This tri-fold birthday card will fit a standard office envelope. The background sheet is printed and the cute things on the front are cut-outs that you print, cut and attach with glue, tape or 3-D foam sticker tabs if you have them for a dimensional look.
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| 1. First print the streamer background in Pink Blue-Purple, or Orange-Yellow. Card stock or heavy duty paper is recommended but not necessary. (Orange-Yellow Card is used in this example) |
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| 2. Flip the paper over and run it thru the printer a second time to print the inside design. It doesn't matter which way you orient the paper, the design is the same at both ends.
Alternate Colors:
Pink-Purple Card here Blue-Purple Card here |
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| 3. For a nice crisp fold, score the card on the fold lines. We have marked the lines for you. Use a ruler and a ballpoint that is out of ink, or the round top edge of a paperclip...press hard. We used a metal nail file tip. Place the card on a magazine or stack of paper to make scoring the fold line easier. Don't use newspaper or it can transfer ink to the card. |
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| 4. Print the birthday rubber stamp designs (we used 1 - B & 2 - B) and cut them out leaving a white margin all around every item. This makes it easy to cut them out and you don't have to be precise.
Alternate Colors:
1 - A & 2 - A
1 - C & 2 - C |
 
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| 5. Get an idea of how you want to arrange your balloons and cake.
Alternate Colors:
1 - A & 2 - A
1 - C & 2 - C
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| 6. Glue down your balloons first. Then you are going to want to draw on the strings... |
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| 7. If you want a 3-D look for your card, use rolled up tape (sticky side out) or little foam sticky glue tabs on the back for your cake. |
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| 8. Your card will look like this on the outside. |
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| 9. This card fits in a standard office envelope. It should be able to be mailed for regular first class postage as it is not heavy. |
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| 10. This card is great to display on a desk or window sill. |
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| TIP: The free printables that we used in this card are Orange-Yellow Tri-Fold Card and Card Inside, Cut-out Stamps 1 - B & 2 - B.
You could also have used the Pink Inside Moving Announcement, Poems or Invitation Panels or the Greeting Banners or Cutout Messages like the example below.
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These Cutout Messages available in Blue, Pink and Orange are a cute way to personalize your card. |
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For Directions on Making These Cards Into Money Holders Click Here
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