When the holidays are approaching, especially Valentine's Day, everyone begins to rack their brains over what they can give such an unusual gift to their loved ones. I want to please and surprise my soulmate. And the representatives of the stronger sex have a completely difficult time, because it is clear to everyone that girls are romantic natures. But there is a way out! In fact, everything is very simple: there is nothing more valuable than gifts made for your beloved with your own hands!
Crafts using cardmaking technique
Usually, this technique is used to make postcards: flat and voluminous, only from paper and cardboard or using natural materials, ribbons, beads, s alt dough bas-reliefs. But there is an option that is more original, even creative. After all, you can make gifts for your beloved with your own hands not only pleasant, which are valentine cards, but also useful, practical. For example … a portrait of a sweet lady! It will be an original and romantic gift for a girl. It is not so difficult to create a creative portrait using the cardmaking technique with your own hands.
- First, you need to convert the photo of the lady of the heart into black and white, cut out the silhouette and put it on cardboard.
- The manufacturer must carefully smear the remaining void with glue and sprinkle with semolina.
- Then carefully remove the silhouette template.
- After the first layer has dried, a template is applied to the surface free from semolina, in which all black parts are removed - it will be good if the white template consists of one piece.
- Empty spaces in the template are smeared with glue again.
- Now you can use the sifted sand, carefully pouring it onto a damp surface.
- After the portrait dries, you can decorate the picture with shells, paper butterflies, sea pebbles.
- By inserting a portrait into a frame, you can proudly present it to your beloved.
Lamps
Many people want to present the gifts they need in the household for their beloved. You can make original lamps with your own hands. To create them, a variety of objects that have served their age are suitable. For example, a lampshade made of a five-liter round plastic water tank, pasted over with plastic disposable spoons, looks luxurious. Of course, it is necessary to make a hole in the bottom so that the light can pass through unhindered, and remove the cuttings from the spoons. Beautiful lamps can be obtained from the old frames of outdated chandeliers. They can be decorated with beads, rhinestones. And some even use luminous New Year's chains, beautifully placing them on the frame -then the resulting night light can do without an additional light bulb.
Polymer clay crafts
For creative people, it is proposed to make gifts for your beloved with your own hands from polymer clay. It can be figurines - cool animal figurines. A miniature bouquet of flowers in a tiny flowerpot or a box studded with transparent pebbles, beads and beads will look luxurious. Also, every charmer will be pleased to receive a photo frame as a gift - it is recommended to decorate it around the perimeter with shells, artificial flowers, semi-precious stones or imitation gems. And you can even make a more chic gift for your girlfriend with your own hands from polymer clay, if she loves unique creative jewelry. Here there are no barriers to the master's imagination: earrings and beads, necklaces and necklaces, a diadem and bracelets - all this will look extravagant if the craftsman puts effort and his taste.
