10 homemade gifts for Valentine's Day

When you think of homemade gifts, it is not in the economy, in fact, to do something with their own hands, have to buy the different components. So for such a gift may take the same amount of money as a regular, purchase, and certainly more of your time. Then why work?

Firstly, only homemade gift will have individual features, contain a message just for one person, but it's very nice.

Secondly, as it is often said, the main thing is not a gift, and attention. Now compare the amount of attention when people just went to the store and chose a thing and when he bought all the ingredients and thought through the concept of doing something with their hands.

Here are 10 sliders with a step by step guide. Use the ideas and his own imagination.

1. money rose

If you decide to give money, you can give them a reason, and a beautiful rose. Double joy assured - you give money and attention.

For roses you will need 5-7 banknotes with any nominal value, wire, green ribbon, artificial leaves, glue. Leaflets and tape can be purchased at the department for florists.

Fold the bill in half, bends the edges in opposite directions. From this we make notes later rosebud.

Fold the remaining notes as shown in the figure, bending the edge in one direction. Of them later made the petals.

We put the bill on the wire, spin the wire end to the bill fell.

When you twist the bud, insert a finger into the notes and form petals around it, then it will surround.

Similarly don-pitch notes on the wire and twists it. Make them different in shape, the rose will then look natural.

Fold the petals around the bud and wrap the wire with tape to all the rods kept together.

Glue the ribbon artificial leaves that rose was as real.

2. in the circle

Here at the mug painted letters, but on the same technology, you can draw anything you like: to write the name, make the heart or put a funny picture.

For homemade mug with a picture you will need:
white porcelain cup, scissors, marker for porcelain, carbon paper (carbon paper), pencil or pen, tape, printed or painted picture on paper, you will be translated into mug.

Cut out the paper the picture you want to see in the circle, and the same size piece of carbon paper. Blueprint circle superimposed on the dark side, the top - pictures, and secured with tape.

Encircles the contour of a pencil or pen pictures to an image printed on the mug.

Using carbon paper imprinted on circle contour images. Then you stroke a picture marker for porcelain. If you do just a mug, it is possible to fill the contour of letters slanting strokes. Looks cool.

After your image is ready, giving a marker to dry for 24 hours and then calcined in an oven at 160 ° C for 1.5 hours. After this cup can even be washed in the dishwasher, and the inscription will not be erased.

3. Notebook

This present fairly easy to do, and you can decorate it as you want. Instead of a pink owl on the cover may be your joint photo, hearts, wishes or something like that.

Need: the stack of paper for the printer (paper can be used in different colors for a more original or notebook printed on each sheet of pale copy your favorite photos), scissors, stapler, glue, design paper for the cover, cardboard box.

Flex a stack of paper in half.

Place the pad on the future leaves the box and drag the marker. Note that the cover should be a couple of centimeters longer than the leaves, so leave a few centimeters on each side.

Wrap the cardboard cut out of the cover in the design paper (you can use beautiful paper for gifts), glue paper to cardboard.

Pin notepad sheets stapled to the cover in a few places.

4. A love letter from the keyboard

The original declaration of love from a computer keyboard. You will need: frame with glass, old keyboards, light or dark color, pattern and marker or black nail polish.

You took out the right amount of buttons, paint them white paint or varnish and give dry. To make a stencil with the desired letter (you can download on the Internet right font and print, then cut out the middle of the blade and use as a stencil). On the dried keys impose a template and write the necessary letters marker or black paint or nail polish.

Paste the ready button inside the frame behind glass. The frame can be purchased at the art department or in a photo salon.

5. Wire ring

Such a ring may be present, as a supplement to the main gift or as a small pleasant surprise.

Need: wire cutters, pliers, a coil of wire red, round object the size of a finger.

To start with a round object is often done, that will encircle the finger.

Now with pliers bend the wire, as shown in Figs.

Engages one edge of the heart and remove excess wire cutters.

Engages the rest of the heart.

6. Purse for charging your phone

To do this, you need a tight purse felt, scissors or a sharp knife stationery, fabric hearts or other designs.

First you need to measure the size of the phone and its charger. The phone should be placed loosely in a purse, and a square window in the upper part - to pass through the charger. Very functional gift: now the phone on charge not accidentally shove to the floor, and if the power cord from the charger short, the phone will not hang on it an inch off the floor.

7. particles of love

This is a cool bag with homemade puzzles from your photos together. Very cute and original.

You will need: a black ink or paste of a pen, stencil (you can do it yourself), brush, or cotton swab, white cloth bag (it is also possible to make the most, adding top tightens lace).

Superimposed on the bag pattern, fix it with tape and carefully plot the letters.

To the puzzle you need is your favorite photo, a few sticks for ice cream, glue and a sharp knife stationery.

Smear the back side of the photo with glue and spread evenly sticks for ice cream, close to each other.

When all the sticks lined, write back some warm words of congratulations.

When the glue is dry, turn over and carefully cut puzzle office knife.

It remains only to fold the puzzle ready in a bag and give the particles of the love of his second half.

8. Lamp-recognition

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

Gently pulled out of the light bulb all the "internals".

Red wire with pliers to curl hearts. By the way, if the wire will, you can make the ring-heart.

9. Book your love

Small book from your favorite photo sharing with descriptions and declarations.

Select and print on photo paper, your favorite photos in a format that was left free space for the labels.

On each photo you can write wishes, a declaration of love or some moments from the history of your relationship, it may be common fun or something else.

10. Beer for the man she loved

This gift for the most creative girls, whose boys are crazy about beer.

You'll need a bottle of his favorite beer, preferably with different varieties. About the amount is determined by themselves.

With the bottles removed labels, and for the design need: construction paper, paint, markers, stickers, hearts, glue, scissors and sea fantasy.

Ideas for the inscriptions: riddles, hinting at the beer and at the same time, including something like "to the beloved"; your overall fun associated with beer;
inscriptions with the meaning "Especially for You" to its name, affectionate nicknames, etc.