14 gifts for February 14 that are easy to make with your own hands

2024 Author: Malcolm Clapton | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 03:44

Romantic little things and useful gifts for your loved ones.

1. Table souvenir

What do you need

• White paper;
• pencil or pen;
• scissors;
• corrugated board;
• glue;
• red glossy paper;
• white cardboard;
• White paint;
• brush;
• white yarn;
• 3 white beads;
• Super glue;
• thick wire;
• nippers;
• a small white lid from a jar.

How to do

Fold a small piece of paper in half. Draw a half heart on it so that its middle is at the fold of the sheet. Cut out the shape along the outline.

Using the prepared template, make two corrugated hearts. Glue them together. Trace the blank on red paper, cut and glue on both sides.

Along the edge of the heart, glue a white strip of cardboard slightly wider than the blank. And on top - another 3-4 such stripes. Paint over the joints between them with white paint.

Thread a small piece of yarn with a white bead. Place it in the middle and tie it in a knot. Glue the bead to the top of the piece of paper.

Bend the wire into a circle, then cut off the edges a little. Glue a bead to each edge, and the wire itself to the lid. Paint the wire white. When it's dry, tie a heart on top and cut off any excess yarn.

2. Valentines card with roses

What do you need

• pink double-sided cardboard or thick paper;
• pencil;
• scissors;
• red double-sided paper;
• glue gun.

How to do

Fold cardboard or heavy paper in half across. Draw a heart so that its top is on the fold of the cardboard. For convenience, you can make a separate heart template. Cut along the lines you have drawn.

Make many small circles of different diameters out of red paper. Cut them in a spiral and twist them tight, starting at the outer end. Then slightly release the resulting roses so that they bloom a little. Glue the end of the strip to the bottom.

Fasten the roses to the prepared workpiece. The postcard can be signed by hand or a printed inscription can be glued to it.

3. Brownie with chocolate icing

What do you need

• 120 ml of vegetable oil + a little for lubrication;
• 200 g sugar;
• 1½ teaspoon vanilla extract or a pinch of vanillin
• 3 eggs;
• 60 g flour;
• 40 g cocoa;
• ½ teaspoon baking powder;
• ¼ teaspoon of salt;
• 1-2 bars of white chocolate;
• red dye.

How to do

Whisk the butter, sugar and vanilla extract or vanillin. Add eggs and beat again until smooth. Add flour, cocoa, baking powder, salt and mix well.

Grease a baking dish, pour the dough into it and flatten. Bake for 20-30 minutes at 180 ° C. Remove the brownie from the mold and cut out the hearts using a mold or a knife.

Melt the chocolate in the microwave or steam bath. Add enough color to make the chocolate bright red in half of the chocolate mass and stir.

You can decorate a brownie in different ways. Dip the top of the hearts in white or red chocolate. Or use a cooking brush to strip the brownies into colored stripes. The glaze should dry completely.

4. Volume postcard

What do you need

• ;
• white thin paper;
• white thick paper;
• paper clips;
• ruler;
• stationery knife;
• red thick paper;
• glue.

How to do

Print the template on thin paper. Attach it to the denser white one with clamps. Make cuts along the solid lines. Do not cut the dotted lines completely. For convenience, use the ruler as shown in the video.

Remove clamps and template. Remove the cut out hearts. Fold the paper along the dotted lines.

Cut the red leaf lightly down the middle and fold it in half. Attach a blank with an inscription to it. Cut the edges of the blank so that it is slightly smaller than the red sheet. Glue the two sheets to each other.

Here is another beautiful postcard with a three-dimensional inscription:

And here it is shown how to make a postcard with voluminous corrugated hearts:

5. A souvenir with meaning

What do you need

• bulb;
• pliers;
• red or plain wire;
• nippers;
• red paint (you can take an aerosol paint) - optional;
• brush - optional;
• wooden cube or rectangle;
• drill or nail and hammer;
• glue gun;
• paper;
• pen or felt-tip pen - optional.

How to do

Carefully remove the contents of the bulb. Twist one or two hearts on the "legs" from the wire, cutting off the excess. If the wire is regular, paint the hearts and dry them.

Using a drill or lightly hammering in a nail, make holes in the wood for each heart. The workpiece can also be pre-painted.

Insert wire figures into the holes and secure with glue. Place the light bulb over the hearts by gluing it to the tree.

Write by hand or print on paper the words “Light of my life”, “You light up my life”, “You light me up” or something similar. Glue it to a piece of wood.

6. Romantic candlestick

What do you need

• scissors;
• self-adhesive paper or tape;
• small glass jar;
• red paint;
• sponge;
• brush;
• White paint;
• twine;
• glue gun;
• small decoration.

How to do

Cut one large and two small hearts out of self-adhesive paper or tape. Glue them to the jar and cover it with paint with a sponge.

When the paint is dry, remove the hearts from it. With a brush, draw white dots along their contours. Tie the string around the neck of the can several times. Make a bow out of string and glue it over the hearts. Attach some kind of decoration to the bow.

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7. Decorative pendant

What do you need

• 3 plastic bottles;
• stationery knife;
• scissors;
• red permanent marker;
• red thin ribbons of different shades;
• stapler;
• hoop, wooden or cardboard ring;
• threads - optional;
• glue gun.

How to do

Cut 4 identical rings from each bottle. On each of them, draw small hearts with a marker. Bend the rings in half and form hearts out of them.

Use a stapler to attach the ribbon to the top of the plastic parts as shown in the video. Each new heart's ribbon should be slightly longer than the previous one.

Glue the tape to the ring and wrap it completely. Place ribbons with hearts in a circle, starting with the shortest one.

Glue four more ribbons to the ring at an equal distance from each other and tie them together in the middle.

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8. Romantic gift "50 reasons why I love you"

What do you need

• colored paper;
• handle - optional;
• scissors;
• pencil;
• ruler;
• colored narrow tape;
• glass jar;
• glue.

How to do

Print on colored paper why you love someone. You can write them by hand. Cut the paper into small, even strips. Each of them should have one reason.

Twist the strips and tie them into small ribbons. Put them in a jar and close it. Wrap the lid of the jar with tape and tie with a bow. Glue a piece of paper with the words “50 Reasons Why I Love You” on it. The inscription can be printed or written by hand.

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9. Postcard-clamshell

What do you need

• scissors;
• pink thick paper;
• pencil;
• lilac paper;
• ruler;
• glue;
• patterned paper;
• glue gun;
• colored narrow tape.

How to do

Cut a square out of paper. Fold it in half, unfold it, flip it over, and fold it in half again. The square will be divided into four equal parts.

Then bend the workpiece diagonally and bend it outward along the marked line. Form a small square from the part. The process is shown in detail in the video.

Unfold the piece again and bend it diagonally to the other side. At one corner of the triangle, draw a piece of the heart and cut along the line. Circle the heart on the other two squares of the postcard and cut out too.

Fold the postcard. Cut a slightly smaller square out of lilac paper than the postcard. Stick it on the inside of the postcard. Cut and glue the purple hearts in the same way.

Cut a heart out of patterned paper. Glue it to the front of the card, and a smaller heart on it. Glue three small hearts on the bottom square.

Use a glue gun to attach the ribbon to the back of the card and tie it in front with a bow.

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10. Romantic topiary

What do you need

• scissors;
• red corrugated paper;
• heart-shaped flat foam blank;
• glue gun;
• white openwork mesh;
• red narrow ribbon;
• white narrow tape;
• 18 small white artificial flowers;
• thick wire;
• gold narrow ribbon;
• awl;
• small red basket;
• salt and silicate glue or sand.

How to do

Cut a long strip of crepe paper to fit the width of the workpiece and two hearts to fit. Glue the hearts on both sides, and the strip along the edge.

Glue the openwork mesh to the heart on both sides and cut off the excess. Make six bows out of a red and white ribbon and glue them to the workpiece on both sides. Attach three artificial flowers to them.

Wrap the wire with gold tape, securing it with glue. Make a hole at the bottom of the heart with an awl and insert the wire there. For reliability, you can glue it.

Fill the basket with salt and silicate glue or sand. Insert the blank into it. If you are using salt and glue as filler, wait for the mixture to dry.

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11. Three-tier box

What do you need

• White paper;
• pencil or pen;
• ruler;
• stationery knife;
• scissors;
• corrugated board;
• red glossy paper;
• glue;
• cardboard;
• glue gun;
• double sided tape;
• wrapping paper with two different patterns;
• white pastel paper or thick cardboard;
• the cloth;
• red narrow ribbon.

How to do

Fold the paper in half and draw a half heart on it so that the middle of the shape is at the fold of the sheet. The heart should be 13 cm high and 14 cm wide. Cut the shape along the outline. Trace the prepared template on corrugated board and red glossy paper and cut out. Glue the glossy paper to the corrugated board.

Cut a strip 41.5 cm long and 5 cm wide from ordinary cardboard. Hot glue it to the heart-shaped blank so that you get a kind of box. Cut the same strip out of red paper and glue the inside of the cardboard with it. Stick double-sided tape around the perimeter of the heart, and wrapping paper on top of it.

Make two more boxes in the same way. Circle one of them on corrugated cardboard, cut out the heart and glue it over with red paper. Cut it in half. Make three more of the same hearts and also cut them into two parts.

Cut a 21.5x21cm piece out of pastel paper or cardboard. Glue 4 halves of the heart to it with a glue gun. Make another similar piece with the remaining halves.

Attach two heart-shaped boxes to one of them at the top and bottom, and one in the middle to the other. The detailed process is shown in the video. Connect the two pieces together.

Stick a strip of double-sided tape to the fabric. Attach the latter to the fold of the box, which glue it on all sides with wrapping paper with a different pattern. Make cuts on the hearts from above and below with a clerical knife so that the box can open. Glue the tape in the middle and tie it in front with a bow.

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12. Large voluminous heart

What do you need

• heart-shaped balloon;
• threads;
• PVA glue;
• water;
• red yarn;
• needle.

How to do

Inflate the balloon and tie with a string. Thin the glue slightly with water and stir. Dip the yarn in the glue and wrap it around the ball.

Leave it to dry for a day. Then pierce the ball and gently pull it out through the holes.

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13. Decorative wall decoration

What do you need

• ;
• paper;
• bamboo sticks;
• pencil;
• secateurs;
• Scotch;
• glue gun;
• black paint (or paint of another shade of your choice);
• brush;
• double-sided foam tape.

How to do

Print the template. Attach a bamboo stick to one line, mark the desired length with a pencil and cut. Use duct tape to glue the stick to the template.

In the same way, measure and glue the sticks to the rest of the lines. Apply hot glue to where the ends of the sticks meet.

When the glue is dry, remove the adhesive tape. Paint the blank in the selected color. You can glue the decoration to the wall using double-sided foam tape.

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14. Keychain

What do you need

• scissors;
• pink or red felt;
• White paper;
• a pen;
• needles;
• white thick thread or yarn;
• filler (holofiber, synthetic winterizer, cotton wool);
• base for the keychain.

How to do

Cut a small rectangle out of felt and a heart out of paper. Fold the felt in half and circle a heart on it. To prevent the fabric from opening, fasten the halves with needles.

Cut out two hearts along the contour. Staple them together with additional needles for security if necessary. Sew them together as shown in the video.

Leave a small hole and fill the blank with filler. Sew the hole all the way through and make a small loop on top. Attach the keychain base to it.

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