CRAFT FOR VALENTINE'S DAY

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From simple and improvised materials, you can create a large and beautiful craft for Valentine's Day. Despite the fact that this holiday is not ours, Russian, and it is not necessary to celebrate it, many of our people who know this holiday celebrate it if they wish. By Valentine's Day, you can create, for example, a crafts sparkling in the sun - a souvenir decorated with particles from CDs. Having made such a souvenir on your own, you can save on a purchase in a store, and at the same time give a “new life” to some of your things that have lost the ability to be useful.

To make such a craft, we needed:
- Pencil;
- scissors;
- Stapler;
- CDs in two shades (gray and green);
- Special shears for cutting metal;
- One DVD-ROM with a purple laser surface;
- glue;
- A piece of foam of medium thickness (about 1.3 cm.);
- Napkins of white color;
- Connecting ring and lace.
Starting work, we take a foam sheet of medium thickness and cut out from it a heart shape about 17 cm long and 21.5 cm wide:

Next, we take simple white napkins:

Having folded these napkins twice, we fasten them in the middle with two staples (here we need a stapler):

After that, we need to cut out the shapes of flowers from the resulting napkins. To make it easier to work, and not to make mistakes when cutting, you need to make a sample of paper in advance:

Next, we need to fold all the layers of paper petals in turn up and, having accepted, dissolve (that is, "open" the flower):

After that, we need to glue the resulting flowers to the shape of the heart:

We need to make such flowers only about seventeen pieces.

When all the flowers are glued to the shape of the heart, we will begin to decorate our crafts with particles from CDs. But first, on its surface, we must draw the contours of the image, and then take five CDs with a laser surface of different colors and use special scissors for cutting metal to cut them into particles of different sizes and shapes:

From these finely chopped particles, we need to select particles of suitable size and shape in order to make the image or record we need from them:

We decided to cover all the free space on the surface of the foam plastic figure with particles from compact discs of gray color (it seems to be lighter than green and purple):

So we paved the back side, depicting slightly different figures on it:

When working with CDs, finding a suitable particle can be difficult, but cutting is also difficult: cracks often appear in unwanted areas, particles crumble and delaminate. They can lose their laser film, which gives them the ability to sparkle and shimmer with all the colors of the rainbow, and then they will need to spend a lot more glue than intended. In total, it took us three CDs with a gray surface, and one disk each with a surface of greenish and purple colors. Next we need to make a loop. To do this, we take a connecting ring with a silver thread, taken as a lace and connect them:
We sew the resulting loop to the top of the craft. After snapping, this is slightly noticeable: