Crafts for own people and friends for birthday

The birthday of a loved one is approaching, and you want to make some unusual, unique and, undoubtedly, very pleasant surprise? We suggest you to make different crafts on your own for Birthday. These beautiful signs of attention, of course, like the gifted, but the moment will be remembered for life.

Of course, you should consider who you are going to give a gift to. Older relatives are sure to like memorabilia, decorated with family photos. For the younger generation, it's better to choose creative ideas, to make funny crafts.

Bouquet from sweets

Sweet design - one of the last interesting trends in needlework, is the beautiful design of sweets, in this case in the form of a bouquet. Such bouquets will be especially liked by women who are accustomed to receiving flowers and sweets separately. For example, my mother probably will be pleased to receive such an original gift.

You will need chocolate sweets, polystyrene, red fabric - tulle or organza, corrugated paper;red film "polystick", toothpicks, hot glue, thread, wire, scissors. Detailed photo instructions are attached.

The workpiece is cut from the foam. To the sweets are inserted toothpicks, decorated with film and fathin. From wire and corrugated paper we create an improvised stem, a flower. We put the toothpicks into the foam plastic blank, decorate the bouquet.

You can also make a small postcard to add to the bouquet. It will be very nice to look at it with the inscription "From the daughter" or "From the son".

Scrub with your hands

Lovers of natural cosmetics like home sugar or salt body scrap. It will require:

• 300 g of salt or sugar;
• 15 drops of Schisandra or 4 drops of lemon essential oil and 4 drops of any other oil to your taste;
• 5 teaspoons cream;
• 3 spoons of olive or coconut oil.

Such a gift to a friend will be appreciated.

Pendants

Cute pendants with fingerprints of all loved ones can be made as a gift to older relatives: grandmother, grandfather.

The easiest way to make them is from salted dough, but the most beautiful and practical items will be products made of polymer clay, cold porcelain, which you can prepare yourself: mix glue, glycerin, starch and oil.

To begin with, you need to give the working mass the right shape and leave a fingerprint on it and make holes for fastening ropes, fishing lines.

After this, the billet should be baked( except for cold porcelain - it does not need it).

It only remains to sign on the reverse side and put the date. Or paste in the technique of decoupage on such medallions family photos from paper, and on top for durability to cover with acrylic varnish.

This pendant will also appeal to a man, for example, to his grandfather: you can make a suspension for the car or key fobs.

Men's Gifts

For a man, especially if he's a bicyclist, it will be nice to get a man's gift - a clock from a bicycle drive. It will be necessary to clean the old brake disc from dirt, polish it, insert the bolts in the places of numbers 12, 3, 6, 9 and insert the clockwork.

The mod brother probably will like the taste of a beautiful, bright bow tie, sewn by his own hand according to this instruction.

The daddy can be presented as a gift with a stylish leather bracelet, which you can make with your own hands, too, having all the necessary tools and materials at your fingertips.

You can supplement the gift with an origami-postcard depicting men's clothing: a shirt with a tie or a tuxedo. In a postcard or even on it you can write a pleasant message and add a signature, for example, "Grandfather from the granddaughter."

Ideas of

The subject of the article is really immense, therefore we suggest you to make beautiful hand-made articles as a gift to your loved ones, inspired by these photos:

Video selection

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