What You Can Do With Old Postcards and Paperclips

Many apartments have deposits of old postcards. Throwing away such treasures is pathetic, because someone these cards brought joy, personified. attention.

The tradition of giving cards for holidays has long since begun to fade. Now more popular greetings in the form of cards in various messengers and social networks. Of course, there are advantages to this. For example, the fact that the apartment does not accumulate all the junk. However, there is still a lack of heartfelt congratulations.





However, Soviet postcards "Happy New Year" They are still full of old apartments. It is for those people who are sorry to throw away these paper products, we recommend a simple master class on the manufacture of curtains from paper clips and postcards.





Curtain blinds decorated many apartments in the 90s. Now they can be originally fit even in a modern interior. Such a curtain may also be suitable for storage or for dividing the space of a large room.





All you’ll need to make these office blinds is postcards, paper clips, and a little patience.





Master class on making curtains from old postcards

1. To create curtains, you can use not only old cards, but also unnecessary business cards. The format of the paper product does not matter much. It is necessary to cut strips a little more than 3 cm long and 2 cm wide.
   
   
   
   
2. To use a ruler for each such strip is not necessary. It is much easier to make a template and cut all the other strips on it.
   
   
   
   
3. Bend the strip in half. The same must be done with each part.
   
   
   
   
4. Now take a paperclip and run it through the “pockets” of a bent piece of cardboard. Each “loop” should go into a separate “pocket”.
   
   
   
   
5. In the end, you will have this element of the future curtain, to which you will cling the next clip.
   
   
   
   
6. On this paperclip you need to wear an identically folded piece of postcard.
   
   
   
   

Forming a curtain out of these pieces is like folding a puzzle. Choose shades according to your desire and create original colorful masterpieces.

And you knew some collectors wouldn't mind. Buy old Soviet postcards? Sometimes these are real works of art, existing in just a few copies!

We wish you a pleasant time for the manufacture of this unusual accessory for the apartment. Remember that it is not necessary to throw away old, but dear things. Everything can be used in a new way!