Children love to see their names on things so why not on their birthday card! The name of the birthday girl is included on this card and this makes it a very special and personal card to give.

What you will need to make this card:

1. A6 light pink card blank
2. Jack in the Box Clown Topper (Large)
3. Pink pearlised card
4. Lilac pearlised card
5. Light pink mulberry tissue paper
6. Violet mulberry tissue paper
7. Woodware regular lever craft punch – square
8. Happy Birthday Peel Off Sheet – Multicoloured
9. Alphabet – Upper Case Peel Off Sheet – Silver
10. Small Numbers Peel Off Sheet – Silver
11. Invisi Dots for Vellum
12. Craft glue
13. Sticky foam pads
14. Craft knife & cutting mat

How to make:

Use a cotton wool bud or your finger tip to draw a rectangle on the violet mulberry tissue paper with water. The rectangle should be just a bit bigger than the jack in the box clown topper. Carefully tear along the wet lines to create a fluffy edged rectangle, put this to one side to dry.

Repeat the above step with the light pink mulberry tissue paper to create a slightly smaller fluffy edged rectangle, again allow it to dry.

Layer first the violet mulberry tissue paper rectangle onto the card blank, followed by the light pink mulberry tissue paper rectangle using the Invisi dots for vellum to stick them down as this will not show through the mulberry tissue paper. Then use craft glue to stick the jack in the box clown topper to the top of the light pink mulberry tissue paper layer.

Place the multicoloured Happy Birthday peel off sticker sheet on to your craft mat and with your craft knife carefully cut the joins between one of the the ‘Happy’ and ‘Birthday’ wordings to allow you to use the two words separately. Stick the Happy Birthday words to the very top left hand side of the card blank.

Punch out a number of squares from the lilac pearlised card and from the pink pearlised card using the regular square craft punch. It will depend on what name you wish to put on the card as to how many squares you need. Using letters from the silver upper case alphabet peel off sheet apply the first letter of the name to the centre of a lilac square, then stick the second letter to the centre of a pink square and continue alternating the colours until you have the full name.

Next use sticky foam pads to stick the letter squares along the bottom of the card spelling out the name. It will depend on how long the name is as to how you space the squares. Here as the name has an odd number of letters, the middle letter ‘T’ was placed first centrally and then each letter either side from there until the name was complete.

You can easily fit a name of up to 7 characters long as shown on the card in the picture and possibly even a name of 8 characters if you leave little or no gap between each letter square.

Finally to complete the card take the number that corresponds with the age the child will be on their birthday from the silver small numbers peel off sheet and stick it to one side of the clown topper box.

Card Idea by Janine