Girls are very sentimental. They love to receive handmade things. Giving gifts to friends is very easy. You can make something decorative as well as something utilitarian. The main thing is to be guided by the taste preferences of your friend, so as not to miscalculate with the coloring or design of your product. Find gift ideas below.
Box
One of the DIY gift ideas for girlfriends is a beautiful box. Girls love caskets, because they can store such beautiful, but absolutely unnecessary things. Many of the fair sex collect everything they feel sorry for throwing away: beautiful buttons, clasps, broken earrings and bracelets. All this we alth can be given a second life. But there is nowhere to store such beauty. So create a box for all this.
You can use a shoebox as a base. Cover it with wrapping paper or cover it with a beautiful fabric. If you want to give a more serious present, you can buy a wooden box blank in the store. This form can be decoupage or painted with acrylic.
Flower Arrangement
Does your friend have a holiday? What do-it-yourself gift for a friend can you make? Create an arrangement of fresh flowers. Today it is no longer fashionable to give bouquets. But the original designs with a frame are a trend. How can you make something beautiful? From a thick wire you need to roll the base. The easiest way is to make a circle or an oval. Now we strengthen this form in a box with a floristic sponge and start inserting flowers one by one. First we fasten the short ones, and then the long ones. All plants should touch the sponge with their feet. So your craft can last not a week, but a month, which, you see, is not so little for flowers.
If you want to make a gift to your girlfriend on February 14 with your own hands, you can resort to this method. Freeze the flower. How to do it? Take a beautiful rose and place it in a vase of water. Water should completely cover the plant. Now you should put the vase in the freezer for the night. In the morning, take out the workpiece and let the product thaw a little. Then your rose will easily separate from the vase. It remains to wrap the gift beautifully and present it to a friend.
Toy
All girls love beautiful tokens. You don't know what to present to your friend? Making a gift with your own hands is easy. Sew a toy. If you are good at sewing by hand, you can assemble a complex interior doll. Such a toy will appeal not only to a little girl, but also to an adult girl.
If you're not very good at sewing, you can make something as simple as a bunny or a kitten. How to draw a pattern? Take any soft toy you have around the house and mentally take it apart. Now redraw all the details in the section. Cut out the patterns, sew the pieces and stuff them. It is better to make eyes, nose and mouth not from fabric, but to buy special blanks at any sewing store. So your product will look more presentable.
Pillow
You don't know what gift to present to your girlfriend on March 8th? You can make a pillow with your own hands. Such beautiful interior things are very popular with girls. Especially your girlfriend will love the pillow, which will perfectly complement her sofa or look stylish on an armchair. Are you giving a gift to a young girl? Then do not create something complicated. Better choose a beautiful material. For example, take faux long-haired fur or a fabric completely strewn with sequins. You can make a pillow from various shreds. But you only need to do this if your girlfriend likes this style.
A win-win option is cool pillows. You can sew such a decorative product in the form of cookies or make up the name of your girlfriend from scattered soft letters.
Picture
Are you good at drawing? Then you should not have a question what kind of gift for a friend you can make with your own hands. Write a picture. What could it be? Well, first of all - a portrait of the birthday girl. Any girl will be pleased to receive her own portrait painted in oil. If you're bad at drawing faces, draw a landscape. And how to choose a beautiful view? Ask your friend what is her favorite place in the city? Perhaps she likes the park, or she has a favorite lookout. Go to this place and take a picture of it. And based on the resulting picture, you can create. If you don’t know how to draw, but you want to give a picture, you can process the photo in Photoshop and then print it on canvas in a printing house. And you can also create an interesting panel. Any material can be used for creativity. For example, coffee beans, paper, glass, plasticine or polymer clay.
Vase
Do you want to make an original gift for your girlfriend with your own hands? Make a vase for the girl. What is it to be made from? You can sign up for a lesson in a ceramic workshop. Experienced potters will help you create your first masterpiece. Of course, you will not master the potter's wheel in one lesson, but the master will help you unscrew the product, which will not be ashamed to give. After the vase is ready, it needs to be decorated. You can draw an ornament on it or make a bas-relief. Here you already have to turn on your imagination. After the vase is fired, you can pick up the product and present it to the birthday girl.
MoreAn easy way to make a vase is to make one from a bottle or jar. In this case, you can find a suitable vessel and paint it on glass or decoupage it.
Curtain
Not all adult girls have their own apartments. Many share living space with their parents. Therefore, sometimes girls do not have enough personal space. If your friend has her own room, but the door to it does not close, or it does not exist at all, present the curtain.
The idea of a DIY gift for a friend is very simple. You can make a curtain from threads or build such a product from paper clips, bells or rings. Choose the right material and assemble it into long strips. Then the decorative elements will need to be attached to a common bar. You must not only consider the material of the product, but also make sure that your creation will fit into the style of the room. And also pay attention to the color scheme of your curtains. It is advisable to make a decorative thing of such a length that it is not too short. It would be better if the curtain does not reach the floor a little.
Photo frame
Don't know what gift to make to your girlfriend with your own hands? Make a photo frame. Girls just adore such decorative things. Most of the fair sex can fill the entire shelf with beautiful photographs. In order not to suffer with the manufacture of the form, you can purchase a wooden base in the store. What can be used to decorate it? Whatever your heart desires.
You can decorate the photo framenatural materials. For example, pick twigs, collect acorns and chestnuts, and dry beautiful flowers. You can decorate a photo frame with paint and plaster. Apply an uneven layer of primer to the surface of the workpiece, and then use a sponge to tint the product. One of the most popular ways to decorate photo frames is to decorate them with shells. In general, show your imagination, all the decor that you find at home can be used.
Collage
A photo as a gift to a friend with your own hands is a great idea. You can print many photos and assemble them into a collage. For example, you can make a story of your friendship or a life story of a birthday girl. But before printing a photo, you will need to make a form. You can cut it out of fiberboard or thick cardboard. Shade the base, and now approximately distribute the photos. Now you know how many pictures to print and what size they should be.
You can create a collage in another way. Take the bar that will be the base, tie threads to it and attach photos with clothespins. Your girlfriend will be able to update such an exposition from time to time.
Decoration
What kind of gift can you make to your girlfriend with your own hands? If you are engaged in the manufacture of jewelry at your leisure, you should not even have such a question. Of course, make your own fashion accessories. What could it be? Everything will depend on the taste of your girlfriend. If she wears earrings, give her exactly these jewelry, and if your friend prefers rings, then make an author's jewelry for her.product. But there is one caveat. For example, a girl may not wear bracelets, not because she does not want to, but simply because she does not have such jewelry.
What accessories can be made from? Anything can go into business: wire, beads, threads, fabric, leather, felt and even dried plants.
Home cosmetics
Girls are very fond of various cosmetics. It's so nice to soak in a bubble bath, wash your face with a fragrant lotion or make your skin smooth with a scrub. But it is not necessary to use purchased cosmetics. You can make any cosmetic product for your girlfriend on your own. For example, making soap. You can buy everything you need to create it both in needlework stores and in small shops that sell materials for creating homemade cosmetics. You need to melt the soap base and then pour it into the molds. You can add rose petals, ground coffee, or orange zest to your soap. And also pour in flavorings and dyes.
How to make a scrub? Take 100 g of sugar and dilute them to the consistency of thick sour cream with shower gel. Ground coffee should be added to this mixture.
Sachets
Does your girlfriend love all kinds of flavors? Then you can make fragrant sachets for her. What it is? These are small bags in which a variety of odorous grass is poured. You can sew small bags yourself, or you can buy them in a store. Grass should be purchased at the pharmacy. Or you can go to the forest, collect plants, then finelycut and dry. But few people know where the components necessary for the sachet grow. Therefore, it will be easier for many to buy everything in a pharmacy. Before making such a gift, you should check with your friend what scents she prefers. Depending on the girl's preferences, pour lavender, jasmine, mint or thyme into the bag. Now you need to sew up the hole in the bag through which you poured the grass. You can embroider or stick a small inscription or a congratulation on the fabric.
