Creative Ideas for Homemade Birthday Cards

You don't need the gift of sketching or painting to be able to make cards. All you need is creativity and the interest to make them. If you love craft, card-making will be a piece of cake!

By using various embellishments, you can make really pretty birthday cards and present them to your loved ones. Homemade birthday cards are always valued, because of the time and energy invested in making them.

In order to make homemade cards, you will need card stock to make the card, and some card-making supplies such as a pair of scissors, pencil, ruler, eraser, glue, ribbons, and other embellishments one desires. These days one can also pick up double-sided tape, glue dots, sticky fixer pads, etc., that help stick things without creating a mess.

Then again, there are craft scissors, which come with different kinds of blades. This helps you have a lovely serrated card border in just no time. Now, let's take a look at some interesting card-making ideas that one can try out at home.

If quilling is too complex for you to try or you do not have the time to go in for that, try making a spinning birthday card for your mom. For this you need one of your snaps and one of your mom's snaps. You can also use two snaps of you and your mother together in each snap.

Take the flower with its stalk or the leaf cutting and place it between two sheets of absorbent paper. Now, place them in between two sheets of cardboard and press down. Sit on the cardboard or place some thick books on it. This will cause the cutting to get pressed and will extract all the plant juices, which get absorbed into the absorbent paper.

Does your dad love to work with wood? Then, a sandpaper card will be great for him. Get hold of some sandpaper and card paper. Draw a few patterns on the sandpaper and cut them out with a pair of scissors.

Stick them onto the card with glue and your card is ready! It's an easy card, however, cutting the sandpaper can prove to be quite challenging if you are making several cutouts. Select a poem and write it on the card.

All you need is simple card paper, which needs to be folded in the form of a card. The movement in these cards and the interesting pop ups always make these cards a hit with the kids.

Now dip the toothbrush in the bowl of paint and rub the bristles of the toothbrush with your finger back and forth, such that the paint is sprayed onto the cutout placed on the card. Once you have sprayed enough paint, cease spraying and remove the shape. You will find that the shape has been formed with spray paint on the sides. It looks very pretty!

In fabric cards, the entire card is not made of fabric. It's just that the fabric is used as an embellishment. Lovely pieces of fabric can be cutout in desired shapes and glued onto the card paper. The texture and feel of a fabric card is wonderful. You can also stitch them onto the card if you want.