DIY Birthday Card Ideas You'll Love

One thing I love about making birthday cards for kids is that you can get really creative with the card shape and completely abandon the concept of a traditional rectangle or square card.

This card is shaped like a bear! It features a little flap that folds up from his bottom towards his head, creating a little hiding pouch that is kept in place by his arms.

When the child unties the bow to open the bear's arms and folds down the flap, they will find their surprise and personal message written inside.

It's kind of like a bear hug!

This would work well for star shapes too ... without the balloon strings of course!

I love the idea of making birthday cards for friends to show them I still care and value their friendship. The birthday candle card below is made with one of my favorite embellishments of all time, Washi Tape.

You'll see in the example that I've laid down strips of different lengths of colorful Washi tape to represent candles, and with a yellow highlighter, have hand-drawn a flame on top of each one. The candles are finished off by placing a black mark in the flame to represent the wick.

All you need to do now is write a nice message for your friend!

You'll see in the example below that I have gently poked fun of the wonderful milestone of 50 years of age by writing, ''49 + 1''.

The birthday card has been embellished quite simply with some hand-made bunting made from string and bright pieces of scrap paper.

Of course, you don't have to tease your sibling with their birthday card. It will look just as great with the words ''Happy Birthday'' written under the cute bunting!

Using strips of scrap paper, we weaved them to make a feature pattern on the front of the card. A personalized embellishment - in our case a fish for fishing-mad grandpa - was placed on top with double-sided foam tape to make the card pop.

We made sure to leave a border around the weaving pattern so that we could write a message and the card didn't look too cluttered.

This birthday card idea works well for Grandma as well. All you need to do is gather strips of colored scrap paper that Grandma will like and use a personal embellishment just for her.

I LOVE to make general birthday cards to keep in my ''card stash''. This is mostly because I just like making cards but also, they actually come in really handy when you're short on time and have been invited to a birthday get-together.

Do you know what the best part is? It's making a birthday card simply for the fact that you like making cards, and as that you're not making it for anyone in particular, there is no pressure.

The card in the example below is a good opportunity to use up smalls scraps of paper. Using various paper cutters, I have cut out a few different sizes of different colored paper and layered them to look like flowers.

Once I was happy with the placement, I attached them with double-sided foam tape to make them pop out a little.

I have left the message generic as I really have no clue who will receive it at this stage ... but it was fun to make!