Currently, the Catholic celebration of Valentine's Day is gaining more and more popularity, and, of course, we can no longer submit this day without cards in the shape of a heart, which are called valentines. Such postcards before the holiday are sold at any store in an unlimited quantity, but they look trite and not at all original, quite another thing is Valentine, made with your own hands, such a gift will be much more pleasant. And our article will help you and tell you how to make Valentine with your own hands.
"Ladybug"
For Valentine's Day, you can please not only your favorite afternoon, but also close relatives: Mom, grandmother, suitable a cute gift for children. We bring to your attention a lesson to create a postcard "Ladybug", which can be presented to both a child and for your beloved girl.
To work you will need:
- Colored paper of black and red colors;
- Glue;
- Thick black thread.
First do you draw a template or print the stencil below and cut it out.
The template must be translated into colored paper. Slit two details (heart, which acts as a wing, and abdomen).
Now you need to sew a mustache, in the role of which we have a black thread.
Now our ladybug need to decorate the wings with black spots, it is possible to do this with a black marker or cut black paper mugs and glue.
On the tummy of our "insect" you can write good words of congratulations or recognition in love.
As you can see the principle of work very simple, such a small cradle can be done with children at school for a gift to your favorite mothers, for Pope or teachers.
Soft heart
Valentine can be made not only of paper or cardboard, but also sewn from the fabric. In this master class, we will try to make a very beautiful valentine-souvenir in the style of Tilda. Tilde is such small flavored toys that have already managed to conquer the hearts of millions, so we will try to make such a heart that will become an excellent gift to your beloved husband.
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Before you start, you will need to prepare:
- Hawk;
- Syntputs or any other material for filler;
- Sewing supplies;
- Pencil;
- Preferably sewing machine, but you can and try to sew your hands;
- Coffee, cinnamon, vanillin;
- Glue;
- Napkin with any drawing for decoupage;
- Acrylic paints;
- Anything for decoration, they can be made of beads, from ribbons, butchers, ribbons, etc.
To begin, it is necessary to build a pattern, this can be done according to the template presented in the photo below:
You need to take the material and cut off a piece of the size you need. We fold the material twice. Now the pattern must be translated into the fabric.
We flash the designated contour. The place that the drawing was indicated by the dotted line, not need to sew. This hole will be required for packing toys.
Now the pattern needs to be cut, making an increase in about 4 millimeters.
All over the perimeter of the tissue you need to make notches about two millimeters. This is done so that in the future our product does not shrink.
After the previously left, the hole turns our workpiece and start to fill the toy you choose the filler. In order for the filler to fit evenly, it can be tamped with a stick from an orange tree or a simple pencil. The heart should turn out dense, not soft and air.
After the heart is blocked to the end, you need to sew a hole of the secret seam, very neat.
Now you need to start painting our product. To do this, first need to prepare the mixture. Fall in the bowl of two tea spoons of soluble coffee, then two cocoa teaspoons, half a teaspoon of cinnamon and half a teaspoon of vanillina. Already felt, how will it be tasty, right? We pour this beauty with boiling water and mix well. In another bowl, we mix two tablespoons of cold water and two tablespoons of PVA glue. Liquids from both bowls mix. The solution is ready.
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We prepare the oven, turn it on to warm it up at 120-130 degrees. While the oven is warmed up, we will have time to paint our heart. The product is painted with a brush, removing the surplus so that there are no inclination and divorces.
Dry the product is best in suspended. But if it is impossible, put the paper for baking on the tray and put the product on the barrel. When drying the oven, it is advisable to keep a suited, after five minutes I check whether our heart dry, otherwise we send our toy took for some more.
Here is such a beautiful valentine-souvenir we turned out after drying:
Now let's start working on decoupage. Cut the drawing from the napkin you selected. If your napkins are multi-layered, you need to split the napkin to one layer.
By means of varnish for decoupage, glue the drawing to the product. On top of the figure you need to put the lacquer and do it should be very neat. Now the drawing needs to be given to dry, you can put the heart in the oven.
We continue to decorate the toy.
Your unusual Valentine is ready, you can attach to her loops and hang in the room or in the kitchen.
You can make another very original version of Valentine, who will appreciate your daughter or your beloved girl, this is Teddy's bear, because Valentine is an optional piece of cardboard in the shape of a heart. How to make such an unusual gift is quite detailed in this video lesson.
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Of course, this is not all Valentine's ideas on Valentine's Day, we suggest you see this selection of master classes, and you can learn other techniques, such as scrapbooking, crochet and so on.