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

Giving gifts is no less interesting than receiving them. Homemade surprises are especially pleasant. If you do not know what to give a close friend, then we suggest considering several ideas, from simple to original, that will help emphasize your special attitude towards her.

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

There are enough good ideas for homemade gifts, you just need to think over the presentation and design correctly. Let's list several options.

• Cute photo album with joint photos... It's great if there are a lot of shared memories - then it will be a great surprise. The choice of photos is an important point, not all are suitable, but only especially memorable, funny and interesting ones. Take an unusual notebook for decoration. You can buy ready-made in a stationery store: with locks, embossed applications, in a special gift box. It is preferable to choose notebooks with rigid, wrinkle-free pages.

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

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

• Another option for an interesting gift that can surprise a friend is her portrait. Of course, if you don't have an art school behind you, then it will be difficult to do this. However, now there are online lessons in which a description of step-by-step actions is given in detail and in an accessible manner when writing a portrait from a photograph. It will take some time, it will take some effort on your part, but of course, the present will surprise and delight the birthday girl. Paintings allow for different techniques and styles.

• Topiary. Artificial trees made from different elements. Coffee shops - made from coffee beans - will fill the house with an amazing aroma. If a friend is an avid coffee-lover, then this is perfect. A money tree made of rolled-up bills promises prosperity, a flower tree made of various types of plants. To decorate any topiary, beads, ribbons, lace, rhinestones, feathers, dried berries, twigs and other handy material are useful. The crown is made 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. Various techniques, styles, materials. Textile scops and tildes are sewn both on a typewriter and by hand. The images are different - from animals to people. Scented dolls that smell of coffee, citrus or cinnamon will make the atmosphere in your friend's room pleasant. Felted or knitted interior toys will touch any woman.

• Quests... Adventure day - what could be more interesting and exciting? Do you like having fun with your friend in the company, solving comic riddles and puzzles, looking for answers to questions? Then the quest is what you need!

For a sweet tooth friend, a 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 a base for the stem: wooden skewers or wire.

The technique is as follows.

• Flower details are cut out of paper: petals and leaves.
• Candy is usually in the middle. Therefore, the candy is first attached to the stem, then the petals are wound around it. Depending on their number, the splendor of the bud changes.
• Sepals are attached after the petals.
• Next, they begin to wrap the stem with green tape, gradually attaching the leaves to the stem.
• Having collected a few flowers, they begin to assemble the bouquet. Various decorative elements are used for decoration: wrapping paper or mesh, ribbons, beads, feathers. You can arrange flower sweets in a basket or vase.

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

In addition to bouquets and baskets, edible paintings or themed organizers will do. In this case, comments are required for each product. For example, "Emergency Kit".

• A thick A3 folder is taken. Inside, it is pasted over with colored paper.
• A large bar of chocolate is glued to one side and the signature “for the production of hormones of joy” is glued.
• Further, next to it are attached packets of strong coffee and the comment "soft alarm clock".
• On the other side of the organizer, you can attach a block of chewing gum and sign "for fresh thoughts."
• Commentary for vitamins "Tasty Prevention".

Is cooking your calling? Then present the pastries. What does a girlfriend like? Iced donuts, cabbage pie, gingerbread cookies, or maybe homemade candy or marshmallows? Now you can find step-by-step instructions for baking any culinary treats. Surprise her, create delicious ice cream or amazingly beautiful cupcakes.

Usefulness always comes 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 in almost every city there are salons for needlewomen, where you can buy all the ingredients and tools you need for this. Otherwise, order them online. Not only is soap making an exciting activity, but it will also bring joy to your best friend.

For bathing, create for girlfriend salt bombs. It is not difficult to make them, but there are many pleasures and surprises from them. You only need salt and citric acid in a 2 to 1 ratio, any vegetable oil and food paint. First, the bulk ingredients are mixed, then 5 ml of oil is poured into the mixture. After mixing thoroughly, add the color and stir until the color is uniform. Next, a little water is dripped into the solution.

The resulting mixture is laid out in special molds, from which the balls are taken out after a quarter of an hour. Until completely dry, you should wait 2-3 hours, after which they are laid out in a gift box.

If needlework has long and firmly entered your life, you are subject to the creation of more complex things, try to sew a unique bag. It will not be a shame to give this to a friend. The craftswomen choose textiles or leather as the material.

Even with poor 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 sewing book, transfer it to paper and cut it out. Further, the resulting patterns are superimposed on the fabric and outlined. Take felt for these purposes, it does not need to be additionally processed along the edges, it is easy to sew, it is quite strong and wearable. Stores offer a wide range of felt sheets. The details are sewn with a seam over the edge. Some people use contrasting threads as a design move.

The decoupage technique is interesting and simple. With its help, any simple useful thing turns into a work of art. For example, a clock to the kitchen. If you buy simple, uncomplicated walkers, carefully remove the mechanism and degrease the surface, then you can stick different images. For decoupage, special napkins with thematic patterns are chosen. The glue is suitable for PVA, but it is better to purchase a special decoupage glue.

First, the glue is applied to the dial base, then a napkin is applied to it and gently smoothed with a brush. Glue is again applied on top, there should be at least three layers. After complete drying, the finishing is carried out to the required form: touch-up, 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 your friend's preferences and your skill.

For little beauties, you can do beautiful set of felt: necklace and headband or bracelet. Use materials in bright colors to craft.

For lovers of jeans, accessories using old, worn denim, buttons, lace and small beads are suitable.

Leather bracelets and necklaces look gorgeous. This is suitable for 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 can be pleased costume jewelry with fur details. For example, earrings that can complement a fur coat or a fur boa.

For more complex models, use polymer clay as the material. Working with her is more creative. Here, different colors, interesting overflows, bizarre shapes are already possible. If you have the skills to work with polymer clay, then the choice will be obvious. If there is no such experience, do not be discouraged: there are a lot of master classes both on the Internet and in art schools. They will explain the whole process step by step.

In addition to jewelry, for a long-haired girlfriend, we suggest making luxurious hair clip or headband with flowers from foamiran. This modern material is convenient for crafts, it does not crumble, it takes the desired shape well, it is easy to tint, so the plants turn out to be very realistic. Foamiran is easy to process, even children can handle it, so feel free to take it in your hands and create your masterpieces.

For little fashionistas, a friend-craftswoman can give interesting rubber bands in the kanzashi style. There is no limit to imagination here, and different ribbons are used: satin, nylon, guipure, braid and lace. Such bows are decorated with rhinestones, beads, beads.

Beading is another way to congratulate a friend. This technique is used to make bracelets, belts, scarves, ties, pendants, brooches, flowers, paintings, voluminous toys, trees, panels and much more. Beads are an amazing material, but they require special perseverance and patience. But the present will tell you how much your friend means to you, since so much time has been spent on creating such a masterpiece for her.

First of all, the gift should be presented from the heart, so the cost is often irrelevant. Even an ordinary thing is capable of giving joy if it is interesting to beat it.

From paper you can quickly and easily create original postcard. Even children will be able to do it. Find applique patterns on the Internet or cut out from old postcards and magazines.

One of the simplest souvenirs - stand for a hot mug. A friend can use it in the office or at home. It is often performed from felt in the form of funny animals, drops, leaves, berries or cones.

An easy action will be registration greeting poster, which is suspended above a friend's workplace. For its manufacture, whatman paper, paints, brushes, decorative details from scrap materials are useful.

Origami is a technique that can impress the most sophisticated friend, but you have to work hard and practice before that. The main thing here is patience and a lot of paper for the creative process.

A few more interesting DIY gift ideas are presented in the video below.