Easy Handmade Birthday Card Ideas

Here is an easy handmade birthday card using a square shaped greeting card, pattern paper, solid paper and some various embellishments.  If you have small scraps of paper, this is an ideal card to use up your paper scraps.  Using black and white color scheme can be used with just about any accent color. Try, the black and white with red accents colors for an easy Valentine's Day card.

This card idea is perfect when you have various embellishments like buttons, ribbon, or gems.  Sometimes you might have single random pieces of decorations laying around that can be used to decorate your card. I happened to have flat heart button and ribbon.  I punched the 2 small hearts using a heart punch. You can also use left over stickers that are sitting in your sticker box to decorate one of the squares. The sentiment is made from printing Happy Birthday inside a circle border.   I then cut the circle using a scallop circle punch.  You can also use a birthday stamp or sticker for your birthday sentiment.  The card is blank inside so you can create your custom message.

One easy card to make starts with a white base card.  Find a pattern paper that you like and pick a coordinating solid color to use as a border around the pattern paper.  Using the solid color paper, cut out a rectangle 1/4" smaller than the size of the card base.  Using the pattern paper, cut out a rectangle 1/4" smaller than the size of the solid color paper.  To make the sentiment, your can either hand cut a banner shape or if you have a paper craft metal die, you can cut the banner or tag from the die.  Cut one shape 1/4 larger than the white paper so you have a border around the white paper.  The white paper is where the sentiment will be printed on.  Embellish the card with paper flower stickers and paper leaf cut outs.

Floral Pattern paper: Brand: American Crafts, Jen Hadfield Home + Made Patio Party Paper Pad. (Note: paper might be discontinued as of this posting)

Dies: Leaf and small yellow flowers. Spellbinders Cherish

Another easy handmade birthday card ideas is this green card.  Use pattern paper and Solid paper to break the card up and you can either place a ribbon in the middle of the card or a solid strip of paper.  I used a border scallop punch on the bottom of this card but you can skip this step if you want to save time.  I used Martha Stewart's "Punch Around the Page, Cherish" punch to create the fancy box or shape that features the sentiment but you can buy pre-cut shapes as well.  Or a simple rectangle will do the trick.

I also had ribbon to match. I often buy supplies of ribbon on sale just so I have them handy when I make cards.

Another easy card idea is this black and red card.  Cut your paper card stock into a square card.  Cut an asymetric shape from white cardstock and place it in the center of your card.  Cut a red square from cardstock paper.  I used a deckle scissors to cut the edges but you can make it straight if you don't have the scissors.  I then stamped a "Happy Birthday" message on white cardstock using red glitter.  The final touches are hearts, using a punch heart, and then glueing some white satin ribbon on the side.

These two cards have the same layout but one is for a birthday and the other, a Get Well Soon card.  This design is great for when you have a busy print but want to feature the paper print because the paper is so pretty.  You will need a corner punch to cut the bottom edges and a circle scallop punch to cut out the sentiment.  If you don't have a corner punch, then leave your card at a 45 degree angle.  It will still look great! Ribbon and trim help compliment the card and a small bow adds that last touch.

Another idea using a border punch is this card above.  Start with your base card and affix a clip art of presents with a Happy Birthday sentiment.  Use coordinating ribbon to accent the bottom of your clip art.  And then on the corner of the sentiment, add a double bow.  As you can see from the various cards on this page, the basics are take a blank card, place a center rectangle in the middle of off center of the base card, add a sentiment and some embellishments and you have a quick and easy handmade birthday card.

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