A great gift for tea lovers. “Tea connoisseurs don’t drink sawdust from tea bags!” - you say. But who’s stopping you from packaging good, expensive tea in envelopes?
You will need:
- a cone made of foam plastic or thick cardboard;
- round cardboard box and rice for stump;
- tea packed in small paper bags (the quantity depends on the height and diameter of the cone);
- glue gun;
- star, bows and other decorations of your choice.
Cover the cone with tea bags, applying glue to the top of them. Move from bottom to top in a checkerboard pattern. It is better to use bags of contrasting colors: the tree will look more elegant.
cover cardboard box glue to the bottom of the cone. Fill the box itself with rice to make the tree more stable, and then attach it to the lid. If you don’t have a ready-made box of the required diameter at hand, make it yourself. Take a tube from a roll of paper towels as a basis or glue it from cardboard according to this pattern.
Decorate the tree with bows, rhinestones and other decorative elements, and glue a star to the top of the head.
Tara Aveilhe/Flickr.com Girls will highly appreciate such a gift. After all, this is an individual scent; no one in the city will have such a perfume.
Before you create, find out what smells the one you want to please prefers. For example, if a girl likes citrus scents, she will need lemon or orange. To add woody notes, you need sandalwood or cedar oils, powdery ones - roses or vanilla.
Ingredients:
- ½ cup almond oil;
- ½ cup grape oil;
- 100 g beeswax;
- 1 teaspoon vitamin E;
- 60 drops of lemon oil;
- 25 drops of eucalyptus oil;
- 20 drops of lavender oil;
- 20 drops rosemary oil.
Mix almond and grape oil with wax in a separate saucepan and place on steam bath. When the wax has completely dissolved, let the liquid cool slightly and add essential oils and vitamin E. Pour the future perfume into molds. A bottle of old hygienic lipstick, a jar of Vaseline, etc. will do.
Once the wax has hardened, the perfume is ready to use. All that remains is to package them beautifully.
A great gift for freezing girls. A pair of warm, fairly sturdy socks that you don't wear can be turned into fingerless gloves.
Additional materials:
- needle with thread;
- heart cut out of felt.
Trim and sew the sock as shown in the photos. Be sure to hem the edge to prevent fraying, and make all seams from the inside out.
Sew a felt heart on top. You can use any other decorative means. For example, embroider the inscription “Happy New Year!” or embroider mitts with rhinestones.
Another DIY gift for those who are always cold is. By heating it for 1-3 minutes in the microwave, you will get a great heating pad that also smells nice.
GA-Kayaker/Flickr.com Paracord is a cord made of nylon. Initially used as a material for parachute lines, but then paracord began to be used wherever a lightweight and durable cable might be needed. For example, it is used to weave stylish Mens Bracelets. IN ordinary life- just a decoration, in an extreme situation - a life-saving rope.
Exist various techniques paracord weaving. Here is one of the most common.
You will need:
- 150 cm of paracord of one color and the same amount of another (it is desirable that the shades be contrasting);
- 75 cm of black paracord;
- scissors;
- ruler;
- needle and thread.
From paracord you can weave not only a bracelet, but also a keychain, or make a braid for a knife or a car steering wheel. You can easily find the diagrams on the Internet. It’s even easier - watch video tutorials on YouTube, there are many of them.
Witandwhistle.com You can not only drink from such a mug. You can leave messages on it for your household or just draw.
Materials:
- white porcelain mug without relief;
- slate paint;
- masking tape;
- brush.
Chalkboard paint is most often used to renew the surfaces of school boards. Now big choice such colors. You need one that can work on ceramics. For example, like this one.
Choose an area of the mug that is comfortable to write on, but that will not come into contact with your lips when drinking. Cover the rest of the mug with masking tape.
Degrease the untaped area and apply paint to it in a thick layer. Remove the tape and leave the mug in a well-ventilated area for a day.
Witandwhistle.com When the paint is dry, place the mug in an oven preheated to 150°C. After 30 minutes, turn off the stove, but remove the mug when it has cooled.
Now the mug can be washed in the dishwasher and put in the microwave.
Heygorg.com If you are one of those who like to give experiences rather than material things, you will love this idea. After all, it’s not only a delicious warming drink, but also a reason to go or invite you to visit.
Take some pretty glass jars and fill them about a third full with hot chocolate or cocoa powder. Add a few candies or pieces of chocolate. Fill the remaining space with marshmallows.
Decorate the jars to your liking. For example, place a piece of fabric under the lid and attach a heart made from candy canes to the top. The label can serve as a postcard; write your wishes on it.
Another variation of this gift is a set for mulled wine. Take an orange, an apple, a clove and a cinnamon stick. Pack it all beautifully, make a label with your wishes and add a bottle of good red wine.
Candles are a traditional New Year's gift. But glamorous store-bought ones are one thing, a personalized candle or a candle with a phrase understandable only to the giver and the recipient, or even with a photograph, is another.
Take:
- white candles with a diameter of 5–7 cm;
- A4 size printing paper;
- parchment paper;
- scissors;
- glue stick;
Trim the parchment paper so that it is 1-2 cm wider than the A4 sheet. Glue the parchment to the printing paper, turning the edges over to the other side. Insert the sheet into the printer with the glossy side, that is, the side where the parchment is. Print out the image you would like to transfer onto the candle.
The drawing will appear on parchment paper. Now you need to transfer it to a candle. Cut out the image, attach it to the candle, wrap it tightly with another layer of parchment on top and direct a stream of hot air onto the resulting structure. If the picture becomes lighter, it means it was imprinted on the candle. Remove carefully upper layer parchment and let the wax harden.
The gift is ready! If desired, you can decorate it with rhinestones or sparkles.
This cosmetic bag greatly simplifies the search for the necessary items, because any lock can be opened.
You will need:
- 10 zippers 15–20 cm long;
- safety pins;
- needle or sewing machine;
- threads
Sew the zippers to each other from the inside out; for convenience, you can first attach them with pins. Close the resulting fabric into a ring and sew. Also sew the zippers across in front of the dogs, and then turn the cosmetic bag inside out.
This is a gift for a person who cannot part with gadgets. Using the same principle, you can sew a phone case.
Materials:
- a piece of felt suitable for the size of the tablet;
- 2 buttons;
- sewn-in magnets;
- safety pins;
- dense thread in the color of the buttons;
- thread in the color of felt;
- needle;
- scissors.
Fold the fabric so that the bottom part is longer than the top: this is the future cover of the case. Sew along the edges and turn the product inside out.
Cut the lid into a wave or semicircle. Sew a button to the middle. Attach the second one below, to the case. Make a loop between them, as shown in the photo.
Ohsolovelyvintage.blogspot.ru Sew a magnet to the base and lid of the case on the left and right. The fashionable case is ready!
You can also make a stylish organizer for headphones, flash drives, phones and other gadgets from an old book in a beautiful binding. Here's the detailed one.
lePhotography/Flickr.com A gift that will delight not only children, but also adults with a sweet tooth. Making Santa Claus's sleigh is very simple.
You will need:
- glue gun;
- ribbons and other decor;
- sweets: chocolate, sweets, candy-shaped candies.
Here is a detailed video instruction.
A gift for a bosom friend or colleague. Beer can come in handy on January 1st, and brown bottles can easily be styled to resemble Rudolph and friends. (Rudolph is one of Santa's reindeer, distinguished by his red glowing nose.)
Materials:
- beer in dark glass bottles;
- decorative wire;
- toy eyes;
- red pom-poms;
- ribbon and bows;
- box;
- Super glue.
Remove labels from bottles. Make antlers from wire for future deer.
Glue them to the back of the bottle. Attach the eyes and nose to the front. Tie a ribbon (to prevent it from slipping, you can fix it with glue).
Craftysisters-nc.blogspot.ru Decorate the rest of the bottles in the same way. Put them in a box and decorate it.
A gift for economical women and men who love to cook.
You will need:
- cotton fabric with a New Year's pattern;
- batting for lining;
- threads;
- scissors;
- needle.
If you have a sewing machine, the work will not take much time. Detailed video instructions- from pattern to thread cutting - included.
Inside such a mitten you can put a spatula, a ladle and other little things useful for the kitchen.
A little more imagination, and your New Year's gift will become even more original. Attach a ring to the spatula and hang favorite family recipes printed on cards and laminated on it.
Lilluna.com Glass snow... wine glass
Balloons with a miniature figure and artificial snow inside are very popular. Life hacker already shows how to make something similar from an ordinary glass jar. Today it's the turn of wine glasses.
Materials:
- transparent wine glass;
- thick cardboard;
- a figurine that can easily fit into a glass;
- artificial snow;
- bows and other decor;
- glue.
Cut a circle out of cardboard with the same diameter as the wine glass. Glue the figure to the cardboard. It could be a Christmas tree, fawns, or, for example, a car with a Christmas tree on the roof.
Place artificial snow, finely chopped white paper or polystyrene foam. Glue the cardboard base to the edge of the wine glass and turn it over. Decorate the leg with a bow or ribbon.
belchonock/Depositphotos.com In the past year, blankets are very large knit incredibly popular. Finished goods They are quite expensive, so it is more profitable to make a blanket yourself.
Merino wool is best suited for this, but other thick threads can be used. Video tutorial attached.
By hand, without knitting needles or a hook, you can also knit a beautiful Warm scarf. Life hacker has already seen how this is done.
Ourbestbites.com This gift will help you remember the best moments of the past year. Just choose the best photos and print them. Get some clear glass jars and vases. Round and cylindrical vessels work best.
Light pill candles inside the jars. The light will fill the house with warmth, and the photographs will seem to glow from within.
Iheartnaptime.net Many people have flaky skin in winter. If there are such people among your friends, prepare them a sugar-lemon scrub as a gift.
According to the Chinese calendar, the symbol of 2017 is the rooster. Therefore, gifts with the image of a rooster or in the shape of roosters and hens will be especially relevant. Universal option such a gift is a Christmas tree toy.
You will need:
- cardboard blank in the shape of a rooster;
- thick fabric;
- filler for toys;
- twine and lace ribbon;
- white outline;
- scissors;
- needle and thread;
- glue gun
The manufacturing process is shown in the following video.
You can sweeten such a gift with sweet cockerels on a stick. Many people still have their uniform from Soviet times.
Ingredients:
- ½ cup granulated sugar;
- 2-3 tablespoons of water (just to moisten the sugar);
- 1 tablespoon apple cider vinegar(in some recipes add regular table salt or a pinch of citric acid).
You need to boil syrup from sugar and pour it into a generously greased vegetable oil form. Then stick the sticks in and wait until everything hardens.
If you know other original DIY solutions, share them in the comments.
New Year 2018 is getting closer and closer, and as it approaches, we are increasingly starting to think about gifts for family and friends. I would like to give something unusual and interesting. You can make gifts for the New Year 2018 with your own hands; its owner will definitely like such a gift. Our article provides several gift options that you can create with your own hands.
New Year cards
A New Year's card is a cute addition to a gift. A handmade postcard for this wonderful holiday will definitely please the owner of this gift. To create it you will need colored paper, glue, scissors, various parts for decorative finishing and a little imagination and creativity.
To create a postcard you will need:
- colored cardboard or thick colored paper;
- corrugated paper (preferably green);
- scissors;
- decorative decorations.
Manufacturing process:
- You need to fold a sheet of cardboard in half.
- Cut rectangles from corrugated paper different lengths.
- Draw the outline of the Christmas tree or mark where to glue it corrugated paper.
- Glue the corrugated paper to the cardboard along the marked lines with one side. You need to start from the bottom of the Christmas tree. Glue the remaining corrugated paper rectangles in order.
- Decorate the resulting Christmas tree with decorative ornaments.
The DIY gift is ready, all that remains is to sign it.
Necessary materials:
- Colored cardboard;
- Thick colored paper;
- Ruler;
- PVA glue;
- Scissors;
- Glitter for decoration.
Manufacturing process:
- Fold the cardboard in half and mark the future Christmas tree on the inside.
- Cut rectangles of different lengths from green paper and carefully fold them like an accordion.
- Glue the created “accordions” with the tips to two sides of the cardboard, so that when opened, you get a three-dimensional Christmas tree.
- Decorate the Christmas tree with sparkles, and you can attach a star to the top of the head.
- Do not close the card, wait until it dries and the gift is ready.
New Year card "Christmas tree"
Prepare in advance:
- Green colored paper, several shades;
- Nail scissors;
- Toothpicks;
- PVA glue;
- White corrugated paper;
- Decorative beads, garlands, sparkles;
- Colored cardboard.
Manufacturing process:
- Slice colored paper stripes (width 10 mm.).
- Cut fringe from strips along the entire length.
- Wrap the cut fringe strips around a toothpick and secure the ends with PVA glue. Wait until dry.
- Next, turn all the green buds into fluffy elements of the future Christmas tree. Move the fringe away from the middle with your fingers.
- Glue all the finished fluffy elements to the future postcard in the form of a pyramid. They should be located tightly.
- Make a tree trunk from a toothpick.
- Create snow at the base of the tree from corrugated paper.
- Decorate the Christmas tree with decorative beads, garlands and sparkles.
Postcard “Happy New Year!”
To create this card you need to prepare:
- Colored cardboard;
- Colored paper;
- Scissors;
- Glue;
- Decorative ribbon;
- Gold or silver paint.
Manufacturing process:
- Fold the cardboard in half.
- On the front side, paint the background for the future Christmas tree. It could just be falling snowflakes or stars.
- Cut out an isosceles triangle from paper and fold it horizontally like an accordion.
- In the middle of the future Christmas tree, make holes in each bend and pass a decorative ribbon through them.
- Glue the resulting Christmas tree to the cardboard so that it has volume.
- Let the card dry and it is ready.
Tasty gifts
New Year is always associated with a lot of sweets. Children are always happy to receive tasty gifts, but for adults such a gift can be just as great. pleasant surprise. Especially if you show your imagination and present a delicious gift made with your own hands.
Present to New Year's Eve a bottle of champagne is trivial, but if you decorate it in accordance with the holiday, you will get an original handmade gift.
To decorate a bottle of champagne you will need:
- A bottle of champagne;
- Candies in beautiful wrappers;
- Ribbon to match the foil on the bottle;
- Narrow tape.
Manufacturing process:
- Starting from the bottom of the bottle, carefully attach the candies in a circle using narrow tape and continue this way until the foil on the neck.
- Use a ribbon to tie the candies to the neck of the bottle. Make two rows. Tie the ribbon at the neck with beautiful bows.
The gift is ready.
To create a gift you need to take:
- A bottle of champagne;
- Glue;
- Tinsel;
- Double-sided tape;
- Candies in colorful candy wrappers.
Manufacturing process:
- Glue double-sided tape at intervals onto a bottle of champagne in a spiral.
- Apply glue to the bottle in those places where there is no tape and glue the tinsel in a spiral to the very end of the neck. Wait until the glue dries.
- Carefully remove the film from the tape and stick the candies to it.
The gift is ready. A bottle of champagne looks like Christmas tree, decorated with toys. The gift will look more impressive if you take tinsel in two or three shades.
A bouquet is always a pleasure, and a bouquet of sweets created with your own hands will definitely please its owner.
To create such a gift you will need:
- Bouquet basket;
- Transparent film with a colorful pattern or thick decorative paper;
- Transparent glue;
- Narrow tape;
- Candies;
- Kebab skewers;
- Decorative decorations;
- Christmas tree branches.
Manufacturing process:
- From decorative paper or film, carefully create a cone without leaving dents on it. Glue with transparent glue so that the border of the cone is not visible.
- Carefully cut off any excess paper from the cone.
- Glue candies onto sticks.
- Place the candies in the cone and gently press the paper onto the stick. Do this in such a way that the cone does not lose its shape.
- Secure the ends of the paper to the stick with thin tape in two turns.
- Place candy cones beautifully in a basket and decorate with Christmas tree branches to make a bouquet.
- Decorate with decorative ornaments.
Everyone will definitely like this original bouquet.
To create this composition you will need:
- Lollipops in the form of a curved stick;
- Vase, cylindrical;
- Hot glue;
- Ribbons for decoration;
- One round lollipop;
- Flowers, real or artificial (a poinsee is ideal for creating this gift).
Video gallery of beautiful candy compositions
Manufacturing process:
- Place the lollipop against the vase and secure it to it with hot glue.
- Continue gluing the candies until the entire surface of the vase is hidden behind them.
- Wrap tape around the created vase and secure it with glue. Glue a round lollipop at the junction of the tape.
- Place flowers in the finished vase.
A colorful vase will be a beautiful and tasty gift for the New Year 2018.
DIY New Year's souvenirs
Do you want to make a cute and original gift for the New Year 2018? a great solution would be to make Christmas gifts with your own hands.
To work you will need:
- Green burlap;
- Soft and hard wire to create a frame;
- Wire cutters;
- Garland;
- Decorative tape;
- Balls for decorating the Christmas tree.
Manufacturing process:
- Create a cone-shaped frame from wire.
- Attach the garland to the frame.
- Use burlap to make the bottom of the tree, securing it to soft wire. The burlap should have many folds. Hide its cut in the middle.
- In this way, create shuttlecocks throughout the body, starting from the bottom up.
- Decorate the top of the tree decorative ribbon, and hang small balls all over the tree.
- You can add decorations to your liking.
The Christmas tree for a DIY gift is ready and waiting for the holiday.
To create this gift you should prepare:
- Sheet of cardboard;
- Green threads;
- PVA glue.
Manufacturing process:
- Create a cone from cardboard. Trim its base so that it can be placed.
- Wrap a thread moistened with PVA glue around the cone. It should be done not too tightly so that it is translucent, but not too thin so that it can hold its shape.
- Let the glue dry.
- Carefully remove the finished Christmas tree from the paper cone.
- Decorate the Christmas tree with small white balls (can be made of foam) and snowflakes.
The tree is ready, you can give a gift.
The Advent wreath has become a popular attribute of the New Year; to create it you will need:
- Wire for creating the frame of a Christmas wreath;
- Christmas balls of different sizes;
- glue gun;
- ribbon;
- tinsel.
Manufacturing process:
- Use wire to create a round frame for the wreath. Make a small hook.
- Remove the cap from the Christmas tree decoration and coat it with glue. Then put it back on. Do this with all toys. This is necessary so that the balls do not fall out during the manufacturing process.
- Wait until the glue dries.
- Take one end of the wire and string it onto it Christmas ball. Then the next one. Thus, string all the balls onto the wire to create a wreath.
- A variety of color compositions can be created.
- Place tinsel between the balls. It is better to do this while placing the balls on the wire.
- When the work is finished, fasten the ends of the wire.
- Disguise the hook behind a ribbon bow.
New Year's toy
More and more often New Year presents gifts in the form of Christmas tree decorations. You can create an original gift with your own hands.
To make a Christmas tree toy you will need:
- Cord;
- Beads;
- Strong thread.
Manufacturing process:
- Take the lace and fold it in half.
- Sew a bead to the outside in the middle.
- Then, on the other side, put a bead on the thread, followed by the next part of the cord. Each subsequent turn of the cord should be smaller than the previous one.
- We continue this way until the Christmas tree is ready, attach the last bead to its top and create a loop.
The gift is ready.
To create toys you will need wire and rope
- Wrap a piece of wire with a rope so that it does not stick out.
- From the finished material you can create a toy of any shape: a star, a heart or a Christmas tree.
You can decorate this toy with sparkles.
Necessary materials:
- Styrofoam ball;
- Ribbon of any color;
- Small paper flowers;
- Buttons and pins.
Manufacturing process:
- Attach the tape to the ball, then begin to wind it around the ball until it is completely wrapped in tape.
- Attach the flowers to the resulting ball with pins, not too close to each other.
The New Year's ball is ready.
To create you will need:
- Large round candle;
- Decoupage napkin or napkin with a New Year's motif;
- Pencil;
Manufacturing process:
- Cut out a New Year's picture from a napkin, the width and height suitable for wrapping the candle.
- Remove the top layer of the napkin.
- Using a pencil or fingernail, stick and smooth the napkin along the entire contour of the candle.
- Using a hot stream of air (from a hairdryer), lightly melt the wax. Thanks to this, the napkin will stick tightly to the candle and the gift is ready.
To create this candle you need to prepare:
- Large wax candle;
- Christmas tree branches;
- Hot glue;
- PVA glue;
- Sackcloth
- Decorative snow;
- Beads and ribbons for decoration;
- Glitter.
Manufacturing process:
- Glue multi-colored sparkles onto the candle with PVA glue. Glue diagonally.
- Hot glue the Christmas tree branches to the candle.
- Decorate the base of the candle with burlap and secure it with hot glue.
- Tie the burlap with ribbon and attach a homemade ribbon bow.
- Decorate the candle with Christmas tree beads using hot glue.
- Decorate the stand on which the candle stands with green Christmas tree beads.
- The final decoration is decorative snow. Apply lightly to the branches of the Christmas tree and the gift candle is ready.
Finally
When planning to create a New Year's gift with your own hands, do not forget to arm yourself good mood and warm emotions. And then you will definitely get a gift that brings warmth and a great mood.
DIY New Year gifts: 5 reasons to make such a present + 10 handmade gifts + 5 New Year's packaging for money + 3 ideas for homemade souvenirs.
New Year holidays– a period that significantly empties your wallet.
You need to take care of your holiday outfit, buy decorations for the home, buy goodies for dinner, but the main expense item is gifts for all your family and friends.
But it can be done DIY New Year gifts.
This will help you not only save money, but also show originality.
Just think how different your gifts will be from other boxes laid out under the Christmas tree.
Do not think that in this way you will disrespect the recipient or demonstrate greed, because a homemade gift is not necessarily a five-kopeck postcard.
Why do you need to make gifts for the New Year with your own hands?
If you have enough money, then buying New Year gifts for all your loved ones will not be difficult.
Yes, these gifts may be quite impersonal, but they will demonstrate that you are not a greedy person.
It’s a completely different matter if you have very limited funds, but there are quite a lot of friends and relatives expecting a gift from you.
What should I do?
Learn to make beautiful, original and useful things with your own hands.
Giving homemade gifts for the New Year is beneficial because:
- This will save you money.
- You will be able to demonstrate your skills and creativity.
- Give something that you can’t buy in a regular store.
- Such gifts are always perceived as a sign special attention: someone was not lazy and made such beauty for me.
- Nowadays, few people want to spend time on crafts, so your gift will definitely stand out among others.
Useful DIY gifts for the New Year
For some reason, people are skeptical about gifts made with their own hands, immediately imagining a useless card or an ugly craft that will gather dust on a shelf.
But why is your imagination only enough for this?
Many gifts created with your own hands for the New Year can be both wonderful and useful.
I consider useful handmade gifts:
- Knitted sweaters, scarves, hats, gloves and other things.
- Embroidered shirts, dresses, napkins, tablecloths.
- Sewn clothes, bed linen.
- Furniture covers, rugs, bedspreads, made in patchwork style.
- Bead products.
- Carved candlesticks, boxes.
- Jewelry from natural stone and other materials.
- Ceramic dishes made using a potter's wheel.
- Wooden furniture.
- Hand-painted silk scarves, scarves and more.
Naturally, to create such a good gift with your own hands, you need to learn how to sew, knit, embroider, work with clay, beads, wood and other materials.
You no longer have time to master at least one craft and make such a high-quality gift with your own hands this New Year, but to next year you can come fully armed.
DIY New Year gifts involving food
Very common gifts for the New Year are champagne, fruits and sweets.
Give all this in a regular package, even with a beautiful New Year's picture- banal.
Better to do it yourself original packaging for the food you are going to present.
For the New Year you can do the following with your own hands:
Original do-it-yourself New Year gifts made from money
Who said you can't give money for New Year?
This is possible only if you present them not in a banal envelope, but make the packaging with your own hands or make a craft from money.
For example, the mother of one of my friends always gives her daughter money both for the New Year and for her birthday, believing that adult daughter She will figure out what is best for her to buy.
But so that the present does not look banal, she presents money every time in an original way: inside balloons, in homemade postcard or a box, in the form of a money tree, etc.
Original gifts for the New Year involving money are:
To do colorful cards in the New Year, use the ideas from the video.
Such a cute little thing will suit any woman, even one who does not consider herself a needlewoman. After all, there should be needles in every home, if only to sew on a broken button.
First you need to draw the details of the future product on a piece of paper.
As you can see, this is:
- two circles with a diameter of 12 and 5.5 cm;
- rectangle measuring 8 by 3 cm;
- square with side 4 cm;
- two ribbons 5 mm wide and 7.5 cm and 5.5 cm long;
- a flower of four petals, consisting of a square with sides of 3 cm.
- a piece of cardboard with a side of 12 cm;
- 20 beads;
- self-disappearing marker;
- pieces of felt in the desired colors;
- filler;
- thread
Place a 5.5cm circle template onto a piece of cardboard. Cut out these four blanks and glue one on top of the other. This will make the bottom of the base of the needle bed so dense. Using the same template, cut out a circle from red felt; later its half will become a strawberry. Cut out the leaves for it from a square with sides of 3 cm. The diagram shows what shape they are.
Attach a square with sides of 4 cm to brown felt. This will later turn into chocolate on top of the pincushion cake.
From fabric of the same dark color, cut out a rectangle measuring 3 by 8 cm. Later it will turn into a cinnamon stick. Create caramels from flesh felt and Pink colour based on templates whose width is 5 mm.
As you can see, the square felt that will soon turn into hot chocolate needs to be cut in such a way that it resembles this sweetness.
On a circle of felt Brown with a diameter of 12 cm, place a circle with a diameter of 5.5 cm in the center. Trace it with a disappearing marker. Step back a little to the outside, make another ring, marking it with the same tool.
You have two circles, the distance between them is approximately 1 cm.
On the larger circle, start sewing the beads with the seam forward with the needle. Make small stitches an inch apart. We string it, pulling the thread to gather it.
To further make this simple but very effective gift for the New Year or another holiday, take a cardboard circle. When you decorate half of the felt blank with beads, put it inside.
Continue further. The filling for this soon-to-be pincushion felt cake is made from stuffing. IN in this case Holofiber was used. Sew a large white circle around the outer circle, stuff it with stuffing, tighten and secure the thread.
This is what the workpiece will look like at this stage.
But for now, don't glue that white filling to the dark base, but sew the fabric icing on top. It is better not to glue it, because then this part will become hard and it will be difficult to stick needles into it.
Next, this New Year gift for a friend, mother or grandmother is created as follows.
Make stitches on half of the red circle to imitate strawberry seeds. They are actually black, but you can use white, pink or yellow thread.
Sew the stitch “forward needle” in the center around the petal blank and tighten the thread, fix it.
Sew the white and pink fabric ribbons together and roll them up so that the piece looks like a candy cane. Glue the strawberry leaves to this berry, and the white fluffy filling to the cardboard that lies at the bottom of the pincushion.
Roll up the brown rectangle and tie it with yellow thread so that it looks like a cinnamon stick. Attach it, the lollipop, and the strawberry to the top of the pincushion.
So simple and very beautiful gift You can make it yourself for the New Year.
If you have even less free time, then you can decorate a photo frame in a certain way and give such a gift.
How to decorate a photo frame for the New Year?
For this creative work you will need:
- frame;
- glue;
- rhinestones, beads and sparkles for decoration;
- sheet of cardboard;
- colored paper or photograph.
If a New Year's gift is created by an adult, then he can write a congratulation on a piece of paper and stick it in the center of colored cardboard.
Photos would also be appropriate. You can put glass on top or attach a transparent film.
To update your photo frame, use broken Christmas decorations. They need to be wrapped in newspaper and crushed even more using a rolling pin. Now lubricate the frame with glue and place it with this surface on the crumbs from the toys.
If you have artificial snow, then you can put it between the glass and the cardboard base. If it is not there, then rub the candle on a coarse grater and use it. You can also take fluff or cotton wool.
If there are even fewer materials, then they simply decorate the frame with New Year’s symbols. You can create such a gift in literally 5 minutes. If the frame is not new, then paint it first and let the paint dry.
if you love bright hues, then cover the frame with white paint. From Christmas tree branches, rowan berries, pine cones, artificial beads, create New Year's bouquet. Tie it with a piece of burlap and thread.
Now see how to make a simple New Year's gift, but make it very impressive.
How to make a snow globe with your own hands?
Add a fairy-tale mood by making an interesting souvenir.
Here's what you'll need for this craft:
- a jar with a metal lid that screws on tightly;
- glue gun, and if you don’t have one, then a tube of superglue;
- decorations that will become Christmas balls;
- imitation snow, for this you will need artificial snow, crushed white plastic or glitter;
- water;
- glycerin, for a 400 ml jar you will need 100 g;
- medical rubber gloves.
If you have an empty plastic container, make imitation snow from it. To do this, first cut this material into thin strips, and then chop it into small pieces with scissors.
Glue the decoration to the inside of the lid. This could be a ball or a Santa Claus figurine. Pour the imitation snow you made into the jar. Pour glycerin here, then gradually add water.
The jar must be sealed tightly so that its contents do not spill and germs do not get inside the container. If this is not the case, then cut off the top of the glove and glue it to the neck of the jar to ensure a tighter seal on the lid.
Wrap the lid and decorate it with a skirt made of shiny braid.
If you don’t have a Santa Claus figurine, then you can put a hare, snowman figurine inside the container, or even hang a key.
Christmas trees and jewelry also look good.
You can make other simple New Year gifts based on a glass jar. You will create magic with your own hands and you will be able to surprise your child.
Glowing Christmas tree for New Year
For this craft you will need:
- glow-in-the-dark paints;
- paper Green colour;
- cardboard;
- glue;
- jar with lid;
- scissors.
You can take green writing paper, if you don’t have one, then cut colored paper into rectangles. They need to be painted with glow-in-the-dark paints and then cut into fringes.
Roll a cone out of cardboard and glue the resulting blanks onto it.
Glue the Christmas tree to back side lids, screw this part of the jar on and decorate it with colored ribbon. In daylight the tree will look like this, and in the evening and at night it will begin to sparkle mysteriously.
A simple gift for the New Year - a deer made of felt and from a bottle
The next two ideas are also easy to implement. The first gift can be hung on the Christmas tree, and the second one can be given to the man. To make a deer, take:
- felt;
- red threads and threads of a different color;
- ribbons;
- filler;
- scissors;
- sheet of cardboard for template;
- a needle;
- glass beads
Using a seam over the edge, connect the paired felt pieces, but not completely. Fill the resulting pocket with padding polyester, helping yourself with a pencil or wooden stick. Now you need to sew it up to the end, attach a ribbon and a bead to the deer's antlers. You can sew a round nose and eyes on it.
To make it easier for you to draw a deer, we suggest downloading the presented pattern.
If you don't know what to give your man, give him a bottle of beer that resembles a deer. Let it go young man don’t be embarrassed by the horns, because these are just New Year’s symbols that will be appropriate during this holiday
If you have such soft flexible blanks, use them. If not, then wrap the wire with a thick red thread, gluing its ends. Bend it like deer antlers, connect them together.
From the same blank you will need to twist the round nose of the animal. Glue it to the top of the bottle and above it attach two eyes for toys. Tie the beauty with a ribbon and you can give a gift to a man.
It is best to write holiday greetings so that they remain in memory. And if you express your positive thoughts on a handmade postcard, such attention will be doubly appreciated. You can very quickly make a gift for the New Year by reading the following master class.
DIY New Year's card
To create a postcard, take:
- sheet of cardboard;
- green satin ribbon;
- red buttons;
- glue gun;
- scissors.
- Fold the paper sheet in half and begin laying the tape on it in a zigzag motion, moving from top to bottom.
- In this case, the turns at the top of the postcard will be shorter than at the bottom. Glue them in the center to secure them, and leave these lush loops around the edges.
- Also using glue gun Attach buttons to the tree to turn them into toys.
Sew fabric onto the base or glue a rectangle of velvet paper here. Glue three Christmas trees, and on top there is an inscription that eloquently congratulates you on the holiday.
Next three-dimensional postcard for the New Year is created from:
- a sheet of cardboard;
- colored paper with a pattern;
- glue;
- beads or other decorations;
- double-sided tape;
- scissors;
- marker.
- Fold a sheet of paper in half, start gluing the blanks here, using the small ones at the top and the largest ones at the bottom to make triangular shape. You can immediately glue these elements together, and only then glue them onto the postcard.
- Attach decorations using double-sided tape. You can use several layers of this adhesive tape.
- Such a simple gift for the New Year, and at the same time unforgettable, can be made from leftover fabric. Cut them into circles and set aside for now.
- Fold a rectangular sheet of cardboard in half, glue a triangle of green paper and a rectangle of brown paper here. This is the base of the tree. You need to attach circles of fabric to it.
- Glue a piece of openwork napkin down, attach a few artificial pearls or beads to this tree. Tie the card with twine or ribbon, not forgetting to write a congratulation.
- sheet of colored cardboard;
- colored paper;
- scraps of fabric;
- napkin;
- beads;
- ribbon or twine.
- double-sided colored paper;
- cardboard;
- scissors;
- satin ribbons;
- scotch.
- First you will need to cut the squares. Fold the first along one and the second diagonal. Pull it to the center of the side, fix the volumetric workpiece as shown in the photographs.
- Glue it onto the card using double-sided tape. Attach other elements of the tree in the same way. All that remains is to decorate the top with a ribbon or star, and a simple gift, but made with your own hands, is ready.
The postcard can be made not only of paper, but also of wood. In the latter case, it will also become a three-dimensional picture.
Nail decorative nails with large heads to the block so that they have the outlines of a future Christmas tree and a star. Each element is created by interweaving threads. It turns out very beautiful and impressive.
You can make a New Year's card using this principle and decorate it or the surrounding area with dried orange slices, which need to be strung on a thread and secured to the base.
Letters and a Christmas tree with decorations look very impressive if shiny decorative nails are used. And if their hats are pre-painted with luminous paint, then the elements of the picture will sparkle charmingly in the dark.
Here's how to make simple New Year's gifts using very few materials and not spending a lot of time. But such souvenirs and postcards are very valuable, since they are made with their own hands, with love.
See what other New Year gifts you can make quickly and easily:
Making snowmen is also not difficult, as the following master class will teach you:
What can you give?
The chores before the New Year are always pleasant, and I want to devote them to my friends and family more attention and give them something necessary and at the same time inspiring. What are some DIY gift ideas for the New Year? List of basic gift ideas self made:- any item with a photo (magnet, album or pillow);
- toy or trinket;
- hand-knitted accessory;
- sweet gift;
- a useful thing that you uniquely made with your own hands;
- interior item or home decor.
This is something that an absolutely ordinary person can handle if they wish, if they show a little ingenuity or find good master class. If you have some kind of hobby related to needlework, then you can make something in your favorite style.
A person who is keen on bead embroidery will probably be able to embroider a small Christmas decorations or make a motivating picture for the interior, a good knitter will come up with unusual scarves for the whole family, and a wood carver will be able to delight loved ones with handmade jewelry.
But what to do if you don’t seem to have any handicraft skills, but you want to make a gift? First of all, use your imagination and come up with several gift options.
New Year's souvenir
New Year's souvenirs bring the spirit of the holiday, so it is better to give them a little in advance - so that the gift has time to settle down in the house and create the right atmosphere happy holiday. It could be something related to Chinese calendar- next year will pass under the sign of the Pig (boar), which means that any cute pig may well become beautiful holiday gift.You can try to make a decoration for the Christmas tree or give a Christmas tree made by yourself. watch an easy master class:
If this New Year's toy for a Christmas tree, then you can:
- sew a toy in the shape of a pig, for example from a sock;
- cut out several complex silhouettes of piglets with an openwork pattern from designer thick paper;
- make a pig figurine using the technique of dry or wet felting;
- weave from wire.
Pattern:
Photo gifts
This is the simplest and at the same time very touching way to give your parents a gift for the New Year with your own hands, especially considering that you don’t have to do practically anything with your own hands - the main thing is to find a good idea and spend a little time on preparation.
Gifts decorated with photographs will highlight your feelings for your parents and will remind them of you all year long.
What could it be:
- calendar;
- phone cases;
- decorative pillows;
- mugs and dishes;
- photo book.
For example, for a calendar you can select beautiful photos the whole family or some funny moments, or you can do a special photo session for this. By the way, a good gift a simple family photo printed on a huge canvas can be something that will not only decorate your parents’ living room, but will also keep them warm every day.
If you want to make a photo gift, then select the brightest and highest quality shots. It is not necessary that there are people in the pictures - someone will like a mug with a portrait of their favorite cat, and my husband’s mother was delighted with a wall calendar with photographs of her precious orchids, which she grows herself.
Take a closer look at Everyday life person, pay attention to what he devotes most of his time to and try to use it somehow - then you will really like the gift!
Sweet gifts
I admit honestly, this is my favorite way to do something to someone. If you like to cook, then prepare a magical gift for your loved ones - sweets plunge each of us into childhood, and those with a sweet tooth simply cannot imagine happy holiday without all kinds of sweets.What sweet gifts can you make yourself:
- gingerbread cookies for the New Year tree;
- painted gingerbread cookies;
- chic gingerbread house;
- cake;
- cakes;
- handmade sweets.
Where is the difference between an ordinary gingerbread and a festive one? First, the dessert you prepare must be well made. If you are sure that your dough will burn, and instead of neat sand men you will get mummies, then it is better to choose another gift.
Secondly, at the first glance at such a gift it should be clear that it was made with love and for a specific person. A small gingerbread house can look very impressive and is not too difficult to assemble.
While baking and decorating a gorgeous cake is not very easy (although there are some secrets here too). And finally, thirdly, the gift must be well packaged. I'm not talking about the usual gift wrapping, colorful paper and lush bows, no.
Watch the video instructions for creating a sweet sleigh:
Or you can make a Christmas tree like this out of sweets and tea:
Watch the video instructions for creating a candy tea tree:
Make a small bundle of pure, unbleached linen, tie a gift tag to a ribbon, and hang a small wooden star to highlight your gift and make it special.
If you want to make a gift in the form of sweets to your mother for the New Year or Christmas with your own hands, then choose original recipe- for example, gourmet cookies with drops of dark chocolate, ginger and pepper, cook them well, decorate them and package them well, and mom will be delighted with the gift, because your care will be felt in it.
Handmade card
, made with your own hands can be either an addition to a gift or a small independent present - for example, to a colleague or boss. You shouldn’t fall back into childhood and try to cut a postcard out of old, unused wallpaper - visit a craft store, where you can buy a blank for a postcard (specially folded cardboard), as well as the necessary decor.
It’s best to watch a lesson on making a postcard with your own hands, and then buy materials according to the list - for example, it could be a blank, New Year’s cutting (volumetric elements made of thick cardboard), decorative tapes(most often paper, with ornaments) and various decorations.
Some materials can be replaced (for example, colored powder for embossing can be easily replaced with any coloring pigment - including decorative shadows or glitter for manicure). Try to make the card not just beautiful, but also neat.
Handicrafts as a gift
This category also includes decorative elements for the home, and various trinkets and hand-knitted accessories. You can make gifts for the New Year 2019 with your own hands, even if you don’t know how to do needlework at all, but you are ready to try your hand and you like Original gifts for the new year.What to give for the New Year, made with your own hands:
- decorative clocks;
- knitted scarf;
- sofa cushion;
- decorative panel;
- soft toy;
- any interesting trinkets.
Interior panel, clock or toy. Here you will need good idea. The clock mechanism can be purchased at any craft store; you can use plastic or thick cardboard as a base; you can also make a clock based on a white plate, which you can decorate to your taste.
It's best to start with an idea. To give your beloved husband a gift for the New Year with your own hands, you need to at least have a little idea of what your husband will be happy about. Is he into extreme sports? Make him funny Wall Clock in extreme style. Are you a fan of a sports team? Instead of numbers on the dial, place the names of the players under the corresponding number.
An interior panel as a gift to a loved one is quite simple to make; you will need a large wooden or plastic frame in which you will make your panel. You can try to take a portrait in unusual technique- from different photos or thread, from fingerprints or regular tape.
Think about what gift a guy would like to receive from you for the New Year? Perhaps confirmation of your feelings? Or something that can highlight his best sides?
Knitting or sewing
If you don’t know what to give your dad as a gift for the New Year, then try making something with your own hands from threads and nails, for example, a similar painting in the style of string art.
How to do this, see the video instructions:
If you have minimal knitting skills, then you can try to take on something really difficult - a sweater or socks, and if you are far from this type of needlework, then it is better to knit something small.
A hat, scarf or something simple. In this case, the main thing is to choose good yarn, which can hide any pattern errors and not too confident loops. By the way, a guy who is a car driver will be delighted with a funny knitted cover for the steering wheel or headrest made from fluffy yarn like a teddy bear.
Jar with the best memories
This the gift is suitable both lovers and parents or best friends. Remember and write on small pieces of paper all the warmest and brightest memories associated with the recipient, then roll up the pieces of paper, tie each one with a ribbon and put it in a beautiful jar.
Now you can choose a gift to suit your taste and make it yourself, and you also know what to pay attention to when packaging.
