Birthday Cards from digital scrapbooking supplies
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Birthday magic word art and kit by Kitty Designs
Why go out buy a birthday card when you have all the ingredients to make a customized card in minutes? If you are a digital scrapbooker, you most likely have kits, fonts, alphas, and even templates that can easily be used to create memorable birthday greetings to send by mail or on the web.
Digital kits can be reused over and over. This is great for layouts (read Janet’s great post on reusing kits here), but you can also extend the life of these same kits by finding other projects for them such as cards and gift tags.
Birthday kits can be use in a variety of ways to create one of a kind cards to print or share online. I (Katie) love this Little Mr. Big Man kit from Traci Reed because it has so many fun and bright birthday theme elements.
I know I can come up with several cards from the designs in this kit. Here’s one I created for my sweet nephew.
Additional supplies: card template by Bree Clarkson , font is Christy by Darcy Baldwin at Sweet Shoppe Designs
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Another favorite birthday kit that I have used several times is Occasions by Shabby Princess.
I love to personalize a card by including a picture of the recipient in the design. It doesn’t have to be a recent picture, this is the perfect excuse to dig out some baby or youthful photos to use.
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This Birthday Magic kit by Kitty Designs will also provide plenty of designs to use on special cards.
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Of course you don’t have to limit yourself to using birthday theme kits, any kit can make a great card! The Embrace kit by Paislee Press and Fei Fei’s Stuff is perfect for elegant card designs. Feel free to use (and reuse) any kit that you want to to make your own special creations for friends and family.
If you print out your card creation, be sure to sign and date the card on the back for an extra special touch!
P.S. Our GIFTaway for today goes to Carey who was randomly selected from our registered customers in the store and won a $10 Gift Certificate to Traci Reed’s store. CONGRATULATIONS CAREY!!
Remember to look through our Birthday post to see all of the ways you can win. There will be LOTS of good stuff given away at the end of the month to some random winners from those that purchased THE DIGI FILES this month!! 
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Gorgeous cards there!! I’d love to make my own card like that… just need to get the printer! Lol!
Love the ideas–now just need some great instructions on how to print the cards at home. What templates/paper do you use? HELP!
I always forget to do this! Thanks for the reminder – and for enabling some must have kits!
I also need some great instructions on how to print out the cards at home. I tried Xmas Cards this year but never got them to print out correctly on paper. Any help would be appreciated.
I make cards all the time, but usually Thank You cards. I really should do some birthday ones. I made a little logo from a digi brush to put on the back. So cute! (It’s a shark fin because hubby’s a Jimmy Buffett fan and everyone knows that’s just “us.”)
I love to make cards!
I really need to do this… Are you just printing them at home?? What happens if you dont have a printer that isnt all that great for printing or done want to use all of the ink? How would you print them!!
great idea…
the tricky part for me has always been printing. I can’t ever get the front and back printed properly to line up. After seeing your inspiration though, I think I’ll give it another try.
Great cards!
I love ideas on how to stretch my digi files further thanks!
I’ve never made cards before but these designs inspire me ~ I love the Embrace Kit
Love these looks! I love making my own cards!
Those are such cute cards and great ideas for using the kits. Thanks
I love these card ideas! There are SO many digi kits out there that are perfect for birthdays. Good thing I have three kiddos!
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Thanks!
good tip! I have made INVITES before but not b-day cards.
This is the second time this month I’ve seen this suggestion! I’m blown away by the idea and am annoyed with myself for not thinking of it sooner!
Yeah Me ;o)!!!! It was exciting to wake up and find happy mail in my in-box ;o) Thanks so Much Daily Digi…. Your web-site rocks!!! I would not have discovered so many awesome designers and learned great tips if it wasn’t for you guys!!!!
What a great idea!!! And these cards look fabulous!
I love making cards with my digital scrapbooking stuff! There are a ton of hybrid things that you can use them for too. So versatile.
Beautiful cards, I especially love the one from the kit Embrace. So amazing!
I love this post! My resolution this year is to make all my cards, and this helped! Thanks!
love all the ideas and have done this with some of my kits
Very fun idea. I’ve tried it before, but I think the next time I’ll try more of a hybrid approach.
I’ve never made a card with my digi scrap supplies. I’d like to try it. Thanks for the ideas!
There are so many wonderful birthday related kits available from some of the shops for digi-scrappers. On my wish list is from The Sweet Shoppe is Party Poppin’. With 2 nieces under age 4 it is purfect for their birthday LOs. The Shabby Shoppe has a baby album, The Ultimate Baby Album – Princess, is just perfect for creating an album for my newborn niece. And i must buy the Clip It Numerically at Oscraps.
I really need to get back to making cards with my scrap supplies. Goodness knows I have plenty to choose from
WOW! I am in love with “embrace” from paisly press… going to fill my cart with that!
I really like the Birthday Magic kit! I really need to try to make some kits with the kits I’ve collected. Thanks for all the inspiration!
Thanks for the card ideas! Such a neat way to reuse kits.
Birthday cards were my first digi projects – going all the way back to using Print Shop in the mid-1990’s. I don’t know if anyone else does this, but to save on printing costs, I will buy 50 pack bundles of white or multi color packs of cards & envelopes at Michaels, and then print out a design that can be cut out and put on the front of the card. (You can do the inside of the card the same way too.) You can fit a couple on an 8 1/2″ x 11″ sheet. This also can help solve those pesky lining up the front and backs during printing. Sometimes I print an additional copy of some of the elements on the card, cut them out and affix them on top of the same item on the front of the card with glue dots. (hope that explanation makes sense!) It is a quick way to add a little additional dimension to the card.
Sometimes…when I am really organised, LOL, I will make a lot of my cards in advance and file them. I find when I need to do one in a hurry, I can “reuse” one I have already made (as long as I have saved the layered version)and change it around to personalise it. Cards in NZ are pretty expensive, so I love to do my own!
This is great! Maybe I can actually do something hybrid and make a few cards w/my digi supplies! TY!!! Beautiful cards!
Thank you for the inspiration! These are wonderful ideas!
I’ve intended to do this for
I’ve intended to do this for a long time, but haven’t. This may be the needed inspiration. Thanks.
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Awesome cards! Thanks for such nice collection. Adorable ideas!
Love the cards too! Thanks for the idea!