This day is one of the most amazing holidays, which is thoroughly saturated with romance and tenderness. On this day, all lovers present each other gifts, of which Valentine is a mandatory part. In stores on the eve of the holiday you can buy a wide variety of greeting cards. They can be of various shapes and sizes, paper, fabric.
But for a gift to be truly unique and inimitable, it is much better to make postcards with your own hands on Valentine's Day. Perhaps some of the simplest are copies made using paper of various densities and colors. Here are some ideas.
Hearts on a rope
For work you will need:
- ordinary cards for Valentine's Day (it is desirable that they are plain inside, without inscriptions);
- small pieces of cardboard or thick paper of red, white, pink colors (possible with patterns);
- not too thick kapron thread ;
- mini clothespins;
- glue.
It would seem that a postcard has already been bought, why else come up with something? But you need to make it unique and make a piece of your soul. We take a piece of cardboard and cut two thin strips of length equal to the height of the postcard. Cut a piece of thread equal to the width of the spread of the card. From prepared colored pieces of paper, cut out 5-6 hearts of different sizes.
At the turn of the postcard, we retreat 2 cm from the upper right and left corners and glue the ends of the thread so that it slightly sags, as if imitating a clothesline. To hide the places where the thread is glued, glued on the edges of the card pre-cut cardboard strips. Now with the help of mini clothespins we hang cut hearts on the received “clothesline”, on which you can write words of love. Such cards for Valentine's Day will not leave anyone indifferent.
"Sewn" heart
For work you will need:
- white school cardboard for blanks for Valentine;
- a small piece of colorful fabric in red;
- a small plain red flap;
- white threads;
- a small shirt button of white color;
- glue gun.
How to make a card for Valentine's Day using all of the above? A sheet of cardboard needs to be decorated with a cloth. To do this, take a prepared colorful piece of fabric (felt is best) and cut a beautiful heart out of it.
At a distance of 2-3 mm from the edge of the heart, it is necessary to make a “forward needle” seam with white threads to get an imitation of a sewn heart. From a small plain patchwork, you need to cut a smaller heart and sew it to a big heart. Then attach a button to the center of the composition. Now the decorated heart needs to be carefully glued to the center of the title side of the cardboard blank - done!
DIY postcards for Valentine's Day with volumetric hearts
Volumetric valentines are always beautiful and unusual. To make the simplest option, you will need:
- white cardboard for the base of the card;
- colored paper (plain or with a pattern) of red and pink shades ;
- glue and scissors.
How to make a greeting card for Valentine's Day with your own hands? We bend a sheet of cardboard in half to make a blank for Valentine. From the colored paper we cut an even number of small hearts (2 pieces for each volumetric heart). Now half of the obtained blanks need to be bent in half and glued along the bend in the manner shown in the photo below.
"Air balloons"
This work on the technique is very similar to the previous version. Do-it-yourself greeting cards for Valentine's Day are very easy to make, but they look really cool!
From colored paper we cut out several small hearts. We bend them in half and glue them to the cardboard base along the fold line. These will be our “balloons”. Next, we make ropes for “balls” out of threads.
How to make a Valentine's Day greeting card using quilling technique?
This type of creativity is becoming more relevant and in demand. If you put a little effort and patience, then the result will definitely exceed all expectations! To complete the work you will need:
- basis for postcards;
- paper for quilling (sold in the departments of stationery);
- glue and scissors.
Here you can show a boundless flight of imagination. For example, from a red sheet of cardboard, you can cut a blank for a valentine in the form of a heart. Glue small flowers along the contour, and lay strips of quilling paper in the center in the form of beautiful intricate curls in the center.
You can also take a white sheet of cardboard. From red and pink quilling paper, “scatter” a few small hearts around the card.
As you can see, do-it-yourself greeting cards for Valentine's Day are quite simple. This is a great addition to gentle kisses, passionate words and a whirlpool of beloved eyes.