No wonder they say that the best gift is the one that is made by oneself. For the donor has enclosed his soul, imagination, diligence and patience, skill. And even if some nuances have not worked out quite, the desire to deliver joy and pleasure to those for whom the present is intended, outweigh the rest.
The Noble Horse
Suppose you want to make a souvenir for a middle-aged boy or teenager. And he reads books about Indians and cowboys, with equestrian sport watching, and his favorite animal is a horse. With your hands, you can make a picture with a burner. What is needed for this? A piece of plywood of the format that suits you. Using a nail file and a jig saw, give it the desired shape - a square, a rectangle, an oval, etc. Peel the edges with sandpaper to make them smooth and not scratch. Also, the sandpaper, only shallower, well sand the face of the plywood, so that it glows slightly, it is clean and smooth. Next, choose a picture of good quality, which would depict a horse. With your own hands, try to picture something similar to paper first. It turns out - excellent. No - it's okay too. Simply take a copy of the copy, put it on the front side of the plywood with the sticky side, and the above figure on top. And with a simple pencil or a pointed wooden stick, draw the picture. Just do not press hard and do not draw unnecessary lines - the copier is badly removed from the plywood. Carefully study the source and the horse that you copied. Correct the details. Plug in the network burner and, without hurrying, trying to keep the same time a needle on all parts of the picture, circle the image. Then, using the methods of hatching, shade or highlight those or other places of the picture. Estimate the final result - did you get the horse you wanted. It's better to correct shortcomings with your own hands than to ask someone about it. If you know how to use watercolor or gouache - add a little color to your picture (or slightly sublime, it will look like a retouch, originally). With a burning pencil, draw a frame. The picture is ready!
Option for a chandelier or lampshade
You can make a souvenir "horse" by yourself. But if you try, it will be very effective, elegant, and the result will cause a lot of positive emotions. Buy colored paper, but not ordinary, thin, and dense, "velvet". Still - New Year confetti, preferably with sparkles. Make stencils of a horse in one copy or in several - different silhouettes. Attach to sheets of paper, using the method of mirror reflection, and redraw, cut out. Pock out the blanks. Decorate with confetti. Now every horse made of paper, made with its own hands, must be attached to ropes, strings, strings, etc., then to pick up to the lighting fixtures. Vervochki pick up long enough that the horses were away from the hot light bulbs. Under one canopy can accommodate 3-5 horses.
Creative ideas
What else can you offer interesting on a horse theme? Do you own brushes and paints? Draw a picture! Do you carve well? Try to make a sculpture of Pegasus from plasticine, clay. Or cut with joinery tools. Silhouette of a horse can be sewn with silk threads or beads. Make an applique. Or give a real Sivku-Burka!