Create romantic objects to decorate your home and celebrate Valentine's Day with creativity
Celebrating Valentine's Day means celebrating the love that unites a couple with romantic gestures, and they don't necessarily have to be austentatious or flamboyant to reach the heart of the person we love. Sometimes, a few ideas are really enough to create the intimate and pleasant atmosphere of a day to remember - and even at home you can think of some project to decorate according to the love theme.
With materials that you may already have or that are, in any case, easy to find, and perhaps spending just a little, you can create many stunning decorations to use in the living room, kitchen, bedroom or wherever you prefer. Take a look at the suggestions below:
Tutorial via infarrantlycreative.net
If you have some wooden boards that you can fix together, or a panel of some kind that can be recycled, it will be perfect for painting a romantic sign upon.
Tutorial via greenweddingshoes.com
On a wooden table, or perhaps even inside a picture frame, use tacks and a ball of wool or cotton to "draw" a heart like this.
Those with green thumbs will love to receive a composition of succulent plants like as shown in this gift - to be cared for and nurtured over time.
Are there any trees or polystyrene cones left with no Christmas decorations on them? You can reuse them for projects suitable for Valentine's Day: you just have to cut out a bunch hearts of the same size (use one in cardboard as a template) made from felt pieces, or if you prefer rubber, and then glue them to the structure, starting from the bottom, like tiles.
You can also experiment creating simple objects to be placed on a shelf - perhaps over the fireplace! Old frames, postcards, decorated paper scraps, woolen threads ... you can use so many common objects that are just laying around the house!
A romantic rain of hearts coming down in a corner of the room: it takes very little to make this project using red cardboard and some thread.
Buy permanent markers to decorate ceramics, and even, for example, a white cup: then experiment drawing and writing whatever message or picture you want. It will become your favorite mug to use for breakfast or tea.
Do you want to try your hand at a little sewing? If you have some scraps of fabric with colors or patterns that combine well with each other, you can decorate any simple pillow with hearts. Or you could make a pillowcase yourself in the same way!
Whether you want to decorate with real, fake, dried or even handmade flowers, there are a thousand different techniques and materials you can use. And, for example, painted glass jars are always excellent items to transform into attractive vases for the flowers.
A few little hearts cut out of a sheet of glitter paper and then hot glued to fix them to dry twigs: a composition that does not ever risk wilting!
It's nice to pamper yourself with hot drinks on Valentine's Day, and even the coasters could be themed decorated with some super simple technique.
Happy Saint Valentine's Day!
