a birthday card idea

The great thing about making your own cards is you can completely personalize them and make some unique happy birthday cards for your friends and family.  This card is a real girly card and I had a lot of fun making it. Its one to give a girl friend or your sister and one that can be done over and over again in any colour you want.

use a bone tool to score a handmade card

Begin by folding a piece of pearlescent card. I used a score board for this as the card was originally A4 size and I wanted it to be a DL size card. Press firmly when running the bone tool down the score board to give you a nice neat and easy to fold line.

ribbon attached to a handmade card

I found a spare piece of ribbon in my craft supplies. I thought it would work well with this card so I used extra strong double sided tape to secure the ribbon to the happy birthday cards left side edge.

frilly ribbon

I made a conscious decision to only attach the very edge of the ribbon to the card so the frilly part was left free. If you do not have this ribbon any type will do. Have a rummage in your craft supplies you will be amazed what you will find.

stickers for card making

I found a sheet of clear basque peel off stickers and decided they would be perfect for this happy birthday card.

basque sticker

I then stuck the peel off sticker onto some pink paper and used sharp scissors to cut it out. After cutting out the peel off I used my cropadile to punch out the holes in the basque where the ribbon would go.

ribbon on a handmade card

I used white ribbon to put through the holes of the basque and placed sound 3d foam pads on the rear side of the basque.

embellishments on a handmade card

I fixed the basque at the top of the card securing it down with 3d pads and a little extra strong double sided tape for good measure. I left a large space at the bottom of the card so that I could then add my happy birthday card message.

sizzix sidekick machine

Using a sizzix sidekick machine I used some darker pink pearlescent card to cut out the happy birthday wording.

happy birthday wording

Although it can be fiddly to cut these words out the side kick machine makes it quite simple.

happy birthday card

I used a glue pen to adhere the happy birthday wording to the bottom of the card as the lettering was very skinny and anything else would probably have ended with glue all over the card.

Although I have chosen pink for this card, you could simply use any colors you like in your ideas for making cards.