How to decorate a Valentine card with your own hands from paper. DIY voluminous valentines

Hello friends!

The New Year and Christmas holidays have passed. And before we had time to rest, a new holiday was just around the corner - Valentine's Day. It is celebrated on February 14 all over the world.

And although this day is not a day off from work, you can celebrate it at home after work.

There are several legends and myths about the origin of this holiday. The most common of them is about the holy martyr Valentine, who lived in the third century in Rome. Then the Roman Emperor Claudius II forbade men from marrying so that they would not be burdened with a family and would fight better. But priest Valentin took pity on the unhappy lovers and secretly married everyone who came to him for help.

The emperor found out about this and put Valentin in prison. He was sentenced to execution on February 14. In prison, he met the jailer's daughter, Julia. Priest Valentin fell in love with a girl and before his death wrote her a declaration of love on paper - a Valentine card. The girl read it after the priest’s death.

Valentine - in most cases, these are cards in red and pink colors and in the shape of hearts, which symbolize passionate feelings, a declaration of love or a romantic congratulation.

Whether the beautiful legend is true or not is now impossible to find out. But it is known that the first Valentines appeared in England in the 18th century and the holiday became established as “Valentine’s Day.”

In Russia, this secular holiday arose in the 90s of the last century. On this day, couples in love arrange romantic evenings and give each other gifts expressing love and tender feelings.

Today, almost every store sells goods that symbolize tender passions and love in the form of beautiful hearts: mugs, cards, candies. But there is nothing better than giving your loved one a handmade card or heart.

Today in the article:

DIY paper valentines

The easiest way to make hearts is to make them out of paper or cardboard. Such materials are always available in the house, and even a child can handle the work.

Option number 1. Hearts in a jar

To do this, cut out small heart-shaped shapes from colored paper. We write a confession on each piece of paper and fold them in half so that the text is inside. Take a transparent, clean and dry jar, put the cards in there and close the lid. The lid of the jar can be decorated with a bright ribbon.

Option No. 2. Made from colored cardboard

This is one of the easiest ways to make a present for Valentine's Day - cut out these cute figures and hang them around the house.

Option number 3. Boxes

Any small gift can be packed in one of these funny boxes. These are easy to make according to the diagram. Simply print it out and transfer it to thick cardboard. Then cut and bend along the edges to form a box.

Option number 4. Volume cards

A beautifully made card will always bring joy to your loved one. It will help you make a declaration of love and tender feelings. By the way, you can express your feelings in poetry or song.

And below are the templates for the background of the cards. You just need to print them on a color printer and make an interesting card.

And I think everyone will appreciate this version of congratulations.

How to make a Valentine card from chocolate

A pleasant surprise can also be made delicious. And even if your loved one eats it, there will still be pleasant and tender impressions.

How to make a chocolate gift easily and simply - I. Making such chocolate figures is absolutely not difficult and all beginners can do it.

Beautiful heart made of chocolate.

Ice valentine

You can definitely surprise anyone with such a congratulation. Although the gift does not last long, it will bring great joy and help you express your love.

To make it, take any heart-shaped mold. We fill it with dry or fresh flowers and plants, fill it with water and put it in the freezer to freeze.

At the appointed time, we take it out, take it out of the mold and hand it to our dearest half. Well, we rejoice with her at this unusual gift.

Valentines from scrap materials

We make simple hearts with our own hands from felt. To do this, cut out 2 identical figures from felt and sew them on a sewing machine. We put padding polyester inside to make the product voluminous.

Here the product is trimmed with floss threads.

You can sew a regular heart and trim it beautifully with beads or beads. Such valentines are quite useful as keychains and they will always remind you of the giver’s love.

Here is an interesting option made of felt and beads on sticks. Very good to use as bookmarks. Or just put it in a vase for decoration on your desktop.

And here we cut out a heart from cardboard and wrap it along the contour with floss threads or red woolen or pink threads. A beautiful, cozy and soft product can be hung in any visible place. It looks very good if you make and hang 2 or 3 of these figures together.

Live valentine made of flowers

Everything is simple here too. We cut out a figure from thick cardboard and glue fresh flowers (these can be small roses) onto the cardboard very tightly to each other.

This is where a glue gun will come to your aid. And you won’t get your hands dirty and prepare a gift.

Wooden valentines

Original wooden hearts smell deliciously like fresh wood. Such templates can be purchased at almost any craft and hobby store, and then painted in colors. Or you don’t have to color it, but simply write a declaration of love by hand and hang it on a chain. It will look like an eco-friendly keychain.

All additional materials: hook, nails, lock and chain are also sold in handicraft stores.

Plywood hearts.

And such a thing can be made from wine bottle corks or from identical sawn tree branches.

It is enough to glue them to each other. Then you can use it as a hot stand or as an interior decoration.

Soap Valentines

It’s easy to buy ready-made kits for making soap at home. And also heart-shaped molds suitable for the occasion.

A little work and a great present that smells delicious and looks beautiful is ready. It will definitely bring a lot of joy and pleasure.

Natural herbal soap also rejuvenates.

Video: Matchbox Valentines

Finally, another interesting idea - cute cards for Valentine's Day from simple matchboxes.

Enjoy watching!

In ancient Rome, Lupercalia was celebrated in honor of the fertility gods.

This is a special holiday, which began with an oracle, which, when asked what to do to increase the birth rate, announced the ritual of corporal punishment of women with belts made from the skin of sacrificial animals.

The connection between this holiday and Valentine's Day will be discussed in this article.

A little history

So, the celebrations were very loved by the ancient Romans.

After the feast, naked young men (lupercalia) ran around the city and hit women they met with whips. By the end of the evening, women were also naked.

The process of national extinction in Ancient Rome was actually solved with the help of lupercalia. These celebrations were banned with the advent of Christianity.

And then, instead of such a unique day of love, a celebration came in honor of the Christian priest - St. Valentine.

Marriage was prohibited in the army of Emperor Claudius. However, Saint Valentine secretly married the lovers. For this he was sentenced to death.

Now the celebration of Valentine's Day is secular. In Russia, this holiday became known quite recently - in the 20th century.

Valentine's Day

How did Valentine come about?

Valentine is a symbol of the holiday.

When Saint Valentine was awaiting execution in prison, he saw the beautiful daughter of the prison guard and fell in love with her. He wrote her a letter of recognition, and it is called the first Valentine.

In the 15th century, the Duke of Orleans wrote love letters to his wife from prison, and in the 18th century, declarations of love written on a heart-shaped card became known as “Valentines” and became widespread.

How to make a voluminous valentine with your own hands

A voluminous valentine is made from paper, fabric or buttons.

Such works do not require much skill, but they look great.

Card "Valentine's Heart"

A voluminous paper valentine is made from white thick cardboard and also from red paper.

That’s it – the “Valentine’s heart” talisman is ready!

Postcard “Lovers”

To make such a voluminous valentine, you need to prepare a template from thick paper, then carefully cut it out with a blade, bend it at the folds and glue it to a scarlet base.

Quilling style

Volumetric ones using quilling technique.

Using the quilling technique you can depict a voluminous heart. To do this, take narrow strips of colored paper (red0) and screw them onto a pencil.

The resulting paper ring is slightly pressed with your fingers, then loosened a little.

The resulting spirals are glued onto a prepared heart-shaped base.

You can also lay out a heart shape on a white cardboard card using spirals.

We use felt

The most fashionable trend is felt valentine pillows.

Prepared multi-colored small pillows in the shape of hearts made of felt are glued onto a base of thick cardboard and the original card for Valentine's Day is ready!

One large voluminous felt heart decorated with beads is also a great idea for a voluminous valentine!

Balloon valentine

Volumetric valentine heart made of balloons.

A garland is woven from inflated balloons of the same diameter in a “four” pattern.

The garland is then shaped into a heart shape. A wire frame is used for this.

A great option for decorating a room for celebrating Valentine's Day.

Valentine's card from flowers

Volumetric Valentine heart made of flowers.

This option for making a common gift for Valentine's Day is suitable for a young man in love.

To make a valentine, a wire frame is used; roses purchased in advance and prepared by florists for such a craft are placed on it.

Such a valentine will definitely win the heart of your beloved!

Valentine card made from artificial flowers

You can make a voluminous valentine from roses yourself by replacing real roses with fabric flowers.

Roses made of scarlet fabric are glued to a base made of thick cardboard. This valentine can be made in different sizes - from very small for wearing on the chest, to large for interior decoration.

After the New Year, everyone is waiting for the approaching day of everyone who is in love and happy. On this day, it is customary to present loved ones with Valentines - beautiful heart-shaped cards or appropriately decorated souvenirs. Making a postcard is not difficult, and you do not need to have any special skills or knowledge, but the result can be impressive.

Paper Valentines

This is the first and simplest thing that comes to mind. If you have colored paper or whatman paper, watercolors or simple markers, you can make wonderful Valentines with your own hands from paper, decorating them with what you can find at home - buttons, straps, threads, bugles and sequins.

A simple version of Valentine's card

What may 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 heart

What you can't do without:

colored paper;
scissors;
glue.

Stages:

Make a small envelope from colored paper.
Put a message in it. Cut out a heart from paper of a different color and stick it on top of the envelope.
The craft is ready for the holiday.

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 mat as a base;
glue.

Stages:

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

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

Original options for Valentine's cards

Cards for Valentine's Day will turn out unique if you turn on your imagination and use original options and different decor. Cardboard gifts using the quilling technique are popular.

Candy Valentines

To make a Valentine's card from 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, we offer Valentine’s master class, for which you will need:

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

Stages:

Place the sponge on the wrapping paper and trace. Duplicate. On each side of the workpiece, retreat 1 cm and cut. This will result in two pieces of wrapping paper.
Coat both hearts on the wrong side with glue and fix them on a floral sponge. The sides of the paper should be adjacent to the side parts of the foam rubber, and to do this it can be cut in several places and fixed with glue.
Glue double-sided tape around the perimeter of the heart. Corrugated paper, which is covered with a satin ribbon on top, will help hide it from view. When fixing it, you need to leave free ends 15-20 cm long. A bow will be tied from them.
Using glue, fix the candies on the surface of the heart, decorating them with a special fabric for decoration.

One of the most beautiful and romantic holidays is rightfully considered Valentine's Day or Valentine's Day, celebrated on the fourteenth of February. It is for this significant event that couples in love are preparing with bated breath and even people who have been married for more than one year, in a desire to please their beloved half, are also looking for creative ideas for original gifts.

An unchanging tradition of the holiday are valentines - tender or funny little cards or symbolic crafts that are presented to a loved one as a sign of eternal love. But it will be much more valuable and romantic if you don’t buy it, but make valentines yourself, especially since it’s not at all difficult, and we will definitely help you with original ideas.

You also need to make gifts for Valentine's Day with your own hands if you want to really surprise your lover or beloved in the good sense of the word.

The history of the creation of valentines is quite controversial, but it is known for certain that they were written back in the fifteenth century, only then they were not just beautiful crafts, but real works of art with lace undercuts and handmade color painting.

Then, gradually, the tradition of creating such declarations of love began to gain more and more popularity, until finally, in the nineteenth century, valentines gained mass production. However, by doing so, gifts for loved ones on February 14 were completely depersonalized.

Today, the tradition of making crafts for Valentine's Day is making a comeback again, which means that you will show an especially warm attitude and show how strong your feelings are if you try to make valentines with your own hands.

You can find a lot of options for such an occasion. Here are the simplest ones:

Heart-shaped cards with beautiful poems or declarations of love never go out of fashion, especially since they can be made using any technique you like - quilling, scrapbooking, in various styles, flat or three-dimensional, etc.;

if you have a lot of time, you can create a huge heart from a template, onto which you will need to glue a large number of small hearts - you will get a chic voluminous craft that your beloved girl will surely like;

paper hearts can also be useful for creating an entire picture or panel; they can be painted, decorated with beads, sequins, rhinestones, beads or sparkles;

the card does not have to be made of paper - very beautiful and original crafts are made from felt or other fabric - the principle of creation will be the same as in the case of working with paper;

also among the original paper crafts you can name a postcard with a decoration made of buttons, bookmarks, a homemade notebook or even a whole heart-shaped book with tender words and romantic confessions;

both your beloved girlfriend and your beloved boyfriend will undoubtedly love a heart-collage made from your joint photographs depicting the happiest or funniest moments - you just need to select suitable photos, cut out their various fragments and make a collage from them on a heart-shaped template;

The same valentine can be made electronically, as a slide show or video, which you will be happy to watch over and over again.

Crafts can also be used to decorate your home - by preparing a room or apartment in a romantic style, you will, of course, make a wonderful surprise and create a festive mood for your beloved girlfriend or boyfriend:

if you paste over a circle of white cardboard with multi-colored paper hearts, then you will get a wonderful craft in the form of a real wreath on the door for Valentine's Day;

a more complex option for making a valentine with your own hands is to make a lot of roses from paper or ribbons, and then form them into a heart-shaped wreath;

you can also string flat and voluminous hearts horizontally or vertically on threads and hang them like garlands;

from coffee beans you can make beautiful paintings, panels and topiaries in the shape of a heart, which will be an excellent decoration for your home - to create a topiary you just need to cut out hearts from polystyrene foam and decorate it to your taste with corrugated paper, ribbons and braid, decoupage it, paste it over beads or sparkles. The finished heart needs to be attached to a stick or wooden skewer and placed in a prepared container, which you also decorate and decorate, and the heart tree can be secured using alabaster or building plaster;

purchase plain mugs and plates and colored markers designed for drawing on ceramics and glass - create your own romantic set with declarations of love;

Another decor option that is indispensable for celebrating February 14th is candles - decorate them with heart-shaped stands or place them in glass containers covered with paper themed decor.

For those who love and know how to cook, there are many ideas for edible delicious crafts:

You can bake your own valentines in the form of heart cookies - take a simple recipe for shortbread cookies, and after preparing the dough and rolling it out, cut out small hearts, in which do not forget to make holes on top using a straw for juice - when the cookies are baked and cooled, tie each of them has a beautiful ribbon;

You can also prepare a romantic breakfast for your other half - cut out a heart in a slice of bread and bake fried eggs in this form, you can also fry the bread heart and put it next to it on a plate, complement the breakfast with bacon, orange juice or coffee;

It will look beautiful if you prepare a whole romantic tea party with themed decorations on the table, cut out in the shape of a heart, tea bags with good tea and sugar cubes with hearts painted with food coloring;

for gourmets, you can make mini-canapés from sausages cut into the shape of a heart and pierced with a skewer with olives at the ends, or try hearts made from cherry tomatoes;

the selection of romantic dishes for the holiday menu depends solely on your culinary abilities and the taste preferences of your loved one - perhaps it will be a huge heart cake or small cinnamon rolls in the shape of miniature hearts, pizza or sushi, fruit or cheese hearts on skewers, etc. .;

Those with a sweet tooth will definitely enjoy small Valentine's chocolates, a beautifully decorated jar full of multi-colored sweets or a bag with sweets specially made for February 14th, as well as a candy bouquet.

If you still haven’t decided on an option and are looking for how to make a Valentine card with your own hands, pay attention to the extraordinary ideas:

launch a sky lantern with your loved one and make a joint wish;

pour hearts out of jewelry resin and make jewelry out of them;

make soap in the shape of hearts;

make a romantic deck of cards - you can take regular cards or tarot, for example, the deck could be called “The Reasons Why I Love You”;

a valentine can be woven from beads, embroidered with threads or ribbons, drawn in the form of a picture, sewn or knitted;

prepare a bath with rose petals for your loved one;

propose to your other half - you definitely won’t find a more suitable occasion than Valentine’s Day.

Instead of a conclusion

The main condition that you need to understand before looking for an idea on how to make a Valentine card with your own hands is the willingness to sincerely demonstrate your feelings and the desire to please your dearest and most beloved person. Then you will definitely end up with an original and beautiful craft, and Valentine’s Day will become your favorite holiday and a good tradition of doing something nice for each other for your couple.

And if you don’t want to deal with decorating and organizing the holiday yourself, you can always turn to specialists, for example, here: http://vaspro.ru

Rida Khasanova

Valentine is heart shaped card with a declaration of love. There are many ready-made valentines made of paper and cardboard, beautiful and glossy, available for sale. But you can make a romantic card yourself, and the choice is not limited to paper.

What to make a valentine from: fabric, wood, polymer clay, using the isothread technique and artichoke. There are many options, and they are all individual in their own way.

It’s not at all difficult to make an original Valentine’s card for February 14th with your own hands, you just need to be patient and imaginative

Master class on making a beautiful valentine with your own hands - step by step

A beautiful handmade Valentine's card can be made using a magnet. Then her can be attached to the refrigerator, and it will please the eye for a long time. To prepare it you need:

white cardboard;
red paper;
a piece of lace;
red napkin;
large green beads;
magnetic tape or circle magnet;
green floss threads;
scissors;
needle;
stapler;
glue "moment".

Step-by-step preparation of Valentine's card:

Draw a heart of the desired size on white cardboard and cut it out.
On red paper, draw a rim that will be placed inside the heart along the edge, cut it out and glue it to the white heart.
Stick magnetic tape or a round magnet on the back side of the workpiece and press it with a heavy book for a while so that the tape is well attached.
Fold the red napkin into a square several times. Use a stapler to make a cross of staples in the center of the square. Round the edges with scissors. Fold each leaf over to make a fluffy flower.
Glue the flower onto a piece of lace.
Thread a green thread into a needle and sew beads to the flower, depicting a stem and leaf.
Glue the flower blank on the lace to the heart.

Super Valentine's card is ready!

How to make a beautiful wooden Valentine card with your own hands

A large valentine for your loved one, made with your own hands from thin plywood, is not difficult to make if you have the skills to work with a jigsaw.

MK for making an original valentine from plywood, what you will need:

plywood sheet;
pencil;
cautery on wood;
fine abrasive sandpaper.

Step-by-step preparation:

Draw a heart on a sheet of plywood. You can use a stencil or draw by hand. The shape of the heart does not have to be perfect; you can make it somewhat elongated or, conversely, very “plump”.
Cut out the heart using a jigsaw along the outline.
Sand the edges of the heart with sandpaper.
Using a simple pencil, draw a picture on the surface of the valentine, write a declaration of love. Or if you have a talent for drawing, paint a portrait of a loved one.
Using a wood burning machine, apply an image according to a previously drawn pattern.

Homemade valentine in the shape of a heart using the artichoke technique

A Valentine card made using the artichoke technique will become a kind of souvenir that will be preserved for a long time.

It will take about 2 hours to make such a gift, but the whole process will bring a lot of pleasant impressions

To make such a Valentine card with your own hands, required:

dense fabric – 20x40 cm;
filler (sintepon, cotton wool or holofiber);
scissors;
heart template;
a simple pencil;
sewing machine;
threads according to the color of the fabric;
needle;
stationery carnations;
six meters of orange satin ribbon;
30 cm red satin ribbon.

Step by step execution:

Fold the fabric in half with the wrong side up. Attach the heart template and trace it.
Cut the fabric along the contour.
Sew the two parts of the heart to each other using a connecting seam on a machine, making an indent of about 0.5 cm on the side, leaving an unstitched area.
Turn the heart right side out and fill it with holofiber or other filler. Hand stitch the hole.
Cut the orange ribbon into pieces of 6 cm each and wrap them into a triangle.
Attach two triangles to the sharp base of the heart using clerical nails. The triangles should be located on the sides of the heart and facing each other.
Fasten 2 more triangles around the first ones.
Continue to secure the triangles in the same way until there is no free space left on the form.
Attach a red ribbon bow on top of the “hole” of the heart.

Handmade fabric valentines for Valentine's Day

An original Valentine's card with a pocket for a sweet gift can be made from denim. A loved one will definitely appreciate such a surprise.

What do you need:

a piece of denim;
scissors;
paper;
PVA glue;
red corrugated paper;
a simple pencil;
gel paste refill for pen.

Step by step execution:

On white paper, draw a heart pattern in two copies and transfer their outlines onto the fabric with a simple pencil and cut out. As a result, you will get 2 fabric hearts and 2 paper hearts - all the same size.
Glue the paper hearts together with glue, leaving an unglued area inside and along part of the top edge.
Cut a small strip of denim and glue it to the side of the paper heart to form a loop.
Coat the denim hearts on the reverse side with glue over the entire surface and paste over the paper heart.
Cut the corrugated paper into small squares, approximately 1x1 cm.
Draw an outline on one side of the heart with glue, retreating from the edge by 0.5-1 cm.
Wrap a strip of corrugated paper around the pen shaft and twist it with your fingers. Press the end against the glue strip and remove the rod. Decorate the entire adhesive outline of the heart in this way.

Place a small sweet gift in your pocket or a note with a declaration of love.

You can make a Valentine keychain out of leather. For this you will need:

a piece of brightly colored leather fabric;
soft filler;
strip of leather or lace;
scissors;
threads;
needle.

How to do:

Cut two small hearts from leather.
Place right sides together and stitch along the edge, leaving a small space unstitched.
Turn out and fill with stuffing.
Make a loop from a strip of leather or lace and sew it to the top of the heart.
Sew up the remaining edge and the valentine is ready!

You can make valentines with preschoolers using plasticineography technique. To do this, you need to cut out the base of the heart from cardboard and fill its space with plasticine of a suitable color. The edge of the heart can be cut out with curly scissors to make a valentine was more elegant.

Unusual Valentine's card can be made from nylon. To do this, in addition to brightly colored nylon fabric, you will need wire from which to make a heart frame. Cover it with nylon, and on the surface you can sew any decoration made of beads, threads, beads, glue rhinestones - whatever your imagination allows.

Almost everyone will get a gentle, original and beautiful valentine-tilde, even those who don’t know how to sew

You need to cut out two heart bases from fabric, sew them together using simple stitches, turn them right side out and stuff them with soft filling. Sew up the hole and decorate the surface with a bow made from a piece of tulle or lace, or beads.

This will make a wonderful valentine in vintage style.

A valentine made from polymer clay will be original and beautiful. This material is very plastic, so it can be used to create any shape. And this souvenir will last for a very long time.

Crafts from valentines for a loved one are much more pleasant to give when they are made in the hand-made style. The other half will definitely appreciate the time spent preparing a heart-shaped toy or a painting. In addition, such a gift will be a real exclusive that no one else has.

How to decorate a Valentine card at home for Valentine's Day

A simple valentine made of thick cardboard in the shape of a heart can be decorated in different ways and make it truly original and unusual. Some decoration ideas:

From roses: roll thin strips of paper to make improvised flowers. Glue it to the base of the heart with glue or double-sided tape, completely covering its surface.
The base of the valentine can be covered with objects made from natural materials: coffee beans, rose hips, dry plant branches, straw.
An original decoration is made from buttons that need to be attached to a heart base made of paper or fabric. Take buttons of different sizes and colors: red, pink, lilac, white.
Make a decoration for the surface of a cardboard heart from newspaper tubes, filling the entire space with them. You can also take sheets from a music book.

What size valentines should be, everyone will decide for themselves. It could be a small postcard that fits in the palm of your hand, or it could be a wall panel.

Nice valentine bookmark idea

If your significant other spends all his free time reading, then a valentine in the form of a bookmark will be a great surprise for him on Valentine’s Day. You can do it in several ways.

The simplest option– cut out two small hearts of different sizes from two sheets of paper of different colors. Glue the smaller heart to the center of the larger one, but do not coat the lower part of the small heart with glue. The required book page will be inserted into this pocket. To make this valentine last as long as possible, it is advisable to make it from thick cardboard.

An interesting idea - you can make a small heart for such a bookmark out of cardboard, pasting your own or a joint portrait on it.

Unusual valentines with isothread

Even primary school students can make an original and effective Valentine card made with isothread

What you will need to prepare a valentine:

two sheets of cardboard of different colors;
heart template;
pencil;
needle;
contrasting color thread;
scotch;
scissors;
awl;
braid;
rhinestones.

Step-by-step preparation:

Using the template, cut out two hearts in contrasting colors, for example, red and green.
Draw another small one in the red heart and cut it out to make a heart-shaped hole.
Place dots along the edge of the inner heart at a distance of approximately 0.3 cm from each other. Use an awl to pierce holes at points.
Thread the white thread through the needle and tie a knot at the end. Start working from the wrong side: pass the thread from the hole in the sharp lower corner of the heart up to the point exactly opposite.
Then connect the holes diagonally with threads so that the mesh of thread gradually covers the entire inner cut out heart. Tie a knot on the inside and cover the thread with a strip of tape.
Glue the red heart to the green one.
Tie a bow from the braid and glue it to the side of the heart. Next to the bow, place several rhinestones on the glue in a random pattern.

Valentine's card is ready! It will be a wonderful gift for Valentine's Day and will allow you to express your warm feelings for a person.

Funny valentine pillow

A wonderful decorative pillow in the shape of a heart can also act as a valentine. It’s not difficult to make it yourself

For this you will need:

fleece in red, black and white;
sewing threads;
soft filler;
paper;
pencil or pen.

Step-by-step preparation:

Draw a heart on a piece of paper. Inside, draw oval eyes, cheeks in the form of small hearts and a wide smile. Cut out every detail.
Additionally, draw small hands in mittens and legs, cut out of paper.
Transfer the contours of the parts onto fleece of the desired color and cut out the blanks:

white fleece heart-cheeks, 2 feet and 4 parts for arms;
from black - mouth, eyes;
from red - 2 parts of a large heart, a side strip to connect these parts, 2 parts for socks on the feet and 2 strips the length of the sides of the feet.

On the front side of the large red heart, sew the cheeks with white threads, and the mouth and eyes with black threads.
Sew a side strip along the entire edge to the heart.
Place the two pieces for the arms on top of each other and sew along the edge from the wrong side, then turn them right side out. Lightly fill with padding polyester or cotton wool. Sew the second arm in the same way.
Use pins to attach the arms to the sides of the future pillow and sew.
Sew on the second part of the large heart, leaving a small space unsewn.
Fill the pillow with stuffing and sew up the hole.
Sew a side strip along the edge of the part to the red foot from the wrong side.
Sew a small red semicircle onto the toe of the white foot.
Connect the red and white foot (the white one will be on top), leave an unsewn area and turn the resulting product inside out. Fill with stuffing and sew up. Make another foot in exactly the same way.
Sew the legs to the bottom of the valentine.

Funny soft valentine is ready! Can give it to your loved one.

How to make your own Valentine card from foamiran step by step

A 3D valentine can be made using a material such as foamiran. What is needed for making:

foamiran white shiny and red;
preparing half a heart from polystyrene foam;
heat gun;
iron;
regular scissors;
textured scissors;
a thin strip of contrasting colored foamiran.

Manufacturing steps:

Heat white foamiran with an iron.
Pull it over the base of the heart, smoothing out the folds.
Using another piece of foamiran, cover the back surface of the heart in the same way.
Cut out the colored strip with curly scissors and attach it along the contour of the heart.
Cut out a small heart from red foamiran, heat it with an iron and attach it on top of the large one.

A simple but very beautiful 3D Valentine card is ready for him.

To please your loved ones on Valentine's Day, don't limit yourself to store-bought cards. After all, how much more pleasant it is to receive a gift made with your own hands, even if it is given anonymously.

You will see a few more ideas for DIY valentines by watching the video:

Valentines January 31, 2018, 11:16 pm