How to make a heart of paper?

"Heart" crafts will be relevant not only to the Day of all lovers, but also simply as a sign of attention. Sometimes they decorate a room for a romantic dinner. There is simply an uncountable number of ways to make a paper heart - from corrugated paper and in modular origami technique, quilling or appliqué. We offer a few simple and yet spectacular ways.

How to make a bulk heart made of paper?

As a basis, we will take any part of the workpiece. There are ready-made foam plastic volumetric forms, you can make a similar yourself. In our version it is generally a bundle of straw, which was wrapped in polyethylene and shaped into the heart.

We will make a heart of paper flowers. They are made from paper for floristry, corrugated paper or similar light material.

1. Fold the paper in several layers for convenience. Next, draw a circle and cut out several pieces at once.
2. To make a flower, you just need to take the middle and put the edges together.
3. With this center we glue the flower in the base with glue. The denser the flowers are located, the more magnificent the hand-crafted piece will be.

Pendant heart with your hands - master class

There is nothing easier than to make a pendant heart. Of these blanks make garlands, an alternative to curtains or simply a panel on the wall.

Let's start:

1. From multi-colored cardboard we cut out strips of the same width. Excellent paper for scrapbooking. The width of the strip will determine the thickness of the craft.
2. The next step: we cut in pairs from different pieces of cardboard blanks of different lengths.
3. Fold them in such a way that the two longest ones are inside. Fix the edge of the stapler.
4. And now you need to join the free edges so that they form an arc like this.
5. Again, everything is fixed with a stapler and the heart is ready!

How to make an original heart of paper?

If there is no desire to work with glue, you can always use colored paper and more sophisticated technique:

1. We take two pieces of paper and add them in half.
2. The edges are rounded off by any convenient object.
3. And now the most interesting. Each notch is cut in such a way that three identical strips are obtained. Each number.
4. Well, let's look at the very essence of the method, how to make a paper heart from the halves. We start with the fact that the strip 1 is passed to the strip 4.
5. Further, the strip 5 is passed to the first, gradually advances and the strip 1 is passed through the sixth.
6. Strip 4 slips into strip 2.
7. In this case, the second strip gradually passes into the strip 5.
8. Next, the strip 6 enters the strip 2.
9. Now the last stage. A little press down the strip and bend. It is necessary that the band 3 bends and enters the strip 4.
10. Next, the third band goes around the strip 5 and its end is hidden in the sixth.
11. You got a paper heart of an envelope made by yourself. There put a note or something sweet.

Openwork heart with your own hands - master class

This sketch must be transferred to something soft, so you can stick pins there. It can be a piece of foam or something similar.

The dots indicate the places where the pins are to be fixed.

And now we will consider some unusual technique of creating a heart in a master class with elements of quilling. Begin to gradually bend the pins, as shown in the picture.

1. At each turn, a strip of paper is fixed with glue. Have made a petal, put glue on the central pin.
2. Then from the strip of paper spread and fix the glue of the central heart.
3. We glue the outer ends of the threads with glue.
4. Let's wrap our piece of paper with a piece of paper.
5. Now you need to make a few S-shaped blanks separately. Excellent for such purposes, a pencil or pen will do.
6. We establish these curls in their place according to the scheme.

Well and further this heart from a paper can be made both a pendant, and simply a suspension bracket as a decor.