On Defender of the Fatherland Day, many ladies have a choice: what is better to give your beloved man - a purchase or a homemade present? Both the one and the other option have their pros and cons. Today we’ll talk about the do-it-yourself presentations on February 23rd.
Pros and Cons of Homemade Gifts
Homemade gifts, like any other variety of presentations, have their positive and negative qualities. Many girls want to give men a gift made on their own on February 23, but they doubt their choice. Let's see what are the pros and cons of such gifts.
First, let's consider how good such presents are.
- DIY giftwill be unique. A man will not meet anything like this in stores, because this is your handwork.
- You can manually make many different things: from simple to very sophisticated. If you do everything right and without rushing, in the end you can get a very beautiful present, in no way inferior to the store version.
- Such a gift can cost a small amount. At the same time, the low price will not affect the quality and attractiveness of a home-made product in any way.
- Homemade presents usually more valued than purchased, because it is in them that the craftswoman puts her soul. A normal man will certainly appreciate such a gift, and at the same time the talents of the girl who made it.
- Perhaps in the store you can’t find exactly what the defender of the Fatherland needs. This is where a handmade gift will become a “life buoy”.You can do with your own hands what you did not find on sale.
These gifts have a lot of advantages. Often the girls are attracted by the process of making these presents, because here you can let go of your imagination and create a real work of art that will please a man. However, one must keep in mind the fact that gifts made by oneself, have some disadvantages.
- Often to make a beautiful presentationWhether it is souvenirs, jewelry or knitwear, it takes a lot of time.
- If a girl cannot boast of great skills in needlework, it will not be easy for her to make a good present.
- As a rule, men are positive about homemade gifts. But there are times when these gifts do not suit them. In this case, it must be borne in mind that the hero of the occasion is dismissive of the girl's work. From this it is worth making the appropriate conclusions.
Of course, most likely, you will not encounter these disadvantages, since they do not occur so often. If you stock up with high-quality materials and act gradually, without rushing, you can get a beautiful and reliable product that does not have to be adjusted and corrected during its preparation.
Original ideas
There are a great many varieties of spectacular and useful gifts for February 23, which you can make yourself. A variety of materials are used for their manufacture. For example, Good crafts are often made from newspaper tubes, stone, leather, special corrugated paper, wood, fabric and other raw materials. Let us consider in detail what presentations for the defenders of the Fatherland can do with their own hands on February 23.
From plywood and wood
A very unusual and unique present can be presented to a guy on February 23 - a photograph on a tree. This is not just a photo, but a real work of art that looks very original and interesting. To make such a thing yourself, you will need the following materials:
- thin paper A4;
- cross section of the tree;
- small brush or roller;
- special acrylic gel medium;
- plastic card;
- clean rag.
Next, it’s worth figuring out how you can gradually do it yourself make this nontrivial present.
- Pick the best photo. In the image editor, mirror the image so that it changes to the wooden base in the same way as in the original. Next, you need to adjust the cut of the tree to the desired size.
- Using a roller or brush, gel the wood cut. The layer of this composition should be as uniform and even as possible — not too thin, but not too thick.
- While the gel has not yet fixed, attach the leaflet with the prepared photo to the wood. To work more conveniently, crop the photo in advance, moving along the contour.
- Align the paper part with a plastic card. You need to move from the middle to the edges. This way you can remove air bubbles formed between the tree and the paper sheet.
- Next, you need to leave the craft for 8 hoursso that it dries to the end. After that, you will need to take a damp cloth, wet the paper part with it, and very carefully remove it from the wooden base. She should go lumpy.
- At the end of all stages You can cover the photo on the tree with varnish.
From a sheet of plywood for a guy you can make a souvenir - a beautiful airplane. Before making such a presentation, you must first prepare the materials. It is done like this.
- Need to make a drawing airplane made of plywood.
- Prepare a souvenir template, so that it can be cut from a plywood sheet. Print it in the required scale.
- Pick up plywood suitable sizes.
- Launching carbon paper, transfer the scheme to the plywood sheet.
- Open the sheet like thisso that each of the fragments contains one large or several small details.
- After that you can cut all necessary parts of the future design.
Next step – sawing and assembling an airplane.
- First you need to cut out all the details, moving along the contours. Leave allowances of 0.5-1 mm.
- Further on the plots, where it will be necessary to make through holes, drill the starting grooves with a drill. Then they insert a jigsaw blade into them and make cuts.
- The edges of all elements processed with sandpaper to give them the final neat shape.
- All parts must be connected.based on the scheme. In this case, it is necessary to use the protrusions and openings that are present on the plywood blanks. To fixation was more reliable, you should use a special glue for wood.
- Glued elements clamp with clamps in the correct position.
After that, you can proceed to the final design of the souvenir. It must be sanded, primed with a mixture, and then painted. It is permissible to apply a layer of varnish on top of the paint.
You can make an airplane out of plywood with your own hands, but here you need to be patient and with all the necessary tools. If you step by step rely on the instructions and use the correct templates, then the design will turn out to be of high quality and beautiful.
From plywood, you can make not only an airplane, but also a small car and even a tank. Of course, in the manufacture of these products can seem rather complicated, but with the right work, the result will surely please you.
Knitten things
One of the most popular homemade gifts is various knitwear. You can please a man or a guy on February 23 with a cozy warm sweater, a luxurious scarf, socks or knitted mittens. Such presentations best demonstrate good relations between people. There are different options for creating cozy men's things. You can knit beautiful and warm gift accessories or clothing with either a crochet or knitting needles.
If you want to give a man a more original and bright knitted gift, then you can take up the manufacture slipper tanks. Such things are called so because they are slippers in the form of miniature tanks. They can be made from high-quality knitted yarn or its other varieties. Knitting such slippers is not too easy, but in the end you can get a really unusual and creative present, which the man will definitely be happy.
Another interesting idea for a knitted gift is a helmet made of yarn. In this case, the helmet is a knight. Such a little thing will be a very original and cool present. It is recommended to hand it to young guys with a good sense of humor. Often, such accessories are knitted for boys.
For the manufacture of helmets in this case, you can use hook number 5 or number 6. If the product is knitted for an adult, then you need to take the hook number 8.
From felt
Very beautiful and useful presentations for the defenders of the Fatherland can be made from such material as felt. Felt can very effectively decorate even the most trivial and inexpensive gift. For example, it can be an ordinary mug in a felt frame.
To create such an extraordinary and funny present, you need to prepare the following materials:
- any mug;
- several multi-colored patchwork scraps of felt;
- cardboard;
- Velcro fastener
- small buttons.
Having all these components, you can start making an original gift.
- Pattern of such a presentation will look like the image below. It must be applied to a paper sheet. After that, the resulting template will need to be transferred to a sheet of cardboard, and then to the felt itself.
- Fold the parts together and sew. You can not stitch them, but just glue them together - act in the way that suits you best.
- You need to remember the little details. - pockets with scarves and ties. With such elements, the craft will look much more interesting and brighter.
- Decorate the little felt “jackets” sewn buttons to make the craft look as realistic and natural as possible.
- There is no need to completely stitch the resulting cover for the mug. Instead, you can build a comfortable Velcro closure. If the latter is not in your arsenal, then you can use a button or a hook instead.
The resulting jewelry can completely modify a simple mug. The result is very interesting compositions that can be complemented by other decorations to your taste. It is acceptable to play with textures and different shades.
From felt, you can make a bright red star, and then attach it to a knitted budenovka. Sew such an element to a knitted product by hand. If you plan to make such a spectacular craft, you need to start as early as possible, because its production is unlikely to take less than a week.
From sweets and products
On February 23, you can give a guy a delicious edible present. The relevance of such surprises has not disappeared for many years. A gift of this kind can be sweet. To do this, it is permissible to fill in delicious sweets or sweet peas in a separate beautiful jar, and then arrange such a present as an impromptu “bottle of happiness”.
A variety of delicious compositions can be made from sweets. For this, for example, you can pre-cut a dense mold, and then attach a lot of sweets to its surface. Or it’s permissible to pick up a ready-made one in a store set of different sweets.
It can be not only sweets, but also various chocolates. A good solution would be whole sweet combinations with different goodies.
Another relevant sweet gift for a man on February 23 - beautiful and magnificent cake. It is desirable to complement it with a large and expressive congratulation. If there is no ability to create such desserts, then you can create a spectacular and unusual cake from different products. For example, it may be a composition of bonded chocolates.
You can make a more original present with imagination. An interesting option is a bouquet of various products. For example, it can be a hearty combination of smoked sausages, chili peppers and smoked cheese. You can add such an ensemble with an alcoholic drink. Of course, combinations can be collected and others, based on the tastes of men. As a rule, such edible bouquets are wrapped in paper bags.
From fabric
With woven materials you can give free rein to imagination. It will be possible to make many useful and beautiful presentations from textiles. Here is a list of the most popular and useful instances:
- You can sew a neat cover bag for your tablet or mobile phone;
- it is possible to apply images printed on a printer onto a plain fabric using thermal paper and an iron - in this way it will be possible to effectively decorate, for example, a decorative pillow;
- using fabric, you can build a small headphone case;
- with a cloth it will turn out to beautifully issue bottles with alcoholic drinks, presented as a gift.
Fabrics can also be used for beautiful homemade gift wrapping.
You can make an original present from socks. Do it like this. To make the bouquet more vivid and original, it is advisable to stock up with socks of different colors. If your man prefers only dark gray or black socks, then they can be diluted with specimens painted in light gray, adding to the “bouquet” on top.
In an original way, you can also give men's underpants. Presenting them just like that will be too boring. Better to make original tanks out of cowards. It will be most convenient to form them using socks. Such a simple composition in the end can look very unusual.
From beads
From beads on February 23, you can build beautiful small gifts that a man should appreciate. A variety of presentations can be made from such accessories.For example, it is possible to make a small gift in the form of a beer mug with a foam sticking out over the edges.
Look bright and expressive bead charms, made in the form of flags. There are many options for what can be done. Here you are limited only by your own imagination.
To make beautiful beer mug keychain, you should adhere to a certain scheme. If everything is done correctly, such a present will turn out to be not only beautiful, but also reliable, and will become the eternal companion of its new owner.
From foamiran
You can make a lot of interesting and beautiful crafts from foamiran, which will not be embarrassing to give to a man or guy on February 23. Let's consider in detail how you can create a nice tank from this raw material.
For work you will need such components:
- 8 strips of ordinary or glitter snow-white foamiran (the thickness should be no more than 2 mm - for running wheels);
- 2 strips of a simple material of green shade, the thickness of which is not more than 1 mm (for the top of the tower);
- 4 strips of ordinary foamiran green (for the lower half of the tower);
- 1 strip of raw materials for the hull half of the tank (the thickness should also be no more than 1 mm);
- 1 strip of green foamiran up to 1 mm - it will need to be wound on a toothpick and attached as a muzzle;
- green tire strass;
- 2 small squares from foamiran of scarlet coloring - for stars;
- 10 half beads with a diameter of 6 mm.
Now let's figure out how to build a tank in stages.
- Prepare the strips. Instead of foamiran it is possible to use felt.
- Cut strips of white material. Tighten each tightly, seal the ends. Wind the strip tightly so that all wheels are the same.
- Glue the wheels in a row. Divide them all into 2 parts of 4 pieces.
- Prepare the widest green stripe. Apply glue around the edges, attach the wheels.
- Cover the top of the wheels with residual material. Seal the ends of the strip.
- Glue the prepared strips into tight cylinders.
- Cut from strass ribbon 2 double strips for winding on 2 sides of the side section of the track. Glue the strips, join the ends.
- Stick a small piece material on a toothpick. Smooth it. Glue small flagella on the tip of the barrel.
- Glue the tower to the machine body. Glue the barrel in front of the tower.
- Now prepare half beads and red foamiran. Cut out the last two stars. Stick them on the tank.
- Glue the black half beads in the middle of the wheels on both sides. Attach a couple of beads to the top of the tower and the hole of the trunk.
The tank is ready! You can complement it with a large red bow on top. The present will be wonderful.
From soap
On February 23, you can give a man soap of his own production. It is done in several ways. In each case, you must strictly follow the recipe and all stages of preparation. For such a holiday, it is worth choosing the appropriate molds. The following options are relevant:
- dark soap in the form of a pomegranate;
- in the form of a red star;
- a small green tank;
- in the form of number 23 of different colors.
You can make a whole soapy gift set. It should be beautifully packaged. You can take a box decorated with a bow or a transparent gift bag for this.
Made of polymer clay
From polymer clay, you can make a great many diverse crafts to give them to a man or guy on February 23. From this material very beautiful figurines, magnets, key rings and other little things are obtained. You can work with this raw material at home.
You can use polymer clay on different bases. For example, it can be a pen and a finished case. If you competently decorate them with such material, you will get a very original and expensive-looking present for a man.
From paper
On February 23 you can give a man a cute and inexpensive present made of paper. There are many different techniques, based on which it will be possible to form attractive paper compositions.
- You can make a beautiful card or a quilted figure. With this technology, paper parts are twisted into small curls, while a toothpick is fixed in their center. Very beautiful and original compositions can be made of such elements.
- A very unusual and attractive present can be formed from paper following the technique called scrapbooking. This is a special kind of needlework, which is most often applied to family albums. Scrapbooking involves fixing on the basis of various photographs, newspaper clippings and notes. On February 23, you can make a stylized composition with red stars, a flag and other similar details.
- The most popular and famous is the origami technique. Following it, you can make figures of various shapes from paper. It can be a small tank, a large red star, an imitation of a military uniform and other compositions in this direction.
Of these gifts, you can compose a large composition or make them an addition to the main, more serious gift.
How to make an unusual packaging design?
The gift for February 23 must be beautifully decorated. There are many original ways to decorate gift wrapping. Let's consider the most interesting solutions.
- Can use packaging, similar to a business suit or tuxedo, is the perfect solution for a men's holiday.
- Very interesting thematic solution - a wooden box, tidied and painted in the style of a military.
- You can use a regular craft package Congratulations on February 23.
- You can take boxes of different sizes (according to the size of the presents). It is permissible to draw them up by wrapping them in newspaper sheets and securing them with tape.
- Bottles of alcohol can be decorated with striped fabric, the shape of which is similar to the sleeves.
Interesting examples
Can be handed handmade black soap in the shape of a gun and in the form of an ordinary rectangular piece with embossed congratulations on it.
Extraordinary present on February 23 - a small bouquet of salted dried fish. You can wrap such a composition of food with a newspaper sheet with a bright red ribbon. You can complement this gift with a couple of bottles of beer.
Can make up an interesting composition of panties and socks in the form of a tank, supplement it with a homemade paper or cardboard muzzle. Wrap the last part with thread and use it to fasten a small red flag in this place.
Bouquet of black and white curled socks It will look much more interesting and brighter if supplemented with a thin woven material of blue color.
See more of the original and bright gift ideas for February 23 in the next video.