Category Archives: Birthday

Funky Electric Guitar Card

This funky red and black design card is ideal for teenagers or for just about anyone who likes rock music!

Funky Electric Guitar Card

What you will need to make this card:

  1. A white 120mm x 120mm square card blank
  2. Black handmade mulberry paper
  3. Red mulberry tissue paper
  4. Red & black electric guitar die-cut shape
  5. Red stickles glitter glue
  6. Happy Birthday peel off sticker – diamond silver
  7. Craft glue
  8. Craft knife, pencil, ruler & cutting mat

How to make:

Measure and cut out a 110mm x 110mm square from the black handmade mulberry paper and then cut out a 90mm x 90mm square from the centre of the square leaving you with a black handmade mulberry paper frame.

Next measure and cut out a 100mm x 100mm square from the red mulberry tissue paper. Lay the red mulberry tissue paper square on the card blank and use glue to stick the black handmade mulberry paper frame over the top of it securing both centrally to the card blank.

Take the die-cut electric guitar shape and glue it at an angle in the centre of the frame leaving space at the bottom right hand corner for the peel off greeting.

Remove the ‘Happy Birthday’ wording from the diamond silver peel off backing sheet and stick the wording inside the bottom right hand side of the frame.

Squeeze a little of the red stickles glitter glue onto your finger tip and rub into the black handmade mulberry paper frame, repeat until there is a red glittery shimmer all the way around the black frame. This does not have to be completely even.

Finally squeeze a round blob of the red stickles glitter glue in each of the four corners of the frame. Leave card flat and to one side to dry completely.

Card Idea by Janine

Gerbera Decoupage Birthday

We have an additional card designer now – Jill. This is Jill’s first design for Glitter Monster Crafts and has been made using a design from a die-cut decoupage sheet from our decoupage range. Keep your eye out for more of Jill’s designs coming soon.

Gerbera Decoupage

To make Jill’s card you will need the following items:

  1. A white 7″ x 5″ card blank
  2. Die-Cut Decoupage Sheet – Floral 119
  3. Silver Happy Birthday wording peel off sticker
  4. Silver decorative wavy border peel off sticker
  5. Sticky foam pads
  6. Double sided sticky tape

How to make this card:

Fold the top right hand corner of the front of the card blank forward so the fold runs from the top left hand corner and ends 7.75cm down on the right hand side. This creates a triangle flap and an interesting shape to the front of the card blank. Stick the corner of the flap down to the front of the card blank using a small section of double sided sticky tape.

Stick a length of the silver decorative wavy border peel off sticker to the right hand edge of the card blank beginning just under the bottom corner of the triangle flap and running all of the way down to the bottom edge of the card blank. Then stick two more lengths of the same border to the edges of the triangle flap.

Press out all of the Gerbera flower image sections labelled ‘A’ from the floral 119 die-Cut decoupage sheet. Layer these in the correct order onto the card blank with sticky foam pads so that the picture overlaps the bottom corner of the triangle flap.

Finally take a silver Happy Birthday wording peel off sticker of your choice and stick this centrally on the card blank below the Gerbera flowers. Of course you can use a different wording sticker to make the card for another occasion if you like.

The picture below is taken to show a different perspective and the decoupage layers.

Gerbera Decoupage Flat

Card Idea by Jill