Can you even have enough birthday cards?! I don’t think so- it seems every time I create some then we have a whole bunch of family birthdays come up (not that they should be a surprise to me but somehow they are every year).  I made these two last weekend and have managed to hold onto the one but the other has already gone to brighten my sister-in-laws birthday!

The top card is a 6×6 card created with the Cricut Artbooking cartridge. I used the hexagon overlay and cut it out MANY times to create my white background (and on this one I left the inner hexagons in the overlay) AND to create the coloured hexagons to brighten my card.  The sentiment for the card also came of the Artbooking cartridge.  My ribbon banner was hand cut- just take a 1/2 inch strip of paper (I backed mine with some pink paper) and fold to get this look.    Aqua dots and flamingo dots were added for some more pop!  The paper featured is Lollydoodle.  I may try REALLY hard to never give this one away 🙂

This card has a VERY different look- I used glitter paper, shimmer trim and Kraft paper for this one  The stamped image is from the ‘one-way borders’ and is stamped in white daisy ink on the kraft paper.  My centre image was cut on the cricut Art Philosophy.  I added some glitter gems and voila! I think this one is fun but a little distinguished- a more grown up look for a birthday card!

Do you handcraft your birthday cards?

Until we craft again, The Brae-er