On the eve of Valentine's Day, the issue of preparing all kinds of decorative decorations, which, of course, should symbolically remind of this wonderful day, becomes especially relevant. Well, everyone probably knows what is the symbol of Valentine’s Day, right?! Of course, this is a heart; it is on this day that lovers all over the world exchange hearts of the most varied presentation. Well, if you want to give your significant other a not-so-standard heart, then this article will interest you, because today we will show you different variations of cute thread hearts.

Such a heart made of threads can be a wonderful gift or fit perfectly into the romantic decor of your home.

It is necessary to take the wire that holds the shape, give it the shape of a heart, securing the ends in the inner folds. Then the resulting workpiece should be wrapped around the perimeter with pink or red threads. After which you can start creating weaves of threads, you don’t have to try on too much, just throw the thread from one side of the wire to the other. Finally, use the same threads to create a rope pendant. Using this scheme, you can make a whole garland and decorate a window, door or wall with it.

2. Heart made of threads and balls.

You need to inflate two small balloons, secure them at the ends with threads together, then wrap them with threads of a matching color and carefully cover the top with PVA glue. When wrapping the balls with thread, you need to control the process and try to adhere to the stated heart-shaped shape. After the threads have dried, which is about 12-24 hours, take a needle and carefully pierce each of the balls. You pull the balls out through one of the holes and admire the completed work. By the way, after the threads are covered with a layer of PVA glue, the product can be coated with large glitter on top, but this item is optional.

To do this, you will need a heart-shaped balloon, inflate it, wrap it with red or pink thick threads, and cover the product with several layers of PVA glue on top. Leave to dry for about 12-24 hours; for easier drying, the ball can be placed in a jar or glass. Then you pierce the ball with a needle and pull it out into one of the holes. Such a thread heart can be decorated with electric garlands, just place a short garland inside, but for this, at the bottom, at the stage of winding the threads, you need to leave a large hole so that it is convenient to place the selected garland in the finished heart.

4. We make a heart from threads and long balls.

Inflate two long balloons, tie each end together, wrap them with thread, cover them with several generous layers of PVA glue, and leave to dry. After drying, pierce the long balls with a needle and remove them from the thread sheath. Then connect the ends of the thread blanks together, as in the photo below, while forming a heart. For strength, the ends can also be glued with PVA glue. The finished heart can be hung on a ribbon, thus decorating a window or chandelier.

5. Volumetric heart made of threads.

Inflate a heart-shaped balloon, cut thick threads into short pieces, soak them in PVA glue, and cover the heart-shaped balloon on top. Lay the threads not just evenly, but in the form of waves; according to this pattern, you need to completely cover the entire ball. After the threads have dried, the ball can be pierced.

6. Embroidered heart made of cardboard and thread.

Cut out a heart from paper, apply it to the cardboard, and create punctures along its outline with an awl or thick needle. Then, using a thread and a needle, following the prepared traces, we create an embroidery effect, as in the photo below.

7. Heart made of threads and nails.

We paint a sheet of chipboard with red paint, cut out a large heart from paper, apply the template to the painted panel, secure it with tape, and drive nails into the board along the outline of the heart. We take the threads, tie a knot on one of the nails, and begin to lead the threads from one nail to another, and so on until all the nails are used. Create the number of layers to your taste; a small number of threads and, on the contrary, a richly wrapped heart look equally beautiful.

Another example of a heart made of threads and nails.

Today we showed you how you can make a heart out of threads yourself without any extra hassle; we think that from the examples presented above you will definitely choose the right idea for yourself. Well, you can simply give a ready-made thread heart to your significant other or decorate the room of your house or apartment with it. A heart made of threads, made with your own hands, will definitely please your soulmate!

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Many people spend a lot of time choosing a gift for a loved one. Despite the huge variety of products, those that are made by hand are still considered. In this case, you receive an exclusive souvenir into which you have invested your warmth and love. Do-it-yourself voluminous paper hearts are a unique and very beautiful gift that can be presented to loved ones for any occasion, be it Valentine’s Day or a birthday. What is needed for this? A minimum of materials and a little patience.

Volumetric paper hearts, the diagrams of which will be discussed in this article, look very original; they can become not only a gift, but also an interior decoration. They can be made from different papers using a huge number of techniques.

Quilling

This technique allows you to create very beautiful souvenirs that can serve as a separate decoration or be part of paintings. To make such a heart, you need to take:

• double-sided colored paper of any color, it all depends on your preference;
• PVA glue;
• a twisting device, such as a pencil or toothpick.

First, the sheet needs to be cut into identical strips, each of which will need to be screwed onto a selected item (for us it’s a toothpick). As a result, you should have a large number of spirals of different sizes. Now you must glue them together starting from the center to make a heart, the size of which you can choose at your discretion. In addition, you can change the shape of the spiral and bend them, for example, in the shape of a “boat” and only then glue them into the desired shape. Such voluminous hearts made of paper with your own hands can be a replacement for postcards or serve as interior decoration.

Origami heart

This technique is very popular all over the world. Even in childhood, many people made airplanes out of them. These are the simplest crafts, but you can make real masterpieces. For paper origami “Volume Heart” you need to prepare a rectangular sheet of any color.

Take a piece of paper and bend it diagonally so that a narrow strip remains free at the bottom. Now turn it over to the other side and bend the bottom strip in half. As a result, you will have a narrow strip on the inside. Then turn the sheet over again and bend the upper part of the square horizontally so that the fold is in the center of the diagonals. We connect the top edge of the bottom strip with the folded edge and turn the half-finished heart over. Now you need to expand the top square, as a result you should see 2 diagonal and 1 horizontal fold. Along these lines, you need to fold the top square so that you end up with a triangle, and at its base - a narrow strip. The bottom and right corner of the triangle must be folded towards the top. The left and right parts of the figure itself are folded towards the center. As a result, you should get a “house” that needs to be bent vertically in half and turned over. We turn the 2 lower corners upward towards the center, and at the bottom we get an acute angle. Fold the top one down, and the remaining loose ones need to be wrapped, pointing in different directions (left to right). All that remains is to tuck the corners into your pocket. And that's it, the heart is ready. Do-it-yourself voluminous paper hearts made using this method can replace a postcard with

Volumetric 3D paper heart

Such an original souvenir can be an excellent replacement for the Valentine’s habit. For this you need to print out a template that will allow you to get the perfect heart. It is best to use thicker paper. As usual, any color at your discretion. Volumetric paper hearts, made with your own hands from multi-colored paper, can be folded into a rainbow. Such a gift will certainly be remembered by every person. The execution technique can be seen in the picture below.

Bulging Heart

This is the simplest option that even a child can handle. To do this, you need to take a sheet of paper and cardboard, a pencil, scissors and PVA glue.

To begin, make templates from cardboard; to do this, draw hearts of different sizes. After that, trace them on paper and cut them out. On each figure, make a small cut towards the center in the middle. Then each of the cut halves needs to be coated with glue and glued together. As a result, you should have a voluminous heart. Do the rest in the same way. From ready-made hearts you can make a composition on the wall, decorate a postcard or a box.

Hello, dear blog readers! Today you will learn how to make a heart with your own hands in a variety of ways. A little romance in a relationship never hurts. You can show your feelings for your other half with the help of a heart-shaped craft.

A young man can present an exquisite bouquet of sweets to his beloved. And a girl can please him with an unusual pillow or topiary.

A marriage proposal will be very impressive and will make a great impression on the girl if it is done in an unusual way. To make it memorable forever, you can decorate the room with paper hearts or cut out a large and voluminous heart from cardboard.

You can sew a heart from felt material, which is perfect for various cute crafts. You can use it to make a small souvenir or make a large toy.

For this you will need:

• felt;
• padding polyester;
• threads;
• needle.

For such a craft, you need to cut out 2 parts from a red material of the appropriate shape and sew them along the edge with beautiful threads (you can use contrasting ones).

We stuff the souvenir with padding polyester and sew it up until the end. This craft doesn't take much time to complete. It will be a wonderful gift for Valentine's Day. You can also give it to your mother or grandmother to use as a cushion for needles and other sewing supplies.

For a holiday, you can sew an Elsa costume from the movie “Frozen” for a child. One of these ideas can be seen in the video:

Wedding decorations

Preparations for a wedding are never complete without decorating the wedding hall and car. For these purposes, you can make a unique heart from ribbons. To make it you need to prepare:

1. cardboard;
2. scissors;
3. glue;
4. thread and needle;
5. beads;
6. lighter;
7. stationery knife.

Let's get started by following step-by-step steps:

• Draw a heart on a piece of cardboard and another smaller one inside it.
• We cut out the shape inside with a stationery knife, and along the outer edge with scissors.
• Let's take a satin ribbon and glue one end of it to our figure. We wrap the tape around the frame along the entire perimeter and fix the second edge of the tape with glue.
• Let's start making flowers. We cut the tape into 10-centimeter pieces and trim the ends with a lighter so that the fibers do not unravel.
• We collect the ribbons with an accordion in the shape of a flower and secure them with threads and a needle.
  We glue the flowers to our frame, and decorate their center with beads.

This piece can be mounted on a car. You can decorate your wedding hall or apartment with hearts made of balloons, and also hang red paper hearts on the walls.

Hearts made from napkins would look appropriate on a holiday table. To do this, they need to be folded in a special way, namely:

• Fold the napkin in half, connecting opposite corners to form a triangle.
• Connect the left edge of the triangle to the upper corner of the napkin.
• We connect the right edge with the top and left corners in the same way. It should be a square.
• Turn the square over and bend the top tip down.
• Bend the resulting bottom layer diagonally in different directions.
• Fold the left and right corners of the napkin inside and turn it over.

These themed napkins can be placed on guests' plates.

Heart-shaped gift for your loved one

You can surprise your boyfriend by giving him a gift from the heart with your own hands. If your other half loves sweets, then you can bake a delicious cake with a heart.

A master class on how to prepare it can be found and watched on numerous videos on the Internet. A sweet heart will conquer your chosen one, and he will remember this surprise for a long time.

Another nice addition to a gift will be a postcard. You can make it yourself from ordinary cardboard. To make it you need to take:

• sheet of colored cardboard;
• scissors;
• glue;
• colored paper.

Take a cardboard sheet and fold it in half. You need to draw 2 hearts on both halves of the sheet and cut them out. There is no need to touch the folded areas. This creates the base of the card, which still needs to be decorated.

You can cut out flowers from colored paper that will be glued to the right side of the card. We will decorate the left half with paper flagella. To do this, cut the paper into strips and twist the ends into rolls. We glue such figures edgewise along the edge of the left side of the postcard.

All the happy memories connected with each other are captured in photographs, from which you can create a bright collage. To do this, you need to draw or print a heart-shaped template.

You need to select photographs of the most joyful and memorable moments and arrange them on the collage so that each image can be easily viewed. The corners of the photo may extend slightly beyond the edges of the template. If you paste a lot of photographs onto the collage, your loved one will be able to look at them for a long time, reminiscing about pleasant memories.

You can make a coffee tree for your loved one. For this we will need the following materials:

• coffee beans;
• newspaper;
• glue;
• cardboard;
• pot;
• gypsum;
• wire;

Let's start making a tree:

We draw a heart on cardboard paper, and inside there is another one. And then we cut it out with scissors.

The resulting base needs to be made voluminous. To do this, glue pieces of crumpled newspaper to it and secure it with threads.

We make trunks from aluminum wire. We give them the necessary bend, and make a hook at the end.

We wrap the wire with threads and insert it into the base, securing it with glue.
Cover the workpiece with coffee beans. You can use a hot glue gun for this.

In a pot, prepare a solution of gypsum with water and insert a tree trunk into it until the mixture hardens.

Gifts for girls

For your beloved girl, on the eve of Valentine's Day or in honor of the anniversary of your relationship, you can make a heart out of foam plastic.

Foam heart

She can hang it on the wall in her room as a decoration. The figure can be any size. It can be cut from a single piece of polystyrene foam and painted with red paint. You can also decorate your figure with openwork elements that look gentle and romantic.

Your beloved girl will be glad to receive a sweet surprise. Therefore, you can give her a gift from kinders.

Kinder surprise

It's very easy to make. You need to prepare a cardboard lid or box of any shape for the base. It must be covered with beautiful paper and double-sided tape applied around the perimeter. This is where the chocolates are attached. They can be tied at the top with a beautiful ribbon. We put kinders inside the box and the gift is ready.

With the help of a homemade box you can make a declaration of love or a marriage proposal.

Homemade box

You can put a ring or other jewelry in it. First, cut out 2 hearts from cardboard.

One will serve as the bottom of the box, and the second will serve as the lid. Then you need to cut a wide strip with teeth on one side. They will be glued to the bottom of the base. In order for the lid to hold, we attach 2 strips of braid to the base. We glue the other ends of the ribbons to the inside of the lid. Next, the box should be covered with colored paper and decorated.

We've looked at a lot handicraft methods, ways on how to make a heart with your own hands for your soulmate.

Best regards, Natalya Krasnova.

On the eve of a wonderful holiday, many people have a question: how to prepare a surprise for your loved one? If you are already tired of ordinary cards, then you can come up with something more interesting, for example, garlands of hearts. Now we’ll tell you how to make a heart with your own hands for garlands.

Garland - paper hearts

You can very quickly and easily decorate a room by creating a whole forest of garlands that fall from the ceiling. This will be a big surprise for your other half. For this you only need strings and colored paper.

Volumetric hearts - master class

How to make voluminous hearts from paper for garlands - you ask? Yes, very simple. To do this you need:

• scrapbooking paper or any other thick paper;
• scissors;
• glue stick.

How to fold a paper heart? First, let's cut a lot of strips of paper, of different lengths and widths, so that our hearts turn out to be different sizes.

Then we bend each strip in half, making a bend at each edge and gluing it to the center. You will get a slightly irregular letter “B”, glue the inside part together and get a heart.

We will need a lot of these hearts. When you glue them together, you can be creative and glue them together, for example with the pattern facing inward. Those. We need completely different hearts.

At the beginning of February, people all over the world begin to prepare for the most romantic holiday of the year -. It is celebrated on February 14, Valentine's Day, which is considered the patron saint of lovers and loved ones. The symbol of this date is a heart. It is given to each other and such gifts are called Valentines.

You can buy an attribute of love in a store. But this will mean that thousands more young men and women will receive exactly the same gift. Most people think about how to make a heart with their own hands. Then you can be sure that only one person in the world will have this gift - your loved one.

Holiday symbols are made from different materials. They prepare salads and bake heart-shaped cakes. The presentation and decoration of the holiday depends on desires and possibilities.

From paper

This is the most affordable material for making crafts. How to make a heart out of paper? For this, besides desire, you will need very little:

• paper,
• scissors,
• glue.

When designing paper products, a huge number of its types are used:

• white,
• colored,
• cardboard,
• newspapers,
• magazines,
• corrugated,
• velvet.

There are many options for paper valentines. To prepare them you can use the following techniques:

• quilling,
• origami,
• applique,
• cutting,
• papier-mâché,
• weaving.

Before you start creating, you should decide what technique you want to use.

Quilling

Quilling - curling paper. To do this, the sheet is cut into narrow strips, which are wound onto a core object: a pencil, a toothpick, a knitting needle, a thick needle. The resulting spirals are glued to a base prepared in advance to form the intended figure. The thinner the object onto which the strips are wound, the more delicate the final work will be.

For a Valentine's card, cut out a large heart from cardboard. You must first draw it or use a template.

Cut strips of paper 1 cm wide and make spirals. Choose the color yourself, but do not forget that a loving heart glows with bright colors. The paper must be colored on both sides. To do this, you can use old glossy magazines.

Arrange the spirals on the cardboard blank as you wish. They can be located symmetrically on both halves or form an abstract pattern. Glue the swirls to the cardboard.

Application

To make a Valentine card using the appliqué technique, you need to cut out one large heart from thick paper or cardboard and many small ones from colored paper. Small blanks need to be pasted over a large one. If you use materials of different textures, the heart will turn out more original. It can be covered on both sides with clippings from newspaper and magazine pages, flowers, photographs.

Small hearts can be folded in half and only glued on one side. Then under the other half there will be room for wishes and warm words.

Origami

Origami is the process of folding paper in certain ways to form a desired shape.

In order to make a Valentine card using this technique, you need a square sheet of paper. Having conjured a leaf, giving it the desired shape, you yourself will understand how to make an origami heart. There are a lot of options. The result will be original, your own origami.

Decorate the resulting figurine in any way. For example, glue a bow from a satin ribbon or paint it with gouache.

Volumetric heart

A voluminous heart looks especially impressive, and many try to make just such a thing for a special day. If the question arises of how to make a voluminous heart, you must first decide what exactly it will be. They are made from different materials:

• paper,
• fabrics,
• thread

The simplest option: cut a heart out of paper, make a small cut in the upper part, fold the cut places, giving the shape volume, and glue it together. A more complex way is to use the modular origami technique.

The heart is sewn from fabric and filled with special materials:

• cotton wool,
• padding polyester,
• holofiber,
• foam rubber,
• feather,

You can put aromatic herbs inside. Then she will become an “aroma-heart.”

Any fabric is suitable for sewing a love attribute. Small specimens work well from fleece or drape. For a large one, choose a bright, shiny satin or silk. Crafts made from chintz, linen, and calico are good. This fabric does not stretch and will be very convenient to work with.

In order to make a three-dimensional fabric symbol of love, you need to prepare a paper template. Using it, cut out two pieces of fabric and sew them together. When stitching, be sure to leave a small gap to fill the inside with filler. After filling the heart, carefully sew up the “pocket”.

Fabric whose edges do not fray can be sewn on the right side. This will give the product originality. The edges of very loose material must be processed very carefully.

Instead of fabric, you can use a knitted fabric, or the present can be knitted or crocheted and also filled with soft material.

They decorate the room with fabric and knitted symbols for the holiday, and give them to each other. You can make whole “heart” ones:

• beads,
• earrings.

After the valentine is ready, it must be decorated. Use for this:

• beads;
• beads;
• silk, nylon, satin ribbons;
• decorative cords;
• different embroidery.

By dressing a gift with holiday accessories, you can be sure that the person for whom it is intended will like it.

From salt dough

Salt dough is an easily accessible and plastic material. You can make absolutely any figure out of it.

The dough is prepared as follows: a glass of flour and fine salt are mixed with a glass of water. First you need to dissolve the salt in the water and then add the flour. Knead the dough until it begins to stick to your hands and is soft and moldable. To ensure the strength of the finished products, sometimes a little PVA glue or wallpaper glue is added to this “plasticine”.

Roll out the dough with a rolling pin and make shapes into objects. You can shape them by hand. Finished products are dried naturally or in the oven. Then, having shown all your creativity, you need to color them. If you add gouache or food coloring directly to the dough, your creations will immediately become colored.

Box

If the gift for Valentine's Day is not in the shape of a heart, then be sure to create the appropriate packaging for it - a box. First you need to think carefully about how to make a heart box: there are many options. Try making a paper one.

Thick paper is suitable for the box. Very thick cardboard will be inconvenient to bend and glue, but the packaging will be stronger. Choose the appropriate paper for your heart box.

The box will consist of two parts: the main part and the lid to it.

1. First, cut out a heart from paper. This will be the bottom. The size must correspond to the size of the gift for which it is intended. When cutting out the bottom of the box, do not forget that you need to provide small pieces around the perimeter of the entire heart, to which the side part will subsequently be glued.
2. For the “walls” you need to prepare a strip, the width of which will correspond to the height of the box. The length of the strip is equal to the length of the perimeter of the heart.
3. The strip must be connected to the bottom of the box, gluing it to the parts cut out along with the heart.
4. You can use tape or a stapler to glue the bottom and sides of the package together. Then you will have to decorate the adhesive tape and stapler clips.

The lid to the box is made in a similar way. Only the lid should be slightly larger than the box itself in order to easily close the package. Therefore, the top of the lid must be made several millimeters larger than the bottom. Accordingly, the strip for the sides will be slightly longer, but narrower.

Decorate the box in any way you like. You can cover all the parts with fabric or bright self-adhesive paper in advance.

Making a heart with your own hands is not at all difficult. You just need to show a little imagination and have a great desire to bring joy to your loved one. Even a lover, far from needlework and creativity, is able to make a Valentine card for a romantic holiday.

At the beginning of February, people all over the world begin to prepare for the most romantic holiday of the year -. It is celebrated on February 14, Valentine's Day, which is considered the patron saint of lovers and loved ones. The symbol of this date is a heart. It is given to each other and such gifts are called Valentines.

You can buy an attribute of love in a store. But this will mean that thousands more young men and women will receive exactly the same gift. Most people think about how to make a heart with their own hands. Then you can be sure that only one person in the world will have this gift - your loved one.

Holiday symbols are made from different materials. They prepare salads and bake heart-shaped cakes. The presentation and decoration of the holiday depends on desires and possibilities.

From paper

This is the most affordable material for making crafts. How to make a heart out of paper? For this, besides desire, you will need very little:

• paper,
• scissors,
• glue.

When designing paper products, a huge number of its types are used:

• white,
• colored,
• cardboard,
• newspapers,
• magazines,
• corrugated,
• velvet.

There are many options for paper valentines. To prepare them you can use the following techniques:

• quilling,
• origami,
• applique,
• cutting,
• papier-mâché,
• weaving.

Before you start creating, you should decide what technique you want to use.

Quilling

Quilling is curling paper. To do this, the sheet is cut into narrow strips, which are wound onto a core object: a pencil, a toothpick, a knitting needle, a thick needle. The resulting spirals are glued to a base prepared in advance to form the intended figure. The thinner the object onto which the strips are wound, the more delicate the final work will be.

For a Valentine's card, cut out a large heart from cardboard. You must first draw it or use a template.

Cut strips of paper 1 cm wide and make spirals. Choose the color yourself, but do not forget that a loving heart glows with bright colors. The paper must be colored on both sides. To do this, you can use old glossy magazines.

Arrange the spirals on the cardboard blank as you wish. They can be located symmetrically on both halves or form an abstract pattern. Glue the swirls to the cardboard.

Application

To make a Valentine card using the appliqué technique, you need to cut out one large heart from thick paper or cardboard and many small ones from colored paper. Small blanks need to be pasted over a large one. If you use materials of different textures, the heart will turn out more original. It can be covered on both sides with clippings from newspaper and magazine pages, flowers, photographs.

Small hearts can be folded in half and only glued on one side. Then under the other half there will be room for wishes and warm words.

Origami

Origami is the process of folding paper in certain ways to form a desired shape.

In order to make a Valentine card using this technique, you need a square sheet of paper. Having conjured a leaf, giving it the desired shape, you yourself will understand how to make an origami heart. There are a lot of options. The result will be original, your own origami.

Decorate the resulting figurine in any way. For example, glue a bow from a satin ribbon or paint it with gouache.

Volumetric heart

A voluminous heart looks especially impressive, and many try to make just such a thing for a special day. If the question arises of how to make a voluminous heart, you must first decide what exactly it will be. They are made from different materials:

• paper,
• fabrics,
• thread

The simplest option: cut a heart out of paper, make a small cut in the upper part, fold the cut places, giving the shape volume, and glue it together. A more complex way is to use the modular origami technique.

The heart is sewn from fabric and filled with special materials:

• cotton wool,
• padding polyester,
• holofiber,
• foam rubber,
• feather,

You can put aromatic herbs inside. Then she will become an “aroma-heart.”

Any fabric is suitable for sewing a love attribute. Small specimens work well from fleece or drape. For a large one, choose a bright, shiny satin or silk. Crafts made from chintz, linen, and calico are good. This fabric does not stretch and will be very convenient to work with.

In order to make a three-dimensional fabric symbol of love, you need to prepare a paper template. Using it, cut out two pieces of fabric and sew them together. When stitching, be sure to leave a small gap to fill the inside with filler. After filling the heart, carefully sew up the “pocket”.

Fabric whose edges do not fray can be sewn on the right side. This will give the product originality. The edges of very loose material must be processed very carefully.

Instead of fabric, you can use a knitted fabric, or the present can be knitted or crocheted and also filled with soft material.

They decorate the room with fabric and knitted symbols for the holiday, and give them to each other. You can make whole “heart” ones:

• beads,
• earrings.

After the valentine is ready, it must be decorated. Use for this:

• beads;
• beads;
• silk, nylon, satin ribbons;
• decorative cords;
• different embroidery.

By dressing a gift with holiday accessories, you can be sure that the person for whom it is intended will like it.

From salt dough

Salt dough is an easily accessible and plastic material. You can make absolutely any figure out of it.

The dough is prepared as follows: a glass of flour and fine salt are mixed with a glass of water. First you need to dissolve the salt in the water and then add the flour. Knead the dough until it begins to stick to your hands and is soft and moldable. To ensure the strength of the finished products, sometimes a little PVA glue or wallpaper glue is added to this “plasticine”.

Roll out the dough with a rolling pin and make shapes into objects. You can shape them by hand. Finished products are dried naturally or in the oven. Then, having shown all your creativity, you need to color them. If you add gouache or food coloring directly to the dough, your creations will immediately become colored.

Box

If the gift for Valentine's Day is not in the shape of a heart, then be sure to create the appropriate packaging for it - a box. First you need to think carefully about how to make a heart box: there are many options. Try making a paper one.

Thick paper is suitable for the box. Very thick cardboard will be inconvenient to bend and glue, but the packaging will be stronger. Choose the appropriate paper for your heart box.

The box will consist of two parts: the main part and the lid to it.

1. First, cut out a heart from paper. This will be the bottom. The size must correspond to the size of the gift for which it is intended. When cutting out the bottom of the box, do not forget that you need to provide small pieces around the perimeter of the entire heart, to which the side part will subsequently be glued.
2. For the “walls” you need to prepare a strip, the width of which will correspond to the height of the box. The length of the strip is equal to the length of the perimeter of the heart.
3. The strip must be connected to the bottom of the box, gluing it to the parts cut out along with the heart.
4. You can use tape or a stapler to glue the bottom and sides of the package together. Then you will have to decorate the adhesive tape and stapler clips.

The lid to the box is made in a similar way. Only the lid should be slightly larger than the box itself in order to easily close the package. Therefore, the top of the lid must be made several millimeters larger than the bottom. Accordingly, the strip for the sides will be slightly longer, but narrower.

Decorate the box in any way you like. You can cover all the parts with fabric or bright self-adhesive paper in advance.

Making a heart with your own hands is not at all difficult. You just need to show a little imagination and have a great desire to bring joy to your loved one. Even a lover, far from needlework and creativity, is able to make a Valentine card for a romantic holiday.

A loved one does not need a lot of time and money.

You just have to use your imagination, learn a few secrets of making a souvenir and prepare the necessary materials.

The heart can be made from paper, sweets, clay, and it is suitable as a gift for various holidays, be it a birthday, Valentine's Day or March 8th.

Here are several options on how you can make a beautiful heart with your own hands.

How to make a voluminous paper heart

You will need:

Scissors

Wrapping paper or other thin paper

Heart template (can be drawn on cardboard and cut out)

PVA glue

Pencil

How to make papier-mâché mixture

Prepare a bowl, flour, water and some salt. Mix everything to get a paste.

Cooking the heart

1. Place the heart template on the cardboard and trace several times to create several cardboard hearts. Their number must be in pairs.

2. Start tearing off small pieces of tissue paper, coat them with glue and glue them to the cardboard hearts.

3. Glue another cardboard heart to the pieces of paper to make a sandwich of sorts.

4. Prepare newspaper, tear it into small pieces and start gluing them to the voluminous heart.

5. Leave the glue to dry.

6. When everything is dry, you can decorate the hearts as you wish, for example, use acrylic paint, glitter, glue colorful buttons, add colorful threads.

How to make a thread heart: Celtic necklace

Making this heart can be challenging at times, but it is very fun and in the end you will have a beautiful heart that can also be used as a bracelet or necklace.

*You will need colored laces or similar ropes.

* Follow the arrows to help you tie knots correctly.

* To find out the size you need, wrap the laces around your neck or arm and cut off the excess.

*For contrast, choose laces of different colors.

*Use two laces as one.

*Try to keep the laces straight for best effect.

* If you don’t succeed the first time, don’t stop trying again and again, and you will definitely succeed.

What a heart can be made from: wire and thread

You will need:

Regular or floral wire

Pliers

Scissors

1. Cut a piece of wire and use pliers to bend the piece into a heart shape. Twist the ends of the wire together.

2. Start wrapping the wire heart with thread. Try to wrap it so that there are no large holes.

*You can also attach a note to the heart.

How to make a beautiful heart: tea bag

Surprise your other half with a beautiful heart-shaped bag of your favorite tea.

You will need:

Scissors

Thick paper

Tea bags

Tea leaves

Teaspoon

1. Cut out a heart from thick paper. It should be large enough to fit a spoonful of tea.

2. Place the paper heart on the tea bag and begin to trace it with a thread and needle, making stitches. Make sure that there is no place through which the tea leaves could fall out.

3. Leave some space to fill the heart with tea leaves.

4. Make a tube out of paper and insert it into the hole of the heart and use it to pour tea.

5. Pull out the tube and sew up the hole in the heart. Tie a knot and cut off the excess from the thread.

*You can make a heart-shaped tag. To do this, you just need to use a thread and a needle to connect a tea bag with a paper heart made of thick paper.

How to make a heart from cardboard and newspaper

You will need:

Scissors

Stationery knife

1.Get some newspaper and cut several long strips.

2. Cut out a heart from cardboard. Using a utility knife, cut out another heart inside the heart. As a result, you will have a heart-shaped frame.

3. Twist each strip of newspaper (you can secure the spiral with glue) and begin wrapping the spiral around the frame, periodically adding glue for better attachment.

4. All that remains is to add thread or ribbon so that the heart can be hung on the gift.

How to make a paper heart

You will need:

- scrap paper (wrapping paper)

Glue (glue gun)

Pencil

Scissors

1. Draw a big heart on a large piece of cardboard.

* You can choose the size yourself, the heart can be small.

2. Cut out a heart from cardboard, and then cut out another one from this heart so that you end up with a frame.

3. Cut thin strips of wrapping paper.

4. Using a pencil, twist the strips into tubes (diagonally).

5. Cut each tube into shorter lengths.

6. Start gluing each tube to a cardboard heart. The tubes do not have to be the same length.

7. You can add some ribbon so that the heart can be hung somewhere.

*You can also cut out a heart from red construction paper and attach it to the frame as a decoration.

How to make a 3D heart

Using ordinary threads and a ball, you can make a beautiful and original heart.

You will need:

Threads (2-3 colors)

Heart shaped ball

Petrolatum

PVA glue

Ribbons of different colors

Decorations (decorative butterflies, beads, palettes, etc.)

1. First you need to inflate a heart-shaped balloon.

2. Now you need to lubricate the ball with a thin layer of Vaseline.

3. Apply PVA glue on top of the Vaseline and begin to carefully wind the thread around the ball. * If necessary, you can lubricate it with an additional layer of glue while winding the thread.

4. The ball needs to be hung and the glue left to dry for a day.

5. When the ball has become hard, you need to burst the ball and use a hook to pull it out of the frozen threads.

6. All that remains is to decorate the heart from threads to your liking.

How to make a heart out of candy

Option 1

You will need:

Thick cardboard

Candies

1. Using scissors or a utility knife, cut out a heart from cardboard and inside that heart, cut out another one to create a heart-shaped frame. It is worth noting that the width of the frame should be approximately the same as the width of the candy.

2. Start attaching the candies to the frame. You can do this using threads - take two candies and tie them with threads, tying the thread to the ends of the candy wrappers on one side. This should be done with all candies.

3. Now you need to put the entire structure on a heart-shaped frame, and tie the candy wrappers on the other side.

Traditional symbol all lovers are hearts. Or you can not only cut out hearts, but also make them a beautiful decoration for boxes.

Boxes decorated with hearts

A beautifully shaped cardboard box - heart-shaped, oval, etc. - can be turned into a very elegant box. To do this, you need to cut out a new openwork “top layer” from paper in the shape of the lid and carefully glue it onto the lid. You can use bright paper to make the pattern look more impressive, or, on the contrary, you can choose it the same color, but a tone darker or lighter.

WHAT YOU NEED FOR WORK

■ Any beautiful thin paper you like will merge with the surface of the box.

■ Tracing paper, carbon paper, thick paper.

■ Knife with removable blades.

■ Zigzag tailor's scissors, as well as sharp small scissors (they can replace a knife with removable blades).

■ Simple pencils, soft and hard.

Work order

1. Using tracing paper and carbon paper, transfer the selected pattern onto the paper from which you want to make a template: attach the tracing paper to the pattern pattern given in the article and trace it with a soft pencil; Place the template paper on top, facing it, with carbon paper and tracing paper. Then, using a well-sharpened hard pencil, outline the drawing with pressure. Cut out the pattern with sharp scissors and a knife. The template is ready.

Templates for cutting out hearts

2. Take a sheet of pretty paper and fold it in half.

3. Attaching the template to the folded paper, trace the pattern with a well-sharpened soft pencil. Remove the template. Cut out the applied design with a knife - the parts located inside, and zigzag edges with tailor's scissors - they will turn out jagged.

4. Unfold the product and, placing a sheet of paper on it, smooth out the fold marks with the convex part of the spoon - the decoration for the box is ready.

Advice

Do not connect the ends of the scissors when cutting, otherwise the paper may become nicked!

Today we want to tell you how to make a garland of hearts with your own hands, and this review will present not just one example of a “heart garland,” but seventeen! From such a variety, you will definitely be able to choose a product suitable for yourself in terms of material and method of presentation. Well, you can decorate your home or apartment for Valentine’s Day with the finished garland. A garland of hearts will look great on a window ledge, fireplace, furniture, or simply mounted on the wall.

Valentine's Day is dedicated to all couples in love; traditionally, on February 14, various souvenirs and cards in the form of hearts are given, and the house or apartment where the holiday is planned is decorated with hearts.

1. Garland of paper hearts and threads.

Cut out identical hearts from red or pink paper. The heart template is presented below, you can print it or redraw it, then cut it out and use it to create the required number of hearts). Then, using a sewing machine, sew the hearts in a row. Using this scheme, you create the required number of garlands with which you can decorate windows and doors.

2. Garland of paper hearts.

Cut the white and pink sheets into strips 1cm wide and 10cm long. We bend each segment in half, in the center, bend the upper ends inward and secure with a stapler, we get a heart. We take the next strip, also bent in half, thread the piece into the previously prepared heart, and also bend the upper ends inward and secure them with a stapler. Using this pattern, we create a garland of the required length.

3. Unusual paper garland of hearts.

Cut out a heart from paper (the heart template can be printed or redrawn higher or lower), bend it in half. Next, take a sheet of paper, apply a heart bent in half to it, trace this half with a pencil, step back 8 mm, trace the second part of the heart with a pencil. The result is a heart with a wide stripe in the center; we cut it out and bend it along the lines of each half of the heart. According to this scheme, we prepare the required number of wide hearts, glue two such hearts together along the central fold, then glue the next hearts, just to the outer rounded parts. The result is a long and beautiful garland; colored hearts look especially impressive.

4. Garland of wire hearts.

We cut the wire into pieces 15 cm long, bend the pieces in the center. Then we take a glass jar and twist a wire around its neck, so an even part of the heart will be formed. We do the same with the second part of the wire, give the product a heart shape, and glue it with transparent glue. We prepare the required number of wire hearts, and fix them to each other using ribbons, tying them in the form of bows..

5. Garland pendant made of paper hearts.

We cut double-sided colored red paper into pieces 12 cm long, bend them in the center, take a pencil and tightly twist the first end of the paper piece onto it, then the second, twist it into the inside. We glue a thread to each inner part of the hearts with tape, the result is an excellent garland pendant.

6. Beautiful garland of paper hearts.

It is necessary to cut the paper into pieces 1 cm wide and 6 cm long. Then take one such piece and fasten it at the bottom using a stapler, then bend its outer edges down, attach the next two strips and secure everything together with a stapler. Do the same with all other pieces of paper. The result is a magnificent voluminous garland.

7. Garland made of wire and woolen threads.

We form hearts from wire, we wrap each heart with threads, then we create the effect of a spider web, for this we simply lead a woolen thread from one side of the heart to the other. We create a pendant from the threads on top and thread all the hearts onto a long woolen thread of a similar color. That's it, the garland is ready, it can perfectly decorate the staircase railing.

8. Garland made of felt or thick fabric.

Now we will tell you how to make a garland of fabric hearts. We cut out hearts from felt or other fabric, sew them together with contrasting threads along the outer edge, with an overcast stitch, stuff them with cotton wool or padding polyester, and fasten them along the top with a thread in the form of a garland. It couldn’t be simpler, and you just can’t take your eyes off the beauty that results.

9. Knitted garlands.

Lovers of knitting or crocheting can create openwork knitted garlands with hearts. The beauty is indescribable!

10. Garland of hearts with pompoms.

We cut out hearts from paper and deliberately cut out a circle in the center. Let's start creating pompoms. We take a fork, wrap its end part with woolen threads, then thread the end of the thread between the teeth in the center and wrap it several times, tying a knot. We cut the side parts of the threads with scissors, we get a fluffy pompom, and with scissors we give it a rounded shape. We thread the finished pompom into the center of the previously prepared heart, create the required number of cute fluffy hearts and hang them in a row on a long woolen thread.

11. Colored paper hearts.

This garland is somewhat similar to the first one on the list, only circles are added here, and this garland is vertical. Print on a printer or simply cut out hearts and circles from double-sided colored paper. Sew them on a sewing machine in a long row, alternating hearts and circles. You can decorate a window cornice with such vertical garlands.

12. Garland of embroidered hearts.

We cut out a heart from paper, apply it to a whole sheet of paper, create punctures along its outline with a large needle, then along these punctures we create embroidery with red thread, simply moving the thread and needle from one hole to another. We cut out a square with a margin of the embroidered heart, prepare the required number of embroideries and hang them all on a woolen thread. In addition, you can write the word LOVE on top of the embroidery with a glue gun and immediately sprinkle it generously with glitter sand or glue ready-made letters that you can buy in advance at a souvenir shop.

13. Pink hearts on a string.

We cut out hearts from cardboard, in each of them on top, using a hole punch, create two holes into which we thread a thick woolen thread, thus stringing all the hearts.

14. Tiny paper hearts.

Using a shaped hole punch with a heart-shaped attachment, we prepare a huge number of small hearts from double-sided colored paper, then sew them together using a sewing machine in a long row.

15. Fabric hearts.

We cut out a heart template from cardboard, redraw it on the fabric, cut out the required number of identical hearts, and sew each two hearts together using a dotted stitch. We stuff it with padding polyester or cotton wool. Then we string the hearts onto a long thread to form a garland.

16. Colored hearts on clothespins.

Cut out hearts from colored paper (template below). Then we hang a rope on a shelf, cornice or door, pin the hearts to it and secure them with clothespins. Excellent decor, absolutely not time consuming, but very effective and non-standard.

17. Garland of multi-layered hearts.

We cut out many hearts of the same size from paper. Then we glue the same one, only bent in half, onto one even heart, onto it another similar one bent in half, after which we glue the entire product to the thread, control the number of such hearts yourself.

Now you know how to make a garland of hearts, we think you should definitely like at least one example from the article, right?! Leave your feedback in the comments! You can also decorate the house for Valentine’s Day with candles or, but still the main element will be the garland of hearts. You can make really impressive things with your own hands, and after the holiday, carefully put them in a box and next year you can simply take them out again and transform your beloved home with them.