Valentine's Day gifts. Handmade notepad

Unlike New Year's gifts or birthday gifts, Valentine's Day gifts are almost not useful. Usually this nice baubles, reminiscent of your second half of how you love her.

Gifts for Valentine's Day should be memorable and original. One way to please a loved one -this is to give him a notebook, filling it with poems, wishes, common memories, drawings and photographs. You can, of course, buy a ready-made notebook, but it's best to do it yourself.

To make notebook for Valentine's Day, we will need:

• thin cardboard for the cover


• colorful paper for decoration


• thick paper for pages


• hole puncher


• tape


• scissors


• glue


• transparent varnish in the spray (optional)

First, cut two pieces of cardboard of the same size - this will be front and back covers our notebook. Their size depends on the desired size of the finished notebook. If the cardboard is too thin, you can cut out four pieces and glue in pairs, then the cover will be more durable and durable.

Then we take colored paper for decoration. It is best to choose bright colors, reminiscent of the upcoming holiday: pink, red, purple, etc. To "dilute" them, you can additionally take white and / or patterned paper. We'll cut the decorations out of paper for our notebook and stick them on both covers. The appearance and location of jewelry can be absolutely any - it all depends on the imagination! If desired, you can cover the covers with one or two thin layers of varnish from the spray and allow them to dry. So the details will not be peeled off, and the cover will last longer.

Now we take thick paper for pages (suitable, for example, art paper forsketches). Cut out the right number of sheets of the same size - slightly smaller than the size of the cover. If you want to give the notebook a deliberately careless look, you can gently tear the paper on the sheets (for example, using a ruler).

After that we make holes in sheets and coversusing a punch. It is very important to make sure that the holes match! Then we add the details of the notebook with a pile (back cover - sheets - front cover), pass through the holes of the tape and fasten with a smart bow on the front side of the notebook.

The notepad is ready-only fill it with words of love!