Everyone has heard that a gift that is made with one's own hand is always more pleasant and more valuable than any store presentation. But few people think about why this is so and how to use their skills to make a gift for February 14 with your own hands. It is important that special skills are not required. Anyone who knows how to hold scissors in their hands and has great feelings in their hearts can express them on paper, cardboard, fabric or any other improvised material.
What are good handmade gifts?
Valentine's Day, the patron saint of all lovers and loving hearts, is a holiday, although far from the culture of the Russians, but very pleasant, as it allows you to once again recall your warm feelings. Since the holiday is personal, cordial, and the atmosphere on this day is intimate, then the gift should be appropriate. Why not do it yourself?
A homemade presentation has many benefits. Firstly, it is unique. Such a world will exist in a single copy, and its exclusivity in itself is worth a lot. Secondly, a piece of your soul will always live in a homemade gift, and no matter how many years have passed, no matter how further relations have developed, This gift will always remind only of you and of no other.
Receiving a handmade gift, a person involuntarily admires how much attention was actually paid to him, you had to come up with an idea, bring it to life, present with love and respect what was done on your own.Going to the store and buying something is much easier, and you don’t really need to think about it, especially if the gift is made just like that, for the sake of respect, as a duty gesture of politeness. Homemade gifts for such motives never do. They are always in themselves a recognition of warm and gentle feelings, a symbol of friendship, love, gratitude.
Usually homemade gifts are obtained very high quality, because each stage of manufacture is under the personal control of the master.
And to complete our arguments, it is worth noting that homemade gifts are fashionable again, as they were a hundred years ago. This indicates a special attitude of the giver, his taste, culture.
Do it yourself card
It is very difficult to imagine the celebration of February 14 without the traditional “Valentines” - small cards that are presented to each other not only by lovers, but also by friends giving each other and children to parents. Valentine's Day is not only about couples in love.
You can go the simple way and buy a postcard in the store: on the eve of the holiday they are offered a great variety. But you can put your whole soul into Valentine and make it yourself. Do I need to be a master in order to present unusual cards? Not necessary. There is a huge variety of postcard templates on the Internet, you can choose any one and continue to make your Valentine exclusive. Here are some ideas for unusual postcards for this romantic holiday:
hearts made of white cardboard, painted or decorated with colored paper;
- you can make double hearts, on the turn of which they write soulful words of congratulation;
- postcards made of paper in the shape of bears with a fold - a congratulation is also placed inside;
- postcards with a “window” in which glued chocolate hearts in a wrapper look through;
- accordion cards, on each page of which you can write declarations of love or place joint photographs in neat paper frames-hearts;
- You can decorate homemade cards with rhinestones, ribbons, paper flowers or butterflies.
The card does not have to be classic, the way we imagine it. Any option is allowed, and therefore, for example, you can make a box out of cardboard, glue it with pink or blue paper, decorate with paper flowers, ribbons. How to fill it is up to you, but she will also act as a valentine.
Valentines made in origami style and decorated with miniature flowers in technique look very easy, almost weightless quilling. Postcards can be flat and voluminous, with gifts inside and without them, glued, painted, printed. Small paper looks interesting pocket hearts (at the edges connected by a stapler or glue) with a sweet filling - small sweets-dragees. On such inscriptions like “My sweet” or “My sweet” will be appropriate.
You can make a card consisting of a mass of individual paper flowerscollected in one fluffy and showy heart. And animal figures, the same bears with little notes, confessions inside, will not leave anyone indifferent.
Do not focus only on hearts, Cupid or Cupid, angels, kisses, butterflies, various flowers are also considered symbols of the holiday.
We create original souvenirs
If you know how to knit, then you can present to your loved one warm and cozy scarf. The main thing is that he fits the general style of clothing, then the partner will wear it with gratitude, feeling the warmth of your heart on a physical level. A very interesting idea is two-knitted mittens. You can even walk in such a cold weather in February, holding hands, and your fingers will not freeze neither at him nor at her.
A great souvenir will be knitted sweaters on glasses for tea or coffee. It looks very unusual and warms the look and soul. Also look unusual and stylish. crocheted thick wool cell phone cases. You can designate them with the initials of the partner.
As a souvenir for Valentine's Day, it will fit perfectly Framewhich you will do yourself. If you don’t have the skill to work with plywood and glue or a hammer, you can buy a ready-made inexpensive photo frame and decorate it around the perimeter with flowers from foamiran, corrugated paper, leather, felt, you can use the technique scrapbooking. It will be great if the donor places a successful photograph of the couple in such a frame before giving.
If you are preparing a gift for your mother, then you should choose the most beautiful photo of your parents in love. Shots from the past will remind them that they are connected not only by joint square meters, credit and children, but also by tender feelings, which were the basis of all the foundations.
If you can make plaster, clay or papier-mâché figures, make a small original piggy bank in the form of a kissing couple on a bench and sign it with the meaning “Beloved by car” or “Save up for a romantic trip”.
Even if you have never made toys with your own hands, you can use one of the ready-made commercially available needlework kits and sew a romantic bear, a funny heart with arms and legs. Or, for example, a squirrel, if the name of the person to whom the gift is intended is Belkin or a hare, if he is Zaitsev, etc. Not a single pragmatist will refuse such a cute trinket.
You can use ready-made kits and make your own gift soap from natural materials, you can make thematic fridge magnets, even children can handle this task.
With your own hands you can create an original key ring - knitted, wooden, from beads, from leather straps or ribbons. Can make big Whatman photo collagewhere your happiest moments will be collected.
If you arrange the pictures nicely and add small paper hearts or rhinestones, then the collage will be pleasing to the eye for a long time and remind you how lucky you and your loved one are.
Another option for a homemade souvenir is the so-called bank of reasons. This is a plastic, glass or birch-bark jar filled inside with notes indicating the reasons why you love your partner (girlfriend, friend, mother). For example, “Because you sniff funny at night” or “Because you are kind and strong and always ready to help.” Typically, at least hundreds of such reasons are placed in the bank. Believe me, the one who will read them will read one and all, and this process will be fascinating.
Sweet ideas
Sweet presents will make the holiday sweeter, and here it is also not necessary to be a chef of a prestigious restaurant or a pastry chef. A lot of the category of delicious and beautiful is created with your own hands without any special skills.
The most popular option is personalized homemade cake that can be decorated with hearts of red and pink mastic, butter cream. The cake may be quite small, for one tea party for two, but it will be a very pleasant surprise after a February evening rather cool walk. If the cake is for the beloved (beloved), and the couple is already close enough at the physical level, you can make an erotic cake, there are many options for such a decoration of a simple confectionery on the Internet.
Tea drinking with such a cake will smoothly turn into an unforgettable romantic night.
Nice gift can even be made of multi-colored dragees and an empty can with a screw cap. Glue a clean jar with paper, for example, in the form of the same hearts, decorate with ribbons, attach a dedication inscription with the obligatory wish of a sweet Valentine's Day, and pour multicolored dragees inside. It looks very impressive.
Homemade chocolate in some countries it is considered a traditional surprise by February 14th. For example, the Japanese, with the help of home-made chocolate hearts, hint to a representative of the opposite sex, who are presented with a Valentine, that they would not mind starting a relationship.For such a gift you will need chocolate without nuts and raisins, without filling, as well as a silicone ice mold with cells in the shape of hearts.
Chocolate is melted over low heat, the chocolate mass is poured into molds, leveled with a knife and put in the refrigerator to solidify. Then the hearts are easily removed from the mold and ready for gift and use.
Gourmets can try to make chocolate themselves - from butter, cocoa, sugar and milk.
A great option for a homemade sweet gift is homemade cookies. You can just make cookies, hearts, or you can make cookies with predictions, putting in each note with a pleasant romantic prediction. Tea drinking will turn into a fun romantic adventure.
Looks very nice on a festive table for two a bouquet of fruits. To make it very simple, it is only important to have a large supply of long skewers and a solid assortment of different fruits. Both useful and pleasant.
Packaging matters
A handmade gift is important to pack beautifully and correctly in order to create a certain intrigue. Suitable for these purposes boxes, packages of thick paper. They can be decorated paper butterflies, flowers, ropes and ribbons, bows of various colors and sizes. Packaging matters because it is her who sees it first, and beautiful packaging sets the mood for a presentiment of a real miracle inside her.
Use wrapping paper, foil, fabric and a wide variety of jewelry, beads, buttons for packaging.
It is also important how you present your homemade gift. Try to do it in a romantic setting, when no one will distract you. Intrigue your partner, arrange for him a romantic dinner with candles and a glass of wine, you can prepare a poetic or musical presentation, then boldly hand in your creation - it will be certainly appreciated with gratitude.
Watch the do-it-yourself gift workshop on February 14 in the next video.
