Birthday Cards

Handmade birthday cards make birthdays extra special for most people!

"The older the fiddler, the sweeter the tune.
~English Proverb"

Just had to share this card that I made for a friend's birthday. It was so quick and easy to make! I used Stampin' Up!'s Time Well Spent stamp set, some Bold Bright Stampin' Write markers to ink up the sentiment, some Encore Gold ink for the butterfly, and Whisper White, Very Vanilla and Barely Banana cardstock. Oh and some crystals and gauzy ribbon.

To make the butterfly pop up, stamp it where you want it on your main piece forst, then stamp it again on another piece of cardstock. Carefully cut out the second image (leave a little white border around it), apply some little crystals and fold up the wings a little. Then all you have to do is adhere it over the first stamped butterfly on your card. It will lie flat in your envelope and be ready to pop up again once it is free again.

You can really tie your card in with your special person's life when you hand make it.

For example, you can personalise your greetings by

• Adding the person's name and/or age
  
• Referring to the person's occupation
  
• Using the person's favourite colours
  
• Making the card in a person's favourite style - modern, country (a bit like the one I made shown above - I added ribbon, stamped the stitched hearts and glued a real button onto one heart), humorous, classic, masculine, feminine, etc
  
• Using images that mean something to the recipient
  
• Customising the card so that special greetings can be added by, say, the whole office, by adding pages or determining the size of the whole card
  
• Using a person's favourite song/poem/saying as your sentiment.
  

  Suggestion: If you would like to personalise your greeting with some UNUSUAL birthday poems for your card insert, try searching the Special Birthday Poems site for some unique and rhyming verses.

How about some examples?

1. Here I made a card for a friend who is a computer programming trouble-shooter and spends his days 'debugging' computers! I used a small ink pad to make the stripes on the background paper, cut paper circles to fit behind the corner brads and resemble washers and bolts, a beetle stamp to march across the cardfront, and a twist of ribbon to make a sort of medal:

2. This card has a simple dry-embossed background (the backing sheet was put through a Cuttlebug machine) and I have simply used a paper flower and a brad with a tag to complete it. I placed my friend's name in my own handwriting on the tag to personalise it.

3. This card was simple to make once I decided on colours. Just make a whole lot of paper strips and weave them together! I mounted the woven piece on a contrast coloured mat that I trimmed around with decorative scissors, then topped that with a flower, a brad and a length of ribbon. this time I used a stamped sentiment. The person I gave this to enjoyed the bright colours and extra attention to details.

Here's a suggestion: You could make a bunch of these birthday cards to use throughout the year from all of your paper scraps!

Have you made a card lately and have fallen in love with it? Do you have a picture of it too? We'd love you to share it!

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Green and Brown stripe 
I used two contrasting papers from the Bohemian Sarapapers collection from Paper Wishes.
Also a Martha Stewart border punch.
This is a scan not a photo....

Male Birthday Card  Not rated yet
Simple male birthday card using pattern paper and buttons, cardstock. Some stamping as well.

Leanne

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Your card ...

Scripture Card  Not rated yet
I wanted to try my hand at a 5x5 card.
My theory is to mat mat and mat again.
Love the contrasting colors.
Honestly I just LOVE creating cards.
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Marti,...

New Home  Not rated yet
How can you get more personalized than this.
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Lol! You are so right - that's a personalised card, for sure!


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Grandma  Not rated yet
The Grandmother needs a card too.
I use my cuttlebug folders ALOT.

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Aww, how gorgeous. You are so right about new ...

Congratulations on your Baby  Not rated yet
I love personalizing the baby cards with a picture of the new baby. Our local hospital has the pictures of newborns online for 30 days.

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Marti,...

Anniversary Card  Not rated yet
Needed an Anniversary card for an outdoor couple.
Nothing too frilly or mushy.
Love my cuttlebug embossing folders.

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Marti,...

Get Well  Not rated yet
Masculine cards are a challenge for me.
I used a cuttlebug embossing folder and the card practically made itself.

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