Make Your Own Birthday Card

Ideas for Making Birthday Cards

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Making your own cards can be a very rewarding and fun activity. Not only do these cards receive more eyeball attention, they allow to you unleash your creativity.

For this project, I'm following a card sketch by Jennifer Gormly and it can be found in her 50 Card Making Sketches e-book, under #16 "Moments". But I've rotated the card sketch and made some slight variations.

To look at two other card designs I've created based on this same sketch, you can click here.

Card Making Steps

1. Create a cardblank using raspberry cardstock.

2. Tear out a block of green patterned paper and adhere it to the center of the cardblank.

3. Tear out a smaller block of pink patterned paper and adhere it atop the green patterned paper.

4. Cut out a strip of brown patterned paper and attach it across the card. Attach a strip of lace ribbon on top of the brown patterned paper.

5. Cut out two thin orange cardstock strips and adhere them below the brown patterned paper strip.

6. To create the paper flower, tear out circles of varying sizes from raspberry, white patterned paper, and brown floral patterned paper. Crumble each piece of paper several times to achieve a crumbled look. Cut out small snips around each petal with scissors. Roll up the cut edges for each petal for a furled look. Add a red flower to the center and attach the flower layers with a pink brad. Attach the completed flower to the card as shown.

7. Use a black pen to handwrite the birthday greetings at the lower right corner of the pink patterned paper.

Card Making Supplies

Raspberry and orange cardstock - Bazzill Basics
Green patterned paper, brown patterned paper, white patterned paper, brown floral patterned paper - Basic Grey "Sultry" Collection
Red paper flower - Prima Marketing
Pink brad - KCK Craft
Lace ribbon - Daiso Japan
Black pen - Zig Memory System "Millennium"

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.

Now it's time for you to make your own birthday card! Have fun and submit your card here!

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