Mail for valentines out of the box. Wonderful valentine from a matchbox

DIY paper Valentine's Day gift

Box "Valentine". Master class with step by step photos


Galeta Natalia Sergeevna, teacher of additional education, Kungur, Perm Territory, Municipal autonomous educational institution of additional education for children House of children's creativity "Dar"
Target: development of creative abilities of children of senior preschool and primary school age;
Tasks:
- develop an interest in artistic creation;
- learn how to create beautiful crafts out of paper;
- develop aesthetic feelings;
- improve skills and abilities in the application;
- to educate independence, accuracy in work;
Equipment and materials:
- cardboard
- PVA glue
- scissors
- pencil
- colored paper
- stapler
- paper napkins
With the children of the second and third grade in the classroom, I decided to make a “valentine” in the form of a box for Valentine's Day. The work is simple and interesting at the same time. Children will cope with it in one lesson. The material will be useful for primary school teachers, technology teachers in primary grades, teachers of additional education, as well as parents of younger students.
Progress:
1. The drawing of the box looks like this:


Better to print it on a printer.
2. Cut out the workpiece and bend it along all fold lines. For better bending, you need to draw along all the lines with the scissor blades from the inside of the workpiece along the ruler. [


3. We bend the inner lines with an accordion.


4. We fold the box and glue the valves inside.


5. We thread the tape into the holes in this way:


6. Fasten the box and tie the ribbon. The box is ready.


7. It remains to make decorations to your liking. For children, I suggest this option:


8. Cut the napkin into four parts.


9. Use a stapler to place a bracket in the center of the resulting one square.


10. Cut a circle out of the square. And we begin to collect up all the layers of the napkin, each individually. Press the napkins with our fingers so that they keep their shape.


11. Cut out the leaves and glue everything on the box.


13. A slightly different design option:


The Valentine's box is ready.

We offer you several master classes on creating a wide variety of valentines by February 14th. Here we have collected the best ideas, diagrams, tips, templates and step by step instructions... From this article, you will learn how to make valentines with your own hands from various materials: paper, felt, beads, threads (we will crochet), salt dough, jewelry, etc.

In this collection you will find both very simple and at the same time original hearts, and those that will take a little more time to create. That is why some of the crafts will be described briefly (you just need to look at the photo to understand how to make a valentine), and we will dwell on others in more detail.

Paper valentines

Let's start with the obvious - paper hearts. To create them, you need cardboard, colored paper and a glue stick. In some cases, additional decor will also be needed - it can be added at will to any of the presented crafts.

Postcard with a volumetric heart

This is a very simple and at the same time spectacular homemade valentine, which will be pleasant to receive on Valentine's Day for a person of any gender and age.

We need:

  • rectangular cardboard base;
  • colored paper for decorating a heart;
  • glue;
  • stencil.

The template can be anything to your liking, however we suggest you cut and fold the finished heart. It looks like this.

You need to cut it out and mark the folds on it.

Fold the heart in half and fold the sides over to it.

Fold the cardboard base in half and attach to it the heart that you cut out of colored paper on a stencil. Mark the place where you will glue the heart. Circle its outline and glue the side parts (small hearts) with glue.

Glue the paper to the cardboard behind the little hearts.

You have got a card with a voluminous paper valentine. You can write a wish right on it, and decorate the cover of the gift for February 14 with felt-tip pens or rhinestones. You can also put another valentine on the cover, the instructions for making which you can find below.

Valentine card made of paper strips

This beautiful and neat valentine can be a great addition to your Valentine's Day gift. It can be attached to a surprise box or bag for a loved one.

We need:

  • paper strips of the same width and different lengths (several colors);
  • stapler or rivets;
  • glue;
  • threads and colored paper for cutting out hearts.

As the main material, you can use craft, corrugated, velvet and any other beautiful paper or cardboard. It's great if this paper has an interesting decor.

The stripes should differ in length by a few centimeters - this depends on the size of the desired valentine.

Fasten the paper strips together at the base: short - closer to the center, the closer to the outside - the longer the strips.

Then fasten the strips together in two and bend them towards the center, forming a heart.

Additionally, you can attach a paper loop to the valentine and make a pendant from thread and small hearts.

A great idea is to write a wish or declaration of love on each strip. Do this from the inside and ask the recipient to disassemble the valentine.

Volumetric 3D valentine from paper

An easy way to cut and fold a valentine with your own hands. The postcard will turn out to be original and very touching. The decor looks intricate, but this heart can be made out of paper or cardboard in just a couple of minutes.

We need:

  • cardboard or colored paper;
  • stencil or ruler;
  • paper cutter;
  • lace.

It is better to take double-sided cardboard or paper. If you don't have one at hand, just glue together two sheets, painted on only one side. Just make sure that all parts of the future gift for February 14 are tightly glued to each other - otherwise it will come out sloppy.

Take a sheet and draw a heart on it. Then we apply a stencil to it or make markings at equal distances. For convenience, use this template.

You can print it or just sketch it schematically.

Then we simply cut the valentine out of paper and go through the marked strips with a cutter. We bend them one by one: we push the first strip forward, the second - back, the third - forward again, etc.

The craft can be completed with a string or thread. Attach a valentine to a gift or give it just like that.

Box-shaped paper valentine

A Valentine is not always a standard postcard. You can give your loved one a box in which you can hide sweets or any other surprise.

We need:

  • cardboard;
  • stencil;
  • glue stick;
  • satin ribbon.

A stencil for cutting a valentine box looks like this.

Print it or sketch it. The sizes can be varied to your liking. V in this case the box is folded from a standard A4 cardboard sheet.

Cut out the image of the heart, having previously marked the fold lines on it.

We fold the box, making the necessary cuts (see how it looks in the photo) and fastening small parts with glue or double-sided tape.

You can attach a satin ribbon bow to the finished box.

Box valentines decorated using decoupage technique look very beautiful. If you have napkins, consider this.

Quilling paper valentine

The easiest way to cut out the hearts is to use cookie cutters. If you don't have them, roll out the sculpting mass from which you will make the valentine, and put a cardboard heart on it, and then circle it with a needle and cut off the excess with a knife or spatula.

Decorate the heart with openwork details, buttons, beads and other decor. Bake the valentine in the oven, pre-making a hole in it for the braid.

If you want to add a wish to a homemade valentine, write it on a cardboard heart and tie it to the braid. In addition, a heart made of plaster, polymer clay or salt dough can be painted with paints or special markers and the name of a loved one can be written on it.

Valentines from felt

One of the most popular Valentine's Day cards is felt hearts. They turn out to be delicate and touching, and even an inexperienced master can sew them.

We need:

  • felt of any color;
  • embroidery threads;
  • cotton wool or cotton pads.

Draw a standard heart on the cardboard and then attach it to the felt. You need to cut two identical pieces.

Make a beautiful embroidery, sew on beads or beads and sew the details together. At the same time, it is not at all necessary to make a secret seam - the external finish also looks beautiful.

Stuff the hearts with cotton wool or cotton pads - chubby felt valentines look even prettier.

Here are some ideas for inspiration.

Try to make several valentines at once - you can make cute compositions from them.

Crochet valentine

From this compilation of video tutorials, you will learn how to crochet a Valentine's Day card. We have collected for you the best detailed and clear instructions that will help even a beginner to master this technique. Knitted cards and Valentine's Day crafts are very attractive and valuable.

  • Master class on knitting a voluminous valentine in 30 minutes

  • Video tutorial on how to create a simple crochet valentine's card for beginners

  • Master class on creating an openwork valentine: hot coasters

  • Volumetric heart crochet

  • Another lesson on knitting a volumetric valentine

Hearts can be given just like that, tied to a gift or put on wooden skewers and make a bunch of them. Knit colorful bright valentines - your loved one will definitely not remain indifferent.

Choose any of the suggested ideas. Decide on the material from which you want to craft crafts by February 14, and then read how to make valentines, and feel free to get down to business. Your loved ones will definitely appreciate such a gesture of attention on Valentine's Day.

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Valentine's Day - can be a reason to write letters to your soul mate or your own family. The beginning of everyday romance. Piraku offers to make a do-it-yourself valentine mailbox for Valentine's Day.

Romantic idea for every day

- Do you love your wife?
- Like the first day of the meeting
- And should have been more

(exemplary dialogue between Taub and a patient from the TV series about Dr. House)


Having made your own hands a mailbox for valentines (Piraku found two options for you) for Valentine's Day, you can leave notes and small gifts in it for each other on ordinary days. In addition, the homemade mailbox can be used as an original gift wrapping.

And so the first version of a paper mailbox, which you can make with your own hands for Valentine's Day.

Letterbox for valentines made of paper

Idea and photo of valentine box found at simplymodernmom.com

To embody this romantic idea you will need:

  • Thick wrapping paper or scrapbooking paper
  • Paper of a different color - will go to the "lock" of the box for valentines
  • If the paper is thin, then not thick cardboard to duplicate the layers of the letterbox for rigidity
  • Glue, scotch tape
  • Pencil, ruler, scissors, hole punch
  • Buttons or 2 buttons - for attaching a movable latch

We make a box for Valentine's Day with our own hands:

We print or transfer the template of the box for valentines on paper.

Cut out the details of the mailbox. The dotted line marks the fold lines.

We punch holes in the designated places with a hole punch.

We bend the latches and attach them using a button or a hinge of buttons (note that an error has crept in in the original picture of the valentine box: the red part of the latch should “look” in the other direction)

We glue the parts of the mailbox, for reliability in some places it can be fixed with tape or adhesive tape.

The paper mailbox is ready: it's time to fill it with valentines, small gifts, or themed sweets.

Box for valentines

In the meantime, let's move on to another romantic valentine box idea that can be implemented on the eve of Valentine's Day. This time from the fabric.

Original packing: letter box

Master class on original packaging for valentines taken from giverslog.com
By the way, do you think that this version of the box for valentines, if you make small changes, could very well become the Cat's house for transportation? And you can transform it into a bright backpack with a number of simple manipulations. In general, not a romantic idea of ​​a mailbox, but just a find for all occasions. For which you will need

Valentine's Day Mail Materials and Tools:

  • A piece of fabric, such as flannel (original felt), 20 x 15 inches
  • Another type of fabric of the same size
  • Sintepon sheet of the same size
  • Needle and sewing machine
  • Thick, strong thread (from size 40 and thicker)
  • Wire
  • Set of magnets or Velcro

When building a pattern for a box for valentines, remember that an inch is equal to 2.54 centimeters.

We make an original mailbox-packaging for St. Valentine:

Let's print the pattern.

Transfer the pattern of the box for valentines to both fabrics and cut it out.

From a padding polyester (or from a special plastic base as in the original, but Piraku did not meet this) with our own hands we cut out the details corresponding to the photo of the mailbox for Valentine's Day.

We fold the main fabric parts of the box for valentines with the front sides inward and sew on a typewriter, leaving the front part unsewn, and turn the product inside out. We put in synthetic winterizer parts.

Sew along the marked lines - this is necessary so that, firstly, the synthetic winterizer does not move, and secondly, to mark the fold lines of the box for valentines.

Now we sew the edge through which the original packaging was turned inside out: if the fastening is supposed to be on magnets, then it is better to fix them in the layers of fabric before this stage.

We sew the mailbox with a blind seam on our hands, forming its back and side walls. If the box for valentines does not hold its shape well, then we use a wire to fix it.

It remains to sew the flag and complete its fastening: will it be done with the already mentioned magnets or Velcro, or maybe you will resort to buttons or other hinges - it's up to you.

Valentine's Day Mail

Well, Piraku says goodbye to you on this and wishes, getting to know each other every day, to love more and more, delighting his soul mate with romantic ideas and just pleasant little things, not only on February 14 on Valentine's Day, but also on weekdays, from which, in fact, life is formed.

Good afternoon, in this article I have collected the most interesting ways to make valentines with your own hands. Crafts-hearts you can give to your loved ones and loved ones for Valentine's Day... After all, how nice it is to receive gifts made by OWN 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, from cardboard, fold into boxes, and make valentine envelopes and other Valentine's Day crafts. Here are the most interesting ideas to make a paper heart in different volumetric techniques.

So let's begin our heartfelt affairs ...

Paper valentines

IN CUTTING TECHNOLOGY.

Here's the simplest thing to do. Which can be done even by children in kindergarten. The middle group or the older one, when they are already good enough to cut with scissors (without trembling hands and a sweaty forehead), can easily make this valentine with their own hands.

Everything is simple here. Flatten the sheet in half. Draw a half heart and horizontal lines on it. Cut through the lines and cut out the heart itself. Expand the heart and put it on the table with the edge of the fold down. And then the most interesting thing for children. You need to pull the strips UP with your fingers - but not all, but after 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 template for this paper craft of a volumetric heart. A simple and quick DIY valentine card for children in kindergarten.

You will find many other ideas for simple children's Valentine's Day 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. Draw the outlines of the heart on the sheet. And we highlight with bold lines, places where you can cut with scissors, and with dotted weak lines, places that do not need to be cut. Explaining to the children which lines to cut.

And then with our fingers we bend the inner heart forward with the fold edge, and the outer heart with the central fold edge back, and the card itself becomes the fold forward edge. It turns out as in the photo below. A quick valentine from paper - in just 20 minutes of kindergarten class.

THIS IDEA does not have to be copied exactly. It can be changed, played. For example, change the notch area and bend area on the same contours (as shown in the drawing above).

That is, to change the FLEXION ZONE of such a heart contour (the zone indicated by the dotted line in the diagram) and get a new volumetric 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 by an UNCUT LOWER CIRCUIT. And the inner little heart is held by uncut top and tip on both sides of the centerline... This is how these changes look in the diagram.

The most interesting thing is that you yourself can continue EXPERIMENTS 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 the half-hearts are arranged in a CIRCLE - then cut through the contours of the half-hearts and bend these contours - then we will get such an interesting round handicraft HEART CHOIRT.

This is how the conceived drawing looks like - drawing half-hearts, in a circle.

This openwork layered applique can be stuck on a card for Valentine's Day. You will get a beautiful designer valentine card with your own hands.

Even more ideas for greeting cards for Valentine's Day you will find in our special article

Valentines do it yourself

WITH NOTES.

On Valentine's Day, we say warm words to our halves. Declarations of love can not be said 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- twist these notes into rolls and hide them in the buds of paper roses on this Valentine's Day craft below.

See how beautiful - each rolled paper bud contains a small white twist-note. Such a craft with notes for Valentine's Day is easy and simple to do with your own hands. I will now tell you exactly how to quickly and conveniently do this kind of work with your own hands ...

We take a piece of thick cardboard (for example, the lid of a pizza box, it's just big). In stationery we buy packaging of red office paper(it is just double-sided and dense - that's what you need).

Cut the paper into wide stripes... We fold each strip in half ALONG(so that it is doubled - so the rose 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, slightly loosen it, give it a little spin and fix the twist tail with glue(so as not to protrude).

We make a whole lot of such paper twists-roses - so that they all tightly fill our cardboard heart. And then we attach them to a cardboard base - you can use glue. A better on double-sided tape- holds great - cover the entire surface of the cardboard heart with strips of scotch tape, remove protective film and this sticky base poke our roses. Then we put a note in each bud with warm words, promises, confessions, heartfelt vows and intimate hints ...

Second craft with a note.

HEART WITH A SECRETIC.

You can also put a love confession inside a PAPER HEART with a slit 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 - up and down. To make it four-fold along the folds - cross to cross (as in the first photo).

Bend the bottom edge of the square up to the middle horizontal fold line (photo 2).

Turn the sheet over, down with this fold (photo 3). Then we bend the right and left corners to the vertical midline (photo 4).

Turn the sheet over again with the other side up, corner down (as in photo 5). And bend the upper corners to the middle vertical line (photos 6 and 7).

And again the same upper corners - we bend again to the middle vertical line (photo 8).

And now we fold our module (which has the shape of a hexagon) in half. That is top corner 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 fold edge to the edge line of the module. And as a result, our ear was flattened (as in 11 photos).

Now look at our module has 2 layers - 2 triangular halves, lying one on one. We take the upper triangular half and put it in the POCKET on the lower triangular half (there is just such a wonderful pocket there (photo 12, 13).

There is a little touch left. Change the shape of the ears sticking out above the module so that the ears look like the rounded hills of the apex of the heart.

First, we bend the rectangular ends of the ears - so that the ears begin to have a thermal 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 is already ready with our own hands - we turn it over to the front side.

You will find even more techniques for folding a paper heart on our website in a special article.

And we continue ...

VALENTINES-CONVERTICS

Do it yourself from paper.

And here you will find ways to make a heart-shaped envelope from thick paper or cardboard.

On a sheet of cardboard, draw a template for the future valentine, as in the photo below. You can copy the picture or draw by yourself according to the sample. The sizes can be any (according to your task) - the main thing is to observe the proportions. That is, the width of the half of the heart should coincide with half the width of the central rectangle of the envelope itself. All other sizes can be any according to the size of your letter.

You can put a small gift in such a valentine envelope - for example, earrings. To pin earrings on a heart-shaped cardboard (for example, from a beautiful velvet cardboard) - punch two holes and insert earrings into them. And put this velvet heart with earrings inside such an envelope. Nice and cool.

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 none m were EQUAL.

That is it is not necessary to copy this template exactly from your computer- you yourself can draw a heart of any size and shape (thick or elongated - it doesn't matter). The main thing is that the height of the rectangle is equal to the height of the zone that is located above this rectangle. And everything else is not important. You will have an envelope anyway.

You can also make a do-it-yourself valentine letter inside tight paper boats. Fold a sheet of pink (or beige) paper in half. And we put the palm stencil so that the fold line falls on the back edge of the palm. We outline the stencil - we cut out two layers of paper at once along the contour, without expanding. And when the silhouette is cut out, we unfold the folded stencil - and we get two open palms. And inside the paper heart we glue (folded). On a paper heart, write a love note or warm words to a loved one.

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 voluminous object (souvenir or gift) in it.

Therefore, let's see what simple valentine boxes we can cut and fold from a sheet of cardboard or flat paper.

VALENTINE BOXES

How to do it yourself

Heart-shaped boxes.

Here is the first version of a simple heart-shaped box that is easy to make with your own hands from cardboard. You can see a stencil template for such a Valentine's Day craft 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, it should have 90 degrees. And the intermediate walls (between the hearts) should not have a sharp edge at the bottom - but instead they should have the same straight walls as above). 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 (not triangular) and the hearts themselves have an angle of 90 degrees (so that you can close them by sticking them 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 boxes-hearts, then I need to tell you a little about what you can put in them. Below are beautiful ideas for original DIY FILLINGS for these valentine boxes.

You can put crocheted toy hearts in a box. For example, in the form of delicious plump donuts, decorated with knitted glaze and beaded sprinkles. Such toys can be used as pendants for a Christmas tree - that is, they will faithfully serve your family for a long time at 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 icing and icing sugar

Any gingerbread dough recipe will work for those sweet valentines. We bake gingerbread cookies in the shape of a heart. Cool it down. Dilute red jelly blue in a saucepan. Soak 40 grams of gelatin in 100 grams of cold water, into which 1 packet of food coloring was thrown. After the gelatin swells, heat the mixture in a water bath, but not to a boil. We immerse the whole gingerbread in this glaze, with tweezers and put it on a dish in the refrigerator for solidification.

And if you do not like to bake. You can buy ready-made square cookies in the store and decorate them with sweet mastic. The mastic dough is made in 1 minute - we buy Marmeloshaw marshmallows in the store, heat them in the microwave - we get a sticky mass, similar to plasticine. Pour icing 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 sculpt decor for cookies for Valentine's Day

We take 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 cookie. We glue the squares on the cookies. We roll part of the dough onto thin sausages - these will be the seams of the envelope. And we mix part of the dough with red food coloring - we make hearts from it, decorate our sweet envelope. If there is no food coloring, it doesn't matter- hearts can be cut from red marmalade.

You can make such sweet Valentines with your own hands on the basis of waffles, cookies, cupcakes. We buy ready-made flour products and decorate them with sweet mastic from Marmeloshaw marshmallows melted in the microwave (our Soviet marshmallow is not suitable - only bourgeois rubber).

Valentines PLEETENKI

With your own hands.

And here is the classic school paper heart craft. Wicker valentine in the form of a checkerboard weaving of stripes threaded one through one.

This is how such a heart is made. Fold the white sheet of paper in half - with scissors cut out HALF OF THE OVAL. We cut three or four or five cuts at the oval - from the fold line and deep into the oval without going into the zone of its round top with scissors. We do the same with a red sheet of paper. And then we insert two modules, alternating its strips, as shown in the diagram below.

This simple classic craft has found many creative interpretations. Depending on the curvature of the strip, we can get a different weaving pattern ...

Let's see how this happens. If we modify the braided module like this with rounded knobs, we get a braided 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 we fold the valentine with our own hands, we will get a flower with four petals in the center.

And if the tubercle is only ONE - and only in one direction - then we will get a HEART SILHOUETTE in the center (as in the photo below).

We can ourselves try to be a creator-creator and draw our braided lines at random. Collect a valentine's craft and see what unexpected pattern comes out in the end.

Moreover, we can decorate not only the wicker part of such a valentine with our own hands, but also decorate the round EARS of the heart with curly carvings (as is done in the photo below).

DIY valentines

LARGE ABUNDANCE.

Here is a Valentine's craft that I really like. She looks very chic and rich. And it's done very simply. Therefore, this valentine can be a topic for a kindergarten class or a craft in class at school.

Below I show the module for valentines-LESENKI in three tiers.

We take a sheet of cardboard. And we put it in three layers - that is, in a triple fold. Then we unfold this sheet. And we 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 foldable parts of the strip, cut EXACTLY IN THE CENTER, reaching with scissors somewhere to the middle of the strip thickness.

The cuts in the strips are different - pay attention - in one strip, the cuts alternate at the bottom, top, bottom. And in the second strip, on the contrary, the cuts alternate like this - above, below, above.

Then we dress our walls with these slots in each other. And we get the basis-backbone of the future Valentine's Day crafts with our own hands. And on this wicker base we glue 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 wall of the accordion can be as many as you like - 4, 5, 6. The more, the more tiers with a heart-shaped decor such a ladder craft will have.

Valentine pendant

In a frame with your own hands.

You can make a very simple Valentine's Day craft. 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 a future Valentine's craft. And now we hang a double heart made of cardboard inside such a vertical postcard.

Cut out two hearts from cardboard and hang them on a thread, piercing one and the second heart with two stitches.

Valentine Crafts

Made of cardboard with paper flowers.

We have collected these ideas for Valentine's cards with our own hands for you in this article. Good luck with your creativity, the way you will get original crafts.
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Tatiana Piteryakova

Do you like to please your dear person and make gifts and do not want to stay away on Valentine's Day? Then the first thing to do is to makebox for valentines, in which you can put a few paper hearts and a small souvenir. Buying it is expensive and unoriginal, so you can consider a homemade option. Well, then the matter is small: be patient and start the process.

How to make a box for valentines

For the creative process, prepare:

  • colored cardboard;
  • scissors;
  • decorations of your choice (ribbons, buttons, beads, beads).

  1. On colored cardboard, draw and cut out such a blank 40x22 cm in size (each inner square will be 10x10 cm).
  2. Bend the workpiece along the lines marked in the figure with a dotted line.
  3. Assemble the blank. You will get such a box - you can decorate it as you wish.

Box decoration you can choose according to your taste and imagination, or you can not decorate at all.

Valentine's box in the shape of a heart

Despite the seeming complexity of execution, such a box done simply... You will need:

  • thick paper, or better colored cardboard;
  • scissors or breadboard knife;
  • PVA glue or stationery;
  • pencil;
  • ruler.

Cut out a blank from a colored A4 sheet 28 cm long. The hearts should be 10x10 cm in size. It is easier to print the blank or redraw it.

  1. Cut out the workpiece, bend the side fragments as shown in the photo.
  2. Apply glue to the dotted lines in the illustration.
  3. Assemble the box and press the glued places.

Work gently with glue without allowing the surplus tobox with valentinesturned out beautiful.

How to decorate a valentine box?

Box for valentines (aka mail for valentines; suitcase for valentines) do it yourselfcan be decorated as shown in the photo below.

  1. Use a cardboard box as shown in the picture above, in the upper part of which, using scissors, poke two small holes for the handle, so that you end up with something like a suitcase.
  2. Use heavy colored rope or tape for the handle. Tie one end of it on the back of the workpiece to a knot, pull the rope, thread it into the other hole and also tie it on the back.
  3. Draw white circles on the box with paints and decorate as you like. On our boxes, red and pink paper hearts are glued in half in a circle, on the other half - beads or rhinestones.
  4. Cut out red stripes 5 cm wide from colored paper, wrap them around the box from the right and left edges, stepping back 10 cm (right and left).
  5. On the front of our suitcase, make a cutout for valentines.
  6. You can also decorate the box, for example, place in the center red heart made of colored cardboard (in our case, measuring 10x10 cm and with a funny frog). That's it, now you know how to make mail for valentines.

The created box can have different sizes and shapes.... Decide exactly how you imagine the suitcase, and start creating. In the process, you will be convinced that even the most ordinary-looking box can turn into a beautifully designed product. Connect your imagination, and everything will definitely work out.

Shown below are more variations on the theme of boxes for valentines with your own hands. Small gifts such as cute jewelry can also be placed there.

DIY valentine box photo

Silver brooch with enamel "Hedgehog"; silver earrings "Kitties"; silver pendant with enamel "Elephant"; silver brooch-pendant "Gray Bunny", all SL (prices by links)

Silver jewelry with enamel from the Origami collection: pendant "Elephant"; earrings "Elephants"; suspension "Kit"; earrings "Whales"; brooch-pendant "Cat"; earrings "Seals", all SL (prices by links)

You are so fond of giving gifts to a dear person, especially when there is a reason for them. The above design options are simple, creating them is easy even if you decide to do it for the first time. In the manufacturing process, love for a loved one will help, because with it you can always achieve serious results. He will definitely appreciate your efforts, because there is nothing more expensive than a gift created with his own hands. Plus, now you know how to make valentine mail.

5 February 2018, 13:36