How to make a birthday present with your own hands?

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

For true lovers of cooking or just gourmets can do unusual set of spices or containers for cereals and bulk seasonings. The spices themselves are selected according to the preferences of the person to whom the gift is intended. You can buy them in the store or make yourself by combining several tastes. Of course, this requires jars for storage. Here it is worth to show imagination.

You can buy beautiful glass jars, or you can make a wonderful set from ordinary small jars of mustard, tomato paste, honey or something else. Beautiful design will turn out with the help of flax, flax lace, dried flowers, leaves or twigs, buttons, beads, beads, cuttings from cardboard, various decorative metal products, decoupage cards, paintings, threads, twine and so on.

You can buy a stand for a set or do it yourself. For this you need plywood or wooden boards. Think about what shape it should be, make two blanks, use the jigsaw to cut out holes a little larger than jars, connect with corners and decorate in a suitable way so that the set looks harmonious. Or simply cover with craquelure or ordinary varnish.

The next creative idea can be handmade candlesticks. They can also be made from glass jars. To do this, use containers of any size. It looks more interesting when the composition consists of banks of different height and width, decorated in the same style.

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

Lovers of eco-style will like candle holders made from bark or branches. Such gifts will be a great decoration of the interior, will give it a "zest", will bring a touch of warmth and joy.

If the birthday man saves money for something specific, then you can do for him themed piggy bank, well, or just universal. For example, a traveler will like a piggy bank in the shape of a globe with various landmarks glued to it: the Eiffel Tower, a London bus or the famous red telephone booth, and so on.

The next original gift is composition of homemade flowers. They can be made of corrugated paper, cloth, foamiran, leather, suede. They look no worse than living and will never wilt. The composition for many years will serve as a reminder of a beautiful celebration.

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

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

After that, fold the petals. Large - at the bottom, upward smaller and so descending. To form a flower, chop with a pin. Sew a thread in the center and then decorate at your discretion with beads, beads, and glass beads. Attach to the floristic wire to make a stem.

Interesting and unusual look leather flowers and if you still apply several shades of this material that are matched to the tone darker and lighter, then they are obtained as real. The manufacturing technique is very simple, the complexity is below average and even a beginner can handle it.

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

A cool gift or addition to it are wish jars. It will be necessary to cut strips of beautiful paper on which to write your wishes to the birthday man, roll them up and tie them up with string or beautiful ribbon. Their number depends on the volume of banks and fantasy.

Great thing is a surprise box. She acts here as the gift itself, and festive packaging. Place in a large box, a smaller box, then a smaller box, and so on, according to the matryoshka principle. Congratulations, it will be interesting to get to the truth - what is inside.

In addition, each package may be accompanied by additional surprises, in the form of flying balloons, inscriptions with gags, covered with finely cut corrugated paper, sweets and other things. You can cut the edges and when you remove the cover, the box will open by itself.

A gift made by yourself is always the best. Alternatively, you can paint a picture, make a panel or a bas-relief. There are a lot of options. The choice of plot should match the interior to please the eye of the owner. Various materials can be used for the panel.:

• egg shells;
• acrylic paste;
• various herbarium;
• skin, dense fabric;
• tree;
• a natural stone.

If you are not an expert in bas-relief, but really want to give such a gift, then the usual thick cardboard will help to simplify the task. Prime the canvas or other base, cut out the necessary details of the image from the cardboard. Those that should act more, make two times thicker, sticking together the same parts. In this way, form a complete image, which should be in the end. Glue everything to the base, after complete drying, prime again.

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

Wonderful panels are made of nails and thread. Draw the outline of what will be depicted, and hammer in the carnations at the same distance along the contour. Then, hooking a thread on one of them, you need to make a knot and wind the drawing or its part in a chaotic manner. Use both threads of one color, and a miscellaneous if the picture it provides. Moreover, such a panel can depict both children's and fully adult themes.

In the scrapbooking technique, you can make photo albums, photo frames, recipe books, postcards, business card holders, passport covers, diaries, notepads, flip-flops and simple calendars. A checkbook of desires will delight the birthday party, in which each check is the desire that the donor 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 as possible and implicitly.

Such products will give a special charm to their owner. Brooches, bracelets, pendants, earrings, necklaces are made. 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 the work is a rather complicated process.. Consider an example of creating a bead brooch. For this you will need:

• leather for warp;
• beads of different colors;
• needles;
• awl;
• monofilament;
• glue;
• cardboard;
• wire;
• thin-nose pliers.

First you need to draw on a dense cardboard sketch of what you want to create. Cut the picture - this will be the basis. Then string the beads into pieces of wire. Form the necessary bends and link the parts together to form the desired image. For the wrong side to use the skin. Cut another piece of cardboard, but two to three millimeters smaller than a skin pattern. Outline the places where there will be cuts for the spring and the eyelet clasp, cut them with scissors.

Glue the skin to the cardboard, bent at the edges, and fix the fastener in the designated place with glue.

Sweet birthday gifts with their own hands in the form of cakes, gingerbread, cookies, sweets and other things will appeal to not only children but also adults. Consider a few 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 or make it yourself from a simple tin can.

Use metal scissors to cut the tin into strips and give any desired shape by fastening the ends with a construction stapler.

Essential ingredients for half-serving baking:

• 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 baking powder.

Add spices to honey, bring to a boil over low heat and cool to room temperature. Oil, yolks and sugar grind. 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 out about 7 millimeters thick.

Cut out the forms, put on a baking sheet on baking paper and bake at 180 degrees for 7 minutes. Gingerbread for this recipe is prepared very quickly, so it is important not to overdo it and not to burn. After cooling, decorate with glaze made from a mixture of water and powdered sugar, commercial or home-made powders, food silver and gold.

Here is a delicious and quick mini cheesecake recipe. For cooking will need the following products:

• butter - 40 grams;
• Shortbread - 100–150 grams;
• curd cheese - 400–450 grams;
• chicken eggs in the amount of 2 pieces;
• sour cream - 200 grams;
• sugar - 150 grams;
• wheat flour - 1 tsp;
• vanilla - 1 tsp;
• zest of half a lemon;
• powdered sugar;
• berries for decoration.

Preheat oven to 180 degrees. Grate the biscuit on a grater until the state of small crumbs. Melt the butter in a saucepan, put the cookies in a bowl and mix well. Put mass into forms and flatten with fingers to make it dense.

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, lemon juice and lemon zest to the mass and mix everything. Cheese cream spread out in molds and bake for about half an hour, then remove, allow to cool slightly. Next, beat the remaining sugar and sour cream, put on slightly cooled muffins and put in the oven for 5-7 minutes.

Sweet gifts include bouquets of sweets. This bouquet is easy to make yourself. To do this, we need double-sided tape, wire, corrugated wrapping floral paper, cloth. Make a cup of corrugations for each candy, wire wrap double-sided tape, then paper. Cut the squares from the fabric, fold them in half and wrap each flower, tied at the base with a suitable ribbon.

When all the flowers are ready, collect the bouquet and tape it over to hold it thoroughly. Wrap in wrapping paper. From above you can wrap the same fabric as the buds themselves, decorate with beads, making the clips, with hot glue.

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

Many useful things that are useful in everyday life can be made, for example, from felt. These are homemade bags, candy boxes, hanging pockets for hairbrushes and trifles, organizers, covers for mobile phones and tablets, magazine rack.

For example, we present a step-by-step master class for making candy dishes from this material. You will need:

• felt;
• scissors;
• hole puncher;
• twine;
• thread the color of felt;
• a piece of leather.

First you need to decide on the height of the sides. The larger the piece of felt, the higher the sides can be made and the deeper the product. Cut a square from the fabric of the desired size. Then outline where the holes will be to bond 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 angle.

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

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

Very soulful get gifts, tied with their own hands. Scarves, hats, mittens and gloves, socks, slippers and sweaters - this is what always warms in cold weather, and the birthday boy, putting on a knitted thing, will mentally thank you. You can make decorative pillows and rollers for the legs, linking the cover on them with a fancy pattern. Beautiful tablecloths and curtains, crocheted with individual details and sewn together, look amazing.

Handmade soap is another useful and always necessary gift. The set can be supplemented with aromatic candles, bath salt and beautifully packaged in a basket, laying the bottom with small pebbles or finely chopped corrugated paper. It is very easy to make soap and if you decide to try it, then you should stock up on such materials:

• soap base;
• fill form;
• essential oils;
• colorants;
• olive oil.

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

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

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

Beautifully complement and create a cozy atmosphere in the apartment candles. Make them your own hands is not difficult. We will hold a small master class on their production at home.

Necessary materials:

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

Place the wick in the potting form, tying it to a pencil in advance, and place it horizontally on the shape neck. Melt the wax or paraffin, by the way, it is not necessary to buy them - for this you can use any old candles. Then pour a little to the bottom to secure the wick in the middle, and let it freeze.

When the wick is fixed, add the remaining melted wax and cool. You can add glitter, colored wax crayons to give a bright shade, aromatic oils. Then when igniting the candle will emit a delicate aroma. Wax pencils are added when fired. A day later, 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 the previous layer has hardened.

A homemade wall clock is another good gift option. They can be made from a special blank, which are sold in the store, and you can come up with something of your own.Plywood, for example, cut the workpiece of any shape, drill a hole for the mechanism and arrows, decorate, paint - and a useful gift is ready. You can take vinyl records, wooden slats, an old bicycle wheel, a hoop, a cut of a tree trunk, and so on.

A common technique is quilling. This is a kind 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 basis in the form of a panel, or create your own voluminous crafts.

Can buy ready quilling set or cut colored strips themselves. The minimum set for the manufacture of handicrafts in this technique:

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

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

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

Interesting crafts are obtained in the technique of origami. They also require perseverance, but watching a favorite movie, creating handicrafts is a pleasure.

DIY greeting cards are often added to origami parts. Paper shirts with ties, dresses, various animals, flowers, bows, boats, stars are fastened 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 an origami technique.

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

Add, decorated with metal hearts, keys or flower arrangements.

Sometimes you need to quickly make a small gift for a colleague, a client, or just an unfamiliar person whom you want to congratulate, but not spend a lot of effort and money on a present. In this case, fit magnets with beautiful greetings, sachets, charms for the house, 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 plywood word and paint it, add decorative elements and donate it. Or put wooden skewers with chocolates on them in a beautiful pot. It turns out such a kind of bouquet of sweets.

As an option, from slate magnetic paper cut out the shape and write wishes on it. Give along with crayons so that the birthday boy can attach it to the refrigerator and use it for records.

A bottle filled with small candies that can come up with funny names will cheer up sweet tooth. Candy can be called "vitamin of joy", "pills, wish-fulfilling", "magic pills", "candy inspiration" and so on.

Usb drive in an interesting, unusual case, which can also be made by 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 handbag, will make a pleasant impression. If there are a lot of corks from the wine, then you can quickly and easily create a panel of them. Take any frame, cut circles out of cork, decorate it at your discretion and stick it on the base, making up the figure. Simple, fast, cheap and beautiful.

See the next video for a master class on creating gifts with your own hands.