Birthday Card Design Ideas Simple – Learn step by step how to create a beautiful and easy DIY water balloon birthday card. Plus, get access to a FREE printable birthday worksheet.
Find out exactly how to make a simple DIY birthday card in my how-to video (or keep scrolling if you prefer step-by-step photo instructions):
Birthday Card Design Ideas Simple
Use the water brush first. Squeeze it a little to squeeze out some water. Then paint with water to create a circle shape.
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Then take one of the water-based markers and dab it with water on the areas you painted on. This is how we will create a watercolor effect with markers and a water brush.
If you notice that the color is not bright enough, take the pencil and color it again.
Use a paper towel or cloth to clean the water brush so that it does not get into the next watercolor background.
To speed up the drying process, take a cloth and tap it to remove excess water.
Happy Birthday Card
Repeat the steps above with the desired markers for the watercolor background. I’m making three different colors because in the next steps I will draw balloons on them.
Draw rectangles with a black marker and color them inside. This is where our Happy Birthday caption will be.
Make sure the rectangles are large enough for the letters to fit inside. And if you want to add a longer message, you can also draw more rectangles.
Once the watercolor background was completely dry, I used the Pigeon Letters 03 mono-line pen to draw the balloons.
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Using your best letters, write Happy Birthday inside the black rectangles we drew earlier. I chose to write Happy Birthday in block letters using the Craftsmart Extra Fine Oil Marker, but you can use any gel pen or white marker that will stand out on the back rectangles.
If you like this font style. And you want to practice, I made a capital letters worksheet for you. Fill out the form at the end of this blog post to download it for FREE!
You can leave the card as is or add some embellishments to make it stand out! I decided to draw stars and dots around the map.
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Easy Birthday Card Idea
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Looking for inspiration for your next cutting adventure? Here are a handful of beautiful, clean and simple birthday cards. Find even more ideas in our inspiration gallery!
A quick and easy card using star patterned paper and a balloon stamp to create a 3D focal image, colored with alcohol markers with added glitter.
Create this card using the Crafter’s Companion Butterfly Lullaby Just For You stamp set, Spellbinders Nestabilities Dies, Scalloped Circles, Barbs, and Beads.
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Make this pretty card holder with patterned paper, printed and colorful coffee cups with cut-out lids and decorate it with hearts.
Create this beautiful card using different card colors to give definition to the window image. Add embossed, colorful flowers as a central image.
Find out how to make this quick and easy card using pretty dot pattern papers, die-cut shapes and colorful printed packets.
Make this quick and easy card using pretty patterned papers and color the printed grill image with alcohol markers.
Diy Pop-up Birthday Card
Die-cutting Essentials is the only magazine in the UK dedicated entirely to die-cutting and embossing. Each edition comes with a versatile set of dies that are worth… We love homemade cards, when I was younger and we still kinda made ALL the birthday cards I sent. I think DIY birthday cards are the best! Today we have a super fun and easy pop-up birthday card that you can learn to make!
This cupcake pop-up card was first published in March 2017 and has been republished for your convenience!
Today we’re sharing a fun 3D cake card – it can also be made as a pop-up wedding cake card (as shared in my new book Paper Crafts!) and can be personalized with colors and embellishments to meet everyone’s interests! Birthday gifts, with handmade cards with a personalized message, are simply the best!
We have LOTS of kids’ cards to create to inspire you, plus a special collection of pop-up card projects?
Birthday Card Ideas
On today’s birthday pop-up card! I love the design of the cake, with birthday cake decorations and candles. So cute. While I have your attention
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The supplies needed to make this birthday card are really basic! Basically, it’s cardboard and old paper in different colors. But as with all of our products, I encourage you to work with what you have and research your DIY box carefully. You can easily add tape, glitter paper, stickers, ribbons, and even lace to your happy birthday card design!
Once you’ve added your birthday wishes inside, why not decorate with additional birthday balloons in the background too?!
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As usual, we have a fantastic HOW-TO video to share with you on autoplay – but first, here are some step-by-step written instructions you might prefer! But the video shows you how quick and easy it is to make this fun and easy birthday cake pop-up card.
Note: you don’t have to use “pretty patterned paper/spray paper” like I have here…but you can also decorate the “white cake” with pens or things like washi tape . Look at what you already have and work with what you have! A word of warning though…this DIY pop-up birthday card is so simple that you’ll want to make more and more…so why not make a batch and have them handy hand for upcoming birthdays throughout the year? Make a white one with little brides and grooms and you will have the perfect wedding cake card!
Start with the cake toppings as they will affect the measurements of the rest of the cake below.
Think about your cake decorations, whether they are candles or little brides. Keep it simple, the result will look great and you don’t need to be an artist to create the details. Cut out our candles or our bride and groom and prepare them!
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Using your card as a guide, cut your A5 sheet of white paper a little – so that when it sits inside the card you have a nice frame!
Take your candles, line them up with the folded paper and roughly measure the top and bottom of the cake.
Make 4 cuts: 2 long cuts (around 5 cm), a medium cut (around 3.5 cm) and a small cut (around 2 cm)
We used pretty patterned papers to create layers of pop-up birthday cakes and added our candles. But you can use any paper and easily decorate it with markers, washi tape, stickers, glitter, ribbons, lace or even buttons! A great way to adapt this simple DIY birthday card to whatever you have at home.
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Now it’s time to write your birthday message inside! If you could also draw birthday balloons in the background of your card! This is a lovely birthday card for mum, dad, grandma, grandad or a good friend! The recipient will love it and it will be a lovely way to add to the celebration of their special day.
Learn how to make a pop-up birthday cake card – it can also be made as a wedding cake card or an elaborate birthday gift card!
A fun set of birthday card templates that will inspire you to wish someone a very special happy birthday!
If you want more card making ideas, don’t forget we have this great set of ‘wildcard’ cards to make for kids, as well as a fantastic set of Valentine’s Day cards for kids, including many are suitable for birthdays, loved ones and weddings! Take a look and stay tuned for happy browsing!!
Simple Leaves Birthday Card
For this type of DIY, I definitely think the video is easier to watch – and shows you just how easy it is to make these awesome pop-up birthday cards! Appreciate! This is a version of the long video also available on YouTube.