How to make bright, beautiful valentines and easy ones. How to make a valentine with your own hands from paper

18.09.2019

Valentine's Day, or, in other words, Valentine's Day has become one of the favorite holidays of young people. It would seem that the romantic tradition of congratulating your loved ones on this day, which appeared quite recently, took root in our country very quickly. And how could it be otherwise, because isn’t love the most important thing in a person’s life?

Now produced and sold a lot different postcards associated with this holiday. The most widespread greeting cards are in the shape of a heart, usually Pink colour. When you go to any store, you can choose

But how much more pleasant it is to receive a postcard made by yourself! After all, this is a sign that you are very dear to your loved one, that he spent his time and a piece of his soul to give you joy.

Envelope. We cut out a heart from thick paper and immediately write a confession on it. Then we fold the side and bottom parts, and lastly the top sharp part - we get an envelope. You can decorate it according to your own taste: with a flower, a bead, a rhinestone, or attach a tag from small heart.
Volumetric heart. Cut out two identical hearts from a beautiful thick cardboard. We glue a thin (5-10mm) strip to the side parts of one, then glue a second heart with a pre-written message on top.
Box heart. Using a template that is easy to find on the Internet, we cut it out, fold it along the lines, and glue it with glue if necessary. Decorate to taste. Bows, rhinestones, and flowers will look good.
Heart made of cardboard and thread. Cut out the heart from thick cardboard, then remove the inner part, leaving about 2 cm around the edges. Then woolen threads(preferably voluminous) in red or rich pink color, we wrap the workpiece completely. It turns out to be a very cute and original fluffy heart. We attach a piece of recognition to it on a thin cord, and you can present your Valentine!
Heart made of voluminous roses.
Cut out a heart from cardboard, remove the inner part, leaving about 5 cm at the edges. Then we form a rose bud using the quilling technique from red double-sided paper. We cover the entire surface of the heart with these buds; the middle of the flower can be decorated with a bead. It turns out incredible beautiful heart, which can be hung on red satin ribbon.
Heart with carnations. Fold the thick red paper in half, but do not cut all the way through, to create a resealable card with the confession inside. We cut out thin (8-10 mm) strips of pink paper, lay out an ornament in the middle, and carefully glue it on. From the same pink paper, using the quilling technique, we no longer form roses, but carnations, and glue them along the edges. A very gentle and original card.
Heart applique. Let's take it beautiful paper for scrapbooking neutral color, fold in half. We write a confession inside. Then we glue a rectangle of beautiful thick paper (orange or pink) onto the top of the card in the center. Cut out a few flowers, a bird and a heart, and glue them onto color base, arranged according to your own taste. This card can also be decorated satin bow. The figures may be different, the main thing is to use the idea.
Panoramic heart. A template for such a postcard is easy to find on the Internet. The technique is simple: you need to redraw the template onto beautiful thick paper, make sharp knife make cuts in the right places, then lift the structure and close it again. It turns out volumetric heart inside a folded card.
Heart-boat. We fold a boat out of colored paper, glue a mast from a thin stick or skewer into the center, and a red heart and a confession on a white sheet will serve as a sail and a flag. Original? Still would!
Heart with a key. Two identical hearts are cut out of cardboard, one remains intact, the middle is removed from the second. Glue it on top of the whole, glue the whole middle beautiful beads. We attach a satin ribbon to the back and thread it through a small key so that it sits on top of the beads. The result is a symbol that speaks for itself: the key to a loving heart.
Living heart. Glue small buds of live roses onto a cardboard base. It will turn out, of course, short-lived, but extremely beautiful.

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. I will try to make a drawing for each craft (if not 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 make 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 can do kindergarten. Middle group or the eldest, when they are already quite good at cutting with scissors (without trembling hands and a sweaty forehead), they 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 blank template for this paper crafts 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 highlight bold lines, places where you can cut with scissors, and dotted weak lines 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 cardiac contour (the zone indicated by the dotted line in the diagram) and get a new one voluminous craft postcard, where the heart is already protruding from the other side.

Take a closer look at the photo above. On this valentine a big heart is held in place by the UNCUT LOWER CONTOUR. And the internal little heart 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 into different sides. 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-circle.

So lacy layer applique Can be pasted on a Valentine's Day card. You will get a beautiful DIY Valentine's card.

More more ideas By greeting cards for Valentine's Day you will find in our special article

DIY VALENTINES

WITH NOTES.

On Valentine's Day we say to our soul mates nice words. Declarations of love 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 these notes into rolls and hide them in buds paper roses on 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 ALONG(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.

And also love confession you can put it inside a PAPER HEART with a gap in the middle.

Here detailed master class for 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 little present– for example, earrings. Pin the earrings onto a piece of cardboard in the shape of a heart (for example, velvet beautiful cardboard) – make two holes and insert 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. From cardboard or thick gift paper cut out the heart. Draw a rectangle inside the heart - so that the HEIGHT rectangle and HEIGHT zones above m were EQUAL.

That is it is not necessary to copy this template exactly from 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 inside paper heart stick it on (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 to put it in three-dimensional object(souvenir or gift).

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. Here below beautiful ideas original CRAFTS FILLINGS for these Valentine boxes.

You can put toy hearts in the box crocheted. For example, in the form of delicious plump donuts decorated with knitted icing and beaded sprinkles. Such toys can be used as pendants on christmas tree- that is, they will serve your family faithfully and faithfully for a long time on every New Year’s celebration.

You can bake real Gingerbread HEARTS from dough, cover them with jelly red icing and decorate with white icing 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. Gelatin 40 grams soaked in cold water 100 grams, into which 1 packet of food coloring was thrown. 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. We'll pour it on the table powdered sugar– 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 of 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. White list fold the 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 different pattern weaving...

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 - and ourselves round ears Also decorate the heart with curly carvings (as 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 these slits into each other. 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. What more topics This ladder craft will have more tiers with heart-shaped decor.

Valentine pendant

Framed with your own hands.

You can do a lot simple craft for Valentine's Day. Sheet white cardboard fold it 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 Valentines we have collected for you in this article. Good luck with your creativity, you will end up with original crafts.
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Valentine's Day is a traditional time for love letters and notes. According to legend, priest Valentine reconciled quarreling lovers by helping legionnaires write letters. Since then, the name Valentina has been inextricably linked with love letters. But, despite the commercialization of the holiday, it is customary to make valentines with your own hands, because handmade better conveys the sincerity of the donor’s feelings.

So, how to make a Valentine card with your own hands? There are many ways!

Everyone will be pleased with a delicious Valentine's card. Heart-shaped cookies or heart-shaped cake, waffles or cupcakes - choose to suit your taste! There are a great variety of baking forms - you can choose what suits you.

Traditional baked goods for Valentine's Day are gingerbread cookies in the shape of hearts.

Or you can make hearts from puff pastry without a mold. To do this, the dough is rolled on both sides into rolls, cut into thin pieces and slightly flattened to form dashingly twisted hearts, and baked in the oven.

Even with the help of crispy and fragrant toast, you can confess your love!

Even ordinary cookies can be packaged in a heart-shaped holiday box - and the gift will immediately become themed. Gift box You can buy it, or you can make it yourself.

And if you break an egg in a frying pan into a heart-shaped mold, you will get “heart-shaped” scrambled eggs) Why not a Valentine? You can bake pancakes or cut sandwiches and waffles in the shape of hearts. You can even bake “hearty” pizza!

Handmade original valentines are a great opportunity to show your imagination and handicraft talents.

Don't limit yourself to just one hand-made Valentine. Make a lot of different ones and put them in different secluded corners of the house, then your loved one will certainly be happy

Most lovers make their own valentines from paper. There are many ways to make a Valentine card with your own hands from the most different 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 is always will find a way: even on the battlefield, lovers were able to unite in sacred bonds thanks to Holy Father Valentine. Quite a lot happy couples he got married 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 it on red openwork heart pink. WITH 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 one beautiful postcard 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 become very tender a 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 design a paper heart and even more in an original way– miniature chrysanthemums, which are easily made from chopped paper strip. 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 will get a tender 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. Bottom part decorate with 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.

Sequins can cover the entire surface paper heart- this will make it graceful 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 succeed very well beautiful decoration in the shape of a heart.

Nothing less original idea– multi-layer 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 - a souvenir made of beads and beads - looks even more interesting. 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. chenille wire. Bend the wire into a heart shape.

Salt dough lovers can use it as the basis for their hearts. Knead salty 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.

Decorating the base 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 it wonderful decoration And 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. From special paper tapes for quilling we roll colored rolls.

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 big hearts between themselves, leaving a small hole. We stuff the heart with padding polyester and sew up the hole.

We can do very well beautiful valentines made of felt with a pattern.

Very original valentine 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 can be a simple topiary in the form of a voluminous cardboard heart planted in 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.

In a decorative pot or plastic cup pour alabaster and fix the rod in it. You can fix the rod in the pot using plasticine or modeling mass.

Decorate the bottom of the pot with sisal. We will succeed very well spectacular gift for Valentine's Day.

Topiary with coffee hearts

Or maybe more original product in the form of volumetric coffee tree- hearts. For this craft we will need foam hearts. We color them in Brown color and glue it with threads and coffee beans.

Pour plaster into a small flower pot and insert curved branches into it. We are waiting for the plaster to dry and the branches to be tightly fixed 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):

Valentine's card with a surprise:

DIY Valentine card reviews:

I like the idea of making a Valentine’s card with candies...You can also make it with chocolate ones) (Alexandra)

Choosing a valentine for Valentine's Day, pretty not an easy task. Of course, a lot of printed products appear in stores on the eve of the holiday, but such valentines are unlikely to surprise anyone and show how much you really love a person. Therefore it is best make your own valentines- This The best way make a unique gift that will help you express all your true feelings.

Paper Valentines: step-by-step master classes

Easiest to make DIY Valentine's card made from paper. Paper and cardboard are inexpensive materials, but the number of design options is unlimited. To work you only need scissors, glue, a ruler, stationery knife and a pencil. Even with such a simple set that every home has, you can make a beautiful postcard.

Valentine's card

We all liked pop-up books, which when opened revealed interesting figures, as children. This is how you can make a Valentine's card. For this you will need:

A piece of thick cardboard;
Colored or White paper for decoration;
Glue, scissors, stationery knife and pencil.

DIY Valentine card made from paper

The process of making the inner clamshell itself is very simple. First you need to draw an inscription; it may differ from the one in the picture. The most important thing to consider is that the upper sides of the inscription must have an additional plane in order for the letters to unfold. Next, using a stationery knife, cut out the longitudinal lines of the letters, leaving the transverse ones. After this, you just need to stick the resulting blank inside the book, bending the letters so that they unfold when the book is opened.

Important! Before gluing the inner piece of paper, first make the outer design of the valentine.

This paper valentine looks very original, and you can make the external design to your taste. It doesn't have to be in the shape of a book, it can be a heart, a flower, or any other shape that you think is romantic.

And 3 more step-by-step master class for making a valentine folding card with your own hands:

Valentine's appliques

Some might say that colored paper appliqués are children's activity, and it is not suitable for an adult. But thanks to their use, you will get a beautiful DIY paper valentine.

Applications can be used for both internal and external decoration of valentines. Standard option: make a big heart with your own hands and decorate it with appliqués.

Important! Do not copy the children and do not make multi-colored and variegated appliqué, it is best to do everything modestly and beautifully, such valentines look much better!

We won't list everything possible options similar valentines, as it will be a very long time. If you want to make valentines with your own hands, the master class that we can show you will still be incomplete. After all, your postcard should be an expression of your feelings, and not a copy beautiful crafts. To make your work easier, if you decide to make your own valentines out of paper, photo diagrams and other materials can be found online and simply printed on a printer. But remember that your main task is to make your Valentine’s card original.

Here are the options we found for beautiful DIY valentine appliqués:

Lifehack! If you do not have the talent of an artist, then you can find on the Internet the outlines of the shapes you need (heart, flower, rose...). Then insert it into the printer colored paper and print shapes on it. After this, it will be enough to cut them out. But before inserting the paper into the printer, check its dimensions; if they are larger than A4, then simply cut the sheet.

DIY Valentines: scrapbooking

If you have been dating a person for quite some time and you have photos together, then it will suit you valentine in scrapbooking style. This style is quite extensive and a wide variety of materials can be used. The most important requirement is that the valentine should be in the form of a story.

How to make a Valentine card in scrapbooking style

The first thing you need to do is come up with a story that you want to convey in your valentine card. This could be the story of how you met, your first declaration of love, how you fell in love with a person. It is important that the story fits the theme of the holiday.

The second stage is the preparation of materials for manufacturing. Scrapbooking is a style in which stories are conveyed not only through visual images, but can also be used tactile sensations, smells and any other ways to create the appropriate atmosphere when watching a story. It is, of course, desirable to have photographs, but they can be replaced with inscriptions or pictures that will convey the meaning of the story itself.

Traditional option is an album with photographs, looking through which you can understand the story. It can even be one-page, since you only need to convey the essence. A good option, make a postcard with heart stickers, the inscriptions can be on top of them, or they will need to be opened one by one to view the story.

Important! You make a congratulation or recognition yourself, remember, you are free to choose its design and content, you just need to adhere to the basic canons of your chosen style.

DIY Valentines made from fabric

Fabric is also an excellent material for making valentines, there are also a lot of options for such valentines, and you can really make unique and inimitable crafts. The most important thing when working with fabric is not to rush, as fabric is a little more difficult to work with than paper and cardboard.

Valentine pillows

Making a heart shaped pillow is quite simple. For this you will need: two pieces of fabric for a pattern, cotton wool or other filling for a pillow (you can even use pieces of fabric), needles and threads, scissors, a piece of cardboard for a pattern.

First, a heart-shaped pattern is made (you can change the shape at your discretion). After this, the outline of the future pillow is drawn on the fabric using a pencil or felt-tip pen.

When cutting out patterns, remember that the outline you draw is a seam indication, not a cutting line. Be sure to step back 1-2 centimeters when cutting from the outline so that there are no problems when sewing the pad. When you make valentines with your own hands from pattern fabric, you don’t have to cut them straight. The edges of the fabric will not be visible anyway, since they will be inside.

Next, two pieces of fabric are folded together so that front side was inside. if you have sewing machine, then you can sew the fabric together on it, if there is none, then you can get by with a simple needle, although it will take a little more time. The heart is not completely stitched, but a small hole is left on one side. It is needed to turn the workpiece inside out and fill it.

When everything is ready, just carefully sew up the hole that remains after filling the pillow. Additionally, before sewing the blanks together, you can embroider an inscription on the pillow to make it as original as possible.

Important! It will be easiest to embroider an inscription on a pad using satin stitch.

You can easily make these DIY valentines from felt, velvet, silk or any other fabric you like. The most important thing is that it is not only beautiful, but also durable. After all, in this case, your congratulations will be remembered long years.

Embroidery valentines

If you like to embroider with cross stitch, satin stitch or another method, then you can make an original Valentine card that will be an excellent addition to the interior. To do this you will need:

Embroidery fabric;
Needles and threads;
Embroidery pattern or drawing.

The easiest way to embroider a Valentine's card is with a cross. To do this, just find an embroidery pattern, transfer it to the fabric, and then put it in a frame. For embroidery you will have to spend a little time, but such a gift is rare and you can show the person how dear he is to you.

Satin stitch embroidery opens up a lot of scope for imagination for needlewomen. By embroidering with satin stitch, you can transfer almost any design onto the fabric; all you need to do is simply have the desire. You can make inscriptions in an original font, embroider hearts and much more.

DIY Valentines for children: templates

As you know, children also love to give each other Valentines, and if your child is still in kindergarten or primary school, then you will have to help him. Of course, at such a young age, Valentine’s cards for February 14th are congratulations, not declarations of love, but it’s still better to try so that your child can assert himself.

The easiest way would be to use templates for making, they are not difficult to find, and they are varied. When you make DIY valentines for children, it is best to choose templates that will be as easy as possible for your child to make. After all, not all children do appliqué or other types of crafts.

Templates make it much easier for parents, as they can simply be printed on paper, cut out and signed. Of course, you can buy similar cards in stores and simply sign them, but for a child, as well as for an adult, it will be much more pleasant to give gifts that are made with your own hands.

There are many ways to make a valentine card. It could be a postcard, a book, a box, a painting, a photograph, a pillow. The most important thing is desire and a little imagination. Gifts made with your own hands are always more valuable than those simply bought in a store. Have a good day Saint Valentine's!