Happy Wednesday! Yesterday was Stu’s birthday, and so, I have of course been busy this week. I thought this would be a fun opportunity to share some handmade birthday crafts; as well as some links to things you might find useful. If you are looking for creative ideas for your own celebrations!
In this post I’ll share just a quick look at what I’ve done this week; with some links to related content!
Handmade Birthday Card
I thought I’d have a play around on the Cricut Maker, as it’s been a while. One thing I really like on the Cricut that doesn’t come up very often; is the HUGE amount of fonts available. For printing, cutting and of course writing; and seriously this is SO useful when your penmanship is as bad as mine!
I found this cute card design (available for free with Cricut Access); on the Cricut Design Space. I customised it a little, before setting the wonderful machine to do all the hard work for me! After it was finished I then cropped it, added some accent in sparkly glitter and finally mounted it onto a pre-prepared card blank.
I really love how easy the Cricut Maker makes card-making; although, I still really enjoy playing around with paper and cardstock, and using my own elements. This is one of those cards I had to make once I’d seen it; and I think it turned out really nice!
I love creating handmade cards, for birthdays and other occasions! You can check out some more in this post.
Handmade Birthday Crafts – Bunting
You can also use the Cricut to make bunting, though I find the process somewhat slow. You can read about how I make my handmade bunting in this post. Perfect for decorating, whatever your plans!
Papercrafted Packaging
When it comes to packaging and wrapping; you don’t have to stress, check out this guest post from expert gift-wrapper Gift Frippery; (it’s a Christmas post, but still incredibly useful, year round!)
Birthday Baking
I also did a bit of baking this week; and instead of making a WHOLE cake this year; which I’ve done for the last couple of years, I instead made some cupcakes, which was fun! You can find my cupcake recipe here.
In all honesty we’re still not over all the Christmas chocolate; so it was nice to make something that wouldn’t be around for a week.
Do you give anything handmade for birthdays?
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What are you working on this week?
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