Do you plan to make a birthday present with your own hands, but a good idea for inspiration does not occur to you? Think in what area you could apply your abilities? Perhaps you draw well, maybe you are good at cooking? Based on your area of specialization, you should choose a gift. Look for ideas for interesting presentations below.
Notebook
If your friend loves to plan his life, then it will be easy for you to decide on a birthday present. It’s very easy to make a notebook with your own hands. You should find a suitable thick paper, cut it to the same size, and then staple the sheets together. If you want to make a notebook on rings, you can contact any printing house and they can sew your product for a very modest fee. What to make a notebook cover of? If you have an extra piece of skin, then from it. If you do not possess such wealth, you can use a dense cardboard and cloth.
If you give a notebook to a girl, then you can decorate the cover with artificial flowers, beads and iron fittings. A diary for a man is better left without decor. The final action that completes the work on the notebook is gluing the clasp.
Picture
Today, anyone can create a masterpiece with their own hands. For this, it is not necessary to have a special education. An interesting DIY birthday gift is a picture. How to make it? If you can draw, write it with paints. If you don’t have artistic talent, you can create a collage. What to make of it? From any material at hand: beads, beads, dried flowers, ribbons and even coffee will do. If you decide to create a masterpiece of applied art, then you should consider not only the plot of the picture, but also the color scheme. Immediately you need to mentally enter your creation into the interior of your friend. Based on this imaginary picture, you need to select colors.
Pillow
Can you sew? Then making a birthday gift with your own hands will be easy for you. Sew a pillow. Making a pillowcase is very simple. It is necessary to stitch together two squares of fabric. The tricky thing is to make lightning. So that the pillow was original, not typical, you can embroider a picture on it. Do this with threads or ribbons. If you draw well, you can paint a pillowcase.
Interior pillows are in fashion today. They are not so much utilitarian as decorative. They are scattered on the sofa or put on the top shelf. You can sew pillow letters or pillow toys. You can fill your product with synthetic winterizer, or you can choose polystyrene balls. In the second case, your pillow will be not only soft, but also very pleasant to the touch. She simply doesn’t want to let her out of her hands, as the kneading of the filler is calming and relieves nervous tension.
Phone case
Does your friend love decorating her iPhone? You can decorate a cover as a birthday present for a girl with your own hands. How to do it? There are various ways. If you purchased a transparent silicone bumper, you can paint it with acrylic paints. What topic to choose? Think about your favorite birthday girl's flowers and portray them. You can decorate the cover with polymer clay. In this case, you will have to mold the figures, then bake them and glue them to the silicone base on superglue.
A do-it-yourself gift for a brother’s birthday can also be a cover. You can decorate it with paints as well as with stickers. Both in the first and in the second case, the decor should be applied not from the front side of the cover, but from the inside.
Bakery products
Do you want to surprise a loved one? As a gift for your brother’s birthday, you can make a pie with your own hands. A delicious culinary creation will be highly appreciated by a man of any age. If you want to make something simple, then bake a biscuit, cut it into two parts and glue them together with whipped cream, in which you first need to add your favorite fruits or berries of your brother.
If you want to present something simple, pay attention to cookies. You can make gingerbread, for example. To make your culinary products look beautiful, you need to glaze them on top.
Mug
What unusual birthday gift can you make with your own hands? Make a mug for your friends. How to do this? You can sign up for a pottery workshop. In the ceramic workshop you will be shown how you can unscrew a product from clay on a potter’s wheel, and you will also have the opportunity to decorate your mug using various techniques. For example, you can stick an ornament on a product or create any other bas-relief. Next, you will need to paint the product with engobes and, after firing, cover the mug with glaze. Such a gift will be not only beautiful, but also utilitarian. And in addition to the gift, in the ceramic workshop you will gain unique knowledge, thanks to which you can make a vase on your next trip.
Candle
You can not decide on a birthday present for a girl? With your own hands you can make a candle. Of what? From paraffin, wax or the remainder of old candles. If your house is filled with deflated or deformed candles, you can melt them and give them a second chance to exist. How to make a candle? Melt wax and paraffin in a water bath. Now you need to insert the wick into the glass container. It can be made from woolen thread, which should be lowered into molten wax. Pour paraffin into a glass. If at your disposal there is a material of different colors, then wax should be poured in layers. It remains to wait for the candle to freeze.
Housekeeper
Have you decided to make a birthday present for your aunt yourself? Make a housekeeper for her. A woman will appreciate the beautiful decorative element that can decorate the corridor. Such a thing can be created in various variations. For example, buy a wooden blank in the form of a house or a casket and decorate it. You can make the base yourself, make cuts in it and create small hooks in the upper part of the product. Be sure to consider the number of family members and the presence of a car. After all, it is desirable to make the housekeeper not only beautiful, but also utilitarian. So attach as many hooks to your product as possible, let it be better that they remain free than there will be not enough space later.
Bottle
Do you want to make an original birthday gift for a friend with your own hands? Present him with a decorated bottle of elite alcohol. Today, this way of presenting drinks is akin to a well-assembled bouquet. Flowers could have been presented without packaging, but in a well-designed composition they look more attractive. Therefore, do not think long about creating a birthday present for a friend. With your own hands, create a composition of an alcoholic drink and snacks. If you give cognac, then supplement it with sausages strung on skewers, as well as various types of cheeses. If you present wine, it will also be appropriate to supplement it with cheese. But if you decide to present a composition with alcohol for a girl, and give her champagne, then you should give preference to candy and chocolate addition.
Picture frame
What kind of DIY birthday gift can I make with my aunt? Decorate the photo frame. Such a gift will be appropriate to give to any woman. After all, the weaker sex is very sentimental and loves various beautiful things, and also the girls are not averse to decorating their home with photographs. What can decorate a photo frame with? You can use natural materials, such as twigs, shells or beautiful pebbles. And you can also choose a decor of artificial origin: flowers made of fabric, plastic figures, beads, beads and various kinds of iron fittings.
Candy cake
An unusual birthday present with your own hands can be an interesting paper composition. To build such a design will be simple. You should make volumetric triangular slices of cake from thick cardboard. To make the product look beautiful, you can decorate it with colored paper, as well as draw a pattern with acrylic paint. Why acrylic? The watercolor is too transparent, and the gouache will be heavily imprinted on the hands. When the boxes are ready, they must be filled. You can put different candies in each sector of the collected cake. For example, pour caramel in one, dragee in the other, put small chocolates in the third, etc.
Plaid
The best birthday present with your own hands is something soft and cozy. For example, a plaid. If you know how to knit, then it will not be difficult for you to make a cozy thing for the birthday person. You can knit a plaid of fluffy threads or choose cotton yarn. Your gift can serve as for its intended purpose - the birthday person will be wrapped in a blanket in the cold, and also a knitted product can become a decorative element in the living room or bedroom. The thing is universal. A plaid can be a birthday present for a grandson. With her own hands, a grandmother with pleasure will tie an openwork thing. If you try, you can make a bright blanket of knitted elements. This style of patchwork is very popular today, and most importantly, children like these plaids very much.