How To: Make a Heart-Shaped Origami Valentine Complete with Cupid's Protruding Arrow
Drugstore valentines? Pssh, why would you want to get the same cards every other kid is passing around on Valentine's Day when you can make your own?
Drugstore valentines? Pssh, why would you want to get the same cards every other kid is passing around on Valentine's Day when you can make your own?
This adorable "smile frog" greeting card is a wonderful craft because it can be given out to loved ones year round. The cardstock frog has googly eyes and a teeny pink heart inside his stomach.
In this video, we learn how to make a "puppy love" box for Valentine's Day. To key to creating this box is a thin strip of paper that has teeth (pointy spikes) at the end of this. Turn this into a heart shape, then tape it around the heart to make a perfect box. It will be easier to find your center and cold it in half, then place it on the box. Glue the heart onto a black card stock to situate it, then tie a cute ribbon along the edge of the heart. This is very cute and a great idea for Vale...
There's nothing like a greeting card to turn a frown upside down. In this day and age of emails and text messages, making your own greeting cards for someone can mean so much. From Valentine's Day to Christmas, greeting cards are a way to thank, welcome, congratulate, and even apologize to family or friends. So in this video tutorial, find out how to make greeting cards using a photo and the program Photoshop. Enjoy!
Here's an easy way to decorate your Valentine's Day handmade cards, gift wrap, envelopes, or gifts. Prima roses are teeny paper roses you can certainly purchase at a store, but they're a lot cheaper to make at home.
Most origami shapes are three dimensional. But what if you want to fold a shape to glue onto a Christmas or Valentine's Day card?
Now that Valentine's Day is only a month away, it's time to start thinking about how you're going to be surprising your sweetheart. While a bouquet of red roses and a box o' chocolates is always a good call, you can make your gift much more personal by adorning a package or a card with one of these origami roses.
In this guide, you'll learn how to make an origami double-heart specially for Valentine's Day. Design is by Francis Ow, made by Teofila Vasileva. What You Need:
Valentine's Day is near, and Judy Topaz has the perfect project for you… a knitted heart. If you want to add a little bit of sweetness to your scarf, sweater or other knitting project, then this knitted heart will surely do the trick. Just make sure to choose a good yarn for good color contrast. Watch all four parts of this comprehensive Valentine's Day knitted heart!
Despite appearances, these Valentine's Day cupcake soaps take almost no time to make and are easy to assemble. Craft an entire batch for friends as a Valentine's Day present or gift them to a conversation heart-addicted niece.
Valentine's Day is traditionally thought of to be a lover's holiday. You know, the whole Casanova-esque wooing with red roses and chocolates exchanged, romantic dinner dates by candlelight in hopes of Cupid working his magic later on. But Valentine's Day can be just as fun for kids.
At its core, Valentine's Day is about giving and getting sweet treats. While one could argue that the same idea applies for both Halloween and Christmas, on Valentine's Day these sweets are packaged in the most adoring, lovey dovey ribbons and wrappings.
While fanciful store bought gifts like boxes of chocolate, roses, and spa certificates are great presents on Valentine's Day, when it comes to dinner and dessert homemade is usually best - and most appreciated.
This short animated tutorial will show you how to assemble an origami heart that even the clumsiest butterfingers among us can perfect. Since Valentine's Day is coming up, you best hone your skills at this heart so you can give a few to your amor.
Homopolar motors tend to be typecast as simplistic in nature, and that's true for the most part. The bare minimum requirements are a battery, conductor, and magnetic field, but when it comes to Valentine's Day, they're nothing short of complex.
Broken crayons kind of suck. They make it hard for you to stuff all your crayons back into your crayon box uniformly, plus then you have to ditch the wrapper and it all looks like a mess.
In this tutorial, we learn how to make homemade valentine's hot chocolate stones. First, take 8 oz of a good dark chocolate and chop it up. Place this in a bowl, then add in 1/8 tsp of chipotle peppers. Also add in a pinch of salt, then add in 1/2 c of heavy cream to a skillet and bring to a boil. After it boils, pour it over the chocolate and let it sit for around 3 minutes. Then, give it a stir until it's completely smooth and beautiful. Pour this onto plastic wrap, then roll into a log sha...
This beauty video demonstrates how to create sexy Valentine's Day makeup.
Create a MAC "Hello Kitty" romantic Valentine's Day makeup look with the makeup tutorial from Lauren Luke, aka Panacae81.
Learn how to make a pretty red Valentine angel heart pendant and earrings using a push mold and polymer clay.
Whisper sweet nothings to your amor by crafting this simple and quick origami message card, which features a heart seal. It's a delightful way to package a loving, amorous sentiment and can also hold tiny trinkets of your affection.
Even if you and your office cohorts don't exchange cutesy valentines on Valentine's Day, you can still indulge in the vibrant, lovey dovey holiday by crafting one of these three paper favors for your kid's class.
No better way to celebrate your love than with a face full of festive makeup. This Valentine's Vixen makeup look is great for going out on that special night, but can even be duplicated as pageant, recital, or any festive makeup. The cosmetic products used to create this look are from MAC, Barry M, Rimmel, and N.Y.C. Watch this video makeup application tutorial and learn how to do a flowers and hearts Valentine's decorative makeup look.
On Valentine's Day it is completely unacceptable to look anything less than drop dead gorgeous. While sleek pin-straight hair is great as a go-to hairstyle and a ponytail is wonderful for keeping the hair out of your face during your hot yoga class, we think it's time to amp it up a little for Cupid's holiday.
Valentine's Day is all about expressing romance, so why shouldn't your hair do the same? While straight locks are a great go-to look, there's nothing quite like voluminous, sexy waves for your guy to run his fingers through.
If you have a boyfriend or a girlfriend, then Valentine's Day is truly a beautiful, memorable occasion filled with lots of dining, wining, and hearts popping out of your heads like those cheesy cartoons.
At its core, Valentine's Day is about love, the act of loving, and harmony. So it only makes sense to give your amor a heart-shaped token of your affection this Valentine's Day.
If you're looking for a gooey, sticky, and tasty treat for you and your loved one this Valentine's Day, this video is sure to help you out. In this tutorial, you'll find out how to make delicious Valentine's Day rice crispy treats. It takes only a few ingredients and can be done in a short amount of time. So good luck and enjoy!
Whisper sweet nothings to your Valentine this Valentine's Day by making him or her this adorable origami heart. You can tuck a message like "Happy Valentine's Day" or "I Love You" inside for a personalized and sentimental touch.
Give someone you love a cake that will knock their socks off! In this three-part video tutorial, learn how to create an adorable little sheep cake topper out of fondant icing for a Valentine's Day themed cake. "I love ewe!" says this sheep! Make hearts melt and mouths water with help from this video tutorial.
Learn how to make an origami heart card. Perfect for valentines day.
Don't get us wrong - we love Valentine's Day. After all, it's the one day of the year you can lay everything down on the line and tell someone "I love you" earnestly. But if you happen to be single on Valentine's Day, the occasion can seem more S.A.D. (Single's Awareness Day) than all hearts and roses.
We believe that cupcakes are as cute and pretty as they come, but when they're given out as party favors (pending they don't get entirely eaten beforehand) they have to be packaged and carried home.
Valentine's Day is a day for love, but it also just happens to be the time when every flower shop in town hikes up their prices. Chocolates are still relatively cheap, but I never understood why you have to give the gift of bigger love handles when something more creative gets the job done at a much cheaper price.
Trust us when we say that no woman out there can resist the temptations of a chocolate dessert. Whether it's white chocolate drizzled on top of strawberries or chocolate lava cake, there's something about chocolate that draws us in time after time.
Play the new co-operative game Pandemic with tips from this how-to video (no, the game Pandemic has nothing to do with Valentines Day, but don't hearts and flowers always remind you of communicable diseases?).
Valentine's Day is almost here, and if you're like me, you're scurrying to do something special for your mate. The standard chocolates and flowers just isn't cutting it anymore, and you can only make so many homemade cards before it becomes banal and meaningless. So, what can you do that shows you put some work into it, while not breaking the bank?
Valentine's Day is exactly two weeks away, which means it's prime time to start thinking about what sweets you'll be baking for your sweetheart and how you'll be presenting them.
Valentine's Day is going to be here in less than a month, so make sure you keep all of your photo memories safe by placing them inside this miniature floral "I Love You" Valentine's Day mini album.
Valentine's Day sweets can be made even sweeter when they're packaged in delightful way. Martha Stewart herself would approve of this red and pink gift box, which features Valentine's Day hearts on the front.