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Do you want to prepare a surprise for your loved one?
You can look for a gift, but a handmade congratulation is unique.
To find out how you can make a greeting for Valentine's Day, you only need to have a certain amount of materials from which the Valentine will be made.
You don't need to have any special qualities to make a valentine - here you can see that beautiful doesn't mean complicated.
Paper valentines with your own stamp and patterns
You will need:
Potato
small knife
Acrylic paint
Thick paper or cardboard, or watercolor paper
Simple pencil
Brush
Thick thread
1. Take the potatoes and cut them in half.
2. Using a simple pencil, draw a heart on the cut.
3. Take a knife and cut out the excess so that the heart will stand out.
4. Prepare your paint and brush and apply the color you want to the eye-catching heart.
5. Cut out a rectangle of the size you need from thick paper - this will be the basis for your valentine. It is better to use watercolor paper, because... A printed heart will look better on it.
6. For another pattern, prepare a thick thread and wrap it around a piece of plywood or other small object with a flat side. Next, apply paint to the thread and you can leave imprints on the paper, as shown in the picture.
7. Cut out hearts from paper with striped patterns using thread.
8. Prepare a base for your valentine (a rectangular sheet of thick paper) and leave a heart print on it. After this, glue on one or more cut out paper hearts with a pattern made with thread.
* You can make several similar valentines and give them to several people. Try experimenting with shapes, colors and patterns. Don't forget to write a message on your Valentine's card.
Valentine card with a heart made of wax crayons
You will need:
Scissors
Colored paper (patterned paper)
Stationery knife
Baking paper
1. Turn on your iron to heat it up.
2. Prepare several wax crayons of similar colors (red, pink, orange)
3. On a protected surface, begin cutting the crayons into small pieces. Do this with the non-pointed side of the crayons so you can still draw with them.
4. Cover the surface with a towel and place a square of baking paper on it. You need to pour small pieces of wax crayons onto the paper. Do not put too many pieces, the main thing is that they are pressed closely together. Cover these pieces with another square piece of baking paper.
You can use the tip of the iron to gently spread the crayons over the surface of the paper.
* You can make several similar blanks.
5. Take the heated iron and carefully, barely touching the surface of the paper, begin to heat the crayons under the paper. It only takes a few seconds to hold the iron over the same spot.
6. Set the pieces aside and let them cool.
Preparing postcards:
Make a blank for a valentine from thick colored paper. You can simply fold the paper in half.
Using a utility knife, cut a “window” in the center of one of the paper halves.
Prepare thread and blanks from melted crayons. Using scissors, cut out hearts from the blanks and glue them to them along a short thread. For one postcard you need 2 hearts, which need to be glued together, and a thread will be secured between them.
* To make all the hearts the same size, make a template on separate paper and trace it with a pencil on each piece.
*You can use a utility knife to trim the hearts.
Cut out small hearts from paper.
Now you need to glue the crayon blanks to the valentine. To do this, simply glue one end of the thread glued to a heart made of melted crayons to the top of the “window”, and to make it more beautiful, simply cover the glued thread with a heart cut out of plain paper.
* Instead of a paper heart, you can use a sticker in the shape of a heart or something suitable for the theme.
Beautiful valentines made of sequins on a string
You will need:
Thick paper
Sequins on a thread
Scissors
Simple pencil
1. Prepare thick paper of any color and fold it in half - this will be your blank for your Valentine.
2. Use a pencil to write any wish, short message, name of a loved one or a simple image on paper.
3. Trace each letter or shape with glue.
4. Start gluing the sequins to the workpiece and let the glue dry.
5. Use scissors to cut off the excess.
6. Now you can write any message inside the valentine card.
* If you wish, you can decorate your Valentine’s card with sparkles, stickers, etc., the main thing is not to overdo it - everything should be in moderation.
DIY valentines made from paper. 8-bit heart.
You will need:
Stationery knife
Ruler
Colored paper (white, red, pink, lilac)
1. Prepare a small sheet of white paper and make several even cuts on it, as shown in the image.
2. Cut thin strips of the same width and length from colored paper.
3. Insert each strip as shown in the picture - you should get such a beautiful heart. You can secure each strip with a small amount of glue.
You can also glue this Valentine card onto a piece of thick paper (A4 paper folded in half).
All that remains is to write your message.
Valentine's cards with favorite poems
You will need:
Wrapping
Notebook sheets (any thin sheets can be used)
Scissors
Thread and needle (you can use a sewing machine)
Buttons (in this example, heart-shaped buttons)
1. Cut out a cover for a postcard book from cardboard.
2. Cut out several pages for a notebook from thin paper.
3. Sew the pages to the cover.
4. You can decorate the cover with wrapping paper by cutting and gluing it.
5. Sew one button on one and the other side of the cover and tie a thread.
One of the most beautiful and romantic holidays is rightfully considered Valentine's Day or Valentine's Day, celebrated on the fourteenth of February. It is for this significant event that couples in love are preparing with bated breath and even people who have been married for more than one year, in a desire to please their beloved half, are also looking for creative ideas for original gifts.
An unchanging tradition of the holiday are valentines - tender or funny little cards or symbolic crafts that are presented to a loved one as a sign of eternal love. But it will be much more valuable and romantic if you don’t buy it, but make valentines yourself, especially since it’s not at all difficult, and we will definitely help you with original ideas.
You also need to make gifts for Valentine's Day with your own hands if you want to really surprise your lover or beloved in the good sense of the word.
The history of the creation of valentines is quite controversial, but it is known for certain that they were written back in the fifteenth century, only then they were not just beautiful crafts, but real works of art with lace undercuts and handmade color painting.
Then, gradually, the tradition of creating such declarations of love began to gain more and more popularity, until finally, in the nineteenth century, valentines gained mass production. However, by doing so, gifts for loved ones on February 14 were completely depersonalized.
Today, the tradition of making crafts for Valentine's Day is making a comeback again, which means that you will show an especially warm attitude and show how strong your feelings are if you try to make valentines with your own hands.
You can find a lot of options for such an occasion. Here are the simplest ones:
- Heart-shaped cards with beautiful poems or declarations of love never go out of fashion, especially since they can be made using any technique you like - quilling, scrapbooking, in various styles, flat or three-dimensional, etc.;
- if you have a lot of time, you can create a huge heart from a template, onto which you will need to glue a large number of small hearts - you will get a chic voluminous craft that your beloved girl will surely like;
- paper hearts can also be useful for creating an entire picture or panel; they can be painted, decorated with beads, sequins, rhinestones, beads or sparkles;
- the card does not have to be made of paper - very beautiful and original crafts are made from felt or other fabric - the principle of creation will be the same as in the case of working with paper;
- also among the original paper crafts you can name a postcard with a decoration made of buttons, bookmarks, a homemade notebook or even a whole heart-shaped book with tender words and romantic confessions;
- both your beloved girlfriend and your beloved boyfriend will undoubtedly love a heart-collage made from your joint photographs depicting the happiest or funniest moments - you just need to select suitable photos, cut out their various fragments and make a collage from them on a heart-shaped template;
- The same valentine can be made electronically, as a slide show or video, which you will be happy to watch over and over again.
Crafts can also be used to decorate your home - by preparing a room or apartment in a romantic style, you will, of course, make a wonderful surprise and create a festive mood for your beloved girlfriend or boyfriend:
- if you paste over a circle of white cardboard with multi-colored paper hearts, then you will get a wonderful craft in the form of a real wreath on the door for Valentine's Day;
- a more complex option for making a valentine with your own hands is to make a lot of roses from paper or ribbons, and then form them into a heart-shaped wreath;
- you can also string flat and voluminous hearts horizontally or vertically on threads and hang them like garlands;
- from coffee beans you can make beautiful paintings, panels and topiaries in the shape of a heart, which will be an excellent decoration for your home - to create a topiary you just need to cut out hearts from polystyrene foam and decorate it to your taste with corrugated paper, ribbons and braid, decoupage it, paste it over beads or sparkles. The finished heart needs to be attached to a stick or wooden skewer and placed in a prepared container, which you also decorate and decorate, and the heart tree can be secured using alabaster or building plaster;
- purchase plain mugs and plates and colored markers designed for drawing on ceramics and glass - create your own romantic set with declarations of love;
- Another decor option that is indispensable for celebrating February 14th is candles - decorate them with heart-shaped stands or place them in glass containers covered with paper themed decor.
For those who love and know how to cook, there are many ideas for edible delicious crafts:
- You can bake your own valentines in the form of heart cookies - take a simple recipe for shortbread cookies, and after preparing the dough and rolling it out, cut out small hearts, in which do not forget to make holes on top using a straw for juice - when the cookies are baked and cooled, tie each of them has a beautiful ribbon;
- You can also prepare a romantic breakfast for your other half - cut out a heart in a slice of bread and bake fried eggs in this form, you can also fry the bread heart and put it next to it on a plate, complement the breakfast with bacon, orange juice or coffee;
- It will look beautiful if you prepare a whole romantic tea party with themed decorations on the table, cut out in the shape of a heart, tea bags with good tea and sugar cubes with hearts painted with food coloring;
- for gourmets, you can make mini-canapés from sausages cut into the shape of a heart and pierced with a skewer with olives at the ends, or try hearts made from cherry tomatoes;
- the selection of romantic dishes for the holiday menu depends solely on your culinary abilities and the taste preferences of your loved one - perhaps it will be a huge heart cake or small cinnamon rolls in the shape of miniature hearts, pizza or sushi, fruit or cheese hearts on skewers, etc. .;
- Those with a sweet tooth will definitely enjoy small Valentine's chocolates, a beautifully decorated jar full of multi-colored sweets or a bag with sweets specially made for February 14th, as well as a candy bouquet.
If you still haven’t decided on an option and are looking for how to make a Valentine card with your own hands, pay attention to the extraordinary ideas:
- launch a sky lantern with your loved one and make a joint wish;
- pour hearts out of jewelry resin and make jewelry out of them;
- make soap in the shape of hearts;
- make a romantic deck of cards - you can take regular cards or tarot, for example, the deck could be called “The Reasons Why I Love You”;
- a valentine can be woven from beads, embroidered with threads or ribbons, drawn in the form of a picture, sewn or knitted;
- prepare a bath with rose petals for your loved one;
- propose to your other half - you definitely won’t find a more suitable occasion than Valentine’s Day.
Instead of a conclusion
The main condition that you need to understand before looking for an idea on how to make a Valentine card with your own hands is the willingness to sincerely demonstrate your feelings and the desire to please your dearest and most beloved person. Then you will definitely end up with an original and beautiful craft, and Valentine’s Day will become your favorite holiday and a good tradition of doing something nice for each other for your couple.
And if you don’t want to deal with decorating and organizing the holiday yourself, you can always turn to specialists, for example, here: http://vaspro.ru
In ancient Rome, Lupercalia was celebrated in honor of the fertility gods.
This is a special holiday, which began with an oracle, which, when asked what to do to increase the birth rate, announced the ritual of corporal punishment of women with belts made from the skin of sacrificial animals.
The connection between this holiday and Valentine's Day will be discussed in this article.
A little history
So, the celebrations were very loved by the ancient Romans.
After the feast, naked young men (lupercalia) ran around the city and hit women they met with whips. By the end of the evening, women were also naked.
The process of national extinction in Ancient Rome was actually solved with the help of lupercalia. These celebrations were banned with the advent of Christianity.
And then, instead of such a unique day of love, a celebration came in honor of the Christian priest - St. Valentine.
Marriage was prohibited in the army of Emperor Claudius. However, Saint Valentine secretly married the lovers. For this he was sentenced to death.
Now the celebration of Valentine's Day is secular. In Russia, this holiday became known quite recently - in the 20th century.
Valentine's Day
How did Valentine come about?
Valentine is a symbol of the holiday.
When Saint Valentine was awaiting execution in prison, he saw the beautiful daughter of the prison guard and fell in love with her. He wrote her a letter of recognition, and it is called the first Valentine.
In the 15th century, the Duke of Orleans wrote love letters to his wife from prison, and in the 18th century, declarations of love written on a heart-shaped card became known as “Valentines” and became widespread.
How to make a voluminous valentine with your own hands
A voluminous valentine is made from paper, fabric or buttons.
Such works do not require much skill, but they look great.
Card "Valentine's Heart"
A voluminous paper valentine is made from white thick cardboard and also from red paper.
That’s it – the “Valentine’s heart” talisman is ready!
Postcard “Lovers”
To make such a voluminous valentine, you need to prepare a template from thick paper, then carefully cut it out with a blade, bend it at the folds and glue it to a scarlet base.
Quilling style
Volumetric ones using quilling technique.
Using the quilling technique you can depict a voluminous heart. To do this, take narrow strips of colored paper (red0) and screw them onto a pencil.
The resulting paper ring is slightly pressed with your fingers, then loosened a little.
The resulting spirals are glued onto a prepared heart-shaped base.
You can also lay out a heart shape on a white cardboard card using spirals.
We use felt
The most fashionable trend is felt valentine pillows.
Prepared multi-colored small pillows in the shape of hearts made of felt are glued onto a base of thick cardboard and the original card for Valentine's Day is ready!
One large voluminous felt heart decorated with beads is also a great idea for a voluminous valentine!
Balloon valentine
Volumetric valentine heart made of balloons.
A garland is woven from inflated balloons of the same diameter in a “four” pattern.
The garland is then shaped into a heart shape. A wire frame is used for this.
A great option for decorating a room for celebrating Valentine's Day.
Valentine's card from flowers
Volumetric Valentine heart made of flowers.
This option for making a common gift for Valentine's Day is suitable for a young man in love.
To make a valentine, a wire frame is used; roses purchased in advance and prepared by florists for such a craft are placed on it.
Such a valentine will definitely win the heart of your beloved!
Valentine card made from artificial flowers
You can make a voluminous valentine from roses yourself by replacing real roses with fabric flowers.
Roses made of scarlet fabric are glued to a base made of thick cardboard. This valentine can be made in different sizes - from very small for wearing on the chest, to large for interior decoration.
Most lovers make their own valentines from paper. There are many ways to make a Valentine card with your own hands from a variety of materials - cardboard, salt dough, felt and even candy.
The history of the most romantic holiday - Valentine's Day
Whether it is true or not, the legend about the cruel Emperor Claudius, who saw in every young man a warrior, not a family man, has remained forever, and therefore imposed a strict ban on marriages.
But love will always find a way: even on the battlefield, lovers were able to unite in sacred bonds thanks to Holy Father Valentine. He married many happy couples before he was exposed and executed. And no matter how many years have passed since then, his name is not forgotten. Every year, Valentine's Day, or St. Valentine's Day, is celebrated in honor of this priest.
And in memory of the messages that Valentine himself conveyed to his beloved, on this day all lovers send each other symbolic declarations of love - valentines.
Card with heart and roses
You can simply cut out a heart from it. Or you can make this heart part of a card by decorating it with improvised rosebuds. We cut out roses from rolled paper.
Glue the roses onto the heart base.
Decorate the card with twisted green paper elements. A beautiful card for Valentine's Day with roses is ready!
Heart-shaped paper valentine
You can make a very beautiful heart-shaped card from paper. For this we will need blanks as in the photo.
Glue a pink heart onto a red openwork heart. On the reverse side you can also glue a simple red heart in a mirror (this will give the craft volume).
Glue on a congratulatory inscription.
Glue a frame and a small heart on the side. DIY Valentine card - ready!
You can make a real beautiful card for Valentine's Day. To do this, we decorate another red heart and attach it to our valentine using a special rivet (it can be found in scrapbooking kits)
DIY Valentine card with palms and heart
This valentine with palms will be a very gentle, touching gift. We glue two layers of white and purple paper together so that the purple layer protrudes slightly beyond the white.
Cut out a heart from red paper and fold it like an accordion.
Glue a heart and flowers to the palms. Glue a congratulatory inscription or declaration of love below.
You can decorate a paper heart in an even more original way - with miniature chrysanthemums, which are easily made from cut paper strips. We cut the pink paper into strips and make cuts along one of the edges. We wind the strip onto a stick, fixing the tip with glue.
We straighten the ends a little - we get a delicate pink flower. We make quite a lot of these flowers.
Cut out a heart from red paper and decorate it with our flowers. Inside there may be congratulations and a declaration of love!
Heart - valentine with roses
Cut out a heart from red cardboard and make holes along the edges. We trim the edge of the heart with ribbon.
Cut out a circle from yellow paper. We twist it and fasten it with a stapler according to the sample.
Glue stems, leaves and flowers onto the heart. We decorate the lower part with a ribbon. We'll make a gorgeous Valentine's card with flowers.
Valentines made of cardboard and rhinestones
Cardboard valentines look even more original and solid, especially those decorated with adhesive rhinestones and sequins. Cut out hearts from thick cardboard and color them.
When the paint dries, glue on beautiful large rhinestones.
Hearts can be made in any color scheme. We will get a very simple and bright valentine.
Sequin valentine
You can make an ordinary paper heart look fabulously beautiful by gluing bright shiny sequins onto it.
You can cover the entire surface of the paper heart with sequins - this will make it elegant and airy.
You can also make a decoration in the form of a Valentine’s card for February 14: with your own hands you just need to glue a stick holder to a ready-made or homemade heart.
We will get a very beautiful heart-shaped decoration.
An equally original idea is multilayer valentines made of thin papyrus paper. It is enough to cut out several identical hearts.
Place them in a stack and stitch in the center.
We straighten our voluminous hearts. Ready! You can tie threads to them and use them as decorations.
A valentine card looks even more interesting - a souvenir made of beads and beads. For our heart we used beads and chenille wire.
We string the first bead and secure it with a knot.
We string the remaining beads one at a time and secure the ends of the chenille wire. We bend the wire in the shape of a heart.
Salt dough lovers can use it as the basis for their hearts. Knead the salt dough and roll it out. Using cutters, cut out hearts.
Dry the hearts in the oven.
Color the hearts with red paint.
While the paint is still wet, sprinkle the hearts with red glitter.
Salt dough valentines can easily be turned into pendants and keychains.
Watch how to make a Valentine heart from salt dough in the video:
And from corrugated paper and foam plastic you can make a voluminous heart, decorated with ribbons. Cut out the base of the craft from foam plastic.
We decorate the base with corrugated paper. Using double-sided tape, glue the ribbons and ribbons along the edges.
It can be an excellent base for sweets. We also fix it on the heart using double-sided tape. We made a wonderful decoration and a delicious gift for Valentine's Day.
Watch how to make a Valentine card from candies in the video:
Valentines cards made using the popular scrapbooking technique look very interesting. Cut out a heart folded in half from colored scrapbooking paper. Glue on it an openwork red snowflake and a design with a heart.
Glue the angel figurine and decorate the composition with paper flowers and ribbon.
You can use the materials and inscriptions that you have available. The main thing in scrapbooking is multi-layering.
An alternative to them can be hearts using the quilling technique, which will decorate any postcard. We roll colored rolls from special paper tapes for quilling.
We place the rolls on a cardboard base in the shape of a heart.
Glue our heart onto the base of the card, cardboard folded in half. We complement the card with flowers, lace, a heart and a congratulatory inscription. These little decorative items can be found at a craft or hobby store.
See how to make a Valentine pendant using the quilling technique:
Felt Valentines
Felt is one of the most favorite materials for creativity. Felt valentines turn out to be very tender and touching. To make valentines, cut out two large identical hearts and one smaller heart from colored felt.
We finish the edges of the small heart with stitches and decorate it with decorative stitches and a button. Sew it to the big heart. We also decorate the large heart with stitches and beads. Next, we sew two large hearts together, leaving a small hole. We stuff the heart with padding polyester and sew up the hole.
A very original Valentine card can be made from wire and beads. For this work we will need an easily bendable wire of medium thickness. The easiest way to work with wire is with small pliers.
For those who want to turn a Valentine's card into a real gift, there is such an option as topiary. This could be a simple topiary in the form of a voluminous cardboard heart planted in a flower pot. To make such a topiary, glue or sew several hearts in the center. We straighten them and attach them to the rod. We decorate the rod with leaves and ribbon.
Fixing the rod in the pot
Decorate the bottom of the pot with sisal. We will make a very impressive gift for Valentine's Day.
Topiary with coffee hearts
Or maybe a more original product in the form of a voluminous coffee tree - a heart. For this craft we will need foam hearts. We paint them brown and cover them with thread and coffee beans.
Fixing the branches in the pot
We attach hearts to the top of the branches. All that remains is to decorate the topiary with bows. A very elegant gift for Valentine's Day - ready!
Whatever idea you choose, remember the main thing: this Valentine will always be the best for its recipient, because it will retain a piece of your love and warmth.
You can decorate your Valentine's card with another symbol of Valentine's Day - an angel.
Angel drawing DIY Valentines on video:
Beautiful valentine with flowers with your own hands (movable).
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 OWN HANDS. For each craft, I will try to make a drawing (if there are no ready-made templates) and explain in detail what and how to do step by step. We will cut out valentines from paper, from cardboard, put them in the form of boxes, and make valentine envelopes and other crafts for Valentine's Day. Here are the most interesting ideas for making a paper heart using different volumetric techniques.
So let's begin our matters of the heart...
Paper Valentines
IN CARVED TECHNIQUE.
Here is the simplest craft. Which even children in kindergarten can do. The middle group or the senior group, when they are already quite good at cutting with scissors (without trembling hands and a sweaty forehead), can easily make this valentine with their own hands.
Everything is simple here. Flatten the sheet in half. Draw half a heart and horizontal lines on it. Cut the lines and cut out the heart itself. Unfold the heart and place it on the table fold edge down. And then the most interesting thing for children. You need to pull the strips UP with your fingers - but not all of them, but after one - leave one, pull out the second, skip one, pull the second up (changing the fold to the opposite one). We get a ribbed heart. Below we see a visual template for the blank for this paper craft of a volumetric heart. A simple and quick DIY 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.
Fold the sheet in half. Draw the outline of a heart on a piece of paper. 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 fold edge, and the outer heart with the central fold edge back, and the card itself becomes the fold edge forward. It turns out like in the photo below. A quick paper valentine - just a 20-minute lesson in kindergarten.
THIS IDEA does not have to be copied exactly. You can change it, play with it. For example, change the cut zone and fold zone on the same contours (as the drawing above).
That is, change the FLEX ZONE of such a heart contour (the zone that is indicated by a dotted line in the diagram) and get a new three-dimensional craft-postcard, where the heart is already protruding from the other side.
Take a closer look at the photo above. This Valentine's card has a large heart that is held together by an UNCUT BOTTOM OUTLINE. And the inner little heart is held on by uncut apex and tip on both sides of the center line. Here's what these changes look like on the diagram.
The most interesting thing is that you yourself can continue EXPERIMENTING IN THIS TECHNIQUE. Make slits in the shape of a heart or half-heart and bend them in different directions. And one day you will receive a cool designer craft.
For example, if you arrange 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 as a HEART ROUND DANCE.
This is what the intended drawing looks like - drawing a half-heart, in a circle.
Such an openwork layered applique can be pasted onto a card for Valentine's Day. You will get a beautiful DIY Valentine's card.
You will find even more ideas for greeting cards for Valentine's Day in our special article
DIY VALENTINES
WITH NOTES.
On Valentine's Day, we say warm words to our halves. Declarations of love cannot be said in words (after all, at a solemn moment, all the most tender phrases can fly out of a lover’s head). Therefore, your mur-mur-phrases can be written on notes– roll up these notes and hide them in the buds of paper roses in this Valentine craft below.
See how beautiful it is - each twisted paper bud contains a small white a rolled up note. This craft with notes for Valentine's Day is easy and simple to make with your own hands. Now I’ll tell you exactly how to quickly and conveniently do this kind of work with your own hands...
Take a piece of thick cardboard (for example, a lid from a pizza box, it’s just big). We buy from stationery pack of red office paper(it’s just double-sided and dense – that’s what you need).
We cut the paper into wide stripes. We fold each strip in half LONGWAY(so that it is doubled - this will make the rose thicker and more magnificent). And then we twist this double strip into a roll (around the pencil). We remove the twist from the pencil, loosen it slightly, let it unwind a little and secure the tail of the twist with glue(so as not to stick out).
We make a whole lot of these paper rosettes so that they all tightly fill our cardboard heart. And then we attach them to a cardboard base - maybe with glue. A better with double sided tape– holds up remarkably well – cover the entire surface of the cardboard heart with strips of adhesive tape, remove the protective film and cover this sticky base poke our roses. Then we put a note in each bud with warm words, promises, confessions, heartfelt vows and intimate hints...
Second craft with a note.
HEART WITH A SECRET.
You can also put a love confession inside a PAPER HEART with a gap in the middle.
Here is a detailed master class on making such a VALENTINE WITH A SECRET.
Take a square sheet of paper and fold it in half, lengthwise and crosswise. So that it spreads out along the folds - cross to cross (as in the first photo).
We bend the bottom edge of the square upward towards the middle horizontal fold line (photo 2).
Turn the sheet over, with this fold down (photo 3). Then we bend the right and left corners to the vertical midline (photo 4).
We turn the sheet over again with the other side up, corner down (as in photo 5). And bend the upper corners to the middle vertical line (photos 6 and 7).
And again we bend the same upper corners to the middle vertical line (photo 8).
And now we bend our module (which has the shape of a hexagon) in half. That is, the upper corner of the hexagon lies on its lower corner. And then these ends appear at the top (photo 9).
These protruding ear ends need to be folded (as shown in photo 10) - that is, we place 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 was flattened (as in photo 11).
Now look, 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 just such a wonderful pocket there (photo 12, 13).
There's just a little bit left. Change the shape of the ears sticking out at the top of 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 become terangular in 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 the whole valentine with your own hands is already ready - we turn it over to the front side.
You will find even more techniques for folding a paper heart on our website in a special article
And we continue...
VALENTINES-ENVELOPS
Do it yourself 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 the future valentine, as in the photo below. You can copy the picture or draw it yourself based on the sample. The sizes can be any (to suit your task) - the main thing is to maintain the proportions. That is, the width of half the heart should coincide with half the width of the central rectangle of the envelope itself. All other sizes can be any size to suit your letter.
In such a Valentine envelope you can put a small gift - for example, earrings. Pin the earrings onto a cardboard in the shape of a heart (for example, beautiful velvet cardboard) - make two holes and insert the earrings into them. And put this velvet heart with earrings inside such an envelope. Healthy and beautiful.
You can make the envelope simpler. Here it is. Cut out a heart from cardboard or thick gift paper. 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 your 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 is equal to the height of the zone that is located above this rectangle. And nothing else matters. You will get an envelope in any case.
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 place the palm stencil so that the fold line falls on the back edge of the palm. We trace 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 we glue a paper heart inside (folded). We write a love note or warm words to a loved one on a paper heart.
And when we want to give a gift for Valentine’s Day, then an envelope will not be enough. We need a whole box so that we can put a voluminous item (souvenir or gift) in it.
So let's see what simple Valentine boxes we can cut out and fold from a sheet of cardboard or flat paper
VALENTINE BOXES
How to make it yourself
Boxes in the shape of a heart.
Here is the first version of a simple heart-shaped box that you can easily make with your own hands from cardboard. You can see a stencil template for such a craft for Valentine’s Day in the diagram below.
And if this same template is slightly changed. Then you can make a valentine like this 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 STRAIGHT - that is, have 90 degrees. And the intermediate walls (between the hearts) should not have a point at the bottom - but instead they should have the same straight walls as at 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 (not triangular) and the hearts themselves have an angle of 90 degrees (so that you can close them by pushing them into each other).
So head to this feature article to learn how to make these boxes with your own hands quickly and easily.
And since I started about heart boxes, I need to tell you a little about what you can put in them. Below are beautiful ideas for original CRAFTS FILLINGS for these Valentine boxes.
You can put crocheted heart toys in the box. For example, in the form of delicious plump donuts decorated with knitted icing and beaded sprinkles. Such toys can be used as pendants for the New Year tree - that is, they will faithfully serve your family for a long time on every New Year's celebration.
You can bake real Gingerbread HEARTS from the dough, cover them with red jelly icing and decorate with white icing made from egg white and powdered sugar
Any gingerbread dough recipe will work for these sweet Valentines. We bake gingerbread cookies in the shape of a heart. Let cool. In a saucepan we dilute red jelly azure. Soak 40 grams of gelatin in 100 grams of cold water, into which 1 packet of food coloring was added. After the gelatin swells, heat the mixture in a water bath, but not to a boil. Dip the whole gingerbread into this glaze using tweezers and place it on a dish in the refrigerator to harden.
And if you don't like to bake. You can buy ready-made square cookies in the store and decorate them with sweet fondant. Mastic dough is made in 1 minute - we buy Marmeloshow marshmallows in the store, heat them in the microwave - we get a sticky mass similar to plasticine. Sprinkle powdered sugar on the table - and in this powder (as if in flour) we knead our marshmallow dough. We get ready-made sweet fondant, from which you can make decor for cookies for Valentine's Day
Take 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. Glue the squares onto 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 make hearts from it and decorate our sweet envelope. If there is no food coloring, no problem.– hearts can be cut out from red marmalade.
You can make these sweet Valentines with your own hands using waffles, cookies, and cupcakes. We buy ready-made flour products and decorate them with sweet mastic made from Marmeloshow marshmallows melted in the microwave (our Soviet marshmallows are not suitable - only bourgeois rubber ones).
Valentines BRAIDS
With my own hands.
Here is a classic school craft - a paper heart. A woven valentine in the form of a checkerboard weave of strips threaded one through the other.
This is how such a heart is made. Fold a white sheet of paper in half and use scissors to cut out HALF OF THE OVAL. We cut three or four or five cuts at the oval - from the fold line and deep into the oval without going into the area of its round top with scissors. We do the same with the red sheet of paper. And then we insert two modules alternating its strips, as shown in the diagram below.
This simple classic craft has many creative interpretations. Depending on the curvature of the strip, we can get a different weaving pattern...
Let's see how this happens. If we modify the braiding module like this with rounded bumps, 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 we fold 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 creative creators ourselves and draw our own braided lines at random. Assemble a Valentine craft and see what unexpected pattern comes 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 is a Valentine craft that I really like. She looks very chic and rich. And it's very easy to do. Therefore, this valentine can be a theme for an activity in kindergarten or a craft for a class at school.
Below I show the module for valentines-ladders in three tiers.
Take a sheet of cardboard. And we fold it in three layers - that is, in a triple fold. Then we unfold 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 folding parts of the strip, we cut EXACTLY IN THE CENTER, reaching with scissors somewhere to the middle of the thickness of the strip.
The cuts on the strips are different - please note - on one strip the cuts alternate between bottom, top, bottom. And in the second strip, on the contrary, the cuts alternate like this - top, bottom, top.
Then our walls fit each other with these slits. And we get the basis and backbone of the future DIY Valentine’s card. And on this wicker base we glue hearts, flowers, lace, rhinestones and other decor made of paper and cardboard.
And it is not necessary to make three folds on this module. An accordion can have as many walls as you like - 4, 5, 6. The more, the more tiers with heart-shaped decor this ladder craft will have.
Valentine pendant
Framed with your own hands.
You can make a very simple craft for Valentine's Day. Fold a sheet of white cardboard in half like a postcard. We cut a square window in one half so that the half becomes a frame for the future Valentine craft. And now we hang a double heart made of cardboard inside such a vertical postcard.
We cut out two hearts from cardboard and hang them on a thread, piercing one and the other heart with two stitches.
Crafts Valentines
Made from cardboard with paper flowers.
These are the ideas for DIY Valentine’s cards that we have collected for you in this article. Good luck with your creativity, you will end up with original crafts.
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