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Making a Homemade Birthday Card

A homemade birthday card, like most homemade stuff, has a special quality to it. For one, it's cloaked with an invisible blanket of love.


Big Flower Birthday Card 7 Homemade cards can be as simple or as complicated in design as you want it to be. It's really up to your own creativity and imagination.

There's a wide variety of supplies you can use for your cards. From magazine cutouts, photos, paintings, die-cuts, ribbons, buttons, twine, to all sorts of embellishments imaginable, you're never out of things to dress up your cards with.

Even if you're limited in supplies or don't want to spend much money on buying cardmaking supplies, there's still many possibilities on creating a pretty-looking card.

Below is a step-by-step guide to show you how can you create a handmade card quickly. It's just to offer you a little inspiration and the possibility on cardmaking.

There's more articles on this site to highlight other birthday cardmaking ideas. So do take your time to browse through them for more ideas and inspiration!







Step-by-Step Instructions on
Making a Birthday Card


Cardmaking Supplies

  • White card blank

  • White cardstock/watercolor paper

  • Black pigment-ink pen

  • Watercolor pencils

  • Paintbrush/Cotton swabs

  • Gold spotty ribbon

  • Gold gem

  • Striped patterned paper from DCWV 6"x6" Floral Paper Stack

  • Pink cardstock

  • Adhesive




    Cardmaking Instructions

    Big Flower Birthday Card 1 1) Draw a big flower on a piece of white cardstock/watercolor paper using a pencil. Draw over the pencil lines with the black pen.




    Big Flower Birthday Card 3 2) Color in the flower with watercolor pencils using gentle strokes. Dip a paintbrush or cotton swab with water and brush it over the colored areas to achieve a watercolor effect.




    Big Flower Birthday Card 4 3) Cut out the flower with scissors.




    Big Flower Birthday Card 5 4) Attach the flower to the top center of the white card blank. Attach a gold gem to the flower center. Next cut out a strip of gold spotty ribbon and attach it underneath the flower using double-sided tape.




    Big Flower Birthday Card 6 5) Handwrite your greetings on a strip of pink cardstock. Mat your greetings with a strip of striped patterned paper. Then mount your completed greetings to the spot as shown on the card.




    Big Flower Birthday Card 7 6) Draw a border around the card with the black pen to frame the card.




    This is just one of the many ideas you can use to create your special homemade birthday cards. There's more ideas on this site you can check out.

    To look at birthday theme papers, stickers, rub-ons, stamps, and more, click here to look at the designs. For suggestions on cardmaking supplies, tools, templates and accessories, click here.

    Do bookmark this site and come back often for more exciting and new cardmaking ideas and inspiration!






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