How to make a valentine with your own hands from paper. Materials for an original paper valentine with paper hearts

After the New Year, everyone is waiting for the approach of the day of all who are in love and happy. On this day, it is customary to give loved ones Valentines - beautiful cards in the shape of hearts or appropriately decorated souvenirs. It is not difficult to make a postcard, and you do not need to have special skills and knowledge for this, and the result can be impressive.

Paper valentines

This is the first and simplest thing that comes to mind. If you have colored paper or drawing paper, watercolor paints or simple felt-tip pens, you can make wonderful Valentine cards with your own hands from paper, decorating them with what you can find at home - buttons, straps, threads, glass beads and sequins.

A simple valentine

What might be useful:

• paper;
• scissors;
• glue;
• a piece of old wallpaper;
• burgundy colored paper;
• white cardboard.

Stages:

Valentine's Day cards can be made even easier.

Envelope with a heart

What not to do without:

• colored paper;
• scissors;
• glue.

Stages:

1. Make a small envelope out of colored paper.
   
2. Insert a message into it. Cut out a heart from paper of a different color and stick it on top of the envelope.
   
3. Craft for the holiday is ready.
   

Volumetric Valentines

There are many types of postcards. Here is a master class on making a Valentine card with your own hands, for which you need:

• colored paper in shades of red;
• cardboard or passe-partout as a base;
• glue.

Stages:

1. To get a Valentine card with your own hands from multi-colored paper, you should cut a lot of hearts of different shapes, sizes and shades.
   
2. Cut out a large heart from cardboard.
   
3. Glue hearts in random order to cover the base with them.
   

Volumetric postcards, as already mentioned, can be decorated with various improvised means, here is an example:

Original valentine cards

Postcards for Valentine's Day will turn out to be unique if you turn on your imagination and use original options and different decor. Quilling cardboard presents are popular.

Candy valentines

To make a Valentine card out of sweets, you can buy a box of chocolates and decorate its outside as you wish, for example, like this:
Well, for those who are not looking for easy ways, a Valentine's master class is offered, for which you will need:

• candies. It is better to take round, wrapped in golden foil;
• sponge in the shape of a heart, which can be bought in the departments of floristry. And it can be made from foam rubber, the thickness of which is 1 cm;
• burgundy corrugated paper;
• mesh fabric for decoration;
• adhesive tape with double-sided sticky side;
• beads or any other decor;
• satin ribbon, 3 cm wide;
• glue;
• scissors.

Stages:

1. Put a sponge on wrapping paper and circle. Duplicate. On each side of the workpiece, step back 1 cm and cut out. So you will get two blanks from wrapping paper.
2. Lubricate both hearts from the wrong side with glue and fix on a floral sponge. From the sides, the paper should be adjacent to the side parts of the foam rubber, and for this it can be cut in several places and fixed with glue.
   
3. Glue double-sided tape around the perimeter of the heart. Corrugated paper, which is covered with a satin ribbon, will help to hide it from the eyes. When fixing it, you need to leave free ends 15-20 cm long. A bow will be tied from them.
4. Using glue, fix the sweets on the surface of the heart, decorating them with a special fabric for decoration.

Hi all! Since the beginning of February, we have to prepare for two holidays. One of them falls on February 14, the other on February 23.

In this regard, we will have to worry about congratulating our relatives, friends, acquaintances and loved ones on these significant events.

St. Valentine's Day, although it came to our country from abroad, however, has successfully taken root and has become a favorite holiday. Everyone is happy to congratulate, friends, acquaintances and relatives or a paper "valentine", or.

Many seek to purchase some kind of gift, from a plush toy or a magnet, to various accessories related to the work or hobby of a loved one.

Shop gifts, of course, are good, but on Valentine's Day it's nice to get something handmade. Of course, this handmade gift should have a decent look and be pleasing to the eye.

On this day, it is customary to give valentines.

And a Valentine craft decorated with a small quatrain will warm your soul and speak of the sincerity of your feelings. Still, you tried, and spent time and effort on this, invested a piece of yourself in a gift. Although, of course, who cares.

It is best to make homemade hearts with children. Gluing, embroidering, decorating is a wonderful way to involve your child in needlework.

You can make a Valentine not only from paper, but also from fabric, such as felt.

We take the material, cut out of it two hearts of the same shape. Sew along the edge with thread or braid. Leaving a small gap in the side seam, fill the heart with cotton wool, synthetic winterizer or whatever you have at hand. After that, we sew to the end. The heart is ready. Now it can be used for any decoration. You can put it on a stick and put it in a vase, you can make a tree out of several of these hearts.

You can draw a cute face and put such a craft on the table during a gala dinner.

From felt, you can make not only voluminous hearts. If you take a strip of fabric and stitch it by bending it in the shape of a heart, as in the figure,

then after that, cutting the felt into strips, we get such a nice product:

From such hearts you can make garlands and attach them under the ceiling or on the window.

Heart tree. Look at this photo, what a wonderful craft. You can decorate a real small tree in your yard with hearts.

First you need to make a template out of paper, drawing the desired composition on it, and then, in the form of an application, make the craft itself.

An original gift will be a heart-tack in the kitchen.

The main thing is that such a gift will remain for a long time.

Paper valentines

Paper crafts are called origami. Creating origami is a very exciting activity that will appeal not only to children, but also to adults.

It’s not difficult to make such a simple heart:

By bending the craft correctly according to the diagram below, we get a wonderful paper heart. It is made for a short time and is well suited if you forgot to congratulate someone, but this must be done quickly.

You can also make a heart as a bookmark for a book.

Below is a diagram of the manufacture of such a bookmark from plain paper. According to this scheme, taking any color, preferably pink, you can make a rather original gift for a lover of reading books.

And another original gift made of paper - a heart-box. How to use such a gift, I hope everyone will guess for himself.

Making this craft is just as easy. Having created a blank according to the principle of a paper cube, we fold a box out of it.

Get armed.

Master class for making valentines step by step

There are a lot of different types of valentines. It all depends on creativity. Almost every craftsman creates his own original masterpiece.

Valentine ship

For example, a very interesting idea of ​​\u200b\u200bsuch a valentine-boat. Everything is very simple here. Let's remember childhood, and roll a boat out of paper.

That's all, the gift is ready.

Volumetric postcard

If you want to make a valentine card with a wish or recognition, use this option.

We take red cardboard for the base and several sheets of paper of different colors for hearts. Fold red cardstock in half. We cut out ordinary hearts from colored cardboard. So that they are varied, you can cut each openwork along the edges. You can use a hole punch or special scissors. Remember how you made snowflakes for the new year.

Cut out hearts must be folded in half and glued along the fold with each other. After that, glue them to the red base of the postcard.

It remains only to write a congratulation on a small piece of paper and stick it next to the heart. The card is ready, you can go to congratulate.

Patterns for valentines from fabric

For those who like to sew with their own hands, some interesting patterns.

Valentine bear:

And this is a pattern of another little animal - a mouse:

If you want to sew a Valentine in the form of a pillow, this pattern will help you. Shown here is one half of it. But, as you might guess, the second is completely similar.

And another great template for a family valentine. True, all the signatures were not made in Russian, but I think everything is clear without them.

Making valentines with your own hands with children

Making any crafts with children, and not just valentines, is a good activity. We work with our beloved children and teach them to be creative.

If your child is old enough and able to handle a needle, then you can do fabric crafts with him. With younger children, it is better to use paper.

A good option is an application. You can use a variety of improvised material. For example, cardboard, glue and cotton pads. As a result, we get such a heart.

With a small child, you can make such a wonderful postcard, where the baby’s palm is printed.

Or such a seemingly simple postcard, but made by a child, it will not leave indifferent anyone to whom it will be presented.

Well, here's another wonderful piece. I would recommend it to my child to do.

In general, tell your child an idea, I'm sure he will do the rest himself and will cope with it perfectly.

Video how to make a beautiful valentine for Valentine's Day (postcard for February 14)

This video shows you how to make your own 3D postcard.

Simple and affordable!

Templates for making valentines with your own hands at school

In general, this is the same for working with children. Here are some interesting ideas. You can download and print them for yourself.

valentine ladybug

Heart in an envelope

Volumetric postcard template

And a few more options for valentines with stencils for cutting them out.

The diagrams show dimensions and possible patterns. In principle, having learned how to cut correctly, you can even draw your own pattern yourself.

So create, invent and surprise. Good luck!

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One of the favorite youth holidays is approaching - Valentine's Day or Valentine's Day. Having recently appeared in the expanses of our Motherland, it very quickly spread throughout the cities and villages, and now this holiday is celebrated by most of the country's population.

In Catholic Europe, many greeting cards are issued annually, named after the saint, valentines. A variety of materials are used for their manufacture, but traditionally paper or cardboard valentines in the form of postcards, the shape of which is a heart, are most widely used.
We have more and more different valentines can be found in almost any store and pavilion. The choice is very large, but, you see, it’s more pleasant to receive a valentine made by the hands of a loved one as a gift as a sign that you are very dear to him and he is happy to spend his time not on sleeping and eating, but on making you at least a little happier.

So, it's decided! We make a valentine with our own hands from paper.
This case is not as complicated as it might seem at first glance. Even if the experience of papermaking is not enough, everyone can find the perfect version of a spectacular valentine, which even a child can make.

The simplest valentines

To make an exclusive valentine's card, we need:

• a sheet of double-sided colored cardboard, which can be replaced by colored paper that has a red tint (pink, crimson, ruby ​​or pure red).
• paper for "scrapbooking" with a small patterned pattern, and in its absence - any light one of the pastel colors. It is desirable that it be monophonic,
• glue,
• scissors,
• double sided tape,
• small length beautiful braid or lace ribbon.

Making a simple heart card

We fold a sheet of cardboard in half and get the basis of a future postcard. We put a pre-prepared stencil in the form of a heart from any paper on the first, front page of the postcard and circle it with a pencil with light strokes.

Now let's try, without crushing our postcard, carefully cut out a heart. This is not difficult to do: just fold it in the middle, pinch the fold with your fingers or a small paper clip only at the level of the heart

and carefully cut it out.

From a sheet of colored or patterned paper, cut off a piece equal to the size of a folded postcard and carefully glue it from the inside so that the pattern falls into place of the previously cut out heart.

The inner side of the glued sheet will be plain.

Using double-sided tape, we attach the selected lace or beautiful braid to the card. The first exclusive Valentine's Day has arrived!

Want to give a big Valentine? No problem! Glue pre-cut pink and red hearts onto the cardboard base.

For greater presentability, such a Valentine can be framed, and sincere words of congratulations can be written in the free space.

Small hearts can become a valentine in their own right if they are cut out of colored paper and lightly decorated. Even a cute button can make a Valentine card out of a simple paper heart. We make a gift inscription on the back and the valentine is ready.

And from small postcards you can make real paintings.

Paper volumetric hearts

Volumetric hearts made of non-uniformly colored paper look unusual. When using plain colored paper, the effect produced by the finished product will be lower.

To make them, we fold a square sheet of paper in half, with the faded side inward and bend it in half again to make a small square. Expand and get the main guide lines.

Now we take the left vertical side of the square from the side and bend it twice inward, towards the middle, and bend the right side also twice outward. We bend the upper and lower sides of the resulting rectangle inwards to obtain the following guide lines and unbend again.

There are traces of three folds on the rectangle. Now we bend the upper side of the rectangle in half to the uppermost fold, we do the same with the bottom side - we bend in half to the nearest lower fold, straighten it.

With the help of scissors, we make two vertical cuts from the edge to the new fold closest to it.

We bend each of the resulting four tips - corners inwards.

It turned out like a fence of two pointed boards.

Now we fold each of the four sharp tips in half, bending over ourselves.

The resulting sheet is again folded in half, bent tops inward.

The right and left lower corners, bending, hide inside. Got a heart!

We carefully iron it and give it as a gift or, stringing it on a cord or ribbon, decorate the room with a table set for an evening romantic dinner.

Bright, fiery valentines made of thin corrugated paper

Effective hearts are made quickly and easily from thin corrugated paper.
To work on them, we will need:

• cardboard, preferably red,
• red corrugated paper (it can be replaced with red napkins),
• a moderately pointed wooden or plastic handle of a paint brush or a toothpick,
• PVA glue.

First, cut out a heart of the desired size from cardboard - this will be the basis of an unusual valentine. On one side of the heart we write words of love, and on the other we will work.

We apply a layer of PVA glue to the base. We cut squares of corrugated paper with a side equal to 2 cm.

In the middle of the square, put the end of the toothpick and wrap it slightly.

Firmly press the tip to the edge of the base with glue, remove the toothpick.

We do the same with the second square, gluing it next to the first along the edge of the heart. We glue all subsequent squares tightly to each other, covering the entire surface of the heart.

The impression will be spoiled if a base of a different color is visible between the folded, rarely glued squares. We do not allow such misses by filling the entire surface of the heart with corrugated paper.
It turns out a very beautiful effect of flames or fluffiness.

By the same principle, you can make a three-dimensional structure. In this case, foam is taken as the basis, and instead of a toothpick, an old rod from a pen is used.

Valentine's card decorated with a pattern

For such a gift, you do not need to be an artist, it is enough to be able to hold a pen, felt-tip pens, colored pencils or a brush in your hands.

Even children can please loved ones with such valentines.

To do this, on the basis of light or white paper with a fountain pen, we draw everything we want on the theme of the holiday: hearts, curlicues, funny animals in love, and so on.

Dear friends! Valentine's Day is coming soon, and valentines are an integral part of it. exchange them at school, lovers send them to each other to tell about their tender feelings. I suggest you approach this romantic moment creatively and not buy ready-made postcards, but make other materials at hand. Small cute heart cards can be a gift not only for Valentine's Day, but also for any other holiday or even not for a holiday.

My son at the age of 5-6 years old, when he learned to cut out hearts, used to give them to me every day, and inside it was always written: “Mom, I love you!” Is there a more valuable gift for mom? Why don't we give each other such sweet reminders of our love more than once a year? It's so nice! Do paper valentines day just see for yourself. Arm yourself with scissors, glue paper, cardboard, various small things for decor, call your kids and create! Everyone will be happy!

Do-it-yourself valentines from paper and not only - ideas for creativity with children

We have already done different ones and shared our experience with you. How to make valentines with your own hands? Yes, very simple. There are a lot of options.

1. The easiest option is to cut a heart out of a piece of cardboard folded in half, decorate the colored side, and write a message inside. It all depends on the imagination of the author and the available materials at hand.

You can decorate with paper, lace, cord, sequins, various patterns, pebbles, anything!

2. A very cute valentine is obtained by gluing small hearts made of accordion-folded paper inside the heart.

3. You can make a traditional rectangular postcard out of cardboard and decorate it with hearts of various sizes and materials. Cute valentines are made using the quilling technique.

For example, such a Valentine card with cats just touches me! Everything is so well thought out!

4. Valentines with locks, ties, ribbons look beautiful. So romantic, the message is hidden from prying eyes.

5. There can be a lot of multi-colored hearts on a postcard, or maybe one, this is a matter of taste.

6. Small paper valentines daycan be made by cutting out windows in the form of hearts, attaching fabric of different colors from below.

7. A wonderful valentine is obtained if you attach a voluminous heart inside the card.

For its manufacture, it is necessary to cut out a blank for the postcard itself, approximately 15 X 18 cm in size, bend it in the middle. Cut out a heart according to the template, make folds where indicated by a dash-dotted line. A large heart should have a fold outward, in a small inner one - a fold inward. Now it needs to be glued to the inside of the postcard, and the sides and front side should be decorated, arbitrarily with improvised materials.

8. This version of a Valentine will be very effective.

It is necessary to carefully cut the hearts along the contour with a clerical knife from white paper, and where indicated by the arrow, do not make cuts. Stick the main part on paper in a contrasting color, such as red. The cut parts do not need to be glued, they must be fastened along the cuts that are shown on the template. When opening such a valentine, hearts form a three-dimensional composition. It turns out very beautiful.

9. A wonderful valentine is obtained with birds. It is done simply, a stencil for birds can be downloaded below. Decorate the card with improvised materials. A very romantic choice!

10. Beautiful woven valentine leaves also look original.

To make them, you need to cut out two identical blanks from paper of two colors. Options for such blanks can be printed, the template is located below. Make cuts as shown on the template, and carefully tie the strips in a checkerboard pattern. The finished heart can be glued on paper or cardboard, write a congratulation on the back.

Here's a slightly better option.

11. Volumetric valentines are a full-length gift.

To make such a three-dimensional valentine, you will need cardboard, you can take foil for the heart itself, scissors, thread or fishing line. Cut blanks from cardboard, as shown in the figure, make cuts, fasten them together. Hang a heart made of foil or cardboard on a thread or fishing line. That's all! You can fold the Valentine card, it will be flat, you can unfold it and put it on the table. Such a gift can be made with a child for grandparents.

12. Valentines with buttons look very creative. Such bright postcards are very easy to make. Surely, many have stocks of torn off buttons. Now you can apply them by decorating a postcard for Valentine's Day.

13. It will be interesting for children to make animal figures from hearts. For example, mice in love. They are easy to make, you will need red or pink, scissors, glue, a small pom-pom for the nose and thick thread or fishing line for the antennae. We cut out hearts, glue, decorate, everything is ready. Similarly, you can make an elephant, an owl, a ladybug. Get a nice present.

Since 1800, when mass production of valentines was launched, there is, of course, no need to do so. On the eve of Valentine's Day, they filled the shelves of many stores. But it is always more pleasant to receive a sincere love message written on a heart made with your own hands from the bottom of your heart. Plenty of options! It remains to choose what is closer to you.

I hope you have found a suitable option in this article and make your loved ones, relatives and friends paper valentines day, cardboard or other materials!

We will certainly return to the topic of handmade gifts for Valentine's Day! Have creative days and creative inspiration!

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Good day everyone! The holiday is coming soon, and therefore we all want to prepare for it as best we can. The hostesses are thinking over the menu for a romantic dinner, and their husbands are looking for creative gifts. And I'm ready to help with creativity. Today we will be crafting. Our goal is to make the holiday unusual, so that it will be pleasantly remembered by us and our loved ones for a long time.

I announce the program of our today's meeting! Together we will consider various options for postcards and crafts. Let's talk about how to make a real surprise. And, of course, I prepared my master class! I'll try everything step by step tell and even show.

The most daring and beautiful options for valentines

I don't know about you, but I love something like that do it yourself. After all, I not only make, but also invent something that a certain person should like. I think about it, imagine how I will present my product, what I will say. These moments fill me with satisfaction and courage, and therefore I want to use as many ideas as possible! But today the highlight of the program is paper. She is the main material. That's just, and the paper is different, which makes it possible to diversify valentines.

I'm ready to show some ideas and tell what and how they are made.

TOP 5 DIY from around the internet

• BUT corrugated paper, you can make a whole picture! To do this, cut into small squares, wind them on the paste from the handle and glue to the base in the shape of a heart.
  

  
  
  
  

• Can be made from plain paper origami. I will give examples of the simplest in execution, but the most spectacular.
  
• Another weird idea
  
• Well, the most interesting option is “anti-stress” valentines, in which something is sure to move. Great ideas from Afinki:
  
• From color cardboard you can make a small box where a small thing is placed. Cut according to the scheme 2 rows of 4 squares and a row of two. All squares are bent, glued together. And on top of the box, a lid with halves of a heart is obtained, connecting, they form one heart.
  

All these crafts will create a mood and decorate the holiday. But how to make a real surprise?

Surprise gift. What is he?

I realized a long time ago that I love only unexpected gifts. And therefore, every time I rejoice, like a child, when my husband and son hand me what they have been secretly working on for so long, observing the highest level of secrecy!

What should be the surprise? What's this? And how is it presented? The most important thing is to take into account the taste and wishes of the one for whom it is made. It can be beautiful crafts, postcards or flowers grown by one's own hands. And the whole point is that such gifts should appear out of nowhere, unexpectedly. How to do this is:

• Craft while your spouse does not see: busy, at work.
• Do everything in advance, do not leave it to the last moment so that your fuss does not attract attention.
• Hide securely.
• And at the right moment - oops! Pick up and deliver! But don't forget that

But it's time to talk about your achievements in the art of designing valentines! I will do it with a photo, in detail and step by step.

My master class as a gift to friends

Card

1. I draw a heart. To make it look beautiful and even, I circle the round shape. On top of the sheet I make 2 semicircles, which are interconnected by the inner sides. I draw the outer sides like this - I draw smooth arcuate lines down so that they connect. Heart is ready!

1. I put on red color and decorate it. Can be done initially from colored paper. But I had an original idea with the design of the outside of the postcard. So I color with a pencil on a piece of paper. I do this so that the pencil goes beyond the heart. And on the second sheet such rays were formed:

1. Inside the picture I draw even smaller hearts. All of them are connected to each other.

I cut along the lines. It turns out a spiral of valentines.

1. Before gluing the spirals inside, I finish the design of the postcard picture.

I already have such a radiant heart ready. Inside I insert a butterfly. We recently learned to draw her with her son. And I sign.

1. Inside, I glue only the largest hearts to one side and the other. I connect the smallest ones.

Now, when the card is opened, the spiral stretches and this pattern is obtained.

Valentine stand

1. First I cut out the round pieces, templates. I need 6 of them. I fold each of them 2 times.

In addition to being beautiful, because you can make it multi-colored, or colorful, with hearts of different colors, it is also a great stand for a small sweet gift! You can put candy in the center.

I just have to wish you the best day, sincere smiles and good luck in your work! Goodbye! But before that, I remind you of the subscription. Design it for yourself and take care of your friends so that they also receive new articles.

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