How to make a gift to your friend for the New Year with your own hands?

New Year is a time of miracles, fulfillment of cherished desires and endless creativity. I would like to please and surprise relatives and friends with creative gifts created with my own hands. And what gift can be made for a friend for the New Year, read in this article.

You love to create, invent, take a great interest in creativity - then you are quite able to create for your close friend a fantastic gift that no one else will have. But if you are not fond of handicrafts, and the idea of ​​making a gift yourself first occurred to you, before starting work it is worth weighing the pros and cons.

Minuses:

1. to make a unique thing, you have to spend much more time on work than on a shopping trip to a gift shop;
2. you need to give up some pleasures - watching TV shows, walking, trips to pre-holiday sales, get-togethers in a cafe with friends;
3. Handmade materials cost a lot, especially if you want to make a quality item that will serve its owner for a long time;
4. paper products, fabrics, natural materials, unfortunately, are short-lived, they fade in the sun and gather dust.

You will need:

• make a drawing, sketch or pattern for work;
• make a list of materials and equipment;
• buy everything you need;
• spend time making the thing itself.

But all this outweighs the large number of advantages of such gifts.

1. A handmade gift is an amazing and unique thing. Even if you have already made such a product, it is simply unrealistic to create a completely exact copy of the previous copy. In this and the uniqueness of things handmade.
2. For people who love creativity, work is never a burden. This is a joy that is beyond praise, rewards and other very interesting activities.
3. Any handmade gift keeps the warmth of the good hands of the master who created it. It is impossible to create with black and evil thoughts, which means that the thing will have a positive energy, which it will give to its owner.
4. You can make a gift, taking into account the wishes of the future owner: a certain color, pattern, material, size. It is much more difficult to buy a product under a certain order in a store than to make it yourself.
5. A gift made by the hands of your beloved girlfriend will be carefully kept and reminded of your excellent relationship.

Christmas souvenirs give joy and cheer up. Get a nice little thing as a gift will be nice and your girlfriend.

There are quite a few options for souvenirs that you can make yourself:

• crocheted bells, angels and snowflakes;
• stitched of felt or fur cute figures of deer, cubs, owls;
• creative funny beaded snowmen;
• all kinds of candlesticks, compositions, wreaths on the tables and doors of cones, dried flowers and nuts;
• handmade soap in the form of mittens, hats or skates;
• Christmas carved candles;
• souvenir figures of symbols of the year made of plastic or ceramics;
• Christmas tree toys made of cotton;
• painted plates and cups.

The easiest way to make a present on your own is to create a New Year card from paper and improvised means, even if you do not own effective paperwork techniques such as quilling and scrapbooking.

To make a bright beautiful card with a voluminous green Christmas tree inside, we need:

• thick red double-sided A4 paper;
• a sheet of green two-sided paper;
• a sheet of white paper;
• glue stick;
• colored pens or markers;
• scissors.

We make the front of the postcard:

• sheet of cardboard gently bend in half;
• cut out a small green rectangle of arbitrary size from green paper;
• so that the green rectangle would look harmoniously on a red card, let's make a frame for it: just cut out a white rectangle of a slightly larger size than the green one;
• Glue the green rectangle to white.

We produce decor:

• We write New Year wishes and greetings on a green rectangle with felt-tip pens or a pen;
• You can, if you wish, cut out beautiful letters from magazines and flyers, or find cool words and phrases that fit your plan, then paste them here;
• we cut the white paper into very thin strips, cut them across, glue the strip on the strip to make a snowflake.
• glue the inscription and snowflakes on the front side of the card as you like.

We produce herringbone:

• a sheet of green paper folded harmonica.
• We divide the resulting harmonica into 3 parts, each of them is folded in half and glued together - it turns out 3 small fans;
• we reduce one fan in length - we cut off a small piece from above;
• the second fan is reduced by half;
• from the cut off residue from the second fan we make the fourth fan - we fold the harmonica ends and glue them together;
• It turns out 4 fans - large, medium, small and tiny.

We decorate inside:

• open the postcard;
• at the very bottom we glue the biggest fan - the base of the Christmas tree, we coat well the outer, wide sides and press them tightly to the paper, revealing the fan;
• do the same with the remaining harmonicas;
• Christmas tree is ready - if you open the card, it will be beautifully unfold;
• glue white snowflakes around the tree too;
• Beautiful Christmas souvenir is ready.

You can make chic New Year cards using bright beads and shiny rhinestones, all kinds of shreds, threads, laces, ribbons, ropes of various thicknesses and textures. Buttons that are very similar to multi-colored Christmas balls will be useful.

Present without sweets New Year's holidays is impossible. Probably, there is no such girl who in this magical time would not allow herself a little sweet whim.

To pamper your girlfriend with a sweet surprise is a great option for a New Year's gift.

We offer several options for sweet gifts.

Cookies with ginger, cinnamon and lemon peel in the form of stars, houses, fir-trees, various little animals are a traditional New Year's delicacy. When making cookies, make a small hole in each one, and when it cools down, paint with multi-colored icing and thread a thread or thin colored ribbon into the cookie.

These famous gingerbread, so beloved by all - the symbol of the New Year and Christmas in Russia. Bright, honey, painted gingerbread will cheer up your girlfriend and create a wonderful atmosphere, reminiscent of a happy childhood.

You can make a whole New Year's wreath by attaching not only cookies, but also small apples, nuts and sweets. It will be not only a treat, but also an excellent interior decoration.

If you are a master of this amazing art, make a bouquet of sugar flowers for your friend. It is amazingly beautiful and tasty.

If you know how to bake perfectly, then you just have to please your girlfriend with a New Year's cake.Bake a proven, loved one in your family version, decorate the product in the New Year's style - draw Christmas balls, Christmas wreath, snowman.

Collect your favorite Christmas fruits: red apples, tangerines, oranges and all kinds of sweets in beautiful boxes, or packed in plastic wrap. Beautifully decorate the basket with spruce twigs, ribbons, balls and put the treats there effectively.

Sweet design is a wonderful and fascinating work. Bouquets and compositions of sweets are a very stylish interior decoration and a great find for a gift for a sweet tooth.

If you have never made such bouquets, it does not matter. It's never too late to start. An interesting and very simple version of the gift in the technique of suite-design - the Christmas tree from a bottle of champagne.

To make a sweet Christmas tree, you need:

• a bottle of your girlfriend's favorite champagne;
• green tinsel;
• glue gun and rods for it;
• corrugated paper;
• candies.

Preparing a bottle:

• we wrap the champagne with a piece of corrugated paper so that it fits the bottle tightly - if necessary, the decoration can be removed;
• cut a piece of paper of the desired length and width;
• wrap the bottle again and glue the paper along the seam.

Create a Christmas tree:

• take the tinsel and gently glue, wrapping rings around the bottle;
• paste the candy on the fluffy garland;
• best use candy with tails - sweets can be easily deployed and eaten;
• at the top you can tie a gold bow for gift wrapping or a suitable satin ribbon;
• wonderful new year souvenir ready.

It is doubly pleasant to give useful gifts made with his own hands. They not only give joy, but also benefit our friends and family.

Variants of useful gifts can be made in different ways.

Sew:

• bed linen made of good fabric - find a fabric with a pattern of a suitable theme that your girlfriend will like and you will enchant her very much;
• a festive New Year's tablecloth and napkins for her - this gift will serve in the house of any girl for many years and will be used on special occasions;
• pillows - they will decorate the room of your girlfriend, it is enough to choose a color that is in harmony with the interior of the room;
• kitchen accessories - apron, tacks, towels, hot pads;
• curtains - a set of new curtains is always useful to any hostess;
• original slippers made of fur in the form of little animals;
• comfortable pajamas or a set of clothes for the house;
• beautiful summer dress;
• handy handbag;
• organizer for various trifles in the bathroom;
• pontoon or seat covers in the car.

To tie:

• fluffy and warm winter set of hats and scarf;
• nice mittens, gloves, socks;
• feminine sweater;
• purse and handbag;
• original tippet;
• cozy blanket;
• napkins under the mugs.

Wool knitting:

• clutch bag;
• hat and brooch to her;
• chic vest;
• cover on a chair or chair.

Embroider or paint in batik technique:

• handkerchief;
• palatine;
• cover.

Make paper using the scrapbooking technique:

• photo album;
• diary;
• notebook.

Make from scrap materials:

• spacious beautiful box for things;
• stylish organizer on the table;
• organizer on the sofa;
• interesting hanger-hook on the door;
• glass jars, brightly colored, for cereals and spices;
• jewelry box;
• hair accessories - unusual hairpins, headbands, rubber bands.

You can buy a useful thing and make it unusual, decorate, taking into account the taste and style of your girlfriend:

• to turn ordinary white ceramic cups into bright and cheerful ones by painting them with colors, or tying up nice covers for them;
• turn a regular T-shirt into a stylish accessory by making an original design or embroidery on it;
• A simple photo frame can be transformed into a designer masterpiece, decorated with stones, shells, twigs or fabric in vintage style.
• Whatever gift you decide to make for your girlfriend, remember: the main thing is to make it with love.

About what gifts you can make a friend for the New Year, see the following video.