How to Make a DIY Birthday Card With Pretty Ornaments | Tutorial

A DIY birthday card enhances any gift and is a personal gesture even without a present. You can make an elegant birthday card in no time using fine motif paper, stamps and Washi Tape. You’ll find everything you need in this tutorial.

Sometimes you want to leave a special impression on someone or show them that you care about them. A personalised, homemade birthday card is perfect for that. It’s a beautiful gesture that can be made quickly without much effort.

Borders, rosettes, decorative patterns, with these ornaments you can craft a noble greeting card that is a real eye-catcher. The easiest and quickest way to create beautiful ornaments is with the help of stamps, washi tape and punches. Especially noble are combinations of gold or silver with a strong blue, red or green. If you want to make a greeting card for a festive occasion, you are well advised to give the card a noble look with gold or silver. You can find all the craft materials you need on the material list*.

The DIY birthday card is ready, now all that’s missing is the envelope? You can easily make an envelope, or make a heart envelope to lovingly wrap your birthday card for the post. There are many more crafting ideas on Abenteuer Freundschaft!

How to Make a Gold-Blue DIY Birthday Card With Ornaments

Birthday greetings card front

Duration: 20 minutes

The mandala in the middle of the card consists of two stamp motifs. To unite them, I simply coloured in the pattern with blue Stabilo. Instead of the second pattern, you can also just write a congratulation in the middle!

Material List*

• Navy blue blank double card, 10,5 x 15 cm
• navy blue clay paper
• Kraft paper
• Design motif paper, 230 mg
• Washi decor tape made from rice paper
• Rosette punch, e.g: from Paper Poetry
• Stamp large ornament, stamp small ornament (I got mine from BUTLERS) and black ink pad
• White paper
• Set square
• Pencil
• Scissors
• Black permanent marker
• Coloured Stabilos, 68
• Glue stick

How to Craft an Ornament for the Greeting Card

The stamp motifs are linked together by the dark blue

1. On the computer, write Congratulations in Word or the free OpenOffice in font size 12 and capital letters (e.g. Arial font) and the name of the recipient (font of your choice) of the DIY birthday card in font size 16 below each other and back both letterings with a black background. Print out the lettering, cut it out and leave a white margin of about 3 mm all around.
2. Using a triangle and pencil, draw a 9.5 x 14 cm rectangle on the motif card and cut it out.
3. Stamp the small ornament with the heart in the middle onto kraft paper, colour in the lancet-shaped spaces with blue Stabilo and cut it out in a circle.
4. Punch out a rosette from navy blue paper and stick the small ornament with the heart in its centre.
5. Stamp the large ornament on white paper, cut it out as an 8 x 8 cm square and outline the edge with dark blue Stabilo. Colour the flowers around the rosette with blue Stabilo and stick the rosette with the heart ornament in its empty centre.
   Stick on the Front of the card.

Create the greetings card from different craft materials

1. Now stick the motif cardboard in the centre of the card.
2. Place the square with the ornament on the top third of the card.
3. Stick a border along the edge of the square to the edge of the motif cardboard at the top and bottom with the golden Washi Tape.
4. Now stick the lettering underneath each other on the lower third of the card.

I added a border of washi tape to the left and right sides of the card.

It’s so easy to make a classy DIY birthday card that looks great and that anyone can make. 🙂

Looking for more ideas? Here you can also find a free tutorial to make a simple birthday candle card.

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