Paper is the most accessible material for creativity. At first glance, paper crafts are not so impressive, but don’t rush to conclusions until you read the latest article from Krestika dedicated to ♥ Valentine’s Day ♥ We tried to find common ways to make paper hearts with your own hands for February 14th!
Paper heart
Perhaps the simplest and most common option for making a beautiful heart with your own hands is to create it out of paper. From such a common material you can make original heart-shaped crafts, both simple flat and voluminous hearts.
Most often, Valentine’s cards, voluminous crafts using the origami technique, paper garlands from small hearts are created from paper on this theme...
A simple paper heart-shaped card
Necessary materials:
- white paper and red double-sided paper;
- pencil;
- scissors;
- PVA glue.
Draw a big heart on white paper and cut it out, and cut out 3-4 small hearts from red paper. Carefully bend the white heart in half, and also bend the small red hearts along the axis of symmetry.
Carefully glue the red hearts together to form a kind of “accordion” and glue it into the open large white heart. Thus, when the valentine is opened, one large white heart comes out and there are small red ones inside.
You can write a wish in the card, and stick a photo on the title page or draw something themed, you can also decorate it with sparkles and ribbons.
What a “heart” hole punch can do
The fastest way to make lots of hearts is to use a hole punch with a ♥ (these are most often sold at scrapbooking stores). With the help of such a hole punch, it’s easier than ever to stamp hearts of the same or different colors and, for example, assemble a garland from them...
...or a hanging mobile...
...or poster...
...you can decorate twigs with hearts:
The garland can be like this (waste-free way to use paper
