Do-it-yourself valentine from a matchbox. How to make a valentine mailbox

On the eve of Valentine's Day, we were asked to come up with and design a box for valentines for the school. It should be bright and meaningful, eye-catching and slightly frivolous. The task is not difficult at first glance. Well, box and box. Bow on the right, heart on the left...

But no! Our work must be the best! The most unusual! So that schoolchildren, looking at this homemade box for valentines, want to use it. Everything in it should remind you of the bright feelings of friendship and love.

So. We take a large box. In our case, this is a teapot box. You can stick paper on it, but we decided to make the background gentle and at the same time bright, otherwise you can’t pick up a piece of paper. The background will be yellow, light green and gold.

From above in the lid we will cut a hole for valentines, and then, after the varnish, we will glue the hole with adhesive tape so that the edges are even and smooth.

After applying the background with dotted strokes, you can color the box with cute hearts and be sure to make an inscription about what this box is intended for.

The lettering on the box is still showing through the paint. We decorate them with confetti.

After we go over the box with a layer of varnish to fix the confetti and give it a little shine.

As soon as the varnish dries, we proceed to the external design of the valentine box. And we will decorate it with branches with pink cherry flowers. It is so romantic!

We will make holes on the sides of the box and fix the branches on 4 sides. To prevent the box from tearing from the inside, at the corners we insert dense rectangular strips of thick cardboard.

We fix the lid with a bow, so that later you can open the box and distribute valentines to the recipients.

This is such a beauty!

We will fix the branches on top. It will turn out such a kind of vault, and inside we will hang a heart with a cupid.

Cupid aims his love arrows straight at the heart.

The box turned out just a feast for the eyes! And he made a good impression at school.

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

So, let's begin our affairs of the heart...

Paper valentines

IN CARVING TECHNIQUE.

Here is the easiest craft. Which even children in kindergarten can do. The middle group or the older group, when they already cut well enough with scissors (without trembling hands and sweaty forehead), can easily make this valentine with their own hands.

Everything is simple here. Flatten the sheet in half. We draw on it a half of the heart and horizontal lines. We cut the lines and cut out the heart itself. Unfold the heart and put it on the table fold edge down. And then the most interesting for children. It is necessary to pull the strips UP with your fingers - but not all, but through 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 blank template for this paper craft of a voluminous heart. A simple and quick do-it-yourself valentine card for children in kindergarten.

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

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

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

THAT is to change the BEND ZONE of such a heart contour (the zone that is indicated by a dotted line in the diagram) and get a new voluminous 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 up by an UNCUT LOWER CONTOUR. And the inner little heart is held up by uncut apex and tip on both sides of the centerline. Here is what these changes look like on the diagram.

The most interesting thing is that you yourself can continue to EXPERIMENT 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 you place the half-hearts IN A CIRCLE - then cut through the contours of the half-hearts and bend these contours - then we will get such an interesting round craft HEART DANCE.

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

Such an openwork puff appliqué can be pasted on a postcard for Valentine's Day. You will get a beautiful design valentine card with your own hands.

For more Valentine's Day greeting card ideas, check out our dedicated article.

DIY VALENTINES

WITH NOTES.

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

See how beautiful - each twisted paper bud contains a small white twist note. This craft with notes for Valentine's Day is easy and simple to do with your own hands. Now I’ll tell you exactly how to quickly and conveniently do such work with your own hands ...

We take a piece of thick cardboard (for example, a lid from a pizza box, it is just large). We buy in stationery packaging of red office paper(it is just double-sided and dense - what you need).

Paper is cut into wide stripes. Fold each strip in half ALONG(so that it is doubled - so the rosette 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, loosen it slightly, let it unwind a little and fix the tail of the twist with glue(so as not to bulge).

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

The second craft with a note.

HEART WITH A SECRET.

And you can also put a love confession inside a PAPER HEART with a gap 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 - lengthwise and across. So that it quadruples along the folds - cross to cross (as in the first photo).

We bend the lower edge of the square up to the middle horizontal fold line (photo 2).

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

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

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

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

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

There was a small touch left. Modify the shape of the ears sticking up above the module so that the ears look like rounded hills at the top of the heart.

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

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

And we continue...

VALENTINE ENVELOPES

With your own hands from paper.

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

On a sheet of cardboard we draw a template for a future Valentine, as in the photo below. You can copy the picture or draw it yourself according to the model. Sizes can be any (for your task) - the main thing is to keep the proportions. That is, the width of the half of the heart should match half the width of the central rectangle of the envelope itself. All other sizes can be any under the size of your letter.

In such a valentine envelope, you can put a small gift - for example, earrings. Prick earrings on cardboard in the form of a heart (for example, from beautiful velvet cardboard) - make two holes and put earrings into them. And put this velvet heart with earrings inside such an envelope. Healthy and beautiful.

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 m were EQUAL.

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

And you can also make a valentine letter with your own hands inside closed paper boats. Fold a sheet of pink (or beige) paper in half. And we put the stencil of the palm so that the fold line falls on the back edge of the palm. We circle the stencil - cut out two layers of paper along the contour at once, without unfolding. And when the silhouette is cut out, we unbend the folded stencil - and we get two open palms. And inside the paper heart we paste (folded). We write a love note or kind words to a loved one on a paper heart.

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 three-dimensional object (souvenir or gift) in it.

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

VALENTINE BOXES

How to DIY

Heart shaped boxes.

Here is the first version of a simple heart-shaped box that is easy to make with cardboard. You can see a stencil template for such crafts for Valentine's Day 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, have 90 degrees. And the intermediate walls (between the hearts) should not have a pointed bottom - but instead they should have the same straight walls as the top). 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 (and not triangular) and the hearts themselves have an angle of 90 degrees (so that they can be closed by thrusting 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 heart boxes, I need to tell you a little about what you can put in them. Below are some beautiful DIY FILLINGS ideas for these valentine boxes.

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

Any recipe for gingerbread dough will work for such sweet valentines. We bake heart-shaped gingerbread. Cool down. In a saucepan we breed red jelly azure. Soak 40 grams of gelatin in 100 grams of cold water, into which 1 packet of food coloring was thrown. After swelling of the gelatin, heat the mixture in a water bath, but not to a boil. Immerse the whole gingerbread in this icing, with tweezers and put it on a dish in the refrigerator to solidify.

What if you don't like baking? You can buy ready-made square cookies in the store and decorate them with sweet mastic. Mastic dough is made in 1 minute - we buy Marmeloshow marshmallows in the store, heat them in the microwave - we get a sticky mass that looks like plasticine. We pour powdered 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 fashion decor for cookies for Valentine's Day

We take a 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 cookies. We glue the squares on the cookies. We roll part of the dough into thin sausages - these will be the seams of the envelope. And we mix part of the dough with red food coloring - we sculpt hearts from it, decorate our sweet envelope. If there is no food coloring - it does not matter.- hearts can be cut from red marmalade.

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

Valentine's cards

With my own hands.

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

This is how such a heart is made. We fold a white sheet of paper in half - cut out a HALF OVAL with scissors. We cut three or four, or five cuts at the oval - from the fold line and deep into the oval without going with scissors into the area of ​​\u200b\u200bits round top. We do the same with the red sheet of paper. And then we thread two modules alternating its strips, as shown in the diagram below.

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

Let's see how it goes. If we modify the wicker module like this with rounded tubercles, then we will get a wicker 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 adding a valentine with our own hands, we will get a flower with four petals in the center.

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

We can try to be a creator ourselves and draw our braid lines at random. Assemble a Valentine craft and see what an unexpected pattern will come out in the end.

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

DIY Valentines

TIERED ABUNDANCE.

Here's a Valentine's card that I really like. She looks very chic and rich. And it's very easy to do. Therefore, this valentine can be a topic for a lesson in kindergarten or a craft in the classroom at school.

Below I show the module for valentine-LADDER in three tiers.

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

The incisions of the strips are different - pay attention - in one strip, the incisions go with alternating bottom, top, bottom. And in the second strip, on the contrary, the incisions alternate like this - at the top, at the bottom, at the top.

Then our walls are dressed with these slots into each other. And we get the basis-backbone of the future do-it-yourself valentine crafts. And on this wicker base we stick 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 accordion can have as many walls as you like - 4, 5, 6. The more, the more tiers with a hearty decor such a ladder craft will have.

Valentine pendant

Framed by hand.

You can make a very simple craft for Valentine's Day. 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 the future Valentine crafts. And now, inside such a vertically placed postcard, we hang a double heart made of cardboard.

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

Valentine crafts

Cardboard with paper flowers.

These are the ideas for DIY Valentines we have collected for you in this article. Good luck with your creativity, the way you get original crafts.
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Hi all! I want to remind everyone that soon we will have to celebrate the next holiday called Valentine's Day, which is celebrated every year at the same time on February 14th. What do you think is most often given on this day? Of course, small and cool paper valentines that resemble postcards, but they are made in the form of hearts and decorated with love and care.

Nowadays, you can safely go to the store and buy such a charm, but still there is nothing more beautiful to make such original pictures and give them to your loved ones.

Do you know where this holiday came from, write your stories below under this note? I think so, so I will not dwell on this issue, but I will immediately start from the most important and basic, I will teach you and show you step by step various ideas for crafts for Valentine's Day, so let's get started.

Of course, you can knit such creations, or even sew them, I recently saw how they made a heart from beads and even from felt. By the way, for those who are fond of felt toys, I suggest looking into this

It is no secret to anyone that even a child can make paper products, because every home has such material, the main thing in this matter is to approach it competently and do everything as the author recommends. Therefore, watch this step-by-step instruction and repeat, the result will be simply stunning and very beautiful.

I propose to make the first option for two halves at once, for example, a husband and wife, and hang such an ornament over the bed.

We will need:

• paper
• paints
• ribbon
• scissors

Stages of work:

1. As you can see, everything is quite easy and fast, dip your fingers into the paint, that is, apply it to the surface of your palms, and then make an imprint that will resemble a heart symbol.

2. Cut out with decorative scissors and thread the ribbon through.

The next way to make a valentine from what you have, so to speak, from improvised materials, is to take cardboard, preferably pink or red, and plus colored paper. You will also need glue, a pencil and scissors.

We will need:

• colored red cardboard - 1 sheet
• a sheet of pink colored paper - 1 pc.
• pencil
• scissors

Stages of work:

1. Everything is extremely simple, fold a sheet of cardboard in half and cut out a heart, then you have to make thin strips from pink colored paper, which you cut as if you were making grass or something similar, twist each such strip on a pencil.

2. Glue flowers on the layout and you can also decorate with sparkles and something else to your taste if you wish. It turns out a slightly voluminous and at the same time elegant craft, which you can gladly give to your mother, sister and say how much you love them.

And a similar idea, which also captivated me, it also uses the weaving of strips of paper:

But that's not all, if you turn on your imagination, then you yourself can come up with your own patterns, because there is nothing difficult here, see what can happen. Well, if you think that you can’t do it, then contact me and I will send you stencils that you can use to make these lovely creations.

I really liked these views, there are enlarged stencils. By the way, such crafts are called interlaced paper hearts.

The simplest thing is that you can do this and decorate this ordinary heart with any decorations, letters, rhinestones, etc.

Paper valentine master class for children

Undoubtedly, there is still such a tradition in schools today how to put up mailboxes and throw anonymous wishes there, which everyone then receives. You will agree that it is so cool and tempting, which makes this holiday unique for everyone.

Therefore, most schoolchildren, and just preschool children, love to create magnificent postcards, and then give them to all those they love and adore.

Therefore, if you have children, then you can easily make such a gift with them.

For children in kindergarten and at home, by the way, you can use this type of work as a group to make such a drawing, crumple the shape of a heart from ordinary toilet paper capsules, and then dip it in paint and fill the entire paper. Even a child of 2-3 years old will cope with such a task.

And if you still have not learned how to draw a heart, then you can use this stencil.

After all, children can simply decorate it with felt-tip pens or pencils and draw their own patterns, or use nothing else. Drawing antistress, or as it is called coloring.

You can find various ideas if you want a bunch of such anti-stresses, of course, this work will be more addressed to high school students and schoolchildren. I have several coloring pages in my piggy bank, if you are interested, write.

Or make a bookmark for this topic, cut out paper hearts on your own, and the child should glue them in an example, but something like this.

You can also make origami, because such an activity will certainly please the kids. Make a boat with them, and instead of a sail, a symbol of lovers on a stick.

Original postcard Heart for February 14 with a scheme

While preparing for this article, I found several ways of how you can beautifully and unexpectedly surprise your loved one or loved one. After all, on this day you really want something that will make your head spin. For example, if your betrothed gives you a ring, but not just like that, but in a purse. It will look dignified and at the same time romantic.

You will need to cut out of paper using ordinary sharp scissors two such figures:

And then connect them together, but in advance you will need to fold them in half, where you see symmetry, make a small incision, where the antennae of the butterfly are.

You will get something like this:

Now it remains to stick a ribbon or make it out of paper and put a cherished gift with wishes or a bill.

More difficult, I can offer such a craft, who is familiar with the technique of cutting stencils, it will be easy for him, this is a method of poking with a special knife, as they say among the people of vytynanki. You can get the stencil itself for free, if you write a comment below, I will definitely send it to you.

Also, in a hurry, you can build such a masterpiece using your palms. I think that the process of making such a product is already clear.

Looks gentle and of course with love. Your loved one will definitely be delighted and smile and give you a kiss.

In America and other countries, they often give their loved ones paintings related to this topic, you can use newspaper publications, you don’t need to be an artist to create such a work, see for yourself.

Well, another type is vytynanki, they are also appropriate to apply here. And I will write about them below. To be honest, such a souvenir can be taken to a competition in a kindergarten or school.

Here is her template, cut it out with a cutter or a special sharp knife.

We make voluminous valentines at home

As for such large and seemingly voluminous figurines for this holiday, I suggest that you first go the easiest way and make a heart outline out of cardboard, and then with the help of woolen threads, you can take different colors, or you can use one color. Tie, that is, wrap, as shown in this photo.

In the first version, we made flowers and glued them to the workpiece, you can also do it in this case.

You can also easily and quickly cut out according to such a finished pattern, and then glue the sides, the box.

And then decorate it with all kinds of decorations, such as scrapbooking kits. I found a similar option in this video, I share with you:

While writing this note, one idea came to my mind, and it came to me for a reason, my eldest son was sitting and collecting a mosaic from puzzles, so that's what I came up with. How do you see?

Video on how to make crafts for Valentine's Day

Make such a romantic postcard in the form of your pens, everything will be clear without words.

Or do something more interesting:

Volumetric valentine in the style of origami

There are a lot of crafts on the Internet on the theme of Valentine's Day, especially using such a famous technique as origami, you can add hundreds of different patterns.

You can make an origami heart yourself using this step-by-step diagram, follow it and you will succeed. After all, it looks really beautiful and original.

The steps are simple as always, you just need to fold the paper correctly.

And after the result will not keep you waiting, first practice folding these lovely valentines on plain white paper, and then move on to color.

Or use something like this.

You can also bake a very tasty one, and then stick special toppers on sticks into it. To do this, you just have to cut out hearts from paper, and then fold them with an accordion and stick them on a stick.

Catch these templates, you can copy them, and then easily print them yourself on a printer.

3D hearts are very popular now, you can also make them if you watch this video from YouTube:

You can request a stencil for this video from me below in the comments, I will definitely send it to you.

And also very original and super cool origami hearts with flowers, which I liked very much.

Do you know how these are made? Now I will show you the instructions with which you can make this wonderful little thing.

Repeat the entire sequence, the main thing is not to rush and be careful.

Then everything will certainly work out.

Happened? Then move on to the next steps.

Glue a strass and make a handle. Voila, beauty.

Quilling heart

Do you know what this unique and at first glance interesting word, quilling, means? In fact, a technique that helps to fold paper in the form of small funny things in a very funny way. I think that all those who love creativity and crafts are familiar with this type of work or have you ever seen such cute souvenirs.

If you know how to use and make such valentines, please share your work with us, I can only offer you ideas that I liked myself.

I suggest you make a photo frame and something else, look and decide for yourself what is closer to your soul.

Or make such a small but nice thing out of stripes:

We will need:

Stages of work:

Take a ready-made heart template, or make it by hand with a compass, or something round. Then attach the stencil to thick cardboard, and cut out the blank. Next, attach the blank to colored paper and make some more stock, as shown in the figure.

Glue on this green cover. Then cut out a heart from red colored paper and glue it on the back of the workpiece. On this side you can write a love note or a poem.

After making figures for quilling, wind strips of paper on a pencil, use a special ruler and a toothpick.

When the puck turns out, leave it in the circle of the same engineering ruler.

Take your love photo and trace it to the desired shape, and then stick it on double-sided tape or tape.

Now it remains to glue all the elements. And that's how wonderful and magical it looks.

And you can also build such a red pendant, a symbol of love.

Greeting card with corrugated paper roses

Well, now I offer another fairly common option of roses, which are easy to twist if you take the right type of paper, we are talking about corrugation.

There is also a great idea for a very large valentine, which is made in the style of toppiary, looks great, at first glance you might think that such a charming invention is beyond your power, but in fact, believe me, your eyes are afraid, but your hands do.

Now you will see the necessary basics and based on this information you can easily build such a little thing. And after all, it can be presented not only on Valentine's Day, but also on March 8 or Birthday.

Stages of work:

1. Take a regular foam and cut out a symbol of love from it, the thickness should be about 3 cm.

2. Next, take a stick or pencil, barbecue sticks are very suitable for this purpose and stick it into the heart. Hide the stick using a decorative ribbon. After inserting the stick into the jar, you also need to decorate it, wrap the dishes with cloth or paper, in general, with improvised means, you can even use plasticine.

So that the stick does not fall in the pot, fill everything with plaster.

3. Now prepare the following materials for work, this is glue, it is better to take something like liquid nails, it is more convenient for them to work. Then you will need corrugated or crepe paper and a core from a gel pen.

4. Now do the facing. The word at first glance is not easy, but there is nothing difficult.

5. Insert the rod into the middle of the rectangle (cut the paper into small pieces of the same size) and then crumple.

6. Now aim straight for the heart, glue the blank to the foam.

Remember that glue is best applied to the paper blank itself.

Using this method of trimming, you can also make such a fluffy and voluminous postcard on cardboard.

Pictures and templates for printing

So we got to the very last option, it will be unexpected, but also pleasant at the same time. In one magazine I saw such a cool cool novelty for the interior, decor in the house.

I remember that when the new year came, many of you asked me to send them templates for the window, so why not implement it here too, decorate the window with the necessary symbols by February 14, these can be hearts, angels, doves, etc. Like you look at it, see how you can do it in an original way.

I really like this incarnation, and write your suggestions and feedback to you))).

And I honestly really liked these images of a girl and a boy. And you? There is also a scheme of cupid and fairy, as in the photo on the window. There is a boy and a girl kissing in a heart in my piggy bank and much more.

Therefore, if you also want to decorate your apartment with your children, then you can request all the schemes and templates for free, as always, I will send them to everyone by e-mail.

Well, for those who didn’t like such a creation, I give you small blanks that you can also print on a printer and present to your beloved relatives and friends.

Here is a compilation, I hope my findings will be useful to someone. Have a good day, good mood and positive! Bye!

Sincerely, Ekaterina Mantsurova

Today I have a St. Valentine's post office, and I advise you to arrange it too.

Unfortunately, such a box as in the photo does not exist in real life:

I just took a picture of a regular box at the nearest post office and added the line

FOR LOVE LETTERS .

But nature does not tolerate emptiness, and therefore I propose to fill this gap and make a similar box!

For what? Now I'll tell you. See how it happens here.

St. Valentine's post at school.

When my daughter was in school, she would bring home a bunch of valentines on Valentine's Day, which we sorted out for an evening, or even two.

Whatever was there:

• valentines cards,
• valentine books,
• with and without signature
• purchased and handmade,
• valentines-hearts or decorated with hearts,
• various manufactured.

My daughter read the text and peered into the handwriting, trying to guess the author, and I just admired the fantasy of the design.

And all the letters were collected in a huge box installed in the school lobby, and the letters were delivered to the classes by special attendants, who, it seems, were even exempted from lessons. In general, a whole guard of honor at the box, and a slight mass psychosis at school (in a good sense of the word).

How it was possible to study on this day - I can hardly imagine)))

And if in some year Valentine's Day fell on a day off, or a flu quarantine was announced, then consider, “boss, everything is gone”))

I smiled at all this, but it was a little sad that this one came to us so late. And so I thought - what prevents us from making this box at home and at work? I don’t observe objective reasons)) Therefore, I write what I came up with.

St. Valentine's post at work.

1. We take a box from an electric kettle or a food processor (although it would be great from a TV or a refrigerator)))

• we paste over it with cute wallpaper (wrapping paper, clippings from magazines and catalogs, old postcards - you can sequentially, or you can use it in a collage style (at different angles and with an uneven edge shape). If there is a theme of feelings - good, no - any bright pictures
• or we don’t paste over, but wrap and chip off from behind with a clerical stapler
• or nail with a furniture stapler

2. We select the front side and cut out a hole for letters: if the box will stand on the table, we cut it out on the upper horizontal plane, if it hangs, then at the top of the front vertical plane, as in post offices.

3. So that the lid is not opened ahead of time, prick holes in the lid and the side of the box closest to it with a knife or awl, thread a beautiful ribbon-rope, tie it tightly and seal it with a comic seal (roll a knot into a lump of plasticine, flatten and press any relief, at least coin).

4. Under the letter slot we write large and catchy (or glue the inscription) -

FOR LOVE LETTERS

St. Valentine's post works

5. We bring the box to a heart condition - we draw hearts, or glue heart stickers, or cut them out of colored paper (colored covers of old notebooks, bright pages of the same magazines and catalogs) and glue them again.

6. We fix next to the box (above it, in front of it) a sheet of approximately the following content:

Dear Colleagues

(Clients, Buyers, Partners, Guests, Visitors, Friends)!

February 14 is approaching - St. Valentine's Day, Valentine's Day.

We stepped wider and declare it the Day of Love!

No matter what, we love each other and we cannot live without each other!

Please write us a couple of kind words (all together or to someone personally) and put the letter in this box.

We will be VERY pleased to read about your love at the end of the working day on February 14!

Thank you! You are very dear to us!

P.S. You can also come to us with your Valentine's mailbox, and we will definitely put something in it!

7. We put a stack of leaves at the box, fasten several handles on a spring and wait for the evening of February 14)))

Make a box for collecting love mail and set it up in advance, better - now.

If the enterprise is large - do it in each department, if it is small - put it where there is the greatest traffic and stopping power.

(I wonder if this will increase store traffic? Maybe toss this idea to sales coaches?)

It seems to me that this box will also be very suitable at home - if at least 3 people live there, there will already be 6 valentines for everyone. And the whole family is much more interesting to read than one by one. Little children can simply be invited to draw - how they love mom, dad, grandmother, etc. This will turn out to be a drawn valentine. I think it will be great.

How do you think?

And it can also appear at work and at home - if, of course, you do it)))

Wishing bright LOVE LETTERS from St. Valentine's mail,

P.S. I have already made and am posting my love mailbox)) Drop valentine comments into it, copy and post it on your websites and social pages, not forgetting to indicate the Author, i.e., me))

I need you, it is possible to live without your love, but it is difficult!

And even more - to please your soul mate by giving something as a keepsake. I suggest you make it with a secret message inside.

For Valentine you will need:

Matchbox or its template ( save, );
- thick colored paper for the box, paper for congratulations;
- scissors and / or stationery knife;
- pencils;
- ruler for precise bending of cardboard along the lines;
- glue;
- decorative decorations for Valentine's Day.

To work!

But first important information! If you decide to make a valentine from a matchbox, glue it with colored paper and decorate it with bright ribbons, artificial flowers, hearts and the like. If according to the template, print the diagram on A4 size hard colored paper and cut out the details of the future valentine.

Here are two options for a valentine box.

First- in the form of an ordinary matchbox.

Second- in the form of a festive box-envelope.

We are starting to make boxes.St. Valentine's Day- a holiday of love, smiles and positive emotions. How much on this Day I want to receive a gift from a loved one! And even more - to please your soul mate by giving something as a keepsake. I suggest you make original valentine from a matchbox with a secret message inside.

1. Print the valentine box templates on A4 paper. For the box to have the correct dimensions, don't scale or resize it. Remember, for the box you need thick cardboard or thick paper. Although you can print the templates on plain paper, stick them on cardboard and cut them out.

2. Cut the box patterns along the black lines. Using a ruler, bend the parts in places of the gray lines and fold the boxes of future valentines as shown in the photo.

3. Apply glue to the light gray areas of the paper inside the box.

4. And now attention! Fold all sides of the template in half inside the box (you should have double walls). And the small parts need to be inserted into the slots that appeared after You folded the sides of the box in half.

5a. To make a regular box: tie the inner box with paper for the outer box (in the template on the right), check if everything fits, if the box fits snugly. Then glue the pieces together.

5 B. For the envelope box: anoint the inside of the part with glue, as shown in the photo (you can insert the inner box, but then you will need to remove it). In order for the parts to stick together well, they need to be pressed from the inside of the box and held for a few seconds.

6. The box is ready! It remains only to decorate it well.

What will be inside the valentine? Do not give it empty ...

Making a brochure!

Here are three options for booklets for a valentine box. The first one is the simplest and has only two pages. The second has the appearance of an accordion of five pages for a valentine. The third consists of eight folded pages.

Follow carefully and you will get a wonderful valentine for the holiday of all lovers.

1. Print the booklet templates on plain paper or thick paper. Choose the color to your taste or make it to match the whole valentine. Cut out the first two booklets along the black lines and fold along the gray lines. The third template must be further cut in the middle along the black line.

2. Fold the booklet in half lengthwise.

3. Take two pages from the center, two folds should come out - two leaves of the future valentine.

4. Make a book out of the leaflets of the booklet and use a ruler to align all the folds and edges of the valentine.

5. You can decorate the booklet with various hearts, you can also draw flowers or a decorative frame. Be sure to write a congratulation and give this wonderful valentine to someone you really love.