Hello friends!
New Year and Christmas holidays are over. And before we had time to rest, as not far off new holiday - Valentine's Day. It is celebrated on February 14 all over the world.
And although this day is not a day off at work, it can be celebrated 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 Rome in the third century. Then the Roman emperor Claudius II forbade men to marry so that they would not be burdened with their family and fight better. But the priest Valentine took pity on the unfortunate lovers and secretly married everyone who came to him for help.
The emperor found out about this and put Valentine in prison. He was sentenced to death on 14 February. In prison, he met the jailer's daughter, Julia. Priest Valentine fell in love with the girl and before his death wrote her a declaration of love on paper - a Valentine's card. The girl read it after the death of the priest.
Valentine - in most cases these are cards in red and pink tones and in the form of hearts, which symbolize passionate feelings, declaration of love or romantic congratulations.
Whether this beautiful legend is true or not, it is now impossible to find out. But it is known that the first valentines appeared in England in the 18th century and the holiday was fixed as Valentine's Day.
In Russia, this secular holiday arose in the 90s of the last century. Couples in love on this day arrange romantic evenings, give each other gifts that express love and tender feelings.
Today, almost every store sells goods that symbolize tender addictions and love in the form of beautiful hearts: mugs, postcards, sweets. 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 with paper or cardboard. Such materials are always in the house, and even a child can handle the work.
Option number 1. Hearts in a bank
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. We take a transparent, clean and dry jar, put the postcards there and close the lid. The lid of the jar can be decorated with a bright ribbon.
Option number 2. From colored cardboard
This is one of the most simple ways make a present for Valentine's Day - cut out such cute figures and hang around the house.
Option number 3. Boxes
Any small gift can be packed in one of these funny boxes. It is easy to do this according to the scheme. It is enough to print on a printer and transfer to thick cardboard. Then cut and fold around the edges to form a box.
Option number 4. Volume postcards
A beautifully made postcard will always bring joy to your loved one. She will help make a declaration of love and tender feelings. By the way, you can express your feelings in poetry or song.
And below are templates for the background of the postcards. You just need to print them on a color printer and make an interesting postcard.
And this version of congratulations, I think, will be appreciated by everyone.
How to make a Valentine's card out of chocolate
You can also make a pleasant surprise tasty. And even if your beloved half eats it, you will still have pleasant and tender impressions.
How easy and simple it is to make a chocolate gift - me. Making such chocolate figurines is absolutely not difficult and is obtained by all beginners.
A beautiful heart made of chocolate.
Valentine card made of ice
Such congratulations can definitely surprise anyone. Although the present does not last long, it will bring great joy and help to express your love.
For its manufacture, we take any shape in the form of a heart. We fill it with dry or fresh flowers, plants, fill it with water and put it in the freezer for freezing.
At the appointed time, we take it out, take it out of the form and hand it over to our dearest half. Well, we rejoice together with her an 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 on sewing machine... We put a synthetic winterizer inside so that the product is voluminous.
Here the item is trimmed with floss threads.
You can sew an ordinary heart and sew it beautifully with beads or beads. Such valentines are quite useful as key rings and they will always remind of the donor's love.
And here interesting option made of felt and beads on sticks. Very good to use as bookmarks for books. Or just put it in a vase for decoration on your desktop.
And here we cut a heart out of cardboard and wrap it along the contour with mouline threads or woolen red or pink threads. This beautiful, cozy and soft product can be hung in any prominent place. It looks very good if you make and hang 2 or 3 of these figures together.
Live valentine of flowers
Here, too, everything is simple. We cut out a figurine from thick cardboard and glue live flowers (these can be small roses) on the cardboard very tightly to each other.
Here a glue gun will come to your aid. And you will not stain your pens and prepare a gift.
Valentines made of wood
Original wooden hearts smell very tasty with fresh wood. These templates can be purchased at almost any craft or hobby store, and then painted in colors. Or you can not paint, but simply write a declaration of love by hand and hang it on a chain. Will look like an eco-friendly keychain.
All additional materials: hook, studs, clasp and chain are also sold in handicraft shops.
Plywood hearts.
And such a little thing can be made from wine bottle corks or from the same 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 is not difficult to buy ready-made kits for making soap at home. And also suitable for the occasion of the shape of hearts.
A little work and a great present that smells good and looks good, ready. He will definitely bring a lot of joy and pleasure.
Natural herbal soap also rejuvenates.
Video: valentines from matchboxes
Finally, another interesting idea - cute cards for Valentine's Day from simple matchboxes.
Happy viewing!
Valentine is greeting card in the shape of a heart, which is given to each other by lovers or spouses on Valentine's Day. Children can also make a valentine with their own hands and give it to their parents on February 14. In this article, we will tell and show you how to make a Valentine's card with your own hands. The most affordable material for making valentines is paper. From strips of paper different lengths it's not hard to do this voluminous heart as a gift for Valentine's Day. Even children can make such an original valentine with their own hands. To do this, cut strips of paper of different lengths with scissors (2 strips of each size), fold them in a stack so that the two longest strips are in the center of the stack, and the two shortest ones are outside (see photo below). Staple the strips together at the bottom. Further to do beautiful valentine with your own hands, you need to consistently bend down each pair of paper strips. Finally, staple all the ends of the strips together. Glue a pretty ribbon to the valentine.
If you make a lot of valentines, then they will make an original garland for festive decoration at home.
Here is another version of a paper heart that can be presented as a beautiful valentine to your girlfriend or young man... You will understand how to make such a valentine with your own hands if you carefully consider the photo below. Such a voluminous heart made of paper can be made by a child as a gift to his beloved mother on Valentine's Day.
There are many ways to make a paper valentine. For example, for Valentine's Day, we recommend that you decorate your apartment with garlands in the shape of hearts.
It is not difficult to make such an original valentine. Take a thin strip of paper and fold it in half. Using a toothpick, twist both ends of the paper valentine. Make a lot of beautiful paper valentines with your own hands. Use double-sided colored paper in different shades of red: red, pink, raspberry, lilac. Now cut double-sided tape into small squares and use it to secure your valentines on a long string. You can decorate a mirror or, for example, a doorway with such valentine hearts.
Here is another interesting option on how to make a valentine with your own hands. These original valentines are also made from strips of colored double-sided paper. See how tastefully selected the colors for paper valentines.
To make it clearer for you how to make these valentine hearts out of paper, carefully consider the valentines photo below. In addition to colored paper, you will also need scissors and a stapler for work.
There are very simple options for paper valentines that even a child can handle. preschool age... For example, a kid can make for his beloved mother for Valentine's Day such a tree made of branches, decorated with valentines with his own hands.
It is very easy to make these valentines. Many hearts need to be cut out of colored paper. Now fold each paper heart in half and glue them together with the sides. Insert a string inside each valentine, for which you can hang the valentine on a twig. For making paper valentines with your own hands, you can use not only colored paper, but also, for example, candy wrappers or wrapping paper for gifts. Without a doubt, beautiful valentines will be made from special scrapbooking paper. You can buy such paper at art stores.
It is quite simple to make such a tree from twigs, decorated with valentine hearts. When making this paper craft, it's best to use a glue gun.
For Valentine's Day, you can give your loved one a bouquet of paper flowers in the shape of hearts. To make such an original valentine, you need to cut pink or red out of scrapbooking paper colors many hearts. Then bend them in half and glue them together with the sides. Do not forget to insert the wire inside the received voluminous paper heart. Wrap it with special floral tape. Make flower leaves also from scrapbooking paper, only green.
What other valentine cards can you make yourself? Here's an example original postcard valentines in the form of a volumetric labyrinth with hearts lost in it.
Beautiful volumetric applique the flower is obtained from hearts folded in half. Decorate a valentine card with this applique. Be sure that the person to whom you give a valentine with your own hands will be happy with the gift and will appreciate your taste and efforts! Detailed instructions how to make this Valentine's card for Valentine's Day see.
If you liked the paper weaving technique, then you can make another beautiful valentine card using this technique. In such wicker paper baskets in the shape of hearts you can put sweet gift: small candies, nuts, dried fruits or cookies.
To make a DIY paper valentine, you will need to print on two sheets of paper of different colors templates ... Cut them out, fold them in half, make three cuts.
Now you need to weave them together to make a paper heart-shaped basket. Detailed master a class on how to weave a paper basket, see the link.
We have an interesting and simple website. This valentine is a paper heart - a bookmark for a book. A very original, stylish thing. If your loved one prefers to read books in print rather than electronic form, be sure to give him such a gift. Such a beautiful valentine can be a nice addition to the main gift - a book.
A larger gift can be wrapped in wrapping paper, decorated this way.
By the way, valentines are not only made of paper. You can cook edible valentines :) Yes, see for yourself by looking carefully at the valentines photos below.
Romantic breakfast for two. Fried eggs, baked inside a bread fried in butter. The heart is cut out inside using a cookie cutter. Don't forget freshly squeezed orange juice and bacon.
This valentine is a mini sausage sandwich with olives.
What about cherry tomato valentines? To make these valentines with your own hands, you will need toothpicks and high-density paper. How to properly cut tomatoes to make a heart out of them, see the photo below. You can decorate a festive table with such original valentines.
You can also bake heart-shaped cookies for Valentine's Day. In the photo below are cookies with a window. The window is made from regular candy, which was placed inside the cookie 5 minutes before being cooked. For a more detailed guide on how to bake holiday cookies with candy windows, read
Good afternoon everyone. How is your mood after new year holidays?! And how was your first week of work ?! I think, although it was difficult, but nevertheless joyful, because you need to rest from the holidays))
Although we do not forget that there is a new portion of events ahead, and we are all waiting for a very romantic event, because someone will confess their love, and someone will find secret admirers (fans), but many will strengthen their already existing relationships. You've probably all guessed that the name of this holiday is Valentine's Day.
Of course, some do not consider February 14 as a holiday, and they do not celebrate it in any way. But all the same, for most people in love, this is a great reason to once again show your sympathy for your half and make it pleasant, gentle and warm. For a long time, valentines have been such a present, such special hearts, where they write warm declarations of love, and you can do this anonymously.
In our modern time, you can already buy ready-made greeting cards, but handmade valentines are much better, and for adults it is also a way to remember their student and school years, when we were waiting for recognition or sent it secretly ourselves. Therefore, today I want to devote an article on making these cute presents.
By far the easiest way to make beautiful hearts is to make confessions made of paper. Moreover, you can use any paper: plain, colored, cardboard and other types. It is quite easy and simple to make such a gift, well, the costs are minimal, and most importantly, such valentines always turn out to be very sincere.
Well, let's rather see what and how you can do on Valentine's Day.
And the simplest option is a heart-shaped card. I suggest you familiarize yourself with step by step photo instructions.
We need: colored paper, colored cardboard, scissors, glue, wooden stick.
Manufacturing process:
- Take the red cardboard and fold it in half. Cut out the heart.
- Now take your paper pink colour and cut into thin strips. They need to be cut in half in the form of "grass".
- Using a wooden stick, wrap the pink paper to create a flower.
- Now glue the heart on the base with paper flowers and write a message inside.
You can also make a big heart. To do this, take cardboard as a basis, for example, from any box and stick many small hearts of red, pink or scarlet on it.
Or, for example, you can create a whole picture. Take a white sheet of paper, stick the hearts different shapes, bend some of them and frame them. Everything is ingeniously simple.
Or make a voluminous valentine. To do this, cut out a few hearts. different sizes, then we glue or sew to the big small one, and so on decreasing, we bend it in the middle. All is ready!!
Well, or a very simple version of volume:
You can show your imagination and supplement the recognition with Cupid's arrow:
Or glue pieces of paper on a paper base corrugated paperwrapping them in different directions.
And here's another great idea for a 3D valentine, watch the video plot, you might want to do just that.
Master class on making valentine cards
If you have a lot of time, then you can complicate the task a little, fantasize and make an excellent gift - a postcard, I think anyone will be pleased to receive it on this holiday.
We need: colored cardboard, glue, sequins, beads or rhinestones, tape, ruler, pencil.
Manufacturing process:
- Draw out the cardboard, according to the diagram in the photo below.
- Now fold the cardboard along the lines you marked.
- Take another piece of cardboard and cut out the heart.
- Using glue, decorate it to your liking with beads, rhinestones, sequins.
- Next, you need to cut the tape to the required length. These will be the ties on the postcard.
- Glue the heart. (Look at the photo)
- And inside we write or also glue a pre-printed congratulation, a declaration of love.
- It remains to close the card and tie the ribbon.
And you can make a present using stamps.
Moreover, the die itself can be made from an ordinary wine cork and a clerical knife:
Well, the postcard itself is easy to make: take a base from any color of paper, bend it in half. Next, cut out the heart from another sheet of paper and attach it to the present. Using a stamp, fill out the form, let it dry, write confessions inside.
Here are a couple more ideas that I found on the Internet:
Valentine templates for Valentine's Day
For those who want to please their soul mate, but the time is sorely lacking, I suggest using ready-made stencils... Print, translate to required material, cut out and forward to please your loved ones !!
- Who does not know how to cut hearts, catch it !!
- Hug Hearts
- And this is for those who are fluent in the cutting technique.
- You can complicate and make an image inside:
- Simple postcard
- Bears in love
- Angels
How to make hearts for February 14 (pictures inside)
Of course, hearts are considered the main attribute of Valentine's Day, we make flower arrangements in the shape of it, we try to choose the appropriate dishes, decorate the house in the form of various symbolic garlands.
And all this can be done by hand. I really liked the hearts made of ribbons, now I'll tell you how to make them.
You will need: cardboard, ribbons of two colors, glue, scissors, threads.
Manufacturing process:
1. Cut a heart-shaped base out of cardboard. Prepare ribbons.
2. Twist each ribbon in the shape of a color, securing the bottom with thread, and straighten the top.
3. Cover the base with flowers on all sides.
You can make more complicated and more practical crafts, for example, such topiary:
- If you know how to weave from beads, then it will be great to give a heart in this technique:
- Well, do not forget to decorate your house with such a cute garland:
You can still sit on Runet and find many interesting ideas, I shared what I liked.
DIY valentine stencils for kids
I think no one will argue with me that in most cases such gifts are made by our growing children. It's so interesting, exciting ... For example, in childhood, we even counted who received the most recognition, and then wondered from whom they were ...
Therefore, I made a couple of templates for the guys, download, cut and color, well, do not forget to give them to your chosen ones (s) !!
- Follow these postcards here:
And at your leisure, together with your child, make a valentine card with the symbol of the year of the dog, and give it to, for example, dad, grandmother or other relatives.
I congratulate you on the upcoming February 14, I wish you a lot of love, for the lonely to find their soul mate, and for the couples a new positive direction. Love and be loved!! Happy Valentines Day!!
Hello! From the beginning of February, we have to prepare for two holidays. One of them falls on February 14, the other - on 23.
In this regard, we are faced with worries and troubles to congratulate our relatives, friends, acquaintances and loved ones with these significant events.
St. Valentine's Day, although it came to our country from abroad, has successfully taken root and has become a favorite holiday. Everyone is happy to congratulate friends, acquaintances and relatives or with a paper "Valentine", or.
Many people seek to purchase some kind of gift, from a plush toy or a magnet, to various accessories related to work or a hobby of a loved one.
Shop gifts are good, but for Valentine's Day it's nice to get something handmade. Of course, this handmade gift should have a decent look and please the eye.
It is customary to give valentines on this day.
And the Valentine's Day card decorated with a small quatrain will warm the soul and speak about the sincerity of your feelings. Still, you tried, and spent time, effort on this, invested a part of yourself as a gift. Although, of course, as anyone.
It is best to make homemade hearts with children. Glueing, embroidering, decorating is a wonderful way to attract your child to needlework.
You can make a valentine not only from paper, but also from fabric, such as felt.
We take the material, cut out two hearts of the same shape from it. Sew along the edge with thread or braid. Leaving a small gap in side seam, fill the heart with cotton wool, padding polyester 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 in a vase, you can make a tree out of several of these hearts.
You can draw a pretty face and put such a craft on the table during a festive dinner.
Not only voluminous hearts can be made of felt. If you take a strip of fabric and sew 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 pretty product:
You can make garlands from such hearts and attach them to the ceiling or window.
Heart tree. Look at this photo, what a wonderful craft. You can decorate a real small tree with hearts in your yard.
First, you need to make a template out of paper, drawing the desired composition on it, and then, in the form of an applique, make the craft itself.
An original gift will be a heart-holder for the kitchen.
The main thing is that such a gift will remain for a long time.
Paper valentines
Paper crafts are called origami. Making 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:
Having bent 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 you need to do it quickly.
You can also make a heart as a bookmark for a book.
Below is a diagram of making such a bookmark from plain paper. According to this scheme, taking any color, preferably pink, you can make a pretty original gift lover of reading books.
And one more original gift made of paper - a heart-box. How to use such a gift, I hope everyone will guess for himself.
Making such a craft is just as easy. Having created a blank according to the principle of a paper cube, we fold a box out of it.
Take on arms.
Master class for making valentines step by step
There are a lot of different options for valentines. It all depends on the creativity. Almost every craftsman creates his own original masterpiece.
Valentine boat
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.
Volume 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 the hearts. Fold the red cardboard in half. We cut out ordinary hearts from colored cardboard. So that they are diverse, you can cut each openwork around the edges. You can use a hole punch or special scissors. Remember how you did on new Year snowflakes.
The cut out hearts must be folded in half and folded together. After that we glue them to the red base of the postcard.
It remains only to write a congratulation on a small sheet of paper and stick it next to the heart. The postcard is ready, you can go congratulate.
Patterns for valentines from fabric
For those who like to sew with their own hands, there are several interesting patterns.
Valentine bear:
And this is a pattern for another 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 are not made in Russian, but I think everything is clear without them.
We make valentines with our own hands with children
Making any crafts with children, not just valentines, is a good thing. 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 make fabric crafts with him. It is better to use paper with younger children.
A good option is applique. You can use various materials at hand. For example, cardboard, glue and cotton pads. As a result, we get such a heart.
With a small child, you can do this wonderful postcardwhere the baby's palm is printed.
Or here is such a seemingly simple postcard, but made by a child, it will not leave indifferent anyone to whom it will be presented.
Well, there is also such a wonderful piece of work. I would recommend it to my child to do it.
In general, give an idea to your child, I'm sure he will do the rest himself and will cope with it perfectly.
Video how to make a beautiful Valentine's card for Valentine's Day (postcard for February 14)
This video shows you how to make a DIY 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.
Valentine ladybug
Heart in an envelope
Volume postcard template 
And a few more options for valentines with stencils for cutting them out.
The diagrams show sizes and possible designs. In principle, having learned how to cut correctly, you can even draw your own pattern yourself.
So create, invent and surprise. Good luck!
There are only a few days left until Valentine's Day. As you know, it is customary to give valentines on this romantic holiday.
Traditionally, these are small cards in the form of a red heart. Sure, beautiful postcard can be purchased at the store. But if you - creative person, then you can make a gift with your own hands. Especially, handmade better convey the sincerity of your feelings to the addressee. There are many options, the most interesting, in our opinion, we offer you.
1. "Sweet Valentine"
To make this valentine you will need colored paper, scissors, thread with a needle or a stapler, pencil, felt-tip pen or colored gel pen and, of course, the "filling" itself (M & Ms or Skittles candies are good).
First you need to draw a heart-shaped pattern. On one side, write a declaration of love or just something gentle, and on the other - words "Tear up here", "open me" or "Take a look"... Cut out.
Next, we sew (or fasten with a stapler) on one side two parts of the heart (the inscriptions should be on the outside), pour the candies and fasten along the remaining side. The sweet valentine is ready!
2. "Valentine - breakfast"
Another option for delicious valentines. We need 2 sausages, 2 eggs, sunflower oil, toothpicks or matches, salt, pepper (optional).
To begin with, cut along the sausage, but not completely, leaving about 2-3 cm from the edge.
Put the hearts prepared in this way in a baking sheet, greased with sunflower oil.
In the middle of each heart, pour out a carefully raw egg so that the yolk remains intact.
Bake in the oven until lightly browned (about 30 minutes at 200 degrees). Do not forget to get a toothpick from ready-made hearts π
3. "Valentine - breakfast number 2"
For this valentine, we need sunflower oil, eggs, bread, salt and pepper (optional).
Take a piece of bread and cut out the middle in the shape of a heart.
In a skillet, fry a little bread on one side.
Turn it over to the other and pour an egg into the heart.
Salt and pepper. We fry the cut out hearts. The valentine is ready!
It is best to decorate breakfasts with vegetables, lettuce, ketchup or mayonnaise - for which you only have enough imagination!
4. "Valentines for Tea Party"
Who doesn't like to drink tea ?! The main thing is to know the preference of your loved one, which one he prefers. We will need colored paper (or cardboard), thread with a needle (glue or stapler), scissors, a pencil, and tea bags.
First, draw hearts the size of a tea bag label (twice the size of the tea bags). Cut out.
Next, we glue (fasten or sew) the hearts on both sides of the tea label so that they cover this label (if you use a stapler, you can attach it to the thread by removing the label). We've got fancy tea bags. You can write something gentle on them if you want, for example, just "With love"... In addition, you can decorate the entire box by pasting it over with colored paper or paper with painted hearts (in principle, you can cut them yourself and stick them on top, it will turn out even more interesting).
5. "Valentines - chocolates"
Everything is very simple here, but it turns out interesting. We need small chocolates (for example, "Alyonka"), colored paper, scissors, ribbons and beads (optional).
We just take a chocolate bar, wrap it in paper and decorate it with prepared little things: glue ribbons, beads, cut out hearts and attach them. You can also write sweet words to your loved one or short statements about why you love him or how much.
6. Volumetric valentine
It is important to understand and be able to distinguish lines on paper different types: solid, dashed and dotted with dots. We cut with a blade solid lines... In this case, do not touch the dotted lines. The heart also needs to be cut not completely (2 βearsβ should remain uncut from above).
Now slowly squeeze out the image of lovers from yourself, bending the contours along the dotted lines... Glue the cut out red heart to the main image. Now take thick paper or, if there is none, then purchase any postcard that has no inscriptions inside.
Paste the created insert into this postcard. The valentine is ready!
7. Origami Valentine
An uncomplicated valentine, for the production of which you only need a sheet of paper. With this method, you will get a beating heart valentine:
8. Valentine's card with a secret
A very interesting valentine that simply cannot leave your soul mate indifferent:
We congratulate you on Valentine's Day and wish you great mutual love! We hope that you will be able to choose the most suitable one for yourself from the valentines we offer, and your loved one will be satisfied! π
