How to make a birthday present with your own hands?

You always want to surprise with a birthday present. Buying in a store is a simple task, but made by yourself, it will be doubly enjoyable, as it combines two aspects at once: a gift and attention. Handmade gifts bring warmth, light, and a piece of the soul of the one who created and presented.

For true lovers of cooking or just gourmet can do an unusual set of spices or containers for cereals and bulk seasonings. Spices themselves are selected according to the preferences of the person to whom the gift is intended. They can be bought in a store or made by yourself, combining several tastes. Of course, this requires jars for storage. This is where fantasy is worth it.

You can buy beautiful glass jars, or you can make a beautiful set from ordinary small cans of mustard, tomato paste, honey or something else. A beautiful design will be obtained using linen, linen lace, dried flowers, leaves or twigs, buttons, beads, beads, cuttings from cardboard, various decorative metal products, decoupage cards, paintings, threads, twine and so on.

A stand for a set can be bought or also made with your own hands. To do this, you need plywood or wooden boards. Think about what shape it should be, make two blanks, cut openings with a jigsaw a little larger than the jars, connect the corners and decorate in a suitable way so that the set looks harmonious. Or just cover with craquelure or regular varnish.

The next creative idea could be handmade candle holders. They can also be made from glass jars. To do this, use containers of any size. It looks more interesting when the composition is made up of banks of different heights and widths, decorated in the same style.

Candles themselves can be decorated with twine, special stickers, decoupage, ribbons, braid.

Ecostyle lovers will love candlesticks made of bark or branches. Such gifts will be a wonderful decoration of the interior, will give it a “zest”, will bring a touch of warmth and joy.

If the birthday person is saving money for something specific, then you can do it for him thematic piggy bank, or just universal. For example, a traveler will like a piggy bank in the form of a globe with various attractions glued to it: the Eiffel Tower, a London bus or the famous red telephone box and so on.

The next original gift is composition of homemade flowers. They can be made from corrugated paper, fabric, foamiran, leather, suede. They look no worse than living ones and will never fade. The composition will serve as a reminder of a wonderful holiday for many years.

This ikebana is complemented by various pre-dried plants, twigs, twigs of various kinds, satin ribbons, lace. All this can be bought in flower shops and departments for needlework.

For the manufacture of fabric flowers more suitable are synthetic, transparent and translucent, such as satin, chiffon. They melt well along the edges, giving the petals a natural look. It is necessary to fold the fabric into several layers, cut into squares of different sizes, from large to very small. Next, cut out circles from squares; they should not be perfectly even. A candle to melt the edges of the circles, varying the degree of bending of the fabric.

Then fold the petals. Large - at the very bottom, smaller up and so on in descending order. Form a flower, pin it with a pin. Sew in the center with a thread and then decorate as you wish with beads, beads, glass beads. Attach to the floristic wire to make a stem.

It looks interesting and unusual leather flowers and if you apply a few shades of this material, selected a tone darker and lighter, they turn out like real ones. The manufacturing technique is very simple, complexity is below average and even a beginner can handle it.

• Need to cut petals of different sizes. Then dilute the PVA glue with water to the consistency of liquid cream. It is worth considering the thickness of the skin itself. The thicker the more water. This consistency should permeate the material, not just spread. You can soak the petals in this solution and control the process. The material should be moist but not wet.
• After impregnation, we form folds and bulges. To do this, we fold the petals with an accordion, squeeze it at our discretion and leave it for 5-7 minutes, fixing something.
• Gently straighten the petal so that folds are preserved. At this stage, you can bend and bend the edges to your liking. This procedure needs to be done with all the petals, giving them a different shape. Then let dry well. After drying, cut off a piece of wire for the stem, wrap a small piece of leather with a roll on the edge and bend it. This will be the core of the flower. Around it, on the moment glue, glue the petals in a circle, forming a flower completely. You can add leaves made in a similar way.

Cool gift or addition to it are jars of wishes. It will be necessary to cut strips of beautiful paper on which to write your wishes for the birthday man, roll them up with a tube and bandage them with a string or a beautiful ribbon. Their number depends on the volume of banks and imagination.

A great thing is a surprise box. She acts here both as a gift, and as a holiday package. Put in a large box, a smaller box, then even smaller and so on, according to the principle of nested dolls. Congratulations, it will be interesting to get to the truth - what is inside.

Moreover, each package may be accompanied by additional surprises, in the form of flying balloons, inscriptions with jokes, covered with finely chopped corrugated paper, sweets and more. You can cut through the edges and when removing the lid, the box will open by itself.

A handmade gift is always the best. Alternatively, you can write a picture, make a panel or bas-relief. There are a lot of options. The choice of plot should match the interior to please the owner’s eye. For the panel, you can use various materials:

• eggshell;
• acrylic paste;
• various herbarium;
• skin, dense tissue;
• wood;
• a natural stone.

If you are not a specialist in bas-relief, but really want to give such a gift, then ordinary thick cardboard will help to simplify the task. Prime the canvas or other base, cut out the necessary details of the image from cardboard. Those that should appear to a greater extent, make twice as thick by gluing together the same parts. In this way, form a complete image that should be the result. Glue everything to the base, after completely drying, prime again.

You can start applying paint already at this stage, or you can add additional volume with an acrylic paste or a mixture of flour with PVA glue mixed to the consistency of thick sour cream. We paint, and the last will be the application of a layer of acrylic varnish.

Wonderful panels are obtained from nails and threads. Draw a contour of what will be depicted, and drive the cloves at the same distance along the contour. Then, having hooked the thread on one of them, you need to make a knot and wrap the pattern or its part in a chaotic manner. Use both threads of the same color, and different, if the picture provides for this. Moreover, such a panel can depict both children's and quite adult themes.

Using the scrapbooking technique, you can make photo albums, photo frames, cookbooks for recipes, cards, business card holders, passport covers, diaries, notebooks, loose-leaf and simple calendars. The birthday boy will be pleased with the checkbook of desires, in which each check is the desire that the giver will fulfill for him. The owner of the checkbook at any time has the right to present any check and his desire should be fulfilled as quickly and implicitly as possible.

Such products will give a special charm to their owner. Brooches, bracelets, pendants, earrings, necklaces are made. The materials are:

• epoxy resin;
• leather;
• wire;
• natural stones;
• beads;
• soft metal alloys;
• rhinestones;
• beads;
• textile;
• wool for felting;

Products made of epoxy resin and soft metals require certain skills, and work is a rather complicated process.. Consider the example of creating a bead brooch. To do this, you will need:

• skin for the foundation;
• beads of different colors;
• needles
• awl;
• monofilament;
• glue;
• cardboard;
• wire;
• thin-nose pliers.

First you need to draw on a thick cardboard a sketch of what you want to create. Cut the picture - this will be the basis. Then string the beads onto pieces of wire. Form the necessary bends and mesh the parts together to form the desired image. To use the inside of the skin. Cut another piece of cardboard, but two to three millimeters less than a pattern of leather. Mark out the places where there will be cuts for the spring and eye of the clasp, cut them with scissors.

Glue the skin to the cardboard, bending along the edges, and in the intended place with glue, fix the fastener itself.

Do-it-yourself sweet birthday gifts in the form of cakes, gingerbread, cookies, sweets and other things will appeal not only to children, but also to adults. Consider some simple and quick recipes for making a sweet gift. This workshop will be on making gingerbread. First you need to decide on the shape of sweet products. You can buy it ready-made or make it yourself from a simple can.

With metal scissors, cut the can into strips and give any desired shape, fastening the ends with a construction stapler.

The necessary ingredients for baking half a serving:

• wheat flour - 1 cup;
• rye flour - 1 cup;
• sugar - 100 grams;
• honey - 300 grams;
• butter - 100 grams;
• 3 yolks;
• vanilla sugar, cardamom, cinnamon, cloves to taste;
• 1 teaspoon of baking powder.

Add spices to honey, bring to a boil over low heat and cool to room temperature. Grind butter, yolks and sugar. In a separate bowl, mix the baking powder with flour. Combine the cooled honey with sugar, yolks and butter, add flour with baking powder and knead the dough. Roll into a layer of about 7 millimeters thick.

Cut the blank into forms, put on a baking sheet on baking paper and bake at a temperature of 180 degrees for 7 minutes. Gingerbread cookies according to this recipe are prepared very quickly, so it is important not to overexpose and not to burn. After cooling, garnish with a glaze made from a mixture of water and powdered sugar, purchased or home-made powders, silverware and gold.

Here is a delicious and quick recipe for mini cheesecakes. For cooking, you need such products:

• butter - 40 grams;
• shortbread cookies - 100-150 grams;
• curd cheese - 400-450 grams;
• 2 eggs;
• sour cream - 200 grams;
• sugar - 150 grams;
• wheat flour - 1 teaspoon;
• vanilla - 1 teaspoon;
• zest of half a lemon;
• powdered sugar;
• berries for decoration.

Preheat the oven to 180 degrees. Grate cookies until fine crumbs. Melt the butter in a saucepan, pour the cookies in a bowl and mix well. Lay out the mass in the form and align it with your fingers to give density.

Place the forms in the oven for about five minutes. Put eggs, half sugar, cheese, half sour cream, flour in a bowl and beat at medium speed with a mixer. Add vanilla, juice and lemon zest to the mass and mix everything. Arrange the cheese cream in tins and bake for about half an hour, then remove, let cool slightly. Next, beat the remaining sugar and sour cream, apply on slightly cooled muffins and put in the oven for 5-7 minutes.

Candy bouquets also include bouquets of sweets. Such a bouquet is easy to make yourself. To do this, you will need double-sided tape, wire, corrugated corrugated floral paper, fabric.Make a cup of corrugation for each candy, wrap the wire with double-sided tape, then paper. Cut the squares from the fabric, fold them in half and wrap each flower, tying a suitable ribbon at the base.

When all the flowers are ready, collect the bouquet and wrap it with scotch tape to hold it thoroughly. Wrap in wrapping paper. Top can be wrapped with the same fabric as the buds themselves, decorated with beads, making clamps, with hot glue.

With cakes, everything is much simpler. Choose your favorite birthday chocolates, make a cake out of them, sticking them to the base in a circle for wrappers. It can be in several tiers, each tier of different sweets. Then pack the finished product in transparent paper and tie it with a beautiful bow. You can make the so-called sweet poster. Here the names of sweets and chocolates are used as a continuation of the phrase.

Many necessary things that are useful in everyday life can be made, for example, from felt. These are homemade bags, candy canisters, hanging pockets for combs and trifles, organizers, cases for mobile phones and tablets, newspaper racks.

For example, we give a phased master class on the manufacture of candy cans from this material. You will need:

• felt;
• scissors;
• hole puncher;
• twine;
• threads under the color of felt;
• piece of leather.

First you need to determine the height of the sides. The larger the piece of felt, the higher you can make the sidewalls and the deeper the product. Cut a square from the fabric of the desired size. Then outline where there will be holes for fastening the sides to each other. To do this, fold the felt in half to make a triangle, and make symmetrical marks on both sides of the same corner.

Fold the other two ends and outline at the same distance as in the first case, so that the candy cane is smooth. Then punch holes with a hole punch and fasten the four corners together, threading the string through the holes and tying the bows. The result is something more like a bag. In order for the product to stand normally on the surface, it is necessary to flash the base from four sides. The bottom will be very stable due to the density of the material.

Now, to your taste, you can decorate with embroidery, braid or applique. You can fold a pattern from a twine and sew it to the sides from one or all sides. At the bottom, lay a cut out piece of leather to further seal it.

Very soulful gifts are obtained, hand-made. Scarves, hats, mittens and gloves, socks, slippers and sweaters - this is what always warms in cold weather, and every birthday, putting on a knitted thing, will mentally thank you. You can make decorative pillows and foot rollers by linking the cover to them with a fancy pattern. Beautiful tablecloths and curtains, crocheted by individual parts and sewn together, look amazing.

Handmade soap is another useful and always needed present. The set can be supplemented with scented candles, bath salt and nicely packaged in a basket, covering the bottom with small pebbles or finely chopped corrugated paper. It is very simple to make soap and if you decide to try, then it is worth stocking up with such materials:

• soap base;
• mold for filling;
• essential oils;
• dyes;
• olive oil.

Then the soap base must be cut into pieces and melt in a water bath, stirring constantly. The mass should not boil. Add one third of a teaspoon of olive oil to one hundred grams of the base.If you overdo it with oil, the soap will not foam. Next, add flavorings, dyes, other natural ingredients:

• cereals;
• honey;
• coffee;
• citrus fruit zest;
• cosmetic salt or clay.

When all the components are assembled, pour into a mold and leave to cool. That's all, the soap is ready.

Beautifully complement and create a cozy atmosphere in the apartment candles. Doing it yourself is easy. We will conduct a small master class on their manufacture at home.

Necessary materials:

• forms;
• wax;
• paraffin;
• cotton thread in the form of a wick;
• pencil;
• a cup for melting wax.

Place the wick in the fill mold, tying it to the pencil in advance, and place it horizontally on the neck of the mold. Melt wax or paraffin, by the way, it’s not necessary to buy them - you can use any old candles for this. Then pour a little to the bottom to fix the wick in the middle and let it harden.

When the wick is fixed, add the remaining molten wax and cool. You can add sparkles for decoration, colored wax pencils to give a bright shade, aromatic oils. Then, when ignited, the candle will exude a delicate aroma. Wax pencils are added when kindling. After a day, cut the wick, leaving the tip of such a length that it was convenient to light.

Alternatively, you can make several different colors and pour them in turn, after solidification of the previous layer.

Homemade wall clocks are another good gift option. They can be made from special blanks that are sold in the store, or you can come up with something of your own. From plywood, for example, cut a blank of any shape, drill a hole for the mechanism and arrows, decorate, paint - and a useful gift is ready. As a basis, you can take vinyl records, wooden slats, an old wheel from a bicycle, a hoop, a cut of a tree trunk and so on.

A common technique is quilling. This is a form of applied art when a composition is created from twisted paper tubes. It turns out light, airy, but requires perseverance. You can make an application on a solid, flat base in the form of a panel or create a voluminous craft with your own hands.

Can buy ready-made quilling kit or cut the colored stripes yourself. The minimum set for making crafts in this technique:

• colored strips of paper;
• scissors;
• glue;
• wooden skewers or a special awl;
• compass or ruler with round holes.

First of all, spiral modules are created. Screw a strip of paper onto the skewer, fix the edge with glue and remove. If you need a free spiral, then glue the edge after it is a little untwisted. After that various elements are formed in the form of a drop, an oval, petals, squares, hearts, and so on by compressing the spiral with your fingers in the right places.

There are still open spirals when the edge of the paper does not stick. Thus, various curls, twigs, horns, hearts and others are created. After all the elements are ready, you can proceed to the collection of images or bulk crafts. You can collect according to a ready-made scheme, which is included in the quilling kit, or improvise.

Interesting crafts are obtained using the origami technique. They also require perseverance, but watching your favorite movie, creating crafts will be fun.

DIY greeting cards often add origami elements. Paper shirts with ties, dresses, various animals, flowers, bows, boats, stars are attached to the main background - this gives an additional volume and a more interesting look.Often the postcards themselves are an image assembled from paper using the origami technique.

You can make a poster with congratulations. Draw or decorate with paper clippings, magazines or postcards, apply decoupage cards, write congratulations in verse. Collages from photos look great. You can use the photo from small to real age, comment on each with funny, good jokes. If the gift is intended for a loved one, then arrange in the form of a heart from joint photos.

Complement by decorating with metal hearts, keys or floral arrangements.

Sometimes you need to quickly make a small gift for a colleague, client or just a stranger who you want to congratulate, but not spend a lot of effort and money on a present. In this case, fit magnets with beautiful congratulations, sachets, charms for the home, a figure of balloons, a small photo frame decorated to your taste, wooden caskets, the decor of which is made independently, a panel of colored buttons.

You can buy a word from plywood and decorate it, add decorative elements and present. Or stick wooden skewers with chocolates attached to them in a beautiful pot. You get such a peculiar bouquet of sweets.

As an option, From a slate magnetic paper cut out a figure and write wishes on it. Give along with crayons so that the birthday person can attach it to the refrigerator and use it for notes.

A bottle filled with little chocolates that can come up with funny names will cheer up a sweet tooth. Sweets can be called “vitamins of joy”, “dragees, fulfilling wishes”, “magic pills”, “sweets of inspiration” and so on.

USB stick in an interesting, unusual case, which you can also make yourself - a practical and very necessary gift.

Buy a mug with an original print. It can be filled with something sweet and beautifully packaged. Keychain or on a handbag, will make a pleasant impression. If there are many wine corks, then you can quickly and easily create panels of them. Take any frame, cut circles from cork, decorate as you wish and stick to the base, making up the figure. Simple, fast, cheap and beautiful.

Do-it-yourself workshop on creating gifts in the next video.