How to make a gift on February 23 with your own hands?

On the Day of Defender of the Fatherland, many ladies have a choice: what is better to give a beloved man - a purchased or homemade gift? Both that and the other option have their pros and cons. Today we will talk about the handmade presents for February 23.

Homemade gifts, like any other types of gifts, have their own positive and negative qualities. Many girls want to give the men on February 23 a hand-made gift, but they doubt their choice. Let's see what are the pros and cons of these gifts.

First, consider the good of such gifts.

• DIY giftwill be unique. The man will not meet anything like this in the shops, because this is your handicraft.
• Manually you can make a lot of different things: from simple to very intricate. If you do everything correctly and without haste, you can end up with a very beautiful gift that is in no way inferior to the store version.
• Such a gift can cost a small amount. At the same time, the low price will in no way affect the quality and attractiveness of the homemade product.
• Homemade gifts usually more valued are valued, because it is in them that the craftswoman puts her soul. A normal man will definitely appreciate such a gift, and at the same time the talents of the girl who made it.
• Perhaps in the store you can not find exactly what you need the defender of the Fatherland. It is here that a gift made with your own hands will become a “lifeline”. You can do with your own hands what you did not find on sale.

The advantages of such gifts quite a lot. Often the girls are attracted by the process of making these gifts, because here you can let go of the fantasy and create a real work of art that will delight a man. However, we must bear in mind the fact that gifts made by hand, have some drawbacks.

• Often for the production of a beautiful present, whether it is souvenirs, jewelry or knitted things, it takes quite a lot of time.
• If a girl can not boast of great skills in needlework, it will not be so easy for her to make a good gift.
• As a rule, men are positive about homemade gifts. But there are such cases when these gifts do not suit them. In this case, it must be borne in mind that the hero of the occasion neglects the work of the girl. From this it is necessary to draw the appropriate conclusions.

There are a great many varieties of spectacular and useful gifts for February 23 that can be made with your own hands. For their manufacture uses a variety of materials. 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 gifts for the defenders of the Fatherland can be made with your own hands on February 23.

A very unusual and unique gift can be presented to a guy on February 23 - a photo on a tree. This is not just a photo, but a real work of art that looks very original and interesting. To independently make such a thing, you will need the following materials:

• A4 paper;
• cross section of the tree;
• small brush or roller;
• special acrylic gel medium;
• plastic card;
• clean rag.

Further it is necessary to figure out how to step by step you can personally make this nontrivial gift.

• Choose the most successful photo. In a graphics editor, mirror the image so that it changes to a 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, treat the wood cut with a gel. The layer of this composition should be at the maximum uniform and even - not too thin, but not too thick.
• While the gel is not fixed yet, Attach a leaflet with a prepared photograph to the wood. To work more conveniently, pre-crop the photo, moving along the contour.
• Align the paper part by dispensing a plastic card. 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 crafts for 8 hoursso that it dries to the end. After that, it will be necessary to take a damp cloth, wet it with a paper part and 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 varnish.

From a sheet of plywood for a guy you can make a souvenir - a beautiful airplane. Before making such a presentation, you first need to prepare materials. It is done this way.

• Need to make a drawing a plane of plywood.
• Prepare a souvenir template, so that it can be cut out of a sheet of plywood. Print it at the required scale.
• Pick up the plywood suitable sizes.
• Putting into the business of carbon paper, transfer the scheme to a plywood sheet.
• Cut 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 – cutting out and assembling the aircraft.

• First you need to cut out all the details moving along the contours. Leave allowances of 0.5-1 mm.
• Next on the sites where it will be necessary to make through holes, drill out starting slots with a drill. Then they insert a jigsaw blade and make cuts.
• Edges of all elements sandpaper is treated to give them the final neat shape.
• All parts must be connectedbased on the scheme. In this case it is necessary to use the protrusions and openings that are present on the plywood blanks. To fix the more reliable, you should use a special glue for wood.
• Glued elements it is necessary to clamp clamps in the correct position.

After that, you can proceed to the final design of the souvenir. It needs to be polished, primed with a mixture, and then painted. Above the paint it is permissible to apply a layer of varnish.

You can make a plane out of plywood with your own hands, but here you need to be patient and have all the necessary tools. If you step by step on the instructions and use the correct templates, the design will be of high quality and beautiful.

One of the most popular homemade gifts are various knitted items. You can please a man or a guy for February 23 with a cozy warm sweater, a luxurious scarf, socks or knitted mittens. Such gifts best demonstrate good relations between people. There are different options for creating comfortable men's things. You can knit beautiful and warm gift accessories or garments like crocheting and knitting.

If you want to give a man a more original and bright knitted gift, then you can take up making tapko-tanks. Such things are so called because they are slippers shaped like miniature tanks. They can be made from high-quality knitting yarn or other varieties. It is not too easy to knit such slippers, but in the end you can get a really unusual and creative gift that a man will definitely be happy about.

Another interesting idea for a knitted gift is a hat made of yarn. In this case, the knight's helmet is meant. Such a thing will be a very original and funny gift. It is recommended to give it to young guys with a good sense of humor. Often, these accessories knit for boys.

Very beautiful and useful gifts for the defenders of the Fatherland can be made from such material as felt. Felt can be very impressive to decorate even the most trivial and inexpensive gift. For example, this may be an ordinary mug in a felt frame.

To create such an unusual and funny gift, you need to prepare the following materials:

• any mug;
• several multi-colored patchwork felt clippings;
• cardboard;
• sticky clasp;
• small buttons.

With all these components, you can start making the original gift.

• Pattern of such a present will look like the one below. It should be applied to the paper sheet. After that, the resulting pattern 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 sew them, but just glue them together - act as you prefer.
• Need to remember the fine details. - pocket with handkerchiefs and ties. With such elements, the handicraft will look much more interesting and brighter.
• Decorate little felt jackets sewn buttons to make it look as realistic and natural as possible.
• There is no need to completely sew the resulting cup case. You can instead build a convenient velcro closure. If the latest in your arsenal is not available, then you can instead use a button or crochet.

From felt you can make a bright red star, and then attach it to a knitted budenovka. Sew such item to the knitted product must be manually. If you plan to make such a spectacular craft, then you need to start as soon as possible, because it will hardly take less than a week to make.

On February 23, you can give the guy a delicious edible gift. 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 a separate beautiful jar with delicious sweets or sweet peas, and then arrange such a gift as an improvised “bottle of happiness”.

Candy can make a variety of delicious compositions. To do this, for example, you can pre-cut a dense mold, and then attach a lot of sweets to its surface. Either it is permissible to pick up in the store ready set of different sweets.

Another relevant sweet gift for a man on February 23 - beautiful and lush cake. It is desirable to add a large and expressive greetings.If there are no abilities to create such desserts, then it is possible to form a spectacular and unusual cake from different products. For example, it may be a composition of chocolates bonded to each other.

You can make a more original gift with fantasy. An interesting option - a bouquet of various products. For example, it can be a hearty combination of smoked sausages, chili peppers and smoked cheese. It is possible to 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, wrapping such edible bouquets in paper bags.

With woven materials you can give free rein to your imagination. From textiles it will turn out to make a lot of useful and beautiful gifts. Here is a list of the most popular and useful items:

• you can sew a neat bag for a tablet or mobile phone;
• You can apply images printed on a printer to a monochrome fabric with the help of thermal paper and an iron - this way you can effectively decorate, for example, a decorative pillow;
• using fabric you can build a small headphone case;
• with a cloth, it will be nice to arrange bottles with alcoholic drinks, handed as a gift.

You can make an original gift of socks. It should be done like this. To make a bouquet more vivid and original, it is desirable to stock up on socks of different colors. If your man prefers only dark gray or black socks, then they can be diluted with instances painted in light gray color, adding to the "bouquet" on top.

The original way you can hand and men's pants. To present them just like that will be too boring. It is better to make the original tanks of the panties. Most conveniently they will be formed using socks. Such a simple composition as a result may look very unusual.

From February 23 beads you can build beautiful little gifts that a man should appreciate. From such accessories you can make a variety of gifts. For example, it is possible to make a small present in the form of a mug of beer with froth over the edges.

Bright and expressive look charms made of beads, made in the form of flags. There are many options for what can be done. Here you are limited only by your own fantasy.

To make beautiful keychain in the shape of a beer mugshould follow a specific pattern. If everything is done correctly, then such a gift will turn out not only beautiful, but also reliable, and will become the eternal companion of its new owner.

You can make a lot of interesting and beautiful handicrafts from foamiran, which will not be a shame to give to a man or a guy on February 23. Let us consider in detail how you can create a nice tank from this raw material.

To work you need the following components:

• 8 strips of ordinary or glitter snow-white foamiran (thickness should be no more than 2 mm - for traveling wheels);
• 2 strips of simple green tint material, the thickness of which is no more than 1 mm (for the top of the tower);
• 4 strips of green foamiran (for the lower half of the tower);
• 1 strip of raw material for the tank halves 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 barrel;
• strass green tire;
• 2 squares of foamiran of scarlet color - for stars;
• 10 semi-beads with a diameter of 6 mm.

Now we will analyze how to build a tank in stages.

• Prepare strips. Instead of foamiran it is possible to use felt.
• Cut strips of white material. Each tightly twist, glue the tips. Wind the strip tightly so that all the 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 along the edges, attach the wheels.
• Residual material cover the top of the wheels. Seal the tips of the strip.
• Glue the prepared strip into dense cylinders.
• Cut from strass ribbon 2 double winding strips on 2 sides of the side track section. Glue the strips, connect the tips.
• Glue a small piece material on a toothpick. Smooth out. Glue small flagella on the tip of the barrel.
• Glue the tower to the body of the machine. In front of the tower glue the trunk.
• Now prepare half beads and red foamiran. Cut out from the last two stars. Stick them on the tank.
• Glue the black half-beads in the middle of the wheels on both sides. Another couple of beads attach to the top of the tower and the hole of the trunk.

On February 23, you can hand a man his own soap. It is made in several ways. In each case, it is necessary to strictly observe the recipe and all stages of preparation. On such a holiday is to pick the appropriate molds. The following options are appropriate:

• dark soap in the form of a grenade;
• in the form of a red star;
• a small green tank;
• in the form of the number 23 of different colors.

Polymer clay can be made a great variety of various handicrafts to give them to a man or a guy on February 23. From this material are very beautiful statues, magnets, key rings and other trifles. You can work with this raw material at home.

Polymer clay can be used on different bases. For example, it can be a pen and a finished case. If you correctly decorate them with such material, you get a very original and expensive looking gift to a man.

On February 23 you can give a man a cute and inexpensive gift made of paper. There are many different techniques, based on which will turn out to form an attractive paper composition.

• You can make a beautiful card or a figure on a flat basis on the technique of quilling. With this technology, paper parts are twisted into small curls, while a toothpick is fixed in their center. Of these elements you can make very beautiful and original compositions.
• Very unusual and attractive gift can be formed from paper, following a technique called scrapbooking. This is a special kind of handmade art that is most often applied to family albums. Scrapbooking involves posting on the basis of various photographs, newspaper clippings and records. On February 23, you can make a stylized composition with red stars, a flag and other similar details.
• The most popular and famous technique is origami. Following it, you can make paper figures of various shapes. This may be a small tank, a large red star, imitation of military uniforms and other compositions in this direction.

A gift for February 23 must be beautifully issued. There are many original ways to decorate gift wrapping. Consider the most interesting solutions.

• Can use packagingLooking like a business suit or a tuxedo is the perfect solution for a men's party.
• Very interesting topical solution - wooden box, tidied and painted in military style.
• You can use a regular craft pack congratulations on February 23.
• You can take boxes of different sizes (by the size of the gifts). It is permissible to issue them, wrapped in newspaper sheets and secured with tape.
• Bottles with alcoholic beverages You can make a striped fabric, the shape of which is similar to the sleeves.

You can hand black handmade soap in the shape of a gun and in the form of a regular rectangular piece with relief embossed on it.

Extraordinary Present for February 23 - small bouquet of salted dried fish. You can wrap this composition of food with a newspaper sheet with a bright red ribbon. You can add a similar gift with a couple of bottles of beer.

Can make interesting composition of panties and socks in the form of a tank, supplement it with a homemade barrel of paper or cardboard. Wind the last part with a string and fasten with it a small red flag in this place.

Bouquet of black and white rolled socks It will look much more interesting and brighter if it is complemented with a thin blue woven material.

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