On Valentine's Day valentines are obligatory gifts! On the eve of this holiday, a huge variety of souvenirs appear on the stores dedicated to this day. The most common are all kinds of postcards, most often they are made in the form of the heart, as a symbol of love. But despite the variety of ready-made valentines, more and more people are trying to present their beloved handmade valentines.
Let's look at several options, how you can make a valentine yourself. There are a lot of ideas for creating homemade valentines, starting from the simplest ones (postcards), ending with rather complex and unusual ones, for example, hearts, woven from beads or forged from metal. Well, let's get to work?
Soap Valentine
Undoubtedly, your lover will like a soap made in the form of a heart. To make such a valentine you will need a base soap (you can take an ordinary baby), a few drops of essential oil, but they can be replaced with your favorite perfume.
So, put heat-resistant dishes in small pieces of 100-150 grams of soap (preferably, that it was odorless). Pour water and put on the steam bath until completely dissolved, stirring occasionally. Then in the melted mass, add half a teaspoon of base oil and dye, mix thoroughly. Remove from heat and drip a few drops of perfume or essential oil into the resulting mixture. Mix again and pour into a suitable shape. The soap will cool down in about two to three hours.
Everything, your original and fragrant valentine is ready! Beautifully pack the soap and give it to your beloved. Do not doubt, this souvenir will pleasantly surprise and please your loved one! And, perhaps, he will invite you to take a shower with him.
Unusual handmade valentines
If your beloved football fan, the best gift for him is a homemade soccer ball, with an embroidered heart or other drawing.
First you need to draw a pentagon on the cardboard, the size of the side is three centimeters. Then transfer it to the fabric and take out twelve parts, do not forget to leave a centimeter on each side to the seam. After that, consistently sew all the details, when the last will remain, turn out and stuff the ball with a sintepon, and then gently sew it with a secret seam. If you decorate one or more details with an embroidered heart, such a souvenir will lead your loved one into rapture.
An excellent version of the original valentines - a postcard in the style of scrapbooking. To do this, you need to stock up on several kinds of beautiful paper and, of course, to summon your imagination to help! Postcards valentines in the style of scrapbooking - a great gift on Valentine's Day.
Valentine's Amulet
You can also attract your children to make valentine, because they also want to participate in this holiday of love. They need to show how to make a valentine, help write wishes or perform other complex actions. An example of simple handmade valentines, which children can do themselves - valentine-amulet. To do this, you need to take a multicolored paper, cut out of it about twenty small hearts, stick them together like a book and write warm words on pages. To the top of the book you can attach a beautiful ribbon and make a loop, you will get a beautiful and unusual valentine.
If you decide to give Valentine's Valentine's Day to your loved ones, remember that you do not need to make them using sophisticated technology that requires the use of expensive and rare materials, the main thing is the love you are investing!