BIRTHDAY CARD FOR FRIENDS

So, one of my best friends turned 18 recently. Some of my other friends and I decided to surprise the b'day girl by going to her place at 7 in the morning along with cake and gifts, and decorating her terrace with balloons and streamers while she slept.  One of the gifts was the handmade card I will be showing you.

I started out by digging up a cardboard box that I had received as a wedding invitation  a few months ago, which looked something like this-

Any sort of cardboard box of a small width would work just as well. If you don't already have something like that, you can always make one, with a cardboard and some tape.

At the base of the empty box, I glued together 9 pieces of  rings that i had cut from a cardboard shuttlecock-holder tube thingy. Make sure that the width of the rings are about 3/4th the width of the box. All the rings have been covered with glazed paper. I have taken small cutouts from a normal blank sheet to fit inside these rings and written quotes on them before placing the chocolates on it. The empty spaces between the rings have been filled with Styrofoam balls.

These rings have been used to store different kinds of chocolates and stuff. I kept the chocolates inside small  string pouches before placing them. You can omit the pouches and foam balls if you want as they are  for decorative purposes only.

A tracing paper has been glued to one edge of the box to separate this section from the card that is to be kept above it.

Again, I have used a wedding invitation to made the actual card that says 'SC' on the front (Which are my friend's initials).

For making the card, I have used colored papers, ribbons, stickers, glitter pens, etc for decoration.

On one side,  I have glued a chocolate at the center that says 'I <3 U' on its wrapper. The other side is again a tracing paper with some designs on it. Beneath it I have placed an inner card in which three decorated same-sized  colored sheets have been placed. These three sheets are looped together with silver ribbons  so that we can turn them over, much like in a table calendar.

The card is then placed over the tracing paper partition in the box. 

On the cover of the box, colored sheet and some pictures have been glued. To liven up the sparse decoration on the colored sheet, I have written "friends forever<3" in a string with a silver glitter pen.

( This blog is anonymous, hence the smileys instead of actual faces. 'Ek Villain' style, which i haven't yet seen by the way)

So that's the card/gift, completed. All that's left is to wrap it up, and then you're good to go.

(The card is the one with the white wrapping paper . How you present your gift matters too, in my opinion ).

Handmade cards do take considerable time and effort to complete, but that's exactly what makes them so much more valuable to the person receiving it. 

And yes, my friend WAS surprised when we called her up to her terrace, in case you were wondering. It was epic :)

Hope you enjoyed the post!