Paper hearts do it yourself

Gifts and decor, made with your own hands, is always interesting and unusual. Hand Made thematic products will make any holiday even warmer and mental. Mastering the manufacture of interesting figures from paper for even the child. One of the popular motives for creativity is the topic of love and scarlet heart, symbolizing this feeling.

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Paper Hand Made Hearts - Pattern Preparation

Regardless of how difficult and intricate will your composition, the initial preparation step starts from the manufacture of a template.

• Sample. You can use ready-made heart templates (download and print your favorite motive) or prepare your own sketch.
• Next, use the stationery knife or scissors with acute ends and cut the heart-blank.

Depending on the planned composition, you can prepare patterns of different sizes.

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Paper Hearts Hand Made - Valentines Preparation

Original and at the same time simple in the version of Valentine is a great way to please a loved one.

• Classic Valentine. Taking advantage of the template, cut out of colorful and tight paper heart. The front side decorate sequins, sequins, beads, or even buttons, and on the back, write a few warm words to the addressee.

• Multilayer heart. From cardboard prepare a big heart - the basis. Separately cut the multitude of smaller hearts. Stick colorful hearts on the cardboard base in several layers.

• Wicker Valentine's. For work, prepare 2 patterns of contrasting colors (prepared from the A4 sheets of the format). Each of the rectangles bend in half. Cut sharp corners along the free edge. From the folding line at an angle of 90 ° you make several slots (on both sheets). Connect 2 fragments, alternately trading (binding) paper strips.

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Paper Hearts Hand Made - Volume Figures

Volumetric Heart - Basic Technique

Prepare:

• Colored paper or bright cardboard.
• Scissors.
• Glue stick

This technique is so simple that everyone can master it. Moreover, the resulting figurine can act as an independent product and serve as the basis of a harvesting of a more complex composition.

• Take the prepared heart pattern and transfer its outline to a colored paper cloth.

• Taking advantage of scissors, cut the heart.
• In the upper part of it, make an incision of medium size.
• Learn a little inside the edges passing next to the linte of the cut.
• Load them with glue and connect with each other.

Volumetric Heart in Origami

Origami fans can also use work techniques and to create colorful and spectacular hearts. For work, prepare a sheet of colored double-sided paper.

• Fold the sheet in half, and after - exaggent it. Repeat similar actions in another (perpendicular) direction, but no longer unfold the sheet.
• Bend the corners of the rectangle, not reaching the line of the middle (it is outlawed).
• The resulting corners are rejected in the opposite direction so that the edges perform a little over the side lines. Then return their original position.
• Lower side angles Direct the center of the center (according to the marketer scheduled at the previous stage).
• Get out the corners and inflate the heart through the hole at the base.

Hearts-boxes

For the preparation of romantic boutonnieres you will need:

• Color cardboard (or any other colorful, but tight paper)
• Scissors
• Glue

One of the most important points during the manufacture of a heart-box is the preparation of the correct template.

• Print or draw a template. Cut the blank.

• Attach a template to color cardboard and duplicate all the billets. Cut from the future heart.
• According to the outlined lines, make bends.
• Apply glue to the protrusions (at the edges) and glue the heart.

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Paper Hearts Hand Made - Heart Postcard

3D postcards - original alternative to familiar flat pictures. To prepare postcard-hearts will be required:

• Color or textured cardboard sheet.
• Colored paper.
• Scissors.

Cardboard will perform a photo of the postcard, so consider this factor when selecting colors.

1. Taking advantage of the template, prepare 2 hearts.
2. In each of them, take the contours of several more hearts (by decreasing).
3. Using scissors, ride the spiral of the outer contour of each of the hearts.
4. Carton cut out the blank postcard.
5. On each of its sides, stitches the heart (only the first outline). The smallest (counter) hearts glue together.