Valentine is one of the symbols of Valentine's Day. Of course, you can buy such a postcard in the store, but it's much nicer to get a similar product made by yourself. You can make valentines from different materials. For this, paper, fabric and even products are suitable. Offer 7 best ideas how to make an unusual and cool valentine with your own hands from paper and fabric.
Photos of the simplest schemes
Now we offer you 5 of the most simple circuits to make a cute and original valentine with your own hands.
Valentine card "Romance"
Such a postcard is prepared very simply, such a product does not require additional skills and unusual decor. This valentine can be classified as traditional paper.
For work you will need:
- white cardboard;
- red shiny paper;
- glue;
- decorative shiny ribbon;
- sequins;
- beads;
- scissors.
How to do:
Using a pencil and a ruler, a cardboard sheet must be divided into three parts so that the sum of the two extreme parts is equal to the middle part. We bend along the marked lines. You get a blank with two wings. From red paper, you need to cut out two hearts of different sizes. The smaller heart is glued into the larger one. Then they need to be glued to the sashes of the postcard so that it does not open. Then, at the junction of the halves of the card, the hearts must be cut with scissors. To prevent the valentine from opening arbitrarily, it must be tied with a ribbon. Additionally, the card can be decorated with beads, sparkles and small paper hearts.
Valentine card "Beloved heart"
For such a postcard you will need:
- thick paper;
- bright pictures in the theme of Valentine's Day;
- decorative ribbon;
- beads.
Preparation method:
- From thick paper you need to cut off the necessary rectangular piece. The size of the postcard depends only on your wishes. Such a blank must be folded with an accordion. Cut out several hearts of various sizes. The number of hearts depends on the number of "steps" in the harmonica. They will need to be glued to each bend.
- Hearts can be cut both from pictures and from decorative paper. Near each heart, you can write tender words and declarations of love. Further decor depends only on your imagination. You can use beads, sequins, etc. Tie the finished postcard with a ribbon.
Valentine's card "Beloved"
For a postcard you will need:
- thick paper;
- scissors;
- glue;
- photo where you are together.
Preparation method:
Cut out a heart from thick paper. Choose the size of such a valentine yourself. Next, you need to cut out your faces from joint photos. No need to cut "only faces". It will turn out more beautiful when there are images in the pictures, for example, to the waist. Paste such a photo on one side of the heart. On the other side, write a beautiful declaration of love.
Valentine card "Gentle"
You can make a Valentine not only from paper. Such fabric products are very original.
For work you will need:
- thick paper;
- thick fabric (preferably red or shiny);
- threads;
- scissors;
- sentipon or cotton wool;
- decorative tape;
- shiny or mother-of-pearl beads;
- lace.
Manufacturing method:
- From cardboard, make a heart template of the desired size. After that, attach it to the fabric and circle. According to the outlined outline, it is necessary to cut out the heart. We make two such blanks. Next, they must be sewn together, leaving 2 centimeters unfinished. Through this hole, you need to turn the product out and fill it with cotton wool or centipon. Only after that you need to sew up the hole.
- Next, decorate the Valentine, here you can show your taste and creativity. For example, sheathe along the seam with lace, and in the center make a bow from a ribbon and sheathe it everywhere with beads.
Valentine card "Delicious"
Unusual and tasty valentine will be a wonderful gift for Valentine's Day.
For the product you will need:
- 250 grams of butter;
- 200 grams of homemade sour cream;
- 500-600 grams of flour;
- 300 grams of sugar;
- baking powder.
Cooking method:
Cold butter must be chopped with sugar. Add sour cream, vanilla, flour and baking powder. Knead. You should get a not very cool shortcrust pastry. Roll out and cut out hearts. Garnish with melted dark chocolate or icing.
Master class for making sweet valentines with video instructions
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Valentine card "Full heart"
It is not only very original and beautiful, but also has a wonderful aroma.
For work you will need:
- basis for making soap;
- food coloring red;
- essential oil; soap mold (preferably silicone).
Cooking process:
Required for work metal container in which our heart will be drowned. Grind the soap base into this bowl and place in a water bath. When the mass becomes liquid, add dye and aroma oil. Pour the finished mixture into a mold to make such a Valentine more colorful, add dry flowers to the liquid mass. The finished product must be removed from the mold and tied with a decorative ribbon.
Video instructions for making soap
Valentine card "Three hearts"
Such a card is very simple to make, it can even be prepared by small children.
For work you will need:
- thick white paper;
- not thick red paper;
- glue;
- scissors;
- pencil.
Preparation method:
Fold a white sheet of paper in half. Draw a heart on it in such a way that when you cut it out, it will turn out to be double. The result should be a blank of two wings, each of which is in the shape of a heart. Next, a sheet of red paper needs to be folded with an accordion. Cut out hearts from it much smaller than a white blank.
You should get an "accordion" of hearts. Glue one half of the accordion to one leaf of the white blank, and the other to the other. It turned out to be a big postcard. It can be decorated with sequins, sequins or any decor of your choice. On the finished product you need to write beautiful congratulations and tie with decorative ribbon.
18 photo ideas for creativity
Additionally, I have collected 18 photos of the most beautiful postcard ideas from around the Internet, I'm sure you can choose something original for yourself.
You can often hear that Valentine's Day is not a Russian holiday, but does the origin of this celebration matter? The tradition of exchanging postcards has already become very firmly established in our culture.
Shops specializing in souvenirs and postcards offer the most incredible types of gifts, ranging from a standard postcard to congratulations in the form of crossword puzzles, puzzles and charades.
Despite such a wide selection of romantic products, lovers strive not to deviate from traditions and create paper valentines with their own hands.
It is very difficult to resist the cutest postcards in the form of hearts, which are usually presented on St. Valentine.
The beauty of such postcards, made with my own hands, that with the help of these paper hearts people want to say about their love and tenderness.
How to make a two-color valentine
In this master class, I will show you how to make such a craft. It can also be used as a gift bag.
We will need paper in two colors, in my case it is red and white. If you want to use it as a bag, then it is better to take cardboard. The size of the craft is up to you. So, we take the paper, fold it in half and draw just such a diagram.
Cut the strips with scissors.
We skip the first strip of white paper between the strips of red. The next red one is between the white stripes, and so on.
Then we take the next white strip and do the same in a checkerboard pattern.
Our first craft is ready!
DIY valentines for decorating the interior
In this master class, we will look at how to make such hearts to decorate walls, windows, curtains, and so on. I think your soulmate will be pleasantly surprised to see such a colorful decoration, which will undoubtedly give a festive mood.
We cut out hearts of various sizes from red paper.
We make cuts like this.
We apply glue to the edge of the paper and glue it, creating a bulge, as shown in the photo. We do the same with all the other hearts.
Attach to the wall with thin double-sided tape. If you plan to decorate curtains, then you can attach using tailor's needles with a ball on the tip (they are also called a "hatpin").
DIY quilling valentine pendant
Quilling - in our opinion, this is paper rolling, that is, the manufacture of various compositions and decorations from twisted special paper strips. In this master class, I will show you how to make such a decoration - a pendant with your own hands using the quilling technique.
We buy special paper for quilling.
We twist these spirals.
Glue the end of the strip.
We make such two spirals of different sizes.
And another small tight circle. Then, pressing one edge with two fingers, we give it such a shape, as shown in the figure.
We assemble the structure - we glue together all the elements.
That's all, our heart-shaped pendant is ready.
A gift for lovers "Hearts connected by the golden thread of the fate of Moira Klotho"
According to Greek mythology, the fate of people is woven with golden threads by one of the three moiras - Klotho. That is why we decided to add this element to the decor of our gift for the day of love, family and fidelity. Two hearts are tightly connected with each other by fate itself, what could be more romantic. It’s not at all difficult to make such a craft with your own hands and it will take a little time, but what a subtext!
You can mold similar souvenirs from clay or buy plastic, but the most accessible and popular material was and is - salt dough. It is done very simply:
- We take a tablespoon and measure out an equal amount of finely ground salt and any flour. We mix.
- You can add just water, but it is better to mix it with PVA glue in a 1: 1 ratio. For 2 st. spoons of salt flour put 2 teaspoons of water.
- Mix the resulting mass well in a convenient container, and then knead it in your hands. We put it in a package. After 10-15 min. salty dough is ready to make a valentine out of it with your own hands.
Let's start creating:
1. We sculpt two flat hearts. Of course, you can roll out a layer of dough and cut out the figures with a special mold, but we don’t need banal stamping.
2. We make prints on our blanks. We used an old openwork comb, embossed buttons, knitted napkins, lace or just intricately twisted ropes are also suitable.
3. Before sending the product to dry, do not forget to make holes. Drying time depends on the thickness of the dough, ours dried for about 2 days. You can speed up the process and bake the hearts in the oven. If it gets too brown, use it as a decorative technique and add flames.
4. Decorate crafts. We did not cover up the curls and only slightly shaded them, and the mother-of-pearl only emphasized the relief. Salt dough takes any paint well, although some may require a preliminary primer, for example, for acrylic. Gouache, watercolor and even lipstick fit perfectly.
5. It remains to tie the golden threads, each heart has its own. We intertwine them according to the principle of chain links.
"Hearts bound by the golden thread of Moira Klotho" - With such a DIY craft made from salt dough, you can also decorate a frame with a wedding photo. If you don’t have one yet, stick magnets on each heart and a gift for the day of love, family and fidelity will turn into an exclusive holder for love messages on the refrigerator - after all, there is not a day that we don’t look into it).
DIY photo frame "You are in my heart"
I suggest you make a do-it-yourself photo frame “You are in my heart”, it can easily become a souvenir for March 8 or a gift for the Day of Love, Family and Fidelity. And it is even more pleasant to receive such gifts, made with your own hands just like that, from the heart and for no reason!
It is most convenient to sculpt the frames from polymer clay or plastic, but for the "pen test" we chose a more accessible material - salt dough. To prepare it, we need:
- 1/2 cup any flour
- 1/2 cup finely ground salt
- 1/4 cup tap water.
After drying the product, the dough will become stronger if water is mixed with PVA glue, some add wallpaper paste. And yet, after all the ingredients are mixed, the dough should be well kneaded in your hands and removed for 10-15 minutes in a plastic bag. It will become more plastic and uniform.
Let's start creating a photo frame with your own hands:
1. We make our heart out of two parts. We roll the dough into sausages so that the middle is thicker than the edges. We connect them and give shape. We also sculpt a couple more small hearts, they will become pendants.
2. We flatten the blanks. We did this with a book wrapped in cling film. We trim the edges. We got a little wave inside, decided to leave, so even more interesting. We sculpt 3 more tiny hearts, they will be connected in a row and become the third pendant.
3. We make holes, three on the frame itself and one each on the pendant hearts. Tiny can not make holes. Once again, we critically evaluate our craft from salt dough, if necessary, we correct, smooth it and send it to dry.
4. We decided to add decor to the frame and blinded three small flowers on bent stems. The middle ones were made recessed, since rhinestones will be glued into them. Flowers also need to be dried.
5. When all the details of the gift for your loved ones dry well and become hard as a stone, you can start painting. We used gouache. Mother-of-pearl coating is a very inexpensive eye shadow!
6. We work with super glue. We choose the most liked composition with flowers, applying them this way and that, then glue them. Don't forget the rhinestones! Cut the string to the desired length. We put a drop of glue on each small heart without holes, put them in a row at the right distance and put the prepared piece of fishing line into the glue.
7. We collect all parts of the frame. Threading the fishing line into the holes, we tie all the pendants. We choose the length of the fishing line arbitrarily, as you like. By choosing fishing tackle, we hoped to lighten the composition and give the product airiness. It seems to have succeeded, although a thin chain would have looked just as good.
So the gift is ready, created with your own hands with a soul, and most importantly, in a single copy! If there is varnish in a spray can, it's great, its thin layer will give the product not only shine, but also protect the decorative coating.
How to mold a gift for Valentine's Day from plasticine
This lesson tells you how to make an interesting congratulatory heart out of ordinary plasticine - a souvenir for Valentine's Day.
Before February 14, children and educators, teachers will be looking for such lessons to make gifts, so this information is especially for them.
For a small congratulatory heart, prepare:
- plasticine - it is desirable that among the bars there are red or lilac, as well as green colors;
- toothpick.
The heart itself can be scarlet or lilac, as shown in this tutorial. It will also be decorated with roses. Bright flowers are the companions of any holiday, especially when it comes to Valentine's Day. Green is needed for the leaves. Open the set, take the pieces that you like. On sale today you can find different plasticine, even neon, glitter or hot pink, so focus on the one you have.
Knead a red or lilac block of plasticine in your hands. So that the heart is not too small, but also fits in the palm of your hand, do not spare the main plasticine. If it is difficult to knead the bar completely at once, then do it gradually, in parts, and then bring it into a large ball.
Press the soft mass in the form of a ball from above. But don't make the cake too flat. In the future, this blank should be turned into a voluminous heart. Squeeze the cake with your fingers from below, sharpening the tip, and also press it from above, giving a characteristic, well-known shape. When the main heart is ready, take care of the decoration.
Pull out a few thin threads to simulate roses. All threads can be scarlet, or use 3 different colors for decoration (white, yellow and red). Glue small green dots on one side of the heart. Press down on top of each with a toothpick.
A few teardrop-shaped green leaves will also be needed. Draw veins on top with a toothpick. Twist the red, white and yellow threads into spirals. These will be original rosebuds. Three pieces are enough or cook more.
On the other side of the heart, form a bouquet. First, glue a few green leaves, then attach 3 flower spirals. Such a decoration will ennoble a plasticine valentine, it will immediately become bright, expressive.
An interesting gift for Valentine's Day is ready. We easily molded it from plasticine to please our soul mate or the dearest person.
Paper valentine card
In this tutorial we will make original postcard Valentine's card in the form of a balloon in the shape of a heart.
To make a postcard, we need:
- A sheet of white and pink (red) paper;
- Simple pencil;
- Felt pens (colored pencils);
- Scissors;
- Glue stationery.
First, let's make a template. To do this, bend the sheet in half and draw a half heart from the fold line. Then, without unbending the sheet, we cut out the part and unfold it. It turns out the heart. So we got a flat part with the same sides.
Now cut out 2 identical hearts from pink or red paper. To do this, we apply a template and circle it. And then cut out the resulting heart.
Glue 1 piece onto a white sheet of paper. To make it more convenient, it is better to stick closer to the top of the sheet. And from the heart we begin to draw the basket itself with a simple pencil. We draw ropes and bags that are tied to the sides.
Then we will draw with a felt-tip pen. We circle the ropes in green. Please note that the first 3 strings are in the foreground, so they go from the heart to the front of the basket. That is, the lines cross the back side and exit forward. 1 rope on the sides and 2 on the back.
Paint the bags with any color. With a brown felt-tip pen, draw vertical stripes on the basket to imitate boards. It is desirable to draw stripes at approximately the same distance from each other.
Color the basket itself yellow. Now we take scissors and cut out the resulting balloon. But we cut it out, slightly stepping back from the edge so that there is a white stroke. But don't make it too wide.
Now we take the second heart and glue it on white paper. Cut out, also stepping back from the edges.
Now we bend the heart in the center, but do not draw a crease. We just raise the sides a little. We coat the fold with glue and glue the part to the main one so that the fold is in the center of the first heart. That is, we put one heart on top of the other.
The white stroke of the top heart can be smeared with red shiny nail polish. You can use a shiny pen. And you can not touch and leave as is.
It remains to write congratulations and the card is ready!
Souvenir - a pebble with a valentine from salt dough master class
Making an original souvenir with your own hands is much easier than it might seem at first glance. We made our salt dough craft. The figurine is so simple that even a child can make such a cat with a heart. In addition, all the ingredients for making such a gift are the most affordable materials.
All we need is:
- one st. a spoonful of flour and salt;
- one teaspoon of water and PVA glue;
- crayons, pastels or eye shadow;
- lacquer from a can (if not, hairspray is also suitable).
Let's get started.
1. From flour, salt, water and glue, we make a dough-like mass. We knead it well in our hands.
2. We pinch off a small piece of dough and sculpt a heart. We flatten the remaining material and form a flat rectangle out of it with elongated corners.
3. We send the workpiece to dry. You can speed up the process with an oven.
4. We turn the dried dough into a kind of stone. Rub the dry dye into the figure with your fingers. It is not necessary to make the stone gray.
5. With a pencil, felt-tip pen or paints, draw a muzzle, paws and tail on a pebble.
6. It remains only to glue the heart and sprinkle the craft with varnish, which is not necessary at all.
Here is a souvenir made from salt dough with your own hands, made with love. The pebble cat can become a fridge magnet with which you can attach a love note. They can decorate a box with a gift and it will be much more interesting than a banal bow. And if at the stage of modeling the figurine is carefully perforated, you will get an exclusive keychain for lovers.
Do-it-yourself panel for Valentine's Day
By the day of all lovers, it is customary to congratulate not only your halves, but also friends and girlfriends. What can you give a friend who is fond of needlework herself? DIY gifts are always appreciated, even if your girlfriend can do a lot of things on her own.
You can give her a box for storing beads, buttons, decorated using the decoupage or scrapbooking technique, a set for storing tools, and other handicrafts. Or you can tie a small needle bed in the shape of a heart and place it in a heart frame-stand.
Such a needle bed can be mounted on the wall near the needlework table and all needles and pins will always be at hand and certainly will never be lost. A gift with your own hands, in addition, carries a piece of your soul and is always filled with positive energy. Some craftsmen argue that do-it-yourself gifts can serve as a kind of amulets.
Any hanks of yarn, knitting needles, a hook, a small piece of soft wire, any filler (cotton wool, sintepuh, polystyrene) are useful for work.
First, we collect 100 loops on the knitting needles and knit 3-4 rows in stocking stitch.
Closing the loops, insert a thin wire into the resulting cord and sew the cord.
To get a more aesthetic appearance of the cord, we tie it over the hook with single crochets, while covering the entire cord.
Due to the soft thin wire, the cord can be given any shape. We bend it in the shape of a heart. It is permissible to make a slightly irregular shape for the heart.
Let's start knitting the needle heart. We knit a chain from 15 air loops, make another loop for lifting and knit a square with single crochet stitches.
Then we knit semicircles from two adjacent sides of the square.
We get a heart. But for the needle bar, we need two such details. We repeat the previous steps and knit the second part of the heart.
We sew the heart, fill it with filler.
At the edges, you can tie it with lace using a hook.
Now it's time for decor. As a decor, we will make some cheerful flowers. First we make the middle.
And then we tie them with colored petals.
The last step is sewing all the elements of our panel onto the “heart” frame-frame.
Now you can attach it to working area. Well, if you like the idea of a gift with your own hands, then complete it with chocolate and a card. Your friend will be delighted.
Soap-heart handmade
For some, it is considered a favorite thing to watch your favorite TV shows, for someone - to sit with your favorite book or play an interesting game on the computer, but someone likes to do their favorite hobby. So, for many, a favorite hobby is soap making. In this master class I want to tell you how to make handmade soap-heart.
Before you start making soap, you should prepare everything you need:
- soap base white;
- dyes: red, purple and green;
- alcohol;
- perfume to your taste;
- pipettes or syringes;
- stirring sticks;
- dishes under the soap base;
- soap mold.
When everything is at hand, it is easier to do everything. Before pouring the soap base into the mold, it must be sprinkled with alcohol, this will make it easier to remove the soap from the mold.
The soap base must be cut into pieces and melted in the microwave at the lowest temperature.
Then add color and flavor there. I will make the inscription "I love you" in green. You need to fill it carefully, using a syringe or pipette, so that the mass does not go beyond the edges of the inscription. Now you should wait until the layer dries. If there are air bubbles on it, then you need to sprinkle with alcohol, this will help remove them.
While the layer dries, prepare the base for pouring another layer. The next layer I want to make is purple. To do this, melt the soap base in the microwave and add purple dye and flavor to it. The more dye you put in, the more saturated the color will turn out.
On the frozen previous layer, pour a purple base. Before that hard layer you need to scratch and sprinkle with alcohol. This is necessary so that they stick together better. It is necessary to pour in such a way that there is enough space in the form for the last layer. We leave the purple layer to dry, but for now we are preparing the next layer.
The last layer will be red. To do this, melt the soap base in the microwave and add red dye and fragrance to it. Do not forget to scratch the bottom layer and sprinkle with alcohol.
Everything, on this original heart-shaped soap is ready, you can give it to your beloved girl or boyfriend. A handmade gift is always more expensive than a purchased one.
Do-it-yourself valentines with a paper butterfly
So elegant and original craft With beautiful butterfly. It can also be used as a gift bag.
Print and transfer onto paper folded in half.
Of course, you can choose any color of the butterfly, in my case it is white and blue.
We make such cuts to the middle of the butterfly. In one half - from below, in the other - from above on both sides.
We assemble the structure - we “thread” two halves into these cuts, first on one side, then on the other.
Well, that's all, a do-it-yourself valentine with a butterfly is ready! I think it would look nice in red and white too.
Cut out as shown in the photo.
And we assemble the structure by threading the curls of the spiral into each other.
The history of valentines
Valentine's Day belongs to the ancient holidays, so it has acquired a whole range of stories related to the traditions of this celebration.
The appearance of written valentines is usually attributed to the 15th century. However, it is impossible to say exactly who exactly became the author of the first such message. There is an opinion that the Duke of Orleans was the discoverer of this tradition, and it was in 1415.
During this period of time, the Duke was in captivity, and he greatly missed his familiar surroundings. Most of all, he yearned for his wife, and therefore began to create such postcards in which he sincerely described his high feelings for his wife. In the British Museum, you can still look at the very first Valentine, which gave rise to such a glorious and enduring tradition.
Another theory is that the first such postcard was found in 1477 in a British library. This valentine was written by a girl who asked her beloved to prove to her the sincerity of her feelings. In addition, she wrote that she would insist on a larger dowry if the man agreed to start a family with her. This postcard was purchased from a family of librarians in the distant thirties. However, it has only recently become public knowledge.
Valentines began to gain popularity closer to the 18th century. With the help of such cards, young people in love conveyed their feelings to each other. The inhabitants of England experienced a great passion for writing these postcards; in this country, hearts were made from colored paper and also signed exclusively with colored ink.
The popularity of sensual cards has led people to become more and more serious about their creation, so messages in the form of an acrostic began to appear. In such a verse, the first letters of each line make up a certain word, often, it was the name of a beloved or beloved.
The card was cut out with scissors and decorated around the edges with tiny letters. Such a message could not leave indifferent. A special stencil was actively used to decorate them.
The first serial batch of love cards was released in early XIX century. They were hand-drawn and presented in black and white. They did not make a big stir, nevertheless, no one canceled the progress, and soon colorful and bright postcards appeared.
All over the world, Valentine's Day is celebrated on February 14th. For many years, the main tradition of this holiday has been the presentation of valentines.
In addition to popular stories about the appearance of the main attribute of this holiday, there are also several less well-known ones. One of them tells how one minister of the church named Terni Valentine was sentenced to death. His fault was that, contrary to the emperor's ban on the marriage of soldiers, he entered into marriage alliances between soldiers and their lovers.
Thorny Valentine was a true minister of the church, but while waiting for his bitter fate, he experienced a truly wonderful feeling that connected all those couples he married at one time. Ternii Valentine sincerely fell in love with the daughter of the executioner, who was supposed to execute him.
On the day of the planned execution, Valentine wrote a beautiful and romantic letter to his beloved, as a signature he noted "from your Valentine." Already after the execution, he was called a martyr and he was considered another victim who suffered for the church.
February 14 was made Valentine's Day. The letter, written by a Christian martyr, has become a symbol and tradition of the main holiday of all the loving hearts of the world.
From the foregoing, it can be seen that there are quite a few theories about the appearance of valentines, but there is still something in common in these stories, each of them is permeated with a great feeling called love.
Love is the most beautiful feeling for which people did not spare their lives and went to great lengths to reunite loving hearts. Life is unpredictable and can have both pleasant and unpleasant turns, in order to survive all the hardships, you must definitely look for your love.
How to make such a souvenir - see here ..
It absolutely does not matter which story is true, what is much more important is that this holiday is very loved in all countries of the world. Especially the younger generation. And of course, everyone remembers the cute postcards that are the best congratulations on this day. Now young lovers often exchange virtual valentines.
Valentine's day traditions
It's time to move on to the traditions of Valentine's Day. In all corners of the world, people in love are waiting for this romantic holiday. It has existed for a very long time and over the years it has simply grown different kind traditions.
Each country can boast of its own customs associated with this identity. Congratulations on Valentine's Day are not always limited to giving a Valentine card or going to a restaurant for romantic get-togethers. A large number of loving people seek to legitimize their relationship on February 14th.
- In some countries, the representatives of the stronger sex present clothes to their ladies on Valentine's Day. If the gift is accepted, the woman gives her consent to the creation of a strong and loving family. Of course, the clothes are far from the original gift, however, the approach itself is very unusual.
- An old story says that before any girl in love could approach the object of her feelings and ask him to become her husband. If the man refused, then he had to present a silk dress as a gift to the woman, and put on a silk belt with a heart strung on it. Now this tradition is not relevant, but all the same, brides and grooms try to show originality when choosing a gift.
- A very interesting belief is that the first man a girl meets on Valentine's Day should be her Valentine. At the same time, the desire of the representative of the stronger sex is not particularly taken into account.
- There is a sign that a girl who sees a robin on Valentine's Day is destined to marry a sailor. If the fair sex met a goldfinch, then the groom will be rich, and the met sparrow promises a happy life with a poor husband. In fact, an interesting prediction will be an original and unusual gift.
- For more than one century, European young ladies have been writing their names on pieces of paper on Valentine's Day, and then putting them in a box. A man is invited to randomly pull out one piece of paper, thereby determining his companion for the coming year.
Video lessons
How to make a soft valentine with your own hands
How to make unusual postcards
Valentine's Day Card
The idea for a postcard for Valentine's Day using the Scrapbooking technique. Master Class
It should be noted that in terms of popularity, Valentine's Day is second only to the New Year and Christmas. Women are much more likely to buy valentines, accounting for 85% of all purchased cards. Please your halves and do not miss the old tradition - on February 14, you should definitely present your beloved Valentine.
These cute cards can be given as a gift on their own or combined with another gift. Often, the person who gives the card prefers to remain incognito, thus forcing the recipient to seriously suffer in guesswork.
New Year and Christmas celebrations will fly by quickly, and after a little more than a month, another wonderful winter holiday will come - Valentine's Day. And all representatives of this category will puzzle over gifts, come up with romantic surprises, and look for instructions on how to make a Valentine. However, the postcards themselves usually remain undeservedly forgotten - they are bought ready-made, often at the last moment (). But it’s quite simple to make valentines with your own hands from paper - it won’t take much time, and your loved one will receive a card filled with the warmth of the giver and one of a kind - like himself.
A simple instruction on how to make a valentine with your own hands
Of course, the main shape of any valentine is a heart. So the question of the form is not worth it, but then you need to know exactly how to make a valentine. If you can draw and are sure that you can draw the perfect heart, you only need paper and a pencil. If not, then a template should be added to them.
So, to get a blank that is used to make beautiful valentines, you need to use nail scissors - with their help it is easy to make a neat cut, and then cut out the heart completely. After that, you just have to choose beautiful paper for your valentine, put your blank on it, trace around the contour with a pencil and cut it out. With how to make a Valentine at this stage, everything is clear. 
When such a cute and neat paper heart for a valentine is ready, it needs to be decorated.
There are many ways to use these hearts. But how to make a valentine with them amazing? You can cut them out bigger and fix them on a piece of cardboard, you can decorate them with buttons (to which you can attach a beautifully cut strip of paper with a confession), or you can even create a whole picture out of them - everything is in your hands. In fact, you can attach almost anything that comes to hand to a heart. 
Using a drawing: how to make a paper valentine interesting
Knowing how to make a lovely patterned Valentine doesn't have to be a pencil and brush genius. It is so simple that even a child can do it. For drawing a picture it is difficult to choose the basis of any light color, including white.
So, first, on such a heart, you need to draw various patterns that you can - curls, a simple ornament, flowers, and similar cute little things. Then you need to decide how to make the Valentine unique. To do this, you need to take the most conventional paints and carefully paint over some of the depicted charms. The result is a unique postcard created by your hands and imagination. It's amazing how easy it is to make a Valentine! It can be given not only to your soul mate, but also to other loved ones - friends, relatives and even colleagues.
And if you want to amuse your loved ones and make them think, write "XO" on the heart several times. You don't even know what that means? Everything is very simple: "kiss (X) and hug (O)". Here's how to make a paper valentine mysterious and fun.
Original do-it-yourself valentines made of paper: stamp in hand!
You can also use a stamp to make a cute heart shaped paper card for Valentine's Day. With it, a lot is possible, but how to make a Valentine?
There are many different types of stamps on the market today, which differ in both sizes and shapes of impressions, so it will not be difficult to find one that matches your idea. If you still couldn’t do it, do it yourself, it’s as easy as making a Valentine later. A utility knife, a wine cork, a little patience - and your exclusive stamp is ready. Now it remains to learn how to make a valentine with your own hands and with his help. Draw an image of a simple shape on the cork, for example ... a heart. Then carefully cut it along the contour with a clerical knife, and it is best to use gouache for coloring: apply it on a sponge, press your stamp into the sponge and try to leave an imprint on paper. Happened? Now you can make wonderful beautiful valentines!
For it, you will need a blank for a postcard (ready-made version or just a sheet of cardboard folded in half), best of all - a light color, a template with a cut out heart and a small piece of masking tape. With these materials, you can start making paper valentines. With the help of the latter, you need to attach a template to your blank, and then fill the entire surface of the heart with prints - it will turn out more interesting if you use several colors, for example, shades of red from burgundy to pale pink. With such a palette, you can decide how to make the Valentine more romantic or passionate.
The next step is to be a little patient and let the paint dry. Then the template is removed as carefully as it was attached, and it remains only to add the most sincere words of recognition to the unique product. As you can see, making paper valentines with your own hands is very interesting.
How to make a DIY Valentine with toilet paper
Another interesting option for using a homemade stamp will be a very large postcard - a sheet of drawing paper. Curious how to make a valentine out of paper this size? In fact, everything is simple. For the stamp in this case, a conventional cylinder is used. toilet paper- you need to bend it in the shape of a heart, fix the result with adhesive tape and dip it in paint - this is how a lot of original hearts with congratulations, confessions and just warm words addressed to your loved one will appear on a piece of drawing paper. So, we learned how to make a valentine with our own hands and a few simple ways. If you are confident in your abilities, you can try to do more subtle and painstaking work.
Fashion cards: how to make a valentine out of scrapbooking paper
A slightly more complex version of a holiday card for Valentine's Day involves the volume and use of scrapbooking paper, the very process of choosing which already easily turns into a holiday, and even making beautiful Valentines out of it is an incomparable pleasure.
You will need a card stock, scrapbooking paper, a heart-shaped hole punch, glue, double-sided tape and sewing machine. So, how to make a valentine in a trendy style? You need to choose one type of paper for the bottom layer of hearts and a variety of different ones for the top. As is already clear from the explanation, the hearts on the card will consist of two layers, so there should be twice as many blanks as you planned to place on your valentines on February 14th.
Using a hole punch, cut out cute paper hearts so they are the same size. Then, on the workpiece, carefully mark where they will be located and, using adhesive tape, carefully fix the bottom layer in the marked places. But how to make valentines two layers? The top layer of hearts is simply sewn to the bottom on a sewing machine. This stage is not so much difficult as painstaking, requiring patience, care and accuracy.
The same way to make do-it-yourself paper valentines can also be used for small postcards - here an interesting result will be the use of three or four layers of paper, as well as just valentines-hearts without a base.
Since not everyone has a machine, we offer the option of manually stitching postcards. But how in this case to make a valentine neat? To make everything work out in the best way, you need to put your workpiece on a soft fabric surface (for example, an ironing board or just a complex cloth), and make holes at an equal distance with a needle. When the job is done, all that remains is to fasten the blank with a thread - and the hand-sewn valentine is ready! If you were wondering how to make a valentine with your own hands - here is the answer.
Step by step instructions on how to make an origami valentine
However, a Valentine's Day card does not have to be only in the shape of a heart. A very interesting option is kissing lips folded in the origami technique, which are glued to a blank for a postcard. Such ideas for valentines have not yet become widespread, so you will shine with originality. For them, you will need colored paper of any of the shades of red. Cut a square out of it and fold it in half diagonally so that the colored part is on top. Mentally or using a ruler, divide the bottom edge of the resulting triangle into three parts and fold it to the left so that you get an indent of one third.
But how to make a valentine if there is no ruler at hand, but there is trouble with the eye? Fold the paper in a Z-shape and press lightly. Such an interesting little secret of how to make an origami valentine with a minimum of tools at hand.
Making origami valentines requires patience. After that, carefully bend the corners that go beyond the edges of the "envelope" down and inward.
Now the paper needs to be unfolded and put up with the non-colored side - half of the process for making a postcard is completed. To learn how to make valentines with your own hands in this technique to the end - read on. Now you need to start the second part of making an unusual Postcard. First, fold the tip of one of the lower corners, then fold the rest of the corner on both sides inward.
The same must be done with the corner on the opposite side.
Further, according to the instructions on how to make an origami valentine, you should turn the sheet over so that the colored side is at the top and fold it with the tips of the “lips” to each other along the folds that remained from the previous folding.
Needless to say - making origami valentines is not easy, but the work is almost finished - it remains to fold the corners inward, and then, also inward, bend the edges of the workpiece. It remains to glue the sponges on the postcard - and you can be sure that no one else will get this one.
If you can’t figure out how to make a Valentine, don’t worry, you can watch the master class and try again.
Master class: Valentine's card-origami lips
New trends: quilling valentines for a loved one
But the ideas for valentines do not exhaust themselves on this. Another very interesting technique for making voluminous postcards on February 14 is quilling. But how to make such a Valentine? This original postcard is easy to make and even inexperienced needlewomen will succeed in it - you will need a sheet of cardboard, a few simple elements (curls, flowers, etc.), the number of which will depend on the size of the postcard, and glue.
The prepared elements (multi-colored or one tone), you just need to stick to the workpiece, laying out in the shape of a heart. You can talk a lot about how to make valentines with your own hands using the quilling technique, but it’s better to use your imagination, and we will just give you a few basic ideas.
You can make a heart outline from multi-colored curls and decorate it with flowers inside or outside. You can make a big red heart entirely from curls, or you can make a flower field, in the middle of which attach a curl heart. You can find several photos of similar postcards and copy them. In any case, such quilling valentines will be an unusual gift.
Whether you choose one of the proposed options or come up with your own, the card will in any case be unique and each element in it will speak about your feelings.
Master class: how to make basic quilling elements part 1
Master class: how to make basic quilling elements part 2
How to make a Valentine magical? Give her your heart
Telling your loved one about your feelings for him is not necessary on a specially designed day. But who knows - perhaps on February 14, a postcard made by loving hands, will become a real magical gift, and the words written on it - written from the heart and with a real feeling - will remain in the heart of your soul mate forever. And it doesn't matter how the Valentine is made - let the card with the heart tell him everything about what you experience when he is near and when he is far away. Love, give and be there!
Valentine's Day Valentine's Day Selection, Pretty not an easy task. Of course, a lot of printed products appear in stores on the eve of the holiday, but such valentines are unlikely to surprise anyone and show how much you really love a person. So it's best make your own valentines is the best way to make a unique gift that will help you express all your true feelings.
Paper valentines: step-by-step master classes
Easiest to make do-it-yourself valentine card from paper. Paper and cardboard are inexpensive materials, but the number of design options is unlimited. For work, you only need scissors, glue, a ruler, a clerical knife and a pencil. Even with the help of such a simple set that every home has, you can make a beautiful postcard.
Clamshell valentine card
Clamshell books, when opened to reveal interesting figurines, we all liked in childhood. This is how you can make a Valentine. For this you will need:
- A piece of thick cardboard;
- Colored or white paper for decoration;
- Glue, scissors, stationery knife and pencil.
Do-it-yourself fold-out paper valentine card The process of making the innermost clamshell is very simple. First you need to draw an inscription, it may differ from the one in the picture. The most important thing to consider is that the upper sides of the inscription must have an additional plane in order for the letters to unfold. Next, using a clerical knife, the longitudinal lines of the letters are cut out, the transverse lines must be left. After that, it is enough just to stick the resulting blank inside the book, bending the letters so that they unfold when the book is opened.
Important! Before gluing the inner sheet of paper, first make the outer design of the valentine.
Such a paper valentine looks very original, and you can make the external design to your taste. It does not have to be in the form of a book, it can be a heart, a flower, or any other shape that you consider romantic.
And 3 more step-by-step master classes for making a do-it-yourself valentine clamshell:
Valentine applications
Someone may say that colored paper applications are a child's activity, and it is not suitable for an adult. But thanks to their use, you will get a beautiful do-it-yourself valentine made of paper.
Applications can be used for both internal and external decoration of valentines. Standard option: make a big heart with your own hands and decorate it with appliqués.
Important! Don't copy children and don't make multi-colored and colorful appliqué, it's best to do everything modestly and beautifully, such valentines look much better!
We will not list all possible options similar valentines, as it will be a very long time. If you want to make valentines with your own hands, the master class that we can show you will still be incomplete. After all, your postcard should be exactly an expression of your feelings, and not a copy of a beautiful craft. To facilitate the work, if you decide to make do-it-yourself valentines from paper, photo schemes and other materials can be found on the net and simply printed on a printer. But remember that your main task is to give the valentine originality.
These are the options we found for beautiful valentine applications with our own hands:
DIY valentines: scrapbooking
If you have been dating a person for quite some time and you have joint photos, then scrapbooking style valentine. This style is quite extensive and a wide variety of materials can be used. The most important requirement is that the valentine turned out in the form of a story.
How to make a scrapbooking valentine
The first thing you need to do is come up with a story that you want to convey in the Valentine. This may be a story of acquaintance, the first declaration of love, how you fell in love with a person. It is important that the story fits the theme of the holiday.
The second stage is the preparation of materials for manufacturing. Scrapbooking is a style in which stories are conveyed not only through visual images, but you can also use tactile sensations, smells and any other ways to create the appropriate atmosphere when viewing a story. It is desirable, of course, to have photographs, but they can be replaced with inscriptions or pictures that will convey the meaning of the story itself.
The traditional option is an album with photographs, looking through which you can understand the story. It can even be one-page, since only the essence needs to be conveyed. A good option, make a postcard with heart stickers, the inscriptions can be on top of them, or they will need to be opened one by one to view the story.
Important! You make a congratulation or recognition yourself, remember that you are free to choose its design and content, you just need to adhere to the basic canons of the style you have chosen.
DIY fabric valentines
Fabric is also an excellent material for making valentines, there are also a lot of options for such valentines, and you can really make unique and inimitable crafts. The most important thing when working with fabric is not to rush, as fabric is a little more difficult to work with than paper and cardboard.
Valentine's pillows
Making a heart-shaped pillow is quite simple. To do this, you will need: two pieces of fabric for a pattern, cotton wool or other filler for a pillow (you can even use pieces of fabric), needles and threads, scissors, a piece of cardboard for a pattern.
First, a heart-shaped pattern is made (you can change the shape at your discretion). After that, the contour of the future pillow is drawn on the fabric with a pencil or felt-tip pen.
When cutting patterns, remember that the outline you drew is a seam designation, not a cutting line. Be sure to step back 1-2 centimeters when cutting from the contour so that there are no problems when sewing the pillow. When you make do-it-yourself valentines from fabric, patterns do not have to be cut straight. The edges of the fabric will not be visible anyway, since they will be inside.
Next, two pieces of fabric are folded together so that front side was inside. If you have a sewing machine, you can sew together the fabric on it, if you don't have one, you can get by with a simple needle, although this will take a little more time. The heart is not completely sewn together, but a small hole is left on one side. It is needed in order to turn the workpiece out and fill it.
When everything is ready, it is enough just to carefully sew up the hole left after filling the pad. Additionally, you can, before stitching the blanks together, embroider the inscription on the pillow to make it as original as possible.
Important! To embroider an inscription on a pillow, it will be easiest to satin stitch.
You can easily make these DIY valentines from felt, velvet, silk or other fabric you like. The most important thing is that it is not only beautiful but also durable. Indeed, in this case, your congratulations will be remembered for many years.
Embroidery valentines
If you like to embroider with a cross, satin stitch or in another way, then you can make an original valentine, which will be a great addition to the interior. For this you will need:
- Fabric for embroidery;
- Needles and threads;
- Embroidery scheme or drawing.
The easiest way is to embroider a valentine with a cross. To do this, just find the embroidery pattern, transfer it to the fabric, and then put it in a frame. For embroidery, you will have to spend a little time, but such a gift is rare and you can show a person how dear he is to you.
Stitch embroidery opens up a lot of room for imagination for needlewomen. By embroidering with satin stitch, you can transfer almost any pattern to the fabric, for this you just need to have a desire. You can make inscriptions in the original font, embroider hearts and much more.
DIY valentines for kids: templates
As you know, children also love to give each other valentines, and if your child is still in kindergarten or primary school, then you will have to help him. Of course, at such a young age, valentines cards for February 14 are congratulations, not declarations of love, but it’s still better to try so that your child can assert himself.
It will be easiest to use templates for manufacturing, they are not difficult to find, and they are diverse. When you make do-it-yourself valentines for children, it is best to choose the templates that will be the easiest for the child to make. After all, not all children are engaged in appliqué or other types of crafts.
Templates make it much easier for parents, as they are easy to print on paper, cut out and sign. Of course, you can buy such postcards in stores and simply sign them, but for a child, as well as for an adult, it will be much more pleasant to give gifts that are made by yourself.
There are many ways to make a Valentine. It can be a postcard, a booklet, a box, a picture, a photograph, a pillow. The most important thing is desire and a little imagination. Handmade gifts are always valued more than just bought in a store. Happy Valentine's Day!
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Good afternoon, in this article I have collected the most interesting ways to make valentines with your own hands. You can give heart crafts to your loved ones and loved ones for Valentine's Day. After all, how nice it is to receive gifts made by YOUR HANDS. For each craft, I will try to make a drawing (if not ready-made templates) and explain in detail what and how to do step by step. We will cut out valentines from paper, cardboard, fold them into boxes, and make valentine envelopes and other crafts for Valentine's Day. Here are the most interesting ideas to make a paper heart in different three-dimensional techniques.
So, let's begin our affairs of the heart...
Paper valentines
IN CARVING TECHNIQUE.
Here is the easiest craft. which even children can do kindergarten. The middle group or the older group, when they already cut well enough with scissors (without trembling hands and sweaty forehead), can easily make this valentine with their own hands.
Everything is simple here. Flatten the sheet in half. We draw on it a half of the heart and horizontal lines. We cut the lines and cut out the heart itself. Unfold the heart and put it on the table fold edge down. And then the most interesting for children. It is necessary to pull the strips UP with your fingers - but not all, but through one - we leave one, pull the second, skip one, pull the second up (changing the fold to the opposite). We get a ribbed heart. Below we see a visual blank template for this paper craft of a voluminous heart. A simple and quick do-it-yourself valentine card for children in kindergarten.
You will find many other ideas for simple children's valentine crafts in a special review article.
And here is another beautiful craft for children - in the form of a puff valentine. Where the layers of the heart are located in different planes.
We bend the sheet in half. We draw the contours of the heart on the sheet. And we highlight with bold lines the places where you can cut with scissors, and with dotted weak lines the places that do not need to be cut. We explain to the children which lines to cut.
And then with our fingers we bend the inner heart forward with the edge of the fold, and the outer heart is the edge of the central fold back, and the card itself becomes the edge of the fold forward. It turns out as in the photo below. A quick paper valentine - just in 20 minutes of kindergarten classes.
THIS IDEA does not have to be copied exactly. It can be changed and played with. For example, change the cut zone and the bend zone on the same contours (as the drawing above).
THAT is to change the BEND ZONE of such a heart contour (the zone that is indicated by a dotted line in the diagram) and get a new voluminous postcard craft, where the heart is already protruding from the other side.
Take a closer look at the photo above. On this valentine, a large heart is held up by an UNCUT LOWER CONTOUR. And the inner little heart is held up by uncut apex and tip on both sides of the centerline. Here is what these changes look like on the diagram.
The most interesting thing is that you yourself can continue to EXPERIMENT IN THIS TECHNIQUE. Make cuts in the shape of a heart, or a half heart and bend them in different directions. And one day you will get a cool author's craft.
For example, if you place the half-hearts IN A CIRCLE - then cut through the contours of the half-hearts and bend these contours - then we will get such an interesting round craft HEART DANCE.
This is how the conceived drawing looks like - drawing half-hearts, in a circle.
Such an openwork puff appliqué can be pasted on a postcard for Valentine's Day. You will get a beautiful design valentine card with your own hands.
More ideas for greeting cards for Valentine's Day you will find in our special article
DIY VALENTINES
WITH NOTES.
On Valentine's Day, we say to our soul mates nice words. Declarations of love can be said not in words (after all, at a solemn moment, all the most tender phrases can fly out of a head in love). Therefore, their mur-mur-phrases can be written on notes- roll these notes into rolls and hide them in paper rosebuds on this valentine craft below.
See how beautiful - each twisted paper bud contains a small white twist note. This craft with notes for Valentine's Day is easy and simple to do with your own hands. Now I’ll tell you exactly how to quickly and conveniently do such work with your own hands ...
We take a piece of thick cardboard (for example, a lid from a pizza box, it is just large). We buy in stationery packaging of red office paper(it is just double-sided and dense - what you need).
Paper is cut into wide stripes. Fold each strip in half ALONG(so that it is doubled - so the rosette will turn out thicker and more magnificent). And then we twist this double strip with a roll (around the pencil). We remove the twist from the pencil, loosen it slightly, let it unwind a little and fix the tail of the twist with glue(so as not to bulge).
We make a whole lot of such paper twists-roses - so that they all fill our cardboard heart tightly. And then we fix them on a cardboard base - you can use glue. A Better with double sided tape- it holds wonderfully - we cover the entire surface of the cardboard heart with strips of adhesive tape, remove protective film and on this sticky base poke our roses. Then we put a note with warm words, promises, confessions, heartfelt vows and intimate hints into each bud ...
The second craft with a note.
HEART WITH A SECRET.
And you can also put a love confession inside a PAPER HEART with a gap in the middle.
Here detailed master class for the manufacture of such a VALENTINE WITH A SECRET.
We take a square sheet of paper - and fold it in half - lengthwise and across. So that it quadruples along the folds - cross to cross (as in the first photo).
We bend the lower edge of the square up to the middle horizontal fold line (photo 2).
Turn the sheet over, down this fold (photo 3). Then we bend the right and left corner to the vertical midline (photo 4).
Again, turn the sheet over with the other side up, corner down (as in photo 5). And bend the upper corners to the middle vertical line (photo 6 and 7).
And again, these same upper corners - once again we bend to the middle vertical line (photo 8).
And now our module (which has the shape of a hexagon) is bent in half. That is, the upper corner of the hexagon lies on its lower corner. And then such ends appear at the top (photo 9).
These protruding ears-ends need to be folded (as shown in photo 10) - that is, we put our finger on the corner of the ear (the one where the fold angle is) and press this edge of the fold to the edge line of the module. And as a result, our ear flattened out (as in 11 photos).
Now look at our module has 2 layers - 2 triangular halves lying one on top of the other. We take the upper triangular half and put it into the POCKET on the lower triangular half (there is such a wonderful pocket there (photo 12, 13).
There was a small touch left. Modify the shape of the ears sticking up above the module so that the ears look like rounded hills at the top of the heart.
First, we bend the rectangular ends of the ears - so that the ears begin to have a terangular shape (photo 14)
And now that the ears have become triangular, you need to smooth out the sharp corners of these triangles. That is, bend them down (as in photo 15). And all the valentine's with your own hands is already ready - we turn it over to the front side.
You will find even more paper heart folding techniques on our website in a special article.
And we continue...
VALENTINE ENVELOPES
With your own hands from paper.
And here you will find ways to make a heart-shaped envelope from thick paper or cardboard.
On a sheet of cardboard we draw a template for a future Valentine, as in the photo below. You can copy the picture or draw it yourself according to the model. Sizes can be any (for your task) - the main thing is to keep the proportions. That is, the width of the half of the heart should match half the width of the central rectangle of the envelope itself. All other sizes can be any under the size of your letter.
In such a valentine envelope, you can put a small gift - for example, earrings. Prick earrings on cardboard in the form of a heart (for example, from beautiful velvet cardboard) - make two holes and put earrings into them. And put this velvet heart with earrings inside such an envelope. Healthy and beautiful.
You can make the envelope simpler. Here's one. From cardboard or thick gift paper cut out the heart. Draw a rectangle inside the heart - so that the HEIGHT rectangle and HEIGHT zones above m were EQUAL.
That is it is not necessary to copy this template exactly from the computer- you can draw a heart of any size and shape yourself (thick or elongated - it doesn’t matter). The main thing is that the height of the rectangle should be equal to the height of the zone that is located above this rectangle. And everything else doesn't matter. You will get an envelope in any case.
And you can also make a valentine letter with your own hands inside closed paper boats. Fold a sheet of pink (or beige) paper in half. And we put the stencil of the palm so that the fold line falls on the back edge of the palm. We circle the stencil - cut out two layers of paper along the contour at once, without unfolding. And when the silhouette is cut out, we unbend the folded stencil - and we get two open palms. And inside the paper heart we paste (folded). We write a love note or kind words to a loved one on a paper heart.
And when we want to make a gift for Valentine's Day, then the envelope will not be enough. We need a whole box so that we can put a three-dimensional object (souvenir or gift) in it.
So let's see what simple valentine boxes we can cut and fold from a sheet of cardboard or flat paper.
VALENTINE BOXES
How to DIY
Heart shaped boxes.
Here is the first version of a simple heart-shaped box that is easy to make with cardboard. You can see a stencil template for such crafts for Valentine's Day in the diagram below.
And if the same template is slightly changed. Then you can make just such a Valentine in the form of a box - with double entry of one box into another. The stencil will be exactly the same - with only one nuance - in it the lower corner of the heart should be DIRECT - that is, have 90 degrees. And the intermediate walls (between the hearts) should not have a pointed bottom - but instead they should have the same straight walls as the top). Now I will try to draw such a diagram for this template so that it is easy and understandable for everyone.
To make everything clear, I drew a diagram below. You can see for yourself that the stencil differs little from the previous template - only the walls between the hearts are rectangular (and not triangular) and the hearts themselves have an angle of 90 degrees (so that they can be closed by thrusting into each other).
Therefore, go to this thematic article to learn how to quickly and easily make such boxes with your own hands.
And since I started about heart boxes, I need to tell you a little about what you can put in them. Here below beautiful ideas original FILLINGS-CRAFTS for these valentine boxes.
You can put crochet heart toys in the box. For example, in the form of delicious puffy donuts, decorated with knitted icing and beaded sprinkles. Such toys can be used as Christmas tree pendants - that is, they will faithfully serve your family for a long time in every New Year's celebration.
You can bake real gingerbread hearts from dough, cover them with jelly red icing and decorate with white egg white and powdered sugar icing
Any recipe for gingerbread dough will work for such sweet valentines. We bake heart-shaped gingerbread. Cool down. In a saucepan we breed red jelly azure. Gelatin 40 grams soaked in cold water 100 grams, into which 1 packet of food coloring was thrown. After swelling of the gelatin, heat the mixture in a water bath, but not to a boil. Immerse the whole gingerbread in this icing, with tweezers and put it on a dish in the refrigerator to solidify.
What if you don't like baking? You can buy ready-made square cookies in the store and decorate them with sweet mastic. Mastic dough is made in 1 minute - we buy Marmeloshow marshmallows in the store, heat them in the microwave - we get a sticky mass that looks like plasticine. We pour powdered sugar on the table - and in this powder (as if in flour) we knead our marshmallow dough. We get ready-made sweet mastic, from which you can fashion decor for cookies for Valentine's Day
We take a part of the mastic dough and roll it out with a rolling pin - cut out squares from the rolled sheet to the size of the cookies. We glue the squares on the cookies. We roll part of the dough into thin sausages - these will be the seams of the envelope. And we mix part of the dough with red food coloring - we sculpt hearts from it, decorate our sweet envelope. If there is no food coloring - it does not matter.- hearts can be cut from red marmalade.
Such sweet Valentines with your own hands can be made on the basis of waffles, cookies, cupcakes. We buy ready-made flour products and decorate them with sweet mastic from Marmeloshow marshmallows melted in the microwave (our Soviet marshmallow is not suitable - only bourgeois rubber).
Valentine's cards
With my own hands.
And here is a classic school paper heart craft. Wicker valentine in the form of a checkerboard weave of strips, threaded one through one.
This is how such a heart is made. We fold a white sheet of paper in half - cut out a HALF OVAL with scissors. We cut three or four, or five cuts at the oval - from the fold line and deep into the oval without going with scissors into the area of \u200b\u200bits round top. We do the same with the red sheet of paper. And then we thread two modules alternating its strips, as shown in the diagram below.
This simple classic craft has found a lot of creative interpretations. Depending on the curvature of the strip - we can get a different weaving pattern ...
Let's see how it goes. If we modify the wicker module like this with rounded tubercles, then we will get a wicker heart with a pattern in the form of many small hearts.
If on the four lines of our module we make recesses in the form of 2 round ears on the left and 2 ears on the right. Then, when adding a valentine with our own hands, we will get a flower with four petals in the center.
And if there is only ONE tubercle - and only in one direction - then we will get a HEART SILHOUETTE in the center (as in the photo below).
We can try to be a creator ourselves and draw our braid lines at random. Assemble a Valentine craft and see what an unexpected pattern will come out in the end.
Moreover, we can decorate not only the wicker part of such a valentine with our own hands - we can also decorate the round EARS of the heart with curly carvings (as is done in the photo below).
DIY Valentines
TIERED ABUNDANCE.
Here's a Valentine's card that I really like. She looks very chic and rich. And it's very easy to do. Therefore, this valentine can be a topic for a lesson in kindergarten or a craft in the classroom at school.
Below I show the module for valentine-LADDER in three tiers.
We take a sheet of cardboard. And we fold it in three layers - that is, in a triple fold. Then we expand this sheet. And cut it in half - diagonally. The angle of inclination can be any (this will not affect the essence of the craft). And then we supplement each such oblique strip with cuts. In each of the three folded parts of the strip, we cut it EXACTLY IN THE CENTER, reaching with scissors somewhere to the middle of the thickness of the strip.
The incisions of the strips are different - pay attention - in one strip, the incisions go with alternating bottom, top, bottom. And in the second strip, on the contrary, the incisions alternate like this - at the top, at the bottom, at the top.
Then our walls are dressed with these slots into each other. And we get the basis-backbone of the future do-it-yourself valentine crafts. And on this wicker base we stick hearts, flowers, lace, rhinestones and other decor made of paper and cardboard.
And it is not necessary to make three folds on this module. The accordion can have as many walls as you like - 4, 5, 6. The more, the more tiers with a hearty decor such a ladder craft will have.
Valentine pendant
Framed by hand.
You can do very simple craft for Valentine's Day. We bend a sheet of white cardboard in half like a postcard. In one half we cut a square window so that the half becomes a frame for the future Valentine crafts. And now, inside such a vertically placed postcard, we hang a double heart made of cardboard.
We cut out two hearts from cardboard and hang them on a thread, piercing one and the second heart with two stitches.
Valentine crafts
Cardboard with paper flowers.
These are the ideas for DIY Valentines we have collected for you in this article. Good luck with your creativity, the way you get original crafts.
Olga Klishevska, specially for the site
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