A Quick Handmade Birthday Card!
14 Mar 2010
Are you ever stuck for a Birthday Card and just want to make something quickly?
Well you can do this easily by crafting a card using a Card Topper, and with a couple of quick additions the card can look really special.
For this card I covered a 12cm x 12cm (approximately 4½" x 4½") card blank with a mottled green paper. This was a piece of loose paper I had floating around - remember never get rid of your off cuts - they will always come in handy!
I thought the paper complemented the card topper well. The card topper is one from a sheet from E - Z Stick On Embellishments.
I tend to buy sheets of these card making embellishments when they are in a sale. I just choose ones I really like and then pop them in my embellishments drawer ready for when I need them.
This topper has a blank space on it for you to write a message but I opted instead to put a small clear "Happy Birthday" sticker onto it.
If I hadn't bothered to do anything else the card would have looked a little plain so I added a rose pink chiffon bow to it. This complements the lilac on the topper. I experimented with some peel off corners and thought about punching the edge, but in the end decided this was fine. On a small card I do think you can overdo the decoration sometimes.
For the inside of the card I decided to use a pink card making insert . I chose pink because it is a nice contrast to the green background paper and also matches the ribbon nicely.
To give some interest to the insert I used a small thumbnail punch to punch a butterfly in the bottom right hand corner. Obviously the white of the card blank shows through - a simple and effective way to make your card that bit special!
This card only took a few minutes to make once I had decided what I was going to use but I hope you'll agree with me that the end result is a pretty Handmade Birthday card!
Susan from Cardmaking-Companion.
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