How to make a gift for your sister with your own hands?

On the eve of the women's holiday, I want to please everyone with close attention - mom, grandmother, sister. And when it comes to birthday, the gift is prepared in advance, with special trepidation and care. You can make a gift to your sister with your own hands, even if you do not have special artistic talents. All you need is desire, free time and creativity.

The original and completely non-nutritious cake will surely impress the sister: taking into account the fact that each piece is filled with warm wishes, such food for the soul will not leave the birthday girl indifferent

Paper Cake - this is by and large a package, not an independent gift. In neat, "mouth-watering for the eyes" pieces you can hide anything - from sweets (if associations with sweets are inevitable) to jewelry.

With the help of a paper cake, you can present to your beloved sister several gifts at once (up to 12). By the way, very often this idea is picked up by young people who intend to invite the girl to marry on her birthday. The sister of the birthday girl can help the guy in this: you make a cake out of paper, and in one of its pieces there will be a ring.

Manufacturing Tips:

• in the preparation of such a cake, the guideline goes to one color scale, if you use several colors, they should not be resonant;
• if the cake is too bright and colorful, this is probably a gift for the little sister, girls and women will use cakes decorated in calmer colors;
• all pieces of cake are connected with a satin ribbon in color - fastens seamlessly, but quite firmly;
• try to decorate a piece of cake both outside and inside - rhinestones, beads, designer paper, sequins, buttons and so on.

By the way, modern printers quite cope with color office paperboard. This greatly simplifies all the work. You can buy such printer paper individually or in whole packaging. It comes either with a finished pattern, or with embossing, or plain.

You need to think about color: just pink or just pistachio - it's a little boring. If we already have the theme of desserts, then you can give a paper cake with the maximum imitation of the present. Taking a stationery decorative paper rich chocolate shades, you will draw a chocolate cake. You can beat strawberry dessert, ice cream cake, and even Napoleon.

After the template is printed and cut:

• bend the paper in areas with a dashed line (they are called - the place of bending), press with scissors, the paper will become even;
• there are places on the template that are left for gluing - do not go beyond these boundaries, use glue stick, the most accurate and easy to use;
• the last square part that actually closes the cake does not need to be glued, this is done only at the moment when a gift is placed inside (or a wish).

After all the pieces are cut and glued, the time for decoration comes. And here are a lot of options: conduct an audit of the possible jewelry that you already have, if necessary, buy the rest.

If, for example, you already know how to work with crepe paper, you can decorate a cake with flowers made from it. Crepe paper produces the most natural roses and peonies, daffodils, cornflowers and so on. And if you imitate a Soviet cake generously decorated with roses, such decorative paper will help out a lot.

You can also decorate a cake:

• ruffles made of bright serpentine;
• colored felt rainbow;
• small beads;
• rhinestones of various sizes and textures;
• bows (paper or ribbon);
• three-dimensional images of everything sweet - marmalade, marshmallows, dragees, muffins and so on.

The chic decor finds a cake decorated using the quilling technique.

Another not very difficult and very inexpensive gift option (both intended for the younger sister, and made by the hands of the younger). A casket is an integral attribute of a girl's dressing table, the room as a whole. And very often, it’s not the storefront, typical products, but the amazing alterations of old boxes that become your favorite caskets. With your own hands, you can turn an ordinary box into a designer thing!

Consider how to design a box.

• The cloth. This option is the most spectacular and most affordable. Your task is to find a fabric that will ideally look inside the casket, and in addition to it, select the material that advantageously forms the casket from the outside. Very often an ordinary chintz copes with this task very well, and a box in the style of Provence or country turns out to be just authentic. Braids, lace ribbons, buttons are actively used in this design.
• Self-adhesive paper under the skin. This is not just a PVC film, but a dense material that really resembles genuine leather. It is sold in different shades and degrees of density. It cuts well, sticks well, and the box will look quite natural. Inside the box can be glued with a cloth. For example, a box of thick white leather with a red lining inside looks simply incomparable.
• Painting. If the box is made of thick cardboard that can be painted well, you can take, for example, acrylic paint for wood, and properly primer the box. And then you can paint it or decorate using decoupage technique.But do not forget about the inside of the product, it should not leave any hint that the box was previously an ordinary box.
• Lace. You can completely trim the box with lace. Lining fabric is suitable for interior decoration. In the center of the lid, you can fix a beautiful button, or do something like a brooch, any pretty element that will be the final touch.

Very often, a gift in the form of an impression is remembered much more than something materially significant. If you want to please your sister, return her to childhood. For example, have a picnic in nature. Take with you everything that was adored in childhood (even if it is not very useful) - chocolate dragees, sweet soda, chips and so on. Take along the rubber bands that you like to jump into in your childhood: you will be surprised to learn that you remember almost all the movements.

If you still have magazines that you collected as a child, great! To consider childhood idols and read the news of those times is very atmospheric. For a picnic, be sure to download music that was popular in those years - for example, "Ivanushka" or "Hands Up" into your phone. Even if your sister is already over thirty, this does not mean that she never wants to return to her childhood.

In such an environment, you can present the same paper cake or casket, the holiday will be absolutely unusual, because from start to finish you organized it yourself, did it yourself. Sometimes it’s worth getting away from restaurant or standard home gatherings, replacing them with something more original and unexpected.

Gifts often need time and desire, rather than a large amount of money. It is remembered that which comes from the soul, and that where you feel your desire to please a loved one.

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