What could be more appropriate for a women's holiday than a gift in the shape of a heart? Such a souvenir, especially handmade, will be pleasant to receive for both a friend, and a mother, and a daughter. Hearts-pouches with fragrant filling, curly chocolate delicacies, gingerbread hearts and tea bags, appliques - the flight of imagination is endless here. To get started, try making hearts for March 8 in two ways - the more difficult and one of the fastest and easiest.
Soap heart
Today soap making is in vogue, so finding the necessary ingredients for this method of making a souvenir heart is not difficult. Special kits are sold in shops in the creative departments. The first thing to do is grind the white soap base and melt it in a microwave oven in a suitable container at 180 ° C. Mix the hot mass with the red dye in a dosage that is selected depending on the desired shade depth.
Add ¼ teaspoon soap oil (such as jojoba or almond) to 100 g of base, add fragrance several times and mix thoroughly until smooth. Pour in 2-3 tablespoons without top sugar, stir everything quickly and pour the learned mixture into a mold. After complete solidification, carefully remove the cooled soap heart by turning the mold over and lightly pressing on its bottom.
Paper heart
Effective March souvenirs - hearts can be made from paper strips much faster. To make the figurine three-dimensional, use a stationery stapler. A base blank of any length and about 1.5 cm in width can be cut from double-sided colored paper, foil and even - for lovers of vintage style - newspapers and magazines. Prepare another pair of strips 12, 10 and 8 cm long from the selected material.
Measure from the upper edge of the base 10 cm and to the marked place, symmetrically on both sides, attach multi-colored paper strips in the following sequence: longest, middle, short. Secure the bottom of all blanks with a stapler. After that, sequentially wrap the left and right parts of the figure so that you get three hearts, one inside the other. Clip them together. The upper and lower tails of the product can be cut off or used as an additional decorative element by twisting with a pencil.
Several souvenirs can be quickly prepared, each of which will consist of just one axis and two side strips of paper. Such products can decorate a room, a larger gift for March 8, a postcard or a bouquet of fresh flowers.
