poster in this case will be made at a more professional level.

Where can I get such a wall newspaper for my friend's birthday? Everything is simple. No need to go to specialized stores, no need to suffer for hours drawing some abstract figures - just scroll down this page a little. Especially for such occasions, we have put together a collection of greeting posters that you can use right here and now. Just find the one you like, print it out and present it to your friend for her birthday. Believe me, she will be very happy to receive such a gift from you.

Special, hand-made and soulful presents evoke a lot of positive emotions in the person being presented. A poster with sweets, reminiscent of a wide-format postcard, can be attributed to the number of not banal gifts. For manufacturing, you will need various sweets, drawing paper, glue, multi-colored felt-tip pens or paints and, of course, imagination and good mood.

What can be posters?

In its appearance, the poster with chocolates resembles a wall newspaper, on which multi-colored congratulatory slogans are complemented by sweets with suitable names. From sweets to create a poster, you can use loose sweets, chocolate bars, packages with cookies or other goodies.

Most often, posters are made of several types:

  1. Congratulatory - in the form of a large postcard, which can be presented on a birthday, anniversary to a dear person.
  2. Sentimental - as a rule, they are given to the closest relatives. Such a present emphasizes the warmth and depth of feelings of the giver to the recipient.
  3. Photo collages - they are created from goodies and printed photographs.
  4. For children - combined compositions are created using stickers, printed images, drawings of the child's favorite characters. For kids, such gifts cause especially a lot of joy and are remembered for a long time by them.
  5. Romantic - made to express sincere love feelings for your soulmate.

Any posters from various sweets can be designed in the form of:

  • an ordinary poster - just on whatman paper;
  • postcards - whatman paper is folded in half and, if desired, additionally decorated on the outside;
  • organizer - all goodies are placed inside a decorated folder made of dense material, which can be beautifully placed on a flat surface;
  • figures - for example, hearts.

How to make a poster?

It is not difficult to make a poster with chocolates and inscriptions with your own hands. To create such a presentation you need:

  • Whatman paper sheet - inscriptions, goodies and pictures will be placed on it;
  • stationery - scissors, adhesive tape, pencils, glue, felt-tip pens, paints, pens;
  • colored paper and cardboard - they are needed to separate the zones on the craft and give volume to the created image;
  • various sweets;
  • beads, petals, ribbons suitable for decoration.

You need to carefully think over the idea and create a layout, after which you can proceed to design the presentation. There are a lot of options for making gifts on whatman paper, and each of them is absolutely original, since it is created taking into account the personality of the recipient and the reason for the celebration at which it will be presented.


A poster with chocolates is made like this:

  1. First of all, you need to decide for what purpose the postcard is being created and, based on this, choose the appropriate design option. For example, a comic poster can be made as a gift to a friend, and a congratulatory poster, designed more strictly, is suitable for presentation on an anniversary.
  2. Then you need to draw up a diagram - mark the locations of goodies, inscriptions, decorations, and think about what will be located in the remaining free space. If there is no experience in creating such collages, then you need to practice first so that in the final version all the elements are harmoniously arranged and combined with each other.
  3. Next, the desired phrases are drawn on whatman paper using multi-colored paints, pencils, felt-tip pens. It is important to do this carefully, as any flaw on the Whatman paper will be noticeable, which will spoil the appearance of the gift. If the creator of the poster cannot boast of beautiful handwriting, you can not write the phrases with your own hand, but print and cut them out, and then attach them to double-sided tape - such actions will add volume to the craft.
  4. With the help of glue or double-sided tape, sweets are fixed on the paper.
    The remaining free spaces can be filled with pictures, drawings, or simply decorated in a tone suitable for the overall concept of the craft.
  5. Last but not least, decorative elements are attached to the poster - bows, voluminous stickers and others. Don't be afraid to experiment and be original - this sweet poster will only get better and more unique.


Ideas for decoration

When creating a sweet birthday poster, you can use absolutely any materials, the main thing is that they fit the developed presentation concept.

  • For example, you can add a bag of coffee to sweets, accompanied by the inscription: “I wish you to be cheerful like 3 in 1 coffee (a bag with an instant drink is glued here) and enjoy life day after day!”.
  • And a present given for an anniversary can be decorated with the inscriptions: “On this morning (place a pack of Anniversary cookies here) I want to wish ...” and “May luck pursue you (glue a packaged 7 DAYS croissant in this place) a week ... ".
  • For posters intended for mother, sister, father, brother or grandmother, grandfather, it is appropriate to place small packages with My Family juice, Kinder products (for example, in a congratulation to mother, note the joy of the donor that he is mother's kinder) and packages with multi-colored Skittles sweets with wishes for a bright life.
  • When creating a poster for your beloved husband or boyfriend, you can choose a romantic design, heart-shaped decorations and sweets such as Twix and Bounty bars.
  • For a present for a guy, you can also make a postcard on whatman paper in a more brutal style, placing on it not only sweets, but also nuts "Die Hard", small-volume juice "Handsome", chocolate "Mars".

The number of poster design options is limited only by the available products suitable for creating a gift, and the compiler's imagination.


What sweets are suitable for making a sweet poster?

To make a food poster, you need a variety of goodies, as long as they are in the package. Most often in the manufacture of presentations use:

  • juice in boxes ("Beloved", "Handsome", "My Family");
  • chocolate bars ("Snickers", "Mars" and others);
  • multi-colored dragees ("M&M's", "Skittles");
  • curds in glaze;
  • instant coffee in portion bags;
  • wafers or cookies, packaged in small packages;
  • nuts;
  • chewing gums ("Love is ..." - for a loved one, "Orbit" - for a friend who dazzles with her beauty);
  • candies.

Sometimes milkshakes, curd cheeses and other products that cannot be kept warm are used to create a composition. In this case, they are attached to the poster shortly before its delivery.


How to present a gift?

The method of presenting a sweet present depends on the format of the celebration and the most festive occasion. For example, if:

  1. The gift is intended for a loved one, it can be hung on the wall - such a surprise will surprise and cheer up when it is discovered by the recipient;
  2. A poster with sweets is planned to be presented personally, at an anniversary, wedding or other celebration, then the wishes written on it can be read during a toast;
  3. There is no way to personally congratulate a loved one and give him a poster for his birthday or other holiday, order courier delivery - the effect of surprise will enhance the impression of a poster with goodies.

A poster with sweets is a universal gift that is sure to please the recipient. It can be done both for relatives and close people, and for friends or colleagues. When creating a poster with sweets, show your imagination and then the gift will be remembered by the recipient for a long time.

A birthday poster is a great way to give the celebration a special, personal atmosphere, to congratulate the birthday man in a beautiful and varied way, to concentrate attention around the hero of the occasion. Birthday is a personal holiday and a poster is one of the best ways to emphasize this, create a beautiful and unusual personal greeting, do something that you cannot buy in a store or order via the Internet.

What materials will be required?

It’s not at all difficult to create birthday posters with your own hands - the maximum that is needed for this:

  • paper - you can also use ordinary A4 sheets with templates printed on the printer, you can take whatman paper or a sheet of A3-A1 format, on which it is easy to depict everything that is enough for imagination;
  • drawing supplies: paints and brushes, colored pencils, felt-tip pens, cans of colored paint. Even options that already have the original color template can be tinted, made more fun and interesting. If you use photographs of the birthday boy (specially printed for this purpose), you can paint on him a crown or wings or something else. Not a single poster of the wall newspaper format can do without drawing tools;
  • stationery - adhesive tape for attaching paper to surfaces, glue for joining parts together or for gluing decorative ornaments, scissors for cutting out ornaments and various additional decorative elements;
  • colored paper - plain colored paper, tissue paper, corrugated paper for making additional decorations. Flowers, hearts, ribbons, “bubbles” for writing down congratulations, fringe for decorating photo frames - all this can be done from colored paper and be able to greatly diversify the congratulatory poster;
  • additional decorations - confetti, sparkles, garlands, streamers, decorative stickers and figurines.

With the help of such a simple set of materials, you can create your own bright poster for the birthday of a loved one and contribute to the formation of a festive atmosphere. If you are still thinking, a poster from children will be an unforgettable surprise.

Photo posters - lively and original

One of the most popular birthday decoration ideas is photo posters. It is necessary to place on the poster, in beautiful frames with additional wishes and congratulations, photographs of the birthday man, his friends, relatives, various periods of his life, etc. A photo is a good way to acquaint guests with the bright moments of the hero of the occasion and remind him of a pleasant event.

Usually, for a photo poster, a ready-made template from the Internet is used with frames for pasting photos and a ready-made background; you can also draw the background and frames yourself. In addition, congratulation verses written independently or found on the Internet, in collections, etc., may come in handy for this option. You can also put toasts, unusual wishes there, make funny or thematic additions to the photo.

Adult Options

When creating, for example, do-it-yourself birthday posters with photos of a friend, you can make an application from photos of the brightest moments that unite you, long interesting trips, images from work or school, especially funny moments, etc. Posters can be made in different forms, for example:

With wishes

Place photographs of the birthday person on the poster in various situations: at work, at school, on vacation, at home, on a camping trip. Under each photo, leave a free space in a beautiful frame, where guests who wish will enter their wishes in accordance with the topic of the photo (higher salaries at work, prosperity and comfort in the family, the opportunity to catch the largest catfish, etc.). Of all the variety, the poster will be a great addition to the main surprise and will be the highlight of the evening;

With humor

On a bright basis, arrange funny photos with the birthday boy and his friends. Any option that can make the birthday boy and guests laugh will do, but it’s better to do without offensive and black humor;

Retrospection

Attach to the poster (you can choose for it the entourage of an old TV show or clippings from an encyclopedia) photos of the birthday man, his friends and family. Images can be built according to the principle “from childhood to the present day”, and under the photo in frames, indicate the dates and under what circumstances it was taken. Guests will be able to learn something new about the hero of the occasion, and he himself may want to talk about what is shown on the poster.

Ideas for a children's photo poster

Making do-it-yourself birthday posters for a 1-year-old child is a great way to highlight an important event and acquaint guests with how an important period in the life of a baby went. When designing a children's poster, it is worth considering a few rules:

  • for young children (from 1 to 3 years old) it should not contain excessively bright, acidic or sharply contrasting colors, you should stick to soft, pastel colors. The first step, the first tooth, the first walks are the most gentle photos that will make any photo poster special
  • for children aged 4 to 9 years, attention should be paid to additional decorations - flowers, ribbons, stickers, sparkles, streamers. The poster must be eye-catching. You can take as a basis the plot from the child's favorite cartoon;
  • for older children - 10-12 years old, it is worth making a thematic poster design with their favorite characters.

Manufacturing methods may vary. A train is a popular and fun design option in the form of placing a photo of a child in a train and the cars that he pulls. Or a family tree - place on the poster a photo of the child, his parents and the closest people.

Wall newspaper

Another popular birthday poster design option is to make it in the style of a good old school wall newspaper. Such a poster should not contain templates or purchased decorations. Here you can place drawings, write down poems, congratulations, birthday wishes, it can be beautifully decorated around the edges - the main thing is to do everything with your own hands.

Thematic posters

Another great idea is a themed poster for the holiday. A poster in the style of a pirate card, with a photo of the birthday boy in a pirate costume and a cocked hat. A poster with congratulations from forest animals or fairy-tale characters with poetic congratulations from Andersen or the Brothers Grimm. Poster in the style of your favorite movies, cartoons or comics for a child.

A birthday poster should demonstrate that this is a holiday for a particular person, his best day of the year. In such conditions, creating a poster with your own hands is one of the best ways to emphasize the uniqueness of the event.