On Valentine's Day, it is customary to give cards in the shape of a heart with a declaration of love. But if you present your loved one with a handmade valentine, it will be more eloquent than any words. There are a lot of ideas for homemade postcards, so everyone can choose the right option to please their soul mate on a romantic holiday.
What technique should you use to design a postcard?
When choosing which postcard you want to make with your own hands on February 14, pay attention to the following execution techniques:
- Application. One of the easiest options to make a valentine yourself. For appliques, you can use a variety of materials: colored paper, cardboard, buttons, fabric, sequins, sequins, beads, coffee beans, sweets and more.
- Quilling. With the help of special paper strips, modules are created, which are then combined into a single picture.
- Scrapbooking technique. At first glance, this technique seems difficult to perform on your own. But in reality, making a postcard using the scrapbooking technique is quite simple. You can use materials that can be found at home, or you can purchase everything you need in a specialty store for creativity.
- Volumetric image. On Valentine's Day, hearts are most often made voluminous. To do this, use colored paper, threads, fabric, buttons and other materials.
How and from what to make a postcard for February 14?
You don't have to spend a lot of time making Valentine's Day cards with your own hands. We offer several options for simple but cute homemade creations:
- Glue a heart cut out of craft paper on a cardboard blank. Decorate the card with a love message sign and your gif.webpt is ready!
- On the cardboard rectangle, use a needle to punch holes along the outline of the heart. Then, with multi-colored threads, connect the holes to each other so that the image of a heart is obtained from the threads.
- Cut out a heart from colored cardboard, decorate it with sequins, sequins, beads, lace. Do not forget to write a declaration of love on the reverse side.
What other materials can be used to create a homemade gif.webpt:
- Heart-shaped sweets;
- Multi-colored confetti;
- Lace;
- Threads;
- Tapes;
- Paints, and more.
From paper
Together with your children, you can make a beautiful postcard for February 14 to your beloved husband. Children will be happy to take part in the creative process, and dad will be delighted with such a gif.webpt. To create a simple postcard from paper, you will need heavy cardboard, colored paper, a green felt-tip pen and a ribbon. Cut out multi-colored hearts, glue them in the shape of a bouquet on a dense base, finish drawing the stems. It remains to attach a bow to a bouquet of hearts. Inside, you can write a poem of your own composition or leave handprints made of colored paint.
You can also choose a congratulation from our collection of poems for Valentine's Day.
We offer another version of a simple but effective card with strings. Fold the colored cardboard in half, use a hole punch to punch holes around the edges. Thread a beautiful lace into one hole, pull it through the entire postcard from the inside and thread it into the other hole. Glue a heart cut out of shiny burgundy paper in the center of the lace at the centerfold. On the front, write “Look inside,” and inside, “I love you.” Tie a lace on a postcard and present your beloved one on February 14 with your surprise.
We offer to surprise your soul mate and present a card with a whole love tree for Valentine's Day. How to make a volumetric postcard using the applique technique:
- Glue the trunk of a tree with branches that are cut from brown paper to a cardboard blank.
- Cut hearts out of pink thick paper, and white hearts with openwork edges from white paper. Glue the pink heart onto the white blank so that the white edges go beyond the outline of the pink heart.
- Prepare small notes on the number of "leaves" on the tree. In each note, you can write why you love your soul mate, describe the positive qualities, write wishes. Tie a note rolled into a scroll to each heart with colored thread, glue the blanks to the tree.
- Decorate the free space on the card with small hearts that you can cut out with a curly hole punch.
From coffee
If your loved one is a big fan of coffee, surprise him with a fragrant valentine for the holiday. What is used to make a gif.webpt:
- Thick colored cardboard;
- Decorative pink heart;
- Artificial flower;
- Coffee beans;
- Markers;
- Glue gun.
Let's get down to the process:
- First you need to draw the background of the future valentine. It can be flowers or hearts, and you can also stick any picture or applique.
- Glue a rectangle with the inscription: "I love you" to the upper left corner of the workpiece. Attach one coffee bean to each corner with a glue gun.
- Next, draw the outline of the heart, which needs to be pasted over with coffee beans. For this, it is better to use a glue gun to make the application neat.
On a note! Glue coffee beans with the flat side to the cardboard, placing them close to each other so that there is no free space between them.
- Decorate the picture with a heart and flowers, which you can buy at the store for creativity.
From buttons
A variant of a simple valentine is a button heart with a picture inside. Such a picture is made simply and very quickly, but it looks cute and elegant. On a colored cardboard blank, glue a heart-shaped image with any pattern you like. It can be a kissing couple, a cupid with a bow and arrow, or a Teddy bear with a bouquet of flowers. Next, using a glue gun, glue buttons of the same size along the contour of the heart. You can use only red buttons or alternate them with a different color. Decorate the image with a satin bow, and be sure to write the words of love on the back of the card.
From buttons of different textures, scrapbooking paper, ribbons and lace, you can make a stylish, romantic Valentine's card. Glue the heart cut out of special paper on colored cardboard. Fill all the space inside the heart with different buttons. Decorate the heart with lace, ribbons, and glue a rectangular inscription below with the words: "I love you!".
From fabric
Handmade postcards using pieces of fabric look unusual. Cut out a heart from red felt, stitch it to a cardboard blank, decorate a gif.webpt with ribbons, lace, beads, and the original valentine is ready.
On a note! Before you sew the felt heart, you can embroider the word "Love" or any other message with white thread.
Draw a jar or bottle on top of thick cardboard. Cut out small hearts from multi-colored felt, glue in such a way as if they are pouring out of the container. At the bottom, write a declaration of love, and between the letters also stick "scattered" hearts. An unusual valentine is ready!
To please your soul mate on Valentine's Day (read about the history of this holiday), it is enough to show a little imagination and make a postcard in which there will be a declaration of love. Surprise and amaze your loved ones to make them fall in love with you over and over again!
