Handmade heart shaped cards. Do-it-yourself heart as a way to express warm feelings. The heart of a loved one with your own hands

A nice gift for a person who is dear to you will be a souvenir in the form of a heart. To do this, you will need a paper cut heart template. You can make a souvenir or a gift with your own hands at any moment when you are overwhelmed with bright feelings. The person to whom the present is intended will be touched by your attention. Such a gift will add a touch of romance to your relationship.

Exist traditional holidays or celebrations for which they give hearts:

Valentine's Day (February 14);
wedding anniversaries;
birthdays of dear people.

But the feelings that people experience do not fit into calendar dates. You can always give a gift, where a piece of your soul is invested, when you want to please a loved one.

How to make a pattern

If you have the simplest artistic skills, let your imagination run wild. Draw a template for cutting yourself, then circle it and cut it out. Often simple stencils are downloaded on the Internet. For this, it is better to choose vector clipart. They can be enlarged.

The easiest way is to redraw the image from the monitor screen, or rather copy it. Attach a thin sheet of paper to the screen and trace the outlines of the picture with a pencil. An even easier way to print a heart template for cutting on a printer. If there is no printer, dump the form on a USB flash drive and use commercial printout centers.

More complex heart patterns with intricate patterns and inserts can be printed using a plotter (stencil maker). In this case, you will need the services of an advertising agency. They make any stencil printout on different media: thick, colored paper, adhesive base, etc.

On video: how to draw a perfectly even heart

What can be done with a heart stencil

Heart stencils can be used for many DIY items. The value of such a gift is higher than that of a simply bought souvenir, because a piece of your heart and warmth is invested in it.

Products from templates for cutting out in the form of hearts:

Postcards. They can be shaped like a heart or have attachments inside. By connecting several hearts and attaching them to two sides of the postcard, we get a three-dimensional image. Kirigami (the so-called paper cutting and making figurines) is very popular among hand-made lovers.

Postcard with a heart inside

Card with paper hearts

Heart shaped pillows . It can be decorative pillows for the sofa. Scented, filled with herbs, with beautiful applications, decorated with colored ribbons - different material, the main thing is fantasy and the desire to make an original gift.

Pillow in the shape of a heart

Pillows with photo printing

Decorative pillows

Pillow decor in the form of hearts

Photo frame or mirror . Stencils will become the basis of the future frame. Possible use various materials. For decoration, shells coated with acrylic lacquer, colored thick paper, mosaics or pieces of ceramics are used. The image in a frame in the shape of a heart will also decorate the interior.

Heart frame with paper flowers

Puzzle heart frame

Mirror in the shape of a heart

Souvenir-pendant in the shape of a heart

Napkins made with cutout templates. Create a whole series of napkins with applications, drawings, texts. They will decorate the kitchen and will look cute on the festive table.

Napkin in the shape of a heart

Heart from paper napkins

Knitted napkins

Composition in the form of a heart from paper napkins

Dessert. Another idea can be culinary dishes with the image of hearts. Sprinkling the cake powdered sugar, attach the stencil. Also, you can cut the biscuit in the shape of a heart, then the cakes will be doubly tastier :)

Cakes sprinkled with coconut

Heart in a heart

cookie cutter

Heart shaped cookies sprinkled with icing

Festive cookies for Valentine's Day

With the help of such stencils, you can revive the furniture in the children's room. The child will enthusiastically join this exciting activity. As you can see, templates for cutting fancy shapes will be needed more than once for the manufacture of various things. Do not rush to hide them, because to give warmth native person possible every day.

How to make a three-dimensional paper heart according to a template (2 videos)

Templates and souvenirs in the form of a heart (45 photos)

Pillow decor in the form of hearts

Card with paper heart

Souvenir-pendant in the shape of a heart

Composition in the form of a heart from paper napkins

Postcard with a heart inside

Card with paper hearts

Pillows with photo printing

Knitted napkins

Pillow in the shape of a heart

Colored paper heart card

Heart shaped potholders for the kitchen

Puzzle heart frame

Postcard with a heart inside

Decor in the form of a heart on the wall

Napkin in the shape of a heart

Decorative pillows

Decorative pillow with heart

Mirror in the shape of a heart

How nice it is to receive on Valentine's Day, which is celebrated on February 14 and dedicated to Valentine's Day, a small gift in the form of a heart - the so-called "Valentine"! During my youth, such a holiday was unknown in Russia, and we gave gifts exclusively on February 23 - for boys, and on March 8 - for girls 🙂

But the wonderful holiday of St. Valentine, not tied to any political dates and official celebrations, quickly fell in love with many, and became very popular in our country. Give and receive valentines, notice the symbols of hearts everywhere and plunge into the atmosphere of general light insanity - why not?

Appeal to mothers and grandmothers!

If you are young in soul and body, if you are in love, give and accept signs of attention! If you are young only in soul, and the body no longer wants to fit into the atmosphere of a youthful holiday, spit on his grumblings and take glue and paper in your hands - is your body still capable of this ?! Make a beautiful and unexpected valentine with your own hands, show your children and grandchildren a master class, prove that there is still “gunpowder on our street”!

And even though there was no such holiday in our youth, we knew how to make handicrafts better than the current “generation of computer geniuses”. Hands remember!

Of course, you can buy a ready-made postcard. But is it so pleasant for both the giver and the one who receives the gift? After all, spending effort, thinking about who you are preparing a gift for, creating a surprise with your own hands, you experience unique feelings of joy and anticipation - and this is the same, unique atmosphere of a REAL HOLIDAY!

Moreover, such a thing, amazing in its capabilities, as the World Wide Web, offers us many options and ready-made solutions, even in a photo, even in a video, in step by step lessons and master classes, detailed description and show the result.

I have prepared such a selection for you today - choose the most interesting version of the Valentine for you and - forward, to creative success!

Do-it-yourself valentine envelope made of paper - we do it with children!

Such funny animals that give valentine hearts can be easily and simply made from plain paper, together with the children - I think they will at least not be bored! After all, you can invent and create absolutely any animal - a bear cub, a kitten, a bunny, and even one that no one else has invented before 🙂 Show imagination in the image and accuracy in work - and you will get a wonderful original valentine in the form of an envelope with a secret message for the holiday February 14, and not only!

What to cook:

sheet of cardboard or thick white paper
red paper for a heart
glue
colored pencils or markers or paints
scissors, ruler, pencil

Take a regular sheet of thick paper or white cardboard.
Bend in half, make a fold.
Make a cut along the fold with scissors - we get 2 blanks for our valentines.
Lay out the rectangle as in the photo. Mark with ruler with a simple pencil 2.5 cm from the vertical edge two points and connect them with a line.
Do the same on the other side. It turns out, a kind of field of 2.5 cm wide.
Now, from above, set aside a line in this way 5 cm from the top edge, putting two points and connecting them with a line.
Everything above the line will be the muzzle of our character. On the side, you need to outline two semicircles - paws with which he will hold the envelope. Draw the paws below the horizontal line, stepping back from it by about 1 cm. Down
Here is such a muzzle and paws of the future dog turned out on a sheet.
We take scissors and carefully cut out all the contours along the lines of the pencil. If you are making a valentine with children, help them cut out difficult places - as in our example, the dog's ears.
We bend the lower part up - corner to corner. We paint the pencil muzzle with colored felt-tip pens or pencils. You can also make an application from colored paper - here only your imagination will tell you how best.
We bend the paws on top and draw claws on them.
From a piece of red paper, cut out a heart of any size you like, and glue it in the center. Be sure to use red - it's traditionally happened on Valentine's Day - for some reason, hearts are always red or pink.
Now we will make an imitation of an envelope - we will draw diagonal lines from the corners to the heart.
Open our valentine envelope and draw lines for writing inside our gift with a colored pencil or felt-tip pen.
You can draw a few hearts - it will be even more interesting. Well, do not forget to write the message itself - after all, any Valentine is a declaration of Love and Friendship!
Here are some funny little animals you can create. Colored parts can be painted or glued with an additional layer of paper of the desired color.

Do-it-yourself volumetric paper valentine - 3D hearts for Valentine's Day.

Very beautiful, voluminous valentine card with 3d hearts. The postcard is beautiful, but quite difficult for possible beginners due to numerous folds and slots - everything needs to be done carefully, so immediately make sure your hands are clean, press the paper not with your fingers, but with a plastic handle of scissors or another object. You will have to tinker, but we will definitely cope with you, because we have step by step photos the whole process!

To make it, we need to take:

2 sheets of beautiful red paper for hearts
2 sheets of white cardboard (heavy paper) of a standard size
black marker or felt-tip pen for tracing hearts
strips with rhinestones on sticky tape for decoration
a simple pencil, ruler, scissors, double-sided tape (but glue is also possible)

We fold each sheet of cardboard in half, precisely combining the corners so that there is no skew.
We will set aside one cardboard box, we will work with the second - with the base. Lay the folded sheet with the fold toward you and measure a 4 cm high line that is 3.5 cm from the edge. We symmetrically make the same line on the other side. The incision is made exactly along these lines.
Now we remove the concept of two-dimensional space from our heads and move on to volumetric 3D modeling - we bend the fold between the two slots in the other direction. You should get such a design, as in the photo below.
This is the outer side, and on the inside (open our postcard, as you open a book) - it turns out such a step. Did you manage? Wait to rejoice, it's still flowers!
Now let's wrap our step inside the postcard and close it by going to the outside. From the outside, our postcard should look like this. Now we must do a similar procedure with the inner fold of the postcard - set aside from the edges of the fold 2 cm inwards and 3 cm upwards.
We make cuts again along the marking lines.
To make it easier to bend the sheet in this place, attach the ruler to the ends of the cuts and wrap the sheet on the ruler, iron the fold line.

Now open the postcard again and redirect our fold in the opposite direction - to again get a ledge-step on the inside of the postcard.
Do this on the other side - now we should have 3 steps.
At this stage, we could already stop, but we are not looking for easy ways. Let's take another step! Along the inner fold, we again set aside the markings for the last cut - 2 cm from the edge and up.
But we will cut through only one upper fold (and not the entire thickness!).
Thus, we have another upper small step. Phew, you can exhale, then everything will go much easier!
We take our first cardboard box - it will be the outer, front side - we need to attach our “stepped” model to it. It is convenient to do this with double-sided tape, but you can get by with ordinary glue - the main thing is not to pour a lot of it so that our valentine does not wrinkle or warp. We glue both parts and get a smooth cover on the outside and a stepped design inside the valentine. Now you need to decorate it with hearts.
Let's make a heart template - best of all 3 different sizes. Two or three large hearts, many medium and two or three small ones.
Outline our pencil sketches of hearts with a black marker and cut them out with scissors.
Now is the time to show your artistic abilities - beautifully and highly artistically, with the taste of a true designer, you need to scatter our hearts on different levels so that it looks beautiful. If you can’t trust your taste, do it exactly according to the photo, perhaps it will be fine.
It is very convenient to attach hearts to pieces of double-sided tape, but you can also use glue.
Well, this is how it all looks. Everything already looks elegant, but there is no limit to perfection - let's do the last part of the design - decorate with strips of rhinestones.

Here we have such a “heart-strass” splendor! True, there was no place left for text congratulations, but with such an abundance of red hearts, words would probably already be superfluous! What do you think?

“Heart in the palms” is a very simple and quick paper valentine. Can be done with children.

What materials are needed:

red and White paper
glue, pencil, ruler, scissors
pink or red pencil (felt pen)
needle and thread

We take our (or someone else's!) hand with a pressed thumb, put on a sheet of paper and circle. Cut out the hand stencil.
We bend thick white paper (or cardboard) in half and lay our stencil on the fold line so that the “little finger” is along this line. We cut everything to the fold so that the card can open like a book.
From red, double-sided dyed paper, cut out the same squares, about 6 cm each side. On one of them we make a diagonal fold and draw a half of a heart. This will be our template.
We also bend the remaining squares, fold them one by one and, applying a template, cut out hearts.
We sew the resulting stack of hearts with a fold in the middle onto the inside of the fold of our “palms”, leave a knot of thread on the side of the hearts. Then we will close it.
Glue the halves of the hearts to the palms with glue.
We also glue together the two halves of the uppermost heart, at the same time hiding the traces of stitching.
We circle the “palms” with a pink felt-tip pen, not forgetting to paint on the details inside - folds and lines on the fingers. Everything! Our voluminous paper valentine is completely ready - you can give your loved one your heart in your palms!

Making this valentine is very simple, but there are some tools that will need to be prepared. In particular, it is difficult to do without a hole punch - to create the same even holes, and special curly scissors, since cutting all these waves by hand on many details is not at all interesting and cannot be done exactly - but here the sameness of details and accuracy are important.

We will need:

pink and white paper
acrylic paints(yellow and white)
glue
green pencil or marker
round head pin
slice beautiful ribbon
hole puncher
curly scissors

So let's get started!

We “clone” the heart template of the size we need to the number of 7 pieces from a sheet of pink paper.
Glue a pink heart on a larger white sheet.
With the help of curly scissors, we make a beautiful edge treatment, so that a white wavy outline appears around the pink heart, reminiscent of braiding when sewing.
We need 7 pieces of such blanks.
Each heart needs to be decorated with daisies. To do this, take a pin with a round head and, dipping it in yellow paint, draw the centers of the flowers - 3 daisies, as in the photo below. Around each middle, draw white petals in the same way.
With a green pencil we add leaves - two for each flower.
We make neat holes in each heart with a hole punch. We pass a piece of festive ribbon through them.
We tie a bow and cut exactly the edges with sharp scissors.
Our gentle valentine with chamomile mood is ready. It remains to write on the reverse side of the first heart the name of the object of our donation, and on the remaining ones - your wishes, and everything that you would like to convey in words.

Exquisite valentine using the scrapbooking technique - Master class with step-by-step photos.

This is what a closed valentine card looks like.

Turning the paper lever, we open our postcard and there we see a surprise message.

To make this stunningly beautiful and sophisticated valentine, we will need materials that are sold in craft stores or scrapbooking departments (in bookstores). There you can always find all the necessary parts, accessories and tools. It is good that now all this can be ordered directly through online stores.

What to cook:

pink and white paper for scrapbooking (can be used for watercolor, or other thick paper)
semi-beads on a sticky basis
artificial flowers for scrapbooking
piece of lace, piece of lace
rivet with split ends - brads (these are stud buttons with a flat flexible forked leg made of soft metal)
glue and glue gun (can be replaced with colorless superglue)
curly and regular scissors

When everything you need is prepared - the process of creating a valentine heart will not cause us any problems - everything is quite simple.

From plain white paper, we cut out the shape and size of the heart we need.
According to the template, cut out a heart from pink thick paper.
Tint the edges of the heart with a slightly pink pencil, of a darker shade, to visually darken the border.
From red thick paper with a template applied to it, using curly scissors, cut out the blank. Cut out so that the wavy edge protrudes beyond the edge of our template size.
We glue a pink heart on a red blank with a curly edge.
Cut out a rectangle from red paper and glue it on top of the pink layer.
Now cut out a slightly smaller rectangle from white paper and glue it on red.
And on the corner we will glue another small red heart. Our blank number 1 is ready.
Now we will transfer the heart template to red paper with a pencil, but we will not cut it out yet. Our task is to make another red heart, a little smaller than our template. To do this, manually draw another one inside the pencil contour - a little less. On it we will make a crop. This will be the second piece.
This is how it should look like when applying the second blank to the first.
For the second heart, you need to make a decoration-bouquet. Let's start with the ribbon - make two loops and glue them together at the base.
From the lace braid we will make one larger loop and place it at the base, on the bottom layer. Glue this beauty on a heart - place it not in the center, but a little asymmetrically, as done in the photo below.
Now we need 3 flowers. If there is a stalk, cut it to the very root. Attach three flowers to the base of our decoration on the glue gun, covering the cut and fastening points of the braid.
We transfer one half-bead to our heart, gluing them along the edge of the heart.
Now we cut out a “lever” from pink paper - cut a strip of paper in the shape of an arrow, cutting off the corners. Glue on the back side of our second blank.
We combine both blanks and with a sharp knife we make a small hole at the base of the heart.
Pick up our rivet and insert the legs into the hole from the front side.
On the reverse side, spread the legs of the brads to the sides and press firmly against the paper.
So that these legs do not stand out, we close them with an application in the shape of a small red heart.
Check how our "mechanism" works - the upper heart should easily move over the lower one, revealing to us a secret message ... Which we still need to manage to write on small piece white paper. But that's a completely different story... 🙂

Valentine card with moving rainbow hearts - Master class on video.

The fastest and easiest valentine in 2 minutes!

If you “slept through” the whole of February and realized it only on the 14th, when it’s too late to prepare surprises, and you definitely need to give something .. catch a simple way - How to quickly and easily make a valentine out of paper with your own hands in just 2 minutes. This video clip has been going on for exactly that long, and by repeating all the simple steps behind it, you will definitely cope!

Here are the hearts you can draw yourself or download as ready-made templates.

Download stencils of hearts of different sizes (for cutting out of paper) from the link below - they can be printed on any printer, they are selected in the large size you need for printing.

Tricky question!

PS. Please share in the comments examples of your valentines - what did you give or did yourself, and what did you give? And, by the way, I have had an unresolved question for a long time - what is more pleasant - to give gifts yourself or to receive them from other people? How do you think?

Holiday of all lovers. There are a few weeks left until February 14th, you can already start thinking about a gift, looking for recipes for delicious dishes for romantic dinner... You can get a few sheets of multi-colored paper, scissors and glue and make interesting valentines with your own hands, stylishly decorate a house in romantic colors, beautifully decorate a festive table.

This article contains the most interesting handmade ideas for the holiday of all lovers. We hope that with our help your significant other will remember this day for a long time. So, we will surprise with all kinds of hearts, let's go!

For these romantic crafts you will need colored paper, scissors, glue, sometimes even wire and salt (!), but we can promise you that you will not need any special skills and secret ingredients that can only be obtained on a full moon by surpassing through an empty well!

1. Decorate the house!

Wreath of lovers on the door

We cut out a circle from plain white paper, with a diameter of 30-40 cm. We glue it with cut out hearts. Choose the necessary tonality for yourself - a wreath can be made more delicate using white and light pink hearts, or more passionate by choosing red and burgundy colors. Can be done in fashionable combination pink and black or gothic style- using black and red hearts. The size of the hearts can also be chosen differently - so the wreath will turn out to be more voluminous and textured.

An interesting option is a wreath of roses.

How to make, see our detailed.

If you want something more cozy and warm on a cold February evening, pay attention to the option.

A wreath can decorate a door, window or hang it on the wall.

Garland of hearts

We string the cut out hearts on a thread. Very simple and beautiful decoration. Please note that hearts can be strung either across or along. If strung across, you get a vertical garland, which can be used to arrange a doorway.

If along, then horizontal - such a garland can be hung on a wall, decorate a bed, a window with it, or drag it across the entire room under the ceiling.

It is even easier to make a garland with clothespins. Then it is better to cut out hearts from thicker paper so that they do not deform due to clothespins. And of course, you can attach romantic wishes, favorite photos, memorable candy wrappers and tickets to such a garland.

Romantic little things

Remember when we were kids growing crystals on sticks in a saline solution? Try to make such crystal hearts by February 14th!

A heart can be made from colored wire, after which it must be placed in a concentrated saline solution (add salt gradually to warm water until it stops dissolving). It remains to wait a few days, and in order for the heart to grow faster, then change the solution to a new one every 2-3 days.

And, of course, candles! Decorate candle holders with hearts, just don't forget about fire safety!

2. We make valentines with our own hands!

The most important paper heart on this day is your Valentine card. And you can make it with your own hands and it will turn out no worse than the store, even more original! For example, you can send...

Message in an envelope

We string 6-8 hearts on a thread and put them in an envelope...

You can write words on each of the hearts, which, as the hearts are pulled out, will add up to a phrase. Do not confuse the beginning and end when putting a message in an envelope, otherwise it will turn out “I love you, I am Zina” instead of “Zina, I love you” :)

A couple more options with envelopes - mini messages with nice words and compliments and an envelope that opens into a heart

Postcard with hearts

And here are easy cute design ideas for romantic valentines cards:

Another idea of a three-dimensional postcard with two hearts flowing into each other - it turns out a very symbolic Valentine. It will take you only 10 minutes to create it - follow ours and here's what you get in the end

And here is a video instruction on how to make a Valentine card with hearts resembling Balloons on strings

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Button hearts

Cool postcards are obtained with hearts from buttons - bright and cheerful

Valentine cards with photos

Your joint happy photo can become the best valentine for Valentine's Day. Add a line of wishes in Photoshop, a few hearts and paste it into a pretty frame. Or make a heart out of your little photographs

And also Origami Valentines. Watch this simple video tutorial showing how to make a beating heart out of a sheet of paper.

In nomination "Last Minute Valentine" this uncomplicated boxed cardboard heart wins. Beloved is almost on the doorstep, but the valentine is not ready? Feel free to tear off a piece of the box and, following this simple video instruction, make a romantic surprise.

3. We have fun colleagues!

To do this, you will need plastic (yes, in principle, any) soldiers! We write heartbreaking requests for help on hearts, such as “Elena Arnoldovna, you killed me with your smile!”, “I can’t fight these feelings anymore!” “I’m dying of love for you”, “Smitten by your look on the spot!”. We “distribute” hearts to the soldiers and arrange the regiment dying of love on the tables of colleagues, window sills and in a cupboard for coffee cups.

4. Have a romantic tea party

Cute tea bags. We have already written about this. Can be issued in romantic style the whole tea ceremony.

However, you can drink hot tea outside from a thermos and, embracing, look at the romantic sky lanterns flying into the sky in the form of hearts.

5. Making bookmark hearts for a book

What could be easier - take two hearts different sizes and paste the small one onto the large one (only the upper part, and the bottom tab will just “cling” to the desired page!)

6. Bouquets of hearts

We fasten 6-8 hearts together with a pin, fasten the pin with the resulting bud to the “twig”, which can be a wire, a cocktail tube or a real tree branch. The flower is ready. We make 5-7 flowers for a bouquet, of different sizes and shades. We “decorate” the petals with wishes and compliments!

And this option will especially appeal to those with a sweet tooth - we fix the flower not with a pin, but with lollipop candy

Ready-made bouquets for the sweet tooth

7. Delicious love. Cooking a romantic breakfast for your loved one

We will please your loved one on this day with goodies. I will not include a recipe for baked salmon with an exotic sauce in this article, there are many similar instructions on the Internet. Let's stop at a beautiful presentation. Pancakes and scrambled eggs can be prepared in special molds. You can also cut hearts from all kinds of fruits and vegetables: carrots, strawberries, bananas, apples and kiwi.

Volumetric postcards do it yourself

Do-it-yourself voluminous postcard nice gift loved one or friend. There are postcards for all occasions, so you can pick up for any holiday the right gift with your own hands.

Make a postcard with your own hands. Eight-bit heart.

This original three-dimensional postcard is quite easy to make, despite the fact that its design seems intricate.

It is ideal for a loved one (girls, mothers, grandmothers) 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. 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. Use a utility knife to make vertical cuts on your template.

3. Now you need to carefully fold the card without wrinkling the details. First, make the folds, which are indicated by yellow lines in the pictures. Next, begin to carefully bend the card.

* The rest of the card should fold on its own. Do not forget how to stroke the card with your fist so that all elements work clearly.

* For convenience, you can temporarily attach a postcard to the table with adhesive tape.

4. We decorate a voluminous postcard. You can glue the edges of the card with paper of a different color.

Now almost everything is ready, it remains only to add warm words.

Do-it-yourself postcard. A heart.

Despite its simplicity, this postcard will look beautiful if you do everything right. Anyone can make this Valentine.

You will need:

White thick paper

red paper

Scissors.

1. You will need a postcard template (or you can draw one yourself - see the picture for how to do it).

2. Cut out a card from white paper.

3. Fold the red paper like an accordion. Next, you need to cut it out.

4. glue the resulting hearts to the postcard.

Ready! It remains only to decorate to taste and sign.

Do-it-yourself postcards. Scheme. Rainbow.

This postcard is very easy to make even for a child.

You will need:

White thick paper

Scissors

Markers, pencils or paints

1. fold the paper in half

2. draw a rainbow as shown in the picture

3. make cuts along the top and bottom of the rainbow

4. unfold the paper and color the rainbow

* You can draw whatever your heart desires on the card, decorate it to your liking using stickers, sparkles, etc.

5. now you need to carefully bend the rainbow out of the paper (see picture)

6. To hide the hole from the cut out rainbow, glue another piece of paper to the back of the card.

When you open it, the rainbow should peek out, decorating the world you've created in your card.

How to make a voluminous postcard. Volcano of hearts.

This postcard consists of two halves that stick together.

You will need:

colored paper

Heavy paper

Scissors

1. First you need to download the template in one of the formats that are convenient for you.

Do-it-yourself templates for voluminous postcards

* You can try to draw hearts yourself, but you need to know certain rules - they are listed below.

2. Remove the big heart from the middle (it's right on the fold).

3. Cut out the hearts, leaving only the folds intact (see picture).

4. Make cuts on the hearts indicated in the picture (gray lines on opposite hearts), thus you can fasten them.

* The postcard will close better if you cut the paper at the center fold and glue them individually to the base (the base is a thick red paper that serves as the background for the postcard).

5. Glue the halves to the base and connect the hearts in which you made cuts.

rules

* The sizes of the hearts are the same on both sides.

* The blue line in the diagram shows that the distance from the fold in the middle to the notch is the same, and the red lines indicate the same distance between hearts close to the middle of the card.

Volumetric postcards made of paper. Eight-bit freaks.

This postcard is perfect for both teens and adults.

You will need:

Stationery knife

Ruler (preferably metal)

Postcard size approx 8.5cm x 6.5cm

1. Download the weirdo or skull template and print it out. You can try to draw them yourself.

Volumetric postcard templates

2. Make cuts in the indicated places (see the picture - where the red lines need to be cut, where the green lines are folds).

3. As you begin to fold the card, your weirdo will begin to "hatch" out of the paper. Take your time, do everything carefully.

* If the form does not come out automatically, try to help yourself with a toothpick, or something similar.

4. Glue the card to separate paper, which will hide the holes and serve as the base for the card.

* You can put your postcard in an envelope.

Master class - volumetric postcard "Cheerful crab"

Exist different techniques making voluminous postcards and this "funny crab" is made using one of the simplest.

You will create volume by gluing the main elements of the postcard onto voluminous adhesive tape.

You will need:

Heavy paper

colored paper

patterned paper

Black beads or felt-tip pen (for eyes)

Volumetric tape (or foam)

PVA glue.

* You can replace bulky tape with a piece of foam. To do this, you need to cut out small cubes from the foam. The side of one cube should be a few millimeters.

*Use glue to stick the pieces of styrofoam first to the elements of the card and then to the card itself.

1. To get started, you need to download and print this template. You can also draw the same crab or other cute creature yourself.

Paper postcard template

Cut out all the main details of the crab from colored and patterned paper.

2. Prepare thick paper.

Fold it in half to make the base for the card.

Glue pattern paper for the background onto this base using PVA glue.

Glue the wavy paper onto the design paper yellow color, it will represent the sand.

Glue to the "sand" using voluminous adhesive tape or polystyrene, details starfish and jellyfish.

You can decorate crab marine friends with beads.

3. After that, you cut out the details of the crab from plain and patterned paper, you need to glue it.

Glue the legs of your paper crab to the card base.

Glue the crab's eyes to its body (or you can draw them yourself).

Connect the rest of the parts using the same bulk tape or foam.

4. Draw a mouth and write any wish.

How to make voluminous postcards . Chick.

This card can be prepared for Easter or for a birthday, or maybe there is another occasion.

You will need:

Wrapping paper

Heavy paper

Stationery knife

colored paper

Scissors

Ruler

1. We first make two blanks for our postcard. The dimensions of one are 15 cm by 12 cm, and the second is 15 cm by 15 cm. It is on the second base that you will attach the details. Bend 3 centimeters from the bottom edge of the base (see picture).

2. Step back from the left edge by 3 cm and the same from the right and draw strips, the width of which is 1 cm and the length is 3 cm. Cut the lines with a clerical knife. You need to make three such strips, since we have three parts.

3. You need to bend the strips forward, and you will get a kind of stand for the details of the postcard.

4. Glue the main part of the card to the inside, as shown in the picture.

* You can decorate the postcard using wrapping paper. It can glue the base.

5. We cut out eggs from thick paper and decorate them. You can use circles cut out of colored paper or made with a stapler, or stickers, sparkles.

7. Glue the eggs on the coasters and glue the rest of the details.

* You can decorate your postcard with feathers and/or glitter.

The very first big celebration after the New Year is Valentine's Day. Very soon, lovers will begin to intensively prepare for this day: come up with romantic gifts for each other, plan how best to spend this day and, of course, do it first.

It has already become a tradition for Krestik to help you find ideas and inspiration for any occasion, so we will start preparing in advance for February 14th!
Let's see how you can make paper valentines with your own hands, so as not to spend too much time, but as a result get beautiful and Original gifts for loved ones.

To start making a valentine with your own hands, especially if you are thinking of making it out of paper and in the shape of a heart, you should prepare a template. If you can easily draw a beautiful heart by hand, then go ahead for thick paper and a pencil! If you are not sure that you can handle it yourself, then download the heart templates we have selected, print them on a printer and carefully cut out the heart along the contour.

First make a cut with a clerical knife, then use small scissors, such as nail scissors.

As a result, you should get such a blank, circling it along the contour on a beautiful sheet of paper, and then cutting it out, you will get a neat heart.

So, we figured out how to cut an even and pretty heart out of colored paper. It's time to choose an idea for decorating Valentine's Day.

Super simple valentines

Let's first look at the most simple ways. A huge valentine heart can be made from small hearts, each of which is glued to a cardboard base.

Small blank hearts themselves can become full-fledged valentines if they are cut out of beautiful paper and decorated with buttons.

There is a special place on the Valentine for the name of the addressee or a romantic message.

A complete picture of paper hearts is the height of simplicity and genius!

After watching the video of the master class, you will learn how to make a heart box with your own hands:

Valentine card with a pattern

The beauty of this way of creating a paper heart with your own hands is that it is not at all necessary to be a talented artist, even a child can make such a Valentine.

On a heart of white or any other, but better than a light color, ordinary ballpoint pen draw uncomplicated curls, hearts, flowers and other delights.

Then, using the usual watercolor paints, paint only a few fragments:

As a result, you will get a one-of-a-kind Valentine!

Such valentines can be given not only to a loved one, but also to friends (because we love them too))

By the way, do you know why foreigners write XO letters on Valentine cards?
In fact, everything is very simple: X conditionally means “kiss”, and O means “hug”)

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Valentine's 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 only 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 piece of paper.

And now let's see how to make a valentine with your own hands using a stamp.

On a blank for a postcard (you can use a ready-made one, you can fold a sheet of cardboard in half) using a small piece of masking tape, carefully attach the blank with a heart inside. Then, using a stamp, we fill the entire surface inside the blank with hearts, while the color of the hearts can be different shades red.

After the paint has dried, remove the paper blank and the valentine is ready!

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Another idea for making a heart stamp is to give a cardboard cylinder from toilet paper a heart shape, wrapping it with tape for reliability.

With the help of such a stamp, you can decorate a large sheet of drawing paper on which to write declarations of love!

Valentine card with hearts

Lovers of beautiful scrapbooking paper will definitely love the idea of creating a romantic three-dimensional postcard with hearts.

The technique for creating a valentine card is very simple. Using a paper puncher, cut out hearts.

The number of hearts should be 2 times more than what we see on the card, because each heart will be two-layered.

In this version of the valentine, all the bottom hearts are made from the same type of paper, and the top ones are made from different ones.

Take a ready-made card base or make your own, and then mark the location of the bottom layer of hearts and stick them on thin double-sided tape. Just sew the top hearts to the bottom ones on a sewing machine - it's not difficult, the main thing is to be careful.

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By the same principle, you can make small valentine cards:

And voluminous valentines in the shape of a heart:

If you don't have sewing machine then sew on the hearts by hand. To do this, first place the paper on a soft surface, such as a towel or ironing board, and then pierce it with a needle, using a thimble to push the needle through (watch your fingers!)

Ideas for decorating the house by February 14

And finally, get inspired by ideas for decorating your home for Valentine's Day. They also won't take much of your time, but they will definitely create a romantic atmosphere!

romantic wreaths

The wreath of paper hearts is based on a circle made of thick cardboard or a plywood blank. You can glue the exact same circle of decorative paper on top, and then just stick on it a large number of hearts!

It's even easier to make a wreath out of strips of double-sided scrapbooking paper. Bend them in half first, and then glue them on top, giving the shape of a heart. By gluing such blanks to each other, you will assemble an original wreath from them.

The more hearts, the larger the circle of the wreath.

Garland of hearts

In addition to the wreath, you can also make garlands with hearts. A figured hole punch with a heart and a regular hole punch for piercing round holes will come to the rescue.

The garland can also be made from hearts folded from strips of paper (based on the “heart” element, borrowed from quilling)

Of course, we will definitely show you more complex and interesting options DIY valentines, but if for some reason you need to make a valentine very quickly, you can always use one of the ideas listed here!