How to design a mailbox for valentines. Mailbox for valentines

Tatiana Korepanova

Master class on creating a box-mailbox for valentines.

When the valentines were almost ready ( watch the master class on making valentines “I blinded her from what was ...” , my daughter remembered that she was asked to make a mailbox for valentines, which puzzled me even more. After thinking for a while, I looked box(I found a box from under the tonometer).

I took more pink printer sheets and with the help brushes and PVA glue wrapped the sides of the box.

Glued to the top and bottom red self-adhesive paper, and pasted so that you can open the box.

Then from pink and gold self-adhesive paper I cut out hearts and decorated the box. Above stationery knife cut a slot for valentines. It turned out kinda cute!

The next day, the daughter said that the class teacher had praised her box. I was pleased.)

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The popular holiday of St. Valentine's Day, or All Lovers, is getting closer and closer. Surely you have already prepared surprises and gifts in advance (or maybe not), but in any case, if you are a little tight on funds or just want to be original, create a box for "valentines" with your own hands. It will take quite a bit of time and effort, but the result is able to please everyone: the total who did it, and the one who was presented with it.

Remember the main thing: size can be any! Simply enlarge the proposed schemes to the desired scale.

Though in the classic version - this is exactly a small box, in which it is easy to place a couple of small hearts with wishes and some kind of pendant or key chain - a symbol of the holiday.

What is needed for manufacturing?

Cut and bend the resulting parts in accordance with the diagram.

Glue in the marked places.

Let dry.

Insert one part into another.

Decorate according to your taste and imagination.

So our cute box for valentines and small surprises is ready!

By the way, even a child can make it, and such a product will surely be a good (and, most importantly, original!) Gift to a classmate or classmate. Happy holiday to you!

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 can do kindergarten. 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.

More ideas for greeting cards for Valentine's Day you will find in our special 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. A 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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Fragment of a painting by Fragonard Jean Honore.

Can you imagine such impudence? For five whole years I wrote her love letters ...
- And then?
- And then she married a postman.

Making a DIY valentine mailbox is not at all difficult. Although the feasibility of installing it, for example, in an office or school, is doubtful. After all, not all employers welcome informal relationships between colleagues, and at school, the presence of such a box will disrupt the educational process for the whole day (and it’s good if for one day).

But if you are not afraid of such difficulties, then - for the cause.

Next to the mailbox for valentines, you should hang a brief instruction in which you indicate the requirements for valentines, the opening time of the box and the conditions for their delivery. Think about all these points in advance.

It is assumed that no one will steal valentines, but to exclude such force majeure, install the box in the field of view of a security guard or other responsible person.

Box for valentines from the finished box

The easiest way to make a box for valentines is from a ready-made cardboard box, for example, from paper packaging. To make such a box elegant, it will have to be decorated. To do this, you can use colored or compressed paper, fabric. You can stick hearts or cards, pictures with flowers or romantic scenes on the valentine box.

On Valentine's Day, people in the United States give over 150 million valentines. This makes Valentine's Day the second most postcard holiday in this country. Moreover, more than 50% of all valentine cards that are given on Valentine's Day are bought during the week before February 14th.

Then you need to make a slot for postcards and letters. It can be cut both in the lid and on the side.

Ballot box mailbox

If you have the opportunity to use such an urn, then all you have to do is decorate it. And so that the decor can be easily removed later.

Safety valentines for the mailbox

Perhaps in your work team, school class or student group there are people for whom hardly anyone will write a valentine.

So that the holiday remains a holiday and does not result in a personal tragedy for anyone, prepare the so-called safety valentines for absolutely everyone. Naturally, they must be anonymous, and they must be confessed not in love, but in friendship. This way you will prevent embarrassing situations when someone is left without a valentine.

The approach of Valentine's Day awakens romantic notes in our souls, which we may be trying to muffle. After all, the pragmatism of the world around us sets us up for a practical approach to life. But despite all our commercialism, on the eve of Valentine's Day, we suddenly begin to enthusiastically look for a gift for a loved one, come up with touching words of congratulations and even make DIY valentines. And who's to say it's not great?

This custom came to us from the Middle Ages, when lovers began to send cute postcards to their loved ones for Valentine's Day. It all started with a note sent in 1415 from a London prison, or rather from the Tower, by Duke Charles of Orleans to his wife. It is she who is recognized in the world as the first greeting card - Valentine. And today, on Valentine's Day, heart-shaped valentines are still given to each other, on which sincere declarations of love, marriage proposals, and sometimes just jokes are written. Among the Italians, besides everything, this February day is called nothing more than a sweet day, when lovers exchange gifts in the form of sweets and sweets. But they also send valentines by mail in pink envelopes without indicating a return address. But it is customary for the Danes to send white dried flowers to each other. For Spaniards, the crown of passion is a love letter sent with carrier pigeons. Interestingly, this day is also celebrated in Japan, where on Valentine's Day it is customary for all male colleagues to give chocolate, referred to as “service chocolate” (or “giri-choco”). This custom appeared somewhere in the seventies of the past, when a box of chocolates given to a man was compared with a declaration of love. And in recent years, Japanese women have a ritual to buy such sweets on Valentine's Day as a gift to themselves or their girlfriend. The new custom was called "friendship chocolate" (or "tomo-choco"), and also "chocolate for oneself" (or "jibun-choco").

We are already talking about how to make valentines from buttons.

Before Valentine, it's time to master the art of quilling.

It is customary for our lovers to give hearts in the form of postcards. Today it is fashionable to do very beautiful handmade valentines. To do this, it is enough to have a desire - and everything will work out for you. Neither the scarcity of the material, nor the lack of skills will stop you: all this is needed in the very minimum amount. And if you, moreover, know how to do something masterfully, then so much the better: make a heart out of wood, if you have experience with this material, sew from fabric, if you can just hold a needle in your hands, bake from dough if you love to cook. The custom of giving valentines has never limited anyone in choosing the type of card, the main thing is sincerity and diligence, and then everything will work out for you!

Probably everyone will be happy to receive such a wonderful postcard envelope.

From cardboard, rhinestones, beads and paper, you can make a Valentine card.

Here is a detailed tutorial for you.

The best valentine is an edible valentine. Make a box for her, guided by the master class below.

For example, a funny miracle valentine can be made from an ordinary matchbox. This method allows you to leave a secret message of love inside the box that can give dear person mass positive emotions and smiles. After all, it is on this day that you really want to receive such a testament of love as a gift from your loved one. Yes, and I myself really want to give my soul mate something as a keepsake, something that would warm his heart and just do something nice. To make our valentine, you will, of course, need a matchbox, as well as a sheet of thick colored paper for decorating the box, a sheet of paper for the congratulation itself, a knife (stationery), scissors, pencils and felt-tip pens, a ruler, glue and decorations for decorating a valentine . There are several ways how to make a valentine's day in the shape of a matchbox. The first is to paste over the finished matchbox with a sheet of bright colored paper, decorate with colorful ribbons, homemade flowers, buttons, beads, hearts and other cute trinkets. The second is to first make a box according to a ready-made template: transfer the diagram to a hard colored cardboard (A4) and cut out a pattern for a future valentine card. Then, using a ruler, you should bend the parts along the lines of bends and fold the box, lubricating the valves inside the box with glue and inserting them into the slots that appeared after folding the sides of the box. Now it remains only to decorate the Valentine. And in the end - it's up to the small: to find what to put inside the box. For example, you can make a booklet. The simplest option might be a two-page book. You can make an accordion from several pages on which any drawings or inscriptions for Valentine's Day are applied. Another option is an eight-page book. What to fill it with? Trust me, your heart will tell!

On black cardboard, you can stick white circles and end up with a beautiful Valentine.

And this is how a heart box is made for Valentine's Day.

The simplest and most touching Valentine.

To make a booklet, you need to print out its template from thick paper. The color is chosen according to your taste or made to match the valentine. Then, from separate sheets, you need to make a booklet, with a ruler, align all the edges and folds of the valentine. It is also important to be able to tastefully decorate the message: paint it with cute hearts, flowers, decorate with an elegant frame, write a congratulation and give this wonderful Valentine to the person you really love very much.

Still wrapping gifts in the store? Forget about it. Download, print and make a heartfelt gift for February 14th.

Can be crafted original handmade valentines, using many other unpretentious methods. So you can use thick double-sided paper or thin cardboard. First, a blank is cut out according to the size of a standard postcard, for example, 14 × 20 centimeters, and bent in the middle. On thick paper or cardboard, preliminary embossing is done at the places of future folds using an empty pen and ruler. To decorate a valentine, a blank is cut into the inside of the card. Its shape, of course, is in the form of a heart. But inside it, too, an incision was made, repeating the shape of the base. After that, embossing is done along the fold lines. Folds are made, along which the valves and a small heart turn inward, and you can glue the same one on a small heart, but from paper of a different color. Valves are lubricated with glue. The blank is glued so that its middle coincides with the fold of the postcard. To do this, you just need to put it in the center and press those areas where the valves are located, smeared with glue. And, of course, the fields of the valentine must be arranged as you wish. This option can be diversified: make several of these voluminous opening hearts inside the card, decorate them with lace, tinsel and other tricks. You can use electronic elements with a touching melody. It would also be appropriate to make ties in the form of small bows of bright braid. Cardboard or leather "thongs" for closing the postcard also look interesting. In general, the scope for imagination is simply limitless!

And for such a valentine, you should master the quilling technique.

Get your paper strips ready.

Cut out the heart with curly scissors.

Cut out the center with a utility knife.

Wind strips of paper around a toothpick and place them inside the heart.

Now fasten the composition with glue. Wipe off the excess with a tissue.

Now let our valentine dry.

Decorate the composition with a golden ribbon.

Using the Internet, you can also choose another original way to make a valentine with your own hands, a master class with step-by-step instructions and illustrating photographs that will help you in the process. Of course, even more convenient is a video with a full lay-out of the progress of work on the postcard. So, first, a blank is made for a valentine and cut out of paper of the desired color. The dimensions of the inside of the postcard are 14 by 28 centimeters. The horizontal line of the pattern must be drawn so that it is exactly in the middle of the workpiece. The inscription "I love you" on English language after cutting through part of the side contours (and in the hearts - the drop-down central part) will act against the background of the entire opening valentine. Oh, by the way: the word "love" and the dot over the "i" in the text are replaced by hearts. And the fallen parts can be used when decorating other valentines or gift wrapping. Upon completion of the cutting, it is necessary to fold the liner along the lines pre-embossed with an empty pen. The result will be a kind of folding bed, like children's books: a postcard will open and the drawing will become voluminous. But only the inner half of the card is prepared in this way. It will also need to be glued to the base cover, for which a sheet of colored paper or cardboard measuring 32 by 16 centimeters is taken. Moreover, cardboard can be taken in any color, but it is important to consider that it will become visible through the cut out inscription. The inside is glued to the cover with glue or double-sided tape. It is also important to ensure that the middle fold exactly matches, otherwise the postcard will subsequently become poorly opened. The fields remaining at the edges can be beautifully trimmed with curly scissors, making them look more original. As for the cover itself and the inside of the valentine, they can be decorated as soon as you want, which largely depends on the person to whom it is intended.

But such valentine envelopes are suitable for a dinner party and just to hand them to loved ones.

Cut out several envelopes from red cardboard according to the template.

Glue and do not forget to write a couple of kind words.

To make non-standard DIY valentine hearts, you can even use springs on which cute fluttering wings are attached. For such a valentine you will need: thick paper for the base of the postcard, flexible wire with a diameter of half a millimeter, adhesive tape (double-sided) with a foam base and colored cardboard. First, a pattern is drawn based on the future postcard. Wings are cut out of A4 white cardboard, and a heart is cut out of red cardboard. A wire is wound onto the stem of the pen to create a spring, the middle of which is straightened for fastening in a postcard. Then the wings are attached to the ends of the wire with pieces of adhesive tape. Protective film it should not be removed. On the basis of two pieces of cardboard measuring 3 by 1.5 centimeters, a valentine is formed: cardboard is attached to the adhesive tape, adhesive tape is again attached to it, then a spring with wings, adhesive tape is attached to it, again cardboard and adhesive tape. Then the film is removed on the back half and glued on the basis of the postcard. The film is also removed on the front half and a heart is attached. In this case, a heart is obtained, slightly raised above the level of the postcard and decorated with wings on trembling springs. Such a product may well become a decoration of a car interior if it is hung on an inconspicuous fishing line, and while driving, the heart will touchingly “fly” on snow-white wings.

Such an unusual valentine can even be a pendant.

It can be made from paper or plastic.

It turns out that even a child can make unusual valentines with their own hands. One of these postcards is made of thick cardboard as the base of a postcard, a piece of newspaper or a page of a glossy magazine, a lace ribbon, a piece of felt and colored paper. At the same time, a background of colored paper is glued onto a cardboard base card, and a newspaper square decorated with lace and a heart is glued onto it. Another creative way is a postcard with a heart made of buttons of different colors and shapes, decorated with a congratulatory inscription resembling embroidery with the rest of the tip of the thread. But a wax heart can be made in a silicone mold (for baking cakes) from children's wax crayons, which crumble into a mold and melt at high temperature. After the heart has cooled, the valentine is considered ready.

If among your loved ones there are those who read books in the old fashioned way, then you can make such a wonderful leather bookmark.

Let's start by cutting out the pattern. Fold a sheet of paper in half.

Draw a heart in the corner and cut it out.

now we have ready template.

Now we will transfer the template to a piece of leather or leatherette.

It remains to glue the corner or sew with a machine.

A very cute gift.

A panel of coffee beans looks very funny. It is carried out very simply, but if you do it carefully, and even add a successful frame, you will get a very original valentine. First, a heart is cut out of cardboard, the size of which is not limited, but, perhaps, it should not be larger than a tea saucer. Black or brown plasticine is laid out on the cardboard in an even layer, 3.5 mm thick, on which coffee beans are attached. Of course, you can also use a glue gun, which will greatly simplify the work. You need to start laying the grains from the edges: this way they will lie more evenly and cover the edges of the cardboard. After that, the grains are laid out in a spiral towards the center. The workpiece must be placed in the refrigerator for 20 minutes, as a result of which the plasticine will harden. The finished heart is attached to the cardboard with glue, and it is better to use a material with a textured rather than a smooth surface, and the finished panel is inserted into the frame. Such a declaration of love can decorate a kitchen or another room, and its meaning will remain relevant for the whole year.

Who said that valentines can be made of paper. For example, this is how you can decorate white dishes for a romantic evening. Mix together 3 tablespoons of powdered sugar, 1 teaspoon of water, and 2 drops of liquid food coloring.

Subtle nature will appreciate the gift.

From hearts cut out of beautiful colored paper with a floral pattern and superimposed on each other, it sticks together do-it-yourself voluminous valentine. Many people like a book-heart, the pages of which can be covered with poems or tender confessions. No less interesting are heart-shaped baskets filled with small sweets. Cardboard for them is better to take double-sided, and the side inner walls of the hearts must be fixed with a ribbon, hang the baskets on the base and fill with dragees or nuts in chocolate. If you tinker a little, you can make a wonderful closed heart box with sweets. And it is better to use silver or golden paper in its manufacture. You can also cover plain cardboard with a shiny spray, and then decorate the box with a pale blue ribbon. For every lover, such painstaking efforts would be proof of great and sincere love.

Valentine cards, paintings, caskets - all this is very appropriate on Valentine's Day. The main thing is to keep those feelings that inspired you to make a touching souvenir in the shape of your own heart.

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