How to make a gift for February 23 with your own hands?

On Defender of the Fatherland Day, many ladies face a choice: what is better to give to their beloved man - a purchased or homemade present? Both options have their pros and cons. Today we will talk about DIY presentations for February 23rd.

Homemade gifts, like any other types of gifts, have their own positive and negative qualities. Many girls want to give men a handmade present for February 23, but they doubt their choice. Let's see what are the pros and cons of such gifts.

First, let's look at what such gifts are good for.

• DIY giftwill be unique. A man will not find anything like this in stores, because this is your handicraft.
• Many different things can be crafted by hand: from simple to highly sophisticated. If you do everything right and without haste, in the end you can get a very beautiful present, in no way inferior to the store version.
• Such a gift can cost a small amount. At the same time, the low price will not in any way affect the quality and attractiveness of the homemade product.
• Homemade presents usually more than purchased ones are valued, because it is in them that the craftswoman puts her soul into. A normal man will certainly appreciate such a gift, and at the same time the talents of the girl who made it.
• Perhaps in the store you will not be able to find exactly what the defender of the Fatherland needs. It is then that a gift made with your own hands will become a "lifeline".You can do with your own hands what you did not find on sale.

These gifts have a lot of advantages. Often, girls are attracted by the very process of making these gifts, because here you can let your imagination go free and create a real work of art that will delight a man. However, one must bear in mind the fact that gifts made with one's own hand, have some disadvantages.

• Often for making a beautiful presentation, whether it be souvenirs, jewelry or knitwear, it takes quite a long time.
• If a girl cannot boast of great skills in needlework, it will not be so easy for her to make a good present.
• As a rule, men have a positive attitude towards homemade gifts. But there are times when these presents do not suit them. In this case, it must be borne in mind that the hero of the occasion is dismissive of the girl's work. From this it is worth drawing the appropriate conclusions.

There are a great many varieties of spectacular and useful gifts for February 23, which you can make with your own hands. A variety of materials are used for their manufacture. For example, good crafts are often made from newspaper tubes, stone, leather, special corrugated paper, wood, fabric and other raw materials. Let's consider in detail what gifts for the defenders of the Fatherland can be made with your own hands on February 23.

A very unusual and unique present can be presented to a guy on February 23 - a photo on a tree. This is not just a photo, but a real work of art that looks very original and interesting. To make such a thing yourself, you will need the following materials:

• thin A4 paper;
• cross section of the tree;
• small brush or roller;
• special acrylic gel medium;
• plastic card;
• clean rag.

Next, it's worth figuring out how you can step by step with your own hand to make this non-trivial present.

• Find the best photo... In a graphics editor, mirror the image so that it goes over to the wood base just like in the original. Next, you need to adjust the cut of the tree to the desired size.
• Using a roller or brush, apply gel to the wood cut. The layer of this composition should be as uniform and even as possible - not too thin, but not too thick.
• While the gel has not yet fixed, attach a piece of paper with a prepared photograph to the wood. To make it easier to work, crop the photo in advance, moving along the contour.
• Line up the paper piece by using the plastic card. You need to move from the middle to the edges. This way you can remove air bubbles formed between the tree and the paper.
• Next, you need to leave the craft for 8 hours.to dry completely. After that, you will need to take a damp cloth, wet the paper part with it and very carefully remove it from the wooden base. It should come off in lumps.
• At the end of all stages you can varnish the photo on wood.

You can make a souvenir from a sheet of plywood for a guy - a beautiful airplane. Before making such a presentation, you first need to prepare the materials. This is how it is done.

• I need to make a drawing airplane made of plywood.
• Prepare a souvenir template, so that it can be cut from a sheet of plywood. Print it at the required scale.
• Pick up plywood suitable sizes.
• Using carbon paper, transfer the diagram to a plywood sheet.
• Open the sheet like this, so that each of the fragments contains one large or several small details.
• Then you can cut all the necessary parts of the future design.

Next step – cutting and assembly of the aircraft.

• First you need to cut out all the details, moving along the contours. Leave an allowance of 0.5-1 mm.
• Further on the plots, where it will be necessary to make through holes, drill the starting grooves with a drill. Then a jigsaw blade is inserted into them and cuts are made.
• Edges of all elements processed with sandpaper to give them the final neat shape.
• All parts must be connecteddrawing on the diagram. In this case, it is necessary to use the protrusions and openings that are present on the plywood blanks. To make the fixation more reliable, you should use a special glue for wood.
• Glued elements must be clamped with clamps in the correct position.

After that, you can proceed to the final design of the souvenir. It needs to be sanded, treated with a primer mixture, and then painted. It is permissible to apply a layer of varnish on top of the paint.

You can make an airplane out of plywood with your own hands, but here you need to be patient and have all the necessary tools. If you rely on the instructions step by step and use the correct templates, then the design will turn out to be of high quality and beautiful.

Some of the most popular homemade gifts are various knitted items. You can please a man or a guy on February 23 with a cozy warm sweater, luxurious scarf, socks or knitted mittens. Presentations like these are the best way to demonstrate good relationships between people. There are different options for creating cozy masculine items. You can crochet and knit beautiful and warm gift accessories or garments.

If you want to give a man a more original and bright knitted gift, then you can start making slipper tanks... Such things are so called because they are slippers shaped like miniature tanks. They can be made from quality knitted yarn or other varieties. Knitting such slippers is not too easy, but in the end you can get a really unusual and creative present that a man will definitely be happy with.

Another interesting knitted gift idea is a yarn helmet. In this case, the knight's helmet is meant. Such a little thing will be a very original and cool present. It is recommended to hand it over to young guys with a good sense of humor. Often, these accessories are knitted for boys.

Very beautiful and useful gifts for the defenders of the Fatherland can be made from material such as felt. Felt can be very effective to decorate even the most trivial and inexpensive gift. For example, it can be an ordinary mug in a felt frame.

To create such an extraordinary and funny present, you need to prepare the following materials:

• any mug;
• several multi-colored patchwork felt clippings;
• cardboard;
• Velcro fastener
• small buttons.

Having all these components, you can start making an original gift.

• Pattern of such a presentation will look like the image below. It must be applied to a paper sheet. After that, the resulting template will need to be transferred to a sheet of cardboard, and then to the felt itself.
• Fold the pieces together and sew. You can not sew them, but just glue them - act as you like.
• Small details need to be remembered - pockets with handkerchiefs and ties. With such elements, the craft will look much more interesting and brighter.
• Decorate small felt blazers buttons to make the craft look as realistic and natural as possible.
• There is no need to completely stitch the resulting mug cover. You can construct a comfortable Velcro closure instead. If the latter is not in your arsenal, then you can use a button or crochet instead.

You can make a bright red star out of felt, and then attach it to a knitted budenovka. Sewing such an element to a knitted product must be done manually. If you plan to make such a spectacular craft, then you need to start as early as possible, because it will hardly take less than a week to make it.

On February 23, you can give the guy a delicious edible present. The relevance of such surprises has not disappeared for many years. This kind of gift can be sweet. To do this, it is permissible to pour delicious sweets or sweet peas into a separate beautiful jar, and then arrange such a present as an impromptu "bottle of happiness".

You can make a variety of delicious compositions from sweets. To do this, for example, you can cut out a dense mold in advance, and then attach a lot of sweets to its surface. Or it is permissible to pick up a ready-made one in the store set of different sweets.

Another appropriate sweet gift for a man on February 23 - beautiful and fluffy cake. It is desirable to supplement it with a large and expressive congratulation. If there is no ability to create such desserts, then you can form an effective and unusual cake from different products. For example, it can be a composition of chocolates bonded to each other.

You can make a more original present with imagination. An interesting option is a bouquet of various products. For example, this can be a hearty combination of smoked sausages, chili peppers, and smoked cheese. You can supplement such an ensemble with an alcoholic drink. Of course, other combinations can be assembled, based on the tastes of the man. As a rule, such edible bouquets are wrapped in paper bags.

With woven materials, you can give free rein to imagination. Many useful and beautiful presents can be made from textiles. Here is a list of the most popular and useful examples:

• you can sew a neat case-bag for your tablet or mobile phone yourself;
• you can apply images printed on a printer to a plain fabric using thermal paper and an iron - in this way you will be able to effectively decorate, for example, a decorative pillow;
• using fabric, you can build a small headphone case;
• with a cloth, it will turn out to beautifully decorate bottles with alcoholic beverages presented as a gift.

You can make an original present from socks. It should be done like this. To make the bouquet brighter and more original, it is advisable to stock up on socks of different colors. If your man prefers only dark gray or black socks, then they can be diluted with items painted in light gray, adding to the "bouquet" on top.

In an original way, you can also hand in men's panties. Presenting them just like that would be too boring. It is better to make original tanks out of panties. It will be most convenient to form them using socks. A composition so simple in the end can look very unusual.

From beads on February 23, you can make beautiful little gifts that a man should appreciate. You can make a variety of presentations from such accessories.For example, it is possible to make a small gift in the form of a beer mug with foam beating out over the edges.

They look bright and expressive beaded keyrings, made in the form of flags. There are many options for what you can do. Here you are limited only by your own imagination.

To make beautiful beaded beer mug keychain, you should adhere to a certain scheme. If everything is done correctly, then such a present will turn out to be not only beautiful, but also reliable, and will become an eternal companion of its new owner.

You can make a lot of interesting and beautiful crafts from foamiran, which you will not be ashamed to present to a man or a guy on February 23rd. Let's consider in detail how you can create a nice tank from this raw material.

To work you will need the following components:

• 8 strips of ordinary or glittering snow-white foamiran (the thickness should be no more than 2 mm - for travel wheels);
• 2 strips of plain green material, the thickness of which is no more than 1 mm (for the top of the tower);
• 4 strips of ordinary green foamiran (for the lower half of the tower);
• 1 strip of raw materials for the hull half of the tank (the thickness should also be no more than 1 mm);
• 1 strip of green foamiran up to 1 mm - it will need to be wound around a toothpick and attached as a muzzle;
• green strass tire;
• 2 squares of scarlet color foamiran - for stars;
• 10 half-beads with a diameter of 6 mm.

Now let's look at how to build a tank in stages.

• Prepare strips. Instead of foamiran, it is possible to use felt.
• Cut strips out of white material. Twist each one tightly, glue the ends. Wind the strip tightly so that all wheels are the same.
• Glue the wheels in a row. Divide them all into 2 pieces of 4 pieces.
• Prepare the widest green stripe... Apply glue around the edges, attach the wheels.
• Cover the top of the wheels with the rest of the material. Tape the ends of the strip.
• Glue the prepared strips into tight cylinders.
• Cut from the strass tape 2 double strips for winding on 2 sides of the lateral section of the track. Glue the strips, butt the ends.
• Glue a little piece material on a toothpick. Smooth it out. Glue small flagella to the tip of the muzzle.
• Glue the turret to the car body. Glue the barrel in front of the tower.
• Now prepare the half beads and red foamiran. Cut out two stars from the latter. Stick them on the tank.
• Glue the black half-beads in the middle of the wheels on both sides. Attach a couple more beads to the top of the tower and the hole in the trunk.

On February 23, you can give a man your own soap. It is done in several ways. In each case, the recipe and all stages of preparation must be strictly observed. For such a holiday, it is worth choosing the appropriate molds. The following options will be appropriate:

• dark soap in the form of a pomegranate;
• in the form of a red star;
• small green tank;
• as the number 23 different colors.

You can make a great variety of different crafts from polymer clay to give them to a man or boyfriend on February 23rd. Very beautiful figurines, magnets, key rings and other little things are made from this material. You can work with this raw material at home.

You can use polymer clay on different bases. For example, it can be a pen and a ready-made case. If you correctly decorate them with such material, you will get a very original and expensive-looking present for a man.

On February 23, you can give a man a cute and inexpensive present made of paper. There are many different techniques that can be used to form attractive paper compositions.

• You can make a beautiful postcard or a figure on an even basis using the quilling technique. With this technology, paper parts are twisted into small curls, while a toothpick is fixed in their center. Very beautiful and original compositions can be made from such elements.
• A very unusual and attractive present can be formed from paper using a technique called scrapbooking. This is a special kind of handicraft art that is most often used in relation to family albums. Scrapbooking involves pinning based on various photographs, newspaper clippings, and notes. On February 23, you can make a stylized composition with red stars, a flag and other similar details.
• The most popular and famous is the origami technique. Following it, you can make figures of various shapes out of paper. It can be a small tank, a large red star, imitation of a military uniform, and other compositions in this direction.

A gift for February 23 must be beautifully decorated. There are many creative ways to decorate gift wrapping. Let's consider the most interesting solutions.

• Packaging can be usedthat looks like a business suit or a tuxedo is a great solution for a men's holiday.
• Very interesting thematic solution - a wooden box, tidied up and painted in military style.
• Can use regular craft bag with congratulations on February 23rd.
• You can take boxes of different sizes (according to the size of the present). It is permissible to arrange them by wrapping them in newspaper sheets and securing them with tape.
• Alcoholic drinks bottles can be decorated with striped fabric, the shape of which is similar to sleeves.

Can be handed black handmade soap in the shape of a pistol and in the form of an ordinary rectangular piece with an embossed congratulation applied to it.

An extraordinary present for February 23 - a small bunch of salted dried fish... You can wrap such a food composition with a newspaper sheet with a bright red ribbon. You can complement such a gift with a couple of bottles of beer.

You can make an interesting composition of panties and socks in the form of a tank, supplement it with a homemade paper or cardboard barrel. Wrap the last piece with thread and use it to secure the small red flag in this place.

Bouquet of black and white rolled up socks will look much more interesting and brighter if supplemented with a thin blue woven fabric.

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