DIY coffee valentines: an original way to please your soulmate. Homemade valentines from coffee beans Coffee valentines

After the noisy series of New Year holidays, February is coming, and with it - St. Valentine's Day, which is celebrated on February 14th.

How to please your soulmate with a special gift? If a loved one is not indifferent to coffee and does not start his day without it, then a coffee valentine can be a great gift. Such a gift is easy do it yourself at home, it looks beautiful and elegant, but most importantly, it will exude a wonderful coffee aroma.

Valentines from coffee beans - how to make them? Everything is very simple!

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For this you will need:

• coffee beans (the quantity depends on the size of the intended postcard),
• thick cardboard or foam rubber (for a flat or voluminous heart),
• scissors,
• glue gun,
• brown paint (if cardboard is used as a base),
• fabric (for foam base),
• string or ribbon for hanging, a regular pencil.

Step-by-step instructions for a valentine on a cardboard base

First, on a sheet of cardboard, you need to draw a heart of the desired size and shape. To make the outline of the future valentine even, it is better use a stencil– a ready-made purchased valentine is also suitable for this.

The heart is carefully cut out with scissors and painted over with brown paint so that white spaces do not show through between the grains. If necessary, paint is applied in two layers. The reverse side of the cardboard can also be painted over with paint or glued on a piece of brown paper.

After drying, you can begin gluing the grains. For a change You can take unroasted, green coffee beans.

First, it is better to lay out the contour with grains and only then fill the space inside. It is better to glue the grains with a strip up with a glue gun, one grain at a time. To make your valentine look neat, you need to monitor the direction of the grains so that the stripes on them look in one direction. However, for originality, you can play with the pattern of grains - but you need to follow the sequence of direction.

You can decorate with coffee beans not only valentines, but also ordinary postcards, made by hand or purchased

After the outline is laid out, you can seal the remaining space with grains. Excess glue is removed. If desired, you can lay a second layer of grains on top for greater density - it is laid out according to the same principle as the first.

For greater aroma, you can add it between the grains. insert cloves.

While the glue dries, you need to choose a ribbon or cord on which the Valentine will hang. It could be satin ribbon of different colors: gold, red, white or a piece of twine. The required amount is cut from the rope and the ends are glued with a loop to the back of the valentine.

Additional decor options

You can further decorate your Valentine's card by adding a key-shaped pendant to it - this will be very symbolic. The suspension can also be in the shape of a heart or padlock.

Instead of a ribbon, you can glue a magnet to the back of the valentine and hang it on the refrigerator

If the base of the valentine is foam rubber, then the procedure is slightly different. From a soft base with scissors heart is cut out. After cutting it out, it is covered with brown fabric - the paint will not adhere well to the porous material. The fabric can be sewn or secured with glue. You can also attach decor from cotton pads to the frame. And just in the future you can put coffee beans on these cotton pads.

After this, just as in the case of the cardboard base, the grains are glued to the surface of the valentine using a glue gun. Need to glue quickly, because the glue dries quickly. Its excess is removed.

A ribbon is selected for the valentine and glued with glue. You can decorate such valentines not only with ribbons or pendants, but also flowers– live or artificial, cinnamon sticks and bows made of various materials.

Topiary with coffee beans

There is also a rather unusual, but very beautiful version of a Valentine card made from coffee beans - topiary or the so-called heart-shaped coffee tree.

To make it you will need:

• coffee beans,
• material for the base of the heart (it can be thick cardboard or paper, or a ready-made heart template made of wood or plastic),
• glue,
• pot or other container,
• wire or other base for the tree trunk (a wooden stick will do,
• kebab skewer,
• thick wire.

A heart is cut out of paper; it is important that it does not exceed the size of a tree pot. The heart can be given volume by wrapping it with thick threads, or cover it with cotton wool or foam rubber.

Then it is decorated in the same way as a postcard - completely covered with coffee beans. The tree trunk is decorated to match the color of the “crown” - painted with brown paint or wrapped with paper or thread. The heart is attached to the trunk with glue and planted in a pot. The container can also be decorated with fabric or paper.

Your DIY coffee valentine is ready!

Valentines January 31, 2018, 11:30 pm

St. Day is approaching. Valentine is the day of all lovers. This means that it’s time to start making small gifts with your own hands.

I suggest you do homemade valentines with the aroma of coffee.

To do this you will need the following things and tools:

— coffee beans (for variety, you can add not only roasted, but also green beans);
- cardboard;
- pencil;
- brown paint and brush;
- scissors;
- silicone gun;
- glue (any suitable for gluing cardboard together);
- ribbon.

The first thing to do is draw hearts on cardboard with a pencil, and then cut them out along the lines.

If the cardboard is light, then cover its surface with brown paint.

When it has dried, then, if necessary, apply a second coat of paint. Now you need to wait for the paint to dry completely on all the hearts. This process can be speeded up by using a hairdryer.
You can start decorating the coffee.

To do this, take one heart, place it with the brown side up and carefully, step by step, grain to grain, glue the coffee beans to the cardboard using silicone. To reduce the formation of “strings”, silicone should be applied in a fully heated form with a small drop. We place the coffee beans themselves so that the strip dividing the beans in half faces upward. If you arrange the grains the other way around, then you will have to stick the second layer later, already with a stripe up.

First, fill the outer part of the heart, all around the perimeter. We carefully ensure that there are no empty spaces.

And only after that we seal the inside. After a few minutes, when the silicone is completely dry, we remove the resulting “threads”. Similarly, fill all the hearts with coffee beans.
The next stage is decoration.

We cut off a small piece of tape, take two hearts with coffee and glue for cardboard (PVA or silicate is quite suitable).

We turn one heart down with grains, up with cardboard, spread with glue and apply a tape.

Now we carefully put a second heart with coffee on top and press them against each other until they are completely glued.
If it turns out that the light cardboard is peeking out somewhere, you can paint it with the same paint that was used to open one side before gluing the coffee beans.

Fragrant coffee valentine, independently made by a loving person, will be the most pleasant gift for Valentine's Day.

Valentine's Day is associated with something tasty and aromatic. If you have already chosen a gift for your other half, then you can add a coffee heart to it. It will not only pleasantly surprise you, but will also remind its owner of you for a long time, as it fills the room with a wonderful sweet aroma.

To make it you will need:

• white cotton;
• padding polyester;
• needle;
• white threads;
• template paper;
• scissors;
• cinnamon;
• ground coffee;
• vanillin;
• brush;
• PVA glue;
• napkins for decoupage;
• dark brown, gold, white paint;
• twine.

Fold the pattern paper in half. Draw half a heart at the fold. Here you can independently regulate the size of your heart.

We fold the fabric in two layers and trace the pattern with a pencil. We cut along the contour, making indents of 0.7 cm.

Additionally, you can fasten both layers with pins with eyes, but you can sew without them. We simply hold the fabric with one hand, and with the other we sew it with a stitch along the contour of the pencil. You can also sew on a sewing machine. Leave a 3 cm long hole unstitched.

We turn the workpiece outside and fill its middle with padding polyester.

Carefully sew the hole with very short stitches and proceed to the most interesting part of the master class.

Pour one stick of instant coffee into a cup, a teaspoon of cinnamon and pour boiling water over it. This solution should cool slightly and then pour a teaspoon of PVA glue into it. It is needed to make a surface for decoupage.

Mix the mixture well and cover the entire surface of the heart with it with a brush. Do this quickly so that the edges of the paint do not have time to dry and there are no clear transitions. Also make sure that the solution does not penetrate into the heart. Try to paint only the surface.

We rub the heart with vanilla and send it to the oven, heated to 100 degrees for only 8-9 minutes. It will be a little lighter than when it came into the oven. But the color should still remain.

We will create an aging effect with brown paint. Let's completely paint the outline, and then fade the paint from there into the middle. The brush should be semi-dry. If it is inconvenient to work with a brush, then you can take a small sponge.

We also decorate the sides with gold paint, making small jerks. This paint should not cover the entire surface.

We will cover the places where the napkins for decoupage will be attached with a translucent layer of white paint. While the surface is drying, separate the napkin and tear off the desired designs.

After the paint has dried, apply PVA glue, attach napkins and cover the top with glue again.

It's no secret that on February 14, Valentine's Day, it is customary to give gifts that symbolize love and tenderness for our other half.

We will make an unusual Valentine's gift for all coffee lovers. I'll tell you how to make a magnet with your own hands in the shape of a heart decorated with coffee beans.

For work we will need:

• thick cardboard
• brown sealant or fabric (burlap)
• Moment-gel glue or glue gun
• magnet
• natural coffee beans

So let's get started:

First, we make a blank for the future magnet from paper and transfer it to cardboard, and then cut it out with scissors along the contour. You can immediately draw a heart on cardboard and cut it out.

Glue a magnet to the back of the cardboard heart blank.

On the front side I covered the workpiece with brown sealant (but you can do without it). Alternatively, the front side of the heart can be painted or glued with fabric, for example, burlap will look beautiful.

When the base is ready, use glue or a glue gun to begin gluing the grains.

Please note that the grains must be glued with the flat side up!

In principle, the fragrant magnet is already ready, but... Now the fun begins - decorating a refrigerator magnet with your own hands!

For decoration, you can use anything: dried orange, lemon, cinnamon sticks, star anise, jute rope, beads, etc.

Decorate the heart the way you like! Glue all decorative elements with glue.

Now the gift magnet is definitely ready! This heart will bring comfort and the alluring aroma of coffee beans, star anise and cinnamon sticks into your home.

I wish you great love,
Mutual, pure, strong and beautiful!
So that it grows in your soul,
And your life became happy!

Let this feeling make you happy
And it charges the soul with positivity!
Appreciate him and take care of yourself!
In love, be brave, kind, patient!

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The world of topiary is large and diverse. Today topiaries are made from everything that comes to hand: from fresh and artificial flowers, ribbons, beads, seed beads, from cereals and pasta, napkins, shells, pebbles, dried flowers, nuts and their shells, even from vegetables and fruits (only such topiaries, unfortunately, are short-lived). Today I want to tell you about making a tree of happiness from coffee beans. But our tree will not be simple, but in the shape of a heart! After all, one of the most romantic holidays is just around the corner - Valentine's Day!

To work we will need:

• pencil;
• paper;
• cardboard;
• scissors;
• universal glue;
• piece of wire;
• brown paint;
• brush;
• coffee beans;
• ribbon or twine for decoration;
• alabaster (or plaster);
• pot (mug or any container where you want to “plant” your tree of happiness).

Option #1

“Forming the crown” of topiary.

Draw a heart of the size we need on paper (suitable for the selected pot), cut it out. We transfer our template to cardboard and cut out two parts.

It should be remembered that the diameter of the pot should not exceed the size of the crown.

"Trunk" of topiary.

As a “trunk” you can use a regular pencil (for a small topiary), any twig or plastic tube of the required diameter, you can also take wooden kebab skewers glued together, a piece of wire or wire (if you want a twisted trunk). I chose a piece of wire. We twist it in a spiral, cut it in half by about 4 cm on one side and bend it, as shown in the photo - for a stronger grip. Having placed the “trunk” between two cardboard blanks, we glue them together.

Add volume.

To add volume to the “crown” of the topiary, we evenly glue the heart on both sides with cotton pads (or crumpled napkins) and wrap it with any thread to secure it. Paint the resulting heart with brown paint and leave to dry for about 12-24 hours.

Let's start decorating.

We cover the entire “crown” with coffee beans (you can use 2 layers), and then everything depends on your imagination. I wrapped tape around the trunk, fixing each turn with glue (you can replace the tape with twine or yarn). I covered the pot (in my case, a sugar bowl) with lace and ribbon, and “planted” a lace butterfly on the heart.

We “plant” a tree.

For better fastening of the tree in the “ground”, I cut the end of the wire and bent the ends in different directions - we got some kind of “roots”.

Now we dilute the alabaster (or gypsum) with water to the consistency of thick sour cream, pour it into the prepared pot and “root” our tree. Let it harden. We paint the frozen alabaster brown and cover it with coffee beans.

Coffee topiary is ready!

Option No. 2

We make a composition of two hearts using the same principle, only to give volume to the hearts of this shape, instead of cotton pads, I decided to use paper towels. We crumple them and glue them to both sides of the “crown” and tie them with threads.

We wrap one heart with beige yarn, the other with brown yarn. We decorate.

SHE HAS red roses and a scattering of beads in her hair.

HE has a black bow tie and the key to HER heart.