Buying a gift for the next celebration is always a responsible task. Although stores can offer dozens of presentation options, making a choice is often difficult. Congratulating a loved one on a Happy New Year, a birthday, or a wedding day, the giver wants to invest in a gift a piece of his soul and warmth. It is not always possible to do this with a store thing. However, there is another way out - light DIY gifts that even a beginner can make.
How to choose a suitable gift
In order for the present to be really pleasant and appropriate, it is worth considering a few tips.
- Occasion. Most hand-made products can be classified as universal, but there are also those that are suitable only for a certain celebration. So, bright New Year's accessories for decor will be inappropriate for a birthday or other holiday. The same can be said of a pair of glasses, personally decorated for newlyweds.
- Relations. It is worth remembering that light gifts with your own hands (like purchased presents) should take into account the relationship between the giver and the recipient. For colleagues you can make cute trinkets, stylish and elegant. Father, brother, and other males are better off choosing stricter, laconic presents. When making presentations for mothers, grandmothers, sisters and aunts, you can not follow any strict limits. Such gifts should be cute, warm and sincere.
- Hobbies. To understand what gift you can make on your own, it is worth taking a closer look at his hobbies and hobbies.
Top 15 most successful handmade gifts
Gift selection experts have prepared a list of successful presents that anyone can do. It is not necessary to follow these recommendations exactly, this list can be taken as a basis.
- Name cards (this is the best way to make a gift for mom with your own hands easily and quickly).
- Handmade soap.
- Candles (including aromatic).
- Candlesticks.
- Photo frame.
- Candy stand.
- Compositions of sweets.
- Interior toys.
- Bag with print.
- New Year (Christmas) wreath.
- Christmas tree toys.
- Pictures using the technique of string art.
- Handmade photo album.
- Cake made of diapers.
- Volume letters and numbers.
Some of the above ideas require more detailed study.
Handmade postcards
Making copyright cards is called card making. The advantage of such a gift is its versatility - depending on the drawings and warm wishes inside, such a product can be presented to any person for any occasion. In addition, everyone can make this easy DIY birthday gift .
In card making, there are several areas that differ in the materials used and the manufacturing method:
- scrapbooking;
- decoupage (when using special napkins and cards);
- Painting;
- embroidery with ribbons, cross or beads;
- quilling (paper rolling);
- origami;
- application;
- Kazan.
It’s easy to make such, say, gifts for Mother’s Day with your own hands, and the result exceeds all expectations.
So, to perform, you will need:
- double-sided color cardboard;
- strips of paper for quilling of the desired color (they can be replaced with colored A4 paper);
- ruler;
- scissors;
- pencil;
- PVA glue;
- a few strasses.
In this case, light green, yellow and black paper is used. From yellow paper, long strips of the same width are cut.
- Using a toothpick, the strip is twisted into a tight roll and released. When the coils of the spiral primus free position, the edge of the strip is fixed with PVA glue. To form a petal, you need to take such a free spiral with your fingers - as a result, you will get a product in the form of a drop. The number of such elements should equal the number of flower petals.
- To make leaves, you can cut strips with a smaller width. In this case, the free spiral must be taken not from one, but from two sides.
- The core of the flower is made of black paper, while the roll should remain tight. To do this, after twisting the spiral is not released, and immediately fix the tip with glue.
- All elements are assembled into a composition and are glued to a double folded base sheet. As a decor, you can add a few beads and rhinestones.
Making such a gift with your own hands is quick and easy, and the result is really amazing.
Home soap
Soap making has become widespread over the past few years. Masters make real masterpieces in the form of desserts, figures of people and animals.
After shopping, you can come to the conclusion that home cosmetics is an expensive pleasure, so it is perfect as a presentation. Meanwhile, to make such a gift with your own hands is easy and simple, it is enough to purchase the necessary materials and tools:
- base for soap (100 g for 1 finished piece);
- dyes (special);
- flavorings;
- forms.
Those who have just decided to try themselves as a soap maker should choose the most simple way of manufacturing.
- About 100 g of the base are cut off and laid out in 2 cups. To give a liquid state, the base must be heated in the microwave. To do this, turn on the device for 30 seconds at maximum power. The result should be a mass with the consistency of sour cream.
- 3-4 drops of dye should be dripped into one glass, and the same amount of dye of a different color into another glass. The mass is thoroughly stirred.
- The selected flavor is also added to one and the other glass (fragrance should be chosen one).
- When the mixtures are prepared, the contents of two glasses are simultaneously poured into a soap dish. Do not mix. Top mass is sprayed with alcohol and left for 1-1.5 hours.
Candy stand
Sweets and chocolates are the products that most people like, so both children and adults will be happy with this gift. However, no matter how delicious the sweetness is, a present in the form of a bar of chocolate is not the most original solution.
However, it is worth spending an hour of your time, and ordinary sweets will turn into a real masterpiece of hand-0meyda. The following video will tell you how to make a lightweight gift from sweets with your own hands.
You can give such an original product to children for any occasion. For adults, such a gift will be the way to the New Year, birthday, March 8, Valentine's Day.
If the recipient is a man, then sweets and drinks can be replaced with non-alcoholic beer, chips, nuts and other snacks. Such a creative approach will certainly be appreciated, and the cost of the presentation will be quite acceptable.
Sweets
Speaking of bouquets of sweets, one can not ignore another area of this subject - composition of sweets. As in the previous version, the cost of the presentation will be small, but the impressions will be vivid, and the gift is memorable.
One of the options is a light gift made with your own hands from a bottle of alcohol (champagne or wine) and chocolates. This will require half an hour of free time and some tools and materials.
For such a composition you will need
- a bottle of champagne (or wine);
- foil;
- yellow semicircular sweets with a flat base;
- yellow corrugated paper;
- green papyrus paper;
- hot glue gun.
You need to act in the following order.
- From yellow paper cut out squares measuring 6 * 6 cm in the number of candies.
- The bottle is tightly wrapped in foil and fixed.
- The candy is glued flat to the square of corrugated paper, and then to the bottle.
- You need to start gluing sweets from the bottom in a circle and gradually move up. Sweets should fit snugly together. The corners of the paper squares should be slightly bent upwards.
- 8-10 long leaves are cut from green papyrus paper, they are fixed on the neck of the bottle and tied with a harsh thread.
If desired, this technique can be used to decorate the bottle in any other color (for example, in white for a wedding, in dark blue for an anniversary). In this case, green leaves are not required.
Photo frame
If the task is to make a gift easily and beautifully with your own hands, you should pay attention to the photo frames. Such cute trinkets will help to keep warm memories of the bright days of life and decorate the interior.
The easiest way is to take as a basis an already prepared photo frame and decorate it as you wish. To do this, you can choose one of the proposed techniques.
- In the technique of quilling. From folded strips of bright paper, you can create a floral or geometric composition. Such a product will bring a touch of joy to any interior.
- Decoupage. With this approach, the surface of the frame will turn into a funny comic book or a stylish picture.
- The cloth. If the recipient of the gift has a special weakness for the retro, Provence or vintage style, it is worth sewing a frame made of fabric, while thick cardboard can be used as the basis.
- Button decor. This design has a special appeal and warmth. The finished frame is pasted with multi-colored buttons. Buttons can be glued in a certain order or randomly.
- Marine design. This option can be called truly win-win, as the gentle design of shells with white beads is unlikely to leave anyone indifferent.
Decorative pillows
The list of light DIY gifts for mom or grandmother contains a decorative sofa cushion. In this case, you can go in two ways.
- Sew an unusual pillowcase for an already finished sofa cushion. This will require a fresh idea of decor, a small piece of fabric, lace, buttons, sequins, ribbons and other materials for decoration.
- Stitch the pillow from scratch. Choosing this option, you can not restrain imagination and make not a square, but a figured product. It can be a brooding cloud, a lazy fat cat, a wise owl and any other character.
We make light gifts for the New Year with our own hands.
New Year is the main holiday of winter. At this time, it is customary to give gifts, and the more unusual and magical they will be, the better. Hand-made help to solve this problem in the best way.
Shiny christmas toys
For the manufacture of Christmas-tree decorations, it is not at all necessary to possess special skills, one only has to show as much imagination as possible. Transparent glass balls that can be purchased at the store will help in this. In addition, you will need:
- PVA glue;
- small sparkles (any color);
- tassel.
Using a brush, apply glue to the Christmas ball. It can be the outline of a certain subject or just curls. Without waiting for the glue to harden, the ball is carefully sprinkled with sparkles.
Ball with a photo
In the list of light Christmas gifts with your own hands, you can not help but name the ball with the photo. Making this souvenir will require no more than half an hour of free time and a little financial cost. Meanwhile, for parents or grandmothers such a present will be truly priceless. To do this, prepare:
- transparent Christmas ball;
- photo (its size should be slightly smaller than the size of the ball);
- decorative snowflakes.
The ball is opened, a rolled-up photo is placed in it and carefully straightened. When the photo is ready, decorative snow is poured with a spatula and the ball is clogged.
String art paintings
If the hero of the occasion is a lover of cute interior decorations or, on the contrary, a connoisseur of individual style and extravagance, you can present a picture made using the string art technique (from the word string - rope).
To make this light gift with your own hands, you will need:
- wooden board to fit the picture;
- drawing paper;
- small nails;
- hammer;
- multi-colored threads.
The desired pattern is applied to the paper and fixed on a wooden board. After that, with a hammer, nails are hammered around the perimeter of the picture. The pitch is 2-2.5 cm.
The next stage is work with a thread. One end is fixed on any nail. After that, the thread is twisted between the nails in such a way that there is no free space. In conclusion, the thread is fixed on any nail. In this technique, you can safely use not one color of threads, but several, most importantly, so that they harmonize with each other.
Candle holders
For romantic natures, you can make a beautiful stylish candlestick as an easy gift for the New Year with your own hands.
This will require:
- glass small vase;
- a mixture to give the glass a matte effect;
- sticker for glass;
- candle.
The vase must be washed thoroughly and wiped dry. There should be no dirt or dust on the glass. Using a brush, glass matting is applied in a thick layer to the matting agent. This step is best done with rubber gloves to prevent skin contact.
In this condition, the product should remain for 15-20 minutes. After this time, the remnants of the product are washed off with running water and the vase is allowed to dry. The selected sticker is glued onto a dry surface and a candle is placed inside the vase. The finished product can be used independently or prepared for a gift to relatives and friends.