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

Giving presents is no less interesting than receiving them. Self-made surprises are especially pleasant. If you do not know what to give to a close friend, then we suggest that you consider a few ideas from simple to original, which will help emphasize your special attitude to her.

Of course, the creativity of the presentation depends on age and lifestyle. Therefore, before you give your friend something unimaginable, think about how she will perceive it.

Good ideas for homemade gifts are enough, you just need to properly think through the flow and design. We list several options.

• Cute photo album with joint photos. It's great if there are a lot of general memories - then you will get a great surprise. The choice of photos is an important point; not everybody is suitable, but only especially memorable, funny and interesting. For registration, take an unusual notebook. You can buy ready-made in the stationery store: with clasps, embossed appliqués, in a special gift box. It is preferable to choose notebooks with rigid, non-flipping pages.

If the donor has skills in the scrapbooking technique, then the album is easily done with your own hands - then it will turn out to be creative and no one else will have the exact same thing. To decorate the inner sheets, we suggest using various stickers, dried flowers or berries, twigs, beads, ribbons and ribbons, travel tickets, candy wrappers from favorite childhood sweets. Using all these details, as a result you will receive a cool souvenir that a friend will definitely appreciate.

• In addition to the album, you can make a funny collage from joint photos. Here we need some kind of foundation to which everything will be attached. To do this, use a drawing paper or an original photo frame for several photos.

• Another option of an interesting gift that can surprise a girlfriend is her portrait. Of course, if you have no art school behind you, it will be difficult to do so. However, now there are Internet lessons in which a detailed and accessible description is given of step-by-step actions when writing a portrait from a photo. It will take some time, it will take effort on your part, but certainly the gift will surprise and please the birthday girl. Pictures allow you to use different techniques and styles.

• Topiary. Artificial trees, created from different elements. Coffee - from coffee beans - will fill the house with an amazing aroma. If a friend is an avid coffee machine, then this is perfect. A money tree from folded bills promises prosperity, a flowering tree - from plants of a different type. For the decoration of any topiary, beads, ribbons, lace, rhinestones, feathers, dried berries, twigs and other improvised material are useful. The crown is executed in any shape: in the form of a heart, a ball, a cube.

• Handmade toys. This is where there is no limit to your imagination and skill. Different techniques, styles, materials. Textile splyushki and tilde are sewn both on a typewriter and manually. Images are different - from animals to people. Flavored dolls, smelling of coffee, citrus or cinnamon will make the atmosphere in the room of a friend pleasant.Felt or knitted interior toys appease any woman.

• Quests. Adventure Day - what could be more interesting and exciting? Do you like to have fun with your girlfriend in the company, to solve comic riddles and puzzles, to look for answers to questions? Then the quest is what you need!

For the sweet-girlfriend sweet bouquet will come in handy. Its main element, of course, should be her favorite sweets.

You will also need corrugated paper of several colors, ribbons for decoration and the base for the stem: wooden skewers or wire.

The technique is as follows.

• Details of the flower are cut out of paper: petals and leaves.
• Candy, as a rule, are the middle. Therefore, a candy is first attached to the stalk, then petals are wound around it. Depending on their number varies bud splendor.
• After the petals attach sepals.
• Next, begin to wrap the stem with a green tap tape, gradually attaching leaves to the stem.
• After collecting several flowers, proceed to the assembly of the bouquet. For decoration use various decorative elements: wrapping paper or mesh, ribbons, beads, feathers. You can arrange floral sweets in a basket or a vase.

For lovers of cheese, you can also create a pleasant edible masterpiece, decorating it as a bouquet, or present in a basket. Here the selection of varieties is important, there should be at least five of them and high quality cheese is required.

In addition to bouquets and baskets, edible pictures or theme organizers will do. In this case, comments are required for each product. For example, "Set as a last resort."

• Takes a dense folder format A3. Inside it is pasted over with colored paper.
• A large chocolate bar is attached to one side and a signature “for the production of joy hormones”.
• Next, sacks of strong coffee and the comment “soft alarm clock” are attached.
• On the other side of the organizer, you can attach a block of chewing gum and sign "for the freshness of thoughts."
• Comment for vitamins "Tasty prevention".

Cooking - your vocation? Then present baking. What does a girlfriend love? Sugar-iced donuts, cabbage pie, ginger biscuits, or maybe homemade sweets or marshmallows? Now you can find step by step instructions for baking any culinary delights. Surprise her, create the most delicious ice cream or amazingly beautiful cupcakes.

Utility always come in handy. It is better to present those things that are used quite often, so there is always a need for them.

For example, do it yourself. scented soap. Now almost in any city there are salons for needlewomen, where you can buy all the ingredients and tools needed for this. Otherwise, order them online. Not only is soap making a fascinating activity, it will also bring joy to your best friend.

For baths, create for a friend salt bombs. Make them easy, and the pleasures and surprises from them a lot. You need only salt and citric acid in a ratio of 2 to 1, any vegetable oil and edible paint. First mix the bulk ingredients, then pour 5 ml of oil into the mixture. After thorough mixing, the dye is added and stirred until the color is uniform. Further, some water is dripping into the solution.

The resulting mixture is laid out in special molds, from which the balls reach in a quarter of an hour. You should wait 2–3 hours before complete drying, after which they are laid out in gift wrapping.

If needlework has long been firmly established in your life, you can create more complex things, Try to sew a unique bag. This is not a shame to give a friend. Textiles or leather are chosen as the material for the skilled worker.

Even with weak sewing skills, you can create interesting case for glasses, phone or headphones. The main thing is to choose a pattern on the Internet or a special book on sewing, transfer it to paper and cut it. Further, the resulting patterns are superimposed on the fabric and outlined. Take for this purpose the felt, it does not need to be further processed around the edges, it is easy to sew, it is quite strong and wearable. Shops offer a large assortment of felt sheets. Stitched parts seam over the edge. Some use contrasting threads as a design move.

An interesting and simple decoupage technique. With its help, any simple useful thing turns into a work of art. For example, the clock in the kitchen. If you buy simple plain watches, carefully remove the mechanism and degrease the surface, then you can stick different images. For decoupage choose special napkins with thematic drawings. The adhesive is suitable for PVA, but it is better to purchase a special decoupage.

First, the glue is applied to the base of the dial, then a napkin is applied to it and gently smoothed with a brush. Glue is applied on top again, there should be at least three layers. After complete drying, finishing is carried out to the required type: tint, drawing, inscriptions, installation of the mechanism. The surprise will be unforgettable.

Any woman, girl, girl will not remain indifferent to beautiful jewelry.

This is an area in which the variety of options and materials is amazing. It all depends on the preferences of a friend and your skill.

For little beauties you can do beautiful set of felt: necklace and hairband or bracelet. Use for making materials bright colors.

Lovers of jeans fit accessories with old, worn denim, buttons, lace and small beads.

Leather bracelets and necklaces look gorgeous. This will suit a woman of any age, in addition, they look great with different types of sweaters at any time of the year.

Girlfriends born in winter, you can please jewelry with fur parts. For example, earrings that can complement a fur coat or a fur boa.

For more complex models, use polymer clay as a material. Working with her is more creative. There are already possible different colors, interesting play, fancy shapes. If you have polymer clay skills, the choice will be obvious. If there is no such experience, do not worry: there are a lot of master classes both on the Internet and in art schools. In them you will be explained step by step the whole process.

In addition to jewelry, for the long-haired girlfriend offer to make luxurious hairpin or bezel with foamiran flowers. This modern material is convenient for handicrafts, it does not fray, well takes the desired shape, it is easy to tint, so the plants are very realistic. Foamiran is easy to process, even children cope with it, so feel free to take it in your hands and create your masterpieces.

For little fashionistas, a master friend can give interesting rezinochki style kanzashi. Here, there is no limit to fantasy, and the ribbons are different: satin, nylon, guipure, lace and lace. Decorate such bows with rhinestones, beads, beads.

Beadwork is another way to congratulate a girlfriend. In this technique, bracelets, belts, kerchiefs, ties, pendants, brooches, flowers, paintings, three-dimensional toys, trees, panels and much more are performed. Beads are an amazing material, but it requires special perseverance and patience. But the gift will tell you how much a friend means to you, since so much time has been spent creating such a masterpiece for her.

First of all, the gift should be presented from the heart, so the cost often does not matter. Even an ordinary thing can give joy, if you're interested in beating it.

From paper, you can quickly and easily create original postcard. She will be able to even children. Find patterns for applications on the Internet or cut from old postcards and magazines.

One of the easiest souvenirs - stand under the hot mug. A friend can use it in the office or at home. It is more often made of felt in the form of funny animals, drops, leaves, berries or cones.

Simple action will be the design congratulatory poster which is suspended above the workplace of a friend. For its manufacture will be useful drawing paper, paints, brushes, decorative items made of scrap materials.

Origami is a technique that can hit the most sophisticated girlfriend, but will have to work and train before it. The main thing here is patience and a lot of paper for the creative process.

A few more interesting gift ideas with their own hands are presented in the video below.