Not everyone can afford to make a costly gift to his mother, sister, wife, daughter, friend or colleague on March 8. Cute surprises, created by hand, allow you to express your love, cheer up both the person who receives them and the person who creates them. A homemade gift will be an alternative, for example, to the miracle of shopping equipment or the clothing industry, or will complement the main part of the gift set.
Crocheted gifts
The one who knows how to crochet is in an advantageous position, because without much stress can make a gift on March 8 to a close woman.
- Mom, grandmother, aunt will appreciate the beautiful openwork shawl or palatine. It can be tied as a single canvas according to the scheme, and you can apply the technique, for example, Irish lace, although this option is much more complicated, more expensive, and takes a lot of time compared to regular knitting.
- Creative knitted toys will be suitable for your sister or girlfriend, for example, in the spirit of amigurumi. For work, you can take the thread that is at hand, so as not to plunge yourself into big expenses.
- A common and useful gift for the Eighth of March for many close women - socks, slippers, hats. The one who does not knit for the first day, during the evening will connect a cozy beautiful thing.
- There are a lot of schemes on the Internet, according to which 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.
- Crochet can bind and jewelrysuitable for a particular style of dress.
- An interesting option - crocheted swimsuit. He will appreciate the lover of travel to the sea.
- 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.
Knitting opens up great opportunities for creating unique and practical gifts. And if there is a talent in this matter, it is worth using it.
Wood or plywood options
A person who can handle a tree is able to create interesting things from it. It can be a gift arrangement of flowers and a figure 8 carved from plywood, or a carved box. For the most beloved woman, you can create a real handmade masterpiece, which will envy all her friends and acquaintances.
To make not the most primitive wooden gifts by yourself, special equipment is required.
But it is possible, using natural materials as the basis, to cut out from them the original composition, the idea of which lies in the form of the snag or stump itself.
A piece of plywood allows you to create a wooden postcard, which can be decorated using a device for burning.
Even a child can create a cutting board or a wooden rolling pin for the mother as part of the lesson.
And if a gift from a tree, in fact, is very simple, you can give it a charm, for example, by painting it. Even wooden blanks that are sold in the shop of creativity, which will allow you to create an original thing for someone who does not know how to handle such material, will be suitable for such refinement.
How to congratulate a woman with sweets?
If a woman does not have a fad about eating sweet, by March 8, she can make an edible gift, for example, bake a cupcake for a mother or girlfriend. Products for it need the most common:
- a pair of eggs;
- banana;
- margarine - 100 grams;
- flour (glass);
- baking powder;
- incomplete glass of sugar;
- coconut flakes.
The procedure for creating a dish is as follows:
- soft margarine grind with sugar;
- break eggs into a bowl and stir them with a fork;
- add to margarine and sugar;
- all together beat a blender;
- grind a banana and add to the total weight;
- mix all ingredients well;
- add flour, baking powder;
- make a thin dough;
- pour it into a pre-oiled mold;
- baking tank 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 present such a gift on the occasion of a holiday in the morning, making tea or coffee, and also adding a funny card or warm words to a close woman.
Instead of a cupcake, you can make candy. This will be a real exquisite sweet gift that every lady will appreciate. To make truffles you need to take the following products:
- chocolate (white) - 200 grams;
- grams 70 butter from cow cream;
- cream - 3 tablespoons;
- on a pinch of vanillin and salt;
- powdered sugar - 60 grams.
The manufacture is as follows:
- chop two thirds of the available chocolate;
- add butter, vanilla, salt and cream;
- place in the microwave for 2 minutes, stirring the mass every 30 seconds;
- removing from the oven, how to stir;
- if the result is not satisfied, you can still warm in the microwave;
- cover the resulting mass with foil;
- put in the fridge for 2 hours to make the mixture harder;
- using a spoon (tea) to form balls;
- put each in a bowl of powdered sugar to make the powder stick on top;
- put candies on a baking paper-covered dish and refrigerate for another 2 hours;
- chop the remnants of chocolate and melt in the microwave;
- achieve mass uniformity;
- strung each candy on a skewer, dipped in chocolate;
- sprinkle with coconut flakes or chopped nuts;
- To hold the truffles laid on parchment in the refrigerator for at least 15 minutes.
To give such a wonderful gift, you need a beautiful box.
You can take the finished packaging or do it yourself.
Crafts from newspaper tubes
It would seem that a read newspaper or a magazine is rubbish, however, there are many enthusiastic people who make very practical things or beautiful souvenirs out of it. It can be an original vase, bottle stand, panel, candy pot, basket and so on.
It is important that the source material, tubules, be under your hands.
To make them, the newspaper is cut into strips and then rolled up. To do this, you can use a needle or rod, which is placed on a newspaper strip obliquely on a flat surface. It remains to wrap the tip, and, pressing the needle to the table, make a straw. Fix the tip with paper glue.
A person who has no experience in weaving from such blanks, you can create a simple vase, taking as a basis the tube from the towel. It should be pasted in a circle with chopsticks, setting them vertically so that they are tightly pressed to each other.
For bonding components using glue PVA. When it dries, the top of the "fence" of the glued tubes can be cut. The cut can be smooth, wavy or with a protrusion on one side - a matter of taste and fantasy.
Fully dried vase remains to be painted with gouache and to create a decor in the technique that is most preferable and familiar to the craftsman. The last stage of the work is the processing of colorless varnish. You can apply several layers of this composition, waiting for the previous layer to dry.
Beautiful beaded souvenirs
Beads gives a lot of room for creativity.The master of his craft will create from such of the material:
- beautiful decorations;
- animal figures;
- original flower arrangements.
Even those who only master the art of working with beads, for example, a child, will create a simple composition with an eight and primitive leaflets and mimosa flowers.
There are many books with patterns of weaving from beads. You can find this information on the Internet. Of all the variety of options for beginners, you should choose the most simple ones to make a beautiful, soulful gift in the form of a brooch or a bunch of fancy flowers.
Original fabric ideas
In an advantageous position are donors who are able to handle the fabric and similar materials. Although unpretentious textile gifts can sew and schoolchild. Among the gifts may be:
- pillows;
- pot holders;
- needle beds;
- toys;
- clothes;
- covers;
- elegant bags for storing bulk products;
- bags.
Cushions will never be a commonplace gift. Each such thing, made by hand, is unique. If desired, you can create a whole set of such functional accessories, harmoniously combining them with furniture. Covers for them can be embroidered or decorated with an appliqué, they can be created using patchwork technique.
The very pillow - to give a funny toy look, making it look like a funny cat, dog, elephant and so on.
Many women will be delighted with the kitchen kit, which includes hot mittens, an apron, a towel, and napkins. It is not necessary to devote time to fine finishing the kit. It is easier to choose a fabric with a cheerful print and carefully sew each item that comes into the headset.
For gifts, among other things, you can use ribbons that allow you to make bright decorations using the kanzashi technique, as well as decorate the box and create an original composition. A wonderful souvenir can be made from foamiran, which opens up the possibility of creating voluminous shapes and colors that are indistinguishable in appearance from real ones.
It is interesting to decorate with roses from this material, for example, a box of 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;
- preparation from polyfoam;
- cardboard;
- scissors;
- skewer;
- ruler.
The sequence of making a gift looks like this:
- using the ruler and skewers, squeeze the outlines of squares for future petals of 2.5 x 2.5 centimeters in size on the foamiran;
- cut out;
- pastel paint over half of each square to give shade;
- smoothly cut off the 2 corners of 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 gluing the petals in a circle;
- make a box of cardboard and a cover for it;
- glue green cardboard for decoration;
- glue the foam cap on the cover;
- paint over the color to match the box;
- gently glue the roses.
It remains to fill the box with sweets and congratulate the one to whom the gift is intended.
Cozy homemade flowers are obtained from felt. A master class for making such a unfading bouquet involves the use of materials:
- felt green and pink;
- beautiful basket (round);
- template for flowers;
- floristic wire;
- glue;
- twine;
- moss;
- plastic rug;
- kraft paper.
Also need:
- glue;
- scissors;
- the pencils;
- pliers.
The procedure is as follows:
- paper cut templates for sepals and bulk roses - the easiest way to draw yourself;
- circle the pattern for the rose on pink felt;
- cut out;
- for the middle of a flower made of felt of a lighter shade, cut a strip of about 1x5 cm in size;
- make cuts on it every 3 mm;
- roll the blank into a voluminous rose with a lighter bud in the center;
- fix with glue;
- cut the sepal on the contours outlined on the felt;
- cut a piece of wire of the desired length;
- put on the sepal and glue;
- attach a rose on top;
- in such a way to make the planned number of colors;
- from a plastic mat (you can see a thick cardboard) cut a circle to the size of the bottom of the basket;
- put moss in the tank;
- insert roses into it, cutting the stems to a suitable size;
- to wrap a gift paper and tie a string of twine.
To create a gift bouquet basket is optional. You can limit the creation of flowers, under which it is enough to choose a beautiful vase.
What else can you give?
A beautiful idea is to present original candles as a gift. Even if it is not given to a person to create masterpieces from paraffin, stearin or wax (although there are people who succeed in this), you can make a nice gift using elegant mugs. It is enough to melt an ordinary candle, pour it into the selected container and insert a wick.
Home-made candles can also be decorated - cast them in the form of a cube and glue with dried fruit, lemon slices, for example.
The picture in a frame with a refined design of large beads glued around the perimeter also looks unusual.
Everyone can cope with the creation of such a decor. It is enough to show diligence and do everything neatly.
If there is a desire to give a sign of attention to a colleague or a group mate, a decorated pencil glass will be a good present. It will take a bit of coarse fabric, ribbons and ready-made roses from a craft store. And then a little concentration, accuracy - and the gift is ready.
The comb will help to emphasize the beauty of the hair of the owner of the luxurious head of hair. 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.
Along the length of the ridge you need to cut two pieces of tape. With the help of fishing line, threaded into the needle, sew the tape to the scallop through the teeth. Over the same way attach the second so that the leaves were directed in the opposite first direction.
To add decoration with beads. They are glued or also attached with a fishing line.
It is easy to make a hanger for earrings from ordinary ice cream sticks - a simple and elegant gift. Color sticks in different colors, glue together, and ready. Such an original thing worthy will take place on the dresser.
Grandmother or mother can present a notebook as a gift, which will be used for recording new recipes. It is enough to cover the cover with a cloth and decorate it with the appropriate inscription.
You can decorate the book with ribbons or applique.
A set of wooden clothespins from the store can be easily transformed into an original stand for the hot. The gift will be appreciated by any woman who spends much time in the kitchen and pays great attention to her interior. 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 among those who are engaged in soap making. It will be possible to give a fragrant bar of soap any shape, as well as to adjust its composition depending on the needs of the skin of a particular recipient.
A spectacular gift will be a bouquet of beautiful flowers made of corrugated paper with sweets.
From paper you need to cut a lot of petals of the same size. Wrap them with candy, forming elegant buds, attach them to the chopsticks, acting as stalks. Glue to the leaves of green paper. Make a beautiful bouquet. It can be packaged just as they do in a flower shop, and donate.
Great scope for creating presents opens decoupage.
Mom, sister or other close woman will never know in a beautiful box, decorated with the help of this technique, a box from under the things bought in the store. But the memory of the past March 8 will be preserved for years.
Tea bags can turn into a far from trivial gift for a holiday if they are supplemented with photographs.
You need to take coffee filters and cut a pair of identical rectangles.Make a bag of them with a sewing machine. Pour tea into the bag, bend the upper edge of the bag and stitch it on the machine. This way to make the required number of bags.
Now you need to pick up a few photos relevant to the holiday. This may be, for example, images of relatives and friends of the woman, which is planned to donate such a tea set.
Photos will have to process on a computer and print on photo paper or cardboard.
Then thread them to the bags, for example, using a stapler, and put the set in a beautiful gift box.
There are many variants of interesting, memorable gifts for a beautiful spring holiday. Sometimes it is enough to look around, look at the little things that are idle in the house, so that they can suggest a suitable idea.. The rest is a matter of technique and skill.
How to make a postcard for the holiday of March 8, see in the video below.