Not everyone can boast of having faithful and loyal friends, therefore it is worth keeping friendship as something very important and necessary. If the best friend has a birthday soon, then you need to think about which gift to choose - buy it or make it personally. Each person is individual, therefore it is worth weighing well the specific option that is planned as a presentation. To surprise a friend and make her day unforgettable, it is best to come up with some interesting and original DIY gift.
Paper craft options
If there is a desire to make something special for a girlfriend for her birthday, then it is worth initially deciding on the possible options and preferences of the birthday girl. You can independently:
- to stitch;
- to tie;
- cut and glue;
- make it
The easiest option available to almost everyone is paper. The most natural birthday present is a postcard, because it is with it you can start working. For a homemade product you need dense decorative cardboard and accessories necessary for decoration. If you have experience, creating such a presentation will not take more than an hour, and inexperienced handmakers will have to spend more than one day and use several attempts before you get the right kind of finished product.
The size of the postcard does not play a key role, but when thinking of any composition, it is worth calculating the space needed for it so that all elements are neatly and correctly arranged.To make the present not only pleasant, but also interesting, it is worth considering what exactly will be on the cover of the card and inside it.
The most correct will be the orientation on the hobbies of a friend or her interests.
If a girl loves sports, then on the card there may be sports equipment in the form of a step platform, a rug for stretching, dumbbells and fitballs. For the lover of animals, you can put a variety of seals and dogs, hamsters and guinea pigs, all who will be pleased to see a friend. For a girl who is fond of breeding flowers, the most correct would be to create a voluminous bouquet on the cover of a postcard.
Inside, you should not use an abundance of decorative elements, it is best to frame the congratulatory lines with an original frame, and this will be enough. As a congratulation, there can be poems, a mini-story or the standard version, which is found on postcards. It’s best to come up with words yourself, but if you can’t correctly express your thoughts, you can search for a clue on the Internet.
Another original option for congratulating a girlfriend will be the creation of a casket. It can be both wooden and cardboard. The first option is more difficult to make, and the material is not always available, while a paper product will be affordable and quite simple to create. First of all, it is important to find the thickest cardboard and beautiful paper, which will decorate the finished product. The casket can be designed for jewelry, or sweets can be folded into it, which will also be very nice.
To make the product neat, it’s worth trying to make it out of ordinary A4 sheets, checking all the calculations and adjusting them if necessary.
The presence of a postcard and a casket is already a wonderful option for handing to a friend, but you can please her with another DIY product using paper. The final chord may be Homemade photo frame with a picture inside. To create, you will also need cardboard and decorative elements. Using two identical rectangles creates the basis of the product. In one of them a window is cut through, from which a photo will be visible.
Two parts can be glued together, connected with double-sided tape or stitched with decorative threads. Volumetric flowers made of corrugated paper, all kinds of hearts, beautiful buttons, rhinestones, sparkles and all that will be appropriate and logical to complement the product can serve as decorative elements.
With your own hands for a girlfriend, you can also do:
- Hawaiian-style flower wreath;
- original notebook;
- Photo album;
- homemade book and so on.
Choosing a gift for a girlfriend will depend on the availability of time for preparation, paper skills and the desire to do something amazing for the birthday girl.
What can I draw?
If your best friend is about to have a birthday, but still don’t have a gift, you should seriously consider choosing it. It’s not always in the store or on the Internet that you can find exactly what is suitable for a particular person, because sometimes you should first assess the situation, consider the hobbies of a friend - and the right option will come by itself.
If you have artistic talent, you can please with original drawings and paintings of dear people for any occasion. A friend will definitely be glad to receive a picture with her portrait as a gift. For a special charm, you can create an original image for the birthday girl: Cleopatra, the ancient queen, queen, femme fatale or any other option that will reveal the girl from a completely different perspective. In this case, the main thing is not to overdo it, choosing the image that the birthday girl dreams about or the one that she loves.
If you want to create something fun, then a great option would be a cartoon or cartoon portrait of a girlfriend.
If you don’t want to be predictable, then An interesting option would be a drawn poster, in which there may also be a certain plot: the girl of the year, lady May, the best athlete of the millennium, a world singer and so on. You can create a poster in the form of a poster or a calendar, exactly recreating the calendar for the current year. The size of such a gift can also vary from sheet A4 to a piece of paper, which will occupy half a wall of the girlfriend's room.
As a good homemade gift can be painted products, for example, caskets, figures, ceramics, and the plot of the drawing should be close and clear to the birthday girl.
If you have a lot of time, you can create an entire book whose main character will be a best friend. In addition to the original plot, the gift tag will be illustrations made by hand for each of the important scenes of the story. Drawn presents can be of any size, applied to different surfaces, the main thing is that they make a proper impression on the birthday girl and make her happy.
Cooking useful presentations
A birthday present is chosen not only from the desire to present something beautiful or pleasant, but some prefer practical options. If a friend is of this type, then you can give her:
- knitted gloves;
- stitched summer bag;
- Decorated flower pot;
- originally designed coffee cup;
- do-it-yourself eye mask for a comfortable sleep;
- Handmade soap;
- scented candle.
Each of the DIY gifts must bear a certain benefit, be necessary in everyday life or in other situations. If a friend loves knitwear, you can make a vest for her or a crocheted beret.
For lovers of a large number of decorative elements in the room, you can sew original pillowcases with or without a pattern, giving them separately or together with pillows.
If you need to prepare a gift for an anniversary, then you should come up with something special so that your girlfriend can use the gift every day, remembering the donor. Among the things most often used that can be done independently, it is worth highlighting the dishes. If you wish, you can go on pottery courses, or try your hand at home, creating an original cup or simply decorating it. For the anniversary it is worth preparing a larger presentation, because a set of two cups with saucers in the original design will be quite enough.
An acceptable practical gift might be knitted or stitched bag. The first option can combine work with knitting needles and crochet to make the base and beautiful patterns. For originality, it is worth using different color combinations to get any particular pattern or pattern. A stitched product can be made either on a sewing machine or manually, depending on the situation.
An important point is the choice of fabric for the base, pens, as well as decorative products that complement the look of the bag.
A good present can be considered an apron for working in the kitchen, especially if a friend loves cooking. To sew a product, you can find a beautiful pattern, buy a suitable fabric and create an individual thing that no one else will have. An especially pleasant element will be embroidery: “Beloved girlfriend” or “On girlfriend’s birthday”.
And also useful and functional can be considered handmade slippers. This is not a very difficult product, but it will allow you to take care of your friend and warm her legs in the cold season. To make the idea a success, it is very important to know the size of the birthday girl’s shoes, to choose the right material so that it is not scratchy, too dense, very soft. Shoes should keep their shape, look presentable and be comfortable.
If you want to make an original, but useful gift, you can build non-standard flash drive using lipstick and the device itself.Lipstick should be completely removed from the case, and inside, instead of it, a flash drive is placed. Such an unexpected gift will amaze your friend, but you will surely like it.
A variety of useful and necessary gifts will depend on the type of activity of the birthday girl, lifestyle and hobbies, knowing which you can quickly find the right option.
Edible gifts
Depending on the wishes of the birthday girl, a gift for her may look like something edible and tasty. Often, for the holidays they use purchased sweets, but you can try something more original. One solution might be Making sweets by hand using natural ingredients that your girlfriend likes.
If a girl monitors her figure and health, then she will appreciate such a sign of attention, because homemade sweets will be less high-calorie and more useful. They can be packed in a cardboard box, which is beautifully decorated with wrapping paper for gifts.
An original and pleasant sweet surprise can be a cake with mastic, decorated with flowers, figurines or a festive inscription. A photograph on the cake, which can also be done at home, will be especially beneficial.
If there is no talent for baking cakes, you can try your hand at creating chocolate. It is important to choose a proven and good recipe, try it several times, and only then start working on a holiday gift.
The advantage in this case is the ability to create a product that will definitely please the girlfriend, adding all the relevant ingredients to it.
To make a sweet present look spectacular, it is worthwhile to come up with and develop a wrapper in which it will be placed. For the cake you can make a beautiful box on your own, and for chocolate - a paper wrapper with a photo of the birthday girl and best wishes. If cooking is not one of your talents, you can do it easier by buying all your favorite sweets for the birthday girl and create an original and very tasty composition from them that can be placed in a suitable container.
Any sweets that will be presented to a friend will be a pleasant surprise for her, and most importantly, they will give pleasant emotions and sensations, which is very important for holiday dates. The combination of the main gift and sweets will be an excellent option for both a normal birthday and an anniversary.
Original Homemade Gift Ideas
If you want to surprise your beloved friend and present something that she definitely does not expect, it is worth spending some time thinking. Many girls like to be given flowers, but there are those who care about plant protection and ask them not to present cut flowers to them. This dilemma can be solved quite simply, creating a bouquet of artificial flowers. The simplest materials can be corrugated paper and glue, and for more experienced craftsmen, fabric, preferably satin, is also suitable. The product can take the form of a standard bouquet or be decorated with an original pendant or figurine.
The color scheme of such artificial bouquets can be very diverse - from the standard shades inherent in living plants to completely magical and unprecedented. The presence of beads, butterflies, bugs and other additional elements on the composition will only improve the appearance of the work.
Supplementing such a gift is worth something sweet, and it’s good if you manage to make it yourself.
Friendship is an important part of the life of any person, and therefore remembering pleasant moments, mentally experiencing them again, plunging into the atmosphere of that time, is a great happiness. To give your girlfriend such an opportunity, it’s worth doing it yourself an album with photographs of the most important and significant events that have been throughout your friendship. If there are not many pictures, then it is best to create a photo frame in which the most important frames and moments of the birthday girl’s life will be placed.
If a friend believes in signs and signs, you can independently make her charms or useful little things that will always protect her, bringing calm and measuredness to her life. The easiest option would be weaving a bracelet from the evil eye, but you can also make a pendant as an addition. If desired, there is the opportunity to build a semblance of a cleft foot, which will have to bring good luck. And for those who like to interpret dreams, an excellent gift will be a dream book and a dream catcher, made especially for a friend.
There can be a lot of opportunities to surprise a girlfriend for a birthday, the main thing is to set a goal for yourself and go to its implementation. To get a gift, do not rush with its embodiment, it is better to practice a couple of times, to make several samples, in order to finally get a perfect finished product.
It is worth remembering that saving on materials is not worth it, for a beautiful postcard you need to buy only professional paper, for a chic homemade bag it is better to take a new and suitable fabric, for soap or candles you need to buy high-quality ingredients, and so on. A good birthday present for a friend is another proof of love for her and the strengthening of friendship for many years.
See how to make DIY gifts to your girlfriend for a birthday in the next video.