Valentine's Day. There are a few weeks left until February 14th, you can already start thinking about a gift, looking for recipes delicious dishes For 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, and beautifully decorate your 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 won’t need any special skills and you won’t need any secret ingredients that can only be “obtained on a full moon by spitting through an empty well”!
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. Very simple and beautiful decoration. Please note that the hearts can be strung either crosswise or lengthwise. If you string it across, it will work vertical garland, which can be used to decorate the 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
And here is a video instruction on how to make a Valentine's card with hearts reminiscent of Balloons on strings
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Button hearts
Cool cards made with button hearts - bright and cheerful
Valentines cards with photos
Your joint happy photo can be 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.
Let's launch romance 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
Ready-made bouquets for those with a sweet tooth
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, first of all, do things.
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, but as a result you will get beautiful and Original gifts for 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 by hand beautiful heart, 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 end up with a blank like this, tracing it along the contour on beautiful leaf 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 most simple ways. 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.
Full picture from paper hearts- this is the height of simplicity and genius!
After watching the video of the 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 better light color, ordinary ballpoint pen draw simple curls, hearts, flowers and other delights.
Then, using the usual watercolor paints, color 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 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 use a cardboard cylinder to toilet paper give it a heart shape, wrapping it with tape for security.
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 ready-made base for a card 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 top hearts to the bottom 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 valentines heart shaped:
If you don't have sewing machine, then sew the hearts on 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 through (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 made of paper hearts is a circle made of thick cardboard or a piece of plywood. You can glue the exact same circle on top from decorative paper and then just stick it on it a large number of hearts!
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 DIY valentine cards, but if for some reason you need to make a valentine very quickly, you can always use one of the ideas listed here!
Useful tips
Content:Volumetric postcard, made with your own hands, this a nice gift for a loved one or friend. There are postcards for all occasions, so you can choose for any holiday the right handmade gift.
On our website you will also find:
- DIY postcards for March 8
Make a three-dimensional postcard with your own hands. Eight-bit heart.
This original three-dimensional postcard is quite simple to make, despite the fact that its design seems intricate.
It is ideal for a loved one (girlfriend, mother, grandmother) and the occasion can be any: birthday, March 8 or Valentine's Day.
You will need:
Cardboard or thick paper
Stationery or wallpaper knife
1. First you need to print the card template found in . Just in case there are 2 copies.
* You can try to draw a heart layout yourself using a pencil and a ruler, it’s not difficult.
2. Using a utility knife, make vertical cuts on your template.
3. Now you need to carefully fold the card without creasing the parts. First make the folds, which are indicated by yellow lines in the picture. Next, begin to carefully fold the card.
*The rest of the card should fold on its own. Don't forget to smoothly stroke the card with your fist so that all the elements work smoothly.
* For convenience, you can temporarily attach the postcard to the table using tape.
4. Decorating a voluminous card. You can cover the edges of the card with paper of a different color.
Now almost everything is ready, all that remains is to add warm words.
DIY voluminous postcard. Heart.
Despite its simplicity, this card will look beautiful if you do it right. Anyone can make a Valentine card like this.
You will need:
White thick paper
Red paper
Scissors.
1. You will need a postcard template (or you can draw one yourself - look at the picture for how to do this).
2. Cut out a card from white paper.
3. Fold the red paper into an accordion shape. Next you need to cut it out.
4. P Glue the resulting hearts to the card.
Ready! All that remains is to decorate to taste and sign.
Do-it-yourself voluminous postcards. Scheme. Rainbow.
This card is very easy to make even for a child.
You will need:
White thick paper
Scissors
Markers, pencils or paints
1. fold the paper in half
2. draw a rainbow as shown in the picture
3. make cuts along the top and bottom of the rainbow
4. Unfold the paper and color the rainbow
* You can add whatever you want to the card, decorate it to your liking using stickers, glitter, etc.
5. Now you need to carefully bend the rainbow out of the paper (see picture)
6. To hide the hole from the cut out rainbow, glue more paper to the back of the card.
When opened, the rainbow should peek out, decorating the world you have imagined in your card.
How to make a three-dimensional postcard. Volcano of hearts.
This card consists of two halves that are glued together.
You will need:
Colored paper
Thick paper
Scissors
* You can try to draw hearts yourself, but you need to know certain rules - they are listed below.
1. Remove the large heart from the middle (it's right on the fold).
2. Cut out the hearts, leaving only their folds intact (see picture).
3. Make cuts on the hearts shown in the picture (gray lines on opposite hearts), this way you can fasten them.
* The card will close better if you cut the paper at the center fold and glue them separately to the base (the base is thick red paper that serves as the background for the card).
4. Glue the halves to the base and connect the hearts in which you made the cuts.
Rules
*The sizes of the hearts on both sides are the same.
*The blue line in the diagram shows that the distance from the fold in the middle to the cut is the same, and the red lines indicate the same distance between the hearts close to the middle of the card.
Volumetric paper cards. Eight-bit weirdos.
This card is ideal for both teenagers and adults.
You will need:
Stationery knife
Ruler (preferably metal)
Postcard size approximately 8.5cm x 6.5cm
1. Download the weirdo or skull template and print it out. You can try to draw them yourself.
Volumetric postcard templates
2. Make cuts in the indicated places (see the picture - where the red lines are to make cuts, where the green lines are to make folds).
3. As you begin to fold the card, your little monster will begin to “hatch” out of the paper. Take your time, do everything carefully.
* If the mold does not come out automatically, try helping yourself with a toothpick or something similar.
4. Glue the card to separate paper, which will hide the holes and serve as a base for the card.
*You can put your postcard in an envelope.
Master class - voluminous postcard "Jolly Crab"
Exist different techniques making voluminous cards and this “funny crab” is made using one of the simplest.
You will create volume by gluing the main elements of the card onto bulk tape.
You will need:
Thick paper
Colored paper
Patterned paper
Black beads or felt-tip pen (for eyes)
Bulk tape (or foam)
PVA glue.
* You can replace bulk tape with a piece of foam plastic. To do this, you need to cut out small cubes from foam. The side of one cube should be several millimeters.
* Use glue to glue the foam pieces first to the card elements and then to the card itself.
1. First, you need to download and print this template. You can also draw the same crab or other cute creature yourself.
Three-dimensional paper postcard template
Download the template.Cut out all the main parts of the crab from colored and patterned paper.
2. Prepare thick paper.
Fold it in half to make the base for the card.
Glue patterned paper for the background onto this base using PVA glue.
Glue wavy shaped paper onto patterned paper yellow color, it will represent sand.
Using bulk tape or foam, glue the details of the starfish and jellyfish to the “sand.”
You can decorate the sea friends of the crab with beads.
3. After you have cut out the crab parts from plain and patterned paper, you need to glue it.
Glue the legs of your paper crab to the card base.
Glue the crab's eyes to its body (or you can draw them yourself).
Connect the remaining parts using the same bulk tape or polystyrene foam.
4. Draw a mouth and write any wish.
How to make voluminous cards. Chick.
This card can be prepared for Easter or a birthday, or maybe there is another occasion.
You will need:
Wrapping paper
Thick paper
Stationery knife
Colored paper
Scissors
Ruler
1. First we make two blanks for our postcard. The dimensions of one are 15 cm by 12 cm, and the second is 15 cm by 15 cm. It is on the second base that you will attach the parts. Bend 3 centimeters from the bottom edge of the base (see picture).
2. Step back 3 cm from the left edge and the same amount from the right and draw strips, the width of which is 1 cm and the length of 3 cm. Cut the lines with a stationery knife. It is necessary to make three such strips, since we have three parts.
3. You need to bend the strips forward, and you will get a kind of stand for the postcard parts.
4. Glue the main part of the card to the inner one, as shown in the picture.
* You can decorate the card using wrapping paper. You can paste it over the base.
5. We cut out eggs from thick paper and decorate them. You can use circles cut out of colored paper or made with a stapler, or stickers, glitter.
7. Glue the eggs onto the stands and glue the remaining parts.
Wonderful and very simple 3D card “Flower-heart” - a good option creative work for kindergarten age children for Valentine's Day. Children can make such an original and cute surprise for their mother, grandmother, sister, and please all their dear people.
To work you will need:
- Green cardboard for the base of the card;
- Green paper or cardboard for leaves (maybe a slightly different shade);
- Red or pink paper for the heart flower;
- A simple pencil, scissors, glue stick.
How to make a 3D card “Flower-heart”?
It's very simple and fast. First, fold the prepared green cardboard in half. The size can be absolutely any. On a sheet of cardboard, half or even a quarter of it. The main thing is that the segment is rectangular.
In the center of the folded cardboard, on the fold side, you need to make two parallel cuts, which will later become the stem of the flower. The width depends on the size of the postcard, so that the stem is not very wide, but not too thin.
The cuts have been made, now the resulting double strip needs to be folded upward and the fold smoothed. This will determine the boundaries of the future stem.
Open the cardboard and redirect the cut inward, while making folds in the center and sides of the strip to create a right-angled stand. The base-frame of the 3D postcard is ready.
Prepare two rectangles cut from red construction paper. Fold them in half, and then fold one of them into the center of the other. On the top one, draw half a heart, starting from the fold.
Cut along the contour and you will get two identical hearts at once.
Cut two simple leaves from green paper or cardboard.
Everything is ready, it's time to start creating a 3D card for Valentine's Day.
To do this, first glue one heart to the stem, and then another on the other side. You need to try to glue them as much as possible closer friend to a friend so that there is no gap.
Now add leaves at the bottom and the 3D heart-shaped flower postcard is ready.
Children can experiment with different shades green frame and leaves, perhaps someone will like it better in turquoise or blue color. The flower itself can also be different - pink, red, orange.
Today we want to tell you how to make a heart postcard with your own hands. Creating such a craft is not particularly difficult, if only the most necessary materials- colorful paper, a cutting blade, and some free time. A step-by-step master class with a template and photo will help you in your work.
Tools and materials Time: 1-1.5 hours Difficulty: 5/10
- plain paper in white and mint green;
- scrapbooking paper with a delicate floral pattern;
- ruler;
- pencil;
- eraser;
- thin black marker;
- stapler;
- cutting mat;
- scissors;
- paper cutter;
- PVA glue".
Step-by-step instructions with photos
Congratulate your loved ones and people close to you on Valentine's Day. A charming DIY Heart card will be a beautiful addition to holiday gift. Undoubtedly, they will be pleased to receive such a gift!
Step 1: Draw the design
Using a gray pencil and a ruler, draw two parallel lines on white paper, 13 cm long and about 3 cm wide.
Write the desired message along the contours of these lines. Use large letters and leave plenty of space between words, which will be useful for the next step.
Now take a black marker. Use it to trace the pencil words and the lines between them at the top and bottom along the outline of the gray lettering.
Step 2: Cut out the design
Cut out a rectangular piece of paper with the lettering on it and place it on the mint green paper. Using a stapler, staple both pieces of paper at the edges.
Place both stapled pieces of paper on the cutting mat. Start by cutting out the smallest dots and indentations inside the letters, then move on to the outline of the lettering. While cutting, trace only the black lines, not following the design too closely and cutting through the top and bottom layer of paper at the same time.
Step 3: Cut out the heart
Take a piece of white paper measuring 13x13 cm and fold it in half. From the top of the folded paper to the bottom edge, draw a curved line in the shape of half a heart.
Cut out the paper along the contour of the drawn line and unfold it. You will get a heart!
Step 4: Make a Card
Once you've finished cutting out the heart, take a rectangular piece of white paper measuring 25x18 cm and fold it in half.
Place a paper heart in the middle of the front part of the rectangle and trace it along the outline with a pencil. Cut out the part.
WITH reverse side paper, only on the side where the heart is cut out, glue your green inscription.
Step 5: Decorate the Card
To make your own heart postcard look bright, you need to create a beautiful background. Cut out a rectangle measuring 11x15 cm from multi-colored scrapbooking paper. Apply a thin strip of PVA glue to the edges of the rectangle, then glue it into the card from the inside onto the heart.
Voila! A beautiful background for your postcard is ready! Now you can finish the card by adding a love note or message and adding a couple of lipstick kisses.
