Folding valentines

Winter brought us not only amazing and magical New Year holidays, but also gave us such a romantic and tender holiday as Valentine's Day. We started celebrating this holiday more than 25 years ago, and now we look forward to it every winter to please our soulmate with a small gift. On this holiday it is not necessary to give each other something expensive and exquisite. It is enough to exchange small cards called “Valentines” on February 14, in which we leave various romantic and love wishes. Of course, you can buy some valentines in stores, but they will be considered especially valuable if they are made with soul and with your own hands. Such valentines can be made using modern technology. scrapbooking. Right now we will look at a master class on making folding beautiful Valentine cards.

For the master class we take:

Watercolor paper, two sheets 17*24 cm;
Scrappaper from romantic collections, we take bright yellow-red tones of paper with elves;
Love-themed scrapbook paper scrapbooks;
Pictures with bears and angels;
Cutting: red and pink hearts, flowers, glasses and champagne;
“With Love” stamp and ink;
Border hole punch and 3D butterfly;
Satin ribbons: salmon-colored, pink and white with hearts;
Rhinestone hearts;
Half beads are mother-of-pearl;
Glue stick, double-sided tape, heat gun;
Scissors, pencil and ruler.

So, as we decided earlier, we will be making fold-out valentines, so what we will start with is using watercolor paper to make the bases for the cards. We leave the height at 17 cm, and divide the width into parts: 6 cm, 6 cm and 11 cm.

We draw bend lines and fold them this way.

We make two blanks. Now we need to cut two pieces of heart-shaped ribbon, four in total, to tie the cards with a bow.

Use double-sided tape to glue the pieces to the back on both sides and tie bows at the front. Now let's move on to scrap paper.

For each card, cut out two rectangles 10.5 cm * 16.5 cm and 4 rectangles 5.5 cm * 16.5 cm.

We cut out pictures with elves and insert hearts between the pictures. We glue a flower, glasses and a picture onto one strip, and onto a large rectangle we glue a flower with a picture and a rectangle of watercolor paper for wishes. We also use a border hole punch to make openwork edges and glue them onto the prepared rectangles.

We glue everything onto the second card in the same way.

We sew on all the elements, and now we glue all these parts to the bases, except for the hearts with elves.

Sew it on, and now glue the hearts with elves to the front parts. All that remains is to punch the butterflies, make bows and decorate our valentines a little.