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 HANDS. For each craft, I will try to make a drawing (if there are no ready-made templates) and explain in detail what and how to do step by step. We will cut out valentines from paper, cardboard, fold them into boxes, and make valentine envelopes and other crafts for Valentine's Day. Here are the most interesting ideas to make a paper heart in different three-dimensional techniques.

So, let's begin our affairs of the heart...

Paper valentines

IN CARVING TECHNIQUE.

Here is the easiest craft. Which even children in kindergarten can do. The middle group or the older group, when they already cut well enough with scissors (without trembling hands and sweaty forehead), can easily make this valentine with their own hands.

Everything is simple here. Flatten the sheet in half. We draw on it a half of the heart and horizontal lines. We cut the lines and cut out the heart itself. Unfold the heart and put it on the table fold edge down. And then the most interesting for children. It is necessary to pull the strips UP with your fingers - but not all, but through one - we leave one, pull the second, skip one, pull the second up (changing the fold to the opposite). We get a ribbed heart. Below we see a visual blank template for this paper craft of a voluminous heart. A simple and quick do-it-yourself 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.

We bend the sheet in half. We draw the contours of the heart on the sheet. And we highlight with bold lines the places where you can cut with scissors, and with dotted weak lines the places that do not need to be cut. We explain to the children which lines to cut.

And then with our fingers we bend the inner heart forward with the edge of the fold, and the outer heart is the edge of the central fold back, and the card itself becomes the edge of the fold forward. It turns out as in the photo below. A quick paper valentine - just in 20 minutes of kindergarten classes.

THIS IDEA does not have to be copied exactly. It can be changed and played with. For example, change the cut zone and the bend zone on the same contours (as the drawing above).

THAT is to change the BEND ZONE of such a heart contour (the zone that is indicated by a dotted line in the diagram) and get a new voluminous postcard craft, where the heart is already protruding from the other side.

Take a closer look at the photo above. On this valentine, a large heart is held up by an UNCUT LOWER CONTOUR. And the inner little heart is held up by uncut apex and tip on both sides of the centerline. Here is what these changes look like on the diagram.

The most interesting thing is that you yourself can continue to EXPERIMENT IN THIS TECHNIQUE. Make cuts in the shape of a heart, or a half heart and bend them in different directions. And one day you will get a cool author's craft.

For example, if you place 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 HEART DANCE.

This is how the conceived drawing looks like - drawing half-hearts, in a circle.

Such an openwork puff appliqué can be pasted on a postcard for Valentine's Day. You will get a beautiful design valentine card with your own hands.

For more Valentine's Day greeting card ideas, check out our dedicated article.

DIY VALENTINES

WITH NOTES.

On Valentine's Day, we say warm words to our halves. Declarations of love can be said not in words (after all, at a solemn moment, all the most tender phrases can fly out of a head in love). Therefore, their mur-mur-phrases can be written on notes- roll these notes into rolls and hide them in paper rosebuds on this valentine craft below.

See how beautiful - each twisted paper bud contains a small white twist note. This craft with notes for Valentine's Day is easy and simple to do with your own hands. Now I’ll tell you exactly how to quickly and conveniently do such work with your own hands ...

We take a piece of thick cardboard (for example, a lid from a pizza box, it is just large). We buy in stationery packaging of red office paper(it is just double-sided and dense - what you need).

Paper is cut into wide stripes. Fold each strip in half ALONG(so that it is doubled - so the rosette will turn out thicker and more magnificent). And then we twist this double strip with a roll (around the pencil). We remove the twist from the pencil, loosen it slightly, let it unwind a little and fix the tail of the twist with glue(so as not to bulge).

We make a whole lot of such paper twists-roses - so that they all fill our cardboard heart tightly. And then we fix them on a cardboard base - you can use glue. BUT Better with double sided tape- it holds wonderfully - we cover the entire surface of the cardboard heart with strips of adhesive tape, remove the protective film on this sticky base poke our roses. Then we put a note with warm words, promises, confessions, heartfelt vows and intimate hints into each bud ...

The second craft with a note.

HEART WITH A SECRET.

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

Here is a detailed master class on making such a VALENTINE WITH A SECRET.

We take a square sheet of paper - and fold it in half - lengthwise and across. So that it quadruples along the folds - cross to cross (as in the first photo).

We bend the lower edge of the square up to the middle horizontal fold line (photo 2).

Turn the sheet over, down this fold (photo 3). Then we bend the right and left corner to the vertical midline (photo 4).

Again, turn the sheet over with the other side up, corner down (as in photo 5). And bend the upper corners to the middle vertical line (photo 6 and 7).

And again, these same upper corners - once again we bend to the middle vertical line (photo 8).

And now our module (which has the shape of a hexagon) is bent in half. That is, the upper corner of the hexagon lies on its lower corner. And then such ends appear at the top (photo 9).

These protruding ears-ends need to be folded (as shown in photo 10) - that is, we put 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 flattened out (as in 11 photos).

Now look at our module has 2 layers - 2 triangular halves lying one on top of the other. We take the upper triangular half and put it in the POCKET on the lower triangular half (there is just such a wonderful pocket (photo 12, 13).

There was a small touch left. Modify the shape of the ears sticking up above 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 begin to have a terangular 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 all the valentine's with your own hands is already ready - we turn it over to the front side.

You will find even more paper heart folding techniques on our website in a special article.

And we continue...

VALENTINE ENVELOPES

With your own hands 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 a future Valentine, as in the photo below. You can copy the picture or draw it yourself according to the model. Sizes can be any (for your task) - the main thing is to keep the proportions. That is, the width of the half of the heart should match half the width of the central rectangle of the envelope itself. All other sizes can be any under the size of your letter.

In such a valentine envelope, you can put a small gift - for example, earrings. Prick earrings on cardboard in the form of a heart (for example, from beautiful velvet cardboard) - make two holes and put earrings into them. And put this velvet heart with earrings inside such an envelope. Healthy and beautiful.

You can make the envelope simpler. Here's one. Cut out a heart from cardboard or thick gift paper. Draw a rectangle inside the heart - so that the HEIGHT rectangle and HEIGHT zones above m were EQUAL.

That is it is not necessary to copy this template exactly from the 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 should be equal to the height of the zone that is located above this rectangle. And everything else doesn't matter. You will get an envelope in any case.

And 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 put the stencil of the palm so that the fold line falls on the back edge of the palm. We circle 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 the paper heart we paste (folded). We write a love note or kind words to a loved one on a paper heart.

And when we want to make a gift for Valentine's Day, then the envelope will not be enough. We need a whole box so that we can put a three-dimensional object (souvenir or gift) in it.

So let's see what simple valentine boxes we can cut and fold from a sheet of cardboard or flat paper.

VALENTINE BOXES

How to DIY

Heart shaped boxes.

Here is the first version of a simple heart-shaped box that is easy to make with cardboard. You can see a stencil template for such crafts for Valentine's Day in the diagram below.

And if the same template is slightly changed. Then you can make just such a Valentine 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 DIRECT - that is, have 90 degrees. And the intermediate walls (between the hearts) should not have a pointed bottom - but instead they should have the same straight walls as 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 (and not triangular) and the hearts themselves have an angle of 90 degrees (so that they can be closed by thrusting into each other).

Therefore, go to this thematic article to learn how to quickly and easily make such boxes with your own hands.

And since I started about heart boxes, I need to tell you a little about what you can put in them. Below are some beautiful DIY FILLINGS ideas for these valentine boxes.

You can put crochet heart toys in the box. For example, in the form of delicious puffy donuts, decorated with knitted icing and beaded sprinkles. Such toys can be used as Christmas tree pendants - that is, they will faithfully serve your family for a long time in every New Year's celebration.

You can bake real gingerbread hearts from dough, cover them with jelly red icing and decorate with white egg white and powdered sugar icing

Any recipe for gingerbread dough will work for such sweet valentines. We bake heart-shaped gingerbread. Cool down. In a saucepan we breed red jelly azure. Soak 40 grams of gelatin in 100 grams of cold water, into which 1 packet of food coloring was thrown. After swelling of the gelatin, heat the mixture in a water bath, but not to a boil. Immerse the whole gingerbread in this icing, with tweezers and put it on a dish in the refrigerator to solidify.

What if you don't like baking? You can buy ready-made square cookies in the store and decorate them with sweet mastic. Mastic dough is made in 1 minute - we buy Marmeloshow marshmallows in the store, heat them in the microwave - we get a sticky mass that looks like plasticine. We pour powdered sugar on the table - and in this powder (as if in flour) we knead our marshmallow dough. We get ready-made sweet mastic, from which you can fashion decor for cookies for Valentine's Day

We take a 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. We glue the squares on 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 sculpt hearts from it, decorate our sweet envelope. If there is no food coloring - it does not matter.- hearts can be cut from red marmalade.

Such sweet Valentines with your own hands can be made on the basis of waffles, cookies, cupcakes. We buy ready-made flour products and decorate them with sweet mastic from Marmeloshow marshmallows melted in the microwave (our Soviet marshmallow is not suitable - only bourgeois rubber).

Valentine's cards

With my own hands.

And here is a classic school paper heart craft. Wicker valentine in the form of a checkerboard weave of strips, threaded one through one.

This is how such a heart is made. We fold a white sheet of paper in half - cut out a HALF OVAL with scissors. We cut three or four, or five cuts at the oval - from the fold line and deep into the oval without going with scissors into the area of ​​\u200b\u200bits round top. We do the same with the red sheet of paper. And then we thread two modules alternating its strips, as shown in the diagram below.

This simple classic craft has found a lot of creative interpretations. Depending on the curvature of the strip - we can get a different weaving pattern ...

Let's see how it goes. If we modify the wicker module like this with rounded tubercles, then 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 adding 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 a creator ourselves and draw our braid lines at random. Assemble a Valentine craft and see what an unexpected pattern will come out in the end.

Moreover, we can decorate not only the wicker part of such a valentine with our own hands - we can also decorate the round EARS of the heart with curly carvings (as is done in the photo below).

DIY Valentines

TIERED ABUNDANCE.

Here's a Valentine's card that I really like. She looks very chic and rich. And it's very easy to do. Therefore, this valentine can be a topic for a lesson in kindergarten or a craft in the classroom at school.

Below I show the module for valentine-LADDER in three tiers.

We take a sheet of cardboard. And we fold it in three layers - that is, in a triple fold. Then we expand 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 folded parts of the strip, we cut it EXACTLY IN THE CENTER, reaching with scissors somewhere to the middle of the thickness of the strip.

The incisions of the strips are different - pay attention - in one strip, the incisions go with alternating bottom, top, bottom. And in the second strip, on the contrary, the incisions alternate like this - at the top, at the bottom, at the top.

Then our walls are dressed with these slots into each other. And we get the basis-backbone of the future do-it-yourself valentine crafts. And on this wicker base we stick hearts, flowers, lace, rhinestones and other decor made of paper and cardboard.

And it is not necessary to make three folds on this module. The accordion can have as many walls as you like - 4, 5, 6. The more, the more tiers with a hearty decor such a ladder craft will have.

Valentine pendant

Framed by hand.

You can make a very simple craft for Valentine's Day. We bend a sheet of white cardboard in half like a postcard. In one half we cut a square window so that the half becomes a frame for the future Valentine crafts. And now, inside such a vertically placed postcard, we hang a double heart made of cardboard.

We cut out two hearts from cardboard and hang them on a thread, piercing one and the second heart with two stitches.

Valentine crafts

Cardboard with paper flowers.

These are the ideas for DIY Valentines we have collected for you in this article. Good luck with your creativity, the way you get original crafts.
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Those who celebrate this holiday give each other flowers, sweets, romantic cards and heart-shaped toys.

Valentine cards are perhaps the most important part of Valentine's Day, having been a traditional element of the holiday for many years. They contain love poems or simply declarations of love.

If you turn on the imagination, then it is quite possible to create your own postcards and unusual gifts for Valentine's Day. We will help you create a unique and colorful valentine that will fully express your feelings.

How to make a valentine with your own hands. Fingerprint valentine.

Already from the picture you can understand that such a Valentine is very easy to make, while such an idea can have a deep meaning (for those who will look for it).

Such a valentine is so simple that even kids can make it.

Just cut out squares from thick paper or cardboard.

Dip in paint or gouache thumbs or index fingers, or apply a red color to them with a non-toxic red marker and leave your prints on a cut out square of thick paper, as shown in the image.

How to make paper valentines with your own hands. Owl Valentine.

This cute owl is made made entirely of paper hearts. You can make this valentine with your child.

You will need:

Three colors of paper (in this case green, purple and yellow paper)

Scissors

1. First, cut out one large heart from green paper.

2. Now cut out a bigger heart from purple paper.

3. Cut out 3 small hearts from yellow paper for the nose and paws.

4. To make the eyes, you need to cut out 2 medium hearts (see picture) in green and a little more purple.

5. You can make the pupils of an owl either out of paper or simply by gluing small buttons.

6. Glue all the details of the paper owl.

Gift for Valentine's Day. Valentine fortune teller.

There are 2 ways to make such an unusual and very original Valentine.

The first method is to make a paper structure and further decorate and color it.

The second is to print the template and assemble the design. The template can be found by visiting this link.

cook A4 paper. Make a square out of it and cut off the excess paper with scissors.

When you have made a fortune teller, you can write your wishes or confessions, decorate with hearts, use red colors for coloring. There are no limits to the imagination. You can also come up with a game for the paper fortune teller to indicate what you want to say or do.

How to make an origami fortune teller out of paper (video)

Crafts for Valentine's Day. Melted crayon valentines.

You will need:

colored crayons

Form(s) for baking

Oven

Colored cardstock or thick paper

Scissors

Markers, pen or pencils

1. Collect all the old crayons you have at home.

* If not available, you can purchase a small set.

2. Break the pencils into small pieces. The smaller the pieces, the better.

* You can divide colors into warm and cold, for example.

3. Prepare a silicone baking dish. Preferably in the shape of a heart. In it you will drown the crayons.

4. Fill the mold about 1/3 full with crayons.

5. Preheat the oven to 150 degrees and put the mold in it.

6. Remove after about 15 minutes and leave to cool.

7. When the crayons have hardened, gently pull them out and form.

8. Cut out a heart shape from thick cardboard. The shape should be larger than a heart of crayons.

9. Stick crayons on a paper heart and add a message like "You make my world a better place!".

* Before gluing the heart, you can wrap it neatly with a string, as in the picture. But this is not necessary, because. it will look bright and original.

What to give for Valentine's Day. Soapy Valentine.

And here is another original version of a valentine that will tell your loved one about your feelings.

In fact soap making is very interesting activity. In addition, such a valentine will not only be a beautiful and fragrant gift, but also useful.

For soap making, you will need a few special materials, which can be found in a specialty store or in an online store.

You'll need:

Soap base (100-150 g)

Food coloring (one or more colors)

Olive, almond or cocoa butter (1 teaspoon)

A little essential oil for fragrance

Special paper on which you write your confession, and then fill it with soap

The shape you will be pouring the soap into (preferably a heart shape)

1. Grind the soap base in an iron bowl.

2. Melt the crushed soap base in a water bath.

3. Now you need to add all the other ingredients to the soap mass.

4. Pour the mass from the iron container into the mold and leave to cool.

You can make several layers of different colors.

You can add ground coffee beans, cinnamon, and/or dried flowers to your soap making to give it a cosmetic touch.

Congratulations on Valentine's Day. Sweet valentine.

To celebrate Valentine's Day, there is an option to arrange, for example, a romantic dinner in a restaurant, or you can simply organize intimacy at home.

In case you chose the second option, you can cook something special for your loved one, but also simple at the same time.

In addition to the usual things for a romantic table like wine, chocolate and strawberries, you can add, homemade spicy valentines.

These sweet spicy valentines can be made using one of the many recipes that can be found on cooking portals.

Here is one of those recipes:

Heart shaped cookies

Such edible hearts are suitable not only for the table, but also as a gift or for decoration. You can make a garland out of them or just hang them, decorating them with bows. Ingredients (for 2 pans):

6 art. spoons of honey

6 art. spoons of sugar

200 grams of butter

0.5 teaspoon of soda

3-3.5 cups flour

1 st. cinnamon spoon

1 st. spoon of ginger

0.5 st. spoons of cardamom

1. Prepare a heavy bottomed saucepan. Put in it 6 tbsp. l. honey and 6 tbsp. l. Sahara.

2. Add to container 1 s. l. cinnamon, 1 s. l. ginger, 0.5 tsp cardamom.

3. Place the pot on the stove and bring to a boil, stirring all the time.

4. Remove from heat and add butter, cut into small pieces. Stir until butter melts.

5. Prepare 3 cups of flour. Pour it on the table in a slide and add 0.5 tsp. soda.

6. Pour the slightly cooled mixture from the pan into the middle of the hill and knead the dough.

7. Using a rolling pin, roll out the dough. You should get a layer about 1 cm thick.

8. Use cookie cutters to cut out hearts, bears, bunnies, etc. from the dough.

* You can make holes using cocktail straws so that after cooking these cookies can be hung somewhere.

9. Prepare a baking sheet and cover it with parchment. Put cookies on it and put it in the cold for 20 minutes.

10. Preheat the oven to 180 degrees and start baking the cookies for 10 minutes.

* Don't wait until the cookies are golden brown, otherwise they will be hard.

11. Decorate your cookies with colorful icing or various sprinkles, for example.

* You can connect all the hearts with a beautiful ribbon and you will have a garland.

* You can cook one bigger heart and decorate it with a bow - you will get a beautiful symbolic gift for your soul mate on Valentine's Day.

* If you don't want or can't bake these valentines, try buying heart cookies and just attach a note of appreciation to each one.

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You can make a Valentine for February 14 with your own hands. This article offers many interesting options for creativity.

Valentine - obligatory attribute of the holiday of all lovers on February 14. Even if you do not give a gift to anyone on this day, you must give a valentine to your loved one, a friend, a parent, or even a stranger. Not giving a Valentine on Valentine's Day is a bad omen that dooms you to loneliness and misunderstanding throughout the year.

In modern stores, a person can find a wide variety of valentines: large and small, postcards and flyers, in the shape of a heart or a rectangle, decorated and simple valentines. But, all of them are exactly the same, as they are the product of the work of printing publications. What is the best way to give and receive as a gift? handmade valentine.

A handmade valentine is product of incredible beauty, as well as a real, sincere declaration of love. Don't be afraid to make your own postcards, because The activity is fun and creative. You can make any of your fantasies come true. To help beginners and professional needlewomen come famous decor techniques:

• scrapbooking
• Craquelure
• quilling
• Decoupage
• Embroidery
• Application and more.

Before you start your work, you should definitely familiarize yourself with the ideas of creating valentines with your own hands in order to understand and decide for yourself which one you want to see the future postcard. After that it is desirable draw a tentative design on a draft, pick up and get to work.

One of the most popular card decorating techniques is quilling. quilling- this is a kind of three-dimensional application of thin colored paper ribbons twisted into a coil and glued to the surface.

With quilling, you can create patterns and drawings of incredible beauty: monograms, floral motifs, figurines, even writing words. You will need to work quilling set(a thin wooden stick and a set of colored ribbons), as well as glue with which you will attach the pattern (usually hot or rubber glue is used, as well as instant drying glue).

Quilling valentines:

Valentine's card with floral quilling motifs

Openwork valentine in quilling technique

Simple and stylish quilling valentine

Valentine card - a postcard decorated using quilling technique

Unusual valentine in the technique of quilling "seals"

Pattern on a quilling valentine card

Another spectacular and popular idea for creating a festive valentine is voluminous postcard. This method allows you to make a real work of art from a simple sheet of paper or cardboard. All you need is a base for a valentine, scissors and a pattern by which you can cut out the pattern.

In addition to the three-dimensional pattern, the postcard can also be decorated with ribbons, pebbles or beads, sprinkled with sparkles or glued paper appliqué with drawings. They will add special meaning and charm to the postcard congratulatory inscriptions, printed on the printer, cut and glued.

Valentine card with voluminous hearts

Variants of voluminous postcards for February 14

Valentine's card with three-dimensional figures and a pattern

Valentine's card with a three-dimensional inscription

Postcard for February 14 with a valentine inside

One of the most beautiful handicraft techniques scrapbooking. Postcards made with the help of are of incredible beauty, an abundance of decorative ornaments and special elegance. In addition, this technique is not difficult and all it requires is your inspiration and imagination.

In the work you will need a lot of different decorations that you can find in any art store ribbons, beads, lace, beads, gold and silver threads, inscriptions, flowers, pictures, golden dust and sparkles, as well as much more.

Before starting your work, you should get acquainted with ideas and examples of ready-made valentinos and only then proceed to create the design of your product. Sketch a tentative sketch of the finished postcard on the draft, taking into account all the decor you have. All decorations should be attached to the base with “powerful” glue (hot, rubber or instant dry glue).

Scrapbooking valentine ideas:

Valentine's card in the shape of a heart, scrapbooking technique

Beautiful valentine in scrapbooking technique

Easy Scrapbooking: Valentine Ideas

Stylish scrapbooking valentines Postcard decorated using scrapbooking technique for February 14

Do-it-yourself valentines - master class: photo

There are many options and ideas for creating holiday valentines: from simple to complex. Enjoy great popularity hanging valentines, that is, those that can be received as a gift and hang on the wall, as well as any other surface.

You can make a simple, but very effective hanging valentine from a set of simple materials and tools: red cardboard, pink colored paper (or pink quilling ribbons), scissors, glue and a wooden skewer.

Cut out a heart of your preferred shape and size from cardboard (postcard or just a figurine). The quilling ribbon should be cut on one side many times (see photo). Gradually wind the quilling serpentine onto a thin skewer, smearing each turn with PVA glue. The finished flower should be removed from the skewer, crush its base so that it finds a flat bottom.

IMPORTANT: The flower is attached to the postcard with PVA glue. You can attach flowers to the entire area of ​​the cut out heart, you can decorate only the edges, or even “write” a three-dimensional word.

Do-it-yourself step-by-step postcard from paper and cardboard

If you are not good at needlework, but want to make a beautiful and elegant Valentine, drawing will help you! Postcards "in the spirit of minimalism" are very popular lately. The main thing is to make a bright accent that compensates for the “emptiness” of your product.

For work you will need:

• A sheet of thick cardboard, you can with a pattern. This will be the basis for the postcard.
• Sheet of paper (any, for the template)
• Paints for drawing (any)
• Tassel or heart-shaped signet

Work step by step:

• From a sheet of cardboard, fold a postcard-book
• Cut out a heart shape from paper. To do this, you just need to fold the sheet in half and cut out half of the heart. Opening the leaf, you will get a proportional heart pattern.
• From another sheet of paper or cardboard, cut out a small heart and glue a match to it. This will be a signet - a tool for leaving a drawing.
• Overlay the cutout heart template on the front of your postcard.
• In the palette, dilute the paint of red and pink.
• The resulting print should be dipped in liquid paint and leave a pattern inside the template. If you do not want to make a print, you can draw hearts with a regular brush.
• Press the template firmly against the card so that the ink from the print does not flow under the paper and leave streaks.
• After you print a large number of small hearts, remove the template and wait for the paint to dry completely.
• When the drawing is dry, sign the postcard. Valentine is ready!

Do-it-yourself Valentine card from simple materials

Valentine - heart in hands with your own hands

Valentine's card "heart in hands" is very popular because it is a fairly simple product, but at the same time a spectacular postcard. You can make such a postcard, both from plain paper and from cardboard.

You will need the following materials and tools:

• A sheet of cardboard or paper.
• Paints or felt-tip pens for coloring Valentine.
• Scissors for cutting (preferably nail scissors - they will help to cut out each element in detail).
• Simple pencil drawing pattern.

Step-by-step work on creating a valentine "heart in hands" and a template for cutting:

Work description Template for cutting

IMPORTANT: The finished product can be decorated to your liking with any decorations and methods. Be sure to sign the valentine inside with your hand.

Finished product: valentine "heart in hands"

Do-it-yourself valentines from paper to school: templates

Together with your child, you can make beautiful and original valentines out of paper for a contest or just to give them to your friends. Such postcards will be much more beautiful than purchased ones and it will be a pleasure for every classmate to receive them.

For example, try making a simple paper card out of a single piece of paper or cardboard. Cut it out according to the template and color it as you wish. Sign with your hand or stick a printed inscription. If desired, you can sew a ribbon-loop to the card so that the Valentine can be hung.

A simple paper valentine for children and adults

Ordinary sewing or knitting threads can also serve as a great idea for creating a festive valentine card. Use a sheet of cardboard as a base. Its front part will be decorated with a heart. For work, choose contrasting colors, for example:

• White paper - red thread
• Red paper - white thread

With PVA glue on the front of the postcard, draw a heart. It is convenient to do this with a brush. You should apply a thick layer so that it does not have time to dry. Unwind the thread in advance and gradually, layer by layer, lay the thread on the glue to get a lush and tangled figure. On the other hand, if you use knitting thread, you can carefully lay out each stripe and get a beautiful figure.

Finished product: a valentine with a heart made of threads on paper

With the help of a thread and paper appliqué (colored, craft or even packaging), you can create a huge number of options for congratulatory valentines. Here are some examples:

Paper and thread valentine: heartbeat

Valentine card from two sheets of paper: applique

Postcard-book for February 14 from colored hearts and thread "brushwood"

As a decor for a paper card, you can use any decorations: beads, ribbons, coffee beans, eggshells (craquelure), felt, fabric, lace and much more.

February 17 paper card decorated with coffee beans

If you have the opportunity to buy cardboard or art paper, you can create cards of incredible beauty. As a rule, such paper has a variety of patterns, prints and patterns.

Paper valentines for friends

SECRET: If you do not have such paper, you can print it on a printer. To do this, in the browser search engine, type in “background February 14” and select any picture. Or, use the suggestions in this article.

Background: paper hearts

Background: lettering for Valentine's Day

Ideas for creativity: background for February 14

Background: blue with hearts

Background: white with hearts

Background: painted hearts

Ideas for creativity: a calendar for February 14

Do-it-yourself valentines from pattern fabric

If you want to move away from the stereotypes and patterns of familiar paper cards, ideas for creating fabric valentines will help you. A modern valentine does not have to be in the form of a booklet or a leaflet. Why not sew it from felt or textiles?

Such a souvenir will be able to pleasantly surprise the person to whom you give it. The most common form of a fabric valentine is a heart, because it is a symbol of the holiday and the person in love. This souvenir can be hung anywhere in your home and stored, regardless of the calendar date - it will always please the eye and give pleasant emotions.

Variety of fabric valentines

How a fabric valentine should look like is up to you. The most common are:

• Keychains in the form of hearts, bears or birds
• pendants
• pads
• Wreaths on the wall
• Toys

Different types of fabric valentines

Patterns of valentines from fabric:

Valentine cat: pattern Mouse-Valentines: patterns

Heart-Valentine: pattern

DIY fabric heart using decoupage technique Valentine cat: pattern Valentine: pattern

Do-it-yourself valentine for mom: ideas, photos

Children love Valentine's Day very much, not because they are in love with someone, but because on this day you can tell your mother how much they love her. This is done not only with the help of words, but also by means of a beautiful homemade valentine.

There are several bright and original ideas to make a beautiful Valentine. For this, thick paper and some decorative elements (beads, ribbons, lace and much more) are useful.

A simple but very touching postcard is obtained from one sheet of paper and scissors. To do this, use double-sided colored paper. Fold the sheet in half and place your hand on the front of the card. Circle it with a pencil.

IMPORTANT: The circled hand on one side must necessarily touch the fold of the postcard, it does not need to be cut, it will fasten the valentine.

When folded, the card will only look like a hand, but when mom opens it, she will see a heart depicted by two hands and this surprise will please her. In addition, you can write wishes and declarations of love on the inside of the card.

A simple DIY valentine for mom

Another way suggests you to do hanging postcard, which you can decorate the house on a holiday. For this valentine you will need:

• Three sheets of colored paper (for example, pink, red and white).
• Glue (preferably dry glue stick)
• Scissors
• Small thin ribbon

Choose a color for the base of the card and cut out a big heart. On the other two, you should trace your hand with open fingers as carefully as possible. Both paper hands are cut out and stacked on top of each other to form a heart.

IMPORTANT: Before gluing the heart from the cut out hands to the base, insert a thin ribbon in the form of a loop under them.

Do-it-yourself valentine from children's hands

Other ideas for creating baby valentines:

Paper valentine decorated with buttons

Valentine applique

Valentine card with colorful hearts

Do-it-yourself voluminous valentines: ideas, photos

Volumetric postcards can be divided into two main types:

• Postcards with three-dimensional decor
• Surprise cards

In the first case, we are talking about an unusual decoration of the front of the product: flowers, figurines, lace, and so on. The easiest way to make a pattern using the quilling technique is the most affordable and easy-to-use decor.

With the help of paper strips, you can write words, make lace patterns, hearts, flowers and any shapes. The contrasting use of colors will help to make a postcard of incredible beauty.

The most spectacular and not complicated will be a postcard, decorated with simple serpentines made of thin strips of paper. Just draw or cut out a certain shape and seal the space inside it with twisted ruffles.

Volumetric valentine with the inscription "love"

Volumetric valentine with a heart in the form of a serpentine

simple voluminous valentine

Do-it-yourself valentines with children

By creating valentines for children and adults together with your child, you teach him not only that this holiday should be respected and honored with its traditions. But, and instill in him a love of creativity.

Spend enough time to create really beautiful card for February 14. Surprise your child with unusual valentine ideas. Show how diverse and creative creativity can be.

• Valentine's Topiary
• Valentine card with envelopes (in which you can place surprises or ordinary compliments on notes).
• Valentine cards decorated with appliqués, ribbons and decor.
• Valentine frames on the wall

Valentine ideas:

Valentine's Topiary

Valentine's card with envelopes

Valentine card with decor and applique Valentine card - frame on the wall

Video: "How to make a beautiful valentine for Valentine's Day. - Postcard for February 14"

Most lovers make valentines with their own hands from paper. There are many ways to make a valentine with your own hands from a variety of materials - cardboard, salt dough, felt, and even sweets.

The history of the most romantic holiday - Valentine's Day

Whether it was true or not, the legend of the cruel emperor Claudius remained forever, who saw a warrior in every young man, and not a family man, and therefore imposed a strict ban on marriages.

But love will always find a way: even on the battlefield, lovers were able to unite in sacred bonds thanks to the holy father Valentine. He married many happy couples before he was exposed and put to death. And no matter how many years have passed since then, his name is not forgotten. Every year, Valentine's Day, or 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.

Postcard with a heart and roses

You can just cut a heart out of it. And you can make this heart part of a postcard by decorating it with impromptu rosebuds. Roses are cut out of paper rolled into a tube.

Glue the roses on the base - a heart.

We decorate the card with twisted green paper elements. A beautiful card for Valentine's Day with roses is ready!

Heart shaped paper valentine

From paper, you can make a very beautiful card in the shape of a heart. To do this, we need blanks as in the photo.

We glue on a red openwork heart pink. On the reverse side, you can also glue a red heart just like a mirror (this will add volume to the craft).

Glue a congratulatory inscription.

Glue the frame and a small heart on the side. Do-it-yourself valentine is ready!

You can make a real beautiful card for Valentine's Day. To do this, we decorate another red heart and attach it to our valentine using a special rivet (it can be found in scrapbooking kits)

Valentine's card with palms and a heart with your own hands

This valentine with palms will be a very gentle touching gift. We glue two layers of white and purple paper so that the purple layer protrudes slightly beyond the white.

We cut out a heart from red paper and fold it with an accordion.

Glue a heart and flowers to the palms. We glue a congratulatory inscription or a declaration of love at the bottom.

You can decorate a paper heart in an even more original way - with miniature chrysanthemums, which are easily made from cut paper strips. We cut pink paper into strips and make cuts along one of the edges. We wind the strip on a stick, fixing the tip with glue.

We straighten the ends a little - we get a delicate pink flower. We make a lot of these flowers.

We cut out a heart from red paper and decorate it with our flowers. Inside there can be a congratulation and a declaration of love!

Heart - valentine with roses

We cut out a heart from red cardboard and make holes along the edges. We sew the edge of the heart with a ribbon.

Cut out a circle from yellow paper. We twist it and fasten it with a stapler according to the model.

Glue the stems, leaves and flowers onto the heart. We decorate the lower part with a ribbon. We get a chic valentine with flowers.

Cardboard and rhinestone valentines

Cardboard valentines look even more original and thorough, especially those decorated with glue rhinestones and sequins. We cut out hearts from thick cardboard and color them.

When the paint dries, glue beautiful large rhinestones.

Hearts can be made in any color scheme. We will get a very simple and bright valentine.

Valentine's card from sequins

You can make an ordinary paper heart fabulously beautiful by gluing bright shiny sequins on it.

You can cover the entire surface of a paper heart with sequins - this will make it elegant and airy.

And you can also make a decoration in the form of a valentine for February 14: with your own hands you just need to glue a stick - a holder to a finished or homemade heart.

We get a very beautiful decoration in the shape of a heart.

No less original idea - multi-layered valentines made of thin papyrus paper. It is enough to cut several identical hearts.

Lay them in a pile and sew in the center.

We straighten our voluminous hearts. Ready! You can tie threads to them and use them as decorations.

A valentine's card looks even more interesting - a souvenir made of beads and beads. For our heart, we used beads and chenille wire.

We string the first bead and fix it with a knot.

We string the remaining beads one at a time and fasten the ends of the chenille wire. We bend the wire in the form of a heart.

Salt dough lovers can take it as the basis of their hearts. Knead the salt dough and roll it out. Cut out hearts using cutters.

Dry the hearts in the oven.

Color the hearts with red paint.

While the paint is not frozen, sprinkle the hearts with red sparkles.

Salt dough valentines easily turn into pendants and key chains.

Watch how to make a valentine heart from salt dough in the video:

And from corrugated paper and foam, you can make a voluminous heart decorated with ribbons. Cut out the base of the craft from foam.

We decorate the base with corrugated paper. Using double-sided tape, glue along the edges of the ribbon and ribbon.

It can be an excellent base for sweets. We also fix it on the heart with double-sided tape. We got a wonderful decoration and a delicious gift for Valentine's Day.

Watch how to make a candy valentine in the video:

Valentines made in the popular scrapbooking technique look very interesting. Cut out a heart folded in half from colored scrapbooking paper. We glue on it an openwork red snowflake and a pattern with a heart.

We glue the figure of an angel and decorate the composition with paper flowers and ribbon.

You can use those materials and inscriptions that you have available. The main thing in scrapbooking is layering.

An alternative to them can be quilling hearts that will decorate any postcard. From special paper ribbons for quilling we twist colored rolls.

We have rolls on a cardboard base in the shape of a heart.

We glue our heart on the base of the postcard, cardboard folded in half. We supplement the card with flowers, lace, a heart and a congratulatory inscription. These little decor items can be found at an art and hobby store.

See how to make a quilling valentine pendant:

Felt valentines

Felt is one of the most favorite materials for creativity. Felt valentines are very tender and touching. To make valentines, we cut out two large identical hearts and one smaller heart from colored felt.

We process the edges of a small heart with stitches and decorate it with decorative stitches and a button. We sew it to a big heart. We also decorate a large heart with stitches and beads. Next, we sew two large hearts together, leaving a small hole. We fill the heart with padding polyester and sew up the hole.

A very original valentine can be made from wire and beads. For work, we need an easily bending wire of medium thickness. It is most convenient to work with wire using small pliers.

For those who want to turn a Valentine into a real gift, there is such an option as a topiary. It can be a simple topiary in the form of a voluminous cardboard heart planted in a flower pot. To make such a topiary, we glue or sew several hearts in the center. We straighten them and fasten them to the rod. We decorate the rod with leaves and ribbon.

We fix the rod in the pot

We decorate the bottom in a pot with sisal. We get a very effective gift for Valentine's Day.

Topiary with coffee hearts

Or maybe a more original product in the form of a voluminous coffee tree - a heart. For crafts, we need foam hearts. We paint them brown and glue them with threads and coffee beans.

We fix the branches in a pot

We fix hearts on the top of the branches. It remains to decorate the topiary with bows. A very elegant gift for Valentine's Day - ready!

Whatever idea you focus on, remember the main thing: this valentine will always be the best for its addressee, because it will retain a piece of your love and warmth.

Valentine's card can be decorated with another symbol of Valentine's Day - an angel.

Drawing "angel"

Do-it-yourself valentines on video:

Beautiful valentine with flowers with your own hands (mobile).

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The holiday of lovers, along with its paraphernalia, is quite firmly rooted in our country. Any person who knows how to use scissors knows how to make a heart out of paper for this holiday. But few people know how to turn it into a bright and unforgettable declaration of love.

Stunning variety of valentine hearts

A valentine or heart-shaped card is a great way to confess your feelings. But who said that it can only be made of paper? Away with patterns and stereotypes - you can use any materials at hand to create it. Now you will see for yourself.

Quilling paper heart

Delicate openwork valentine is a silent confession of sincere sympathy.

To create it you will need:

• scissors "zigzag";
• a set of pink paper for quilling;
• thick white cardboard;
• toothpick;
• PVA glue;
• tassel;
• paper knife.

On thick cardboard, draw a heart of the desired shape and size. Cut it out with zigzag scissors.

Inside the big heart, draw a smaller one and cut it out with a paper cutter. You should end up with a cardboard base less than 1 cm wide.

Twist the spirals from paper strips with toothpicks. They can be of different sizes and colors. Place the finished spirals inside the cardboard heart base and fasten the PVA together.

Cover the filled heart with a brush on one side with glue, smearing the spirals and their junctions with cardboard. Carefully remove excess glue with a paper towel.

Fill the empty spaces inside the heart with small spirals and glue them. You need to dry the heart on an oilcloth or file so that it does not stick to the base.

A dried valentine can be decorated as you wish: paint the cardboard outline or carefully separate it, leaving only an openwork heart, tie a ribbon or string - be guided by your imagination.

Valentine's card with small sweets

Do you want to make a small gift with taste? Surprise your significant other with a cool valentine's card with dragee candies inside. Such a gift will be most appreciated by the sweet tooth.

For work you will need:

• colored paper;
• scissors;
• glue or stapler;
• dragee.

You can print heart templates with inscriptions on colored paper or draw and sign them by hand.

Cut out the blanks along the contour.

Glue them in pairs or connect their edges with a stapler or sew with threads, leaving a small hole for filling with sweets.

Pour more candy inside the heart.

Tape or staple the hole.

Sweet valentine is ready to win hearts.

If you want to especially surprise your chosen one, pick up a dragee to match the color of a paper heart.

Valentine paper card

A romantic postcard is a traditional gift for Valentine's Day. But to do it yourself is a very unconventional, but the right decision. Such a valentine will eloquently show how dear you are to the person to whom you are showing signs of attention.

For work you will need:

• white cardboard;
• a sheet of thick brown wrapping paper (kraft paper);
• a set of paper for scrapbooking (colored paper with patterns and pictures);
• Ruler and pencil;
• scissors;
• glue;
• thick nylon thread.

Fold a sheet of white cardboard in half. This is the base of the postcard.

Cut out a small square from wrapping paper. Make an envelope out of it and fix it with glue.

Leave the top open.

From wrapping paper, cut out a tag with a small hole. Sign it with the name of the person to whom the card is intended. Glue it and the envelope onto the cardboard base.

From scrap paper, cut out hearts of different colors and sizes. Stick them on a postcard. Try to give the impression that they are flying out of an open envelope.

Cut off a piece of nylon thread or thin lace. Glue or tie one end to the tag, and fix the other inside the envelope. The original postcard is ready. It remains only to write a romantic wish inside.

More :

Do you think it's too simple and banal? Then watch the video tutorial for creating a unique voluminous postcard. It will be a wonderful gift for your loved one.

Fragrant valentine made from coffee beans

An exclusive heart with the aroma of coffee will be an unforgettable gift not only for Valentine's Day, but also for any memorable date. This craft is easy to turn into a decorative element, a fridge magnet or a mirror pendant.

For work you will need:

• whole grains of coffee and cloves;
• thick cardboard;
• glue;
• scissors;
• twine or thin twine.

Draw an image of a heart on thick cardboard and cut it out along the contour. Glue the edges of the heart in two layers with twine. It is best to use a glue gun.

Glue along the contour of the coffee beans, then fill in the middle of the workpiece.

After filling the entire surface of the heart, glue the grains with a second layer to cover the translucent cardboard. Add cloves between the coffee beans. You can decorate the finished craft with ribbons, bows, glue a magnet or a piece of rope on the back to hang a souvenir.

The reverse side of the heart can be pasted over with colored paper, pasted a photo of the chosen one, write a wish or congratulation on the holiday. Complete the souvenir with a beautiful box - and an unusual gift is ready.

Melted wax crayon heart

Do you want to surprise your loved one with an original Valentine's card? Do you happen to have an unnecessary set of wax crayons for drawing at home? You will not believe, but from them you can create a unique valentine heart with a unique pattern. Just follow the step by step instructions.

For work you will need:

• multi-colored wax crayons;
• silicone heart shape for baking;
• thick cardboard;
• scissors;
• glue;
• pencils or markers.

Break the wax crayons into small pieces and fill them into ⅓ silicone heart molds.

In one mold, you can fill pieces of contrasting or harmonizing colors with each other.

Bake the crayons in an oven preheated to 150 degrees for about 15 minutes. Remove the mold and let the contents harden. Carefully remove the hardened hearts from the mold.

From white or colored cardboard, cut out hearts a little larger than the crayon blanks. On this cardboard base you need to stick small hearts.

Decorate the Valentines as you wish: you can add silk ribbons, gift inscriptions and other small decorative elements.

Unusual wall panel

Do you want to surprise your chosen one with a non-standard creative approach? Give him a picture of threads in the shape of a heart. It’s even difficult to call such a craft a valentine - this is a full-fledged gift for a husband or boyfriend on February 14th.

For work you will need:

• a board or piece of plywood with a wood grain;
• small nails and a hammer;
• scotch;
• dense threads of red color;
• varnish for wood;
• sandpaper and jigsaw.

First of all, you need to find a piece of board that is suitable for work. If there is no suitable size, then use a jigsaw to cut it to the desired size and sand the edges with sandpaper. Coat the workpiece with varnish and let it dry.

And you can do it even easier. Take a piece of plywood of the right size and glue it with wood texture self-adhesive - quickly and angrily.

Cut out a heart template from paper. Tape a paper template onto the prepared wooden base. Drive nails along its contour with an interval of 1 cm and remove the template. Trim the nails so they are the same height.

Randomly wind a thread around them - the job is done.

Such a beautiful heart with a piece of your soul will become an eloquent declaration of love without further ado.

Original valentines on the wall

Celebrate the upcoming holiday with interesting wall decor. Make a composition of large openwork hearts on a wire base. Even a beginner needlewoman can cope with such simple crafts.

For work you need:

• wire;
• pliers;
• glue gun;
• braid, lace, yarn, twine, rhinestones;
• decorative hooks.

Bend the wire into a heart shape using pliers. Connect the ends of the wire from below and twist the curl.

For the finished composition, you will need several hearts of different sizes. Each of them is better to arrange in different ways, using improvised decorative materials.

To make a lace heart, attach the tip of the braid with glue down to the heart. Next, wrap the base with lace, fixing it to the wire with glue. For the effect of airiness, do not fill the heart completely - leave gaps. At the end of the work, cut off the excess tape, and glue its end to the wire.

According to this scheme, decorate the rest of the hearts using the selected materials.

Fix decorative hooks on the wall, hang a heart on each of them.

The original composition is ready. She will delight not only the eyes, but also the hearts of loved ones.