We are all looking forward to the holiday, I love Valentine's Day. You can exchange gifts with friends and family, and receive a pleasant surprise from a young man. And also, supplement your main gift with a greeting card.
Sometimes, pleasant little things make a huge difference. I really love making beautiful things with my own hands. Today I will share a wonderful selection of holiday cards. I tried to collect the most interesting and easy ideas in one place.
You can pour yourself a cup of tea, and look through the ideas to bring them to life, and please your loved ones on such a wonderful day.
Pleasant little things make you happy and lift your spirits. They can perfectly complement a bouquet of flowers, or a box of chocolates, or even a banal chocolate bar. And adults can arrange a romantic evening for themselves.
Make a three-dimensional postcard with your own hands. Eight-bit heart.
This original three-dimensional postcard is quite simple to make, despite the fact that its design seems intricate.
It is ideal for a loved one (girlfriend, mother, grandmother) and the occasion can be any: birthday, March 8 or Valentine's Day.
You will need:
- cardboard or thick paper
- stationery or wallpaper knife
1.
First you need to print the postcard template, which is located
here
. Just in case there are 2 copies.
* You can try to draw a heart layout yourself using a pencil and a ruler, it’s not difficult.
2.
Using a utility knife, make vertical cuts on your template.
3.
Now you need to carefully fold the card without creasing the parts. First make the folds, which are indicated by yellow lines in the picture. Next, begin to carefully fold the card.
*The rest of the card should fold on its own. Don't forget to smoothly stroke the card with your fist so that all the elements work smoothly.
* For convenience, you can temporarily attach the postcard to the table using tape.
4.
Decorating a voluminous card. You can cover the edges of the card with paper of a different color.
Now almost everything is ready, all that remains is to add warm words.
Making a heart using origami technique
A wonderful and original craft, and its originality lies in the fact that it is inflated with air. It is due to the air inside the craft that it looks voluminous. Another advantage is that you only need a square sheet of double-sided colored paper, and nothing else.
So, let's start making crafts.
- Fold a square sheet of paper in half. Folded? Now let’s fold it in half again.
- Unfold the folded sheet.
- We bend the corners on it, as shown in the photo.
- Having folded the craft according to the diagram, we inflate it through a small hole that will be located at the tip of the heart. What is noteworthy is that the air does not escape back from the heart, and it will always look voluminous.
The end result is such beauty.
To make it clear exactly how an origami heart is made, watch these two videos.
DIY voluminous postcard. Heart.
Despite its simplicity, this card will look beautiful if you do it right. Anyone can make a Valentine card like this.
You will need:
- white thick paper
- red paper
- glue
- scissors.
1.
You will need a postcard template (or you can draw one yourself - look at the picture for how to do this).
2.
Cut out a card from white paper.
3.
Fold the red paper into an accordion shape. Next you need to cut it out.
4. P
Glue the resulting hearts to the card.
Ready! All that remains is to decorate to taste and sign.
Paper heart pendants
You can make beautiful and delicate pendants from paper hearts that can be hung on a window or decorated with a chandelier.
Pendant made of hearts and circles
You can even make a garland from many glued hearts.
Pendant made of multi-layered hearts
How to make a three-dimensional postcard. Volcano of hearts.
This card consists of two halves that are glued together.
You will need:
- colored paper
- thick paper
- scissors
- glue
*You can try to draw hearts yourself, but you need to know certain rules - they are listed below.
1.
Remove the large heart from the middle (it's right on the fold).
2.
Cut out the hearts, leaving only their folds intact (see picture).
3.
Make cuts on the hearts shown in the picture (gray lines on opposite hearts), this way you can fasten them.
* The card will close better if you cut the paper at the center fold and glue them separately to the base (the base is thick red paper that serves as the background for the card).
4.
Glue the halves to the base and connect the hearts in which you made the cuts.
Rules
*The sizes of the hearts on both sides are the same.
*The blue line in the diagram shows that the distance from the fold in the middle to the cut is the same, and the red lines indicate the same distance between the hearts close to the middle of the card.
Heart with roses applique made from rolled paper
An interesting paper heart is made using the appliqué technique from rolled paper. We will need to roll the colored paper into a tube, then cut the tube into small curl pieces.
Cut the tube into curl pieces
We fix the ends of the curls with glue so that the curl is sufficiently free. Glue the curls onto the paper base.
Glue the curls onto the paper backing
Glue small green curls onto the base. Here is a “heart” applique decorated with a bouquet of roses!
Applique “heart with roses”
Volumetric postcard templates
2.
Make cuts in the indicated places (see the picture - where the red lines need to make cuts, where the green lines are folds).
3.
As you begin to fold the card, your little monster will begin to “hatch” out of the paper. Take your time, do everything carefully.
* If the mold does not come out automatically, try helping yourself with a toothpick or something similar.
4.
Glue the card to separate paper, which will hide the holes and serve as a base for the card.
*You can put your postcard in an envelope.
Original valentine made of cardboard and woolen threads
To work we will need:
- Thick cardboard
- Red wool threads
- Glue gun
Let's get started:
- First of all, you need to cut out a heart from thick cardboard, and also cut out its inner part. The side parts should be 2 cm wide.
- Next, take red woolen threads and carefully wrap the heart and glue it with a glue gun.
- To complete the valentine card, you need to use a pin to pin a small piece of paper with a love message to the heart.
Volumetric card for mom
You will pleasantly surprise your mother or grandmother with this beautiful three-dimensional card. It will be suitable for birthdays and March 8th, or maybe you can come up with a reason yourself.
You will need:
- colored paper
- colored cardboard
- scissors
- glue stick
- ruler
1.
Cut out a stem with leaves from green paper. Use any other color of paper for the flowers.
2.
Fold 2 sheets of construction paper in half.
3.
Set one sheet aside, and from the other, measure 8cm from the edge and 5cm from the bottom (see picture). Now you need to cut along the solid line and fold along the dotted line. Do the same procedure on the opposite side of the sheet, and bend the resulting steps inward, they will serve as a support for the flowers and create a volume effect.
4.
Measure 4cm from the edge of the sheet and 2.5cm from the bottom (see picture). Now bend the steps inward again.
5.
Start gluing the stems to the steps, and flowers and leaves on top of the stems.
6.
Now you need to hide the holes made for the steps - to do this, glue your postcard to another sheet that you first folded - it will serve as the cover.
Ready! All that remains is to add the appropriate text.
Valentine card using a stamp
The method using a heart-shaped stamp is also quite simple and popular when making paper valentines. To do this, you just need to buy one or more stamps. They come in different prints and different sizes:
If you can’t buy it, don’t despair - make it yourself from an ordinary wine cork. Draw a heart and carefully cut it out with a utility knife.
Then apply gouache to the sponge and try to make an impression on a sheet of paper.
Now let's see how to make a Valentine's card with your own hands using a stamp.
Using a small piece of masking tape, carefully attach the blank with a heart inside to a blank for a postcard (you can use a ready-made one, you can fold a sheet of cardboard in half). Then, using a stamp, we fill the entire surface inside the workpiece with hearts, and the color of the hearts can be different shades of red.
After the paint has dried, remove the paper blank and the valentine is ready!
Original master class
Another idea for making a heart stamp is to shape a cardboard toilet paper cylinder into a heart shape, wrapping it with tape to secure it.
With this stamp you can decorate a large sheet of whatman paper on which to write declarations of love!
Step-by-step master class on making a felt heart for children
One of my favorite crafting materials is felt. It has a lot of advantages, starting with the neat appearance of the finished products, ending with the variety of available shades. But don’t think that it is only suitable for sewing toys. With no less success you can make valentines from it, which is what we will do now.
Materials:
- Pink, red, white and green felt;
- Cotton wool;
- Braid;
- Red threads with a needle;
- Glue “Moment”;
- 3 half beads;
- Scissors.
Subsequence:
On a piece of paper we draw or print out templates for the details of the future valentine. You can choose their size and shape according to your taste. Cut it out.
We transfer all our templates to felt in suitable colors. You will need two halves of a heart. The rest is optional.
Now all that remains is to connect all the elements together.
We take one heart and glue decor onto it, starting with the largest elements and ending with the smallest ones.
On the inside of the future work we sew a loop of braid.
Sew two hearts together. Before reaching the end, we leave a small hole and fill the workpiece with cotton through it. Sew the heart until the end.
The voluminous felt valentine is ready!
So that you don’t have a shortage of ideas when decorating, I offer several more options for felt hearts.
Quite uncomplicated and beautiful. The hardest part here is sewing the halves together.
Here is another gentle option for decorating felt valentines for Valentine's Day.
An interesting work based on the world famous comics “Love is...”.
Here's another job, watch the video instructions.
