The most romantic and warm holiday is approaching - Valentine's Day, when each of you will be able to give a piece of your love to another person. It is enough just to embody your feelings and emotions into an interesting product. Such a gift will surely please your loved one and will be appreciated. Below we will consider a few simple DIY ideas of pleasant surprises for February 14, which almost every person in love can make, armed with patience and the necessary materials.
Idea # 1: Heart Shaped Gingerbread Cookies
- First you need to make a cookie dough. To do this, take butter and warm it to a soft consistency. Then in a separate bowl, mash the sugar and egg, add a little baking soda, ginger and cinnamon to taste. If you have honey at home and your lover is delighted with sweets, then it can also be added to the mixture. Then take the flour and add it to the bowl. Stir well to firm the dough, then wrap it in plastic wrap or a bag. Place the cooked dough in the refrigerator for about an hour.
- Next, roll out the dough thinly, take the heart-shaped molds and form a cookie. If suddenly you did not have such molds at hand, then you can easily use ordinary cardboard. It is enough to cut the heart out of it, attach it to the dough, circle and cut it out. Cookies cut from the dough must be placed on a baking sheet, previously covered with baking paper, and placed in the oven for 5-10 minutes at a temperature of 170-190 degrees. To decorate cookies, you need to take powdered sugar and an egg, mix well with each other with a fork or mixer.
- When the cookies are cooked, you need to cool them slightly, and then you can apply any pattern to your taste. Fully tinted glaze gingerbread cookies look beautiful. If you want your culinary product to be colorful, just add some food coloring to the icing.
Idea # 2: Garland with cute photos
- To implement this idea, you will need strong thread or jute rope, small printed photographs, colored paper. Make a base first: take a sturdy rope and place it in a convenient place in your home, such as a wall. Then attach four more strands to it, which will hang down. Using hot glue, place photographs or appliqués using hearts on the end of these threads.
- The product is almost ready, all that remains is to cut out a few small hearts and place them over the entire size of the thread. It is best to use the warmest and most soulful photos for this DIY idea. In their absence, you can draw your true feelings on a sheet of paper yourself, or print out pleasant love messages.
Idea # 3: Jar "100 Reasons Why I Love You"
- Take a medium sized glass jar and start decorating it. To do this, you will need a beautiful ribbon and colored paper. Wrap the jar with red tape, fix it with hot glue, and stick a heart cut out of colored paper on top. Also attach the printed "100 Reasons Why I Love You" to it. The base is ready!
- Next, you should show your imagination and remember all the happiest moments spent next to your loved one. If you both have a good sense of humor, you can also remember ridiculous moments that bring a smile to your face. The main thing is not to write banal things. Express your unique love story in your recordings. It is then that the gift will turn out to be truly original and valuable.
Idea number 4: Eco-vase with fresh flowers
- Such a gift will appeal to beloved girls, mothers and sisters who prefer a natural eco-style when decorating a room. To make this product, you will need an old jar or vase, twigs, hot glue and threads.
- To get started, take a jar and start gradually attaching branches to it with hot glue. Do this carefully so that no traces of glue remain on the inside of the product. After you finish the decor of the vase, you should gird it with thread or ribbon. On the one hand, it will decorate the product, and on the other hand, it will add strength.
- Then buy fresh flowers from your favorite flower shop. It is best to use field plants as they will blend in better with the eco-vase. Next, place them beautifully in the finished product and put them in a suitable place in the house. If desired, you can put a greeting card next to the gift.
Idea # 5: Cozy hygge box
- Hygge-box is a gift box with different nice little things. For Valentine's Day, you can fill such a box with your own hands. It is enough to put in it your favorite photo with your loved one, decorated in a beautiful frame, a glass with a drawn heart, as well as various sweets.
- To get started, take a finished wooden frame, paint it to your liking, focusing on various patterns using red, and then insert a photo into it.
- After that, find a solid glass, take a matching red acrylic paint and paint a heart on it. If you are worried that it will turn out not quite smoothly, use a stencil.
- You can also buy delicious sweets and add them to your cozy box. Tie the box with tape.
