As before any holiday before the Day of All Lovers, the question of gifts to their loved ones arises. Undoubtedly, there is a huge number of various thematic souvenirs on sale, they are affectionately called valentines. You can go to the store and get a pretty present, but if the valentine is made with your own hands, then it will be much nicer to receive such a gift, because it means special attention to your partner.
Traditionally, souvenirs to Valentine's Day have a heart shape. It can be a confectionery, a casket or a card in the shape of a heart, but it is cards with hearts that remain the most popular on Valentine's Day.
So, how to make a card heart with your own hands?
To make a holiday card, you will need one sheet of thick two-sided paper, preferably pink, velvet paper (red), golden paper, thread, needle and red marker. First, cut out a large heart of their thick paper and fasten on it with thread small hearts of velvet and golden paper. To get the volume of the heart should be folded in half. On the back of the postcard with a red marker write a confession to your loved one. Such a heart-shaped card made with your own hands will become a wonderful souvenir on Valentine's Day!
The simplest postcard-heart in the form of an envelope
To make such an original valentine, you need to take a multicolored paper and cut out hearts of different sizes from it. Using glue to fix them, dripping glue on the middle of each of them. Fold in the form of an envelope and glue a beautiful ribbon of suitable color. Tie a bow from it. In such an envelope, you can put a note with a declaration of love. Cute card-heart in the form of an envelope, a wonderful souvenir for the Day of all lovers!
Original valentine hearts can serve as an ornament, for example, for a gift bag for a surprise. You will need a beautiful package of paper of suitable size, dense colored paper or cardboard, clothespin. From the thick paper cut two hearts of the same size (they should close the clothespin). On glue type "Moment" glue the hearts on the outer sides of the clothespins. In the bag put the chosen gift, for example, a key chain, a thematic souvenir, a soft toy or something else and close the package with a clothespin decorated with bright hearts.
Beautiful cards with hearts
This card is very simple and fast. It is necessary to take a beautiful sheet of cardboard and two more small strips of heavy paper of light color (hearts will be attached to them), bright thin paper of different colors, you can also use fabric. From thin paper or cloth, cut six or eight equal in size hearts, bend them in half and sew in place of fold to strips of thick paper. Then fold a sheet of cardboard in half and glue the finished strips with hearts to the front side. All, beautiful and original greeting card with hearts ready!
Original valentine hearts made of papier-mache
Such a valentine you absolutely do not buy in the store.
So, you need a paper mass (the recipe is attached), napkins and adhesive for decoupage or acrylic paints, awl, sandpaper.
To make paper pulp, you need to take the cheapest toilet paper and pour it with water, leave for a few hours. It is necessary to achieve maximum dissolution. Then squeeze using gauze or cloth. The resulting lumps are carefully loosened and gradually add PVA glue to the desired consistency. To get a homogeneous mass you can use a mixer. After that you can start modeling.
From the paper mass, you need to mold the heart and let it dry, then fine-grained the surface to make it smooth. When the product is ready it can be dyed and varnished, you can also use the decoupage technique and decorate the heart with beautiful colors. In the upper part of the heart, make a hole and pass a nice cord.
Such valentine hearts will make an indelible impression on your chosen one.