Not everyone can boast of the presence of loyal and faithful friends, because 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 what gift to choose - buy it or make it in person. Each person is individual, therefore it is worthwhile to weigh the concrete variant well, which is planned as a present. To surprise your girlfriend and make her day unforgettable, it is best to come up with some interesting and original gift, made with your own hands.
Options paper crafts
If you want to do something special for your friend for your birthday, then you should initially decide on the possible options and preferences of the birthday girl. You can independently:
- to sew;
- to tie;
- cut and glue;
- to make
The simplest option available for almost everyone is paper. The most natural birthday gift is a postcard, because it is with it that you can start working.. For homemade products need a thick decorative cardboard and accessories needed for decoration. With experience, the creation of such a present will not take more than an hour, and inexperienced hand-makers will have to spend more than one day, and use several attempts before you get the desired type of finished product.
The size of the postcard does not play a key role, but when conceiving a composition, it is necessary to calculate the space necessary for it so that all elements are neatly and correctly arranged. So that the gift was not only pleasant, but also interesting, you should think about what exactly will be on the cover of the card and inside it.
The most correct will be orientation to the interests of a friend or her interests.
If a girl loves sports, then a postcard can contain sports equipment in the form of a step platform, stretching mat, dumbbells and fitballs. For a lover of animals, you can put a variety of cats and dogs, hamsters and guinea pigs, all who will be pleased to see a friend. For a girl who enjoys the cultivation of flowers, the most correct will 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 the original frame, and this will be quite enough. As the most congratulations can be poems, a mini-story or the standard version, which is found on postcards. It’s best to come up with the words yourself, but if you don’t get it right, you can search for a hint on the Internet
Another original option for congratulating your girlfriend will be the creation of a box. It can be both wooden and cardboard. The first option is more difficult to make, and not always the material is available, whereas a paper product will be affordable and fairly simple to create. First of all, it is important to find the most dense cardboard and beautiful paper with which the finished product will be decorated. The casket can be designed for jewelry, or you can put sweets in it, which will also be very nice.
To make the product tidy, you should try to make it out of ordinary A4 sheets, check all the calculations, and if necessary, correct them.
The presence of postcards and caskets is already a great option for presenting to a friend, but you can please her with another hand-made product when using paper. The final chord can be homemade photo frame with a picture inside. To create also need to be cardboard and decorative items. 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 seen.
Two parts can be glued together, connected with double-sided tape or stitched with decorative threads. As decorative elements, voluminous corrugated paper flowers, all kinds of hearts, beautiful buttons, rhinestones, sparkles and everything that would be appropriate and logical to complement the product can act.
You can also do it yourself for your friend:
- Hawaiian-style floral wreath;
- original notebook;
- Photo album;
- homemade book and so on.
The choice of a gift for a friend will depend on the time available for preparation, paperwork skills and the desire to do something amazing for the birthday girl.
What can you draw?
If the best friend is just about to have a birthday, and there is still no gift, it is worth seriously choosing it. Not always in the store or on the Internet you can find exactly what is suitable for a particular person, because sometimes you should first assess the situation, think about your girlfriend's hobbies - and the right option will come by itself.
In the presence of artistic talent, you can please with original drawings and paintings of dear people for any occasion. A friend will definitely be happy 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, the queen, the femme fatale, or any other option that will reveal the girl from a completely different side. In this case, the main thing is not to overdo it, choosing the image that the birthday woman dreams of, or the one that loves.
If you want to create something fun, then a cartoon or cartoon portrait of a girlfriend would be an excellent option.
If you don't want to be predictable, then An interesting option would be a drawn poster, which can also be a certain plot: girl of the year, lady May, best athlete of the millennium, world singer, and so on. You can create a poster in the form of a poster or calendar, exactly recreating the calendar for the current year. The size of such a gift can also vary from A4 sheet to drawing paper, which will occupy half a wall of a friend’s room.
As a good homemade gift can be painted items, for example, caskets, figurines, ceramics, and the plot of the drawing should be close and understandable to the birthday girl.
If you have a lot of time, you can create a whole book, the main character of which will be the best friend. In addition to the original plot, the gift will be hand-crafted illustrations for each of the important scenes of the story. Painted gifts can be of any size, applied on different surfaces, as long as they make the proper impression on the birthday girl and make her happy.
Cooking useful gifts
A birthday present is chosen not only from the desire to present something beautiful or pleasant, some prefer practical options. If a friend belongs to this type, then you can give her:
- knitted gloves;
- stitched summer bag;
- decorated flower pot;
- originally designed coffee cup;
- eye mask for comfortable sleep, sewn with your own hands;
- Handmade soap;
- scented candle.
Each of the gifts made by hand, must carry certain benefits, be necessary in everyday life or in other situations. If a girlfriend loves knitted things, you can make a vest for her or take a crocheted tie.
For the lover of a large number of decorative elements in the room, you can sew original pillowcases with or without a pattern, donating them separately or with pillows.
If you need to prepare a gift for an anniversary, then you should come up with something special, so that a friend can use the gift every day, remembering about the donor. Among the things most used that can be done independently, it is worth to highlight the dishes. If you wish, you can go to 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-scale gift, because a set of two cups with saucers in the original design will be quite enough.
Acceptable practical gift can be knitted or stitched bag. The first option can combine the work of knitting and crochet, to make the basis and beautiful patterns. For originality it is worth using different color combinations to get some specific pattern or pattern. A stitched product can be made on a sewing machine or manually, depending on the situation.
The important point is the choice of fabric for the base, pens, and decorative items that complement the look of the bag.
A good gift can be considered an apron to work in the kitchen, especially if a friend likes to do cooking. For sewing products you can find a beautiful pattern, buy a suitable fabric and create an individual thing that no one else will have. Especially pleasant element will be the embroidery: “Beloved Friend” or “On the Birthday of the Friend”.
And also useful and functional can be considered hand made slippers. This is not a very complicated product, but it will allow you to take care of your friend and warm her legs during the cold season. In order to succeed, it is very important to know the size of the birthday woman's shoes, to choose the right material so that it is not prickly, too dense, very soft. Shoes must keep fit, look presentable and be comfortable.
If you want to make an original, but useful gift, you can build non-standard USB flash drive using for this lipstick and the device itself. Lipstick should be completely removed from the body, and inside, instead of it, is placed a flash drive. Such an unexpected gift will surprise your girlfriend, but you’ll definitely like it.
A variety of useful and necessary gifts will depend on the type of activity of the birthday woman, lifestyle and hobbies, knowing that you can quickly choose 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 use purchased candy, but you can try something more original. One solution may be the creation of sweets by hand using natural ingredients that are to the taste of a friend.
If a girl is watching her body shape and health, then she will appreciate such a sign of attention, because homemade sweets will be less high in calories and more useful. They can be packed in a cardboard box, which is beautifully decorated with gift wrapping paper.
An original and pleasant sweet surprise can be cake with mastic, decorated with flowers, figurines or festive inscription. Especially profitable will look at the photo on the cake, which can also be done at home.
If there is no talent to bake cakes, you can try your hand at making chocolate. It is important to find a proven and good recipe, try several times, and only then begin to work on a holiday gift.
The advantage in this case is the possibility of creating such a product that absolutely definitely will appeal to a friend, adding all the relevant ingredients to it.
To make a sweet gift look spectacular, you should invent and design 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 the favorite sweets of 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 a normal birthday, and for the anniversary.
Original ideas for homemade gifts
If you want to surprise your beloved friend and present something that she does not expect, you should spend some time thinking. Many girls love when they are given flowers, but there are those who care about plant protection and ask not to give them cut bouquets. 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, a fabric will work, the best is an atlas. The product can be in the form of a standard bouquet or be decorated with an original pendant or a statuette.
The color scheme of such artificial bouquets can be very diverse - from standard shades inherent in living plants, to completely magical and unseen. 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 succeed in making 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 a friend such an opportunity, you should do it yourself. album with photos of the most important and significant events that have been throughout your friendship. If there are few pictures, then it is best to create a photo frame in which the most important frames and moments of the birthday woman's life will be placed.
If a friend believes in signs and omens, you can independently make her amulets or useful trifles that will always protect her, bringing calm and regularity into her life. The easiest option would be weaving a bracelet against the evil eye, but you can also make a pendant as a supplement. If you wish, there is an opportunity to build a likeness of a hare's foot, which should bring good luck. And for those who like to interpret dreams, a dream catcher and dream catcher made especially for a friend will be a great gift.
Opportunities to surprise a girlfriend for a birthday can be a mass, most importantly, set a goal for yourself, and go towards its realization. To get a gift, you should not hurry with its embodiment, it is better to practice a couple of times, to make a few samples, in order to get a perfect finished product.
It is worth remembering that saving on materials is not worth it, for a beautiful card you need to buy only professional paper, for a smart 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 in everything. A good birthday present for a friend is another proof of love for her and strengthening friendship for many years.
For information on how to make gifts with your own hands to your friend for your birthday, see the following video.