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Our daughter will be celebrating her 3^rd birthday pretty soon.  So I made a craft for and with her – her handmade birthday invitation card.  I had her assistance in gluing and sticking the papers together, which she enjoyed a lot.

Here are what you need:

Plain colored card stock

Decorative scissor

Patterned papers

Anti-wrinkle glue

Decorative stickers

Plain scissor

Here are the steps:

1.  If you have a computer and know how to use adobe illustrated, design first how you want your invitation message look like.  You can download this design I made: in adobe illustrator format or jpeg file.  Open it in your computer and replace the blanks with the appropriate text.  Print.

2.  Cut accordingly as per the design instruction using a decorative scissor.  This is how mine looked like:

3.  Smear with anti-wrinkle glue all over its back and lay over a patterned paper of your choice. Press to paste together.  Cut along a straight line about 1cm from the edges of the message paper or layer 1.  Let’s call the patterned paper attached to layer 1 as layer 2.  I used a straight cut using a plain scissor.

4.  Now smear with ant-wrinkle glue allover the back of layer 2 and paste over a plain (colored or white) card stock, or over a thicker plain paper.  I used plain colored paper to make the whole design of invitation card not too “noisy” to the eyes. I made a straight cut on the third layer at about 1cm allowance from the edges of the 2nd layer using a plain scissor. This is how it looked like:

5.  Now smear with anti-wrinkle glue allover the back of 3^rd layer and paste over a patterned paper.  I put allowance for cutting only the top and bottom of the card at about 1cm.  I cut the left and right edges with no allowance at all, then cut that upper and bottom part using a decorative scissor.  This is how it looked like:

6.  Using the leftovers of the last pattern, I cut out 2 leaf patterns from it, smeared each bottom with anti-wrinkle glue and pasted it on the lower right corner of the card.  To make it look 3-D-ish, I added a glossy sticker on the middle where the leaf bottoms intersect.

My masterpiece:

I did not put it in an envelope as it doesn’t seem necessary.