Making Birthday Cards Blog

Welcome to Making Birthday Cards Blog. It's my mini-online-diary where I update you with the newest additions and changes to my site. I'll also share juicy news of cardmaking supplies and discounts with you right here.

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my newest article or step-by-step guide on birthday cardmaking ideas.

Fresh card ideas submitted by visitors to my site.

News of the latest and hottest cardmaking supplies and products in the market. Oh... plus links to sites with not-to-be-missed discounts.

Interesting trends of cardmaking I've come to notice.

Revisits of "oldies" but good, solid stuff you might otherwise miss from my site!

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Aug 28, 2008, Fion's Birthday Cards - Handmade with Love

Handmade birthday cards are more special than other cards. They naturally get into people's hearts. So come look at my cards and learn to make your own!

Aug 28, 2008, Cheery Bright Birthday Card for Amy

This is a birthday card created for my sister-in-law Amy who just had her birthday in August. I like to use bright colors in making cards,

Aug 26, 2008, Free Birthday Cards - Birthdays are Good

This new series of free birthday cards are titled "Birthdays are Good".

It's inspired by the Larry Lorenzoni's quote, "Birthdays are good for you. Statistics show that the people who have the most live the longest."

There's three color schemes for you to enjoy.

I hope you'll have fun with these new designs. They are numbered from 28-30.

Enjoy,
Fion

Aug 26, 2008, Free Birthday Cards - Print It Out Now

Looking for free birthday cards? Search no more. Here's a collection of cute printable birthday cards you can print out and give it away with love and best wishes.

Aug 23, 2008, Popsicle Birthday Card - Card Making Video Tutorial

Learn how to make this very cute popsicle birthday card in this short card making video tutorial. Very fun!

Aug 22, 2008, Ribbon Weaving for Card Making - Video tutorial

Have you tried ribbon weaving for your cards before? Learn this classic technique to decorate your birthday cards in this video tutorial.

Aug 22, 2008, Great Card Making Videos - Free Tutorials

Are you wanting to watch some card making videos that show you step-by-step to making great-looking cards? Be sure to watch these free tutorials for ideas and inspiration!

Aug 21, 2008, Stamping and Embossing for Splendid-Looking Cards

Do you love the look of stamping and embossing but don't know how to achieve the look? Watch this card making video tutorial to learn how!

Aug 19, 2008, Free Birthday Cards - It's Your Special Day

Balloon is one of the most popular stuff people associate with birthdays. So they are featured in this new series of free birthday cards called "Special Day".

Please remember to click on the thumbnail images so that you can see the more accurate color representations.

As usual, there's three color schemes for you to choose from.

Enjoy.
Fion

Aug 15, 2008, Free Birthday Cards - An Angel for You

If you love the look of an angel, you'll fall in love with this new series of free birthday cards called "Birthday Angel".

As always, there's three color schemes for you to choose from. Please note that the colors reflected on the thumbnail images aren't accurate. So to get a better view of the images, do click on the thumbnail image and go to the PDF file directly.

Send your friend or loved one a birthday angel to guide over them, to send them the bestest wishes and your love!

Enjoy,
Fion

Aug 14, 2008, Free Birthday Cards - Make A Wish

I have a new design today. It's called "Make A Wish". There's no drawing in this design but I played around with fonts and colors.

Hope you like this new series of free birthday cards. There's three color schemes for you to pick.

A simple and clean design...

Enjoy,
Fion

Aug 13, 2008, Free Birthday Cards - Queen, King, Royalty

Do you adore the crown? Now, it's making an appearance in my new series of free birthday cards!

There's one called The Queen, one called The King and another called Royalty. Send them off to the VIPs in your life and make them feel extra pampered and showered with attention on their birthdays!

Enjoy,
Fion

Aug 12, 2008, Free Birthday Cards - It's about Polka Dots!

Do love you the polka dots? They're popping up on my new printable birthday cards! In this series, they are called "Dotty Birthday".

Take a look and be stunned by the bright, happy colors. Pick your choice and send some polka dots to brighten up someone's birthday. It's going to make someone happy!

Enjoy,
Fion

Aug 11, 2008, Free 21st Birthday Cards

Are you looking for free printable 21st birthday cards? I've come up with a design called "Happy 21st Birthday" especially for the gal/guy turning 21.

It features one of my favorite pictures - the yummy cupcake! It's a card bringing full of delicious wishes for the birthday honoree!

Enjoy,
Fion

Aug 8, 2008, Free Birthday Cards - Pressies

Here's another 3 new free birthday cards under the design called "Pressies".

With hot pink for the ladies and a delicious blue for the men, this design certainly called to mind a day of enjoyment and presents from family and friends. If you have a black and white printer, the black and white color scheme would be perfect.

Do come back often to check on our new printable cards. Or you can sign up for our free newsletter to keep yourself updated of the newest additions to this website.

Enjoy,
Fion

Aug 7, 2008, Free Birthday Cards - Party Hat

There's another new design for my Free Birthday Cards series. This one is called Party Hat.

It comes with three different color schemes for you to choose from.

These cards are especially wonderful for a little girl or a little guy who's having a birthday party. The colors are bright and fresh.

I think I might keep one of the color schemes to black, white and gray for my designs in case anyone likes a really simple design or would like to do the coloring-in themselves.

Enjoy,
Fion

Aug 6, 2008, 3 New Free Birthday Cards - It's Your Day

To start off a new series of free birthday cards (printables), I've designed "It's Your Day" and came up with three different color schemes for it.

Hopefully there's a color scheme that you fancy.

For each new design, I believe I'll do likewise and come up with different (maybe 2-3) color schemes so you can have some choices.

Enjoy using these new printable cards! Over the next few weeks, I'll continue to launch new designs, so be sure to check back for the newest updates!

Love,
Fion

Aug 4, 2008, Diamond Fold Birthday Card for Nicole

This birthday card was inspired by Chris's diamond-folding card video tutorial . It's my first attempt and thanks to Chris's easy to follow along

Jul 30, 2008, The Owl Birthday Card

Owls seem to be in trend now and I've seen them popping up on scrapbook pages. They can look cute on birthday cards too! I saw this cute owl idea

Jul 29, 2008, Simple Masculine Birthday Card

This is a simple, masculine birthday card I made for a guy friend. As I wanted to make it happy-looking, I chose bright, bold colors of green, orange