Traditionally, the preparatory assault for the celebration of St. Valentine's Day begins for many of us about five days before the holiday date. During this period, there is so much that needs to be done, taking care of a gift, decorating the place where you are planning to spend a romantic evening, as well as buying or making a heartfelt valentine. We showed various variations of garlands of hearts in, you can take them into service, but today we want to tell you and clearly show how to make original valentines.
A Valentine card is most often a red or pink card in the shape of a heart, inside of which lies a romantic congratulations on the holiday or an ardent declaration of love.
How to make a Valentine card.
Valentine card made of cardboard and woolen threads.
You won’t surprise anyone with traditional valentines anymore, or it’s a non-standard fluffy specimen. To make it, you need to cut out a heart from thick cardboard, then remove the inner part so that the side parts are approximately 1-2 cm wide. Then we take woolen threads, the best curly ones and always red, and begin to methodically wrap the cardboard blank. The result is a very beautiful heart, attach a piece of paper with a declaration of love to it with a pin and nail, your other half will be amazed at the work done.
How to make a valentine with your own hands from paper.
Method number 1. Valentine envelope.
Cut out a large heart from paper and you can immediately write a love message on it. Next, fold the side parts inward (see photo below), turn the sharp part up, fold the bottom, then fold the top closing part, and decorate the tongue with a rhinestone.
Method number 2. Volumetric heart.
We cut out two identical hearts from thick cardboard, then prepare two strips 8 mm wide along the length of the side circles. Which we immediately glue to the side parts of one of the valentines, then on top we glue the remaining valentine with a pre-written congratulation by hand.
Method number 3. Volumetric valentine box.
We redraw the template presented below onto thick pink paper, cut it out and bend it along the marked lines, and glue it with PVA glue in the right places. The top of the product can be decorated with a bow or rhinestones.
Method number 4. Beautiful valentine made of voluminous roses.
Cut out a heart-shaped ring from cardboard. Then we start creating roses, for this we draw a spiral on red double-sided colored paper, which we then cut out with scissors and wind from the OUTER end onto a skewer, thereby forming a rose bud; as soon as you remove the winding from the skewer, the bud will take the desired shape. Using this scheme, we create the required number of buds and glue them tightly to each other on a cardboard blank in the shape of a heart. You can glue beads or rhinestones to the center of each bud.
Method number 5. Wicker valentine.
According to the template presented below, we cut out two strips with marks in the center, bend each of them in the center and create slits with scissors. Then we start weaving, simply alternating contrasting stripes. The result is a wicker heart.
Method number 6. Beautiful postcard.
We take beautiful scrapbooking paper, fold it in half, we get a base, then cut out a rectangle from orange paper and glue it to the center of the workpiece, cut out flowers, a bird and a heart, and also glue all the details to the surface of the card (the templates are presented below, you can redraw). We tie a bow from a satin ribbon and also attach it to the surface of the card, and write a love message inside.
Method number 7. Beautiful three-dimensional origami heart.
The detailed method for creating such a beautiful heart is shown in the photo below.
Method number 8. Panoramic heart.
Probably many people had panorama books in their childhood, such a heart is just from that opera. Let's look at all the stages of its creation below, where you will also find the primary template for redrawing. In short, we redraw the template onto paper, cut it out with a sharp knife exclusively along the marked lines, and bend it just above the top part, thereby lifting the structure. We close the postcard.
Method number 9. Valentine card with flowers and carnations made of paper.
Fold the red paper in half, cut out a heart, but do not cut all the way through on one side to create the effect of an opening postcard. From pink paper we cut out strips 10 cm long and about 8 mm wide, cut each of them on top of the fringe, then wind it on a skewer, thereby forming a flower bud. We glue the finished flowers to the surface of the valentine; the product can also be decorated with quilling-style patterns or added with rhinestones.
Method number 10. Valentine boat.
We fold a boat out of paper (the stages of creating a boat are shown in the photo below), glue a matcha from a skewer into the center, and instead of a sail and a flag, hearts with a love message.
How to make original valentines from paper clips.
A plain piece of paper with a love message can be decorated with valentine hearts created from red paper clips. To do this, take a paperclip and bend its long edge upward, photo below. At first glance it looks like a krakozyabra, but when you put it on a piece of paper, you will see a cute heart.
How to make a valentine with your own hands from half-pearls and cardboard.
We cut out 2 identical hearts from cardboard, leave one of them whole, cut the second in the form of a heart-ring, so that the middle is empty. Glue it on top of the whole heart, and glue half-pearl beads inside. We glue a ribbon on the back, which can also be glued between valentines, thread a key onto the ribbon, and give it to you with the words “this is the key to my heart.”
Valentine card on a clothespin.
We take a wooden clothespin and write “a message for you” on it with a marker. On the end part, where the clamp is created, draw an envelope with paints. Next, take a tiny rectangular piece of paper, write “I love you” on it, and glue it to the back of the clothespin. When you press on the top of the clothespin, it will reveal a love message.
Valentine's card made from fresh flowers.
Cut out a heart from cardboard and glue rosebuds on short cut stems to it. The result is a very beautiful living valentine.
Felt valentine.
We cut out two hearts of the same size from red felt, and also one smaller heart from white felt, sew a white heart to the center of the red one using a blanket stitch, then sew two red ones.
Valentines made from stones.
On the street you can look for heart-shaped pebbles, which you can then paint with red emulsion paint.
Valentine card made of wire and thread.
It is necessary to form a heart from the wire, which is then generously wrapped with red thread. The result is a very beautiful product, especially considering how easy it is to make.
Valentine in a bottle.
Cut out a big heart from paper, write a declaration of love and a holiday greeting on it, then roll the heart into a tube, insert the message into the neck of the bottle, tie a ribbon and present a surprise to your other half.
Ice valentine.
This is a short-lived surprise, so it should be given as a gift immediately after being removed from the refrigerator. Making such a heart is as easy as shelling pears; place viburnum branches or a rose bud in a plastic heart-shaped mold, fill it with water and put it in the refrigerator until it hardens completely. Then remove it from the refrigerator and lower the mold into a bowl of hot water for a short period of time, the ice will melt a little and the heart can be easily pulled out. Various variations of ice products for decorating a winter garden area can be viewed. 
Dear readers, now you know how to make a Valentine card, we are sure that from the ideas presented in this review you will be able to choose the right one, and your significant other will be sincerely surprised by the surprise. Some valentines from the list above can be used to decorate your home for February 14, in particular a festive table with romantic dishes. Well, you can figure out how to use such hearts yourself, the main thing is that you now know how to make original valentines, which are also It's absolutely not difficult to make.
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Valentine's Day. There are a few weeks left until February 14th, you can already start thinking about a gift, looking for recipes for delicious dishes for a romantic dinner... You can get several sheets of multi-colored paper, scissors and glue and make interesting valentines with your own hands, stylishly decorate your house in romantic colors, beautifully decorate the holiday table.
This article contains the most interesting handmade ideas for Valentine's Day. We hope that with our help, your significant other will remember this day for a long time. So, we will surprise you with all kinds of hearts, let's go!
For these romantic crafts you will need colored paper, scissors, glue, sometimes even wire and salt(!), but we can promise you that you will not need any special skills and secret ingredients that can only be “obtained on a full moon by spitting through an empty well.” » not required!
1. Decorate the house!
Lovers' wreath on the door
Cut out a circle with a diameter of 30-40 cm from plain white paper. Cover it with cut out hearts. Choose the desired tone yourself - the wreath can be made more delicate, using white and light pink hearts, or it can be more passionate, choosing red and burgundy colors. You can make it in a trendy combination of pink and black or in a gothic style using black and red hearts. You can also choose different sizes of hearts - this will make the wreath more voluminous and textured.
An interesting option is a wreath of roses.
How to make, see our detailed.
If you want something more cozy and warm on a cold February evening, pay attention to the option.
You can decorate a door, window or hang it on the wall with a wreath.
Garland of hearts
We string the cut out hearts onto a thread. A very simple and beautiful decoration. Please note that the hearts can be strung either crosswise or lengthwise. If you string it across, you get a vertical garland that can be used to decorate a doorway.
If along, then horizontal - such a garland can be hung on the wall, decorated with it on a bed, a window, or pulled across the entire room under the ceiling.
It's even easier to make a garland with clothespins. Then it is better to cut the hearts out of thicker paper so that they do not become deformed due to the clothespin. And of course, you can attach romantic wishes, favorite photographs, memorable candy wrappers and tickets to such a garland.
Romantic little things
Remember how, as children, we “grew” crystals on sticks in a saline solution? Try making these crystal hearts for February 14th!
The heart can be made from colored wire, after which it must be placed in a concentrated saline solution (gradually add salt to warm water until it stops dissolving). You just have to wait a few days, and to make the heart grow faster, change the solution to a new one every 2-3 days.
And, of course, candles! Decorate candle stands with hearts, but don’t forget about fire safety!
2. Make your own valentines!
The most important paper heart on this day is your Valentine's card. And you can make it yourself and it will turn out no worse than store-bought, even more original! For example, you can send...
Message in an envelope
We string 6-8 hearts on a thread and put them in an envelope...
You can write words on each of the hearts, which will form a phrase as you pull out the hearts. Do not confuse the beginning and the end when putting the message into the envelope, otherwise you will end up with “I love you, I am Zina” instead of “Zina, I love you” :)
A couple more options with envelopes - mini messages with nice words and compliments and an envelope that opens into a heart
Card with hearts
Here are some easy, cute ideas for designing romantic Valentine’s cards:
Another idea for a voluminous card with two hearts flowing into each other - it turns out to be a very symbolic valentine. It will take you only 10 minutes to create it - follow ours and this is what you will get in the end
Here's a video tutorial on how to make a Valentine's card with hearts resembling balloons on strings
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Button hearts
Cool cards are made with button hearts - bright and cheerful
Valentines cards with photos
A happy photo of you together can be the best Valentine for Valentine's Day. Add a line of wishes in Photoshop, a few hearts and insert it into a nice frame. Or make a heart from your small photographs
And also Origami Valentines. Watch this simple video tutorial that shows you how to make a beating heart out of a piece of paper.
In nomination "Last Minute Valentine" This simple cardboard heart wins. Your loved one is almost here, but your valentine is not ready? Feel free to tear off a piece of the box and, following this simple video instruction, create a romantic surprise.
3. Let's have fun with our colleagues!
To do this you will need plastic (and basically any) soldiers! On the hearts we write heartbreaking requests for help, such as “Elena Arnoldovna, you killed me with your smile!”, “I can’t fight these feelings anymore!” “I’m dying of love for you,” “I’m completely smitten by your gaze!” We “distribute” the hearts to the soldiers and place the regiment dying of love on the tables of colleagues, window sills and in the cupboard for coffee cups.
4. Have a romantic tea party
Cute tea bags. We have already written about this. You can decorate the entire tea ceremony in a romantic style.
However, you can drink hot tea outside from a thermos and, hugging each other, look at the romantic sky lanterns in the shape of hearts flying into the sky.
5. Making bookmark hearts
What could be simpler - take two hearts of different sizes and glue the small one onto the large one (only the upper part, and the lower bookmark will just “cling” to the desired page!)
6. Bouquets of hearts
We fasten 6-8 hearts together with a pin, attach the pin with the resulting bud to a “twig”, which can be a wire, a cocktail tube or a real tree branch. The flower is ready. We make 5-7 flowers for a bouquet, of different sizes and shades. We “decorate” the petals with wishes and compliments!
And this option will especially appeal to those with a sweet tooth - we secure the flower not with a pin, but with a lollipop candy
7. Delicious love. Cooking a romantic breakfast for your loved one
We will delight our loved one with goodies on this day. I will not include a recipe for baked salmon with exotic sauce in this article; there are many similar instructions on the Internet. Let's focus on the beautiful presentation. Pancakes and scrambled eggs can be prepared in special molds. You can cut hearts from all kinds of fruits and vegetables: carrots, strawberries, bananas, apples and kiwis.
The very first big holiday after the New Year is Valentine's Day. Very soon, lovers will begin to intensively prepare for this day: come up with romantic gifts for each other, plan how best to spend this day and, of course, do things first.
It has already become a tradition for Krestik to help you find ideas and inspiration for any reason, so we will start preparing in advance for February 14th!
Let's see how you can make paper valentines with your own hands, so as not to waste too much time, and as a result, get beautiful and original gifts for your loved ones.
To start making a valentine with your own hands, especially if you are planning to make it out of paper and in the shape of a heart, you should prepare a template. If you can easily draw a beautiful heart by hand, then go ahead and get some thick paper and a pencil! If you are not sure that you can do it yourself, then download the heart templates we have selected, print them on a printer and carefully cut out the heart along the outline.
First make a slit with a utility knife, then use small scissors, such as nail scissors.
As a result, you should get something like this, tracing it along the contour on a beautiful sheet of paper and then cutting it out, you will get a neat heart.
So, we figured out how to cut an even and cute heart from colored paper. It's time to choose an idea for decorating your Valentine's card.
Super simple valentines
Let's first look at the simplest methods. A huge Valentine heart can be made from small hearts, each of which is glued to a cardboard base.
Small heart blanks themselves can become full-fledged valentines if you cut them out of beautiful paper and decorate them with buttons.
The valentine card has a special space for the recipient's name or a romantic message.
A full-fledged picture of paper hearts is the height of simplicity and genius!
After watching the video master class, you will learn how to make a heart box with your own hands:
Valentine card with a drawing
The beauty of this method of creating a paper heart with your own hands is that you don’t have to be a talented artist; even a child can make such a valentine.
On a white heart or any other, but preferably a light color, use a regular ballpoint pen to draw simple curls, hearts, flowers and other delights.
Then, using regular watercolors, paint only some fragments:
As a result, you will receive a one-of-a-kind Valentine card!
Such valentines can be given not only to a loved one, but also to friends (after all, we love them too))
By the way, do you know why foreigners write the letters XO on their Valentine cards?
In fact, everything is very simple: X conventionally means “kisses”, and O - “hugs”)
Original master class
Valentine card using a stamp
The method using a heart-shaped stamp is also quite simple and popular when making paper valentines. To do this, you just need to buy one or more stamps. They come in different prints and different sizes:
If you can’t buy it, don’t despair - make it yourself from an ordinary wine cork. Draw a heart and carefully cut it out with a utility knife.
Then apply gouache to the sponge and try to make an impression on a sheet of paper.
Now let's see how to make a Valentine's card with your own hands using a stamp.
Using a small piece of masking tape, carefully attach the blank with a heart inside to a blank for a postcard (you can use a ready-made one, you can fold a sheet of cardboard in half). Then, using a stamp, we fill the entire surface inside the workpiece with hearts, and the color of the hearts can be different shades of red.
After the paint has dried, remove the paper blank and the valentine is ready!
Original master class
Another idea for making a heart stamp is to shape a cardboard toilet paper cylinder into a heart shape, wrapping it with tape to secure it.
With this stamp you can decorate a large sheet of whatman paper on which to write declarations of love!
Valentine's card with hearts
Fans of beautiful scrapbooking paper will definitely love the idea of creating a romantic three-dimensional card with hearts.
The technique for creating a Valentine card is very simple. Using a shaped hole punch, you need to cut out hearts from paper.
The number of hearts should be 2 times greater than what we see on the postcard, because each heart will be double-layered.
In this version of the valentine, all the lower hearts are made of the same type of paper, and the upper ones are made of different ones.
Take a ready-made card base or make one yourself, and then mark the location of the bottom layer of hearts and glue them on thin double-sided tape. Simply sew the upper hearts to the lower ones using a sewing machine - it’s not difficult, the main thing is to be careful.
Original master class
Using the same principle, you can make small Valentine cards:
And voluminous heart-shaped valentines:
If you don't have a sewing machine, sew on the hearts by hand. To do this, first place the paper on a soft surface, such as a towel or ironing board, and then pierce it with a needle, using a thimble to push the needle (watch your fingers!)
Ideas for decorating your home for February 14th
And finally, get inspired with ideas for decorating your home for Valentine's Day. They also won’t take up much of your time, but will definitely create a romantic atmosphere!
Romantic wreaths
The basis of a wreath of paper hearts is a circle made of thick cardboard or a piece of plywood. You can glue the exact same circle of decorative paper on top, and then just stick a large number of hearts on it!
It's even easier to make a wreath from strips of double-sided scrapbooking paper. First bend them in half, and then glue them on top, giving them a heart shape. By gluing such blanks to each other, you will assemble them into an original wreath.
The more hearts, the larger the circumference of the wreath.
Garland of hearts
In addition to the wreath, you can also make garlands with hearts. A shaped hole punch with a heart and a regular hole punch for piercing round holes will come to the rescue.
The garland can also be made from hearts folded from strips of paper (it is based on the “heart” element, borrowed from quilling)
Of course, we will definitely show you more complex and interesting options for creating valentines with your own hands, but if for some reason you need to make a valentine very quickly, you can always use one of the ideas listed here!
You can often hear that Valentine's Day is not a Russian holiday, but does the origin of this celebration really 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 crosswords, puzzles and charades.
Despite such a wide selection of romantic products, lovers strive not to deviate from tradition and create valentines from paper with their own hands.
It is very difficult to resist the cutest heart-shaped cards that are usually presented on St. Valentine's Day. Valentina.
The beauty of such cards, made with your own hands, is that with the help of these paper hearts people want to say about their love and tenderness.
How to make a two-color Valentine card
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 of two colors, in my case it is red and white. If you want to use it as a bag, it is better to take cardboard. The dimensions of the craft are at your discretion. So, take the paper, fold it in half and draw this diagram.
Use scissors to cut strips.
We pass 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 interior decoration
In this master class we will look at how to make hearts like this to decorate walls, windows, curtains and so on. I think your significant other will be pleasantly surprised to see such a colorful decoration, which will undoubtedly put you in a festive mood.
We cut out hearts of various sizes from red paper.
We make these cuts.
Apply glue to the edge of the paper and glue it together, creating a bulge, as shown in the photo. We do the same with all the other hearts.
We attach it to the wall using thin double-sided tape. If you plan to decorate the curtains, you can attach them using tailor's needles with a ball on the tip (they are also called a “hat pin”).
DIY valentine pendant using quilling technique
Quilling, in our opinion, is paper rolling, that is, the production 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 two spirals of different sizes.
And another small dense circle. Then, pressing one edge with two fingers, we give it the shape as shown in the figure.
We assemble the structure - glue all the elements together.
That's all, our heart-shaped pendant is ready.
Gift for lovers “Hearts connected by the golden thread of the fate of Moira Clotho”
According to Greek mythology, the fate of people is woven with golden threads by one of the three moiras - Clotho. 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 bound to each other by fate itself, what could be more romantic. Making such a craft with your own hands is not at all difficult and will take a little time, but what a subtext!
You can make similar souvenirs from clay or buy plastic, but the most accessible and popular material was and is salt dough. It is done very simply:
- Take a tablespoon and measure out an equal amount of finely ground salt and any flour. Mix.
- You can just add water, but it is better to mix it with PVA glue in a 1:1 ratio. At 2 tbsp. add 2 teaspoons of salted flour and 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 bag. After 10-15 minutes. The salted dough is ready to be used to make a valentine with your own hands.
Let's start creating:
1. Make two flat hearts. Of course, you can roll out a sheet of dough and cut out figures with a special mold, but we don’t need banal stamping.
2. We make impressions on our blanks. We used an old openwork comb; embossed buttons, knitted napkins, lace or simply intricately twisted ropes would also work.
3. Before sending the product to dry, do not forget to make holes. Drying time depends on the thickness of the dough; ours took about 2 days to dry. You can speed up the process and bake the hearts in the oven. If they brown too much, use this 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 accepts any paint well, although some may require a preliminary primer, for example, acrylic. Gouache, watercolor and even lipstick fit perfectly.
5. All that remains is to tie the golden threads, each heart has its own. We intertwine them according to the principle of chain links.
“Hearts connected by the golden thread of Moira Clotho” - You can also decorate a frame with a wedding photo with this handmade salt dough craft. If you don’t have one yet, glue magnets to each heart and the gift for the day of love, family and fidelity will turn into an exclusive holder for love messages on the refrigerator - after all, there’s never a day when we don’t look into it).
DIY photo frame “You are in my heart”
I suggest you make a photo frame with your own hands “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’s 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 frames from polymer clay or plastic, but to “test the pen” we chose a more accessible material - salt dough. To prepare it we will 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 people add wallpaper glue. And also, after all the ingredients are mixed, the dough should be kneaded well in your hands and placed in a plastic bag for 10-15 minutes. It will become more plastic and homogeneous.
Let's start creating a photo frame with our own hands:
1. We make our heart from two parts. Roll the dough into sausages so that the middle is thicker than the edges. We connect them and give them shape. We also sculpt a couple more small hearts, they will become pendants.
2. Flatten the workpieces. We did this using a book wrapped in cling film. Trim the edges. We ended up with a small wave on the inside, so we decided to leave it, it’s even more interesting. We sculpt 3 more tiny hearts, they will be connected in a row and become the third pendant.
3. Make holes, three on the frame itself and one on the heart pendants. Tiny ones don't need to be holed. Once again we critically evaluate our salt dough craft, if necessary we correct, smooth and send it to dry.
4. We decided to add some decor to the frame and made three small flowers on bent stems. The centers 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 have dried well and become hard as a stone, you can start painting. We used gouache. Pearlescent is a very inexpensive eyeshadow!
6. We work with super glue. We choose the composition with flowers that we like the most, applying them this way and that, then gluing them. Don't forget about rhinestones! Cut the fishing line to the required length. Apply a drop of glue to each small heart without holes, arrange them in a row at the required distance and place the prepared piece of fishing line in the glue.
7. We assemble all the parts of the frame. We thread the fishing line through the holes and tie all the pendants. We choose the length of the fishing line arbitrarily, as you like. Having chosen fishing tackle, we hoped to lighten the composition and give the product some airiness. It seems to have worked, although a thin chain would have looked just as good.
So the gift is ready, created with your own hands with soul, and most importantly, in a single copy! If you have varnish in a can, that’s great; a thin layer of it will not only give the product shine, but also protect the decorative coating.
How to make a gift for Valentine's Day from plasticine
This lesson tells you how to make an interesting congratulatory heart from ordinary plasticine - a souvenir for Valentine's Day.
Before February 14, children and educators will be looking for such lessons to give gifts, so this information is especially for them.
For a small congratulatory heart, prepare:
- plasticine - it is desirable that among the blocks 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 leaves. Open the set, take the pieces that you like. On sale today you can find different plasticine, even neon, with glitter or hot pink, so focus on the one you have.
Mash a red or lilac block of plasticine in your hands. To ensure that the heart is not too small, but also fits in the palm of your hand, do not skimp on the basic plasticine. If it is difficult to knead the block completely at once, then do it gradually, in parts, and then roll it into a large ball.
Press the soft mass into a ball on top. But don't make the cake too flat. In the future, this blank should be turned into a three-dimensional heart. Squeeze the cake with your fingers from below, sharpening the tip, and also press it from above, giving it a characteristic, well-known shape. When the main heart is ready, take care of the decoration.
Pull out several thin threads to imitate roses. All threads can be scarlet, or use 3 different colors for decoration (white, yellow and red). Glue small green dots onto one side of the heart. Press down each one on top 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 some kind of rose buds. Three pieces are enough or cook more.
Form a bouquet on the other side of the heart. First glue on a few green leaves, then attach 3 spiral flowers. Such decoration will ennoble the plasticine valentine; it will immediately become bright and expressive.
An interesting gift for Valentine's Day is ready. We easily molded it from plasticine to please our soulmate or loved one.
Paper Valentine card
In this master class we will make an original Valentine's card in the form of a heart-shaped balloon.
To make a postcard we will need:
- A sheet of white and pink (red) paper;
- Simple pencil;
- Felt pens (colored pencils);
- Scissors;
- Stationery glue.
First, let's make a template. To do this, bend the sheet in half and draw half a heart from the fold line. Then, without unbending the sheet, we cut out the part and unfold it. It turns out to be a heart. So we got a smooth part with identical sides.
Now cut out 2 identical hearts from pink or red paper. To do this, attach a template and trace 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 glue it closer to the top of the sheet. And from the heart we begin to draw the basket itself with a simple pencil. We draw the ropes and bags that are tied to the sides.
Then we will draw with a felt-tip pen. We outline the ropes in green. Please note that the first 3 ropes 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 extend to the front. 1 rope on the sides and 2 on the back.
We paint the bags with any color. Using a brown marker, draw vertical stripes on the basket to imitate boards. It is advisable to draw stripes at approximately the same distance from each other.
Let's paint the basket itself yellow. Now take scissors and cut out the resulting balloon. But we cut it out, stepping back slightly from the edge so that there is a white outline. But you don't need to make it too wide.
Now take the second heart and glue it onto white paper. We cut it out, also retreating from the edges.
Now we bend the heart in the center, but do not draw a fold. 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 outline of the top heart can be painted with red glitter nail polish. You can use a shiny pen. Or you can not touch it and leave it as is.
All you have to do is write your congratulations and the card is ready!
Souvenir - a pebble with a Valentine's card made 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 own craft using salt dough. 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 article at a time spoon of flour and salt;
- one teaspoon each of water and PVA glue;
- crayons, pastels or eye shadow;
- spray can (if not, hairspray will do).
Let's get started.
1. Using flour, salt, water and glue, make a dough-like mass. Knead it thoroughly in your hands.
2. Pinch off a small piece of dough and make a heart. Flatten the remaining material and form it into a flat rectangle with elongated corners.
3. We send the workpiece to dry. You can speed up the process using the oven.
4. Turn the dried dough into a kind of stone. Rub the dry dye into the figurine with your fingers. It is not at all necessary to make the stone gray.
5. Using a pencil, felt-tip pen or paints, draw a muzzle, paws and tail on the pebble.
6. All that remains is to glue the heart and spray the craft with varnish, which is completely optional.
Here is your handmade salt dough souvenir, made with love. The pebble cat can become a refrigerator magnet that you can use to attach a love note. You can decorate a gift box with it and it will be much more interesting than a banal bow. And if you carefully make a hole in the figurine at the sculpting stage, you will get an exclusive keychain for lovers.
DIY panel pincushion for Valentine's Day
On Valentine's Day, it is customary to congratulate not only your significant other, but also your friends and girlfriends. What can you give to a friend who is passionate about needlework? Handmade gifts are always appreciated, even if your friend knows how to create a lot of things on her own.
You can give her a box for storing beads, buttons, decorated using decoupage or scrapbooking techniques, a set for storing tools, and other handicrafts. Or you can knit a small heart-shaped pincushion and place it in a heart frame-stand.
Such a needle case can be mounted on the wall near the table for needlework and all the needles and pins will always be at hand and will certainly never get lost. A homemade gift, moreover, carries a piece of your soul and is always filled with positive energy. Some craftsmen claim that handmade gifts can serve as a kind of amulets.
Any skeins of yarn, knitting needles, a hook, a small piece of soft wire, any filler (cotton wool, synthetic fluff, polystyrene foam) will be useful for this work.
First, cast on 100 stitches on the knitting needles and knit 3-4 rows in stockinette 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 top with single crochets, covering the entire cord.
Due to the soft thin wire, the cord can be given any shape. We bend it into the shape of a heart. It is acceptable to make a slightly irregular shape for the heart.
Let's start knitting the heart-pincushion. From 15 chain stitches we knit a chain, make another loop for lifting and knit a square using single crochet stitches.
Then we knit semicircles from two adjacent sides of the square.
We get a heart. But for the pincushion we need two such parts. We repeat the previous steps and knit the second piece of the heart.
We sew the heart together and stuff it with stuffing.
You can tie it around the edges with lace using a hook.
Now it's time for decoration. We’ll make some cheerful flowers as decoration. First we make the middle.
And then we tie them with colored petals.
The last step is to sew all the elements of our panel onto the “heart” frame.
Now you can mount it in the work area. Well, if you liked the idea of a homemade gift, then complement it with chocolate and a card. Your friend will be delighted.
Handmade heart soap
For some, their favorite thing is to watch their favorite TV series, for others it is to sit with their favorite book or play an interesting game on the computer, while others like to engage in 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 heart soap.
Before you start making soap, you should prepare everything you need:
- white soap base;
- dyes: red, violet and green;
- alcohol;
- fragrance to your taste;
- pipettes or syringes;
- stirring sticks;
- dishes for soap base;
- soap mold.
When everything is at hand, everything is easier to do. Before pouring the soap base into the mold, you need to sprinkle it with alcohol, this will make it easier to remove the soap from the mold.
The soap base needs to be cut into pieces and melted in the microwave at the lowest temperature.
Then add coloring and flavoring. I will make the inscription “I love you” green. You need to pour it carefully, using a syringe or pipettes, so that the mixture 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 it with alcohol, this will help remove them.
While the layer dries, prepare the base for pouring another layer. I want to make the next layer purple. To do this, melt the soap base in the microwave and add purple dye and flavoring to it. The more dye you add, the more saturated the color will be.
Pour the purple base onto the frozen previous layer. Before this, the hard layer must be scratched and sprinkled with alcohol. This is necessary so that they are better bonded to each other. It is necessary to fill in such a way that there is enough space in the mold for the last layer. Let the purple layer dry while we prepare the next layer.
My last layer will be red. To do this, melt the soap base in the microwave and add red dye and fragrance to it. Don’t forget to scratch and spray the bottom layer with alcohol.
That's it, the original heart-shaped soap is ready, you can give it to your beloved girl or guy. A gift made with your own hands is always more expensive than a purchased one.
DIY valentines with a paper butterfly
Here is such an elegant and original craft with a beautiful butterfly. It can also be used as a gift bag.
Print and transfer to paper folded in half.
Of course, you can choose any color for the butterfly; in my case, it’s white and blue.
We make these 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, your DIY valentine with a butterfly is ready! I think it will look beautiful in red and white.
Cut it out as shown in the photo.
And we assemble the structure by threading the spiral curls into each other.
The history of valentines
Valentine's Day is an ancient holiday, 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 for sure who exactly became the author of the first such message. There is an opinion that the pioneer of this tradition is the Duke of Orleans, and this was in 1415.
At this time, the Duke was in captivity, and he really missed his usual surroundings. Most of all, he missed his wife, so he began to create 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 says that the first such postcard was found in 1477 in the British library. This valentine was written by a girl asking her lover to prove to her the sincerity of his 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 back in the thirties. However, it became public knowledge only recently.
Valentine cards began to gain popularity closer to the 18th century. With the help of such postcards, young people in love conveyed their feelings to each other. The inhabitants of England had a great passion for writing these postcards; in this country, hearts were made from colored paper and were also signed exclusively with colored ink.
The popularity of sensual cards led to people becoming more and more serious about creating them, and acrostic messages began to appear. In such a verse, the first letters of each line form a specific word, often it was the name of a lover or beloved.
The card was cut out using scissors and decorated around the edges with tiny letters. Such a message could not leave anyone indifferent. A special stencil was actively used to decorate them.
The first serial batch of love cards was released at the beginning of the 19th century. They were hand-drawn and presented in black and white. They did not create a big stir, however, progress was not canceled, and soon colorful and bright postcards appeared.
All over the world, Valentine's Day is celebrated on February 14th. The main tradition of this holiday for many years has been the presentation of valentines.
In addition to the popular stories about the appearance of the main attribute of this holiday, there are also several lesser known ones. One of them tells how a church minister named Ternii Valentin was sentenced to execution. His fault was that, contrary to the emperor’s ban on soldiers marrying, he entered into marriage alliances between soldiers and their lovers.
Thorn Valentine was a true minister of the church, but while waiting for his bitter fate, he experienced a truly wonderful feeling that united all those couples he had married in his time. Thorn Valentine sincerely fell in love with the daughter of the executioner who was supposed to execute him.
On the day of the scheduled execution, Valentin wrote a beautiful letter filled with romance to his beloved; as a signature, he noted “from your Valentine.” After the execution, he was called a martyr and was considered another victim who suffered for the church.
February 14th was made Valentine's Day. The letter, written by a Christian martyr, became a symbol and tradition of the main holiday of all loving hearts of the world.
From the above it is clear that there are quite a few theories about the appearance of valentines, but these stories still have something in common, each of them is permeated with a great feeling called love.
Love is the most beautiful feeling, for the sake of which people did not spare their lives and went to great lengths to reunite loving hearts. Life is not predictable and can have both pleasant and unpleasant turns, in order to survive all the hardships you definitely need to look for your love.
How to make such a souvenir - see here..
It does not matter at all 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 cute cards, which are the best congratulations on this day. Nowadays, 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 acquired all sorts of traditions.
Each country can boast of its own customs associated with this identity. Congratulations on Valentine's Day are not always limited to presenting a Valentine's card or going to a restaurant for a romantic get-together. A large number of loving people seek to legitimize their relationships on February 14th.
- In some countries, 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 create a strong and loving family. Of course, the clothes are far from an original gift, however, the approach itself is very unusual.
- An old story says that previously 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 the woman with a silk dress as a gift, and put on a silk belt with a heart strung on it. Now this tradition is not relevant, but still 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 become her Valentine. At the same time, the desire 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 a representative of the fair sex meets a goldfinch, then the groom will be rich, and the sparrow she meets promises a happy life with a poor husband. In fact, an interesting prediction will become an original and unusual gift.
- For centuries, European young ladies have been writing their names on pieces of paper on Valentine's Day and then putting them in a box. The man is asked to pull out one piece of paper at random, thereby choosing a companion for the coming year.
Video lessons
How to make a soft valentine with your own hands
How to make unusual cards
Postcard for Valentine's Day
Idea for a postcard for Valentine's Day using Scrapbooking technique. Master Class
It should be noted that in terms of popularity, Valentine's Day is second only to New Year and Christmas. Women are much more likely to buy Valentine cards, accounting for 85% of all cards purchased. Make your loved ones happy and don’t miss out on the long-standing tradition - on February 14, you should definitely give your beloved a Valentine’s card.
These cute cards can be either a stand-alone gift or go with another gift. Often, the one who gives the card prefers to remain incognito, thus forcing the recipient to seriously suffer from guesswork.
New Year and Christmas celebrations will fly by quickly, and a little over a month later 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 card. However, the postcards themselves usually remain undeservedly forgotten - they are bought ready-made, often at the last moment (). But making your own valentines from paper is quite simple - 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 - just like him.
Simple instructions on how to make a Valentine card with your own hands
Of course, the main shape of any valentine is a heart. So there is no question about the form, but then you need to know exactly how to make a Valentine card. If you know how to draw and are confident that you can draw a perfect heart, all you need is paper and a pencil. If not, then you should add a template 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, all you have to do is choose a beautiful paper for your Valentine, put your design on it, trace along the outline with a pencil and cut it out. Everything is clear on how to make a Valentine card at this stage. 
When such a cute and neat paper valentine heart is ready, it needs to be decorated.
There are many options for using these hearts. But how can you make your Valentine's card amazing with them? You can cut them out larger and attach them to 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 - it’s all 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 card interesting
Knowing how to make a Valentine's card with an adorable design doesn't require you to be a pencil and brush genius. It's so simple that even a child can do it. To apply a pattern, it is difficult to choose a base of any light color, including white.
So, first, on such a heart you need to draw different patterns that you know how to do - curls, a simple ornament, flowers and similar cute things. Then you need to decide how to make your Valentine’s card unique. To do this, you need to take the most ordinary paints and carefully paint over some of the depicted delights. The result is a unique postcard created by your hands and imagination. It's amazing how easy it is to make a Valentine card! You can give it not only to your other half, but also to other loved ones - friends, family and even colleagues.
And if you want to amuse your loved ones and make them think, write “XO” several times on the heart. You yourself don’t know what this means? It’s very simple: “I kiss (X) and hug (O).” Here's how to make a paper Valentine card mysterious and funny.
Original do-it-yourself valentines made of paper: stamp in your hands!
You can also use a die to make a cute heart-shaped paper card for Valentine's Day. With its help, a lot is possible, but how to make a Valentine card?
Nowadays there are many different stamps on sale, which differ in both sizes and shapes of the prints, so it will not be difficult to find one that matches your idea. If you still can’t do this, do it yourself, it’s as easy as making a Valentine’s card later. A stationery knife, a wine cork, a little patience - and your exclusive stamp is ready. Now all that remains is to find out how to make a Valentine card with your own hands and with its help. Draw a simple shape on the cork, for example... a heart. Then carefully cut it along the contour with a stationery knife, and for coloring it is best to use gouache: apply it to a sponge, press your stamp into the sponge and try to leave an impression on the paper. Happened? Now you can make wonderful beautiful valentines!
For it you will need a blank for a postcard (a ready-made version or just a sheet of cardboard folded in half), preferably a light color, a template with a cut out heart and a small piece of masking tape. With these materials you can start making a paper valentine. Using the latter, you need to attach a template to your workpiece, 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 soft pink. With this palette you can decide how to make your Valentine's card 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 all that remains is to add the most sincere words of recognition to the unique product. As you can see, making valentines with your own hands from paper is very interesting.
How to make your own Valentine card using toilet paper
Another interesting option for using a homemade stamp would be a very large postcard - a sheet of Whatman paper. Curious how to make a Valentine card from paper of this size? It's actually simple. For the stamp, in this case, an ordinary cylinder of toilet paper is used - it needs to be bent in the shape of a heart, secure the resulting result with tape and dip it in paint - so a lot of original hearts with congratulations, confessions and simply warm words addressed to your loved one will appear on a sheet of whatman paper. So, we learned how to make a Valentine card with your own hands and in several simple ways. If you are confident in your abilities, you can try to do more delicate and painstaking work.
Fashionable cards: how to make a Valentine card from 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 easily turns into a holiday, and making beautiful valentines from it is an incomparable pleasure.
You will need a card blank, scrapbooking paper, a shaped hole punch with a heart, glue, double-sided tape and a sewing machine. So, how to make a Valentine's card in a fashionable 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 little paper hearts so they are all the same size. Then carefully mark on the workpiece where they will be located and using tape, carefully secure the bottom layer to the marked places. But how to make two-layer valentines? The top layer of hearts is simply sewn to the bottom layer using a sewing machine. This stage is not so much complicated as it is painstaking, requiring patience, attentiveness and accuracy.
The same method of making valentines from paper with your own hands can be used for small cards - here an interesting result will be obtained by using three or four layers of paper, as well as just heart valentines without a base.
Since not everyone has a machine, we offer the option of manually stitching postcards. But how can you make a neat Valentine’s card in this case? For everything to work out in the best possible way, you need to place your workpiece on a soft fabric surface (for example, an ironing board or just a complex rag), and use a needle to make holes at equal distances. When the job is done, all that remains is to fasten the workpiece with thread - and the hand-sewn valentine is ready! If you were wondering how to make a Valentine card with your own hands, here is your answer.
Step-by-step instructions on how to make an origami Valentine card
However, a Valentine's Day card doesn't have to be just heart-shaped. A very interesting option is kissing lips folded using the origami technique, which are glued to a blank for a postcard. Such ideas for valentines have not yet become widespread, so you will show off your originality. For them you will need colored paper of any shade 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 a one-third indentation.
But how to make a Valentine card if you don’t have a ruler at hand and you have trouble with your eye? Fold the sheet into a Z shape and press down lightly. This is an interesting little secret of how to make an origami Valentine card with a minimum of tools at hand.
Making origami valentines requires patience. After this, carefully bend the corners extending beyond the edges of the “envelope” down and inward.
Now the paper needs to be unfolded and placed with the non-colored side up - half of the postcard making process is completed. To learn how to make valentines with your own hands using this technique, read on. Now you need to start the second part of making an unusual Postcard. First, fold the tip of one of the bottom corners, then fold the remaining part of the corner inward on both sides.
The same must be done with the corner on the opposite side.
Next, according to the instructions on how to make a Valentine card using the origami technique, you should turn the sheet over so that the colored side is on top and fold it with the tips of the “lips” facing each other along the folds that remain from the previous folding.
Needless to say, making origami valentines is not easy, but the work is almost finished - all that remains is to fold the corners inward, and then, also inward, bend the edges of the workpiece. All that remains is to glue the sponges onto the card - and you can be sure that no one else will receive one.
If you can’t figure out how to make a Valentine card, don’t be upset, you can watch the master class and try again.
Master class: Valentine-origami lips
New trends: quilling valentines for your loved one
But the ideas for valentines don’t end there. Another very interesting technique for making voluminous cards on February 14 is quilling. But how to make such a valentine? This original postcard is easy to make and can be done even by inexperienced needlewomen - you will need a sheet of cardboard, several 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) just need to be glued to the workpiece, laid out in the shape of a heart. We 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’ll 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 you attach a curlicue 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 postcard will be unique in any case and every 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 your Valentine's card magical? Share your heart with her
It is not necessary to tell your loved one about your feelings for him on a special 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 real feeling - will remain in the heart of your soul mate forever. And it doesn’t matter how exactly the valentine is made - let the card with a heart tell him everything about what you experience when he is near and when he is far away. Love, give gifts and be there!
