The beautiful design of a New Year's gift is no less important than the gift itself. In stores now there is no shortage of choice of gift wrapping for the New Year. But we advise you to take the time to make your own New Year's packaging. Original, exclusive packaging will make your gift special and unique. The person to whom you give your gift will be doubly pleased, because by devoting time to preparing a gift for him, you thereby show a special attitude towards him.
In this article we will tell you how to make original New Year's packaging for small gifts and sweets, how to make a New Year's box from cardboard yourself. You will also learn how to pack larger gifts and learn how to make New Year's wrapping paper yourself.
Packaging for small gifts and sweets
1. New Year's packaging do it yourself (option 1)
Templates for miniature New Year's gift boxes can be downloaded from these links:
Print them out on thick paper and cut them out. Make additional cuts along the dotted lines. Bend and fold the boxes. There is no need to glue them.
One more thing original solutions for small gifts - DIY New Year's packaging from a matchbox. Paste over matchbox colored paper or scrapbooking paper, make a New Year's applique on it.
2. New Year's gift wrapping (option 2)
Children will love the idea of making candy-shaped Christmas packaging for small gifts.
A beautiful congratulatory inscription can be made on New Year's packaging if you cut out each letter from an old magazine or advertising brochure. Letters must be different sizes, color, style.
Templates for New Year's packaging in the form of candies with nameplates can be downloaded from this website.
If you are planning to give it to someone as a gift New Year chocolate bar, then don’t be lazy to spend 15-20 minutes turning it into a perky snowman. To do this, you just need to wrap a chocolate bar in a white sheet of paper and draw a snowman’s face or make an applique from colored paper. The hat can be made from felt or an unnecessary glove.
You can download a ready-made snowman wrapper template for chocolates from the link:
For video instructions on how to make a Santa Claus wrap, see. Note: There will be a bit of a wait at the beginning of the video: commercials.
3. How to make gift wrapping with your own hands (option 3)
A surprise balloon is a very original and inexpensive way to give a child a holiday gift. Such balloons can be given to all children who come to your child for his birthday or for some other occasion. It’s even better not to give them as gifts, but to hide them in the apartment, and whoever finds which ball will receive it. Making a ball with a surprise is not at all difficult; it is more difficult to choose a useful “filling” for it. The “stuffing” can be any small interesting things, toys, high-quality sweets, for example: children’s jewelry, wrist watch, hairpins, small cars or dolls, stickers, shells, beautiful pebbles, balloons, a mirror, a notebook, magnets, animal figurines, cookies, candies and much, much more. To make one ball, it will be enough to prepare 3-4 things.
The surprises prepared in advance will need to be wrapped with ribbons of corrugated paper, so that you end up with a cocoon in the shape of a ball with gifts hidden inside. It is better to place the most valuable thing in the center of the ball. The process of making a surprise ball is reminiscent of an episode from the movie “The Diamond Arm,” in which smugglers hid jewelry in plaster.
The finished ball can be decorated if desired.
4. How to make New Year's packaging (option 4)
New Year's packaging for sweets, etc. nice little thing can be made from kraft paper. Like this:
If you don’t have craft paper, you can try sewing on any other fairly thick paper on a sewing machine. Or fasten the packaging with a stapler. Just be sure to leave room for the packaging to rip.
New Year's packaging for medium and large gifts
1. Original gift packaging. How to make a gift box with your own hands (option 1)
Krokotak.com also offers ready-made templates for New Year's gift packaging.
And another cute one New Year's box with a snowflake. Assembly instructions at the link >>>> Template can be downloaded
2. How to pack a New Year's gift (option 2)
Another option for packaging a gift for the New Year is to wrap it in craft paper and then decorate it in an original way. For instructions on how to wrap a gift in paper, see.
See below for how to decorate a New Year's gift.
Using a hole punch, make confetti from colored paper, then paste it over a New Year's gift wrapped in paper.
Cut from colored corrugated paper thin ribbons to make decorations for packaging.
You can decorate a New Year's gift with homemade or purchased pom-poms
paper flags
paper snowflakes (Note: how to cut beautiful snowflakes from paper, see link >>>>)
lace
cones, spruce branches
Christmas decorations small size
garland of buttons
You can wrap a New Year's gift in a regular newspaper or a magazine spread, and then decorate it like this original weaving from strips of colored paper.
Or make a bow like this from strips of paper. Making such a decoration for New Year's packaging is very simple. For instructions, see or.
Interesting solution- wrap the New Year's gift first in wrapping paper one color, then another. After that, on the top layer, draw one half of a New Year’s picture. Cut along the contour and fold. Simple and tasteful!
3. How to pack a gift for the New Year. How to wrap a gift in paper (option 3)
You can also make packaging yourself from any paper using purchased or homemade stamps.
Original ideas Making children's stamps can be found at the following links:
link- 1 (plasticine stamps) >>>>
link- 2
link-3 >>>>
link- 4 (stamps made of foam patches) >>>>
link-5 (raw potato stamps) >>>>
link-6 (homemade roller stamp) >>>>
4. New Year's packaging. New Year's gifts (option 4)
You can wrap a New Year's gift not only in wrapping paper, but also, for example, in a beautiful fabric
or a sleeve from an old, unwanted sweater. The result will be a warm, sincere gift.
5. DIY Christmas packaging. Boxes with embroidery (option 5)
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First, we rack our brains over what to give to a friend, aunt, mother, work colleague, or neighbor, and then we think about how to decorate it all beautifully. But we have already thought of everything for you, we have collected a bunch of interesting and cool ideas on how to decorate a box, how to make a beautiful gift design from existing boxes with your own hands for the New Year, how to make a box in general. Hurry up and take on this rewarding task!
We design ready-made boxes
Depending on the size of the gift, you can use boxes for shoes, electronics, household appliances, toys, perfumes, gift sets. You can make your own New Year's box decoration from the following materials:
- gift (wrapping) paper;
- colored paper and cardboard;
- magazine or newspaper sheets;
- felt;
- guipure and various other materials;
- Christmas tree beads, beads;
- satin ribbons;
- twine;
- kraft paper;
- scraps from an old sweater;
- paper in silence;
- corrugated paper.
We suggest starting from the very beginning simple option. The box can be decorated with paper flowers. Literally cover the entire gift with handmade flowers and attach them with tape. You can make a decoration in a retro style using an old newspaper, you can create luxurious lush flowers from silk paper or corrugated paper. Make flowers of different sizes and variations and attach them to the box in a chaotic manner. You can make just a few multi-colored flowers and attach them to the top of the box, adding a bow from satin ribbons.
The box can be wrapped in craft paper, and instead of flowers, attach a kind of garland of small felt ones to the top, knitted toys or decorative ornaments made from natural materials.
Decorations can even be made from ordinary buttons assembled on a rope or twine. You can simply randomly wrap the box with twine and attach small cards with wishes.
Use pompoms made of woolen threads, snowflakes, and voluminous cardboard appliqués. You can also make all this decor yourself, or you can buy ready-made parts in a special store.
Kids will love the bright boxes with their favorite characters, soft toys, a large number paper and glitter.
You can buy ready-made confetti, or you can make it yourself using a shaped hole punch. Just coat the paper with a small amount of glue and sprinkle with bright multi-colored circles, hearts and snowflakes.
For romantic, impressionable, mysterious people, gift design in the style of burlesque or New Year's masquerade is suitable. Choose feathers, satin ribbons, shiny butterflies, rhinestones and beads.
For lovers of nature and all things natural, the box can be decorated with dried or even fresh fruits, spruce branches. The paper can be sprinkled with a few drops of the appropriate oils so that the gift also exudes aroma.
Those with a sweet tooth will love a New Year's gift decorated with sweets, chocolates or cookies.
Let's not forget about our men. For them, we’ll make a laconic but stylish New Year’s box with our own hands. Take sheets of newspaper or unwanted sheet music, old computer disks, twine, buttons, ties, satin ribbons and even suspenders and try to create something like this:
The box can even be decorated with an old men’s shirt, which would be a shame to throw away and can no longer be worn.
Beautifully decorate boxes of chocolates
If you already have the main gift, but you just need to supplement it with a sweet present, or you are going to visit unfamiliar people with a bottle of champagne and a box of chocolates (let’s take the standard option), then sweets can also be presented beautifully. A do-it-yourself box of chocolates for the New Year includes all kinds of flowers (real and artificial), decoration with additional sweets, satin bows, decorative butterflies, gift paper, foil.
Create a variety of flowers from paper and give them along with sweets.
Chocolates and large flat candies can be shaped into fun New Year's shapes. Use ribbons and decorative paper to secure the sweet details.
You can also make your own New Year’s chest for each candy. Like the one in the photo:
Use thick cardboard, sequins, beads and a special pattern. It needs to be printed, transferred to cardboard and folded along certain lines.
How to make a gift box
Do-it-yourself gift boxes for the New Year will require a little more time and materials from you than designing ready-made packaging. You will need:
- cardboard;
- stencils;
- pencil;
- scissors;
- ruler.
Such small boxes are suitable for decorating textiles, perfumes, creams, and gifts consisting of several items.
We invite you to look at a few more options for interesting and original DIY boxes for the New Year.
Perfume or jewelry will fit perfectly in such a box.
When the box is ready, you can decorate it different materials and details. Or you can immediately take colored cardboard and then the box itself will be elegant.
Do-it-yourself New Year gift boxes will turn out more neat if you first draw a sharp object along the fold line so that the cardboard bends well and neatly.
A DIY New Year's box in the form of a large candy will delight the kids. By the way, candy-shaped packaging for, for example, socks, handkerchiefs, sweets, and some other small gifts can be made from a cardboard tube.
What you will need:
- round wide cardboard sleeve;
- wrapping paper;
- glue;
- ribbons, beads, other decor.
First, you need to wrap the sleeve with thin paper, pre-coating it with glue or using tape.
Now put your gift in the package, and decorate the top with colored paper, foil, lace, beads, tulle and other materials.
Such a box can even be simply decorated with white thin paper and made on it congratulatory inscriptions multi-colored felt-tip pens.
Remember the good old idea when a gift is stored in the smallest box, which is stored in a slightly larger box, and so on until it is packaged from under the refrigerator. Don't throw this idea away, and you can try different ideas on each box.
Use decorative tags and small cards to write New Year's wishes.
Decorate the box with colored adhesive tape, woolen threads, twine, floss.
Make a decorative stamp out of a pencil eraser and use it to decorate the box.
Buy colorful pens and glitter glue.
Use available materials: plastic dishes, colored polyethylene, colored pencils, food boxes, dried flowers.
The box can be decorated with fabric, denim scraps, old sweaters and knitted sweaters, the main thing is to show ingenuity and imagination.
Any idea for a gift for the New Year that comes to your mind has the right to life! Know that we will always support you in any endeavor with our ideas, advice and master classes. And we suggest you take a look at the video master class on creating a beautiful and very stylish design New Year's gift:
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New Year's gifts can be wrapped in a themed wrapper.
Choosing packaging and decor for the travel lover
For lovers of adventure and travel, a New Year's gift can be wrapped in geographical maps, school atlases or car guides, which are likely to be found in every home.
Small souvenirs for travel dreamers can be packed in envelopes made from thick cards.
Making a New Year's gift for a music lover
Wrap the gift in sheets of music books and tie with twine or satin ribbon to impress musicians, composers or those who simply love to listen to musical rhythms.
You can decorate kraft paper packaging with notes. Use elements of New Year's symbols: snowflake, Christmas tree or christmas balls to add festive mood.
Knitted packaging - warm and tender gifts for loved ones
Hand-knitted packaging for New Year's gifts will hint that you feel warmly and reverently towards your loved one. This could be a bag or case with patterns made from different threads.
In your wardrobe there will probably be knitted items that have gone out of fashion or you simply don’t like. Use them to create original knitted packaging.
Original New Year gifts for large companies
New Year's celebration in noisy companies involves a large number of gifts under the tree. In this case, preparing personalized packaging with your own hands is not at all difficult.
To avoid confusion, gifts can be decorated with photographs of those participating in the holiday to whom they belong. The second option is to cut out labels from photos.
Another option to decorate gifts in an original way is to pack them in dark plain paper and sign them with a white marker. In addition to the name, you can write pleasant wishes and draw funny pictures.
Making a New Year's gift for a child
Gift packaging for a boy can be made in the shape of a car by gluing wheels and doors to a box from an old toy car.
It is very symbolic if the packaging hints at the contents of the gift. To do this, you can stick a typewriter or prop pencils on top.
Children are especially happy with bright gift wrappings. Making Santa's reindeer gift wrap is very easy. Cut out horns from paper and glue them to the sides of the package. Make eyes, mouth and nose from pieces of black fur and place them on glue.
Postage stamps will help you be creative in wrapping New Year's gifts. You will need kraft paper, strong braid, and old stamps with postage stamps. In the "Sender" column, do not forget to indicate the address of Santa Claus. Children will no doubt be delighted with such a gift.
Master class: making gift wrapping from fabric with your own hands
Flowing or coarse fabrics, as well as delicate and elegant lace, can be used to package New Year's gifts.
The fabric is great for gift wrapping. It drapes well and takes any shape. For women it can be used as packaging neckerchiefs or stoles that will complement the gift.
The technique of wrapping gifts in cloth is called furoshiki. You will need a double-sided scarf or piece of fabric. Place the scarf face down on the table. Place the gift in the center and start wrapping.
Straighten the folds of the fabric and lay them out beautifully loose ends.
In this case, the second end of the scarf should be carefully hidden under the knot.
We make New Year's attributes for parcels from improvised materials
You can decorate gift wrapping with New Year's symbols: snowflakes, Christmas trees, confetti, Christmas balls, pine cones.
Snowflakes and natural materials in packaging design
Classic New Year's decorations - paper snowflakes. Choose a contrasting color of paper to make it stand out on the packaging. The snowflake can be glued or tied with twine to the packaging.
You can also make a snowflake for packaging decoration from scrap materials. These can be cocktail tubes (as in the photo), wire with beads, threads.
The packaging with natural elements looks original and harmonious: pine cones, spruce branches, small brushwood. Wrap the gift in craft paper, tie it with braid, and instead of a bow, secure with a glue gun several cones and a spruce or thuja branch. You can add a bright accent - rowan berries made from red beads.
From fir cones you can make a whole bouquet and an imitation of dressing tape. Just glue the cones suitable size in the right order.
When making gift wrapping, you can use Christmas balls. Select appropriately sized toys in several colors and secure them to the box with a glue gun. Christmas mood will be provided.
We decorate a New Year's gift with ribbons, threads and buttons
Unprepossessing gift wrapping made from kraft paper can be turned into a real work of art. This will require a little imagination and available materials - threads, ribbons, buttons.
Decorate New Year's gifts with threads and ribbons of different colors and textures. A beautiful binding in the center will make the composition bright and original.
You can combine several decorative elements on the packaging. Use braid, threads, beads, buttons. This packaging looks very extravagant.
To create gift wrapping, you can use multi-colored buttons, which every housewife can find. Sew them onto a ribbon and tie the gift - the original and colorful packaging is ready.
Use bright large buttons as an original fastener for the dressing tape on the packaging.
You can use lace ribbons and napkins to create elegant packaging. Arrange them as you wish and secure with a glue gun.
Gift tags are an additional element of surprise design
Labels will be a colorful addition to gift packaging. IN classic version They are made from cardboard and wishes are written on them. But there are also more original ideas.
Salt dough prepared from flour, salt (1 cup each), sunflower oil (5 tablespoons), water and dyes. After mixing all the dry ingredients and oil, add water to make the dough elastic.
The finished dough is rolled out and shapes are cut out using cookie cutters. To obtain relief, the product is pressed against a patterned surface, for example, a lace napkin.
Cookie labels look no less original. They bake it from gingerbread dough and decorated with protein cream.
Bottom line
New Year's gifts will bring more joy and will be remembered for a long time if they are beautifully decorated. Do original packaging you can do it yourself from available materials without special effort. The main thing is to do everything with pleasure and love.
Thirstyfortea.comA 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 them top part. Move from bottom to top in a checkerboard pattern. It is better to use bags of contrasting colors: the tree will look more elegant.
Glue the lid of the cardboard box 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 it at hand finished box the desired diameter, 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 butter;
- 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 oils with wax in a separate saucepan and place in a 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:
- thread with a needle;
- 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, stylish men's bracelets are woven from it. In ordinary life it is just a decoration, in an extreme situation it is a life-saving rope.
There are various techniques for weaving paracord. 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 there is a large selection of such paints. 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 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 place on 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. Carefully remove the top layer of 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;
- superglue.
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 - are 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 Over the past year, very large knitted blankets have been incredibly popular. Finished products 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 is attached.
You can also knit a beautiful, warm scarf with your hands, without knitting needles or a hook. 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.
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. A universal option for 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.
With the coming New Year's holidays the city is immediately transformed. Shop windows decorated with garlands are inviting, reminding you that it’s time to prepare gifts for the New Year and Christmas for your friends, loved ones, and colleagues. Giving gifts, as well as receiving them, is very pleasant. And if this gift is packed in original packaging, it will be remembered even more. How nice it is to open a beautiful and unusual package, expecting what kind of surprise awaits inside. You should use your imagination when decorating a gift, or follow our tips to wrap it in an original holiday wrapper. Delight and joy from such a surprise will be guaranteed!
The holiday is approaching
Unforgettable winter days, shrouded in magic, await everyone ahead. Everyone prepares gifts for friends in advance and, of course, dreams of receiving a treasured package or box as a gift. In order for a gift to be “appropriate”, it is worth finding out in advance what this or that person would like to receive, but it is advisable to ask indirectly. It is much more pleasant to receive a present that was really needed, but it should be unexpected.
Choosing a gift is not an easy task, but once the gift has already been chosen, it should be beautifully packaged. Of course, you can buy a regular package with New Year's paraphernalia, sign cards or pack a gift in beautiful paper. But it’s unlikely that anyone will remember such packaging. If it is non-standard, it will immediately attract attention and make this gift stand out among other gifts.
Gifts for children
New Year is a holiday shrouded in mystery; at this time most wishes come true. Children especially enjoy this holiday. For a child, you can come up with an unusual decoration made by yourself. Nothing will please a baby more than new toy, and if you wrap it beautifully, it will be an additional surprise for the child. As soon as morning comes, parents will immediately hear children's steps - this is the baby looking for his gift near the Christmas tree.
If there are several children in the family, it is worth packing gifts in bright boxes or bags, and for each package write an explanation of who the gift is intended for. You can do something very unusual and original, for example, stick a photo of its future owner to the package. It is also advisable to attach explanatory tags to the box or other packaging.
The kids will also enjoy a small quest to find a gift. To do this, you can draw arrows on the leaves, indicating where to look for the gift and place them around the house. You can also write special tasks in the notes, for example, read a poem about the New Year or sing a New Year's song. After all the notes are discovered, the child finds the treasured gift. The first impression he gets is from how the gift was packaged. Children's gifts should be wrapped in colorful paper and decorate it with New Year's paraphernalia.
Making a New Year's gift is an exciting thing. You just need to spend a little time choosing a gift and wrapping it to create a festive atmosphere and make your friends' eyes shine with happiness.
When packing gifts, you can ask your children for help. They will be happy to help you design and package a surprise for dad, mom, grandma or grandpa. Children can draw pictures for the New Year, cut out snowflakes or make appliqués. This work will be interesting for both children and adults.
You can create snow patterns or draw falling snow using a regular pencil with an eraser at the tip. To do this, the lower part of a pencil with an eraser is dipped in white paint, and then a drawing is applied to the paper. A white snowflake, snowman, or falling snow drawn in this way will decorate even the simplest packaging made from ordinary craft paper.
You can make a decoration from colored paper and cut out three-dimensional shapes in the form of cones or snowflakes. You can complete the decor of the box by wrapping it with thick, bright thread, ribbon or lace. They tie it to the packaging beautiful bow, any materials are used as a bow; you can even take a scrap from an old shirt or dress. In addition, the packaging itself can be made not only of paper, but also of fabric. You can decorate such a gift with additional details. It may be small New Year's toys, dried flowers, acorns. Cinnamon sticks, as well as pine cones and spruce branches will look very organic.
You just need to use your imagination, and in a couple of minutes the festive packaging set is ready. Satin ribbon handles and bright red bows will be a great addition to the set.
Holiday gifts
Even a small gift, such as a box of chocolates or a chocolate bar, should be elegantly packaged. You can decorate a chocolate bar New Year's tinsel, a mini postcard with wishes or wrap it in serpentine. Such sweet gift will be remembered, especially if you choose exquisite and expensive chocolate for a gift, rather than an ordinary bar.
Small gifts can be wrapped in plain postage paper. Using narrow tape, you can attach a spruce or pine branch, a rowan branch, or any other branch with an unusual decor to the packaging.
You can decorate a New Year's surprise using knitted mini boots with wishes. You can knit one or more boots and put funny or unusual notes of congratulations inside. The bright box in which the gift is packaged is wrapped with woolen thread, onto which mini boots are hung using paper clips or small clothespins.
A beautifully wrapped gift is usually liked even before it is unpacked.
Great idea will be gift wrapping in canvas bags. A present for friends is placed in such a bag, tied with twine, decorated with New Year's tinsel and placed under the Christmas tree.
To wrap a New Year's gift, you can take either regular postage paper or a gift version. A surprise wrapped in paper with notes or geographic coordinates on it looks very original. This packaging would be appropriate for musicians or travelers.
Original ideas for packaging
It’s worth considering more ideas for wrapping gifts for the New Year. Just a few minutes spent cutting out the details and, as a result, the cheerful hedgehogs are ready for the holiday. This surprise will delight the little ones. But you can please your colleagues or clients with gifts that are decorated in a stylish and unusual way. Such attention to friends or clients will be appreciated. If you give a gift to a male director, you can pack it in a gold-colored box and hang tinsel, pine cones, and streamers on it. This gift will not go unnoticed and will be properly appreciated. Those with a sweet tooth will be pleased to receive a gift in a package that will contain their favorite sweets or other pleasant little things.
You can use improvised materials to create an interesting wrapper for a small gift. To do this, you just need to take white paper, wrap the gift, and paint it. You can draw a snowman on paper, and make a hat for him from an ordinary old sock in bright colors. You need to tie a small piece around your neck, and funny snowman ready. It's hard to imagine the New Year and Christmas holidays without champagne. A bottle of sparkling wine will be a good present. You can give the bottle in a gift bag specially designed for it, or you can make the packaging yourself. You can pack expensive wine or a bottle of champagne in soft paper, which will highlight the contours of the bottle.
A good option for packaging glass containers would be knitted items.
To make a bottle case:
- should be taken knitted sweater, which is no longer useful and cut off the sleeves;
- Next, you need to measure the length of the bottle, transfer its dimensions to the sleeve, mark and add another 7-8 cm;
- then the sleeve is cut off on both sides according to the mark;
- the lower, wider part is sewn up, a bottle is placed inside;
- The top is tied with decorative threads or cord.
