How to Make an Interactive Kids Birthday Card

Looking for fun handmade card ideas for the child (or child-at-heart) in your life? Check out this interactive pirate card that’s sure to impress.

Kids birthday cards are so much fun to create, especially interactive cards!! Today our designer, Kendra, has a fun mini slimline slider card to share with us. We love her use of the Waves stencil and her bright color choices for sprucing up these fun ocean creatures. Follow along as Kendra shows us how to make an interactive kids birthday card.

• Kendra started by creating a mini slimline card base 6″ x 3.75″ from white cardstock.
• Die cut the 5.25″ x 3″ die from ‘5728D Narrow A2 Nested Rectangle‘ from white cardstock. Stencil rectangle with ‘4105 Wavy Stencil‘ with ‘Color Fuse Set #8‘ Sierra. Set aside.
• Stamp the cute shark, parrot and crab from the ‘3414 Pirates Under the High Seas‘. Color with alcohol markers. Die Cut with coordinating dies from ‘3414D Pirates Under the High Seas Die Set‘. Set aside.
• Die cut 1.375″ circle from ‘5012D Nested Circle Small Stitch Die‘ from white cardstock. Stamp ‘Shiver me Timbers!’ sentiment from ‘3414 Pirates Under the High Seas‘ in black ink. Lightly ink edges of circle with ‘Color Fuse Set #8‘ Sierra ink. Add pop dots to back of circle.
• Time to play around with all the pieces you have so far. Kendra also grabbed the 2.85″ x .6″ rectangle from ‘5728D Narrow A2 Nested Rectangle Die‘, which will be used to create the slider opening, as well as the ‘It’s Your Birthday!’ sentiment from the ‘3414 Pirates Under the High Seas‘. Once Kendra found a layout she liked, she added painters tape to the center of the rectangle.
• Carefully remove the stamped images and put the background in your stamping platform. Stamp sentiment with black ink. Allow time for the sentiment to dry. Then die cut the rectangle.
• Die cut the .75″ scallop circle from ‘5029D Nested Circle Scallop Die‘ two times from white cardstock.
• Place on scallop circle behind background in the opening. Add foam tape to the scallop circle. Add the other scallop circle to the top.
• Flip background over and add foam tape. Adhere to card base.
• Add sentiment circle to upper left. Add shark to right side of card. Add pop dots to the back of the parrot, add on top of shark’s fin.
• Add a pop dot to the scallop circle, then adhere the crab.
• Finish card by adding three light blue pearls to the right of the sentiment circle.

Shiver me timbers!! This card is amazing! I know as I child, I would have been delighted to receive this interactive card. The colors are so bright and the characters are really cute! Kendra did a great job with this project and we hope you loved it as much as we did. Be sure to follow us over on Instagram for more amazing inspiration!