DIY creative crafts for February 14

Any holiday involves the obligatory presentation of gifts, and the best, as you know, is the one made with your own hands. This is especially true on February 14, when it is important not just to give a present, because it is so customary, but to demonstrate your own tender feelings for a person. Someone will limit themselves to a cardboard valentine from the store and an expensive, but banal gift - we offer ideas on how to bring a touch of magic.

The great convenience of crafts for February 14 is that they can be made from almost any available material: paper, plasticine, felt, and so on. The main task of the person who creates the craft is to make it look beautiful and cute, evoke affection, make the gifted be moved, even if you have been in a relationship for a long time and it would seem impossible to surprise your soulmate. Hence, it is reasonable to choose as the main raw material that material with which you already have some experience, although in fact many crafts do not require any special creative skills - only diligence and diligence.

In addition to the main material, you may need additional ones. A felt heart can be voluminous - then a soft filler is needed for it. Any craft outside can be decorated with various sparkles, beads and so on - it all depends on your imagination.

In the case of paper and felt, these will be primarily scissors for cutting blanks; for fabrics, as a rule, sewing accessories are also needed: a needle and thread and, possibly, a thimble. For complex crafts, glue will not hurt, and if the author also wants to paint the product on his own, then also art supplies (such as a brush and paints).

Clay figurines may require special sculpting tools such as a stack. People who often do manual work, as a rule, have all this somewhere at hand, but if you are just trying your own strength, you should get everything you need in advance - this will greatly help in achieving an acceptable result.

The specificity of making a gift for Valentine's Day with your own hands is that all the presents displayed for the holiday of all lovers are quite commonplace. Rather, these are inexpensive souvenirs, which in most cases are made by the millions according to approximately the same patterns and always play on the same theme too hackneyed.

Most people will be delighted to receive another figurine from the store, but they will not perceive it as something unusual. - in the life of an adult, there were probably a lot of them. It’s a different matter if you tried and created a gift with your own hand, be it drawings on a cup or even just a postcard, cute figurines and other crafts - this is already a reason to put them on display at work, to boast once again how lucky your partner is with you , just put on the table in the office to always remember about the reciprocity of your love.

Initially, it is assumed that a hand-made craft is something completely original, invented by one's own mind. However, let's be objective - even among the recognized geniuses of art, only a few come up with something really unique, not inspired by what has already been invented before them. So in this case - no one will forbid you to first ask how other people solve the problem, in order to then bring a touch of your own vision and make such a craft that will concern only you two.

Crafts of this kind with children are performed even in kindergarten - making various postcards according to the principle of primitive application is included in the modern child development program. There, of course, all postcards for any reason are usually dedicated to mom, while in adult life the result of labor will be presented to the second half. In this case, one must understand that something what is difficult for children, an adult will seem an easy task.

You can change the color scheme - let the background be red and the heart be white or pink. With a more complex approach, it is made from pieces, and real creativity is if you paint a card by hand or make a heart outline from your own fingerprints dipped in paint. In addition, the heart can be embroidered with bright threads directly on the cardboard - it will be both original and beautiful.

Such a craft for Valentine's Day should hardly be considered a gift or an element of it, but it is a worthy decoration of the interior, allowing once again to emphasize the festive atmosphere. The garland also makes it possible to clearly show that the holiday is important for you, and you did not allocate any five minutes for its organization in between more important matters, but approached the issue thoroughly.

The manufacturing principle is actually very simple.From red paper, you can cut thin (up to 1.5 cm) strips up to 20 cm long, which are folded in the shape of a heart and fastened in any convenient way - even with glue, even with a stapler. Individual hearts are either threaded into each other at the manufacturing stage or connected together in the two above-described ways. Sometimes red hearts are made in one piece, then to create a garland they can simply be strung on a thread.

You have probably seen another popular craft option in shop windows, but you can make such a holiday attribute yourself.

To begin with, a cardboard base is made - a heart-shaped rim. We do not urge anyone to be irresponsible to the work performed, but you also should not worry if the outline is not quite perfect - this is only the basis that you will not see anyway.

The next stage is the external design. You can even simply wrap the cardboard "skeleton" with red or pink dense threads, wool, cloth - if only the craft looks soft and fluffy.

The specimens on sale are often fully papered with fake flowers and look like a heart-shaped bouquet.

Any girl will surely like such a fashionable present - it seems to be both a flower and garden element, and a gift for Valentine's Day. To begin with, we will definitely need a vessel for the "flower", decorative stones to fill it, some beads or beads for decoration, as well as pliable, but strong wire.

Whatever the floral part of the composition, which, by the way, may not exist at all, the heart must be present in the craft. We carefully bend its frame out of the wire and insert it into a pot filled with the stones we have chosen.

You can even use a straw from a cocktail as a stem, but do not forget to decorate all the details with red-pink paper, cloth or coffee beans, and it is reasonable to lay out the top layer of "soil" with beads. Artificial flowers can be pasted over the frame itself, making a kind of bouquet, or they will be separate, and the heart will "hover" above them.

This is also not so much a gift as an element of festive decor, which does not diminish its value in the least and will be pleasant even to a rather strict husband. The volume inside the letters can be additionally filled with flowers or sweets.

You can approach the issue of manufacturing in completely different ways. - even as we already described above in the case of a heart-shaped wreath or topiary: inside there is a cardboard frame, which is simply covered from the outside with red threads, cloth or shiny colored wrapping paper.

You can make the frame in the form of a box, inside which pleasant bonuses in the form of the same candies will be hidden. Some people simply make voluminous hearts from red cardboard ribbons, which are facing the viewer, but in several layers, and the letters themselves in a contrasting shade are glued on top of it all.

A serious relationship is when you have something to remember. Nowadays, you can remember with the help of vivid photographs, but sometimes you want to see not so much a specific moment as the face of a loved one in moments when he is happy.

By the way, we have already considered one of the options for making a photo frame above - we are talking about topiary. The middle of the heart, which is a must in such a craft, is simply left blank, but with the ability to easily insert a photo that your significant other especially likes. Alternatively, the backing is made of thick cardboard, and the outline for the photo is a heart glued over it, made of any soft material.

Just cardboard in two layers is also suitable: a solid sheet for the substrate and an empty rectangle inside as a retaining contour, but then this outer contour should be abundantly decorated with hearts cut out of colored paper, beads, sparkles and other decor.

This gift option is rightly considered one of the most original and is still capable of surprising even sophisticated people. To begin with, we need a beautiful clean bottle - always transparent so that the contents can be seen through it. Next, you need to make beautiful hearts that are immune to the effects of liquid - at home they are usually made of wood, but you can buy these somewhere in a store selling decor, where they can also be plastic.

Ideally, we need a bottle with a wide neck, then you can stick your hand inside and fix the hearts at different heights in any convenient way. After that, the bottle is filled with thick liquid soap, ideally also transparent, otherwise the visibility of the hearts may not be very good. The top of the bottle, especially if you cut the neck for the sake of convenience, should be decorated with artificial flowers, as well as bows and ribbons.

For another option for making a soaring heart with your own hands, see the video below.

For some reason, it is customary to consider as crafts only those things that are made entirely by our own hands, although the original definition of this word does not say anything like that. In fact, you can take any gift from the store and simply "modify" it with your own hands, so that it acquires both a touch of uniqueness and elements of your own creativity. A vivid example: we take what the other half has long dreamed of and, if the appearance of the product is not essential for its functionality, we paste over it with the same hearts cut from colored paper.

In recent years, people have forgotten a little about wall newspapers, although such a poster is also a wonderful example of creativity. There you can collect vivid photographs of the couple, describe why you love each other, indicate some common dreams. This is not so much a gift as a decor, but if we examined the garland above, then why can't we entrust the same role to the wall newspaper - this is quite logical! In addition, you can use a modern approach - instead of a paper poster on the wall, make a computer presentation in the same spirit.

A verbatim description rarely allows you to fully imagine a craft, therefore we have prepared for our readers several colorful examples of how to implement what has been described. The first is a card with hearts pasted over it, which in turn form one big heart. It is possible that the craft will have to be redone several times and pre-draw the outlines of all the elements on paper, but the result of a leisurely and neat work will look very warm and comfortable.

The second photo is two in one: the topiary made of coffee beans, which is ultra-fashionable in recent years, and a photo frame for pictures of lovers. You can decorate any window sill with such an accessory, while hardly anyone will be mistaken, suggesting for what holiday this gift, although, mind you, the traditional red-pink range in this present is completely absent.

The third example shows how with the help of a simple garland and volumetric letters, you can create an inexpressible feeling of home comfort and a quiet holiday., which exists only for the two of you, and let the whole world wait. The multi-colored threads that will cover the frame of the letters look very delicate, as if conveying the essence of your feelings.