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Posts on www.ratherrudecards.co.uk contain affiliate links. For full disclosure, click HERE Lowest cost and no cost DIY thank you gifts ideas that are free and don't cost anything, or cost very little to make or produce - that your recipient will adore! Revealed: our favourite thank you gift EVER! 👈🏻 Best DIY low cost thank you gifts ideas 1. Gift them a personalised photoshopped picture Make them a funny photoshopped picture with all their favourite things, you could set it in a place they have always dreamed of visiting! Add in all their favourite things and people - even fictional characters! This is such a unique and creative gift idea and they are sure to love it. You could print and frame the final result for them to keep safely in their room or space, it will be sure to make them smile whenever they see it! 2. Make a sugar cookie flower bouquet A bouquet of sugar cookie flowers! Bake the sticks in to the cookies in the oven, then ice them to look like flowers and arrange them in a beautiful bouquet formation, tied with a ribbon! Alternatively arrange them in an adorable jar - or if you are short on time, why not opt for these adorable gift ready sugar cookie blooms! You can keep them in the jar as an adorable gift, or use them to create your sugar cookie flower bouquet - gift them a whole bouquet of edible flowers! Ready made jar of sugar cookie flowers 👈🏻 3. A pretty set of magnets DIY them a set of beautiful magnets! You could use clay or fimo to make them and paint them yourself, then attach to magnet backings with some strong invisible glue. Arrange them in a beautiful box with tissue paper and voila! 4. Letterbox flower sugar cookies 👈🏻 Like n.2, just in adorable letterbox form! These are perfect to send to your recipient in the post, as they will fit easily through the letterbox and will be sure to bring a whole load of cheer to your recipient. You could bake these yourself or order them straight to their door with a message if you are short on time. 5. Letterbox personalised thank you sugar cookies You can bake these yourself or even order them if you are short on time - even when ordered, they are super affordable and make for the perfect thank you gift for your recipient to light up their day! Personalised thank you letter sugar cookies 👈🏻 Adorable thank you letterbox cookie 👈🏻 Floral heart thank you letterbox sugar cookies 👈🏻 6. A thank you gift of wine Amazing reminder wine bottle label (so easy and affordable!) 👈🏻 You can craft your own label using a tool like PicMonkey, then simply print and stick to your wine bottle. You could get so creative with this! If short on time, you can find some adorable, super special and hilarious creative labels already on Etsy, that your recipient will love! 7. A hamper of homebaked goods One of the cheapest thank you gift ideas that will always be appreciated! This is an especially amazing idea if your recipient is always hankering after your recent bakes; treat them with a whole box to themselves! 8. A cute ribbon tied bag of their favourite pick and mix Sometimes the smallest and simplest gifts are the most special and meaningful! You could even create a rainbow of pic and mix to gift them, by layered sweets or candy in bright layers to mimic the colours of the rainbow! This will look so pretty and special and your recipient will be sure to adore it! 9. Personalised thank you chocolates (super affordable!) 👈🏻 You can also use these to decorate a cake you baked, to personalise it to your recipient! Daisy thank you chocolates set 👈🏻 10. A sugar cookie medal You could bake this yourself or even order one if you are short on time. It's the best ever way to thank someone! Chocolate 'best person ever' edible medal 👈🏻 11. Paint a cup coaster for them You could make it super special or super funny! It's also a super special thank you gift idea that will come in handy and your recipient will be sure to appreciate the thought and effort! 12. Personalise a funny cushion 👈🏻 With their face on, to say thank you! You could design one side as a special thank you message and design the other as a funny photo. If you know they have a favourite celebrity, you could incorporate them to, to show just how well you know your recipient! Everyone's got an idol, whether it is a character from The Office, a guilty pleasure boyband, a girl crush celebrity or even Nicholas Cage, celebrate the fandom and show how well you know them with a funny sequin cushion. It's a hilarious gift as, simply by changing the sequin direction, it's possible to create all manner of scary and funny facial expressions on the celebrity! 13. A bouquet of their favourite sweets or snacks Similar to n.2, why not put together a selection of their favourite sweets or snacks, arranged in bouquet formation! 14. A set of wax melts 👈🏻 They are presented beautifully like a box of chocolates and make the most luxurious and fun gift to open! 15. A heat changing mug 👈🏻 A mug is an oldie but a goodie! Even better, a heat transforming mug means your recipient will get an extra surprise when they go to make a hot drink in their new mug! 16. Write them a rap and frame it So creative and special, this is the funniest way to honour your recipient and make them smile and chuckle! 17. A thank you gift of letterbox brownies 👈🏻 This letterbox chocolate brownie gift is everything, it's such a treat to receive and is affordable too! Choose your flavour letterbox brownies 👈🏻 18. Make them a hug in a box A box full of special items to pamper your recipient. You can get so creative with this and even adhere to a special theme! 19. Make them a box of shower steamers 👈🏻 These are so great to gift people on the go! These are so affordable to buy and look so beautiful, and you can even DIY them from ingredients such as essential oils, baking soda and constarch. There are so many varieties and scents to choose from and they make your shower smell amazing, the shower equivalent of bath bombs for those on the go! 20. Use the language of flowers to create a custom bouquet for them You could even try your hand at crafting some paper flowers for them to create a lasting and beautiful bouquet, tailored to your message for your recipient! 21. Make them a loveheart shaped cupcake pullapart Just arrange cupcakes in a heart formation, then ice over them as one, add some decorations and voila! 22. A custom portrait sugar cookie of their face Nothing is cooler or funnier! 23. A surprise message mug 👈🏻 This is such an amazing gift to give! You could present the gift with hot drink inside and wait until they finish it to reveal the surprise at the bottom of the mug. This would make the most perfect funny thank you gift! 24. Gift them a cake in a jar 👈🏻 This concept is so cool! This makes for an amazing DIY thank you gift idea that your recipient will adore - if you are short on time you can also order one straight to their door! 25. A personalised notebook 👈🏻 This would make for an adorable thank you gift, especially when personally tailored towards your recipient! If you liked these ideas definitely also check out these Best DIY Mom Gift ideas for your Mum or Best Girls Minecraft Birthday Party ideas!
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I'm so excited to finally share this project today. This one took a lot of perseverance. I'm so glad I stuck with it because I love the fina...
{H's sweet little silhouette. I love the way his turned out}. I've really wanted to do a DIY of my children's silhouettes for quite some time now, but I wanted to do a unique spin on the traditional, black-and white paper cut variety. When I saw this D*S article, I knew it was the one for me. This project was so quick and so simple that I even let my four-year-old help. If you want to make a silhouette painting of your own, here's what you'll need: blank canvas, two colors of paint (I used acrylic), one full sheet label, foam paintbrush and/or foam paint roller, and a photo of your subject (in profile, obviously). Here are the steps: 1. Paint the canvas. This is the color that you want the actual silhouette to be 2. Print the photo on the label sheet 3. Cut out the silhouette. (I traced the outline of the head so I had a clear cutting line). 4. When the canvas is dry, stick the photo label on the canvas. (Make sure the edges stick really well so your silhouette is really well defined.) 5. Paint over top of it with the second color. (The color you want framing the silhouette) HINT: work fast on this step. If the label gets too wet, it will start to slide around. I painted with a foam brush first to spread the paint, then smoothed it out with a foam roller. 6. Remove the label 7. Wait for the canvas to dry. Touch up any blobby areas with a fine-tipped brush. 8. Hang up your new artwork. 9. Enjoy all the compliments you receive on your brilliant creative abilities. So the final project didn't turn out exactly as I'd planned. My original intention was to have all four of our profile portraits hanging in the entryway. After I got them all done, B and I decided that the kids had much cuter profiles that we do...so we just used theirs. Plus, mine was in yellow, B's was in green and hanging side by side it looked like a tribute to the Oakland A's. {We're fans, mind you. But not the kind that would be adorning our home in green and yellow}. Step 1: Paint the canvas. I painted mine white, because I wanted the inside to be white. Step 4: Stick the label to the canvas. H. was really excited to stand still for his photo. :) Step 9. Enjoy your new artwork.
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Do you want to stitch handwriting and make it look neat? There is nothing simpler! :) There are many ways to work lettering in hand embroidery and I actually already prepared a post on this topic before: Hand embroidery lettering ideas I based that article mostly on the posts that I already had on the blog and I actually did mention the trick from today in passing there. But without the visual support of a picture it's likely that some might have missed that. And then I got questions about it after posting results of the “Art of cozy” project where I used this trick for the book title so I figured I should speak about it in more detail. Now, frankly speaking, I took it quite easy in that project because I wanted it to look a little awkward and quirky, as if scribbled hastily. But the thing is, you can use the same trick to work very neat handwriting – whether it is a fun doodling type or exquisite cursive lettering :) And the secret is very easy – just use back stitch for the base and then whip it! Here are the pictures for comparison. The picture on the top is what you can get by working tiny back stitch in one strand of thread. The picture below is the same lettering after being whipped. It makes the lettering look bolder, smoother, and even a little more dimensional. It is actually difficult to see here because the thread is dark (by the way, that's another tip in itself – if you want to work back stitched lettering it is better to use darker thread) but the separate stitches in such cases do tend to stand out a little. You will see the difference clearer here: This one makes it VERY clear, right? When you work back stitching in this type of handwriting, when the size of the lettering is small and the letters cling close to each other, and, even worse, when they are one continuous line like in cursive writing, you have to work your stitches smaller which makes the individual stitches more distinct. And if you happen to use a lighter color of thread, the result is not likely to look as good on the fabric as in your mind... So, what you need is to simply whip all the stitches! Extra tips: The smaller your back stitches are, the smoother the result will be after whipping; Always slide the needle under the stitches from the same side; When you whip the stitches, make sure the needle doesn't go over the working thread but instead is always under it. If you accidentally pull the needle over the thread, you will get a loop like in raised detached buttonhole; If you want to use expensive thread for lettering (like silk) and don't want to waste it for the back stitched base, just use another thread of similar color for it; When you work cursive lettering, start from the first letter (I made a mistake here, oops). Now that you know this little secret make sure to include lovely lettering to your next projects :)
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