A souvenir is a memorable gift, an item reminiscent of a specific place, person, time. Lovely trinkets are always brought from travel. You can make memorable souvenirs with your own hands and make friends and relatives happy.
Pleasant trifles
From any trip I want to bring things reminiscent of a pleasant stay. Anything can become a souvenir - from a small trinket to a national costume. Do-it-yourself souvenir production is an important activity in countries that live off tourism.
For example, during a trip to Italy it is difficult to refrain from buying leather goods, clothes, jewelry. Italy's souvenir center is Venice. Locals founded many workshops for the production of carnival masks, products from special Murano glass, mirrors. France and England are also among the souvenir leaders of Europe. African countries are rich in ethnic trinkets, which in a certain way remind of the country. In many tourist centers, you can not only buy finished goods, but also make a souvenir with your own hands. Newly-born masters will be taught how to paint glass, create products from clay, wood, and fabric.
Cloth Baubles
You can please your loved ones with a handmade gift. Making souvenirs with your own hands from fabric is quite simple. You will need a sewing kit, fabric, accessories and imagination. You can make a pillow, wallet, soft toy, interior accessories, holiday decorations.
Soft toy is a great souvenir. Do it yourself is quite simple to make. To sew a cute hare, you will need a pattern and several types of fabric - two or more. You can use the drawing below.
The material you like should be cut out, given the color in which you want to see every detail. Elements of the future toy need to be sewn - not so important, on a typewriter or manually. The product must be filled with padding polyester or other material. The final stage is an additional decoration of the toy with acrylic paint, beads or any other elements. This makes excellent children's souvenirs. With their own hands they can be made together with the kids.
From the fabric you can make beautiful covers for electronic gadgets, glasses, keys. Crafts made of fabric are decorated with embroidery.
Work with a tree. Crafts from wood
For processing wood you may need special tools - chisels, adzes, cutters, machines. To make souvenirs of wood with your own hands, you need skills. It is not necessary to carve figurines or caskets. It is enough to purchase blanks - for their decoration you will need paints and accessories for decoration.
What can be made of wood? Trinkets, jewelry, toys, dishes, caskets, accessories in ethnic style. It is possible to apply painting to the material - so the usual workpiece will turn into a picture.
To make a beautiful painted box you will need acrylic paint, varnish, brushes, water, a pencil and a ruler. And, of course, the blank itself. First you need to apply a drawing to the surface with a pencil. Then you can start painting. Paint is fixed with varnish. In addition to painting, accessories from fabric and stones are added. Caskets or painted trinkets - bright, colorful souvenirs, gifts. With their own hands, decorating them will appeal to both an adult and a child.
We make dolls
Dolls are not only a toy, but also a great gift. It is very easy to make such a souvenir with your own hands. The simplest materials are knitting threads, ribbons, beads, twigs. Accessories for such a product depend on the imagination of the needlewoman.
Threads of the desired color are wound on the branches. It is easy to make a head out of dense fabric, sew eye beads and decorate the craft with ribbons.
The doll can also be sewn according to the pattern and stuffed with synthetic winterizer. For hair, threads are most often used. To make dolls from textiles, a pattern is drawn, you can use the finished one. The scheme is transferred to a fabric and cut out, leaving allowances. Next, the details are stitched.
To make the doll stand confidently, legs can be made of wood or other material by covering it with fabric. For example, when creating owl dolls, paws can be made of wire. When the body is sewn, you can decorate the craft with painting, lace, embroidery. Handmade souvenirs made of fabric sewn with love and imagination are very popular.
Sweets and gifts
Giving a simple box of chocolates is boring. Enough to show a little imagination - and get a unique gift that you can not only enjoy.
How to make a basket of sweets? You will need a small round box or basket, a gold ribbon, scotch tape, scissors, wrapping paper. The most important thing is delicious sweets. The box is made out with wrapping paper. Then spread the walls and the bottom with sweets, fixing them with tape. DIY candy souvenirs can be decorated with a ribbon.
No less popular are bouquets of sweets. Sweets complement the composition of flowers or create only a candy bouquet.
Of sweets, you can make a lot, you just need patience and a sufficient amount of material. Figures in the form of a guitar, a car, a doll, even the globe and a pistol will be a great gift.
A small souvenir with your own hands can be supplemented with a neat candy composition.
Present for mom
It’s very simple to come up with a gift for mom or grandmother. For a loved one, you can make a souvenir with your own hands, which is useful in the kitchen. A set consisting of a cap for a teapot, a tack and a mitten is always needed. To make a kit, you can use pieces of drape or leather. It is not necessary to be a master of cutting in order to cut a small square for tacking from these materials, to draw a mitten with an addition of about three to four centimeters wide, to cut two identical parts and sew them over the edge with a beautiful motley thread for knitting.
The kettle cap can be made in the shape of a chicken. To do this, you need to cut out two identical contours of a hen head of a dense drape of such a size that it fits the kettle, sew it over the edge, sew a scallop from another material, wings, leaving the bottom free for the teapot. Beak and eyes can be made from buttons or skin. The souvenir is ready.
To the delight of children
Kids love small souvenirs that are best done with their own hands with them. A funny toy can be created in half an hour. An ordinary raw egg is pierced from both ends and the contents are poured. You can then slightly rinse the shell, slightly increasing the hole at one end. While everything dries, you need to take two small wooden sticks or a couple of unnecessary pencils, fix them with a cross using adhesive tape and put on an impromptu torso. Clothing can be made from petals, leaves, a paper napkin, colored paper or candy wrappers - everything that is at hand is useful, and foil paper holds perfectly without glue. Then the shell-head is painted with felt-tip pens and fixed on a pencil with wax. It is better to put a paper cap on the head of the toy. To prevent it from falling, the pencil is fixed to the base of plasticine or a piece of dried dough. Humpty Dumpty is ready - they can make such toys in all English-speaking countries. Children with interest create such DIY souvenirs.
Magic cup
A nice souvenir for friends who are often on the road will be a magic cup. Of course, now you can buy everything in the store, but a gift that is carefully made with your own hands is always more pleasant. Everyone who travels frequently knows that hot tea is rare on the way. Thermos is usually forgotten, and the magic cup is right there. First, it turns into a harsh natural rope (for glue). The rope is laid on a cup like a thread on a spool - with a snug fit, with both the beginning and the end being tucked under the winding. It’s better to practice without glue first. When it starts to turn out beautifully, you can make the transformation of an ordinary object into a magic one. If you have enough patience, then use several colors and layers - such a mug perfectly holds the temperature and does not burn your hands. It can even be used while driving. For a loved one, an amulet can be inserted into the braid.
Luxury glasses
Glass painting has recently become very popular. Do-it-yourself wedding souvenirs using this technique is simple. To decorate glasses with beautiful flowers or patterns, you will need the following: glass paint, degreaser, pencil or felt-tip pen, brush, scotch tape, cotton buds, contour, acrylic based varnish. First you need to take a glass and process it with a special tool. There are two types of paints for glass - roof and stained. The former are opaque, the latter are transparent, they may require firing in the oven. After processing the glass, you need to try not to touch it, so that any fat does not hit the surface.
Next in line is the sketch - it is applied to the paper, cut out and fastened with adhesive tape inside the glass so that the drawing is visible from the outside. On the surface of the glass mark the contour with a special tool. After complete drying, it is filled with other colors. If you make a mistake, you can wipe off the excess paint with cotton swabs. The painted glass is additionally decorated with sparkles, beads, rhinestones.
Ethnic motives
Folk accessories never went out of style. Each people has a unique culture, which is expressed in various embroideries, weaving, jewelry made from natural materials.
Embroidery is popular - it can decorate clothes, a pillow, a tablecloth, a stylish case for glasses or a phone, a keychain.
To make a stylish bracelet, you need beads, beads, even coins are suitable. Fastening will be a thread or fishing line. Beads can be made of metal, glass, wood. You can also use shells, ribbons - everything that the fantasy tells. Weaving can be made from ribbons or coarse threads. Wooden elements are characteristic of ethnic jewelry - they can be decorated with painting, carving. To assemble a bracelet, you can use a ready-made scheme or come up with an exclusive option.
An interesting souvenir are amulets. Each thing performs its function. A wreath is for purity of thoughts, a key is for wealth, swans are the guardians of love and fidelity, sunflowers are a children's symbol, butterflies are for new fans of a young girl, a lynx is for protection. The figures are made from salt dough made from flour and water. The amulet can be given any shape. The most common are a wreath and panicles.
As a keepsake for friends
Stylish photo frame is a wonderful souvenir for friends. Make it easy. On thick cardboard we make a drawing of the inner contour of the required size. It is not necessary to make it rectangular, you can choose any arbitrary shape, but so that the photo is visible as much as possible. Then we draw the external contour in increments of 2-3.5 centimeters. The frame is cut first along the outer contour, then the middle is removed. Now you need to make exactly the same part without a slot inside. On it, it is necessary to cut a support leg on three sides with a width of 5 cm with an orientation in the center. You do not need to separate it from the top of the frame, just bend it, and indent the edge from the edge should be equal to 2 cm. Now both parts are glued along the edge with a strip of 0.5 cm. You do not need to glue the upper part - this is a hole for the photograph.
Now you can proceed to the design. The front part of the frame is decorated with glue with various objects - shells, buttons, pieces of leather, straw, dried leaves, sand. Fantasy has no limit.
Decoupage - fashionable and beautiful
A special technique for decorating plates and caskets allows you to create stylish things. To make such a thing is not at all difficult. You need a plate, acrylic based paints, glue, napkins, contour paints, gouache, varnish. You can also take a tray or box.
First, the thing must be covered with water-based paint. A napkin is glued to the edges so that there are folds. When everything dries up, you need to paint the glued napkin with gouache and cover everything with varnish. Next, focus on the creases with acrylic dye. In the center of the plate we place any picture from the bulk napkin and glue it. Again varnish. Sushim. The product is ready.
Finally
A souvenir is a great occasion to show your creative abilities and surprise relatives and friends with an original gift. We hope our article will help you with this.