Making Birthday Cards

If you’re tired of sending the same generic store-bought cards to your friends and family, why not take the time to start making birthday cards? A handmade greeting card is a wonderful way to show someone special just how much you care.

Why not take the time to start making birthday cards?

Handmade birthday cards are a fun and easy craft for people of all ages. Part of good parenting is teaching your children to be considerate of others. Making birthday cards with your children is an excellent way to demonstrate the importance of thoughtfulness. Even preschoolers can use stickers to help decorate Grandma’s birthday card.

To start making birthday cards, you’ll need blank cards, envelopes, and an assortment of decorative embellishments. If you’re a fan of rubber stamping, scrapbooking, or other paper crafts, you should have most of the items you’ll need already in your craft room. If not, you can purchase card making supplies at craft stores such as Hobby Lobby, Michaels Crafts, or Joann Crafts.

Decorating your handmade birthday cards provides an opportunity to express your creativity. Popular motifs for making birthday cards include balloons, flowers, cake, ice cream, and presents. However, you can also decorate your card to reflect the recipient’s hobbies or special interests. A football fan would love to receive a card decorated in a sports theme, just as a child would be love to receive a birthday card featuring the images of his/her favorite cartoon characters.

Some of the ways to decorate handmade birthday cards include:

• Rubber stamps
• Stickers
• Paper punches
• Computer clip art
• Hand-drawn doodles
• Images cut from patterned paper

If you’re having trouble deciding how to arrange the elements on your card, visit these websites for an assortment of design ideas:

• Handmade card ideas and sketches
• Becky Fleck’s card making sketches
• Card sketches

Stickers and patterned paper make it easy to create homemade birthday cards.

For many people, the most difficult part of card making is deciding what the inside of the card should say. However, there are many ways to tackle this problem. You can keep it simple and just write “Happy Birthday!” with a quick note or you can use one of the cards you’ve received in the past as inspiration for your project. Possible sentiments for homemade birthday cards include:

• May all your wishes come true. Happy birthday!
• Count your life by smiles, not tears. Count your age by friends, not years.
• The more candles, the bigger the wish.
• Birthdays are good for you. Statistics show that the people who have the most live the longest.
• "Youth has no age." --Pablo Picasso
• "There is still no cure for the common birthday." --John Glenn
• "Growing old is mandatory; growing up is optional." --Chili Davis

For more greeting card sayings, poems, and quotations, check out the following helpful resources:

• Card Making Info
• Poem Source
• Making Greeting Cards

For more great ideas on how to make your own birthday cards, see our Birthday Card Ideas slideshow.

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