10 homemade Valentine's Day gifts

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

There are still a few days left until Valentine's Day, so you will have time not only to buy a gift for your soul mate, but also to make it yourself. Here are 10 homemade gift ideas. They can be left in their original form, or they can be slightly changed to make a unique souvenir.

When you think about homemade gifts, it's not about saving at all, because in order to do something with your own hands, you have to buy different components. So, such a gift can take the same amount of money as a regular, purchased one, and certainly more of your time. Why then work?

Firstly, only a homemade gift will have individual features, contain a message for only one person, and this is very nice.

Secondly, as is often said, the main thing is not a gift, but attention. Now compare the amount of attention when a person just went to the store and chose an item and when he bought all the components, thought over the concept and did something with his own hands.

Here are 10 step by step sliders. Use ideas and your own imagination.

1. Money rose

If you decide to donate money, you can donate it for a reason, but in the form of a beautiful rose. Double joy is guaranteed - you give both money and attention.

For a rose, you will need 5-7 banknotes of any denomination, wire, green ribbon, artificial leaves, glue. Leaflets and ribbon can be purchased from the florist department.

Fold the banknote in half, fold the edges in different directions. We will make a rosebud out of this banknote later.

We fold the rest of the banknotes, as shown in the figure, bending the edges to one side. We will make petals of them later.

We put the banknote on the wire, twist the end of the wire so that the banknote does not fall.

When you twist the bud, insert your finger inside the banknote and form petals around it, then it will turn out to be voluminous.

Similarly, put petal banknotes on the wire and twist it. Make them different in shape, then the rose will look natural.

Fold the petals around the bud and tape the wire around the wire to hold all the rods together.

Glue artificial leaves to the tape so that the rose looks like a real one.

2. Named mug

Here, letters are drawn on the circle, but using the same technology, you can draw anything: write a name, make a heart or translate a funny picture.

For a homemade mug with a picture, you will need:

white porcelain mug, scissors, porcelain marker, carbon paper, pencil or pen, tape, printed or drawn on paper picture that you will transfer to the mug.

Cut out the picture that you want to see on the mug out of paper, and a piece of carbon paper of the same size. Put the carbon copy on the mug with the dark side, on top - a picture, and secure with tape.

Trace around the picture with a pencil or pen so that the image will be imprinted on the mug.

With the help of a carbon copy, the outline of the picture will be imprinted on the circle. Then you trace the picture with a porcelain marker. If you are making a name circle, you can fill in the outline of the letters with oblique strokes. It looks cool.

After your image is ready, let the marker dry for 24 hours, and then bake in the oven at 160 ° C for 1.5 hours. After that, the mug can be washed even in the dishwasher, and the inscription will not be erased.

3. Notepad

This gift is quite simple to make, and you can arrange it as you like. Instead of a pink owl, the cover can be your joint photo, hearts, wishes or something like that.

You will need: a stack of printer paper (you can use paper of different colors for a more original notebook or print a pale copy of your favorite photo on each sheet), scissors, a stapler, glue, designer paper for the cover, a cardboard box.

Fold a stack of paper in half.

Place the future notebooks on the box and circle them with a marker. Note that the cover should be a couple of centimeters wider than the sheets, so leave a few centimeters at each edge.

Wrap the cut cardboard cover in designer paper (you can use pretty paper for gifts), glue the paper to the cardboard.

Staple the notebook sheets to the cover in several places.

4. Love message from the keyboard

An original declaration of love from a computer keyboard. You will need: a frame with glass, an old keyboard, light or dark paint, a stencil and a marker or black nail polish.

Take out the required number of keys, paint them with white paint or varnish and let dry. Make a stencil with the necessary letters (you can download the necessary font on the Internet and print it, then cut out the middle with a blade and use it as a stencil). Apply a stencil to the dried keys and write the necessary letters with a marker or black paint or nail polish.

Glue the finished keys inside the frame behind the glass. The frame can be purchased from the art department or from a photo salon.

5. Wire ring

Such a ring can be presented as an addition to the main gift or as a small pleasant surprise.

You will need: wire cutters, pliers, a roll of red wire, a round object the size of a finger.

To begin with, using a round object, we make a part that will wrap around the finger.

Now, using pliers, bend the wire as shown in the pictures.

We hook one edge of the heart and remove the excess wire with pliers.

We hook the rest of the heart.

6. Wallet for charging the phone

For this wallet, you will need thick felt, scissors or a sharp stationery knife, fabric with hearts or other patterns.

First you need to measure the size of the phone and its charger. The phone should fit freely into the wallet, and the square window at the top should go through the charger.

A very functional gift: now the phone while charging will not be accidentally pushed to the floor, and if the charger's cord is short, the phone will not hang on it a centimeter from the floor.

7. Pieces of love

This is a cool homemade puzzle bag from your photo together. Very cute and original.

You will need: ink or black paste from a pen, a stencil (you can make it yourself), a brush or cotton swab, a white rag bag (you can also sew it yourself, adding a drawstring to the top).

We put a stencil on the bag, fix it with tape and carefully apply letters.

For the puzzle, you will need your favorite photograph, some ice cream sticks, glue, and a sharp utility knife.

We smear the back of the photo with glue and evenly lay out the ice cream sticks, closely to each other.

When all the sticks are laid out, write some kind words of congratulations behind.

When the glue is dry, turn it over and carefully cut the puzzle with a clerical knife.

It remains only to put the finished puzzle in a bag and give the pieces of love to your other half.

8. Lamp recognition

An interesting souvenir with meaning. On the pedestal of the lamp is written: "The light of my life."

Carefully take out all the "insides" from the light bulb.

Twist the hearts from the red wire using pliers. By the way, if the wire remains, you can make a heart ring.

9. Book of your love

A small book of your favorite joint photos with descriptions and confessions.

Select and print your favorite photos in one format on photo paper so that there is free space on the left for inscriptions.

On each photo, you can write wishes, a declaration of love or some moments from the history of your relationship, maybe general jokes or something else.

10. Beer for a beloved man

This gift is for the most creative girls whose guys are crazy about beer.

You will need bottles of his favorite beer, preferably with different varieties. Determine the quantity yourself.

The labels are removed from the bottles, and for decoration you will need: thick paper, paints, markers, heart stickers, glue, scissors and a sea of imagination.

Lettering ideas: riddles that hint at the type of beer, but at the same time include something like "for the beloved man"; your common beer gags;

inscriptions with the meaning "Especially for you", with his name, affectionate nicknames, etc.