How to make a gift on March 8 with your own hands?

Not everyone can afford to make an expensive present for mom, sister, wife, daughter, girlfriend or colleague on March 8th. Cute surprises created by hand allow you to express your love, cheer up the one who receives them, and the one who creates them. A home-made gift will be an alternative, for example, to the shopping miracle of technology or the clothing industry or will complement the main part in the gift set.

Anyone who knows how to crochet is in an advantageous position, because without much stress, to make a gift on March 8 to a close woman.

• Mom, grandmother, aunt will be pleased with a beautiful openwork scarf or stole. It can be knitted as a single fabric according to the scheme, or you can apply the technique, for example, Irish lace, although this option is much more complicated, more expensive, and requires a lot of time compared to ordinary knitting.
• Creative knitted toys are suitable for a sister or girlfriend, for example, in the spirit of amigurumi. For work, you can take the threads that are at hand so as not to plunge yourself into big expenses.
• A common and useful gift for March 8 for many close women - socks, slippers, hats. Anyone who is not the first day involved in knitting will tie a cozy beautiful thing in the evening.
• There are many schemes on the Internet where you can create a set of cup holders or a cup case. Any woman will be delighted with such a stylish accessory for the kitchen.
• You can also crochet jewelrysuitable for a certain style of dress.
• An interesting option is crocheted swimsuit. A lover of travel at sea will appreciate it.
• With the help of a hook and thread, you can even make a cover for a mobile phone or other gadget. It looks very unusual, and the work itself does not take much time and does not require significant material costs.

A person who knows how to handle a tree is able to create interesting gizmos from it. It can be a gift arrangement of flowers and the numbers 8 cut out of plywood, or a carved box. For the beloved woman, you can create a real handmade masterpiece, which all her friends and acquaintances will envy.

But it is possible, using natural materials as a basis, to cut out an original composition from them, the idea of ​​which is laid in the very form of driftwood or stump.

A piece of plywood allows you to create a wooden postcard that can be decorated with a burner.

Even a child as part of a work lesson is able to create a cutting board or a wooden rolling pin for mom.

And if a gift made of wood, in fact, is very simple, you can give it charm, for example, by coloring it. For such refinement, even wooden blanks that are sold in a creative store are suitable, which will allow you to create an original thing for someone who does not know how to handle such material.

If a woman does not have a fad about eating sweets, by March 8, she can make an edible gift, for example, bake a cupcake for her mother or beloved girl. Products for him need the most ordinary:

• a pair of eggs;
• banana;
• margarine - 100 grams;
• flour (glass);
• baking powder;
• an incomplete glass of sugar;
• coconut flakes.

The order of creating the dish looks like this:

• soft margarine grind with sugar;
• break the eggs into a bowl and stir them with a fork;
• add to margarine and sugar;
• beat together with a blender;
• chop banana and add to the total mass;
• mix all the ingredients well;
• add flour, baking powder;
• make a thin dough;
• pour it into a mold pre-oiled;
• the baking dish should be filled three quarters;
• bake at a temperature of 130 degrees for half an hour, without opening the oven until the end of the process.

It is desirable to give such a present on the occasion of the holiday in the morning, making tea or coffee, as well as complementing the gift with a cool postcard or warm words addressed to a close woman.

Instead of cake, you can make candy. It will be a real exquisite sweet present, which every lady will appreciate. For the preparation of truffles you need to take the following products:

• chocolate (white) - 200 grams;
• 70 grams of butter from cow cream;
• cream - 3 tablespoons;
• a pinch of vanillin and salt;
• powdered sugar - 60 grams.

The manufacture is as follows:

• chop two-thirds of the available chocolate;
• add oil, vanillin, salt and cream;
• put in the microwave for 2 minutes, stirring the mass every 30 seconds;
• taking out from the oven how to stir;
• if the result is not satisfactory, you can still warm in the microwave;
• cover the resulting mass with foil;
• put in the refrigerator for 2 hours to make the mixture firmer;
• using a spoon (teaspoon) to form balls;
• put each in a bowl with powdered sugar so that the powder sticks on top;
• put the sweets on a dish covered with baking paper and send in the refrigerator for another 2 hours;
• chop the remaining chocolate and melt in the microwave;
• achieve mass uniformity;
• stringing each candy on a skewer, dip in chocolate;
• sprinkle with coconut flakes or chopped nuts;
• Hold truffles on parchment in the refrigerator for at least 15 minutes.

To give such a wonderful gift, you need a beautiful box.

It would seem that a read newspaper or magazine is rubbish, however, there are many enthusiastic people who make very practical things or beautiful souvenirs from it. It can be an original vase, a stand for bottles, a panel, a candy can, a basket and so on.

For their production, the newspaper is cut into strips, and then twisted. To do this, you can use a knitting needle or rod, which is placed on a newspaper strip obliquely on a flat surface. It remains to wrap the tip, and, pressing the knitting needle to the table, make a tube. Fix the tip with paper glue.

A person who does not have experience in weaving from such blanks can create a simple vase, taking as a basis a tube from a towel. It must be glued in a circle with chopsticks, placing them vertically, so that they are tightly pressed against each other.

For bonding components use PVA glue. When it dries, the top of the "stockade" of glued tubes can be cut off. A cut can be smooth, wavy or with a protrusion on one side - a matter of taste and imagination.

It is necessary to color the completely dried vase with gouache and create a decor in the technique that is most preferred and familiar to the needlewoman. The last stage of work is the treatment with colorless varnish. You can apply several layers of this composition, waiting for the drying of the previous layer.

Beads give great scope for creativity. The master of his craft will create from such material:

• beautiful jewelry;
• animal figurines;
• original floral arrangements.

Even someone who is just mastering the art of working with beads, for example, a child, will create a simple composition with an eight and primitive leaves and mimosa flowers.

There are many books with beadwork patterns.. You can find such information on the Internet. From the whole variety of options, beginners should choose the simplest ones to make a beautiful, sincere gift in the form of a brooch or a bouquet of fantasy flowers.

Donors who can handle fabric and materials similar to it are in a favorable position. Although simple textile gifts can be sewn by a student. Among the gifts may be:

• pillows;
• potholders;
• needle beds;
• Toys
• clothes;
• covers;
• smart bags for storing bulk products;
• bags.

Sofa cushions will never be a banal gift. Each such thing, hand-made, is unique. If desired, you can create a whole set of such functional accessories, harmoniously combining them with furniture. Cases on them can be embroidered or decorated with applique, create them using the patchwork technique.

Many women will be happy with the kitchen kit, including hot mittens, an apron, a towel, and napkins. It is not necessary to devote time to fine-tuning the kit. It’s easier to choose a fabric with a fun print and carefully sew each item in the headset.

For gifts, among other things, you can use ribbons that allow you to make bright jewelry using the kanzashi technique, as well as unusual to design a casket and create an original composition. A wonderful souvenir can be made of foamiran, which opens up the possibility of creating voluminous figures and colors that are indistinguishable in appearance from real ones.

It is interesting to decorate with roses from this material, for example, a box with sweets. In the future, the recipient of such a presentation will be able to use it as a box. To create such beauty you need to have:

• foamiran;
• pastel;
• foam blank;
• cardboard;
• scissors;
• skewer;
• a ruler.

The sequence of making a gift looks like this:

• using a ruler and a skewer, squeeze out on the foamiran the outlines of squares for future rose petals 2.5X2.5 centimeters in size;
• cut;
• paint pastel half of each box to give a shade;
• smoothly cut 2 angles in the squares, setting the shape of the petals;
• walk along the edge of the petal with a curling iron to warm up the material;
• twist and glue;
• make a bud of two petals;
• form a rose by sticking the petals in a circle;
• from cardboard make a box and a cover for it;
• paste over with green cardboard for decoration;
• stick on the foam hemisphere on the lid;
• paint in the color of the box;
• gently stick roses.

Cozy home-made flowers are obtained from felt. A master class on the manufacture of such a unfading bouquet provides for the use of materials:

• felt - green and pink;
• a beautiful basket (round);
• template for flowers;
• floristic wire;
• glue;
• twine;
• moss;
• rug made of plastic;
• kraft paper.

You will also need:

• glue;
• scissors;
• pencils;
• pliers.

The procedure is as follows:

• cut out patterns for sepals and volumetric roses from paper - the easiest way to draw yourself;
• circle the pattern for roses on pink felt;
• cut;
• for the middle of a flower from felt of a lighter shade, cut a strip about 1x5 cm in size;
• make cuts on it every 3 mm;
• fold the blank into a voluminous rose with a lighter bud in the center;
• fix with glue;
• cut sepals along the contours outlined on felt;
• cut off a piece of wire of the desired length;
• put a sepal on it and glue it;
• attach a rose on top;
• in this way to make the intended number of flowers;
• from a plastic mat (you can see it with thick cardboard) cut a circle to the size of the bottom of the basket;
• put the moss in the tank;
• insert roses into it, shortening the stems to a suitable size;
• wrap a gift with paper and tie a bow from a twine.

A beautiful idea is to present original candles as a gift. If even a person is not given the opportunity to create masterpieces from paraffin, stearin or wax (although there are people who succeed), you can make a nice gift using smart mugs. It is enough to melt an ordinary candle, pour it into the selected container and insert the wick.

Home-made candles can also be decorated - cast them in the form of a cube and paste over with dried fruit, lemon slices, for example.

Everyone can cope with the creation of such a decor. Enough to show zeal and do everything carefully.

If you want to give a sign of attention to a colleague or classmate, a decorated glass for pencils will be a good present. It will take some coarse cloth, ribbons and finished roses from the needlework store. And then a little concentration, accuracy - and the gift is ready.

To emphasize the beauty of the hair of the owner of a luxurious head of hair will help the comb. Such a gift can be made with your own hands. It is enough to take a simple comb and a ribbon with gold leaves, which is sold in a fabric store.

Two pieces of tape need to be cut along the length of the comb. Using a fishing line threaded into a needle, sew the tape to the scallop through the cloves. On top, in the same way, attach the second so that the leaves are directed in the opposite direction to the first.

It is easy to make an earring hanger from ordinary ice cream sticks - a simple and elegant gift. Paint the sticks in different colors, glue them together, and you're done. Such an original worthy thing will take a place on the dressing table.

You can give a notebook to your grandmother or mother, which will be used to record new recipes. It is enough to cover the cover with a cloth and decorate it with the corresponding inscription.

A set of wooden clothespins from the store will easily turn into an original stand for hot. Any woman who spends a lot of time in the kitchen and pays great attention to her interior will appreciate the gift. She will be glad if the most visited room in the house is enriched with such an unusual thing.

There are no problems with gifts to dear and beloved women from those engaged in soap making. Any form can be given to the fragrant bar of soap, as well as its composition depending on the skin needs of the particular recipient of the presentation.

A spectacular gift will be a bouquet of beautiful flowers from corrugated paper with sweets.

From paper you need to cut many petals of the same size. Wrap them with sweets, forming graceful buds, attach them to sticks acting as stems. Glue leaflets of green paper to the flowers. Make a beautiful bouquet. It can be packaged like it is done in a flower shop, and presented.

Mom, sister or other close woman will never recognize in a beautiful box, decorated using this technique, a box from under the things bought in the store. But the memory of the past March 8 will remain for years.

Tea bags can turn into a far from trivial gift for the holiday, if supplemented with photos.

You need to take coffee filters and cut a pair of identical rectangles. Make a bag out of them using a sewing machine. Pour tea into a bag, bend the top edge of the bag and stitch it on a typewriter. In this way, make the required number of bags.

Now you need to pick up some photos that are appropriate for the holiday. This can be, for example, images of relatives and friends of a woman who is planning to give such a tea set.

Then thread them to sachets, for example, using a stapler, and put the set in a beautiful gift box.

There are a lot of options for interesting, memorable gifts for the beautiful spring holiday. Sometimes it’s enough to look around, look at the little things that are in the house idle, so that they hint at a suitable idea. The rest is a matter of technology and skill.

See how to make a postcard for the March 8 holiday in the video below.