New Year gifts with own hands

To make gifts for the New Year with theirHands have a variety of different work techniques, among which you can choose the one that is most suitable for you. For example, you can decorate a New Year's photo album or a postcard in the scrapbooking technique, decorate souvenirs or Christmas toys in the technique of decapitating, decorate plates, glasses, vases or bottles, frames for photos, etc., in decoupage technique.

New Year Scrapbooking and CardMaking

To make New Year gifts with your own hands without much time and effort, you can choose scrapbooking or card-making. To work in such techniques, you can applydecorative paper, scraps of cloth, ribbons, sequins, etc. Postcards or pages of the scrapbook can be decorated with appliqués or patterns on the New Year theme. You can also use the cutting technique to decorate a New Year's album or postcard.

Usually the theme of New Year's gifts is the symbol of the coming year (in 2013 this is the Black Water Kite), symbolswinters, such as snow and fluffy Christmas trees, as well as the symbols of the New Year: Santa Claus and Snow Maiden, tinsel and rain, Christmas toys. And to create gifts in the technique of scrapbooking or card-making you can use one of these "standard" themes, but also nothing prevents you from choosing and something of your own.

New Year's modeling of polymer clay, cold porcelain, salted dough

Molding from various materials opens the widest opportunities for making New Year gifts with their own hands. For example, from self-curing polymeric clay, cold porcelain or a salted dough, you can fashion wonderful magnets for refrigerators. This is done quite simply.

From the plastic mass, the desiredfigure, say, a Christmas tree. A small magnet is attached to the back of the resulting figure - it is enough to just press it lightly into the surface. The figure is dried in the air or baked in the oven (depending on the material). After curing, you can paint a finished figure, varnish or glitter, decorate with different decor. A gift for the New Year is ready!

If the magnets on the refrigerator as New Year's gifts seem a bit banal, then with their own hands You can fashion Christmas toys, decorative candlesticks. By the way, candlesticks, fashioned with their own hands, - this is a particularly good version of the gift, because for their manufacture you do not need too much effort.

From the chosen plastic mass you can roll out a thin (but not very) even round layer. The center of the formation follows to put a glass jar, corresponding to the size of the future candlestick. Plastic mass must be wrapped in a jar, forming a beautiful edge. Using different stamps on the surface of the mass to squeeze or cut New Year patterns, for example, snowflakes, fir-trees, snowmen. Ready candlestick can be dried or baked in the oven, and therefore decorate.

As you can see, New Year's gifts are not necessarilyshould be expensive and artsy: much dearer to the heart let a simple and cheap, but sincere gift, in which you put a piece of your soul. So be sure to try yourself in New Year's art and make gifts for the New Year with their own hands!